NEW YORK (February 2, 2011)– The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) announced the recipients of the 2011 ROBIE Awards, which will be presented at its Annual Awards Dinner on Monday, March 7 at 6:00pm at New York's Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. Hosted by legendary entertainer Bill Cosby for nearly three decades, the iconic event pays tribute to individuals who embody the humanitarian ideals of Jackie Robinson and raises funds for the Jackie Robinson Foundation. The Foundation provides generous, four-year college scholarships, graduate school grants and extensive mentoring to academically distinguished minority students with financial need and records of leadership capacity.
The star-studded event promises to be an unforgettable evening as the Foundation honors three philanthropists. The ROBIE Humanitarian Award will be presented to Ingrid Saunders Jones. The ROBIE Achievement in Industry Award will be presented to Sean "Diddy" Combs and Joseph R. Perella.
Ingrid Saunders Jones, Senior Vice President, Global Community Connections, The Coca-Cola Company and Chair of the Coca-Cola Foundation will be honored for her extensive work with a wide variety of charities and community initiatives that have left an indelible imprint for positive social change both in the United States and abroad.
Sean "Diddy" Combs, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bad Boy Entertainment Group, will be saluted for his innovation in music and fashion, as well as his charitable and philanthropic contributions throughout his storied career.
Joe Perella, Founding Partner, Chairman and CEO of Perella Weinberg Partners, will be honored for his unique contributions to the financial community. In addition, his steadfast commitments to higher education, cancer research, art and culture exemplify the values exhibited by Jackie and Rachel Robinson.
The JRF Annual Awards Dinner has recognized some of the most decorated names in business, politics, education, media, sports and the arts, including Bishop Desmond Tutu, J. W. Marriott, Jr., Dr. Benjamin Carson, Sr., Clive Davis, Spike Lee, Ruth J. Simmons, Allan H. (Bud) Selig, Henry L. "Hank" Aaron, John Welch Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, George Lucas, Marian Wright Edelman, Arthur Ashe, Michael Jordan, Tom Brokaw, Dr. Sheila C. Johnson, Robert Redford, Robin Roberts and Katharine Graham.
Established in 1973, the Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) is the nation's premier education and leadership development program. Transcending financial assistance, the Foundation equips its scholarship recipients with a comprehensive set of support services including mentoring, career guidance and practical life skills, resulting in a nearly 100% graduation rate, more than twice the national average for minority students. The over 1,400 JRF alumni are both leaders in their professional fields and consummate ambassadors of Jackie Robinson's legacy of community service. This 2010-2011 academic year, JRF is providing generous financial aid and program support to 220 Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholars representing 31 states and the District of Columbia and enrolled in 92 different colleges and universities across the country.
For sponsorship opportunities, tickets or additional information regarding the JRF Annual Awards Dinner, please visit http://guest.cvent.com/d/cdq59k or contact the Foundation at (212) 290-8600. Individual tickets are available for $1,500 with tables and sponsorships ranging from $15,000 to $100,000. Advertising opportunities are available in the special commemorative JRF Annual Awards Dinner program for $5,000.


