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Lady Gaga's 'ARTPOP Ball' Tour Dates: When Will She Be In Your City?
Gaga's tour will kick off on May 4 with a show in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and run through mid-July.
Gil Kaufman 12/03/2013
Lady Gaga is ready to hit the road again. After being forced to abandon the stage earlier this year due to a hip injury, Mother Monster unveiled the dates for her anticipated new outing, Lady Gaga's artRave: The ARTPOP Ball Tour, which is scheduled to kick off on May 4 at the BB&T Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
At press time, the tour — which will hit several cities that Gaga has never played in before as well as ones that she missed earlier this year due to the injury — is slated to run through a July 21 date at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The run will kick off after Gaga's sold-out residency at the soon-to-be-shuttered Roseland Ballroom in New York, where the singer will set up shop for a series of seven shows between March 28 and April 7. Tickets for the ARTPOP Ball will go on sale Monday, December 9.
The dates for the Lady Gaga's artRave: The ARTPOP Ball Tour:
»5/4 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ BB&T Center
»5/6 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
»5/8 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Consol Energy Center
»5/10 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun
»5/12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
»5/13 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
»5/15 - Washington, DC @ Verizon Center
»5/18 - Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena
»5/20 - St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Entergy Center
»5/22 - Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre
»5/25 - Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
»5/26 - Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place
»5/28 - Seattle, WA @ Key Arena
»5/30 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
»6/2 - San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
»6/3 - San Jose, CA @ SAP Center at San Jose
»6/30 - Boston, MA @ TD Garden
»7/2 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
»7/9 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
»7/11 - Chicago, IL @ United Center
»7/14 - San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center
»7/16 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
»7/17 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines
»7/19 - Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden
»July 21 - Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center


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Young M.A drops new song 'PettyWap'.
After giving us 'Praktice' and 'Who Run It (Freestyle)' back in April, Young M.A returns with some new offering as she releases a new song called 'PettyWap'. Listen to it below.
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Drones in logistics
The supply chain of the future is taking off
Find out more about innovation and digitalization at DB Schenker.
Drones are one of the key trends from the past few years, not only within the private and consumer markets but also within the logistics industry. Both start-ups and huge logistics companies are heavily investing in and driving this auspicious future technology. The benefits are clear: Drones promise fast, cost-efficient and sustainable deliveries with a wide field of applications. On the other hand, however, there are risks to be considered and regulations in place, which will have a strong impact on further development. The commercialization of drones in logistics therefore has huge potential but requires patience.
How it all began – from the military to logistics
It all started in the early 20th century, when drones were first used by the military. In the logistics industry, the first official approval for commercial use was given by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States in 2006. Four years later, in 2010, French start-up Parrot released the first drone, which was controlled via Wi-Fi and a smartphone. Many different concepts around drones and deliveries via drones were subsequently tested over the next several years, but drone deliveries have yet to become part of our everyday lives.
Despite this, many start-ups as well as logistics companies around the world are currently driving the technology to bring drones to the supply chain of the future. This has been recently amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated challenges such as social distancing. At the start of 2020, DB Schenker announced their investment in Volocopter, a pioneer in urban air mobility. The goal of the collaboration is to develop the VoloDrone, a heavy-weight cargo drone.
The VoloDrone has a payload of up to 200 kilograms and a reach of 40 kilometers. It is quick and easily deployable due to its flexible equipment, while having the ability to carry euro pallets as well as oversized cargo through sling and hook.
The benefits – sustainability and efficiency
There are diverse benefits to the use of drones in logistics. A major aspect is, of course, sustainability: Since drones are powered by electricity, they are emission neutral. Furthermore, drones are perfect for deliveries to remote or restricted areas, such as islands, construction sites, urban areas or a ship, due to their ability to take off and land vertically. Last but not least, drones demonstrate cost and time efficiency due to their ability to operate autonomously 24/7, without being affected by traffic jams and other restrictions. As stated by McKinsey in the study 'Parcel delivery – The future of the last mile', there will be a huge increase in autonomous deliveries, for example by drones, in the future.
"Get ready for a world where autonomous vehicles deliver 80 percent of parcels."
Parcel delivery – The future of the last mile
Drones – applicable everywhere
In addition to the clear benefits, drones also have a wide field of application within logistics. In warehouses, for example, drones can increase productivity by managing inventories. Drones can also create a safer working environment: by inspecting hard-to-access areas such as the top of high racks, by carrying out surveillance tasks from a high position, or by supporting forklift drivers with a better view from above during challenging maneuvers. When it comes to deliveries, drones can take over both short distances, such as last mile deliveries, as well as long-distance cargo flights, where the lack of cockpit generates more space for cargo.
Risks and challenges
However, there are also some risks in connection with drones. There is the potential for accidents when flying over people or beyond a pilot's line of vision, especially during bad weather conditions. Furthermore, there is the question of privacy and if people are comfortable with drones flying around their neighborhood. Since drones can be controlled remotely, there is also a risk of hijacking from hackers.
Due to these risks and challenges, close collaboration with the respective authorities will be key for start-ups and logistics companies to further develop regulations. So far, tests with autonomous drones have only been in rural areas. The next logical step would be to test the technology in urban areas and unlock further potential, which is currently a challenge due to strict security regulations. But after that, the sky's the limit!

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Craig Wiseman
Craig Wiseman is one of country music's most renowned, talented and distinguished writers. From his early days of writing and drumming in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to being crowned Songwriter of the Century by ASCAP, he has indeed created for himself a monumental platform in the history of country music. As the writer of songs including Brooks and Dunn's "Believe" to Blake Shelton's "Boys 'Round Here", Wiseman has amassed over 300 cuts, 100 singles, and 26 #1's.
After moving to Nashville in 1985 to pursue a career in songwriting, he received his first chart success after having co-written "The Only One" from Roy Orbison's album, Mystery Girl. In 1990, Wiseman signed his first publishing deal with Almo/Irving Music, and ten years later, he signed with BMG Music Publishing. In 2003, Wiseman opened his own publishing company, and within the first year of the independent company's operation, Wiseman experienced the first single of the catalog; "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw not only peaked at the top of the charts for ten weeks, but it also was named NSAI Song of the Year, CMA Song of the Year, ACM Song of the Year and won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song. Big Loud Shirt Publishing is now home to several of Nashville's top country songwriters including Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins, Sarah Buxton, Matt Dragstrem, and the Warren Brothers.
Wiseman's success continued to escalate at exponential levels. Not only was he proclaimed ASCAP's "Songwriter of the Year" in 2003, 2005, and 2007 and "Writer of the Year" by NSAI and Music Row in 1997, but he was impressively named NSAI's "Songwriter of the Decade" in 2009 and won the 2014 Heritage Award from ASCAP as the most performed country songwriter of the century. Although these accomplishment are nothing less than extraordinary, Wiseman's talents and endeavors do not only pertain to the field of songwriting.
As a complement to Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying", Wiseman co-wrote a book by the same title, which topped the New York Times Best Seller list in 2004, as well as a follow-up journal, which proceeded to influence a worship campaign in American churches. Additionally, he co-wrote the book A Baby Changes Everything in 2008, in conjunction with the #1 Faith Hill single of the same title. The following year, Wiseman starred in a reality TV show, The Hitmen of Music Row, which aired on GAC.
For the past 12 years, Wiseman has hosted The Stars of Second Harvest Show at the Ryman, showing his philanthropic heart and giving all proceeds to the Second Harvest Food Bank Of Middle Tennessee. To date, this concert event has raised $1,000,000 for the food bank. After years of success, accomplishments and hard work, Wiseman was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2015.


