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Big South unveils new basketball tourney format
The Big South announced the format for 2013-15 tournaments, which will be played at Coastal Carolina University's new Student Recreation and Convocation Center.
All 12 men's and all 11 women's teams will convene on South Carolina's Grand Strand for a week of basketball. In all, there will be 21 games in six days, starting with first-round men's action on Tuesday, March 5.
The conference presidents and basketball coaches also agreed on a new basketball scheduling format for the 2012-13 season. The league will be split into two divisions:
Charleston Southern
UNC Asheville.
Teams will play a 16-game schedule featuring home-and-home series against opponents in their own division. Teams will play six crossover games against opponents from the other division, three at home and three on the road.
2013 Big South Tournament Schedule
Tuesday, March 5 – Men's first round games (4 games, 9 vs 12, 11 vs 10)
Wednesday, March 6 – Women's first round games (3)
Thursday, March 7 – Men's quarterfinal games (4)
Friday, March 8 – Women's quarterfinal games (4)
Saturday, March 9 – Men's semifinals (2) and Women's semifinals (2)
Sunday, March 10 – Men's finals and Women's finals
Baseball will have the same divisions outlined for men's basketball.
The baseball schedule will feature 24 conference games. Teams will play a 3 game series against five teams in the same division and three in the other division based on the final 2012 Conference standings.
Longwood will be penciled in as the last place for Division A from last year which means we will play Winthrop, Presbyterian, and Charleston Southern as our out-of-division schedule.ament
http://www.goccusports.com/tickets/big-s...R_CONTENT=
men's bracket: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/coas...t-2013.pdf
women's bracket: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/coas...t-2013.pdf
2012-13 Big South Tournament Basketball Fan Guide
http://issuu.com/bigsouthpr/docs/hi-res_...12_hoops/1
Women's Basketball Tournament
The first round and quarterfinals will air live on the Big South Network presented by State Farm, while the semifinals and finals will air on ESPN3. The Big South Tournament Champion receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. The complete Big South Championship schedule is as follows:
First Round - Wednesday, March 6 (The HTC Center, Conway, S.C.)
Game 1 – No. 7 Longwood vs. No. 10 Charleston Southern, 12:00pm
Game 2 – No. 6 Radford vs. No. 11 UNC Asheville, 2:00pm
Game 3 – No. 8 Coastal Carolina vs. No. 9 Gardner-Webb, 7:00pm
Quarterfinals - Friday, March 8 (The HTC Center, Conway, S.C.)
Game 4 – Winner GM 1 vs. #2 Winthrop, 12:00pm
Game 5 – Winner GM 2 vs. #3 Presbyterian College, 2:00pm
Game 6 - #4 High Point vs. #5 Campbell, 6:00pm
Game 7 – Winner GM 3 vs. #1 Liberty, 8:00pm
Semifinals - Saturday, March 9 (The HTC Center, Conway, S.C.)
Game 8 – Winner GM 4 vs. Winner GM 5, 6:00pm – ESPN3.com
Finals - Sunday, March 10 (The HTC Center, Conway, S.C.)
Game 10 – Winner GM 8 vs. Winner GM 9, 5:00pm – ESPN3.com
Men's Basketball Tournament
All four first round and quarterfinal will be video streamed live on The Big South Network presented by State Farm. The 2013 VisitMyrtleBeach.com Big South Men's Basketball Championship will continue with the semifinals on Saturday, March 9 with both games being carried on ESPN3. The Championship game will be contested Sunday, March 10 live on ESPN2 at 12:00 p.m. The Big South's Tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The Conference Championship schedule is as follows:
First Round - Tuesday, March 5 - all games available on Big South Network
Game 1: No. 4 North Radford vs. No. 5 South Winthrop, 12:00 p.m.
Game 2: No. 3 South UNC Asheville vs. No. 6 North Longwood, 2:00 p.m.
Game 3: No. 3 North Campbell vs. No. 6 South Presbyterian College, 6:00 p.m.
Game 4: No. 4 South Coastal Carolina vs. No. 5 North Liberty, 8:00 p.m.
Quarterfinals - Thursday, March 7 - all games available on Big South Network
Game 5: Winner Game 1 vs. No. 1 South Charleston Southern, 12:00 p.m.
Game 6: Winner Game 2 vs. No. 2 North VMI, 2:00 p.m.
Game 7: Winner Game 3 vs. No. 2 South Gardner-Webb, 6:00 p.m.
Game 8: Winner Game 4 vs. No. 1 North High Point, 8:00 p.m.
Semifinals - Saturday, March 9
Game 9: Semifinals - Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 12:00 p.m. ET; TV: ESPN3
Game 10: Semifinals - Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 2:00 p.m. ET; TV: ESPN3
Championship - Sunday, March 10
Game 11: Championship - Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner, 12:00 p.m. ET; TV: ESPN2
LU takes 2013 Big South Conference Tounament title. Congrats boys and girls.


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Sandoz announces phase II clinical trial for biosimilar version of leading monoclonal antibody rituximab
1/10/2011, 7:15 AM (Source: GlobeNewswire)
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Sandoz announces phase II clinical trial for biosimilar version of leading
monoclonal antibody rituximab
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* Start of phase II clinical study in patients for Sandoz biosimilar rituximab
(Roche's Rituxan® / Mabthera®)[1]
* Sandoz already has robust, high-yield in-house production process
* Milestone reinforces Sandoz's commitment to maintain global biosimilar
market leadership, with a total of 8-10 molecules at various stages of
Holzkirchen, January 10, 2011 - Sandoz announced today that it has begun a phase
II clinical trial in patients for biosimilar rituximab (Roche's Rituxan® /
Mabthera®), a leading monoclonal antibody indicated in conditions including non-
Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis.
The phase II study in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis aims to
demonstrate bioequivalence to the reference product, and will collect data on
pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics as well as efficacy and safety data.
Over the past few years Sandoz has developed a robust, high-yield and large-
scale process for the production of biosimilar rituximab in its own facilities
in Schaftenau, Austria. To ensure biosimilarity with the reference product, a
comprehensive physico-chemical and functional analysis of the product was
conducted using modern bioanalytic techniques, followed by further studies. The
data suggest that Sandoz's biosimilar rituximab is highly similar to the
reference product, justifying initiation of clinical studies in patients.
"This key development milestone demonstrates that Sandoz, the pioneer in
biosimilars, is on track to maintain its global leadership position in the
medium to long term," said Sandoz global head Jeff George.
"With nearly 50% market share within the global regulated biosimilar market, and
with three marketed products, Sandoz plans to continue to broaden patient access
to essential high-quality biologics by consistently advancing our industry-
leading development pipeline."
Ameet Mallik, global head of Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals, added: "Our pipeline is
particularly focused on monoclonal antibodies, the largest and fastest-growing
segment of the biologics market. We are confident that we can leverage our
unrivalled development and manufacturing capabilities as well as our Novartis-
wide synergies in areas including clinical trial design and execution, to
succeed in this exciting new field."
Monoclonal antibodies are protein-based therapeutics that are produced using
genetically engineered cell lines. They function as targeted treatments that
offer genuine therapeutic hope for many areas of unmet need, particularly
complex therapeutic areas such as oncology and autoimmune diseases.
Mabthera® / Rituxan®, an antibody directed against the CD20 protein found on the
surface of B-cells, is one of the leading monoclonal antibodies on the market.
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2009 sales of USD 5.6 billion (IMS).
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Gold Market Report
PRECIOUS-Gold firms as dollar weakens with Fed policy meet in focus
K. Sathya Narayanan
* Fed's two-day meeting on U.S. monetary policy begins on Tuesday
* Palladium jumps more than 1% after sharp decline on Monday
* Dollar eyes biggest daily pct decline in over three weeks
* Gold on track for its third consecutive monthly decline (Updates prices)
By K. Sathya Narayanan
April 30 (Reuters) - Gold prices firmed on Tuesday as the dollar slipped to a one-week low, making bullion more attractive, with investors awaiting the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision this week to gauge the outlook for U.S. monetary policy.
Spot gold rose 0.3 percent to $1,283.66 per ounce as of 2:59 p.m. EDT (1859 GMT). U.S. gold futures settled up 0.3 percent at $1,285.70 an ounce.
However, the metal was down about 0.6 percent so far this month, on track for its third consecutive monthly decline.
"The dollar index backed off and is seeing some significant loss today after hitting a two-year high last Friday and that is supporting the metals market," said Jim Wyckoff, senior analyst with Kitco metals.
The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against major currencies, fell to its lowest level since April 23.
The U.S. currency is down 0.4 percent, which could be its biggest daily percentage decline in more than three weeks.
Investors are looking to the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting for clues on the outlook for U.S. interest rates. A decision on rates will be announced on Wednesday.
The U.S. central bank last month abandoned expectations of any rate hikes this year.
"The Fed meeting could be interesting because if they say there is no change in their position or their dovish language gold could move a bit higher," said INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir.
"But if they tweak their language a bit ... then gold could come under pressure as dollar would go up in that case. Everyone is on hold till" Wednesday, he added.
Interest rate futures traders are currently pricing in a 61 percent chance of an interest rate cut by December, according to the CME Group's FedWatch Tool.
"We continue to expect gold prices to consolidate lower, to average $1,285 per ounce in second quarter before recovering to average $1,325 per ounce in the fourth quarter, despite the market once again pricing in a rising probability of a Fed rate cut this year," analysts at Standard Chartered wrote in a note.
Lower interest rates decrease the opportunity cost of holding nonyielding bullion and weigh on the dollar, making gold cheaper for investors holding other currencies.
The yellow metal, often seen as an alternative investment during times of political and financial uncertainty, earlier rose as much as 0.5 percent after disappointing factory activity data from China decreased investor appetite for higher-risk assets.
In other precious metals, silver gained about 0.4 percent to $14.96 per ounce, but was on track for its third straight monthly percentage decline.
Platinum fell about 1 percent to $885, but was up over 4-1/2 percent so far this month.
Palladium jumped 1.2 percent to $1,387.01 an ounce, after touching its lowest level in nearly two weeks at $1,354 earlier in the session. The metal slumped more than 6 percent on Monday. (Reporting by K. Sathya Narayanan and Swati Verma in Bengaluru Editing by G Crosse and Matthew Lewis)