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In computer networks, a tunneling protocol is a communications protocol that allows for the movement of data from one network to another. It involves allowing private network communications to be sent across a public network (such as the Internet) through a process called encapsulation.
Because tunneling involves repackaging the traffic data into a different form, perhaps with encryption as standard, it can hide the nature of the traffic that is run through a tunnel.
The tunneling protocol works by using the data portion of a packet (the payload) to carry the packets that actually provide the service. Tunneling uses a layered protocol model such as those of the OSI or TCP/IP protocol suite, but usually violates the layering when using the payload to carry a service not normally provided by the network. Typically, the delivery protocol operates at an equal or higher level in the layered model than the payload protocol.
1.1 Circumventing firewall policy
2 Technical overview
3 Common tunneling protocols
4 Secure Shell tunneling
Uses[edit]
A tunneling protocol may, for example, allow a foreign protocol to run over a network that does not support that particular protocol, such as running IPv6 over IPv4.
Another important use is to provide services that are impractical or unsafe to be offered using only the underlying network services, such as providing a corporate network address to a remote user whose physical network address is not part of the corporate network.
Circumventing firewall policy[edit]
Users can also use tunneling to "sneak through" a firewall, using a protocol that the firewall would normally block, but "wrapped" inside a protocol that the firewall does not block, such as HTTP. If the firewall policy does not specifically exclude this kind of "wrapping", this trick can function to get around the intended firewall policy (or any set of interlocked firewall policies).
Another HTTP-based tunneling method uses the HTTP CONNECT method/command. A client issues the HTTP CONNECT command to a HTTP proxy. The proxy then makes a TCP connection to a particular server:port, and relays data between that server:port and the client connection.[2] Because this creates a security hole, CONNECT-capable HTTP proxies commonly restrict access to the CONNECT method. The proxy allows connections only to specific ports, such as 443 for HTTPS.[3]
Technical overview[edit]
As an example of network layer over network layer, Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), a protocol running over IP (IP protocol number 47), often serves to carry IP packets, with RFC 1918 private addresses, over the Internet using delivery packets with public IP addresses. In this case, the delivery and payload protocols are the same, but the payload addresses are incompatible with those of the delivery network.
It is also possible to establish a connection using the data link layer. The Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) allows the transmission of frames between two nodes. A tunnel is not encrypted by default: the TCP/IP protocol chosen determines the level of security.
SSH uses port 22 to enable data encryption of payloads being transmitted over a public network (such as the Internet) connection, thereby providing VPN functionality. IPsec has an end-to-end Transport Mode, but can also operate in a tunneling mode through a trusted security gateway.
To understand a particular protocol stack imposed by tunneling, network engineers must understand both the payload and delivery protocol sets.
Common tunneling protocols[edit]
IP in IP (Protocol 4): IP in IPv4/IPv6
SIT/IPv6 (Protocol 41): IPv6 in IPv4/IPv6
GRE (Protocol 47): Generic Routing Encapsulation
OpenVPN (UDP port 1194)
SSTP (TCP port 443): Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol
IPSec (Protocol 50 and 51): Internet Protocol Security
L2TP (Protocol 115): Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
VXLAN (UDP port 4789): Virtual Extensible Local Area Network.
WireGuard
Secure Shell tunneling[edit]
A Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel consists of an encrypted tunnel created through an SSH protocol connection. Users may set up SSH tunnels to transfer unencrypted traffic over a network through an encrypted channel. It is a software-based approach to network security and the result is transparent encryption.[4]
For example, Microsoft Windows machines can share files using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, a non-encrypted protocol. If one were to mount a Microsoft Windows file-system remotely through the Internet, someone snooping on the connection could see transferred files. To mount the Windows file-system securely, one can establish a SSH tunnel that routes all SMB traffic to the remote fileserver through an encrypted channel. Even though the SMB protocol itself contains no encryption, the encrypted SSH channel through which it travels offers security.
Local and remote port forwarding with ssh executed on the blue computer.
Once an SSH connection has been established, the tunnel starts with SSH listening to a port on the remote or local host. Any connections to it are forwarded to the specified address and port originating from the opposing (remote or local, as previously) host.
Tunneling a TCP-encapsulating payload (such as PPP) over a TCP-based connection (such as SSH's port forwarding) is known as "TCP-over-TCP", and doing so can induce a dramatic loss in transmission performance (a problem known as "TCP meltdown"),[5][6] which is why virtual private network software may instead use a protocol simpler than TCP for the tunnel connection. However, this is often not a problem when using OpenSSH's port forwarding, because many use cases do not entail TCP-over-TCP tunneling; the meltdown is avoided because the OpenSSH client processes the local, client-side TCP connection in order to get to the actual payload that is being sent, and then sends that payload directly through the tunnel's own TCP connection to the server side, where the OpenSSH server similarly "unwraps" the payload in order to "wrap" it up again for routing to its final destination.[7] Naturally, this wrapping and unwrapping also occurs in the reverse direction of the bidirectional tunnel.
SSH tunnels provide a means to bypass firewalls that prohibit certain Internet services – so long as a site allows outgoing connections. For example, an organization may prohibit a user from accessing Internet web pages (port 80) directly without passing through the organization's proxy filter (which provides the organization with a means of monitoring and controlling what the user sees through the web). But users may not wish to have their web traffic monitored or blocked by the organization's proxy filter. If users can connect to an external SSH server, they can create an SSH tunnel to forward a given port on their local machine to port 80 on a remote web server. To access the remote web server, users would point their browser to the local port at http://localhost/
Some SSH clients support dynamic port forwarding that allows the user to create a SOCKS 4/5 proxy. In this case users can configure their applications to use their local SOCKS proxy server. This gives more flexibility than creating an SSH tunnel to a single port as previously described. SOCKS can free the user from the limitations of connecting only to a predefined remote port and server. If an application doesn't support SOCKS, a proxifier can be used to redirect the application to the local SOCKS proxy server. Some proxifiers, such as Proxycap, support SSH directly, thus avoiding the need for an SSH client.
In recent versions of OpenSSH it is even allowed to create layer 2 or layer 3 tunnels if both ends have enabled such tunneling capabilities. This creates tun (layer 3, default) or tap (layer 2) virtual interfaces on both ends of the connection. This allows normal network management and routing to be used, and when used on routers, the traffic for an entire subnetwork can be tunneled. A pair of tap virtual interfaces function like an Ethernet cable connecting both ends of the connection and can join kernel bridges.
HTTP tunnel
ICMP tunnel
NVGRE
GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (GTP)
Pseudo-wire
Tunnel broker
Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
Stunnel
OSI model (Diagram)
^ W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, Addison Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-63346-9.
^ "Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1". RFC 2817. 2000. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
^ "Vulnerability Note VU#150227: HTTP proxy default configurations allow arbitrary TCP connections". US-CERT. 2002-05-17. Retrieved 2007-05-10.
^ Barrett, Daniel J.; Barrett, Daniel J.; Silverman, Richard E.; Silverman, Richard (2001). SSH, the Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-0-596-00011-0.
^ Titz, Olaf (2001-04-23). "Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea". Retrieved 2015-10-17.
^ Honda, Osamu; Ohsaki, Hiroyuki; Imase, Makoto; Ishizuka, Mika; Murayama, Junichi (October 2005). "Understanding TCP over TCP: effects of TCP tunneling on end-to-end throughput and latency". In Atiquzzaman, Mohammed; Balandin, Sergey I (eds.). Performance, Quality of Service, and Control of Next-Generation Communication and Sensor Networks III. 6011. Bibcode:2005SPIE.6011..138H. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.78.5815. doi:10.1117/12.630496. S2CID 8945952.
^ Kaminsky, Dan (2003-06-13). "Re: Extensions for long fat networks?". openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org (Mailing list). the TCP forwarding code is pretty speedy as well. Just to pre-answer a question, ssh decapsulates and re-encapsulates TCP, so you don't have classic TCP-over-TCP issues.
PortFusion distributed reverse / forward, local forward proxy and tunneling solution for all TCP protocols
SSH VPN tunnel, see the SSH-BASED VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS section
BarbaTunnel Project - Free open source implementation of HTTP-Tunnel and UDP-Tunnel on Windows
VpnHood Project - Free open source implementation of a VPN using socket redirection
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1556 ca 1572-1629 1629, May 6
a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. He is known for running a large studio in Antwerp, producing several emblem books, and for being, from 1594 or 1595 until 1598, Peter Paul Rubens' teacher. His role as a classically educated humanist artist (a pictor doctus), reflected in the Latin name by which he is often known, Octavius Vaenius, was influential on the young Rubens, who would take on that role himself.
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Otto van Veen 1556 ca 1572
1629 1629, May 6
Francesco Primaticcio 1504, Apr 30 1530
an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France. Toge...
Juan de Juni 1507 ca 1533
a French–Spanish sculptor, who also worked as a painter and architect. He was born in Joigny, F...
Pieter Aertsen 1508 1550
a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism, who invented the monumental genre scene combi...
Juan Fernandez Navarrete 1526 1550
a Spanish Mannerist painter, born at Logroño. An illness in infancy deprived Navarrete of his he...
Jean Decourt unknown 1570
an enamel painter of Limoges, who served as official portrait painter to the monarchs of Scotland...
Pieter Pietersz the Elder 1540 1569
a Dutch Renaissance painter. From 1569 to 1583 he produced religious scenes in Haarlem, but he i...
Jacob de Backer 1545 1571
a Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp. Although the artist painted in the...
Jacques Patin unknown 1550
a French painter, decorator, illustrator and engraver. Although the date and place of Patin's bir...
Cristobal de Acevedo 1540 1560
a Spanish painter, active mainly during the Renaissance period. He was born likely in Madrid and ...
Francois Quesnel unknown 1580
a French painter of Scottish extraction. In Paris he worked as a decorator and a designer of cart...
John White 1540 ca 1580
an English artist and early pioneer of English efforts to settle North America. He was among thos...
Pellegrino Tibaldi 1527 1542
1592 1592/1596
an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter.who spread the style of Italian Manne...
Ludovico Carracci 1555, Apr 21 1584
an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characte...
Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1526/27 1548
an Italian painter, famous for his allegorical or symbolical compositions in which he arranged ob...
Alessandro Allori 1535, May 31 1561
an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school His varied output included altarpieces...
Federico Zuccari 1540/41 ca 1550
an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad. His documented caree...
Hans von Aachen 1552 1574
a German mannerist painter. He became well known as a painter of portraits for noble houses. He a...
Ludovico Cardi 1559, Sep 21 1581
an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and acti...
Denis Calvaert 1540 1560
a Flemish painter born at Antwerp, who lived in Italy for most of his life. Calvaert was a profou...
Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 ca 1569
an Italian Renaissance painter, mainly of portraits, born in Cremona to a noble family, but a rel...
Cristofano Allori 1577, Oct 17 1600
an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. He became one of the foremos...
Clara Peeters unknown 1607
a still-life painter who came from Antwerp and trained in the tradition of Flemish Baroque painti...
Dirck van Baburen 1595 ca 1617
a Dutch painter, one of the Utrecht Caravaggisti. He was among the first artists to popularize ge...
Willem Pietersz Buytewech 1591/92 1612
a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is one of the early specialists in the mer...
Tawaraya Sotatsu unknown 1625
a Japanese artist and also the co-founder of the Rimpa school of Japanese painting. Sotatsu bega...
Denis van Alsloot 1570 ca 1599
a Flemish landscape and genre painter and draughtsman. At the turn of the 17th century his career...
Abel Grimmer 1570 ca 1586
a Flemish late Renaissance painter, mainly of landscapes and, to a lesser extent, of architectura...
Peter Binoit unknown 1610
a flower painter of the 17th century, flourished in Cologne. Very little is known about his life....
Agustin Leonardo unknown 1620
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Arent Arentsz 1586 1600
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a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Arentsz was born and died in Amsterdam. According to the RK...
Jacques Callot 1592 1610