Climate change is controversial for a reason and sifting through all of it information to find the facts can be a difficult task. The decisions that global leaders make today about how to approach its adverse effects will affect generations to come. That is why it is important to understand the topic and make informed decisions.
The Earth's carbon dioxide levels have fluctuated three times in the last 400,000 years, but the levels have stayed below a threshold. Research conducted by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) concluded that carbon dioxide levels are at an all time high. The normal threshold for atmospheric carbon dioxide is 300 parts per million. Prior to 1950, this was the highest Earth had ever reached. In the current day, the atmospheric carbon dioxide level is estimated to be approximately 400 parts per million; an astounding 100 parts per million higher than the mean of 300. These numbers are small, but they are significant.
The increase in CO₂ levels have directly caused a rise in atmospheric temperature at an average of two degrees fahrenheit to date.Within things like your home or car, a two degrees difference isn't significant, but for the environment it's a big deal. The rise in average temperature has already adversely affected many ecosystems, according to an article published by the BBC. A variety of Peruvian mountain birds have disappeared and scientists hypothesize that they have died off. Another repercussion of the increase in temperature are more violent storms. Hurricanes like Maria and Florence have devastated the Caribbean and southern coast of the United States, and hurricanes are only becoming stronger. The National Laboratory for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics concluded with the help of data collected by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) that the increasing severity and frequency of Atlantic hurricanes is largely because of the increased ocean level and temperature brought on by the increase in atmospheric CO₂. The average atmospheric temperature rise is overall negatively impacting our environment and the ecosystems around the world.
Scientists understand that the Earth has a natural cycle in temperature rise and decrease, but the extremely high amount of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases has caused an imbalance in this cycle. The industrialization and use of fossil fuels is a direct cause of this increase, normally the change in temperature is gradual and ecosystems are able to adapt slowly, but the rapid spike in temperature isn't allowing ecosystems time to adapt. One way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is renewable energy such as solar, wind and tidal. These methods use forces of the Earth to produce power instead of fossil fuels, which produce the greenhouse gases when burned. Progressive countries, such as Sweden and Costa Rica are rapidly approaching 100% sustainable energy, and are challenging other countries to do the same, stated by the Climate Council. Although we are not able to stop the rise in atmospheric temperature we can slow the rapid climb in temperature to allow animals and the Earth inself to adapt over time.
Information about climate change is plentiful, and credible statistics are as well, but the information is useless if, as a society, we ignore them. Regardless of political affiliation or personal bias everyone needs to acknowledge that climate change exists and that it is impacting our environment.
Students at Woodland however, seem to have quite a good fundamental understanding of climate change. A poll on Woodland students concluded that 100% of students were sure that climate change exists. Furthermore, only 22% of students believed that climate change was not affected by humans, and the majority of students support the concept that climate change is Human-assisted not human-caused.
Regardless of the well informed youth at Woodland without a strong informed public as a whole, the environment will only become more neglected, currently, the IPCC estimates that, "A temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees fahrenheit," will occur in the next century. If we understand and acknowledge climate change and its effects, invasive species can be saved, the air can become cleaner and millions of lives will be saved by decreased number of intense storms.


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US foreign policy in Latin America leaves an open door for China
America's 'pivot' to Asia along with decades of heavy-handed policy give China an opportunity to rebalance global powers
Fri 31 Jan 2014 09.46 EST Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 18.36 EDT
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro raises his fist next to vice-president Jorge Arreaza, during a rally. Photograph: Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images
In the last week or so much of the international business press has been focused on the problems of financial stability in developing countries, some of whom have recently become more vulnerable to capital outflows. The main cause is that investors are trying to get the jump on possible moves by the US Federal Reserve to allow interest rates to rise, which will draw capital from developing countries and cause their borrowing costs to rise.
Argentina has gotten some of this attention, as it allowed the peso to fall by 15% in one day and increased some access for Argentines to dollars on the official market. Venezuela is not as affected by these market developments, but is always negatively portrayed in the international media, and more so since its exchange rate system problems have caused its inflation to rise to an annual rate of 56% over the past year.
The two countries face different sets of problems, but both likely have to stabilize their exchange rates to resolve them. This is where international help can make a big difference, and there is one country that has both the ability and interest in doing so: China.
China has already helped Venezuela with tens of billions of dollars of loans – much of which has already been repaid – as well as investment. It has also provided significant lending and investment in Ecuador, Cuba, Brazil and other countries. But there is more that they could do at this moment.
Much of Argentina and Venezuela's problems stem from some residents believing, with strong encouragement from the media, that their domestic currency is not safe to hold. While it is true that both countries have high inflation and their currencies have depreciated on their respective black markets, it is not clear how much of this is due to fundamental causes and how much is driven by a bubble in the black market price of their currencies. (Certainly in Venezuela, the black market dollar rate is a bubble caused by buyers betting that local currency will fall).
In any case, both governments could stabilize their currencies, and would get a big head start on bringing down inflation, if they were to have a large enough supply of dollar reserves. And they would not necessarily have to use these reserves: Bolivia, for example, has had a very stable exchange rate throughout the seven years of Evo Morales' presidency – despite serious political turmoil (including a violent secessionist movement), bursts of inflation, and considerable nationalizations and other government policy changes (eg withdrawing from a World Bank (ICSID) seen as terribly "business unfriendly" by international corporations. But Bolivia piled up more reserves than even China (relative to its GDP), and nobody doubts the government's ability to maintain the domestic currency at or near its current exchange rate.
The IMF has provided a "Flexible Credit Line" of reserves that is not borrowed, but is available, to approved countries. Because the United States controls IMF policy in developing countries, the only three countries approved for the FCL have been Mexico, Colombia and Poland – three countries with right-wing governments (Álvaro Uribe was president in Colombia at the time) that Washington considers strategic allies. Mexico has access to a hefty $47.3bn that it has not needed to tap.
China has $3.8tn in reserves and would barely notice the money that would be necessary to finance a similar credit line for Argentina and Venezuela. In fact, China would most likely be better off even if the money were borrowed. Argentina's dollar-denominated foreign public debt is only about 8% of GDP; this means that it would never make sense to default on such a small debt. Venezuela is also at low risk for sovereign default, with $90bn in annual oil revenue and some of the world's largest oil reserves. Currently, China has the bulk of its reserves in American treasury securities, which are virtually certain to lose value in the near future as long-term interest rates rise in the US.
China has a big foreign policy interest in stabilizing Latin America. Unlike the US, which is a global hegemon with hundreds of military bases around the world, China has no foreign military bases and no empire. With the US "pivoting" toward Asia, supporting militarism in Japan, and seeking to maintain military dominance in east Asia, China's main interest is in the further development of a multi-polar world and a greater role for the United Nations, developing countries and international law and diplomacy. Latin America, and especially South America, has become independent of Washington in the past 15 years and has a strong political interest in these same issues, with deep historical roots.
By the best measures of China's GDP (ie purchasing power parity), the Chinese economy is already bigger than that of the US; and even at its current, slower rate of growth it will more than double over the next decade. As Yan Xuetong has argued, China is beginning a new foreign policy path in which it will form alliances as it did not do in the past.
Although these alliances will primarily be closer to home, most of Latin America is a naturally ally not only because of its increasing trade and commercial relations with China, but because of its common interest in an international political order that favors respect for national sovereignty and independence over unilateral intervention and military force. On the other side, Washington would like to get rid of all of the left governments in the region and return to a world of "limited sovereignty" there that it maintained 20 years ago. It is well worth China's efforts, which could be made at little or no cost, to help maintain stability in the region.
Peso panic and rocketing prices shake the throne of Argentina's Queen Cristina
Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and her ministers blame foreign 'vultures' for an economic meltdown as power cuts hit Buenos Aires and goods vanish from supermarket shelves
Published: 1 Feb 2014
Peso collapse raises fears Argentina lurching towards decennial crisis
Emerging market chaos hits stock markets and currencies


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Capital Ale House in Fredericksburg held a Dogfish Head Beer & Cheese Tasting Wednesday evening. Devin Arloski of Dogfish Head Brewery, and Jacab Brunow, Director of Beverage Operations for Capital Ale House, were the hosts for the evening. Five Dogfish Head beers were paired with 5 cheeses.
During the hour long tasting, Devin shared details about the beers and their history, along with many interesting tidbits about Dogfish Head Brewery. About twelve folks attended the informative tasting. This is the second beer and cheese event at the Fredericksburg Capital Ale House. The events are not highly publicized, yet. Jacob tells me they want to be sure they have everything running smoothly before more widely publicizing them. Similar events at the Midlothian location can draw 50 or people. Of course, there is something to be said for the intimacy of the smaller audience.
Jacob says there are many more beer events in the works for the Fredericksburg location. Watch the Capital Ale House events page and this blog for more information as it becomes available.
A few pictures from the Dogfish Head Beer & Cheese Tasting here.


Once upon a time....the school all purpose room was transformed into a Ballroom. Every year the third graders are invited to the "Fairy Tale Ball". The children are to come dressed to match the theme. Jenna, our little princess, is seen here entering the ballroom with her feast.
As with most receptions of this sort, the Chicken Dance was part of the festivities. You go girl!


