Gabon, a Central African country slightly smaller than the state of Colorado, is home to one of the most pristine rainforests on the planet. During the two-week-long NASA campaign, a collaboration with a European Space Agency (ESA) mission called AfriSAR, researchers are collecting measurements of plant mass, distribution of trees, shrubs and ground cover, and diversity of plant and animal species -- not only from Gabon's rainforest but also from the country's wetlands, mangrove forests and savanna. ESA launched the first part of the AfriSAR field campaign in Gabon in July 2015, when teams led by the French national aerospace research center collected radar and field measurements of the country's forests. Now NASA and the German space agency have joined the second leg of the campaign.
The data will help prepare for and calibrate four current and upcoming spaceborne missions for NASA, ESA and the German space agency that aim to, among other goals, better gauge the role of forests in Earth's carbon cycle.
"One of the questions we're really interested in at NASA is balancing the global carbon budget," said Lola Fatoyinbo, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead of NASA's contribution to the AfriSAR campaign. "We know how much carbon dioxide is being emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuel emissions, but we don't have a good estimate of how much carbon is being taken up from the atmosphere and where it's stored - we think that forests absorb about a quarter of all these emissions, but we need better studies of forest biomass to confirm this."
"With AfriSAR, we're getting very accurate measurements of the 3D structure of an ecosystem that is representative of the larger Congo Basin rainforest and of tropical forests in general, and this is going to allow us to get a better grip on how much carbon is stored in these ecosystems," Fatoyinbo said.
Gabon's forest is part of the Congolian tropical forests, altogether the second largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon. About 85 percent of the country's land is forest: only about 1.5 million people live there.
"The forests in Gabon are special: they are rich in plants and animals, but empty of people and intact in most places," said Sassan Saatchi, a senior scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He is part of the NASA AfriSAR team that operates the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR). The other NASA group participating in AfriSAR, led by Goddard scientist Bryan Blair, is in charge of the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) instrument.
During the AfriSAR campaign, UAVSAR flies 40,000 feet high mounted beneath a C-20A aircraft from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. LVIS flies at 28,000 feet onboard a B-200 airplane from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Both instruments collect measurements of surface topography and vegetation structure by sending out rapid pulses of either radio waves (UAVSAR) or laser light (LVIS) toward their targets. They then calculate the distance to objects below by measuring how long it takes for the signal to bounce back, creating 3D maps of the surface beneath.
"LVIS studies the vertical structure of the forests by measuring the elevation of everything the photons hit: the top of the canopy, all of the leaves and branches and finally the ground" said Blair, principal investigator and developer of LVIS. "In tropical forests, the challenge is to get the laser pulse all the way to the ground because the whole canopy is closed; there's very few holes for the photons to get through."
The data collected by LVIS will help calibrate and validate the information gathered by UAVSAR over the same targets, and vice-versa. The two datasets will also be compared to the airborne radar measurements that ESA and the German space agency are compiling during their current campaigns in Gabon. Finally, AfriSAR's ground teams from Goddard and JPL are performing several types of field measurements, such as tree width, forest structure and soil moisture, which will complement and refine the data gathered from the air.
Both NASA airborne instruments are test beds for future space missions. LVIS is the precursor to the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation lidar (GEDI), a powerful laser altimeter that will be installed on the International Space Station in the near future to measure forests in 3D. UAVSAR will help develop the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR, a joint U.S. and Indian radar-based satellite mission set to launch in 2020. In turn, the European space agencies' radar measurements in Gabon are aimed to prepare for ESA's BIOMASS satellite mission, which will deploy in 2020. The German space agency will also compare the data to the measurements collected by its TanDEM-X satellite constellation, launched in 2010.
AfriSAR is NASA's first collaboration with Gabon's young space agency, AGEOS, and also its first large international campaign in Africa since NASA participated in a hydrological study of the Sahel in the early 1990s.


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Galactic News: Ram Tah Laboratory Attacked
A few days ago, the research centre at Felice Dock in the Meene system was severely damaged in what has been described as 'an act of vandalism'. Authorities at the starport have confirmed that the attack left many of the facilities irreparably damaged.
Readers will no doubt recall that Ram Tah's research project into the ruins of the Synuefe XR-H d11-102 system is based at Felice Dock.
When asked about the delay in investigating the crime, system security forces said it was considered 'low priority', and that it was "probably the work of opportunists."
Ram Tah released the following statement:
"This is clearly an attempt to undermine my research into the Synuefe ruins. Since my investigations began, a number of agencies have made clear their desire to capitalise on the site for personal, political or military gain. The knowledge contained in the ruins does not belong to one individual or organisation – it belongs to everyone."
"My research programme has relocated to Phoenix Base. Strict security protocols have been instated, and anyone approaching without invitation will be fired upon."
Since this statement was made, the research facility at Phoenix Base has been operating in total radio silence.
Galactic News: Amateurs Partially Decrypt Signal
A small group of EM-transmission technology enthusiasts in the Tionisla system claims to have partially decoded the encrypted message transmitted from the Tionisla Orbital Graveyard by an antique Cobra Mk III a few months ago.
A spokesperson for the group, which calls itself The Hamsters, said:
"So exciting! It was an EM frequency using phase modulation. Really quite clever. It contains a string of numbers, but we don't know what they mean, so we've decided to share it with the galactic community in the hope that someone might be able to decode it. The sequence is: 01 07 10 * 20 22 25 * 01 05 23 03 23 * 10 27 - 23 * 02 03 01 - 02 * 03 04 * 01 * 43 33 31 23 * 07 21 25 27."
Unfortunately The Hamsters' broadcast abruptly stopped at this point, and only static has been received since. When asked about the sudden silence, authorities in Tionisla made the following statement:
"We had no choice but to take them offline as they hadn't renewed their broadcasting licence. We will restore their broadcasting privileges once the appropriate charges have been paid."
Galactic News: Weekly Conflict Report
This report presents the latest data on conflict among the galaxy's minor factions.
Here are the latest factions to experience a civil war:
Zeessze Clan
Uru Federal Interstellar
Fusang Fortune Commodities
Green Party of HIP 103138
Chamunda Crimson Gang
Left Party of HIP 43845
HIP 5712 State Corp.
Liberty Party of Zeessze
AG+21 1754 Citizen Party
V886 Centauri Corporation
Civil wars occur when minor factions compete for control of major assets such as starports. When a faction is involved in a civil war, the standard of living, development level and security level in the system it controls are temporarily reduced. Combat activities can bring a civil war to an end.
Here are the latest factions to experience war:
Ross 754 Labour
Cemiess Commodities
Limapa Blue State Commodities
Coquim Industry
Crimson State Group
HIP 32350 Industries
39 Tauri Interstellar
Iptera Allied Corp.
Wars occur when a minor faction invades a star system controlled by another minor faction. For the duration of the war, the standard of living, wealth level and security level in the disputed system are reduced. Combat activity between the two warring factions determines the outcome of the conflict. If neither faction succeeds in dominating the other, the war ends in a ceasefire.