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Q: Not able to generate JSON file using JSON.stringify() I have 7MB of .json file and I am filtering the data with my node.js and storing the data into a displayMe array. When I display that shorted array in console it's visible in that. But when I try to write that array using JSON.stringify. I get a json file with blank array.
Here is the code:
var fs = require("fs");

var data = fs.readFileSync('India2011.json');

var myData=JSON.parse(data);//contains main array

var len=myData.length;//main array length

var k=1;
var count=0;

var displayMe=[];
var canRead=0;
var cannotRead=0;
for (var i = 0; i <len; i++) {

    for (var j = k; j <=35; j++) {
        var obj={};

    if ((myData[i]["State Code"]==(j))&&(myData[i]["Total/ Rural/ Urban"]=="Total")&&(myData[i]["Age-group"]=="All ages")) {

        obj["Literate - Persons"]=parseInt(myData[i]["Literate - Persons"]);
        obj["Illiterate - Persons"]=parseInt(myData[i]["Illiterate - Persons"]);
        obj["Total - Persons"]=parseInt(myData[i]["Total Persons"]);
        //sort.push(obj);
        displayMe[myData[i]["Area Name"]]=(obj);
        count+=(parseInt(myData[i]["Total Persons"]));
        canRead+=(parseInt(myData[i]["Literate - Persons"]));
        cannotRead+=(parseInt(myData[i]["Illiterate - Persons"]));
        ++k;
        };
    };
};

fs.writeFile( "displayMe.json", JSON.stringify( displayMe ), "utf8");// this part not working.

console.log(displayMe);//this is working

This is the console output:
[ 'State - JAMMU & KASHMIR': { 'Literate - Persons': 7067233,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 5474069,
    'Total - Persons': 12541302 },
  'State - HIMACHAL PRADESH': { 'Literate - Persons': 5039736,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 1824866,
    'Total - Persons': 6864602 },
  'State - PUNJAB': { 'Literate - Persons': 18707137,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 9036201,
    'Total - Persons': 27743338 },
  'State - CHANDIGARH': { 'Literate - Persons': 805438,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 250012,
    'Total - Persons': 1055450 },
  'State - UTTARAKHAND': { 'Literate - Persons': 6880953,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 3205339,
    'Total - Persons': 10086292 },
  'State - HARYANA': { 'Literate - Persons': 16598988,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 8752474,
    'Total - Persons': 25351462 },
  'State - NCT OF DELHI': { 'Literate - Persons': 12737767,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 4050174,
    'Total - Persons': 16787941 },
  'State - RAJASTHAN': { 'Literate - Persons': 38275282,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 30273155,
    'Total - Persons': 68548437 },
  'State - UTTAR PRADESH': { 'Literate - Persons': 114397555,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 85414786,
    'Total - Persons': 199812341 },
  'State - BIHAR': { 'Literate - Persons': 52504553,
    'Illiterate - Persons': 51594899,
    'Total - Persons': 104099452 }
    ]

A: The problem was the above js code was not generating array in proper JSON format. I tried and fixed that. here is working code:
var fs = require("fs");

var data = fs.readFileSync('India2011.json');

var myData=JSON.parse(data);//contains main array

var len=myData.length;//main array length

var k=1;
var count=0;

var displayMe=[];
var canRead=0;
var cannotRead=0;
for (var i = 0; i <len; i++) {
     var obj2={};//changes here
    for (var j = k; j <=35; j++) {
        var obj={};
        var header;//changes here

    if ((myData[i]["State Code"]==(j))&&(myData[i]["Total/ Rural/ Urban"]=="Total")&&(myData[i]["Age-group"]=="All ages")) {

        obj["Literate - Persons"]=parseInt(myData[i]["Literate - Persons"]);
        obj["Illiterate - Persons"]=parseInt(myData[i]["Illiterate - Persons"]);
        obj["Total - Persons"]=parseInt(myData[i]["Total Persons"]);

        header= myData[i]["Area Name"];//changes here
        obj2[header]=obj;//changes here

        displayMe.push(obj2);//changes here
        count+=(parseInt(myData[i]["Total Persons"]));
        canRead+=(parseInt(myData[i]["Literate - Persons"]));
        cannotRead+=(parseInt(myData[i]["Illiterate - Persons"]));
        ++k;
        //console.log("Addesd "+myData[i]["Total Persons"]+" Time j: "+k+" State name"+myData[i]["Area Name"]+" i:"+i+"k:"+k+" count "+count);
        };
    };
};

fs.writeFile( "displayMe.json", JSON.stringify( displayMe ), "utf8");

console.log(displayMe);

that was the few changes. It is working now.

A: The problem is caused by this line:
var displayMe = [];

You're initializing displayMe to be an empty array. However, you are subsequently treating that array as an object:
displayMe[myData[i]["Area Name"]] = (obj);

This won't stringify to JSON properly, because arrays are supposed to have particular properties (like length) that JSON.stringify() depends on.
Instead, initialize displayMe to be an empty object:
var displayMe = {};