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At least half a dozen police vehicles responded to the scene of a minor wreck involving a police vehicle and a civilian SUV Sunday evening in downtown Greenville.
At approximately 6 p.m, a Greenville Police Department patrol officer saw the SUV traveling down South Main Street with a flat front tire and in a "manner which led him to believe the driver was intoxicated," Donald Porter, a spokesman for the Greenville Police Department, said.
The driver did not pull over when the officer initiated a traffic stop and continued moving at around 10 mph before stopping on South Main Street, Porter said. According to warrants, the driver pased at least five blocks before coming to a complete stop due to traffic.
After stopping, the driver went into reverse and struck the police patrol vehicle, causing minor damage, the Police Department said in a statement.
Neither the officer nor the driver were injured, Porter said. The driver never exceeded 22 mph as the officer pursued, police said.
The driver was identified by police as Rhonda Marie New Kelley of Belton.
Both passenger side tires of the civilian SUV were flattened. The vehicle also had damage to the rear, driver-side door and shattered glass on the driver's side.
Police blocked off Main Street between West Washington and East McBee, and officers placed caution tape around the police SUV and the civilian SUV in front of Port City Java and Dark Corner Distillery on Main Street.
The driver was arrested and charged with DUI, Porter said. The driver's name was not immediately released by police.


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Insight Terminal Solutions – Oakland Bulk And Oversight Terminal News is a page section on the contents about the effort to gain approval for and build the long-awaited Oakland Army Base Redevelopment Project. The Insight Terminal Solutions Oakland Bulk And Oversight Terminal has been the focus of a large number of lies and mis-truths written by people and publications who have only a paid political agenda against the project.
To the end of countering an online message fueled by $90 million of spending by hedge fund billionaire and now presidential candidate Tom Steyer, Zennie62Media was hired. This page is part of that effort. Also, Zennie62Media personally sought ITS and its CEO John Siegel as a client because of his 30 year history with the Oakland Bulk And Oversight Terminal and its developer Phil Tagami, who is his long-time friend.
"The truth about the Insight Terminal Solutions Oakland Bulk And Oversight Terminal is that it is not a "coal terminal" and was created to be a low-emissions facility that uses just-in-time delivery, low-polluting train engines, and covered hopper cars to haul commodities from coal and iron ore to sulphur," said Abraham. "What is now called The OBOT was the City of Oakland's top economic development priority in 1991," he added.
This August 2012 video from now former Oakland Economic Development Head Fred Blackwell tells the story. It also proves the City of Oakland was a co-developer in the project that not only knew coal was to be a part of it, but identified coal for the project in 2012, and contrary to the mistruths told today.:


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Q: Request for member 'row' in something not a structure or union this is my first time here!
I'm getting that error when configuring an UITableViewCell.
This is my Cell:
@interface CellView : UITableViewCell {
    IBOutlet UILabel *nombre;
    IBOutlet UILabel *estado;
}

-(void)setName:(NSString *) name;

And this is the method that executes for every row:
    -(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSInteger *)indexPath {
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"CellView";

    CellView *cell = (CellView *) [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if(cell==nil){
        NSArray *topLevelObjects = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CellView" owner:nil options:nil];
        for(id currentObject in topLevelObjects){
            if([currentObject isKindOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]]){
                cell = (CellView *) currentObject;
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    [cell setName:[latitudes objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
    return cell;
}

latitudes is a NSMutableArray
I've tried also with cell.nombre.text=[latitudes objetcAtIndex:indexPath.row]; but still returns the same error.
Any idea?
Thank you!

A: Your method signature seems to be wrong:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSInteger *)indexPath

It should be (note the type of the indexPath parameter):
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

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The report is due in two hours. Or perhaps you're in the middle of a mid-term exam. Or you're making sales calls. Suddenly, bam! Around 10:30 a.m. you hit a wall. All you want to do is look out the window. Hmmm…what did you eat for breakfast?