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New turnback rules for asylum-seekers worry migrant advocates
by: Sandra Sanchez
South Texas leaders urge Biden to visit Rio Grande Valley, too
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The Biden administration Thursday announced new rules for asylum-seekers from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti who attempt to cross the Southwest border, but migrant advocates fear the new turnback restrictions are too tough and reminiscent of the Trump administration.
Biden announces new migration programs ahead of border visit
The new enforcement rules came as President Joe Biden said he will visit the border on Sunday in El Paso. This will be Biden's first visit to the Southwest border and comes after repeated calls from border leaders and politicians on both sides of the aisle who say the situation is out of control.
Biden to visit El Paso on first trip to border Sunday
Under the new rules, the Department of Homeland Security will establish new pathways for citizens from those three countries to apply to enter the United States. This includes filling out online applications through a new app at CBPOne to get an in-person appointment for migrants to present themselves at ports of entry.
Asylum-seekers must go through a stringent vetting process; prove they have financial and other support in the United States; and complete all required vaccinations and health requirements.
It is similar to a program that began in October for Venezuelans, which Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday resulted in "a dramatic drop — a 90% drop — in the number of Venezuelans encountered at our Southwest border."
Venezuelans still crossing South Texas border in large groups despite new rules
In a news conference held in Washington, D.C., just minutes after Biden's border news conference, Mayorkas touted the new plan saying "individuals who are provided a safe, orderly and lawful path to the United Stats are less likely to risk their lives traversing thousands of miles in the hands of ruthless smugglers."
But those who fail to legally go this route face expulsion to Mexico.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, right, standing next to Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Troy Miller, left, speaks during a news conference in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, on new border enforcement measures to limit unlawful migration, expand pathways for legal immigration, and increase border security. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Up to 30,000 migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela who do not qualify for U.S. asylum will be turned back and accepted by Mexico per month, under the new DHS plans announced Thursday.
Mayorkas said up to 30,000 who do qualify will be legally admitted and allowed to reside in the United States for up to two years with work permits granted.
Migrant advocates say that number is too low and vulnerable asylum-seekers face an uncertain future under the new policy.
"The Biden administration should be taking steps to restore asylum law at ports of entry, not doubling down on cruel and counterproductive policies from the Trump playbook," said Eleanor Acer, senior director for refugee protection at Human Rights First. "Imposing asylum bans, expulsions, or other punitive policies on people seeking asylum at the U.S. border is both a violation of U.S. refugee law and the Refugee Convention. Far from being a model, the Venezuelan asylum ban is a humanitarian disgrace. Every day that these policies are in place, people seeking refuge will be turned away to suffer horrific abuses."
"Limited access to humanitarian parole cannot be a replacement for asylum protections guaranteed in U.S. and international law. It will provide only temporary protection to a small subset of the millions of people forced to flee their homes," said Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
Sunil Varghese, policy director at the said International Refugee Assistance Program said Biden and his administration are attempting to score political points at the border by "actively pursuing discredited Trump policies like Title 42 and an asylum ban."
"Opening up new limited pathways for a small percentage of people does not obscure the fact that the Biden Administration is illegally and immorally gutting access to humanitarian protections for the majority of people who have already fled their country seeking freedom and safety.," Varghese said in a statement. "The administration must reverse course immediately."
"Seeking safety is a right for everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, country, or language. The right to asylum should not hinge on your manner of flight from danger or your financial means," said Mary Miller Flowers, senior policy analyst for the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights.
Mayorkas defended the plan saying Biden will build upon it when he travels to Mexico City next week for the North American Leaders' Summit to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
"Hemispheric challenges require hemispheric solutions and we are working with governments throughout the region," said Mayorkas, who announced he would travel with Biden to El Paso on Sunday.
Venezuelan and Nicaraguan migrants are transferred by Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, to ask for political asylum on December 27, 2022. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
Many migrant groups on Thursday called the new policy a mere expansion of Title 42 to citizens from these additional countries, many of who, are fleeing violence and poverty and corrupt governments in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
"We are greatly disappointed by the announcement that the administration is moving forward with a 'transit ban' that would dramatically limit the legal rights of asylum seekers to seek protection at the southern border. Similarly, we are opposed to any expansion of the use of Title 42, a public health authority that has been misused for border enforcement from its inception," said Sergio Gonzales, executive director of the Immigration Hub.
Border Patrol confirms drop in migrant traffic in El Paso Sector
El Paso has been the epicenter for migrant activity for several weeks, with thousands of asylum seekers crossing the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico, into the West Texas city before a surge of Texas National Guard and Border Patrol troops and razor wire were put up at the border there.
Aerial view of migrants camping on the banks of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, taken on November 15, 2022. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Democrat from McAllen who represents South Texas, said he is "appreciative of the new measures that were just announced."
Gonzalez and Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez both invited Biden to also visit the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas.
"I strongly urge the president to also visit the Rio Grande Valley and speak with local leaders as no two communities are the same and require different approaches and resources. We cannot continue to rely on antiquated systems from 10 or 20 years ago to solve the ever-evolving issues of today. We must continue to address the problems not just at our southern border, but with our immigration system as a whole," Gonzalez said.
Cortez says he hopes the El Paso visit "highlights the challenges border communities are facing and the need for comprehensive immigration reform as well as underscoring the need for Congress to act."
Republicans at odds over border security, adding to deadlock in vote for Speaker
Gonzalez has proposed the Safe Zones Act that would allow migrants to apply for U.S. asylum in their own countries and also set up an application zone on the Guatemala/Mexico border.
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Feels like Love - Aashima & Ekansh
Revisiting the moments of Aashima weds Ekansh, we realised, once again, magic happens. Things went traditionally for them, from an arranged meeting to a full-on family affair. Amid all things traditional, we found the opportunity to fabricate the story of their wedding in the most novel manner, something that stays new, till date, even after four years.
Aashima and Ekansh were young and in love, very excited to start a new journey together. And we were excited to capture all the beautiful memories and make a dream out of them, a sweet dream, they can revisit as a couple.
Go Goa and come back a happily married couple, that is what they planned. Along with every perfect person in their lives, they left to make a perfect wedding, a reality. Ekansh's being the first marriage in the family got everyone excited. His father, along with his to-be in-laws, tried and did things so big and so perfectly that the marriage stays in the minds and hearts of everyone till date. Eventually, those 7 days turned out to be 7 lives.
We tried to blend into the celebration, we were there, yet we did not want to be seen, only because we wanted to capture the people in their most candid moments. Years of experience has taught us, it is always better to surprise people not while capturing them, but while they are watching themselves in the photos and the films. After all these years, this film continues to surprise them and we get their calls telling us that. Our favourite moments from the film are, where the groom's brother is having so much fun that he accidentally breaks his nose while dancing, and when the groom's pretty girl-friends couldn't help gushing over him and the new journey that he's ready to embark upon.
With the expectations, came a lot of work pressure and we tried our level best to work patiently, understand the emotions overflowing, and make everyone happy and satisfied so that after many years, one fine evening, when they go through the wedding photographs and videos, reminiscing the events, they can't help but get lost in the memories like they are currently living the moment, again.
With every wedding, we strive to learn and grow.
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Written By - VAR Filmers on 06 Aug, 2019
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Learning from the Source: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
By pairing primary sources with poetry, students consider the proverb, "Good fences make good neighbors" in the context of their own lives as well as in a local, national or global context.
Lesson Steps
Display the primary source image and analyze it together as a class using the Library of Congress Primary Source Analysis Tool.
After, ask students to consider and discuss the mood and tone of the image and what feelings it brings to mind.
Ask for two student volunteers to read this excerpt from a dialogue between New Marlborough, Massachusetts neighbors Wade Van Dore and Mrs. Cruickshank documented in 1939 as part of the Federal Writers' Project Folklore Project.
Mr. Van Dore: "Now I'm going to play a record made by a friend of ours. You've heard "a speak of him before – Robert Frost, the farmer-poet. Several records have been made of his poems. This is his own voice reading them. You listen and tell me if you don't like them. This one is called "Mending Wall.'" I sat where I could watch her face. The poet's voice came forth, full, resonant, firm, and distinct. At the words "Good fences make good neighbors" my friend's thin, worn face lighted in a smile of recognition.
Mrs. Cruickshank: "My father used to say that!" she cried, and then listened again. When the poems were ended she spoke again. "Why, that sounds more like the kind of talking anybody does, except that it's better talk," she said wonderingly. "It's not like the poetry we had to learn in school. I like this better. It's something I know a little bit about."
"I'm sure Jim over here would be a better neighbor to you if he would fence his rows in, wouldn't he?" she went on. "I noticed, coming through your garden, the holes. Were his cows in here during the wet weather?"
Mr. Van Dore: "Yes, they were. I guess they just turned them loose and let them go where they liked. Does he always do that?"
Mrs. Cruickshank: "As long as I've known him, and that's thirty-odd years. Mrs. Sheldon says he's plum discouraged about makin' a garden this year. Every single summer Jim's cows get into it."
Then play this video displaying the text of Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" as he recites his poem and encourage students to jot down their initial impressions of it.
Divide students into small groups and distribute paper copies or provide digital access to "Mending Wall". Direct groups to respond to the following questions as they complete a close read of the poem together.
Note any particular striking word choices or phrasings. How do these help contribute to the tone and/or meaning of the poem?
What questions does Frost ask in the poem both literally and figuratively?
What can you tell about how Frost feels about mending the wall? What makes you say that?
What larger themes does the poem raise?
Discuss student's insights.
Distribute paper copies or provide digital access to the this letter written by Maine middle school Caroline George to Robert Frost about "Mending Wall" as part of the 2010 Letters About Literature program as well as this brief excerpt (see below) from p. 69 of Proverbs: A Handbook by Wolfgang Mieder. Instruct groups to read these texts and discuss the issues raised in the letter and the questions raised in the excerpt.
There is an inherent ambiguity in the proverb "Good fences make good neighbors" that stems from the fact that its metaphor contains both the phenomenon of fencing someone or something in while at the same time fencing the person or thing out. This being the case, it is only natural to ask such questions as: When and why do good fences make good neighbors?, Whan and why should we build a fence or wall in the first place?, and When and why should we tear such a structure down? In other words, the proverb contains within itself the tension between boundary and openness, between demarcation and common space, between individuality and collectivity, and between many other conflicting attitudes that separate people from each other, be it as neighbors in a village or city or as nations on the international scene.
Direct students to use what they learned to either write their own letter to Robert Frost about his poem "Mending Wall" and its effect on them individually or to write a poem in response to one or more of the questions posed by Frost in the poem and/or by Mieder in the excerpt from his book.
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News / Metasurfaces Come to the Market
Metasurfaces Come to the Market
Stewart Wills
[Image: Metalenz]
In the past decade, academic research labs have published increasingly dazzling results demonstrating the rich potential of metasurfaces. These planar materials, decorated with collections of nanostructures and nanopatterns, can shape and direct light in intricately engineered ways, doing the heavy lifting of multiple optical components in a single 2D surface.
In principle, these accomplished engineered surfaces could radically reduce system size and complexity in a range of applications. But impressive as they've been in the lab, the use of metasurfaces in actual commercial devices has always seemed just out of reach—something that would happen at some point in the future, perhaps, but not quite today.
Now Metalenz—an early-stage company spun out of the research group of Optica Fellow Federico Capasso at Harvard University six years ago—says it has crossed that threshold. In early June, the company announced that its flat-lens "meta-optics devices" are now included in the VL53L8 direct time-of-flight (dToF) sensor produced and marketed by ST Microelectronics, a semiconductor manufacturer that's a market leader in 3D-sensing modules. The Metalenz technology replaces multiple optical elements in existing ST ToF modules, which have been widely marketed to end-user applications in smartphones, drones, robots and vehicles.
In a press release, Metalenz said that this constitutes "the first time metasurface technology is commercially available and being used in consumer devices." In an interview with OPN, Rob Devlin, the company's co-founder and CEO, said that ST modules with Metalenz technology will be in consumer devices within the next several months. "To me, that's one of the most exciting parts," says Devlin. "The fact that it's going to have a direct impact on end users, and not just a smaller market."
From grad school to startup
Rob Devlin. [Image: metalenz.com]
Devlin himself got involved with Metalenz as a result of his Ph.D. work in Capasso's lab in the early 2010s. In that work, he focused on improvements to performance and manufacturing of metasurfaces, to "get them to the point that they could really be useful for practical applications." He was a coauthor on, among other studies, a landmark 2016 cover article in Science reporting a metalens that could achieve diffraction-limited focusing and subwavelength-resolution imaging across a range of visible wavelengths.
Up until that point, Devlin had been thinking mainly of an academic career. But after the appearance of the Science paper, he says, with "the amount of cold calls we started getting from cellphone manufacturers, from everyone in the optics industry, from entrepreneurs and investors asking us what we're going to do—we said, 'Well, I think it's probably time now to see if this can be more than nice papers and research.' " So, in 2016, the company was spun out, with Devlin in the role of founder and CEO. And, he told OPN, "we've been working to find out where the technology actually will fit first ever since then."
A focus on scalability
Part of that quest, says Devlin, is about developing systems that make metasurface devices manufacturable at scale. One of the promises of metasurfaces, he notes, has been that they can in principle be fabricated using the standard lithography techniques of the semiconductor foundry. But making that work in the real world requires going from a lab mentality, which focuses on "getting the five devices that are the best-performing ones," to a commercial mentality in which millions of devices can be manufactured. In the latter case, what's important is not necessarily peak performance; instead, it's logging a sufficiently high, dependable average performance for the application in question.
A wafer with multiple Metalenz metasurfaces (top) and a detail of the wafer (bottom). [Image: Courtesy of Metalenz]
Metalenz has thus focused on building design tools that could identify critical parameters for the metasurface to control in a given application, and that would optimize those parameters for "something that is going to be launched at scale," according to Devlin. "It can't just be, 'Give me that golden sample that makes a perfect image,' " he says. "It has to be, 'Okay—this is now going to be in millions of devices.' "
Unlocking a "completely new" approach
That focus on manufacturing processes and scalability underlies the recently announced milestone with ST—the result of a partnership originally announced roughly a year ago. The semiconductor maker's FlightSense ToF module, in which Metalenz's metasurface technology will replace existing optical elements, has sold more than 1.7 billion units to date. "The partnership of Metalenz IP with ST manufacturing technology," according to a Metalenz release, "brings the incredible accuracy and precision of electronics chip industry to make very precise and repeatable meta-optics that unlock this completely new way to make lenses that combine very high quality and large-scale cost-effective manufacturing."
"What ST has seen," Devlin told OPN, "is the value of what we can do with metasurfaces, and what metasurfaces can do." That value, he continues, lies in "reducing the overall complexity of an optical system," and embedding the function of multiple "completely distinct and different optical devices" in one planar layer. ST "really saw how metasurfaces could make sure that they could push their module performance forward without adding more complexity to the overall system."
Eyeing the longer term
Metalenz closed a US$10 million series A funding round with a number of strategic investors from the semiconductor industry in September 2020. The company now has a staff of 22 persons, according to Devlin, and is eying a series B round to further commercialize its offering. And Devlin says Metalenz is thinking well beyond early applications in 3D sensing and visible-light imaging, for which he characterizes metasurfaces as "a drop-in solution simplifying existing systems."
In the longer term, by contrast, the company is looking at "designing full systems and modules around the unique capabilities of the metasurface," which Devlin views as a platform technology. "There's so much more you can do with metasurfaces," he says. "You're controlling light at such a fine scale, and you have control over all of the properties in light."
Indeed, one item of particular interest to Metalenz—and announced at the beginning of 2022, with the unveiling of the company's "Polar Eyes" technology—is the ability of metasurfaces to detect polarization information in light, which could open up a variety of new application areas for these compact surfaces.
"3D sensing and visible imaging are really interesting applications in cellphones today," says Devlin. "But when you step back and think about it, those are actually things that human vision systems are already doing … [The] idea of being able to bring a new information [such as polarization] to people or to devices that we're not seeing as humans today is, to me, one of the most exciting parts, and [something] we're starting to push into products."
Publish Date: 20 June 2022