A: Quote: "But when I try to write that array using JSON.stringify. I get a json file with blank array."
That's because JSON doesn't seem to parse or stringify named properties of an Array hybrid.
Your array length is 0. And the result will most certainly be = [].
You will have to replace Array:
[ 'State - JAMMU [...] Persons': 104099452 }  ]

with a proper Object:
{ 'State - JAMMU [...] Persons': 104099452 }  }

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Europe • News
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the 1990s.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić was sentenced to 40 years in prison for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Bosnia in the 1990s.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, based in The Hague announced its verdict and sentence on Thursday. The court found the former political leader of the Serbs in Bosnia guilty of 10 charges, including genocide in his capacity as President of Republika Srpska between 1992 and 1996.
Genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes committed during the Bosnian civil war left over 100,000 dead.
Karadžić's convictions were for one count of genocide, five counts of crimes against humanity and four of war crimes, including murder, holding UN peacekeepers hostage and deporting civilians.
Karadžić was found not guilty on one genocide charge.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty on 10 counts over 1992-1995 Bosnian war https://t.co/nq335BUpOt https://t.co/0q3eUu1222
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) March 24, 2016
War criminal radovan karadzic found guilty https://t.co/VDGRaudGHi
— Zarrar Khuhro (@ZarrarKhuhro) March 24, 2016
The Srebrenica massacre, a genocidal killing of over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnian Serb Army, occurred in July 1995. It was part of an ethnic cleansing operation that removed over 20,000 civilians with force and terror.
Karadžić, who is now 70 years old, became president of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, one month after the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from former Yugoslavia.
He was arrested in Belgrade 8 years ago after spending 12 years as a fugitive. While on the run he worked as psychiatrist and therapist using the alias Dr. Dragan David Dabić .
Since his arrest in July 2008 he has been in the custody of ICTY in the U.N. Detention Unit in Scheveningen, near The Hague, Netherlands.
Karadžić's trial began in April 2010 and is seen as one of the most important war crimes trials since World War Two.
Karadžić and general Mladic near Srebrenica in 1995 (Photo: Reuters)
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic sentenced to 40 years in genocide case: https://t.co/DabsPrMvEo pic.twitter.com/NxXiB4PX4t
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 24, 2016
(Image: Getty/Reuters)
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Earthlight is the diffuse reflection of sunlight reflected from Earth's surface and clouds. Earthshine (an example of planetshine), also known as the Moon's ashen glow, is the dim illumination of the otherwise unilluminated portion of the Moon by this indirect sunlight. Earthlight on the Moon during the waxing crescent is called "the old Moon in the new Moon's arms", while that during the waning crescent is called "the new Moon in the old Moon's arms".

Earthlight has a calculated maximum apparent magnitude of −17.7 as viewed from the Moon. When the Earth is at maximum phase, the total radiance at the lunar surface is approximately  from Earthlight. This is only 0.01% of the radiance from direct Sunlight. Earthshine has a calculated maximum apparent magnitude of −3.69 as viewed from Earth.

This phenomenon is most visible from Earth at night (or astronomical twilight) a few days before or after the day of new moon, when the lunar phase is a thin crescent. On these nights, the entire lunar disk is both directly and indirectly sunlit, and is thus unevenly bright enough to see. Earthshine is most clearly seen after dusk during the waxing crescent (in the western sky) and before dawn during the waning crescent (in the eastern sky).

The term earthlight would also be suitable for an observer on the Moon seeing Earth during the lunar night, or for an astronaut inside a spacecraft looking out the window. Arthur C. Clarke uses it in this sense in his 1955 novel Earthlight.

Radio frequency transmissions are also reflected by the moon; for example, see Earth–Moon–Earth communication.

See also
List of light sources
Starlight
Moonlight
Sunlight
Ashen Light

References

External links

Lunar observation
Earth phenomena
Light sources

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Rockies' Cook settles down, pitches two scoreless
TUCSON, Ariz. " Aaron Cook needed to face only one batter before he felt at ease on the mound in his first start of spring training.
Cook retired Felipe Lopez en route to two scoreless innings before the Colorado Rockies lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-3, Wednesday in front of a crowd of 3,327, less than half the capacity for Hi Corbett Field.
"When your first guy steps in you don't know where the ball is going to go half the time. To get that first out is kind of refreshing," said Cook, who was 16-9 last season. "You just take a deep breath and say, 'Let's keep going from here."'
Cook allowed only a single to Chris Young while facing seven batters. The sinkerball pitcher forced four groundouts and had one strikeout.
"To get that first strike and to get my sinker working makes it easier to relax and continue on with the rest of the day," Cook said. "It felt good being out there."
Cook emerged as an All-Star a year ago with a career-best 16 victories and a 3.96 ERA. The groundball pitcher, with the fifth lowest groundball/fly ball ratio in the majors since the start of the 2005 season, gave up only one fly out, to Chad Tracy.
"I can look back at what I did last year, but that is all in the past," Cook said.
Ubaldo Jimenez, the Rockies No. 2 starter, allowed three runs, including a two-run homer to Young, who went 2-for3.
Shortstop Augie Ojeda had an RBI double.
Diamondback pitcher Billy Buckner, competing for one of the final bullpen spots, got the first chance to impress the Diamondbacks. The right-hander threw two innings in a starting role, allowing three hits and one run.
"It is huge. You only get so many opportunities here in spring training," Buckner said. "Every time out there you have to do your best and try to put up some good innings."
The lone run he allowed came after Joe Koshansky walked and Clint Barmes doubled to drive him home.
"I like my fastball command. I felt I was getting ahead of the hitters and putting myself in a good position," Buckner said. "I want to keep the ball down and throw good quality strikes and try to get as many groundballs as possible. That is my game."
Juan Gutierrez, also competing for a final roster spot, allowed two runs and three hits, while striking out two in two innings.
Brad Hawpe went 2-for-3 for Colorado. The Rockies had doubles from Barmes, Troy Tulowitzki, Chris Iannetta and Carlos Gonzalez.


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Dejan Bursać
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dejan-bursac-84495274/
Intern and civil servant
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Dejan Bursać is a Research Associate of the Institute for Political Studies, editorial secretary of the journal Politika nacionalne bezbednosti (National Security Policy). His research fields include the Serbian political system, election systems and political parties in transition countries, with works published on these topics in national journals and international collections of papers (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu). Professional development in the Leadership Development Programme, European Fund for the Balkans & College of Europe, 2012/2013). Alumnus of the Association of Schools of Political Studies of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg and member of the Bosch Alumni Network.
Expert survey on party ideology in former socialist countries
Expert survey on party ideology database
ANATOMY OF THE SERBIAN DEMOCRACY'S DEVELOPMENT PATH
Book review: Nebojša Vladisavljević. 2019. Uspon i pad demokratije posle Petog oktobra. Beograd: Arhipelag, 359 str.
PARTY SYSTEMS OF BALTIC STATES: THE LEFT BETWEEN ETHNIC DIVISIONS AND IDEOLOGICAL CLEAVAGES
Author analyzes origin and genesis of the party systems of three Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with a special focus on specific ideological misbalance. Namely, in two of the three former Soviet republics, left-wing parties fail to participate in the executive branch and often underperform in the elections. Cabinets of Estonia and Latvia have comprised of mostly right-wing or center-right parties for almost the entire period since independence. The opposite case is Lithuania, where the left parties are rooted in the party system, and moreover, where there is both party competition based on ideological cleavage, and changeability of the left and right parties in power. Through the comparison of three party systems, author is investigating the absence or under-representation of political parties of the left in two Baltic States, and their relative success in one of the countries in question. The paper identifies two key reasons for such an outcome. One relates to the perception of the role of Communist Party of Soviet Union (and its ideological successors) in the process of separation of a specific republic from the Soviet Union. The other is more deeply rooted in respective societies and concerns the perception of political representation of the Russian minority and, in the broader sense, Russia as a perceived geopolitical threat, leading to ostracization of left-wing parties, resulting in their exclusion from government formation.
CROATIAN ELECTIONS 2020: THE END OF TWO-PARTY COMPETITION?
Since the year 2000, two large political blocs have been dominating the Croatian party system: the conservative one, rallying around the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), and the left-liberal, gathered around the Social Democratic Party. The dynamics of competition between these two groups indicates the basic political cleavage that lies on a single-dimensional Left-Right divide. The third options sometimes managed to break bipartisanship, at least in the short term, and to achieve relatively good election results. However, in the medium term, these breakthroughs have been largely unsuccessful, with third parties quickly blending into dominant bipartisan divide, resulting in a stable two-party competition. Until recently, the poor results of the populist right also contributed significantly to the stability of competition, since the dominant HDZ successfully covered that part of the ideological spectrum, largely because of its own nationalist heritage. HDZ thus held the positions of center-right party and populist-nationalist movement in parallel, effectively preventing the development of any viable anti-establishment option. The results of 2019/2020 presidential election signaled a change: for the first time, a far right-challenger (in this case, an independent candidate Miroslav Škoro) managed to win over twenty percent of the vote, effectively dividing the right-wing voters and causing disruption in relatively stable dual competition. Škoro based his result on the long-term pursuit of a part of Croatian voters for the third option, as well as on a number of smaller nationalist and populist parties and movements that emerged in Croatian politics in recent years. The reaction of his voters, who did not seem to blend in the bipartisan division in the second round of election, signals a change in the dynamics of an entire party system – possibly already in the next parliamentary election, to be held in July 2020.
PARTY IDEOLOGY AND PUBLIC EXPENDITURE: ARGUMENTS FROM COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The current scientific literature in the fields of political science and political economy contains a vast number of studies that have examined the impact of party ideology on different economic outcomes, and more specifically, on public spending. Geographically but also politically, the literature can be divided in two groups. The first one refers to the studies of those authors who have tested partisan influence on consumption in developed democracies, while the second refers to the disproportionately smaller number of studies in which this correlation has been analyzed with regard to former socialist countries – mainly those from the east of the European continent. Despite a large body of research and abundance of evidence in support of the hypothesis, political science has not yet given a definitive answer to the dilemma regarding the ideological effect on fiscal developments, meaning that academic debate is still active, albeit with less intensity than in the late 20th century.
THE EFFECTS OF PARTY IDEOLOGY ON PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY SPENDING IN FORMER SOCIALIST COUNTRIES
The study is designed to empirically test the effects which different ruling party ideologies have on spending for public order and safety budget component in Central and Eastern European countries. The transitional environment and especially post-Cold War security context have altered the concept of security in former socialist societies. Our assumption, based not just on theoretical concepts of left and right ideologies, but also on studies examining this matter in more developed Western democracies, was that right-leaning cabinets will have higher levels of budget consumption for law and order than leftist governments. The empirical model confirmed this hypothesis, albeit only partially. A number of other political, economic, and contextual variables connected with transitional setting, which usually have effect on general levels of spending or certain budget areas, have demonstrated a low significance when comes to law and order spending.
Hungary's Crisis of Democracy: The Road to Serfdom
Book review: Peter Wilkin. 2016. Hungary's Crisis of Democracy: The Road to Serfdom. London: Lexington Books, p. 223.
The Past, Present and Future of the U.S. Electoral College
Author aims to explain the institutional framework of the United States presidential election. One of the unique features of American political system is the Electoral College – an indirect mechanism of voting in which the citizens' votes are aggregated and weighted in relation to their federal entity (i.e. fifty states and one federal district). Throughout the paper, author will not only present historical genesis and basic settings of this electoral mechanism, but also examine the effects and consequences of the system through history, including a number of controversies contributing to the rising criticism and frequent calls to reform. In that sense, the main arguments in favor and against the reform of Electoral College will also be analyzed. Finally, the paper will conclude with a brief examination of system's effects on strategies of presidential candidates and voting results in the outcome of 2016 election.
John Campbell, The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister, Penguin Books, New York, 2011, p. 564.
Book review: John Campbell, The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister, Penguin Books, New York, 2011, p. 564.
Nacionalni interes, Institut za političke studije, Beograd
Journal review: Nacionalni interes, Institut za političke studije, Beograd, 1/2012.