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Lowered Expectations: Renegade
By Jason Bohn on October 27, 2016
Despite the fact that hundreds of games release every year, the vast majority tend to go ignored by the gaming populace at large. Whether this is a failing of marketing, critical drubbing or just not living up to the expansive heights that we as gamers crave, the bargain bins are littered with titles that go unnoticed or maligned. With Lowered Expectations, we scrape the craggy underbelly of releases gone by to see if a change of perspective can reveal something worthwhile.
Nobody can deny the long-lasting influence of River City Ransom. Extremely far ahead of its time, this NES classic melded arcade beat 'em ups like Double Dragon with a deep RPG system that allowed for an incredible amount of customization. It was possible to finish the title with any number of character builds. The streets of River City were as colorful as the enemies themselves. Drawing inspiration from The Warriors led to different gang types, and each member went down in a satisfying fashion. ("Barf") We're not talking about that here, nor are we discussing the numerous series spin offs that were spawned, like Super Dodge Ball (the title of this very piece should have explained as much). No, because of the recent release of River City: Toyko Rumble, it seemed pertinent to explore where the franchise, collectively known as "Kunio-Kun" got its start, Taito's Renegade. Also known as Oh Yeah, That Exists, it's one of those titles that famously, well, kind of sucks. That seems like it couldn't be true, considering what the Taito title inspired, so with anticipation residing in the gutter, it's time to dig in.
The game centers around Kunio, a man on the edge, to use an 80's advertising parlance. His girlfriend was kidnapped by a gang of ne'er-do-wells, and the only way to put things right is through ample use of his fists. For those looking for more of a plot, remember: this was the '80s and this was for arcades. The fact that this much was given is an accomplishment in and of itself. Admittedly, the abdominal massage Marion experienced at the beginning of Double Dragon expounded on the idea. Still, the idea that a gang needs fisting (note to editor: Shhh. It'll be okay) was all that a child with a fistful of quarters and a bloodstream full of Nintendo Breakfast System brand cereal needed.
Combat is broken down into discrete combat arenas as opposed to flowing stages. These arenas are populated with a number of punks that need to be punched in the head. Once enough of these cretins are knocked down, the boss makes an appearance, leaving the background to take matters into his own hands.
While simple, and understandably so considering its age, the issue with the fighting isn't how the levels are laid out. Instead, the problems that plague this game lies in the actual fighting mechanics. Put succinctly, the word "clunky" was created for the sole purpose of describing the feel of the brawl here, and no amount of people who specialize in the history of linguistics can argue otherwise, believe me.
On its face, the fighting isn't designed badly. The stick controls Kunio, with one button to strike left, another to strike right, and a jump button. This is similar to Double Dragon II: The Revenge, which makes sense. The Double Dragon sequel was originally meant to be a Kunio game. There seems to be a slight delay in the input, as though the information that button has been pressed is conveyed to the game through a complicated Rube Goldberg device. This leaves the player with little recourse but to take the Simpson children's method of combat. ("I'm going to do this with my arms. If you get hit, it's your fault.") Sometimes, the player is lucky enough to score a hit on a stupid enemy doing this. Most of the time, the street punk will land a hit anyways. Cheap shots abound, and it never seems to feel like the player could do too much to avoid it. The issues with the controls are amplified when it comes to time to jump kick motorcycle riding jerks at the beginning of stage two. Good luck with that, anyone who tries.
So, Is It Worth A Shot Now?
With terrible controls, playing Renegade for any reason beyond historical reason is a fool's task. Even expecting the game to not reach the glorious levels of other Kunio titles doesn't quite prepare one for the task of subjecting one's self to the frustration present in this title. Thus, if a machine can be found in the wild, drop a quarter in for the sake of knowledge. Then walk away.
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She is as iconic as the airline she represents. Her smile has launched a million flights from Changi, and countless passengers have missed a heartbeat on seeing her for the first time, such is the charm of the iconic Singapore Girl. I first met her on a transatlantic flight from Delhi to Los Angeles and immediately was smitten by her smile, charms, professionalism and above all the grace with which she carries herself.
As an aspiring wannabe travel photographer, I keep on trying new projects when I am traveling. As Henri Cartier-Bresson, once famously said, "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst", ( he obviously was oblivious to desi Traveler who even after 100,000 clicks is still struggling ) it only makes sense to keep trying and keep clicking, after no amount of reading books can make you a better photographer ( or a chef or a Ninja for that matter).
So here is a little side project I gave myself to click the Singapore Girl while I was in Singapore. In order to make the project more interesting, I decided to click with a bias towards "The Singapore Girl in Fedora Hat". The inspiration came from the girl in Fedora Hat I clicked in the ancient temples of Mahabalipuram on the Tamil Nadu coast. Among the stone structure, the girl in Fedora looked totally out of place or stood her own ground depending on how you look at it. Now Singapore and Tamil Nadu have close relationships from a long time and we have large diasporas of Tamilians in Singapore who are now an integral part of Singapore and many other countries in South East Asia.
But let us focus on the Singapore Girl in Fedora. Now Fedora is not just a hat it is a style statement in itself while being a very practical headgear to protect one from harsh sunlight.
A girl in Fedora has a certain amount of aura, a mystery around her gaze and her gait has a certain subtle firmness that is rare in human species but is found in abundance among Jungle cats on top of the food chain in their ecosystem.
Early Hollywood Stars like Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck played a big role in popularizing the Fedoras. As the Fedora and its various avatars from the classic cowboy hats to stylish Fedora adorned by Rick Blaine in Casablanca all are Fedoras. My guess is that Sinatra played a big role in popularizing the Fedora among the Old Empire and the dark side. For some time around the Godfather era, Fedora moved from being an essential in a gentleman's' wardrobe to hot heads of mafiosos like Lucky Luciano and Al Capone. As the Fedora hats were adopted by Chicago and New York first families and then by their executioner who came from streets and looked at the life of crime as fuel to fire their desire to gain escape velocity to escape from that ugly force called poverty. As the Fedora moved from the head of the Big Boss to the hands that pressed the trigger yet longed to be considered gentlemen, the Fedora lost its charm among fashionable men for almost 3 decades, though maintaining its head hold among the southern cowboys , more as a necessity for working in field than as a style statement. But the last straw in the Fedora was put by President John F Kennedy who reportedly refused to wear a Fedora for his inauguration in 1961, to a big shock to the nation. Imagine a US president without a Fedora; the world must have come to a halt.
Even the evergreen Joneses from Hollywood Indiana and his dad, Henry Jones Senior proved to be too old and out of fashion to completely revive the love of Fedora among gentlemen when the movie hit screens in 1989.
But a decade later everything changed, when world's most popular country singer Shania Twain who is not easy to impress even if you are Brad Pitt seductively crooned, "Man I feel Like a Woman". The highlight of the song a tall Fedora on her head, that was the defining piece in her wardrobe and our imagination about Fedora hats changed forever. That my friend in my humble desi opinion was the defining moment in the "History of Fedora hats" and rest as they say is history. Now technically the purists may snigger at me calling these hats worn by Singapore girls Fedora and may want to unleash hungry fashion police on me.
Honey, how about you be the model and I be the director of photography ?
So dear fashion police, you may call the variations of women Fedora hats Panama Hats or any other fancy designer name, but let me assure you they all trace their roots to the classic Fedora first mentioned in 1887 in a play where a Russian princess who wore the hat was called "Fedora Romanoff " by the playwright.
So dear readers let me give you some images here that I clicked on streets of Singapore with the Singapore Girl in Fedora Hats or its various evolutions for the fair maidens.
Do you know how many types of Fedora Hats are out there?
My search for the Singapore girl even took me to the famous Madam Tussauds at Sentosa Island but the iconic Singapore girl's statue was not adoring the Fedora hat to my big disappointment. Though there were many girls in Fedoras clicking selfies with her.
My final image of the Singapore girl is of one of our guides who joined us on our ride to Singapore flyer and graciously agreed to pose for me. No there is no Fedora on her head, but then who said this blog post was about Fedoras ? Remember this post started as a search for the iconic Singapore Girl, the Fedora is just an accessory for her timeless style.
Let's go girls! Come on.
The pics are cool too.
I totally loved the post Prasad! And you have already taken more than 100,000 pics? Wow!
An interesting read! I thought the only one wearing a fedora was Indiana Jones…:)!Thanks so much for sharing!
So while the search for the iconic Singapore girl in Fedora hat continues, let me confess that I am a big fan of the accessory that Indie (Jones) loves more than his life. Between me and my daughters we share three such hats which are definitely a practical accessory and is a must carry specially on our travels. As a matter of fact, my husband too has it own fedora which he uses while driving too (various angles of the sun have to be covered while on the highway).
Deliciously funny and interesting and far from a yet another post on Singapore.
BTW, my fedora hat is as well travelled as me.
What a fun post! I love the unusual choice of topic and the depth of knowledge and research that shines through!
thanks Chaitali… this post was in my mind for some time finally took the plunge.. glad you liked it..