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Nationals struggle, Bregman hits slam, and World Series is tied
Washington falls to Houston as starter falters and the offense can't pick him up.
By Jesse DoughertyThe Washington Post
Houston Astros' Alex Bregman hits a grand slam during the seventh inning of Game 4 of the baseball World Series against the Washington Nationals Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON — When the energy faded inside Nationals Park, then faded again, and then faded some more, it was replaced, in its entirety, by the feeling that comes when the World Series slips out of a firm grasp.
Washington wasn't used to that before Saturday night. Now it will be. Because the Nationals fell to the Houston Astros, 8-1, once their starter faltered and the offense couldn't pick him up. That evened the series at 2-2, back to square one, with the Astros ready to throw their aces the rest of the way. Patrick Corbin gave up four earned runs in six innings of grinding work. The Nationals' bats were cold for a second consecutive contest, managing just four hits, moving each of Corbin's mistakes beneath a microscope.
A Game 3 loss on Friday was defined by missed opportunities for the Nationals' offense. This Game 4 loss was marked by generating few opportunities at all. Washington loaded the bases with one out in the sixth and could only score a run. Juan Soto plated it by chopping out to first. Howie Kendrick followed with an inning-ending strikeout. And in the next half, with everything slipping, Alex Bregman crushed a grand slam off Fernando Rodney. Cheers boomed out of three sections dotting the stadium. They were all filled with Astros fans. The rest of the crowd was quiet, stewing, stacking patience against their sinking guts.
And their silence was loud.
This weekend began with a line of kids walking through the Navy Yard, just a block from the stadium, chanting "Go! . . . Nats! . . . Go!" on a cool morning. Nationals banners hung from porches and in storefronts. Nationals talk — lathered in optimism, lacking the restraint of past falls — blared through car radios and restaurant TVs. The city's hosting its first World Series since 1933. That was evident. Then 43,876 people came to see what lies beyond imagination.
But then the Astros took two days to dent the Nationals' runaway faith. Washington had won eight straight, going back to the Oct. 7, before Houston had its away against Aníbal Sánchez and the offense flatlined in Game 3. The Nationals went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position. They were sloppy in the field, making two errors, and it all gave Houston a second life. Saturday became a pivotal turning point.
The on-paper strategy once favored the Nationals, at least before a pitch was thrown. Corbin is a front-line lefty who signed for $140 million last winter. The Astros turned to José Urquidy to kick off a bullpen game. They lack a definitive fourth starter. So after Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander and Zack Greinke go, they lean on a mash-up of relievers to give their bats a chance. It was always the one contest Washington would be favored in. They just had to turn logic into results.
Yet Urquidy was dominant, throwing five scoreless innings, while Corbin couldn't hold the Astros down. Corbin was tagged for two runs in the top of the first, on four straight hits, and his pitch count spiked up to 26. The Astros turned two get-me-over sinkers into singles. He couldn't locate his slider, his best pitch, and slipped again when Robinson Chirinos lifted a two-run shot off him in the fourth.
It was Chirinos who bounced into a double play to help Corbin escape the first. Before that at-bat, with Corbin struggling, pitching coach Paul Menhart walked to the mound for a short conference. Corbin followed by throwing two change-ups to Chrinos, a pitch he typically uses just 5 percent of the time, and soon retired him with an inside sinker. So, in their second matchup, Corbin attacked Chirinos with his ninth change-up of the outing. It fluttered into the middle of the zone, like a one-winged bird, looking ready to be swatted. Then it flew high over the stadium and landed deep in the left-field seats.
Chrinos slapped his chest while skipping toward home plate. Corbin stood by the mound, some 60 feet away, his shoulders slumped and his face blank. He is known for handling big moments with a personality that doesn't even quiver. But that's been absent for four of his seven playoff appearances. He is the first player in history to make three starts and four relief appearances in the same postseason. If his arm is tiring, and the workload is too big, he'd likely never say. It just lengthens the list of problems Washington has to solve. And fast.
Rotation depth was supposed to separate the Nationals in this series. The offense charged back-to-back wins to begin the series in Houston. But Corbin wilted, the offense did, too, and the Astros widened the gap when Tanner Rainey and Fernando Rodney shrank in the seventh inning. Manager Dave Martinez turned to Rainey, then Rodney, to hold a three-run deficit in place.
He had Sean Doolittle and Daniel Hudson sitting in the bullpen after two full days of rest. The decision backfired when Rainey couldn't find the strike zone, Rodney couldn't avoid hard contact, and, after Bregman's blast and five walks in the inning, the deficit ballooned.
The Nationals have scored just twice through 18 innings in their own ballpark. They are 1-for-19 with runners in scoring position across those two games. The lone hit did not even score a run. They are picking the worst time to dig up old habits — a lifeless bullpen, poor situational hitting, caving in October — and will now face Cole, Verlander and, maybe, Greinke with their title shot back in the balance.
Their saving grace is that Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg will be on the mound for the next two games. The only way to swallow Saturday was to remember, somehow, that the Astros did all this to catch up.
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The purpose of this paper was to compare the influence of deep breathing method and positive affirmation on the decrease in blood pressure in essential hypertensive patients in Kulon Progo.
A randomized controlled trial was conducted involving 96 patients with essential hypertension who were randomly assigned to two intervention groups, namely deep breathing and positive affirmations. The DB group was asked to perform stomach breathing for approximately 10 minutes, while the AP group was asked to give one of the repetitive and rhythmically determined positive affirmation sentences for about 10 minutes.
Deep breathing and positive affirmations can lower systolic blood pressure (11.9 ± 10.9 and 13.6 ± 10.5) and diastolic (8.3 ± 8.4 and 6.0 ± 8.6) in patients with essential hypertension. The mean blood pressure results on post1 and post2 measurements were not significantly different. The decrease in blood pressure in both groups was also not different.
This study contributes to the knowledge that the effectiveness of deep breathing and positive affirmations in lowering blood pressure is the same. The decrease in blood pressure of both methods was stable up to 15 minutes after the intervention.
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Trip Rewind: 2010 Winter Olympics Vancouver – The Events
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I was thrilled to be going to the Olympics in Vancouver but in all honesty I was not overly excited about all the events we were going to. I would have loved to see some skiing, after all I never did achieve my Olympic skiing dreams it would have be nice to see someone fulfill their dream for gold.
You can see off in the distance where the snowline is on the Mountains.
It was a good and a bad thing that we did not have tickets to the ski events. Yes we were missing out but it was a horrible year for snow. Some of the ski events had to be postponed due to unseasonably warm weather, which was an odd problem since it was February and Canada. You would think of all places it would be cold and snowy but I do recall running around without my jacket on as it was that warm in Vancouver. Take in to consideration I am from Idaho and not somewhere like Arizona where cold is considered 68F degrees (20C) 🙂
Our first event was curling. This was the event I was least excited about. My friend Jen, who I was attending the Olympics with, was delighted with attending the event! Why you may ask? Because we were in Canada and no one does curling better than Canadians.
sweeping the curling stones into place
We got tickets to a women's curling qualifying heat. The sport was easy to follow as it is similar to shuffleboard and although I am not 80 years old I have played my fair share of tabletop shuffleboard in bars before!
Womens Olympic Curling
It was quite impressive to watch the "curler" elegantly glide across the ice with one leg bent in front of her and one leg extended behind her as she coasted down the ice alley. It looked quite uncomfortable even if it was slightly captivating.
After the curler releases the stone, two of her team members, or "sweepers" take brooms, manipulating the path of the stone to the other end of the ice. The object is to get the stone into the center of the "house", or what looks like a bullseye. Another tactic is that if your opponent's stone is in a better position than your position you can use your stone to knock their stone out of the bullseye to gain a better position or more points.
There was a lot of shouting, positive of course, between the team members as they worked their way down the ice. I did not really follow the points system but the Canadians advanced and eventually ended up with the silver being beat by Sweden in the finals.
Our second event was speed skating. Everyone was all about Apolo Ohno at this Olympics, including my co-workers. Even after I told them I would not be watching the short track super star as I was attending the 1500 meter long track event they were still stuck on Ohno. They guy has fans!
Me proudly displaying my Maple Leaf Red Knit Gloves!