So, we did a little thing called #indieVisibility. What started as a desire to go for a crafty couple of beers with some of London's finest Indie Developers somehow spiralled out of control and accidentally got a name and a Facebook page. With that, there were suddenly expectations and I was incredibly nervous about people not turning up.
So if you came, thank you immensely. I think at one point there were 40 or so of us, which is ridiculous. Somehow there actually wound up being so many people there that I didn't actually get to meet everyone, which was a shame. We'll have to do it again.
There were indie devs, devs who work for THE MAN, and journos. As a result, honest-to-goodness networking was done, so technically it's all tax deductible.
Huge thanks to Alex and Alex from Sheridan's for turning up dapper as ever and buying an improbable amount of alcohol. Here's hoping one day I'm reckless and litigious enough to repay them in legal bills.
I think consensus was that doing it every month is probably overkill. We'll have a (smaller) meetup at GameCity in Nottingham on Saturday the 29th of October. If you're around, do let me know.
Keep an eye on @danthat for if-and-when we do it again.
Can you Photoshop two stone off the photos of me, please?


Just wanted to give a super short update. I haven't been posting photos on Instagram mainly because the work I've been doing hasn't been dramatic in the photographic sense. No-one wants to see screenshots of notes, project metrics, or really of paperwork in general. But that's what I have to do.
I simply can't have all of the game's lore sitting in my head - it needs to be written down and organized. With lore defined in this way, it becomes infinitely easier to create concept art. This will also ultimately help create the branching quest storylines as well. How? Well, I'll show you soon enough. Most importantly, the game's story bible needs to be 100% consistent, and the only way to achieve that is to write it all down.
So yeah, I have my Evernote notebook all fired up, with my HacknPlan project sitting in another window ready to log the work. I still have a ways to go before I'm ready to proceed into the art stage, but I hope to have basic sketches of the airship next week.
Anyway, I'd better get back to it.


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Carles Puigdemont's arrest flares tensions in Catalonia
Mark Nayler
Remember the Catalonia issue? Up until a couple of days ago, you would have been forgiven for supposing it had all just magically been cleared up. But on Sunday, former pro-independence Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was detained by German police while on his way back from Finland to Belgium, where he has been in voluntary exile since last October.
German courts now have a couple of months to decide whether to return the secessionists' poster-boy to his home country; if they do, he faces charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds in connection with the Catalan independence referendum he organised last October – a vote that was declared illegal by Spain's highest court. The charge of rebellion carries a potential prison sentence of thirty years.
Reiterating Berlin's faith in Spanish justice, Angela Merkel's spokesman stated on Monday that "Spain is a democracy where the rule of law exists". This is theoretically true. But where Catalonia is concerned, Spanish justice appears inconsistent and improvised: indeed, you sense that the Spanish courts and government are using Puigdemont to send a message to Catalan secessionists – something they failed to do in the case of Artur Mas.
Mas was Puigdemont's predecessor as Catalan president, a position he held from 2010 to 2016. He was also in favour of secession from Spain and, in November 2014, he held an independence referendum in the wealthy north-easterly region. Over 80 per cent voted to split from Spain but turnout was low, with 2.3 million out of 5.4 million eligible voters participating.
A few days before the 2014 referendum was held, Spain's constitutional court ruled the vote illegal (sound familiar?). Mas ignored the ruling and the poll went ahead anyway. Spain's attorney general subsequently charged its orchestrator with misuse of public funds, perverting the course of justice and abuse of power; but so far, Mas has avoided prison.
Just over a year ago, he was barred from public office for two years and fined 36,500 euros (32,000 pounds) for disobeying the constitutional court. It was nothing more than a slap on the wrist when compared with how his successor is being punished. Rajoy was prepared to let the 2014 referendum go, it seems; but last October, he thought 'Right, enough is enough'.
Puigdemont's immediate fate hinges on legal issues that are currently beyond Spain's control. In particular, there is uncertainty over whether he can be extradited back to Spain on the charge of rebellion, because such an offence doesn't exist in Germany.
The crime of high treason, however, does exist under German law; so, over the next 60 days, the German courts will decide whether Puigdemont can be extradited under this charge, which requires the subject to commit or threaten violence. If they decide that he can't, the ex-president can only be returned to Spain under the less serious charge of misuse of public funds.
Puigdemont's arrest has inflamed the radicalism of Catalan secessionists, for whom the former journalist is now a martyr. The region's pro-independence parties have called a parliamentary session for tomorrow in which they will once again suggest that Puigdemont should serve as president. How exactly he could do so remains unclear.
Meanwhile, Catalonia is under the control of the central government in Madrid – as it has been since last October – because Catalan parties can't form a government. If they haven't done so by the end of May, Catalonian elections will be held in July, for the fifth time in seven years. As Germany decides what to do with Puigdemont, then, we're left with the prospect of a repeat performance of everything that has happened since October, only starring different actors. You wonder which Catalan secessionist will be sitting in a foreign prison cell this time next year.
Catalonia's fight for independence is turning nasty
As Catalonia turns up the heat, Madrid's politicians are ever more divided
Catalonia's quest for independence takes another surreal turn
Spain's hunger for political change may be just what Catalonia needs
European press on Catalonia: "Suddenly, Brexit doesn't seem so bad"
Philip Sime
It's no surprise Spain has already blocked Nicola Sturgeon's half-baked Brexit plan


Astoria's Socrates Sculpture Park hosts this summer film series—co-sponsored by Film Forum and Rooftop Films—that focuses on independent and international cinema. The schedule features foreign-language (English-subtitled) films from France, India, Japan, Turkey and Italy. The movies play on the wide lawn of a beautiful green space with large-scale art installations. Bring a blanket.