a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine. He is an important person in the d...
Hendrick Avercamp 1585, Jan 1608
1634 1634, May
a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the...
Giovanni Battista Crescenzi 1577 1610
an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ...
Gerard Donck 1600 1627
a Dutch Golden Age painter. There is very little information available about the details of his l...
Cristobal Ramirez de Arellano unknown 1616
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Cristobal Vela 1588 ca 1610
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Nicolas Lagneau unknown 1600
a French draftsman noted for his portrait drawings. He was especially interested in grotesque phy...
Alexander Adriaenssen 1587 1610
a Flemish Baroque still-life painter, particularly known for his renderings of fish. Born in Antw...
Pieter van Avont 1600 1620
a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker during the Baroque era. Van Avont painted together ...
Bartholomeus Breenbergh 1598, Nov 13 1619
a Dutch Golden Age painter of Italian and Italianate landscapes, in Rome (1619-1630) and Amsterda...
Francesco Albani 1578, Mar/Aug 17 1600
an Italian Baroque painter, known for paintings of mythological and poetic subjects. Among the be...
Evert van Aelst 1602 1620
a Dutch still life painter. Became famous for his still life paintings of game, fish, vases, etc....
Juan de Espinosa unknown 1628
Spanish Baroque painter specializing in still life painting. There is a great deal of confusion i...
Pietro da Cortona 1596/97, Nov 1 1620
was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and, along with his contemporaries and rivals...
Anthonie Jansz van der Croos 1606 1627
1662 1662/63
a Dutch painter, draughtsman and poet. Though probably born and raised in Alkmaar, from 1634 on C...
Guido Cagnacci 1601, Jan 19 1627
an Italian painter of the Baroque period, belonging to the Forlì painting school and to the Bolo...
Guercino 1591, Feb 8 1607
an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologn...
Thomas de Keyser 1596 ca 1620
a Dutch painter and architect. He excelled as a portrait painter, and was the most in-demand port...
Jan Lievens 1607, Oct 24 1619
a Dutch painter, usually associated with Rembrandt, working in a similar style. Lievens collabora...
Ingen Ryuki 1592, Dec 7 1620
a Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher. He is most known for founding the Ob...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598, Dec 7 1609
an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc...
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In this episode, Dr. Hackie Reitman speaks with musician and educator Joseph S. Lento.
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HACKIE REITMAN, M.D. (HR): Hi, I'm Dr. Hackie Reitman and welcome to another episode of Exploring Different Brains. Today, we have the pleasure of having with us, Joseph Lento, the maestro, a conservatory, trained, professional musician, teacher, advocate who does so much for so many of us whose brains happened to be a little bit different and he's gonna tell ya all about it. Joseph, welcome to Exploring Different Brains.
JOSEPH LENTO (JL): Thank you you much Dr. Reitman. It's really an honor to be here.
HR: Well, the honor is ours and you can call me Hackie. Why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself all better than I did so our audience can get a feel for all the different stuff you're doing.
JL: Well, I think you overgenerous in your introduction and I really appreciate it. You know, I'm a kid from the Bronx. Grew up playing stickball, football, all those things and you know, loved music from the time I was 5 years old but we were pretty poor and couldn't afford the trumpet that I wanted and when I got into middle school, I was given the opportunity to play the trumpet and it changed my life and it really help me organize my thoughts and feelings and how my brain works and I realized then how important our music was to all of us even if you didn't want to pursue it on the professional level. I saw what it did for kids.
HR: And where do you think you would be if it weren't for music?
JL: You know, I was only talking about that the other day with one of my brothers and another buddy from high school. I really don't know where I'd be. I really don't even like to think about it. Because of music, I have the career and blessing of being an educator. I've been a professional musician since I was 16 years old. I've played for, you know, wonderful people my entire life. I don't know where I'd be without music. I certainly would not be here, speaking with you.
HR: Not many people I meet get named by President Barack Obama to be a national teacher of the arts and humanities, which happened to you in 2014. How did that affect you, if in any way?
JL: It was a great honor to be recognized by President Obama in that way. Of course, there were millions of deserving teachers across the country. It really said to me that the people really do understand what the arts are about. We often think about, especially them in our political landscape, they really give thought to these things and they understand the importance of it. That message really reinvigorated me to what I was doing, and I said, "Well, if President Obama really thinks that much of a kid from the Bronx doing what he loves, then I've got to do even more than I've been doing." I've really been more motivated than ever these past four years.
HR: You've been in either Yonkers or New York doing your thing for over 26 years.
JL: Actually, I started in 1984, so it's 34 years come this September.
HR: Wow. You don't look old enough.
JL: Oh, I'm old enough.
HR: Alright. Now, one of the reasons you and I see eye-to-eye on a lot of things is that you know that each of our brains is different and you get that society needs to understand and embrace diversity for the benefit of all of us. This manifested itself in something you developed called Class Act. Why don't you tell us how Class Act evolved?
JL: Sure, and I can't take full credit for it. Ms. Kelly was the co-founder with me on that. She is a woman who is a great musician and a school administrator, probably 30 years into her career at that time, and I was a neophyte. I was a real beginner. But it began in 1985, when I had my first permanent teaching assignment at my Alma Mater Leiman High School in the Bronx. In those days, getting a music position was very, very difficult, but the principal wanted me to be there, and I wanted to be there. I had minored in history, so I had gotten a license to teach what they called social studies to special needs students. I had the prerequisite special education credits, but I didn't know what I was doing, as most people don't know when they first enter the classroom. You learn so much from the kids and this unique group of students had emotional disabilities; they had physical disabilities, and they were just absolutely great young people. I said to them, "Why not learn how to play instruments in addition to learning about social studies?" So I set up a little space in the back of the room, cobbled some instruments together, and before you know it, we had a band program for the special needs kids at Leiman High School, which, until that point, they hadn't even been given a music class. Ms. Kelly and together we put our kids together. She was doing the same thing in her school. We found out that we were the only people doing what we were doing. When we joined forces, we made the band Class Act. They performed and it was amazing, just amazing to see what music did for those young people who nobody thought they could think differently than how they presented.
HR: Very interesting. How did you and your brain choose the trumpet?
JL: You know, I was five years old. I will never forget this moment. I was in the living room, and big as life, there's Louis Armstrong. That big smile, that handkerchief, that trumpet. I looked at him and I said, "I want to be him." My living room is essentially a shrine to Satchmo. His influence on music in the 20th century for not only jazz, pop, but also orchestral music. He had a great, great influence on trumpet players. I saw him; that's all I wanted to do. Seven years later, I got the opportunity to do it. As a matter of fact, I'll tell you a story if I can. I was rejected for band in the second grade. A music teacher, I was actually rejected for a band class. We were at ??? where I attended elementary school, they were putting a band program together, and a gentleman came in the room and auditioned us. And he asked me to move my fingers as if I was playing a trumpet. I said, "I got this. I'm gonna be in the band." I was rejected for the band and I went on to become a professional musician, so that shows how little teachers took into account that everybody can succeed if they are given an opportunity, and how music can bring out successes that some children might not ordinarily have. I didn't let it stop me. I just kept pursuing it until I was in a position to get that trumpet.
HR: Well, the great teachers let you take a shot, as my old friend Angelo Dundee, who had fifteen world champions, Muhammed Ali, he used to say, "Let them take a shot. Take a shot. Get in the ring; see what they got," kind of thing. Louis Armstrong, you talk about him. I remember the words that struck out to me; they were doing a special on him once, was "the irrepressible humanity" that you just felt around him. You just felt that good feeling which is a quality in itself, and able to translate that into his music.
JL: Oh, absolutely. He was just, for many, many years, he went around the world as an ambassador for our nation, and there wasn't anybody who didn't smile just by looking at him. What you said, you summed it up beautifully.
HR: Now, tell us what you're doing presently.
JL: Well, right now I'm preparing to do interview for Manhattan Cable. This is the third year that they invited me on and it's going to be a round table discussion on the inclusion model which began about 1987 where students with special needs were first mainstreamed into the general education classes. We're going to also be discussing how parents can get the programs that their children with special needs must have and we're also going to talk about, there's a big movement now known as the reflective practices movement. And it's…no more do these schools want to deal with discipline in the traditional way but they want to have these transformative practices where they discuss the behavior of the student and so on and so forth and you know this is something I've been doing for a very very long time, not even really knowing it cause when you use music you're transforming, you know and having these reflective practices all the time. So we're also going to be discussing the reflective practices and how I would see integrating it in a real academic and artistic way. A lot of place just sort of playing music for people and there's no real socratic follow up on getting people to think about what there doing. So, I think we've kind of put together a nice package that I'm going to talk about more on that program.
HR: Understood. Okay. Now Joseph, what do you like doing the best? Do you like playing music or teaching?
JL: Well there's no doubt about it. Teaching is my favorite. There's just no better feeling than what you're seeing. Young people. You know, when their playing those instruments I can actually see their minds all opening up. I know that might sound corny but it's true. Because you can just see it and then you hear it and you can see the way they interact with the other kids in the class which before they have that same interaction with, so there's nothing better than having somebody realize their potential and especially when it's music it gives a great deal of satisfaction. But I love to play music and I love to play my trumpet and so on but there's, you know if I have to choose between the two we would be teaching every time.
HR: Very well said. Joey is there anything else that you'd like to cover that we haven't covered during this.
JL: Well there are a couple things if I may. One of them was, you know many years ago I actually put into a study what was going on with the kids in my program. You know, it wasn't anything new that people had done before but in terms of the populations of kids I was using that was different. I was teaching at Lemon High School, and I used, probably close to 200 students in a study and they were not only kids with the highest traditional IQs but also kids with emotional in academic problems and I did a side by side comparison of the students who took instruments with music and those who did not. And the kids who took instruments with music including the ones that before had lower grades of the sudden we're now scoring much higher in every academic subject that was taught in the high school whether it was foreign language, science, math, history. All of them with a minimum of two years of experience in my class now began having much higher grades and I'm very very proud of that because it really shows the power of music across all different brain types. So, that's something I still use till this day when I'm discussing things with people. And also making music more accessible to our students with special needs. I've recently been involved with the company called Looe Music for which I'm not a paid endorser or anything like that. And they devised a polymer trumpet which you don't hear to my right which is so light weight that people who have motor difficulties and who lack certain upper body strength, they can negotiate this instrument as I'm very, very happy to began the process of opening up awareness of the instrument. This a prototype and it's not complete yet. Now I've played it and it's got a wonderful sound and soon when the finished product is available I'm going to play it and I'm going to share it on the Linked in website but, the cost value of something like this, but also be something that, special needs communities can afford. And bringing music to special needs communities is something really, really, wanna do. So anyway I can do it, I'm going to do my very best to do that.
HR: Now is there an age in which you can't learn music anymore if you you've never done it?
JL: Oh, I would say absolutely not. Absolutely not. Of course starting earlier is better, you know, I wish I could have started when I was 5, but it just wasn't in the cards. But that doesn't mean that you can't make up the ground. So no. Anytime you want to start an instrument, please by all means. You know, playing an instrument opens up your mind and your heart in ways that you can't imagine. In order just to play a clarinet or a saxophone or a trumpet, your brain has to do 8 or 9 things at once. And when I see a kid with special needs who might not have a typically high IQ and their playing that trumpet and doing great, I say people don't realize all the things that are going on their mind at this one time. You have to decode, you have to evaluate, you have to put emotion into it, you have to use air. It's fascinating what the human body and brain has to do to negotiate an instrument.