We arrived at the skating rink with some time to spare, so why not get our photos taken with the creepy mascots? I do not know who designs these mascots but they are always slightly strange-looking. Although nothing can be as weird as the one eyed creepster London had for the 2012 Olympics. Do not even try to explain it London – it is still strange to this day.
London Olympics Mascot. WTF is that?
image credit: Steve Bowbrick
Long course speed skating in Vancouver Olympics
Shani Davis of the USA in the inside of the turn
Anyways – back to the speed skating. This would be our only final event. Meaning we were going to watch the medals be awarded at the end of the race. We even had representation from the USA to root for in the field, Shani Davis.
There was a whole group of Netherlands fans all wearing the same outfit as the man in the orange stocking cap. A prideful group supporting their team!
The Netherlands fans were out in full force and certainly made the presence known in the crowd, which paid off as the Netherlands beat out Davis of the United States for gold by 0.53 tenths of a second… It was a devastatingly short amount of time difference between gold and silver and reminded me of Jerry Seinfeld's take on the athletes who win the silver;"congratulations… you almost won". But Davis shouldn't have felt too bad about his silver, he did leave Vancouver with quite a bit of hardware as he also won the gold in the 1000 meter in addition to his silver he won for the 1500 meter.
Medal ceremony for the Mens 1500M Speed Skating
Our last event was hockey. I have attended several local junior league hockey games in nearby towns to where I live but I have never attended an NHL hockey game.
The Olympic Hockey events were being played at the NHL Vancouver Canucks arena. To say I was blown away by the sheer magnitude of the arena's size was a bit of an understatement. My arena back home holds around 12,000 spectators where as this arena holds almost 19,000… the difference in capacity is about the size of the town I live in. YIKES!
Belarus VS Germany Mens Hockey
After we found our nosebleed seats we were ready for some hockey between Germany and Belarus. The room's excitement was electric. The hockey teams skated out onto the ice, warmed up a bit and then got down to business. Although we were up high in the arena I could tell that these players were moving quicker and with more precision than the junior players from my home hockey team. Granted these players probably had a few more years of practice under their belts but there was a clear difference.
Face Off at the Olympics
As the game proceeded we watched with glee as we soaked up our last Olympic adventure. During the game a puck hit and broke the glass protector. Even the maintenance team moved quicker than what we had seen before. A few years prior Jen and I had attended a junior hockey game in Cranbrook Canada and had front row seats. A puck bounced off the glass and broke the glass right in front of us. Luckily no one was hurt but it took almost 45 minutes to repair. At the Olympics, maybe 20 minutes and the game was back in full force.
Fixing the broken glass
The game ended with Germany getting 3 goals and Belarus 5. Although neither Germany nor Belarus made it to the finals we were still satisfied with our game and got to watch a bit of Olympic history. It would have been awesome to see the USA VS Canada duke it out for the gold but ticket prices were outrageous for our small town girl budgets. Canada beat the USA in a 3 / 2 overtime victory.
Defending the goal!
The USA/Canada game definitely captivated the attention of the 2010 Olympics but I would like to give props to all the other teams who competed. To play a game in the Olympics is an amazing triumph just in itself. The Canadian and USA teams in my opinion had a bit of an unfair advantage as both teams were heavily peppered with NHL stars. Canada's team alone had the likes of Sidney Crosby, Scott Niedermayer, Eric Staal, Joe Thornton and Jerome Iginla! You don't have much of a chance when you're up against those guys 🙂
Belarus skating for the win!
We filed out of the arena and our Olympic adventure had come to an end. It was disheartening that we had to leave so soon. I had spent so many years dreaming of going to the Olympics but at least I was able to partake in some of the festivities and experience them as much as I did!
The traditional "post-game handshake"
Trip Rewind: Olympic Memories and Why I love the Olympics
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Review of "Jefferson and the Rights of Man" (Vol 2) by Dumas Malone
Posted by Steve in President #03 - T Jefferson
American history, biographies, book reviews, Dumas Malone, presidential biographies, Presidents, Thomas Jefferson
"Jefferson and the Rights of Man" is the second of six volumes in the Pulitzer Prize winning epic biography of Thomas Jefferson authored by Dumas Malone. This volume covers the years 1784-1792 which Jefferson largely spent in Europe as a diplomat and as George Washington's first Secretary of State. The volume concludes as Washington's first term, but not quite Jefferson's tenure in the cabinet, is ending.
Like the first volume in this series, turgid prose and weighty detail are found in abundance throughout. Happily, though, the pace moves along somewhat more rapidly than in "Jefferson the Virginian" though it is uneven, moving quite slowly in pockets and picking up speed at other moments (usually as the story grows more interesting and intriguing).
Many reviewers describe this volume as more dry and less interesting than the first, but I disagree. While, from a personal perspective, less seemed to occur in Jefferson's life during these years, what was described of this important period seemed either more interesting, or perhaps just more colorfully related. Where in the first volume we saw Jefferson mature, enter politics, draft the Declaration of Independence, marry and serve as a war governor of Virginia, in this second volume he "merely" spent several ineffectual years in Europe as a diplomat and served three largely frustrating years as Secretary of State.
But it is the manner in which Malone weaves the major themes of Jefferson's life during this period together with the increasingly fractious personalities of the time which holds the reader's interest. The author's description in the second half of the book of the relationship between Alexander Hamilton and Jefferson during Washington's first term was one such highlight. Although that discussion comes across as a bit one-sided (in Jefferson's favor), at least we uncover some intrigue and heat in an otherwise academic discussion of fruitless diplomacy.
Malone's obvious affection for Jefferson becomes increasingly clear during the course of this book. Where his sympathy for his Jefferson was harder to discern in the first volume, by the end of the current volume the author can be seen as almost unfailingly apologetic toward his primary subject. Besides his favorable treatment of Jefferson in all matters involving Hamilton, for example, I almost failed to find any trace of Jefferson's leading role in starting or later fanning the rhetorical flames in the Philip Freneau / National Gazette firestorm.
Even though on the whole this volume represented an important if rather unexciting period of his life (at least for me personally), it was holistically satisfying to view the progression of Jefferson's life and the evolution of his core philosophies during these years. Adding to the complex portrait of Jefferson which Malone paints, we begin to get our first hard impressions of what historians have often referred to as Jefferson's duplicitousness as well. But more potent evidence of that side of Jefferson likely remains to be found in subsequent volumes.
Overall, "Jefferson and the Rights of Man" requires slightly less fortitude than the first book, but is equally unlikely to be a single-stop destination for most readers interested in Thomas Jefferson. Whether read as part of the broader six-volume journey or intended as a standalone experience, upon completing this book the logical next step is clearly to venture on to the next volume. That third book in Malone's series seems to hold great promise as it covers a dynamic and interesting phase of Jefferson's life: his "retirement" to Monticello, his election as Vice President and his increasingly active role as the leader of an evolving political party.
Overall rating: 3¾ stars
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sheafferhistorian said:
Hats off to you for tackling this series…. Though it is dry throughout, I still hold Malone as the gold standard…
Reading this series feels a bit like going to the dentist – you know it's a (very) good thing, but you just need to remind yourself of that every once in awhile. And I'm looking forward to hearing about your April 9th presentation at JMPS on Jefferson scholarship. That promises to be fascinating (and quite timely)…
Wanda M. Woodward, Ph.S. said:
Like yourself, I have developed a voracious appetite to read presidential biographies at this time in my life. I read for 10 and 12 hours at a time, only putting a book down because I must sleep or go to work. I have always loved to read, but have only become interested in history, particularly presidential and military history, over the past few years. I stumbled upon McCullough's John Adams and 1776, as well as a very good, scholarly, enjoyable 1974 biography, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Life, by the late Fawn Brodie, one of the first female professors of history at UC, Los Angeles. Unlike Malone and Peterson, she includes for the reader the history of Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemmings. I would urge you to read this biography, as I am confident you would find it both scholarly, yet a pleasant and easy read.
Wanda M. Woodward, Ph.D. said:
I plan to buy Flexner's 4 volume biography on George Washington, but also have found Douglas Southall Freeman's 7 volume biography on Washington. Have you read Freeman's work? If so, would you recommend it? If not, is it on your list?
Wanda M. Woodward, Ph.D.
I have not read Freeman's multi-volume series on Washington but plan to do so – it's on my follow-up list. If you get to it before me, I'd be very interested in your opinion!