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Love Parade in Berlin 1997Click to enlarge image
Today, Berlin is one of the premier destinations for techno music fans. People come from all over the world to party all night to the rhythmic beat of Berlin's club scene. And this music that the city is most famous for developed in large part because of the thing the city is most infamous for: the Berlin wall, which divided the city into east and west for almost thirty years.
The East and West inside the East
The red dot is West Berlin located inside of socialist East Germany.
Germany was divided into East and West at the end of World War II—and so was the city of Berlin. East Berlin was socialist and controlled by the Soviet Union. West Berlin, on the other hand, was capitalist. It was a strange island outpost of democratic West Germany, completely surrounded on all sides by socialist East Germany. In 1961, the city became divided not only politically but physically as well. The East German government built a huge wall, with checkpoints, to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the west.
And soon, divided by a wall and living under completely different political and economic systems, two distinct cities emerged. Each had its own unique cultures and music scenes.
For most West Germans, West Berlin was not considered an attractive place to live. There was hardly any industry and you were essentially cut off from the rest of West Germany, surrounded by a wall on all sides. And so eager to attract people to the city, the West-German government dangled a few incentives to get people to move there.
Rent was incredibly cheap in West Germany, and anyone who moved there was exempt from the otherwise mandatory military service. All this all made West Berlin a haven for misfits, hippies, queer people, and artists of all kinds. "So anybody who was kind of weird, or just generally weird, or didn't fit into what was perceived as 'West German' society… you went to Berlin and you met everybody who was just like you," explains Mark Reeder.
A Proper Scene
West Berlin hadn't really been known as a musical city, it was known for its wall, and its Cold War politics. But by the early 80s, with these new arrivals, an eclectic scene started to develop. Clubs and bars started to open and soon, on any given night, you could hear disco or hip-hop or new wave music. There was also an experimental rock scene, full of a constantly changing line-up of bands.
But while people like Reeder were having all kinds of parties in West Berlin, just behind the wall in East Berlin it was a completely different world. In socialist East Germany, music was viewed as a potential danger to the state and was heavily regulated. The only publisher of music was the government-run label and they didn't allow anything subversive.
If you wanted to be a DJ, you had to be officially trained and licensed by the state. The same was true if you wanted to own an electric guitar or perform in a band. You also couldn't just hold a dance party—that also needed to be approved by the state. First, you'd have to explain to the powers-that-be exactly what you would be doing and what political and cultural goals you hoped to achieve.
The application would wind its way through official channels and, often months later, you'd be approved to host one of these dances. Everything in East Germany took its time. So there were two different Berlins: West and East, meters apart but inhabiting starkly different realities both musically and culturally. But while they couldn't take part in West Berlin's club and music scenes, many East Berliners knew about it because they could pick up the West Berlin radio stations which beamed over the wall.
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev became the new leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev favored an approach called "glasnost," the Russian word for "openness." He was much less authoritarian than earlier leaders, and he started allowing for more transparency and dissent. In the space of a year or two, many people had lost their fear of speaking and acting freely.
Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev locked in a mouth-to-mouth kiss with East German leader Erich Honecker above the legend My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love
At first, the ruling Soviet-aligned East-German socialists didn't share Gorbachev's enthusiasm for openness. They were in no rush to follow his example. But as the 80s dragged on, the East-German government was being put under more and more pressure by its own citizens to make similar changes. By the fall of 1989, there were increasingly large public demonstrations taking place, something that until recently would have been unthinkable. There was a growing sense among citizens that they might be able to actually change things.
When the Berlin wall fell in November 1989, Wolle Neugebauer says it still came as a complete and utter shock. He says he can still remember the night very clearly. He and his girlfriend had been out at a party when they decided to call it a night. When they got home, he turned on the television and they saw the news. What they learned was that the East-German border guards became overwhelmed by huge crowds that had gathered at the border crossings and were simply letting people through to West- Berlin. Suddenly there were no more controls. So they decided to go to West Berlin.
To the Clubs!
In the days and weeks that followed, everyone was euphoric and parties started popping up everywhere. "Right after the fall of the wall, it was like the first thing that people wanted to do is go out clubbing," says Mark Reeder, "For the first time these kids in the East had the opportunity to choose what kind of music they wanted to listen to. It wasn't music dictated to them by the state of East Germany."
And the fall of the wall happened to occur at a moment when music was going in a brand new direction. The acid-house scene of Berlin was quickly moving towards what's known as techno, a darker, more propulsive style of music created by Black electronic musicians in Detroit. The harder Detroit sound had a huge influence on European musicians, especially the Germans.
A whole political system had just crumbled, the future felt unwritten, and this new Techno music fit that sense of newness perfectly. But these techno parties were still relatively small. UFO, the main West-Berlin basement club where this new music was being played, was tiny. It couldn't hold more than 100 people at a time.
Wolle Neugebauer wanted to organize something bigger. Freed from the restrictions of the East German state, he wanted to throw huge parties with fog machines, and strobe lights, and techno music that would play all night. He called these parties Tekknozid parties. And as anyone who was there will tell you, it was on the dance floor that East and West really came together. "The unification of Germany happened on the dance floor. It didn't happen in politics until much later," says Reeder.
As the techno scene exploded, party organizers faced a problem. They needed bigger and bigger venues to accommodate the growing crowds. Unlike West Berlin which was cramped and claustrophobic, East Berlin had plenty of space. Der Spiegel journalist, Tobias Rapp, was a teenager from West Germany who had just graduated high school when he decided to move with a friend to East Berlin just a few months after the wall fell. They quickly found an entire apartment building to squat in. For Tobias, the whole city was like a big playground of derelict buildings. It wasn't just the abandoned apartments. There were also former military sites and factories that had been shut down and buildings that had been condemned.
Buildings in East Berlin, near the Wall and Checkpoint Charlie. Photo by Roger W
Not only were there tons of empty buildings, but it also wasn't even clear who owned them. Decades before, the Nazis had seized property from Jewish citizens, and after the war, the communists took away real estate from who they perceived as Nazis or the bourgeois class. What property belonged to whom was a very murky question that would take years to sort out.
And while this chaos over ownership was a headache for the state and, of course, for the descendants of the people whose property had been seized, it was a godsend for the newly emerging techno scene. With the huge amount of abandoned space, parties started emerging everywhere, usually just for a night or two, and then moving on to somewhere else. The parties were always changing locations and Berlin's underground techno scene might have eventually faded away were it not for a guy named Dimitri Hegemann.
Hegemann helped turn the city's chaotic underground techno movement into a permanent club scene that would change the landscape, and economy, of Berlin entirely. He was a West-Berliner, and it was his tiny illegal basement club — the UFO Club — that had been at the center of the small club scene in West Berlin. But now that the wall had come down, and the techno scene was expanding, he wanted something bigger.
One day, in 1990, Hegemann was stuck in a traffic jam with two friends right by the former wall when they noticed a large concrete building that was at one point a department store. They ventured down into the building and found an enormous vault which they were able to rent on a three-month lease. They spent the next few months cleaning it up. And in March 1991, they opened up a club. And called it Tresor, the German word for "vault." Now you didn't have to call a secret number to find a techno party, now on a Saturday night, you knew exactly where to go. The scene was evolving from fleeting parties in scattered places to something bigger and more established. Tresor quickly became known for its hard Detroit-inspired techno parties that would go all weekend. With the fog machines and strobe lights and loud beats, people seemed to forget time and space.
Tresor didn't just help popularize this new harder Detroit techno sound, it also helped build a real connection between the Berlin and Detroit techno scenes. Dimitri started the Tresor label and began releasing the work of many of these Detroit musicians throughout Europe. Tresor's three-month lease was extended for another three months. And then another. And meanwhile, a whole network of clubs began to develop nearby, in the empty buildings right by the former site of the Berlin wall. Over time, the techno scene began driving an economic revival in Berlin.
Built on Techno
People began opening not only clubs, but bars and art galleries and all kinds of small businesses, and all these new businesses could basically fly under the radar. There was so much else going on with the politics of reunifying the city, that for the most part, no one was really checking to make sure anyone was paying taxes, or acquiring the proper permits to put on events or serve alcohol which was the case for years.
In many ways, Berlin hadn't had a stable identity since World War Two. The city had been occupied, then divided, and never had much of an industry. Plus the shadow of being the capital of Nazi Germany still lingered. But the new culture that started to grow up around the techno scene helped to change that. And as techno migrated from the underground to the mainstream, it began to draw people from all over the world.
Word had gotten out: if you like techno and nightlife, you've got to check out Berlin. Over time, some of those travelers decided to stay. And with all the new energy, the nightlife became a real economic force. In 2018 the techno scene helped generate 1.4 billion euros for Berlin. Today the techno scene is so important economically to the city, that even the conservative Christian Democratic party of Berlin talks about the need to support Berlin's club culture, despite all the drugs and hedonism that it involves.
Love Parade in Berlin 1997. Photo by Arne Müseler
It wasn't just the direct impact of the club scene that was changing the city. There were lots of knock-on effects as well. Tech companies related to electronic music, like Soundcloud, Ableton, and Native Instruments were founded in Berlin. Berlin was growing faster than the rest of Germany. And for Hegemann and others involved in the early scene, much of the credit goes to Techno. "I think the influence of techno music and the subcultural nightlife that comes along with it on the development of the city is much much bigger than anybody imagined," says Tobias Rapp.
Reporter Kevin Caners spoke with Tobias Rapp, author of Lost and Sound: Berlin, Techno und der Easyjetset; Dimitri Hegemann; Wolle Neugebauer; Mark Reeder; Ellen Allien; Alessandro Mauro.
Special thanks to Matthias Pasdzierny of the Berlin Arts University UdK, and Beate Peter From the Manchester Metropolitan University, whom we spoke with for background. Thanks also to Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen, authors of Der Klang Der Familie.
This episode was edited by Delaney Hall.
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Who would've thought 99pi would become a platform for trite Cold War propaganda of Eastern Bloc = bad, Western Bloc = free. Goodbye 99pi, who taught us to look at the built world in a completely new light and with this episode failed to live up to your own standards.
I mean….they just stated facts within the contextualized subject? Is there a different universe where people had musical and artistic freedom on the Eastern Bloc that we're missing? Or was experimental music and dance clubs totally cool and legal over on EB because I'd love to learn more!
"Rent was incredibly cheap in West Germany, and anyone who moved there was exempt from the otherwise mandatory military service. "
This sentence is (well, should be) about West BERLIN, not about West GERMANY.
And while Love Parades started in Berlin, the photograph shows a float from Tunnel club in Hamburg,
I'm actually living the outros being different every time. Low-key hope they never give you the real thing
Ben Bachelder
Thank you so much for this piece! I developed a deep love for techno in the mid-90's and was drawn to the Detroit and Berlin sounds stronger than anything else. I was inspired to become a DJ myself as I was finishing high school, and collected soooo many records, a significant portion of them being on the Tresor label. When I finished college, I made Berlin a priority stop in my obligatory post-graduation backpacking trip. I knew there was a Tresor club, and the workers at the hostel I was staying at knew exactly where it was. So on Saturday night, I stashed my belongings in a closet at the hostel, made my way downtown, and stepped into a space I had only imagined. It. Was. Wild. My most vivid memory is from the vault (which I had no idea was part of the club until I discovered it whilst wandering around). There was one chaser strobe on the ceiling providing the only light. It was as minimal as the music, and I loved it all.
I have always appreciated the way 99PI sheds light on things that could easily go unnoticed. I knew a fair amount of what was included in this piece, more than usual, but the parts that were new to me were fascinating!
Thanks again for the story. I was inspired to write a short story about my adventure, something I haven't done for years. It was fun!
Hor Berlin /the Boiler Room have been my pandemic project. Good to hear about some context.
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Storm Runner is a launched roller coaster located at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Manufactured by Intamin and situated in the Pioneer Frontier section of the park, the Accelerator Coaster opened to the public on May 8, 2004. It reaches a height of  and catapults riders from 0 to  in two seconds. Storm Runner features a top hat element, three inversions, a dual loading station, and a magnetic braking system. In addition, it was designed to interact with three other Hersheypark rides: Dry Gulch Railroad, the Monorail, and Trailblazer.