HR: That's very instructive you know, and we've had some people on Different Brains who uh, you know, musical therapist, music therapist. Which, you know, was getting a bigger, bigger whole now with special needs is well.
HR: And uh. Um. Well thank you so much with sharing with all of us. I've learned a lot today and it's been a real pleasure to speak with you and I hope you'll have time to come back and talk to us again sometime.
JL: Dr. Reitman, it will be my absolute pleasure. And I want to congratulate you and your entire staff what you're doing. I share all the information that you send out. People are amazed. They write back to me and say, "This is amazing," and it is. So my hat's off to you and your entire organization, and I look forward to speaking with you in the future.
HR: Well thank you very much. We owe it all to our wonderful interns and staff. We're terrific here and uh, all of us have different brains here or uh, neurodiverse bunch here but thank you very much for the kind words and, for all of us here at differentbrains.org, thank you so much for being our guest on exploring Different Brains, Joseph Lento, professional musician, maestro but most importantly, a teacher and and innovator who uses music to reach us all. Thank you so much!
JL: Thank you Dr. Reitman.
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Tibet's Shoton Festival - Limited Edition
Discover Tibet for yourself during a vibrant summer festival
Travel from mainland China to Tibet and experience the splendour of the ancient Shoton Festival on this 8-day tour. Begin and end in the capital of Sichuan – Chengdu – and journey into Lhasa, the capital and spiritual heart of Tibet. Here you will encounter ancient mythology, historic temples and rich and fascinating culture the region is known for. Watch pandas at a research centre in Chengdu, discover the grand former residence of the Dalai Lama, be captivated by a monk debate and celebrate Shoton with locals and pilgrims.
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Experience the vibrant celebrations and grand traditions of Tibet's Shoton Festival, like the mountainside unveiling of a 40-metre-high Thangka and a traditional outdoor opera.
Watch giant pandas munch bamboo, relax and play at Chengdu's Panda Breeding Centre and learn about what is being done to help this threatened species.
Immerse yourself in Tibet's Lhasa, exploring the grand Potala Palace – formerly the residence of the Dalai Lama – and wandering among pilgrims at Jokhang Temple.
Watch monks debate each other on tenants of Buddhism in a highly stylised and theatrical discussion at the Sera Monastery, a fascinating spectacle even if you can't speak Tibetan.
Walk the kora circuit around Ganden Monastery to get a real sense of this meditative practise, then enjoy a serene picnic lunch with a view of the Lhasa River.
This trip visits places that are at high altitude, and as a result some people can suffer from altitude sickness, regardless of age or physical health. Please see the 'Health' section of the trip notes for more important information.
Steeped in myth and spirituality and set in remote mountainous terrain: Tibet is a great place to visit if you're an independent, open-minded traveller.
Note that in recent years there have been some restrictions on certain nationalities being able to travel on specific departures. Tibet has also been known to be closed down to foreign tourism without warning.
The Shoton Festival period can be very crowded, as pilgrims and locals flock to Tibet's holy sites. Keep an open mind, practise patience and enjoy this unique chance to rub shoulders with local people.
Day 1: Chengdu
Ni Hao! Welcome to Chengdu – the capital of Sichuan Province. Your adventure begins with a welcome meeting at 6 pm. If you arrive with a few hours (or a few days) to spare, perhaps begin exploring the vast city independently. Tomorrow will bring a guided tour and panda encounter, so spare time today might be best spent getting familiar with the spicy cuisine the region is known for. The classic dishes that originate from Chengdu are widely considered the best in the country, which is no mean feat in a country this food-focused. After the group welcome meeting, get to know each other and the cuisine over an authentic Sichuan hot pot dinner, known locally as 'huo guo' (which roughly translates to 'fire pot').
It's very important that you attend the welcome meeting as we will be collecting insurance details and next of kin information at this time. If you are going to be late please let your travel agent or hotel reception know. Ask reception or look for a note in the lobby for more information on where the meeting will take place.
Visit the Chengdu Panda Breeding Centre and witness the conservation efforts being made to save this endearing endangered species. There are only around 1000 pandas left in the world and 80% of them are found in the mountains in Sichuan Province. The facility was set up 30 years ago with just a handful of rescued animals and there are now more than 80 giant and red pandas living at the base. The pandas have over 600 acres of parkland to live in and you can get up close and watch them play, eat bamboo and climb the trees. In the afternoon, explore Chengdu on a leader-guided tour. Begin with Tianfu Square, overlooked by a large statue of Chairman Mao, then unwind at Renmin Park (People's Park). Enjoy a cup of tea and relax with the locals, observing games of mah-jong, choir practise and group exercise. Enjoy a peaceful evening in preparation for tomorrow's adventure.
Chengdu - Giant Panda Breeding Research Base
Chengdu - People's Park & Tianfu Square
Chengdu - Tea Tasting
Day 3: Lhasa (3656 metres)
Board a plane and fly into Tibet's capital of Lhasa (approximately 2.5 hours). Colourful, historic and holy, Lhasa is a lofty valley town that sits at an eye-watering altitude of 3650 metres. For years even the most adventurous and hardy of foreign explorers rarely reached the city, either because of treacherous terrain or the fierce warrior monks that protected Tibetan territory from intruders. Nowadays, tourists are welcomed, but Lhasa remains a city of strong tradition and deep mythology. Your Tibetan leader and driver will greet you at the airport. Make the 1-hour drive to the hotel. It's advisable to limit any physical activity for the rest of the day as you give your body time to acclimatise.
It is common for travellers to experience some adverse health effects due to the altitude – regardless of your age, gender and fitness. It even happened to Sir Edmund Hillary! Take it easy and give yourself time to acclimatise.
Day 4: Lhasa
Rise and shine to begin your exploration of Lhasa. Visit the Potala Palace, the historic winter residence of the Dalai Lama between 1649 to 1959. Perched 130 metres above the city, Potala is an architectural wonder with breathtaking views. Explore the complex with your local guide, including the tombs of former incarnations of the Dalai Lama, then continue to Jokhang Temple, considered the most sacred in Tibet. Wander around the six-acre site and take in both the temple itself, the golden Buddha which stands in the centre and the throngs of devotees who are overcome with emotion upon entering. In the afternoon, visit Sera Monastery to watch monks debate each other on tenants of Buddhism. While you won't understand much (unless you're fluent in Standard Tibetan), this stylised debate is a joy to watch unfold.
Lhasa (1 night)
Lhasa - Potala Palace
Lhasa - Sera Monastery
Lhasa - Jokhang Temple
You are required to remain with your guide throughout the tour of Potala Palace.
Day 5: Lhasa – Shoton Festival
Translating literally as 'Yoghurt Banquet', the Shoton Festival (or Sho Dun Festival) began as a religious event in the 11th century where locals would offer yoghurt to monks returning from prayer retreats. Today, it is one of the largest – and grandest – festivals in Tibet. This morning get your first taste of the revelry when you travel to Drepung Monastery to witness the ceremonial unveiling of a 40-metre-high Thangka painting of the Buddha, the official opening of Shoton. In the afternoon, travel to Norbulingka Palace to witness an outdoor opera among the colourful flower gardens that decorate the Dalai Lamas former summer residence. Rub shoulders with the locals as you take in the colourful spectacle of a traditional Tibetan opera.
Lhasa - Drepung Monastery
Lhasa - Norbulingka Palace
A huge crowd will be present at Drepung Monastery today for the unveiling of the Thangka. Be prepared for a loud and festive crowd. We will have to park about one kilometre away from the monastery, meaning you will spend a few hours on your feet this morning.
Day 6: Ganden Monastery – Lhasa
Travel to Ganden Monastery (approximately 2 hours) for a day tour of the rambling 15th-century complex. Participate in a kora, a form of meditative pilgrimage that involves walking the circumference of the monastery. Enjoy as picnic lunch with views of the surrounding grey mountains and the Lhasa River. Return to Lhasa in the afternoon for free time to explore of relax at your leisure. Perhaps wander the hand-polished stones that pave Barkhor Street and shop for souvenirs or simply watch the pilgrims who come to use the circular road for kora, as was originally intended.
Lhasa - Ganden Monastery
Board a morning flight to Chengdu, arriving at around midday. Enjoy a free afternoon to soak up Chengdu further. Perhaps visit the tranquil grounds of the Wenshu Temple, or take a ramble down the Jinli Pedestrian Street, where Qing Dynasty-era buildings house shops, cafes and bars. As night falls, choose whether to enjoy an optional dinner with your group.
The tour will come to an end today after breakfast. If you have booked a late flight, it is possible to store your luggage at the hotel during the day if you need.
Hotel check-out time is 12 pm.
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Hotel (3 nights), Feature accommodation Lhasa ( 4 nights)
There are currently no scheduled departures on our Tibet's Shoton Festival - Limited Edition trip. If you are interested in other trips in the region visit one of the links below.
1. In order for us to apply for your Tibet entry permit you must provide a scanned colour copy of the personal details page of your passport and a Chinese visa to your booking agent no later than 35 days prior to the start date of your trip. You will also need to advise us of your current profession.
2. Please be aware that in recent years there have been times when certain nationalities are banned or restricted from travelling to Tibet or Tibet has been closed to all foreign tourists without warning.
3. Due to the demands of travelling at high altitudes (above 3000 meters/9800 feet), a Self-Assessment Form is required for this trip. Your booking agent will supply this.
4. A complimentary arrival transfer is included. Please provide your flight details to your booking agent no later than 14 days prior to travel.
5. A single supplement is bookable on this trip for all nights, subject to availability.
6. When applying for Chinese visa it is imperative that you do NOT mention travel to Tibet. You must first apply for your Chinese visa as instructed and Peregrine will then apply for the Tibet permit on your behalf.
7. It's a criminal offence for anyone to carry images of the Dalai Lama or the Tibetan flag while travelling to the region – doing so may lead to confiscation of the items, detention, arrest or imprisonment by Chinese authorities.
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LG has finally taken the wraps off the G7 ThinQ and the more higher rated G7+ ThinQ at an event in New York, culminating the months of rumors and speculations we have had on both. Specifications are top notch to say the least though the other big USP with the two phones is their built-in AI capabilities and has a dedicated physical button for the same as well.
For a design perspective, both the G7 and G7+ ThinQ version incorporate a notched display. In fact, the two phones are basically the same except that the latter comes with higher rated memory and storage for better performance. Specifically, the G7 comes with 4 GB of RAM along with 64 GB of storage while the G7+ sports 6 gigs of memory along with 128 GB of storage. Both variants are powered by the Snapdragon 845 SoC coupled to the Adreno 630 GPU.
The other specification of the two G7 flagship variants include a 6.1-inch QHD 3120 × 1440 pixel FullVision display with an aspect ratio of 19.5:9, True-Tech revealed. LG said the display benefits Super Bright tech that enabled it to have a max brightness of 1000 nits. Battery capacity stands at 3,000mAh and is compliant with the Qualcomm QuickCharge 30 tech.
The highlights of the rear include a dual 16 MP camera having an aperture of f/1.6 and f/1.9 respectively. LG said there is AI at work here which will let the camera take the best possible shot depending on the object and its surroundings that the camera is focussed on. Plus, there is the Super Bright mode as well to allow you to capture clear images even in dimly lit conditions. Then there is the 8 MP front facing camera as well with a wide angle lens and f/1.9 aperture.
Mention must also be made of the Boombox Speaker that the G7 variants sports. That makes for an amazing audio quality that not only fills the entire room but offer 7.1 channel quality audio with the earphones. LG said the phone uses its inner space as a resonance chamber to produce superior quality sound, which gets enhanced when placed on a solid surface.
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The phones support Super Far-Field Voice recognition technology that can pick up your voice even in noisy conditions or when you are farther away from the phone. This comes in handy when you need to communicate with the built-in smart AI assistant. This brings us the other unique aspect of the G7 duo, its AI capabilities.
As has been mentioned before, there is the dedicated AI button placed just below the volume rocker buttons. Tapping it once will launch Google Assistant while a double tap will launch Google Lens. You can also press and hold on to the button to talk to Google Assistant right away.
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Both the G7 variants will go on sale in South Korea before it is made available in the rest of the world.