Mr. Fitzsimmons holds teaching certification as a Social Studies teacher (7- 12) in New York State.
This is Mr. Fitzsimmons' fifth year teaching and fourth year at Our Lady of Lourdes High School. Mr. Fitzsimmons teaches Global History II Regents and Honors. He also serves as the moderator for the Senior Class.
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History of ancient architecture
The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The branches of architecture are civil, sacred, naval, military, and landscape architecture.
Neolithic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period. In Southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10,000 BC, initially in the Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and from there spread eastwards and westwards. There are early Neolithic cultures in Southeast Anatolia, Syria and Iraq by 8000 BC, and food-producing societies first appear in southeast Europe by 7000 BC, and Central Europe by c. 5500 BC (of which the earliest cultural complexes include the Starčevo-Koros (Cris), Linearbandkeramic, and Vinča). With the exception of the Andes, the Isthmo-Columbian area and Western Mesoamerica (and a few copper hatchets and spear heads in the Great Lakes region), the people of the Americas and the Pacific remained at the Neolithic level of technology up until the time of Western contact.
The neolithic people in the Levant, Anatolia, Syria, northern Mesopotamia and Central Asia were great builders, utilizing mud-brick to construct houses and villages. At Çatalhöyük, houses were plastered and painted with elaborate scenes of humans and animals. The Mediterranean neolithic cultures of Malta worshiped in megalithic temples.
In Europe, long houses built from wattle and daub were constructed. Elaborate tombs for the dead were also built. These tombs are particularly numerous in Ireland, where there are many thousands still in existence. Neolithic people in the British Isles built long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, henges flint mines and cursus monuments.
Ancient Mesopotamia is most noted for its construction of mud brick buildings and the construction of Ziggurats, religious temples made for worship of the gods and goddesses of Mesopotamia. The word Ziggurat is an anglicized form of the Akkadian word ziqqurratum, the name given to the solid stepped towers of mud brick. It derives from the verb zaqaru, 'to be high'. The buildings are described as being like mountains linking Earth and heaven. The ziggurat at Ur, excavated by Leonard Woolley, is 64 by 46 meters at base and originally some 12 meters in height with three stories. It was built under Ur-Nammu (c.2100 B.C.) and rebuilt under Nabonidus (555-539 B.C.) when it was increased in height to probably seven stories.
In Ancient Egypt and other early societies, people believed in the omnipotence of gods, with many aspects of daily life carried out with respect to the idea of the divine or supernatural and the way it was manifest in the mortal cycles of generations, years, seasons, days and nights. Harvests for example were seen as the benevolence of fertility deities. Thus, the founding and ordering of the city and her most important buildings (the palace or temple) were often executed by priests or even the ruler himself and the construction was accompanied by rituals intended to enter human activity into continued divine benediction.
Ancient architecture is characterized by this tension between the divine and mortal world. Cities would mark a contained sacred space over the wilderness of nature outside, and the temple or palace continued this order by acting as a house for the gods. The architect, be he priest or king, was not the sole important figure; he was merely part of a continuing tradition.
Greek architecture
The architecture and urbanism of the Greeks and Romans was very different from that of the Egyptians and Persians. Civic life gained importance for all members of the community. In the time of the ancients religious matters were only handled by the ruling class; by the time of the Greeks, religious mystery had skipped the confines of the temple-palace compounds and was the subject of the people or polis.
Greek civic life was sustained by new, open spaces called the agora which were surrounded by public buildings, stores and temples. The agora embodied the newfound respect for social justice received through open debate rather than imperial mandate. Though divine wisdom still presided over human affairs, the living rituals of ancient civilizations had become inscribed in space, in the paths that wound towards the acropolis for example. Each place had its own nature, set within a world refracted through myth, thus temples were sited atop mountains all the better to touch the heavens.
Greek architecture was typically post-and-beam (called "trabeated") and made of stone. Most surviving buildings are temples, based on strict rules of proportion. These temples typically included a peristyle (outer area with (typically doric) columns), and three-sections in the middle, being 1. the pronaus (entrance), 2. the main cella or naos chamber (where a statue of the god or goddess and an altar was built), and 3. the opisthodomos behind the cella.
Roman architecture
The Romans conquered the Greek cities in Italy around three hundred years BCE and much of the Western world after that. The Roman problem of rulership involved the unity of disparity — from Spanish to Greek, Macedonian to Carthaginian — Roman rule had extended itself across the breadth of the known world and the myriad pacified cultures forming this ecumene presented a new challenge for justice.
One way to look at the unity of Roman architecture is through a new-found realization of theory derived from practice, and embodied spatially. Civically we find this happening in the Roman forum (sibling of the Greek agora), where public participation is increasingly removed from the concrete performance of rituals and represented in the decor of the architecture. Thus we finally see the beginnings of the contemporary public square in the Forum Iulium, begun by Julius Caesar, where the buildings present themselves through their facades as representations within the space.
As the Romans chose representations of sanctity over actual sacred spaces to participate in society, the communicative nature of space was opened to human manipulation. None of which would have been possible without the advances of Roman engineering and construction or the newly found marble quarries which were the spoils of war; inventions like the arch and concrete gave a whole new form to Roman architecture, fluidly enclosing space in taut domes and colonnades, clothing the grounds for imperial rulership and civic order. This was also a response to the changing social climate which demanded new buildings of increasing complexity — the colosseum, the residential block, bigger hospitals and academies. General civil construction such as roads and bridges began to be built.
The Romans widely employed, and further developed, the arch, vault and dome (see the Roman Architectural Revolution), all of which were little used before, particularly in Europe. Their innovative use of Roman concrete facilitated the building of the many public buildings of often unprecedented size throughout the empire. These include Roman temples, Roman baths, Roman bridges, Roman aqueducts, Roman harbours, triumphal arches, Roman amphitheatres, Roman circuses palaces, mausolea and in the late empire also churches.
Roman domes permitted construction of vaulted ceilings and enabled huge covered public spaces such as the public baths like Baths of Diocletian or the monumental Pantheon in the city of Rome.
Byzantine architecture
The Byzantine Empire gradually emerged as a distinct artistic and cultural entity from the Roman Empire after AD 330, when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire east from Rome to Byzantium (later renamed Constantinople and now called Istanbul). The empire endured for more than a millennium, dramatically influencing Medieval and Renaissance-era architecture in Europe and, following the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, leading directly to the architecture of the Ottoman Empire.
Early Byzantine architecture was built as a continuation of Roman architecture. Stylistic drift, technological advancement, and political and territorial changes meant that a distinct style gradually emerged which imbued certain influences from the Near East and used the Greek cross plan in church architecture. Buildings increased in geometric complexity, brick and plaster were used in addition to stone in the decoration of important public structures, classical orders were used more freely, mosaics replaced carved decoration, complex domes rested upon massive piers, and windows filtered light through thin sheets of alabaster to softly illuminate interiors. (see Hagia Sophia)
The pre-Islamic styles draw on 3-4 thousand years of architectural development from various civilizations of the Iranian plateau. The Islamic architecture of Iran in turn, draws ideas from its pre-Islamic predecessor, and has geometrical and repetitive forms, as well as surfaces that are richly decorated with glazed tiles, carved stucco, patterned brickwork, floral motifs, and calligraphy. Iran is recognized by UNESCO as being one of the cradles of civilization.
Each of the periods of Elamites, Achaemenids, Parthians, and Sassanids were creators of great architecture that over the ages has spread wide and far to other cultures being adopted. Although Iran has suffered its share of destruction, including Alexander The Great's decision to burn Persepolis, there are sufficient remains to form a picture of its classical architecture.
The Achaemenids built on a grand scale. The artists and materials they used were brought in from practically all territories of what was then the largest state in the world. Pasargadae set the standard: its city was laid out in an extensive park with bridges, gardens, colonnaded palaces and open column pavilions. Pasargadae along with Susa and Persepolis expressed the authority of The King of Kings, the staircases of the latter recording in relief sculpture the vast extent of the imperial frontier.
With the emergence of the Parthians and Sassanids there was an appearance of new forms. Parthian innovations fully flowered during the Sassanid period with massive barrel-vaulted chambers, solid masonry domes, and tall columns. This influence was to remain for years to come. The roundness of the city of Baghdad in the Abbasid era for example, points to its Persian precedents such as Firouzabad in Fars. The two designers who were hired by al-Mansur to plan the city's design were Naubakht, a former Persian Zoroastrian who also determined that the date of the foundation of the city would be astrologically auspicious, and Mashallah, a former Jew from Khorasan. The ruins of Persepolis, Ctesiphon, Jiroft, Sialk, Pasargadae, Firouzabad, Arg-é Bam, and thousands of other ruins may give us merely a distant glimpse of what contribution Persians made to the art of building.
The fall of the Sassanid Empire to invading Islamic forces ironically led to the creation of remarkable religious buildings in Iran. Arts such as calligraphy, stucco work, mirror work, and mosaic work, became closely tied with architecture in Iran in the new era. Archaeological excavations have provided sufficient documents in support of the impacts of Sasanian architecture on the architecture of the Islamic world. Many experts believe the period of Persian architecture from the 15th through 17th Centuries to be the most brilliant of the post-Islamic era. Various structures such as mosques, mausoleums, bazaars, bridges, and different palaces have mainly survived from this period.
Islamic architecture has encompassed a wide range of both secular and religious architecture styles from the foundation of Islam to the present day, influencing the design and construction of buildings and structures within the sphere of Islamic culture. Some distinctive structures in Islamic architecture are mosques, tombs, palaces and forts, although Islamic architects have of course also applied their distinctive design precepts to domestic architecture.
The wide spread and long history of Islam has given rise to many local architectural styles, including Abbasid, Persian, Moorish, Timurid, Ottoman, Fatimid, Mamluk, Mughal, Indo-Islamic, Sino-Islamic and Afro-Islamic architecture. Notable Islamic architectural types include the early Abbasid buildings, T-type mosques, and the central-dome mosques of Anatolia.- Also, Islamic architecture also discourages illustrations of anything living, such as animals and humans.
Ethiopian architecture (including modern-day Eritrea) expanded from the Aksumite style and incorporated new traditions with the expansion of the Ethiopian state. Styles incorporated more wood and rounder structures in commoner's architecture in the center of the country and the south, and these stylistic influences were manifested in the construction of churches and monasteries. Throughout the medieval period, Aksumite architecture and influences and its monolithic tradition persisted, with its influence strongest in the early medieval (Late Aksumite) and Zagwe periods (when the churches of Lalibela were carved). Throughout the medieval period, and especially from the 10th to 12th centuries, churches were hewn out of rock throughout Ethiopia, especially during the northernmost region of Tigray, which was the heart of the Aksumite Empire. However, rock-hewn churches have been found as far south as Adadi Maryam (15th century), about 100 km south of Addis Abeba. The most famous example of Ethiopian rock-hewn architecture are the 11 monolithic churches of Lalibela, carved out of the red volcanic tuff found around the town. Though later medieval hagiographies attribute all 11 structures to the eponymous King Lalibela (the town was called Roha and Adefa before his reign), new evidence indicates that they may have been built separately over a period of a few centuries, with only a few of the more recent churches having been built under his reign. Archaeologist and Ethiopisant David Phillipson postulates, for instance, that Bete Gebriel-Rufa'el was actually built in the very early medieval period, some time between 600 and 800 A.D., originally as a fortress but was later turned into a church.
During the early modern period, the absorption of new diverse influences such as Baroque, Arab, Turkish and Gujarati Indian style began with the arrival of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries. Portuguese soldiers had initially come in the mid-16th century as allies to aid Ethiopia in its fight against Adal, and later Jesuits came hoping to convert the country. Some Turkish influence may have entered the country during the late 16th century during its war with the Ottoman Empire (see Habesh), which resulted in an increased building of fortresses and castles. Ethiopia, naturally easily defensible because of its numerous ambas or flat-topped mountains and rugged terrain, yielded little tactical use from the structures in contrast to their advantages in the flat terrain of Europe and other areas, and so had until this point little developed the tradition. Castles were built especially beginning with the reign of Sarsa Dengel around the Lake Tana region, and subsequent Emperors maintained the tradition, eventually resulting in the creation of the Fasil Ghebbi (royal enclosure of castles) in the newly founded capital (1635), Gondar. Emperor Susenyos (r.1606-1632) converted to Catholicism in 1622 and attempted to make it the state religion, declaring it as such from 1624 until his abdication; during this time, he employed Arab, Gujarati (brought by the Jesuits), and Jesuit masons and their styles, as well as local masons, some of whom were Beta Israel. With the reign of his son Fasilides, most of these foreigners were expelled, although some of their architectural styles were absorbed into the prevailing Ethiopian architectural style. This style of the Gondarine dynasty would persist throughout the 17th and 18th centuries especially and also influenced modern 19th-century and later styles.
Great Zimbabwe is the largest medieval city in sub-Saharan Africa. By the late nineteenth century, most buildings reflected the fashionable European eclecticism and pastisched Mediterranean, or even Northern European, styles.
In the Western Sahel region, Islamic influence was a major contributing factor to architectural development from the later ages of the Kingdom of Ghana. At Kumbi Saleh, locals lived in domed-shaped dwellings in the king's section of the city, surrounded by a great enclosure. Traders lived in stone houses in a section which possessed 12 beautiful mosques, as described by al-bakri, with one centered on Friday prayer. The king is said to have owned several mansions, one of which was sixty-six feet long, forty-two feet wide, contained seven rooms, was two stories high, and had a staircase; with the walls and chambers filled with sculpture and painting.
Indian architecture
Indian architecture encompasses a wide variety of geographically and historically spread structures, and was transformed by the history of the Indian subcontinent. The result is an evolving range of architectural production that, although it is difficult to identify a single representative style, nonetheless retains a certain amount of continuity across history. The diversity of Indian culture is represented in its architecture. It is a blend of ancient and varied native traditions, with building types, forms and technologies from West and Central Asia, as well as Europe. Architectural styles range from Hindu temple architecture to Islamic architecture to western classical architecture to modern and post-modern architecture.
India's Urban Civilization is traceable originally to Mohenjodaro and Harappa, now in Pakistan. From then on, Indian architecture and civil engineering continued to develop, manifesting in temples, palaces and forts across the Indian subcontinent and neighbouring regions. Architecture and civil engineering was known as sthapatya-kala, literally "the art of constructing".
The temples of Aihole and Pattadakal are the earliest known examples of Hindu temples. There are numerous Hindu as well as Buddhist temples that are known as excellent examples of Indian rock-cut architecture. According to J.J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson, the Sulbasutras were appendices to the Vedas giving rules for constructing altars. "They contained quite an amount of geometrical knowledge, but the mathematics was being developed, not for its own sake, but purely for practical religious purposes."
During the Kushan Empire and Mauryan Empire, Indian architecture and civil engineering reached regions like Baluchistan and Afghanistan. Statues of Buddha were cut out, covering entire mountain cliffs, like in Buddhas of Bamyan, Afghanistan. Over a period of time, the ancient Indian art of construction blended with Greek styles and spread to Central Asia. It includes the architecture of various dynasties, such as Hoysala architecture, Vijayanagara architecture and Western Chalukya architecture.
Cambodian (Khmer) Architecture
The main evidence of Khmer architecture and ultimately for Khmer civilization, however, remains the religious buildings, considerable in number and extremely varied in size. They were destined for immortal gods and as they were built of durable materials of brick, laterite and sandstone, many have survived to the present day. They were usually surrounded by enclosures to protect them from evil powers but confusion has often arisen as to which is a temple enclosure and which is that of the town of which the temple was a part.
Angkor Wat temple is a great example of Khmer architectural masterpiece, was built by king Suryavarman II in 12th century. Despite the fact that it is over 800 years old, it has still maintained its top rank to be the world's largest religious structure.
Indonesian architecture
The architecture of Indonesia reflects both the cultural diversity of the region and its rich historical inheritance. The geographic position of Indonesia means a transition between the culture of Asian Hindu-Buddhism architecture and animistic architecture of Oceania. Indonesian wide range of vernacular styles is the legacy of an Austronesian architectural tradition characterized by wooden pile dwellings, high pitched roofs and extended roof ridges. The temples of Java, on the other hand, share an Indian Hindu-Buddhist ancestry, typical of Southeast Asia; though indigenous influences have led to the creation of a distinctly Indonesian style of monumental architecture. Gradual spread of Islam through the region from the 12th century onwards creates an Islamic architecture which betray a mixture of local and exotic elements. Arrival of the European merchant, especially the Dutch, shows incorporation of many Indonesian features into the architecture of the native Netherlands to produce an eclectic synthesis of Eastern and Western forms apparent in the early 18th-century Indies Style and modern New Indies Style. The years that followed independence saw the adoption of Modernist agenda on the part of Indonesian architects apparent in the architecture of the 1970s and 1980s.
Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken shape in East Asia over many centuries.especially Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Ryukyu. The structural principles of Chinese architecture have remained largely unchanged, the main changes being only the decorative details. Since the Tang Dynasty, Chinese architecture has had a major influence on the architectural styles of Korea, Vietnam, and Japan.
From the Neolithic era Longshan Culture and Bronze Age era Erlitou culture, the earliest rammed earth fortifications exist, with evidence of timber architecture. The subterranean ruins of the palace at Yinxu dates back to the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC–1046 BC). In historic China, architectural emphasis was laid upon the horizontal axis, in particular the construction of a heavy platform and a large roof that floats over this base, with the vertical walls not as well emphasized. This contrasts Western architecture, which tends to grow in height and depth. Chinese architecture stresses the visual impact of the width of the buildings. The deviation from this standard is the tower architecture of the Chinese tradition, which began as a native tradition and was eventually influenced by the Buddhist building for housing religious sutras — the stupa — which came from Nepal. Ancient Chinese tomb model representations of multiple story residential towers and watchtowers date to the Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD). However, the earliest extant Buddhist Chinese pagoda is the Songyue Pagoda, a 40 m (131 ft) tall circular-based brick tower built in Henan province in the year 523 AD. From the 6th century onwards, stone-based structures become more common, while the earliest are from stone and brick arches found in Han Dynasty tombs. The Zhaozhou Bridge built from 595 to 605 AD is China's oldest extant stone bridge, as well as the world's oldest fully stone open-spandrel segmental arch bridge.
The vocational trade of architect, craftsman, and engineer was not as highly respected in premodern Chinese society as the scholar-bureaucrats who were drafted into the government by the civil service examination system. Much of the knowledge about early Chinese architecture was passed on from one tradesman to his son or associative apprentice. However, there were several early treatises on architecture in China, with encyclopedic information on architecture dating back to the Han Dynasty. The height of the classical Chinese architectural tradition in writing and illustration can be found in the Yingzao Fashi, a building manual written by 1100 and published by Lie Jie (1065–1110) in 1103. In it there are numerous and meticulous illustrations and diagrams showing the assembly of halls and building components, as well as classifying structure types and building components.
There were certain architectural features that were reserved solely for buildings built for the Emperor of China. One example is the use of yellow roof tiles; yellow having been the Imperial color, yellow roof tiles still adorn most of the buildings within the Forbidden City. The Temple of Heaven, however, uses blue roof tiles to symbolize the sky. The roofs are almost invariably supported by brackets, a feature shared only with the largest of religious buildings. The wooden columns of the buildings, as well as the surface of the walls, tend to be red in colour.
Many current Chinese architectural designs follow post-modern and western styles.
Korean architecture
The basic construction form is more or less similar to Eastern Asian building system. From a technical point of view, buildings are structured vertically and horizontally. A construction usually rises from a stone subfoundation to a curved roof covered with tiles, held by a console structure and supported on posts; walls are made of earth (adobe) or are sometimes totally composed of movable wooden doors. Architecture is built according to the k'an unit, the distance between two posts (about 3.7 meters), and is designed so that there is always a transitional space between the "inside" and the "outside."
The console, or bracket structure, is a specific architectonic element that has been designed in various ways through time. If the simple bracket system was already in use under the Goguryeo kingdom (37 BCE–668 CE)—in palaces in Pyongyang, for instance—a curved version, with brackets placed only on the column heads of the building, was elaborated during the early Koryo dynasty (918–1392). The Amita Hall of the Pusok temple in Antong is a good example. Later on (from the mid-Koryo period to the early Choson dynasty), a multiple-bracket system, or an inter-columnar-bracket set system, was developed under the influence of Mongol's Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). In this system, the consoles were also placed on the transverse horizontal beams. Seoul's Namtaemun Gate Namdaemun, Korea's foremost national treasure, is perhaps the most symbolic example of this type of structure. In the mid-Choson period, the winglike bracket form appeared (one example is the Yongnyongjon Hall of Jongmyo, Seoul), which is interpreted by many scholars as an example of heavy Confucian influence in Joseon Korea, which emphasized simplicity and modesty in such shrine buildings. Only in buildings of importance like palaces or sometimes temples (Tongdosa, for instance) were the multicluster brackets still used. Confucianism also led to more sober and simple solutions.
Japanese architecture has as long a history as any other aspect of Japanese culture. it also shows a number of important differences and aspects which are uniquely Japanese.
Two new forms of architecture were developed in medieval Japan in response to the militaristic climate of the times: the castle, a defensive structure built to house a feudal lord and his soldiers in times of trouble; and the shoin, a reception hall and private study area designed to reflect the relationships of lord and vassal within a feudal society.
Because of the need to rebuild Japan after World War II, major Japanese cities contain numerous examples of modern architecture. Japan played some role in modern skyscraper design, because of its long familiarity with the cantilever principle to support the weight of heavy tiled temple roofs. New city planning ideas based on the principle of layering or cocooning around an inner space (oku), a Japanese spatial concept that was adapted to urban needs, were adapted during reconstruction. Modernism became increasingly popular in architecture in Japan starting in the 1950s.
Mesoamerican architecture
Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, (such as the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec) traditions which are best known in the form of public, ceremonial and urban monumental buildings and structures. The distinctive features of Mesoamerican architecture encompass a number of different regional and historical styles, which however are significantly interrelated. These styles developed throughout the different phases of Mesoamerican history as a result of the intensive cultural exchange between the different cultures of the Mesoamerican culture area through thousands of years. Mesoamerican architecture is mostly noted for its pyramids which are the largest such structures outside of Ancient Egypt.
Incan architecture
Incan architecture consists of the major construction achievements developed by the Incas. The Incas developed an extensive road system spanning most of the western length of the continent. Inca rope bridges could be considered the world's first suspension bridges. Because the Incas used no wheels (It would have been impractical for the terrain) or horses, they built their roads and bridges for foot and pack-llama traffic. Much of present-day architecture at the former Inca capital Cuzco shows both Incan and Spanish influences. The famous lost city Machu Picchu is the best surviving example of Incan architecture. Another significant site is Ollantaytambo. The Inca were sophisticated stone cutters whose masonry used no mortar.
Ancient architecture of North America
Inside what is the present-day United States, the Mississippians and the Pueblo created substantial public architecture. The Mississippian culture was among the mound-building peoples, noted for construction of large earthen platform mounds.
Impermanent buildings, which were often architecturally unique from region to region, continue to influence American architecture today. In his summary, "The World of Textiles", North Carolina State's Tushar Ghosh provides one example: the Denver International Airport's roof is a fabric structure that was influenced by and/or resembles the tipis of local cultures. In writing about Evergreen State College, Lloyd Vaughn lists an example of very different native architecture that also influenced contemporary building: the Native American Studies program is housed in a modern-day longhouse derived from pre-Columbian Pacific Northwest architecture.
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Roblox Toys Collector – Tag : roblox toys collector, roblox toys collector guide, . Roblox Toys are modest classic mini-figures and play sets based on various well known Roblox characters, users and programmers. They are generated from the business Jazwares. Each toy comes with a distinctive code that may be redeemed for a exceptional exclusive thing, based on the toy you've bought, you can find a whole lot like for instance a ring master, Shedletsky.
Players can purchase the toys from different shops and locations. Such cases comprise Toys"R"Us, Wal Mart, CVS Pharmacy, Target and Amazon. Roblox also has a website on Jazwares that lists the different figurines and collections readily available, properties the code salvation platform, and lists at which players may buy the toys.
Each and every Roblox Toy has got the capabilities of having their roles mixed with other Roblox Toys. The toy's arms are fashioned in R-6 shape, while the legs have been organised in to R15 form. Users wishing to mimic the motion of the Roblox toys within their own avatar often make use of the toy animation bunch.
Although toys were received with overall positive reception, the customers criticized it declaring that they resembled a lot like Lego figurines. Some figurines and accessories have Roblox's old"R" logo on them as an alternative of the more recent sq version.