Storm Runner is the first accelerator coaster to utilize over-the-shoulder restraints and the first to have a dual-loading station with switch tracks. It was also the first accelerator coaster to feature inversions; Kanonen at Liseberg was the second.

History
In August 2003, Hersheypark announced that it had hired Swiss roller coaster manufacturer Intamin to construct a new launched coaster in the Pioneer Frontier section of the park. The ride would replace Balloon Flite, a children's ride that had operated for 23 years. Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company was considering one of three names for the coaster: Steel Stampede, Renegade, and Storm Runner. Hershey Entertainment hosted a contest in which members of the public could vote on the name. More than 46,000 people voted on the name over a two-week period. In November 2003, before the name was officially announced, Hershey Entertainment filed a trademark for the name "Storm Runner". Hershey Entertainment formally announced the coaster's name on November 5, 2003. Construction of Storm Runner began in February 2004 and ultimately cost $12.5 million. By April 2004, test runs for the coaster had commenced.

Storm Runner first opened on May 8, 2004. The first people to ride the coaster included members of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, as well as winners of an online lottery. Initially, the queue line would often be extended with ropes due to the ride's popularity. In 2005, the park added an overflow queue line located next to Trailblazer's first drop.

For the 2020 season, Storm Runner remained closed while waiting on necessary parts for maintenance and repairs that were delayed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Storm Runner reopened during the 2021 season.

Ride experience
Storm Runner contains about  of track and three inversions. The duration of the ride is about 58 seconds (including the wait on the launch track). The track has near-miss points with three attractions: the Hersheypark monorail, Dry Gulch Railroad, and Trailblazer. As the train leaves the station, it moves through the switch track, and onto the launch track. As the train moves into position, the sound of a heartbeat is heard. After a brief pause, the train rolls backwards slightly, the brakes on the launch track retract, and a pre-recorded voice says "Now, get ready! Here we go!". A second or so later, the train is launched from 0-72 mph in 1.9 seconds. Part way down the launch track, the riders' photographs are taken.

Immediately following the launch, the train climbs vertically through a 150 ft top hat. The train then drops 180 ft, reaching the top speed of 75 mph, and then climbs into a 135 ft tall cobra loop, a first-of-its-kind element. After another drop, the train traverses yet another first-of-its-kind element, the Flying Snake Dive (a heartline roll followed by a dive drop). Following the final inversion, the train descends and crosses over Spring Creek and a section of Trailblazer, and under a section of the monorail. The train then rises through two banked turns, first to the right, then the left. After a brief moment of air time, the train enters the final brake run. Following the brake run, the train curves to the left, and returns to the side of the station from which it was dispatched.

Launch system
Storm Runner is an Accelerator Coaster, and its trains are launched hydraulically. Hershey Entertainment had chosen a hydraulic launch system because it used much less energy compared to a linear induction motor system. The hydraulic launch system is powered by hydraulic pumps, which pumps push hydraulic fluid into several accumulators. As the hydraulic fluid fills the accumulators, it pushes on the pistons, compressing the nitrogen. A similar system is used on Top Thrill Dragster and Xcelerator, although Storm Runner was the first hydraulic launch coaster to feature inversions.

Incidents
On June 26, 2018, a 9-year-old boy's safety harness allegedly could not be properly secured when he was on board one of the cars. His father (who was properly strapped in and was also riding with him) noticed that he began to feel terrified as if he felt like he was going to fall off and die from his injuries when the ride was in motion. The ride operators allegedly failed to address the concern when asked for assistance by the father. As the train exited the station, the boy got off of the ride at the last moment, leaving his father aboard as he exited the attraction. It was revealed that he and his father have suffered anxiety-like symptoms as a result of the incident. A lawsuit was filed two years later on July 2, 2020.