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London – Today, two matching pairs of vegan Stan Smith trainers from Adidas are en route from PETA to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for their third wedding anniversary (19 May) – traditionally known as the "leather" anniversary. In addition to helping the power couple hit the ground running with their new endeavours, the gift offers an animal-friendly alternative to Meghan's go-to casual shoes – and puts a modern spin on the dated gifting of leather items to mark a couple's third year of marriage.
"We know how much you care about animals and the environment – unlike the leather industry, which kills over one billion animals every year and whose end product is ranked the most polluting material in fashion," writes PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk in an accompanying letter to the Sussexes. "We therefore sought to mark your special day in a modern, eco-conscious, and animal-friendly way …. We hope you love the gift and that the shoes will inspire you to continue to embrace vegan fashion."
PETA US video exposé of the world's largest leather producer revealed that gentle cows and bulls were branded on the face, electroshocked, and beaten before being killed for their skin. Turning animal skins into leather requires the use of 130 different chemicals – including cyanide – and leather production produces massive amounts of the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. The World Bank has reported that cattle ranching is responsible for over 80% of deforestation in the Amazon since 1970.
The shoes, a vegan version of the iconic Adidas Stan Smith design, feature a vegan upper and an outsole made with rubber waste. They are also made with Primegreen – a series of high-performance recycled materials – and are free from virgin polyester.
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On Saturday, October 25th my spouse and I attended a Lambda Literary event titled "UNABRIDGED: A Conversation with Ana Castillo, Andrew Holleran, and Justin Torres" at the Armory for the Arts Theater here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event consisted of readings from each of the three authors, followed by a discussion with the author panel moderated by Amy Scholder.
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I came away from the event with a greater appreciation for the challenges writers face in navigating the line between fiction and nonfiction when their writing is inspired by real life people. When Amy asked a question about self-censorship in writing, Justin talked about breaking "the cardinal rule of telling family secrets" in his book, even though it was about a fictional family. Andrew commented that culture is moving toward "exposure" and that sometimes the line between fiction and nonfiction is hard to negotiate because "the best characters are the ones you can observe minutely."
While considering this challenge, I came across a useful article from Writer's Relief. Here are three excerpts on the topic:
Most fiction is autobiographical to some extent, as writers draw from their real-world experiences. . . . Sometimes a story is created from the tiniest real-life detail.
If you think about the lives of ordinary people, there's not usually a novel to be had. Real life is messy and complicated and doesn't follow the rules of fiction; it's also boring at times. . .mundane. The trick is to lift characters, events, tragedies, and triumphs from the pages of real life and create a new existence for them.
Disguising a real-life story as fiction doesn't necessarily ensure that you'll avoid lawsuits. . . . Better to model a character after [a real person]; as a writer, you can improve on the character to better suit your story, and no one will be humiliated.
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Christina Crawford (Ponte Vedra Beach, 17 oktober 1988) is een Amerikaans professioneel worstelaarster die werkzaam was bij WWE als Caylee Turner.