UNLESS the cold weather lets up and grass growth resumes then local farmers could be facing into a tough financial year, as the shortage of fodder and an increase in cattle deaths continues to challenge the industry.
Speaking this week to the Leinster Express, IFA chairman Pat Hennessy said that the situation for farmers was getting very serious, with the quality of animal feed in many cases being very poor and no let up in sight to the current cold snap.
The crisis has seen a marked increase in cattle deaths since the start of the year, with figures from the Dept of Agriculture's Animal Identification and Movement System (AIMS) showing that approximately 55,247 cattle died across the State in January and February. This is 8,792 more than the same period in 2012, when 46,455 deaths were recorded.
The price of hay and silage has risen due to the shortage, with Laois farmers being asked to fork out around €25 for a round 4x4 bale. Local farmers can take cold comfort from the fact that their counterpoints in other counties are having to pay as much as €40 a bale, with prices varying from €22 in Carlow, to around €35 in Cavan and Limerick.
Commenting on the crisis, Mr Hennessy said that fodder prices on the whole have not risen by much, but a few opportunists are taking advantage of the situation to hike up costs.
"In most cases, where you have farmers selling to neighbours, the price hasn't gone up, but some opportunists have upped the price," he said.
Mr Hennessy said that temperatures will remain low for the coming week, which means that grass growth will be restricted. His advice to farmers is to get their cattle out grazing on whatever grass is available and bolster this with feed.
"The land is dry, but cold, and the cattle will pick whatever grass is there and you can supplement that with meal," he said.
Mr Hennessy confirmed that cattle deaths are up as a result of last year's long winter and lack of sunshine, with the number of collections of dead animals by knackeries haven risen in recent months. He advised that this would be a good time for farmers to off load their cattle, as prices are high.
"The price of cattle is holding up very well, there's a good demand for it," he said.
He revealed that in general he has not heard of farmers experiencing problems over and above on previous years, but he confirmed that if the county does not experience grass growth in the next week then local farmers could be facing serious trouble.
The issue was raised at the IFA executive council meeting in Dublin last week, when president John Bryan said farmers were facing unprecedented problems and an urgent response was needed.
"Until the weather picks up, the wider agri-business community must support farm businesses through what is a very difficult time on farms," he said, calling on co-ops, feed mills and banks to continue to support their farmer customers. He also urged any farmers with a surplus of fodder to make it available to their fellow farmers who are in short supply.
"Solidarity and co-operation will be needed to get us over the next few weeks," he said.
For advice on dealing with agricultural problems during the cold snap, visit the IFA website at www.ifa.ie.