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A bobcat was spotted recently in Whitefish Bay, according to a police department report and later confirmed by the Wisconsin DNR.
"This is the first probable bobcat sighting in Milwaukee County in some time," said Whitefish Bay Police Chief Michael Young.
Young contacted the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources after two people reported they saw a large wildcat in Whitefish Bay. One person took photos of the animal.
After looking at the photos, Dianne Robinson, the area wildlife biologist for the Wisconsin DNR, confirmed the animal was a bobcat.
Young said the first report came in at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, after a resident saw the bobcat near Big Bay Park, 5000 N. Lake Drive. Two days later, another resident, who lives in the area of the 6100 block of North Lake Drive Court, captured several photos of the bobcat in her backyard.
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The bobcat does not pose a risk for humans, but pets should not be left unattended.Bobcats tend to be reclusive and wary of humans and will actively avoid them. They behave in much the same manner as coyotes and will usually run away in response to noise.
Bobcats typically are nocturnal, but if they are in a habitat where they feel safe, they may roam in the nearby area. The animals tend to weigh between 20 and 40 pounds, and their diet consists of small game.
Robinson told Young that bobcat sightings here are "extremely rare."
Residents who see a bobcat are advised not to approach it and to make noise to scare the animal away. You are also asked to contact the village's police department non-emergency number at 414-351-9900.
Coyotes, cougars and a lion?
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported recently that the number of reported coyote sightings have increased since mid-June.
On June 19, the site reported 636 observations of coyotes and a small number of fox over the past three years. On Dec. 7, the count climbed to 713 — a 12-percent increase.
And earlier this year, there were many cougar sightings across Southeastern Wisconsin. In one case, the cougar, much larger than the bobcat, walked right to a house in Brookfield and looked into the front window. The incident was captured on a home surveillance camera.
The DNR said that while there have been several verified sightings of cougars in the state in recent years, there is no evidence they are breeding in Southeastern Wisconsin. Biologists think male cougars are dispersing from a breeding population in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
The North Shore communities also made national headlines when a 'lion-like' creature — dubbed the Milwaukee Lion — was reportedly spotted in suburban Milwaukee in 2015. The "lion" was never found.


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Harry Potter and the Translator's Challenge
How did translators go about converting the anagram 'Tom Marvolo Riddle'? Explore the tricky business of translating J.K. Rowling's fun and creative words into 80 other languages.
Jul 20, 2017·5 min read
As a lecturer in languages I often recommend to my students that as a first book to read in the language they're learning they pick up a translation of their favourite book. Being familiar with the characters and plot of the book means that even if they don't understand many words in the book, they don't have to struggle with the vocabulary or the plot, as they know what's happening. It can also be fun to discover what has been changed in the translation. The Harry Potter series provides a lot of variations that can keep the reader amused as they compare the translations with the original.
It's well-known that the US title of the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was changed to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the US market. But that, together with US spelling, was only a tiny change compared to the changes Harry and his friends have been through as the books have been translated into 80 languages other than English.
The US market wasn't the only one to change the title of the first to avoid a reference to philosophy, as this was seen as off-putting for a children's book. The French title avoids any reference to a stone altogether with Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (Harry Potter at the Wizards' School).
The seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, proved difficult to translate, so J.K. Rowling provided translators with the alternative title Harry Potter and the Relics of Death, which was the basis for most of the international translations.
Translators had to be creative with the title of the latest book in the series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The English title is ambiguous as to the gender of the child in question, and there are several candidates as to who the cursed child is in the plot, so translators had to either use words that kept the ambiguity (such as the French Harry Potter et l'enfant maudit), or use other words which kept the gender neutral. In Italian the book title becomes Harry Potter and the Curse of the Heir (Harry Potter e la maledizione dell'erede) and in Spanish it's translated as Harry Potter and the Cursed Legacy (Harry Potter y el legado maldito).
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Most translators kept the names of characters and places very close to the originals, but the Italian and Norwegian translators applied more creativity to their texts. In Italian we find names such as Albus Silente, Severus Piton, and Minerva McGranitt, who in turn are called Albus Humlesnurr, Severus Slur and Minerva McSnurp in Norwegian.
Harry's name remains the same in most of the translations, with some slight variations to his first name (Harri in Welsh and Harrius in Latin) or his full name (Harijs Poters in Latvian, Haris Poteris in Lithuanian, and Hari Poter in Serbian).
Ron Weasley has a few minor alterations except in Norwegian, where he becomes Ronny Wiltersen, and Hermione keeps her name pretty much intact (even the Norwegian translator keeps her name recognisable with Hermine Grang) but the pronunciation of her name is mostly changed to the literal sounds as read in each language (hence she becomes err-me-oh-neh in Spanish, or err-me-onn in French).
Some of my favourite character names in other languages include Slatan Sharmer (Gilderoy Lockhart in Slovenian), Noldus/Zgredek (Dobby in Norwegian and Polish respectively), and Lord Mrlakenstein (Voldemort in Slovenian).
Hogwarts becomes Poudlard in French and Roxfort in Hungarian, and the four houses have variations such as Garudadoor (Gryffindor in Hindi), Poufsuffle (Hufflepuff in French), Corvinal (Ravenclaw in Brazilian Portuguese) and Viperin (Slytherin in Romanian).
J. K. Rowling's playful and creative use of language posed many challenges for the translators involved, such as keeping the play on words of places like Diagon Alley, or what to call the Mirror of Erised (as the name had to read "desire" when read backwards).
Perhaps one of the most challenging tasks came in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: the name Tom Marvolo Riddle was an anagram of "I am Lord Voldemort", and to keep this the name translators had to either keep the name and provide the answer to the riddle in English followed by a translation, or change the name. In French, Tom became Tom Elvis Jedusor (Je suis Voldemort), in Dutch his name is Marten Asmodom Vilijn (Mijn naam is Voldemort), and in Spanish he is Tom Sorvolo Ryddle (Soy Lord Voldemort).
Leaving translation aside for a final thought, it is interesting that all human characters in the original version of the Harry Potter series speak English (sometimes with stereotypical accents such as Fleur's or Viktor Krum's). Other species such as the merpeople and goblins speak Mermish and Gobbledegook respectively, but the only other language we hear other human beings speak is Parseltongue, the language of snakes and other "dark" creatures — as well as Lord Voldemort. However, being a parselmouth (a speaker of Parseltongue) appears to be hereditary, so no-one (not even Hermione!) in the Harry Potter series studies languages.
Knowing that J.K. Rowling was a language teacher before she became a published writer, I wish at least one of the characters could have been a role model for language learning.
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class Solution(object):
    def array_autoincrement(self,arr,last_index):
        if len(arr) <= last_index:
            arr.extend(0 for i in range(last_index+2-len(arr)))

    def getSkyline(self, buildings):
        landscape = []
        output = []
        point_map = {}
        for building in buildings:
            if building[0] not in point_map:
                point_map[building[0]]=building[2]
            else:
                point_map[building[0]] = point_map[building[0]] if point_map[building[0]] >building[2] else building[2]

            if building[1] not in  point_map:
                point_map[building[1]]=0
            else:
                point_map[building[1]] = point_map[building[1]] if point_map[building[1]] > 0 else 0

        key_to_delete = []

        for pos in point_map.keys():
            height = point_map.get(pos)
            height_candidate = 0;
            for building2 in buildings:
                if building2[0] <= pos and building2[1]>pos and building2[2]>height:
                    if height !=0:
                        key_to_delete.append(pos)
                        break
                    elif height_candidate<building2[2]:
                        height_candidate = building2[2]
            if height == 0 and height_candidate != 0 :
                point_map[pos] = height_candidate;

                    # height = building2[2]
            # point_map[pos]=height

        for x in key_to_delete:
            del point_map[x]

        sorted_keys = sorted(point_map.keys())

        pre_height = 0
        for k in sorted_keys:
            height = point_map[k]
            if height != pre_height:
                output.append([k,height])
                pre_height = height

        return output

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # a= [[2,9,10],[3,7,15],[5,12,12],[15,20,10],[19,24,8]]
    a= [[2,4,7],[2,4,5],[2,4,6]]
    s = Solution()
    result = s.getSkyline(a)
    print(a)