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World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE (2010-2012)
In juni 2010 ondertekende Crawford een contract met de World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) en werd naar de Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), een WWE-opleidingscentrum, verwezen om te trainen. Op 20 november 2010 debuteerde ze, onder de ringnaam Caylee Turner, op FCW, vormde in een '6-women tag team match' met Aksana en Rosa Mendes een trio en werden verslagen door het trio AJ Lee, Kaitlyn en Naomi Night. Op 17 december 2010 won ze voor de eerste keer een FCW-match nadat ze met Kaitlyn in een tag team match AJ Lee en Aksana versloegen.

In 2011 nam Crawford deel aan het terugkerende seizoen van de WWE-televisieprogramma, WWE Tough Enough. Tijdens de seizoen werd Crawford opgeleid en getraind door drie professionele worsteltrainers, Trish Stratus, Bill DeMott en Booker T. Tijdens de aflevering van 23 mei 2011 werd Crawford door de gastheer Stone Cold Steve Austin naar huis gestuurd.

Na haar Tough Enough-deelname keerde ze terug naar de FCW om verder te trainen. Een jaar later, op 29 juni 2012, behaalde ze voor het eerst in haar worstelcarrière een worstelkampioenschap door het FCW Divas Championship te winnen van Raquel Diaz en tevens de laatste kampioene nadat de WWE besliste om alle FCW-titels op te bergen. Dit werd veroorzaakt door de WWE die in augustus 2012 de FCW Wrestling van naam veranderde in NXT Wrestling. Op 14 augustus 2012 werd ze vrijgegeven van haar WWE-contract.