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NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.21.15 Edition
Posted by Walker Carey on March 21st, 2015
March Madness is finally upon us, and we here at RTC are here to make everything a little bit easier for you. From the First Four until One Shining Moment, we'll be dropping daily tidbits of knowledge regarding the teams in each region.
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Kentucky expected more out of itself in Thursday night's win over Hampton. It is possible that the Wildcats need the edge back from last year when they advanced to the national title game as a #8 seed?
Cincinnati interim coach Larry Davis traces his roots back to Kentucky.
After earning a thrilling victory over Buffalo on Friday afternoon, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins acknowledged in his postgame remarks that he does not understand ESPN analyst Jay Bilas' Young Jeezy-inspired Twitter schtick.
Maryland walk-on defensive specialist Varun Ram saved the day for the Terrapins on Friday when he locked down on Valparaiso guard Keith Carter and produced a turnover as the buzzer sounded to ensure a 65-62 Maryland win.
Valparaiso coach Bryce Drew will always have his March Madness memories from his miracle run as a player in 1998, but he was unable to produce new memories as a coach in Friday's narrow loss to Maryland.
Butler coach Chris Holtmann acknowledged Friday that junior forward Roosevelt Jones will play Saturday night against Notre Dame after suffering a knee injury in Thursday's win over Texas.
Notre Dame coach Mike Brey is expecting senior captain Pat Connaughton to have a big game Saturday night when the Irish take on Butler.
Indiana showed that it has talent on the perimeter in Friday's close loss to Wichita State, thus it seems like the next move for the Hoosiers is to find a big man capable of leading the team to greater heights.
With Friday's victory over Indiana, Wichita State earned its shot to play Kansas – a shot the program has been craving for years.
Kansas forward Perry Ellis said his previously injured knee "felt great out there" in Friday's sizable victory over New Mexico State.
Wisconsin guard Bronson Koenig has shown a great deal of confidence since replacing injured starter Traevon Jackson in the Badgers' starting five.
During Friday night's win over Oklahoma State, Oregon proved that it will not beat itself as long as coach Dana Altman is patrolling the sideline.
After Friday night's loss to Oregon, Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford announced that junior guard Phil Forte did not practice all week as he was nursing an injured right knee.
Arkansas star forward Bobby Portis has struggled with his shot in the team's last three games, but he expects that to change when the Razorbacks battle North Carolina on Saturday.
North Carolina freshman Theo Pinson has played sparingly since his return from a foot injury that cost him nearly two months. Could he potentially provide the Tar Heels with the spark they will need off the bench Saturday against Arkansas?
Xavier senior forward Matt Stainbrook spends most of his free time as an Uber driver, but that has not stopped him from being a force in the post for the Musketeers.
Georgia State guard Ryan Harrow will dress Saturday against Xavier, but he will likely be unable to play due to an injured hamstring.
Ohio State faces a tall order Saturday when it is tasked with dealing with Arizona's great height in the post.
Arizona coach Sean Miller has used ESPN's "Bad Boys" documentary as a motivation for his team.
Villanova has not advanced past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament in the last five years. That is a trend Wildcats senior Darrun Hilliard and his teammates are looking to end Saturday against NC State.
NC State will be the underdog Saturday when it faces top-seed Villanova, but the Wolfpack frontcourt could be a concern for the Wildcats.
Prior to Northern Iowa's victory over Wyoming on Friday, the Panthers were given a pregame pep talk from Super Bowl winning quarterback and Northern Iowa alumnus Kurt Warner.
Wyoming's loss to Northern Iowa on Friday was disappointing, but what the Cowboys accomplished this season needs to be remembered and celebrated.
Louisville freshman guard Quentin Snider rose to the occasion for the Cardinals in their 57-55 victory over UC-Irvine on Friday.
After wins over Boise State and Providence this week, Dayton is once again rolling in the NCAA Tournament.
Providence coach Ed Cooley was assessed a very bizarre technical foul in Friday night's loss to Dayton.
Forced into duty due to foul trouble, Michigan State reserves Marvin Clark Jr. and Colby Wollenman provided a spark for the Spartans in Friday's win over Georgia.
Georgia coach Mark Fox has raised the floor of the program, and after Friday's loss to Michigan State, it is time for him to raise the program's ceiling.
Virginia was able to hold off upset-minded Belmont in a game where Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett said his team "had enough grit" to earn the win.
Duke has long had a reputation of being an unlikeable team, but can this season's group change that perception?
San Diego State has a much-deserved reputation as a defensive minded team, but it was its hot shooting Friday that led the Aztecs past St. John's.
St. John's coach Steve Lavin hinted after Friday's loss to San Diego State that suspended big man Chris Obekpa may not return to the Red Storm program.
Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak has a fascination with the number seven, and that fascination led him to have a good feeling when the penultimate media timeout against Stephen F. Austin on Thursday came at the 7:07 mark.
Georgetown junior big man Bradley Hayes saw his patience pay off on the big stage when he turned in a productive performance in his team's win over Eastern Washington on Thursday night.
For UCLA point guard Bryce Alford, his toughest position is not being the Bruins' floor leader, but it is being the coach's son.
Yahoo! Sports columnist Pat Forde found it strange when UAB coach Jerod Haase received a vote for the Henry Iba Award, but after Thursday's upset win over Iowa State, he enlisted the help of the voter to make further sense of it.
Iowa dominated Davidson on Friday night. It was definitely a good move for the Hawkeyes to bring their best at the right time.
Gonzaga received a bit of a fight from North Dakota State on Friday night, but the Bulldogs are moving on, and that is all that matters in the postseason.
North Dakota State reserve forward Dexter Werner put up a career-best performance against Gonzaga that helped the Bison stay in the game until the waning minutes.
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Michael Bublé's Christmas In Hollywood Thursday!
I'm honoured to be the announcer for Michael's fifth NBC/CBC special Michael Bublé's Christmas In Hollywood Thursday night at 8 ET/PT. Celine Dion, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Tori Kelly join Michael in celebration of his favorite holiday, Christmas. Gigi Hadid, Kylie Jenner, Jay Leno, Eva Longoria, William Shatner and Blake Shelton join in the festivities for comedy segments that…
"On The Air" A Holiday Treat
Please join me, Rick Cluff, The Hot Mammas, Candus Churchill, Michael Sicoly, the OTA Dancers and our outstanding cast for a special Christmas presentation of On The Air at The Columbia Theatre in New Westminster! Click the link for tickets or call 604-522-4500. …
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree With Jann Arden
Jann Arden has a great new Christmas album out now produced by the legendary Bob Rock. Jann will be in the Vancouver area in the spring with shows in New Westminster's Massey Theatre March 12, Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver March 14 and the Clarke Theatre in Mission March 18. She is a great performer…
Bublé For Christmas, Red Rock Diner Wraps
It's been an interesting couple of weeks! I just completed doing the voice over for Michael Bublé's fifth Christmas show to be shown on NBC and CBC TV December 10. This is my third year as narrator for Michael. His special this year features Jay Leno, Celine Dion, Tori Kelly, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings…
Red Rock Diner a tribute to a Valley legend
As "World's Oldest Living Teenager" Dick Clark did for what seemed like forever, the seemingly indestructible Red Robinson just keeps going. He doesn't act like a teenager but when Robinson reminisces about being a rock record-spinning DJ in the 1950s in Vancouver, you get the sense he remembers it like it was yesterday. (more from…
Congratulations to BCIT's John Vosper!
Since 1988 I have supported a BCIT Radio Arts and Entertainment program student with the Red Robinson Achievement Award for Excellence in Radio Broadcasting scholarship. This year's winner is John Vosper, our 27th recipient. …
Red Rock Diner Road Trip!
Red Rock Diner is on the road! Kelowna Community Theatre November 12, Key City Theatre in Cranbrook November 14, and Capitol Theatre in Nelson November 17. Click the link for tickets in your area. Q103.1/Kelowna afternoon guy Brad Smart and I talked about the show recently. Have a listen. …
Tyrone Reveen At The River Rock
Sadly Peter Reveen passed away a few years ago. However, his son Tyrone carries on the tradition. I knew his father over more than two decades and he was the consummate showman. His record for the number of performances at the Orpheum Theatre stands as a Guinness World Records item. He performed seven shows a week…
Red's rock and roll radio revolution
At the moment John Lennon swore at Red Robinson on a stage in Vancouver, the Beatles and all involved with their first ever Canadian show in 1964 were facing chaos, riot and tumult the like of which had never seen before. But by that time, Red was used to that kind of situation. (More from…