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Hockey Canada logo is seen at an event in Toronto on Wednesday Nov. 1, 2017. TSN has extended its media rights agreement with Hockey Canada through the 2033-34 season.The sports network announced Tuesday that the agreement fives TSN and French-language broadcaster RDS exclusive rights to Hockey Canada events, including the world junior championship. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Hockey Canada releases plan to combat 'toxic' culture ahead of parliamentary hearings
Organization commits to centralized tracking and reporting system for abuse complaints
Jul. 25, 2022 10:15 a.m.
Hockey Canada has released a plan to combat the "toxic" culture in its sport a day before the start of a second round of parliamentary hearings into the organization's handling of sexual assault complaints.
The plan includes the implementation by the end of September of a centralized tracking and reporting system for abuse complaints.
Hockey Canada also says it will implement enhanced screening for high-performance players and will mandate that breaching the organizations code of conduct or refusing to participate in an investigation could result in a lifetime ban.
The measures are in addition to those announced in a July 14 open letter, including a revival of a dormant third-party investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving members of the country's 2018 world junior team.
Hockey Canada has had its federal funding frozen and multiple corporate partners pause sponsorships since news broke of the 2018 allegation and the ensuing settlement of a lawsuit filed by the complainant.
A second sexual assault allegation involving the 2003 Canadian junior team surfaced on Friday.
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage is to hear testimony Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Another string of apps is causing trouble in the Android Market. Dozens of commercial book collections, including the entire Harry Potter series, have been posted to the official Android app store by a developer named UKER, attracting thousands of illegal downloads. UKER's apps include full e-book text, and despite poor quality and iffy navigation, the free book downloads have gained in popularity. Titles include The Vampire Diaries, as well as 15 novels by Patricia Cornwell and a handful of Stephen King titles.
UKER's apps have been removed by Google, but were promptly reactivated, according to a paidContent report. The illegal publisher's app brings attention to Google's bigger issue of dealing with determined app makers looking to exploit the Android Market. And for a developer like UKER, Google will have to take extra precautions in dealing with a potential competitor.
Google has its own publishing arm, selling books for direct download through the Android Market. Not only is Google running a marketplace, but it's leveraging its Android app hub to promote its own personal media services. Google's grown the Android Market to include books, movies and music in recent months, looking to compete with Apple's iTunes portal for digital media.
But even Apple finds it tough to balance its own publishing goals with the industry as a whole. Last week a group of Chinese writers brought a lawsuit against Apple for making their titles available through its stores without permission. It's been an arduous journey for the publishing industry heading into the mobile world, fighting piracy issues similar to those the music and film industry have faced for several years.
However, not everyone is having a negative experience with digital publishing. TIME, Inc. hopes to demonstrate its partnership potential with mobile platforms by giving away free downloads of all its titles at CES this year. With cross-device access, TIME's promotion brought free access through an all-in-one subscription for Android smartphones and tablets, including the Kindle Fire. The publisher already has a longer-standing deal with NOOK, offering a free B&N tablet with a year-subscription for People magazine.


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Soundscape Signals: Actors who Sing and Singers Who Act and How That Gets Played Out Throughout the Genres
By My Nguyen | August 10, 2011
Huffington Post's Megan Overdeep wrote back in June about her views on how singers and actors should stick to what they do best and not overstep their professional boundaries. She gives a few examples, the most recent being Justin Timberlake in his new movie "Friends With Benefits," and Gwyneth Paltrow with her appearance on "Glee."
The question remains: why is it celebrities get ostracized for trying new things? And what does this say about us, as a people, if we get antsy just by being mere spectators of someone daring to step outside their comfort zone?
Although Overdeep did go on to name Jennifer Lopez's singing-acting-judging crossover career, as well as going on to distinguish Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand, Meatloaf and, of course, Cher, on their craft, her post failed to mention a few other notables who are currently making waves throughout the music industry, even going on to change the way we think and view artists.
Singer-songwriter Josh Ritters' Novel Debut
When the news came out that singer-songwriter Josh Ritter was penning his first novel, you could almost feel the universe cringing over yet another starry-eyed songwriter-turned-author attempting to strap themselves down to their writing contraptions and pen the next great American novel.
But unlike other examples of writing enthusiasts, Ritter's pivot into the literacy world wasn't a fanciful impulse. It was more like an idea that exploded and Ritter was powerless but to follow the urge to write it all down.
Named one of Paste's top-living songwriters and drawing comparisons from Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it wasn't too much of a surprise when critics began to commend Ritter on his folk-based rock that has underlying literary nuances with fantastical imagery and sincere emotive strengths. His 2006 album, "The Animal Years," demonstrated his talents for concocting wartime stories with biblical references, while last year's "So Runs The World Away" had traces of humor in its gothic sounds, reports NPR.
While these vignettes into wartime accounts offer us insight into Ritter's creative process, it is possible that his prior albums also played a strong role in actualizing the author's debut novel, "Bright's Passage."
About a young West Virginian who has just come home from serving WWI in France, Henry Bright is soon bombarded with new trials that will test his strength and his belief in the fantastical.
The book is executed in a series of minute details that go on to exemplify Ritter's skill in "penning beauty within small spaces," reviews PopMatters. According to the pop culture website, the novel is layered with rich, detailed language filled with many a startling turn of phrase.
It is obvious here that Ritter's novel-writing ventures were developed through his musical talents. And it is also surmised that both disciplines will become very useful in fostering future artistic endeavors.
Yet it will be Ben Fold and his versatility within the musical genre that will give us genuine insight into the mechanics behind the creative process.
Ben Folds' Collaborations
Ben Folds first came to our attention as frontman and pianist to his former band, Ben Folds' Five. Prior to their breakup in 1999, the trio would go on to release tracks like "Song for the Dumped," "Battle of Who Could Care Less," and "Brick."
A commandeering musician, Folds would set out to launch a solo career with collaborations across the spectrum, the latest with Damian Kulash (Ok Go), Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls, solo), and author Neil Gaiman. Under the moniker 8-in-8, the group set out to write and record eight songs in eight hours (4pm to midnight) at Berklee College, Monday, April 25 and release them 10 hours later during Rethink Music, a conference in Boston, reports MVRemix Blog. And the result, which can be sampled on Amanda Palmer's website, is "Nighty Night," a strong album tailored to discredit record companies who are becoming superfluous in their attempt at building buzz and distributing music.
Although 8-in-8 was able to successfully debunk the traditional strongholds regarding the music making process, it will be Ben Folds' prior collaboration with bestselling author, Nick Hornby that will better articulate this passage's message.
Folds and Hornby's contributions to "Lonely Avenue," a project that was conceived when Folds had asked Hornby to contribute lyrics to an album recorded by William Shatner in 2007, is raved among critics as a favorable collaboration. Folds' music has always been elaborate, widely textured ensembles – mix that in with Hornby's tendency to turn the tables on his readers and his characters and you got an effortless marriage that has produced a masterpiece with "Lonely Avenue."
No one would've even dreamt that when Ben Folds Five came out with their hit single, "Brick," that their lead singer and front man will be pooling his efforts with one of the masters of contemporary fiction. But this is what a good collaboration does: surprise and startle audiences and even the practitioner into realizing that everyone on the team is a valuable resource and that what they are bringing to the table might be in an altogether different ballpark, but because this is a joint-effort, you see pass the differences and rely on the similarities to get you through.
And that is precisely how art, artists, and audiences as an ensemble should function – as a collaborative effort that works together to either produce a work of art or further a movement.
Not every project will garner the same reaction that Ben Folds and Nick Hornby received during their venture.
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Radiohead Releases Newspaper and The Guardian Covers "Creep"
Back in March when Radiohead's eighth studio album, "The Kings of Limbs," was released, it was announced that alongside the physical release of the CD the band will be distributing a special newspaper in select vendors worldwide for free.
Named "The Universal Sigh," after a lyric from the "King of Limbs" track "Bloom," Radiohead has also established "The Universal Sigh" as a website on the Internet for fans to track down venues that were distributing the newspaper.
The Guardian took a stab at the band's news-making efforts and tried their hands at music-making with their rendition of Radiohead's hugely popular hit "Creep," reports Time.com.
Under the new moniker, Radio Eds, The Guardians' editorial team made a slideshow music video, which can be found on their web page here.
But whether you're the practitioner or a member of the audience, it seems beyond stifling to marginalize a piece of art and say an artist should keep within their expertise and not overstep their bounds. What ever happened to trying new things? Crossing over genres should be exactly what talented artists like Nick Hornby and Josh Ritter should be doing. Besides, this will keep us in the audience occupied.
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