For the second week in a row, the Bulldogs wore an incredibly consistent uniform, with each uniform element (helmet, jersey, and pants) featuring the same three colors: maroon, white, and gray. And for the second week in a row, the Bulldogs lost an extremely close game on the road. Correlation =/= Causation. This is not a "These uniforms are bad luck" situation. This is a "Hey, at least the uniforms are good" situation. Actually, that's what 2016 should be remembered as: the rebuilding year where the results were disappointing but the uniforms vastly improved. I'm sure that will stick.
I know a lot of fans aren't a fan of the white helmets, most citing that white helmets were worn exclusively during the less-than-successful 2004-2008 season. I'm personally a fan of the white helmets however; they're the best road helmet option this year if the matte maroon helmets really have been removed from the lineup this season. They're actually matte white themselves, so in that sense they continued the streak of wearing matte helmets vs Kentucky to 6 years.
With new white jerseys and pants that replaced black outlines and the oversized M-State logo with Maroon-Gray-Maroon stripes, the all-White look is vastly improved from a year ago. Like last week, this is an extremely consistent uniform, and a very solid look that I hope to see again in the future.
This week's jersey model is #34 Cory Thomas, who caused a fumble in the 4th quarter that completely flipped the game and gave the Bulldogs a great chance to win.
They just don't seem to match when zoomed in on TV. Maybe it's too much white, need a maroon facemask or maroon grey maroon stripe. Could be because it's matte white? I don't know, but it doesn't seem to gel to me.