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 Florida Championship Wrestling
 FCW Divas Championship (1 keer)

Persoonlijk leven
Crawford heeft een oudere zus, Victoria Crawford (beter bekend als Alicia Fox), die ook een WWE-worstelaarster is.

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  Profiel op Online World of Wrestling
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World movie review: The story of Hiccup and his Night Fury called Toothless seems stretched and contrived, full of noisy battles, and stuffed with just too many fire-breathing giants.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World movie review: The jokes are not that funny in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Pursued by the bad guys, a group of Vikings and their dragons decide to abandon their home of seven generations for "a hidden world" where they will be safe. Particularly after Christchurch, it may not be the best of times for a storyline such as this, given how sensitive Hollywood is to nuances like that. But this is just one misstep by How To Train Your Dragon. Into Part 3, the story of Hiccup and his Night Fury called Toothless seems stretched and contrived, full of noisy battles, and stuffed with just too many fire-breathing giants.
What made this story, based on a book series by Cressida Cowell, special to start with was how it depicted the friendship between two misfits and how, in finding each other, they made each other whole. The second part where that friendship soared and fought off some villains was still essentially about Hiccup (Baruchel) and Toothless. The Hidden World starts with a premise that seems promising — how many dragons can the pair save from hunters before they overstay their welcome in 'Berk', the land of which Hiccup is the Viking chief. Already, it is bursting at the seams, and with more and more dragons coming in, there is chaos, especially at meal times. But rather than go somewhere with that idea, we have a middling villain with a reputation of capturing and controlling dragons, Grimmel (voiced suitably menacingly by Abraham). As he steals a march over Hiccup, the latter decides to lead his Vikings and their friendly dragons to what is the promised land.
That DreamWorks still knows how to spin magic is evident from the scenes of Toothless finding a mate in another Night Fury. She is a complete contrast to him — white as the clouds she keeps disappearing into — and hence they dub her the Light Fury. Their courtship, tip-toeing their way around each other, or soaring into the skies, is a delight.
On the ground though, things stagnate. The jokes are not that funny, the chatter ranges between incoherent and insistent, the Grimmel-Hiccup confrontation takes too long happening and then is over in no time, the women (voiced by the talented Ferrera and Blanchett) are little but background noise, the hidden world is a complete Avatar rip-off, while many father-son moments are unfortunately too much like The Lion King.
Still, The Hidden World takes you to a point where Hiccup and Toothless both find a closure. The tale can go anyway from here — any sequel plans will depend on how Part 3 fares — but even if it ends here, it would have been a mostly fun journey.
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The stakes can hardly be greater on Thursday evening when Barcelona will host Gremio in the first leg of their Copa Libertadores' semifinal tie in Guayaquil.
Both sides have been respectively struggling with the form in their domestic league which puts the entire focus on the continental affairs.
The team led by Jorge Almada is clearly the most pleasant surprise of the competition so far.
They managed to advance from the so called "group of death" past the defending champions Atletuico Nacional and the likes of Botafogo and Estudiantes.
Nonetheless, the Uruguayan manager has a lot to worry about ahead of the super important Copa Libertadores tie as Barcelona have won only a single of their last 11 games in all competitions.
The visitors have worries of their own, mainly connected with the injury of their talisman Luan who has been absent for a while now.
Renato Gaucho's side has clearly been struggling a lot with the efficiency in the final third without Luan having notched no more than four goals in last ten games.
The two sides played each other in the last 16 round of Copa Sudamericana five years ago when Gremio won both legs and went through with 3-1 on aggregate.
Gremio are favourites over two leg, but so were the other two Brazilian sides Palmeiras and Santos who managed to score no more than one goal combined in four games against Barcelona in the previous rounds of the knockout stage.
The visitors are struggling badly in the final third and we'd not be surprised to see Barcelona coming on top with a clean sheet win here.
The first option is Barcelona to win the match at the odds of 2.37.
The second pick is Barcelona to keep a clean sheet at 2.25.


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Granuaile's Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in Clare Island, Ireland.

Location

Granuaile's Castle is located on the east coast of Clare Island.