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Home Anime Kakegurui Season 3 Release Date On Netflix – Latest News And Updates
Kakegurui Season 3 Release Date On Netflix – Latest News And Updates
Soubick Das - Last Updated: August 30, 2021
"Kakegurui" is a famous anime series that revolves around the fortunes of students at Hyakkou Private Academy, an institution that ranks its students based on their gambling skills. The worst players in gambling go through really bad humiliations in the institution. But everything soon changes when Yumeko Jabami joins the institution as a transfer student. The last season of this series was released back in 2019, but what about Kakegurui Season 3? Well, stay tuned to know it all, just here!
When will Kakegurui Season 3 release?
What Can Be The Plot of Kakegurui Season 3?
The first season of Kakegurui was aired back in the year 2017. While the show emerged on Netflix the following year,2018. Consecutively the second season was also released in the year 2019. There are in total going to be twelve seasons for the show, out of which two have been already aired. Now comes the talk of the third season. Still, there is no official announcement about the third season. Neither the main anime studio Mappa nor the online platform of Netflix has mentioned anything about the renewal of the next season. There is yet no way around which tells us anything about "Kakeguri" Season 3.
Renewals rely on show popularity among the audience. Well, one thing is for sure there is still plenty of content left to be covered from the manga book "Kakegurui". The book is penned down by Homura Kawamoto, while Tooru Naomura, has explained it. In total there are 14 volumes, consisting of 82 chapters. If we take a count then, you will see, there is a total of 56 episodes. Well, for now, the third season has still some chances left and thus does have a place to get released next year, 2022.
The first season's ending was pretty clear for the audience. While the ending of the second season wasn't that clear for the watchers. People could not really guess what actually happened in the last episode of season two. So in order to clear out the confusion, there needs to be a third season in the run.
If there is a third season, then all the unanswered questions of season two will definitely get answered. Fans liked the first season of the show a lot. While the second season was clearly confusing to many. Season two of the series had many loopholes left. One important thing which comes into account is that the previous season wasn't really all the adaptation of the story from the manga. Thus it clearly gives so many more questions to the audience.
Season two of "Kakegurui" definitely showed us a greenlit towards another season. But nothing is sure yet, since no news has come. But we do expect another season of the series. Thus more drama and action are there for the audience. With more elections in the institution and sister drama of Momobari and Mary, everything is expected to get more on the interesting edge. If you still haven't watched the past two seasons, then you should definitely watch them on Netflix.
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Clássicos da Literatura Disney é uma série de quadrinhos Disney, com paródias e quadrinizações de livros consagrados.

Publicação

Itália
A série italiana, I Classici della Letteratura, rodou de Maio a Novembro de 2010, sendo encartado toda segunda no jornal Corriere della Sera. Durou 30 edições. Cada volume era batizado com o título da história principal, e possuía biografia dos autores dos livros originais e dos quadrinistas responsáveis pelas paródias. Uma republicação em 2013 acrescentou dez novas edições.

Espanha
A série espanhola, Clásicos de la Literatura,  foi encartada com o jornal El Mundo, entre domingo e terça-feira de Junho a Setembro de 2008. Durou 40 edições, e cada edição tinha na lombada uma fração de uma imagem com os personagens Disney. O título de cada edição se refere ao título parodiado na história principal do volume.

Irlanda e Reino Unido
Na Irlanda, Disney Literature Classics foi encartada com o jornal Irish Independent aos sábados, entre Setembro de 2009 e Fevereiro de 2010.Durou 21 edições, com duas edições gratuitas - a primeira, e a vigésima primeira, enviada para quem havia colecionado todas as vinte anteriores - e a imagem da lombada espanhola. Cada edição continha apenas a história que batizava o exemplar. Foi republicada no Reino Unido com 25 exemplares em 2010, nos jornais The Star e Whitby Gazette,  e em 2011 por outros jornais como o  Lancashire Evening Post e Wakefield Express.

Brasil
A série brasileira foi trazida pela Editora Abril (por sua subsidiária Abril Jovem) como celebração dos 50 anos da revista O Pato Donald, começando em Junho de 2010. A primeira edição trazia junto um fac-simile de O Pato Donald número 1, de 1950. Originalmente anunciado como 20 edições, no vigésimo foram anunciados mais 10 - com as edições de 25 a 30 sofrendo alterações antes da publicação, mantendo apenas As 1001 Noites e abandonando O Código Da Vinci,
O Planeta dos Macacos, Viagem Fantástica e ...E o Vento Levou, porque a Disney pediu para ater-se aos títulos da coleção espanhola - e no trigésimo, mais 10, a serem lançados em 2011, completando 40 edições que também possuem a imagem da coleção espanhola.

Títulos

a.  Apenas no Reino Unido.

Ligações externas

 I Classici della Letteratura (2a edição), Clásicos de la Literatura, Literature Classics (Irlanda, Reino Unido) e Clássicos da Literatura no Inducks

Abril Jovem
Banda desenhada da Disney
Banda desenhada baseada em literatura


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These high-sensitivity assays require less sample consumption while detecting very subtle differences in levels of low-expression proteins.


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1.High precision load cell, compact design.
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11.Checking Weighing, piece counting function.
12.Certificated calibration weight supplied as standard.
7.Unit conversion (g oz ct kg lb).
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Electronic balance with density measuring device measure density (g/cm3).
Directly Read density, less cumbersome calculation.
Measure: density of solid, liquid.
Measure density of solid and liquid.
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The moustache he was sporting at the time was just for Charity! Here is a picture of what he looked like on Movember and what normally looks like!
Well done Simeon for raising so much for a good cause, in aid of men's cancer charities.
We are pleased to confirm that this year's Apprentice role has been filled. Lewis, from Southport is very enthusiastic about starting in Accountancy, being something he has wanted to do for a long time. We welcome Lewis and look forward to seeing him achieve his goals in this new career.


Chris loves mentoring young entrepreneurs and is passionate about connecting startup ecosystem around the world from Nigeria to Silicon Valley.
He received an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in 2002, and a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1996.
He loves being on two wheels and is an active bike commuter with a passion for taking motorcycle adventures in exotic places.