History

Granuaile's Castle was built in the 16th century by the Ó Máille (O'Malley), Kings of Umaill. It was a stronghold of Gráinne Ní Mháille (Grace O'Malley, c. 1530 – c. 1603), the famous "pirate queen." Her other strongholds were at Rockfleet Castle (on Clew Bay) and Carrickkildavnet Castle.

In the 1820s the castle was converted into a police barracks, when the purple slate flashing was added to the two bartizans.

Building

The main living room was at that first floor level with access to the bartizans and the garderobe.

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National Monuments in County Mayo
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Q: How to use REGEX to replace just commas outside quotes? I have .CSV files that follow the example below
22645.30003,2013 Mar 31,4:00:00,5:59:59,"Twilight Saga, The: Breaking Dawn - Part 2","Condon, Bill",,,4

I need to replace the comma as column separator by the symbol \ leaving intact all the commas ocurring inside the strings enclosed in quotes and intend to use it in a simple FIND and REPLACE in Notepad++ for instance.

A: You can try this
search :  ,("[^"]*")?

replace : \\\1

(tested and works on version 6.3.2)

A: Following regex
(,)(?=(?:[^"]|"[^"]*")*$)
matches all commas outside quotation.
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Understanding Hodgkin-Huxley's model and activation variables
This question is about the Hodgkin-Huxley model as introduced in Eugene M. Izhikevich, Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience, p.33 ff.
I'm having trouble to understand and interpret the differential equation for the activation variable $m$:
$$\dot{m} = (m_\infty(V) - m)/\tau(V)$$
which enters via
$$p = m^a h^b$$
into the equation
$$I = \bar{g} p (V − E)$$
for the net current $I$ generated by a large population of identical channels where $p$ is the average proportion of channels in the open state, $\bar{g}$ is the maximal conductance of the population, and $E$ is the reverse potential of the current.
$m$ is the probability of one of $a$ activation gates to be open. Interchangeably: $m^a$ is the proportion of open activation channels (assuming all of its activation gates must be open simultaneously).
The differential equation might give us $m$ as an explicit function of time but it – explicitly – involves $V$ which is – implicitly – another function of time, which in turn depends on the number of open gates. Things are horribly complicated!
On the other hand — since it's about voltage-gated channels and there are "immediate" voltage-sensitive regions in the channel protein which presumably don't have memory ("the single channel has no memory about the duration of its own state"), but possibly a time lag — I expected the being-open-probability of an activation gate to be a "pure" (possibly time-lagged) function of $V$.
My question comes in two disguises
(1) Given two explicit functions $m_\infty(V)$ and $\tau(V)$ like these:
together with $m(0)$ and $V(0)$, how could we ever arrive at an explicit solution for $m(t)$, assuming that $V(t)$ depends somehow on $m(t')$ for $t'\leq t$, but possibly also on some injected currents.
(2) How can an intuitive and sensible interpretation of the terms in
be given? What does the time constant $\tau(V)$ and its dependence on $V$ mean? In which respect and by which hypothesised mechanism is the gate "faster", when $\tau$ is smaller? How can the voltage-sensitive steady-state activation function $m_\infty(V)$ be intuitively explained other than by "giving the asymptotic value of $m$ when the potential $V$ is fixed (voltage-clamp)" or by some complicated description of experiments to determine it? What does $m_\infty(V) - m$ mean, i.e. "the deviation of the current activation from the steady-state activation"?
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1) In practice, no one attempts to obtain explicit solutions for m(t), especially considering the presence of many other ion channel species, nor is there any need to. The standard of art is to use numerical simulations with a sampling interval dT that is sufficiently smaller than any relevant time constants.
2) I'm not sure what intuitive and sensible interpretation you are looking for; it may not make sense to come up with an intuitive explanation for each and every subset of terms. The use of time constants implies that the system is modeled as a linear time invariant system at a given voltage.
What does the time constant τ(V) and its dependence on V mean? In which respect and by which hypothesised mechanism is the gate "faster", when τ is smaller?
The time constant is a scalar that describes the rate at which the system approaches some equilibrium. You could think of the changes in channel state as chemical reactions of the form:
Open <=> Closed
which has some equilibrium and some rate constant - both the rate constant and equilibrium conditions can be a function of voltage, as depicted in the figure you provide. The physical meaning of a rate constant being voltage dependent would be that the activation energy for the transition between states is a function of voltage; when the activation energy is lower, the reaction can progress more quickly (in either direction).
How can the voltage-sensitive steady-state activation function m∞(V) be intuitively explained other than by "giving the asymptotic value of mm when the potential V is fixed (voltage-clamp)" or by some complicated description of experiments to determine it?
That's exactly what it means, and the descriptions are not complicated: the steady state value for a reversible reaction is the point at which the number of units moving from open to closed would be the same as the number moving from closed to open, so on average you see no more change: that's what steady-state means.
What does m∞(V)−m mean, i.e. "the deviation of the current activation from the steady-state activation"?
Yes, "the deviation of the current activation from the steady-state activation" is accurate. The equation is an equation for the change of m, and the change of m is proportional to the "distance from equilibrium" - this is a characteristic of any process that follows linear time invariant dynamics. Note that there are other ways to write this equation that involve a "forward rate", a "backward rate", and the concentration of units in each state (the Wikipedia Hodgkin-Huxley page you linked has these equations), but you can simplify these to the equation you show here because some proportion of the "forward rate" process is cancelled by the "backward rate": your equation is sufficient to describe the net change.
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$\begingroup$ Thanks for your answer (which I edited slightly)! Please let me announce a reply to your answer which will show that it is definitely worth the effort to obtain explicit solutions for $m(t)$ (and to play around with them). Among other things: to see how action potentials happen to be created (beyond a not so well-defined threshold), or how being open (of a channel) cannot follow fast changing voltages.Please stay tuned! $\endgroup$ – Hans-Peter Stricker Dec 13 '17 at 0:31
$\begingroup$ With regard to $\tau(V)$: It's all about the inertia of gates, let it be activation, inactivation, or deactivation gates. I never found time constants being called "inertia coefficients" or the like, but in the case of ion channels, this would hit the nail on the head. (Note, how inertia has to do with delay.) $\endgroup$ – Hans-Peter Stricker Dec 13 '17 at 0:59
$\begingroup$ If you are interested in a preview: send an email to stricker@syspedia.de. $\endgroup$ – Hans-Peter Stricker Dec 13 '17 at 1:02
$\begingroup$ Thanks explicitly and especially for your link to Linear time-invariant theory, which was new to me. $\endgroup$ – Hans-Peter Stricker Dec 13 '17 at 1:09
$\begingroup$ "to see how action potentials happen to be created (beyond a not so well-defined threshold), or how being open (of a channel) cannot follow fast changing voltages" - all of these things can be answered with simulations. $\endgroup$ – Bryan Krause♦ Dec 13 '17 at 1:27
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