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Something magical about these little balls of algae with their gentle spherical form and lush green color at times with pearls of air bubbles. Watching little Marimo floating rewards one with a sense of tranquility.......a balm to heal your soul.
An A5 sketchbook with 80 pages of 140gsm cartridge paper, with a rose patterned paper cover with satin overlay on roses, stitched with complimentary cream thread. A lovely little journal to record daily thoughts and sketch ideas. Coptic binding allows for the pages to lay completely flat when opened,whch is ideal for drawing.
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Italian gallery P420 launches a new program for emerging art
Starting December 1st, the Bologna based gallery presents works by young artists in a space which aims to break the boundaries between online presence and real life
Maria Adelaide Marchesoni
2 Dec 2020 • 4 min read
The COVID-19 pandemic has led contemporary art galleries to seek new ways to present art online. In a year when "Online Viewing Room" has become part of the vocabulary of art, it is clear that galleries need to do more to communicate digitally. However, it has become more important than ever that art must be experienced in person.
Bologna-based gallery P420 did not initiate an online viewing room during the first lockdown, but they have now used the digital space to bring to fruition a project dedicated to the discovery of emerging artists. It is a parallel program of the gallery, apart from the main program, that had been in the works for some time, and is called P4202.
Shafei Xia, Welcome to my show, Installation view, Courtesy P420, Bologna
P4202 opens on December 1st as a hybrid exhibition platform. "Derived from an apt quote by the philosopher Luciano Floridi, we define it as on-life," explain Fabrizio Padovani and Alessandro Pasotti, the gallery founders. "We have always felt the need to have a parallel space to show emerging artists, but we thought it didn't make sense to open a new space in Bologna, so we never did. The lockdown made us think a lot and, in the end, we realized that we had to create it, so our project room is virtual while the artworks are of course real."
Differing from other online viewing rooms, P4202 presents the works as they were installed in an actual space, which allows them to present the works as they were installed and not only as images. Also, the focus on other artists who are not in the gallery program makes it interesting as a new space to view new art.
Shafei Xia, Best wishes, 2020, Watercolor on sandal paper mounted on canvas, cm 130x120, detail, Courtesy the artist & P420, Bologna (photo Carlo Favero)
Fabrizio Padovani and Alessandro Pasotti note that "The intention of P4202 is to break down the barriers between virtual and real while we are in a period when the enjoyment of art can be defined as intra-media and fluid, fluctuating between visits to real galleries and social networks, exhibitions and websites, online fairs and newsletters. It is a democratic space, that can be visited by everyone and from everywhere in the world in the same way, a space that is the result of technology, but with a low technological content, because the focus is on the artists and the works, which can also be seen in real life in the gallery."
Left: Shafei Xia (photo Carlo Favero); Right: Shafei Xia, Welcome to my show, installation view, Courtesy P420, Bologna
The inaugural exhibition at the P4202 space is Welcome to My Show, the Chinese artist Shafei Xia's first solo exhibition. The artist shows eight new paintings on sandalwood wrapped paper, made especially for this occasion. Shafei Xia graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna two months ago with a thesis entitled Il mondo è il circo (The World is a Circus), after Federico Fellini's philosophy that Life is a circus
Shafei Xia, Welcome to my show, 2020, Watercolor on sandal paper mounted on canvas, cm 95x145, Courtesy the artist & P420, Bologna (photo Carlo Favero)
"The main theme of Shafei's works is love experienced as desire, jealousy, and violence, represented explicitly or symbolically depending on the situation, but still omnipresent " notes Maura Pozzati in a text for the exhibition "." So the Shafei circus is filled with various figures, undressed acrobats, lovers, tigers, cheetahs, and all kinds of animals. And all this is told with delicacy in the treatment of faces, in the representation of the environments, in the expression of naked bodies, movements and poses.
Left: Shafei Xia, Best wishes, 2020, Watercolor on sandal paper mounted on canvas, cm 130x120, detail, Courtesy the artist & P420, Bologna (photo Carlo Favero); Right: Shafei Xia, Cabinet, 2020, Watercolor on sandal paper mounted on canvas, cm.120x79, Courtesy the artist & P420, Bologna (photo Carlo Favero)
Shafei Xia was born in ShaoXing in China in 1989. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in scenography at ChongQing University, in 2013 she turned down a secure job in her city and moved to Shanghai where, after selling her first work, she says she "felt the taste of freedom in the air." Shafei Xia then moved to Bologna and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2020. In 2019 she won the Zucchelli Foundation for Art talent award.
Shafei Xia, Welcome to my show, 2020, Watercolor on sandal paper mounted on canvas, cm.95x145, detail, Courtesy the artist & P420, Bologna (photo Carlo Favero)
Shafei Xia in her studio (photo Carlo Favero)
Visit the exhibition: http://www.p420.it/en/mostre/Welcome-to-my-show
Mexican galleries join forces during Art Basel OVR
5 Dec 2020 – 5 min read
Galleries join forces to fight climate change
Zurich gallery Gregor Staiger opens a space in Milan
2 Jul 2020 – 3 min read
The ten Mexican galleries participating in the digital edition of the fair present their artworks in real life during a five days event called Basel Miami Selections at Casa Versalles in Mexico City
Silvia Anna Barrilà 5 Dec 2020 • 5 min read
The Contemporary Side of Ceramics
For the last ten years Officine Saffi in Milan has been supporting a new concept of ceramics through exhibitions, workshops, artists residencies, a dedicated award, and a magazine. Laura Borghi, the founder of the gallery, left a career in physics to pursue her passion for this artistic medium.
Silvia Anna Barrilà 27 Nov 2020 • 6 min read


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Jansson README
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Jansson_ is a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON
data. Its main features and design principles are:

- Simple and intuitive API and data model

- Comprehensive documentation

- No dependencies on other libraries

- Full Unicode support (UTF-8)

- Extensive test suite

Jansson is licensed under the `MIT license`_; see LICENSE in the
source distribution for details.

Compilation and Installation
----------------------------

If you obtained a source tarball, just use the standard autotools
commands::

   $ ./configure
   $ make
   $ make install

To run the test suite, invoke::

   $ make check

If the source has been checked out from a Git repository, the
./configure script has to be generated first. The easiest way is to
use autoreconf::

   $ autoreconf -i

Documentation
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Prebuilt HTML documentation is available at
http://www.digip.org/jansson/doc/.

The documentation source is in the ``doc/`` subdirectory. To generate
HTML documentation, invoke::

   $ make html

Then, point your browser to ``doc/_build/html/index.html``. Sphinx_
1.0 or newer is required to generate the documentation.

.. _Jansson: http://www.digip.org/jansson/
.. _`MIT license`: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
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Buoyant Knight Riders look to hunt down struggling Lions
Sports Saturday 07/May/2016 14:40 PM
Kolkata: Thrown off the top spot after three successive losses, Gujarat Lions face the challenging task of gathering themselves and bounce back when they square off against the consistent Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Sunday.
For the IPL debutants, who showed a lot of promise leading the table miles ahead of others, the Gujarat Lions have started wilting at the business end of the tournament and stand the risk of falling by the wayside after suffering a hat-trick of defeats with their five-wicket loss in Hyderabad last night.
"Tough luck @TheGujaratLions! You guys better buck up before Sunday, because we show no mercy at our fortress!" Kolkata Knight Riders tweeted a warning to Sunrisers Hyderabad camp.
Eyeing a record third title, the KKR have been in good form and with four more home matches in the offing, there's no stopping Gautam Gambhir and Co.
Gambhir has led by example and his successful opening combination with Robin Uthappa has been crucial for the team. The duo put on 101 -- their third century-plus stand -- in their seven-run win against Kings XI Punjab in the previous match.
While other teams have relied on overseas stars, KKR have four Indians in top five and the likes of Manish Pandey and Suryakumar Yadav too have impressed making it a winning combination to go with the fury of Andre Russell and Yusuf Pathan.
Russell, with his big-hitting prowess to go with his effective bowling at the death, has been a vital cog. Another West Indian, Sunil Narine, who missed the last match with a finger injury, may return to action to boost their spin attack.
As for Gujarat, Suresh Raina is beginning to show signs of struggle, weighed down by the burden of captaincy.
If their top heavy batting comprising the terrific trio of Brendon McCullum, Aaron Finch, Dwayne Smith is a boon, it's also turning out to be their bane.
The trio's failure has translated into the team's losses as their Indian combination of Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Dinesh Karthik is hardly making any match-winning impact.
Having relished the success provided by their overseas recruits, Raina is struggling when it comes to his individual contribution -- averaging 27.20 -- with a solitary half-century.
His 51-ball 75 was not enough as they could only manage 135 for 8, a target SRH overhauled in 14.5 overs on a flat Rajkot surface.
It's high time that the Team India regular duo of Raina and Jadeja fire down the order to give their batting some depth.
"We just need to be more positive with our batting plan. It's not very difficult to be captain and player at the same time. Everyone has supported me well. Kolkata will be on the slower side -- we'll see which combination we'll go with over there," Raina said after last night's match.
Aaron Finch, who has four half centuries and averages 61.75, has been their best batter this season and dropping him down the order has not helped their cause.
Chinaman bowler Shivil Kaushik, who has generated much curiosity with his Paul Adams-like action, will look to bring out the best. Veteran leg-spinner Pravin Tambe also seems like a good choice in the spin-friendly conditions.