This guy – James Bay – is captivating. At first, in his clip, which is one-take shooting, he starts from the soothing voice, which makes this Lennon-like looking kid be similar to the lost kitten in the big world. As he continues, only within 1 minute from its 3:35, he opens himself as the guitar player and powerful vocal singer, as he shoots with his voice staggeringly. At the beginning of the second minute, when the emphasized refrain is over, he turns almost to the start in the energy. This soothing backing goes only for 40 seconds or so, and at 1:42 he starts his second refrain with the same youthful energy. Yes, fella, you have a little money for now, but we predict you the great future as people with this rock voice simply cannot languish in oblivion. It will take a couple years, true. But you may become the second Chad Kroeger (yes, he has changed a lot visually after breaking up with Avril, but the voice is still with him), the lead voice of Nickelback, Canadian rock band. And we are not now saying that he is going to be the next husband of Canadian Avril Lavigne after Chad, but he has the similar voice and the guts to become a well-known icon performer.
During the clip, there is a feeling that this young man needs to be a little more well-fed, as currently, he looks like a boy from the poor neighborhood. In this case, he will have more resemblance with John Lennon and even Curt Cobain. The second thought – he needs to invest more efforts to work out his style, to look less 'streets' guy, to be more focused on the best apparel. And he definitely has to exchange his hat onto something else. Yes, it maybe his 'salt,' as he is in it in his many clips, but the entire image makes him a little like Jewish, which is hardly the point to which he strives for.
If you are going to search this guy in Wiki, then do it as follows: James Bay (singer), as otherwise you will be directed to the James Bay, which is the geographical bay in Canada, around Quebec and Ontario. So, the Wiki says this guy is a beginner, only 26, he is a singer-songwriter & guitarist from the UK, who only has 1 album and several singles. It seems like he is holding on his hat everywhere – even on Wiki, his main and supposedly, the best picture, is when he is in the hat. Oh my gosh! Does he actually know that it isn't his best fit? He must know that there were very few rockers in the hats. So less that their amount strives to absolute zero.


Olivier Latry is one of the most distinguished concert organists in the world today. One of three titular organists at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, he is also Professor of Organ at the Paris Conservatory of Music. Latry maintains a full schedule of concert appearances, having performed in more than fifty countries on five continents.
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Shaun Daryl Norris, OAM (born 2 April 1985) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He was a member of the Rollers team that competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, his fifth Games.

Personal
Norris is from the Perth suburb of Banksia Grove, Western Australia, and was born on  2 April 1985. He became a paraplegic after a car accident.

Basketball
Norris's wheelchair basketball classification is 3.0 ppints, and he is a shooting guard. His ability to play wheelchair basketball has been supported by the Western Australian Institute of Sport Individual Athlete Support Program.

National team
When competing for the national team, Norris wears number 7.

Paralympics

Norris was part of the silver medal-winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He was also part of the gold medal-winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.

Norris was chosen to be a part of the team sent to represent Australia at the 2016 Paralympics where they finished sixth.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win–loss record of 4–4.

Other competitions
In 2003, he competed at the Kitakyushu Champions Cup in Japan, where his team took first place. In 2004, he was part of the squad that came in first place at the Roosevelt Cup. In 2006, he was named as part of the World All-Star 5 for the 2006 Gold Cup tournament. He was part of the 2007 squad that competed at the Paralympic World Cup. In 2008, he was part of the team that took silver at the Beijing Paralympic test event. In 2009, he was part of the Australian squad that won a gold medal at the IWBF Asia-Oceania Championship. In the final game of the tournament, in a game versus Japan, he had 7 rebounds, 19 points and 2 assists. That year, he also won a gold medal as part of the team that competed at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, England. In 2009, he was part of the national side that competed at the Rollers World Challenge. He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship that won a gold medal. He and fellow Australian teammate Justin Eveson were recognised for their performance at the tournament by being named as one of the World All-Star Five for the tournament.  He was a member of the Rollers team that won the gold medal at the 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships. In 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany.

Club basketball
Norris plays his club basketball for the Perth Wheelcats. In 2002, he played club basketball for the Perth Wheelcats of Australia's National Wheelchair Basketball League.  That year, the team won the league championship, and he was named the Most Valuable Player for the Finals series. In 2007, he was still part of the Wheelcats team, and the  again won the league championships.  That year, he was named the league's MVP and was named as part of the league's All-Star Five.  That same year, the Wheelcats won the World Club Championships.   In 2009, he was again on the roster for the Perth Wheelcats.  His performances helped the team win some games, including a round two victory of the Adelaide Thunder. In 2010, he was playing club basketball with CD Fundosa Grupo. , he plays his club basketball for the Perth Wheelcats. In the first game of the 2011 season against the Wollongong Roller Hawks, he had 16 assists. His Perth Wheelcats lost to the Wollongong Roller Hawks in the 2011 NWBL Championship. He scored 23 points in the semi-final, and 28 points in the preliminary finals. In the finals, he had 15 points, 9 assists and 9 rebounds.

Recognition
In 2010, he was named one of The West Australian ANZ Sports Star Nominees in the wheelchair basketball category. In 2014, he was awarded Wheelchair Sports WA Sports Star of the Year and Be Active Perth Wheelcats MVP. Norris was named International Paralympic Committee Athlete for the Month - November 2019.

References

External links

 Basketball Australia Profile

Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of Australia
Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
1985 births
Living people
Western Australian Institute of Sport alumni
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
People with paraplegia

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Short circuiting violence against women
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The following startling comparison between two areas of community violence has had some individuals questioning our priorities when it comes to victims of violence. Why, they wonder, aren't we also looking very seriously at domestic abuse and how to solve it?
A Monash University study found there have been 90 people killed in one-punch incidences since the year 2000. The victims were aged between 15 and 78. Of the 90 victims four were women.
An Australian Government paper on Domestic Violence and the issues surrounding it released in 2011 found "of the 260 homicide incidents in 2007–08, the majority (52 percent) were classified domestic homicides involving one or more victims who shared a family or domestic relationship with the offender. Thirty-one percent were intimate partner homicides; 55 percent of female homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner compared with 11 percent of male homicide victims.
"Most Australian homicides in 2007–08 occurred in a residential location (70 percent)—most often the victim's home (53 percent). A large proportion of domestic homicides occurred at residential locations (84 percent). Hence, the most likely scenario for the homicide of an Australian woman is at home at the hands of an intimate partner."
Dr Dina McMillan (above) is a social psychologist and an expert in the field of abusive behaviours. Dina's research for her doctorate in America centred on the ways cults operate and the experiences of POWs. It has led her to develop a whole set of theories around the strategies abusers use to establish their dominance as well as manipulate those around them to their will.
Arriving in Australia to live and work, Dina found herself training members of the NSW legal system, including police and magistrates, around Domestic Violence (DV). She says many of these abusers' behaviours and actions mirror the tactics and strategies cults employ to win and subjugate members.
Dina notes in discussing the media and public attention around the horrific crime of one-punch violence and new legislation: "It's often simpler for people to aim for something that is small, discreet and an achievable win, and no one is denying that this sort of violence must be stopped. People also want and are interested in doing something about domestic abuse. However, it is such a large and complex problem that they're often daunted by the prospect.
"There is a paradigm that most of us have in our heads around domestic abuse that says we can't do anything about it until someone is seriously physically assaulted," says Dina.
"That just isn't true," she adds adamantly.
"We can do something. However, we have to shift our perspective and educate women, especially young women in their 20s, about how they can recognise an abuser: the patterns, the behaviours, so they can then read the red flags and get out of situations as quickly as possible.
"I want abusers to be very lonely," she states flatly.
But He Says He Loves Me: How to Avoid Being Trapped in a Manipulative Relationship (Allen and Unwin 2008) is Dina's book on the subject. It shot her into the media limelight and from there she has continued developing workshops - and is now developing a website - to raise awareness around the abuser profile and the tactics and strategies they use to gain the kind of authority they need to disempower their targets and control them to the extent they can physically and or emotionally assault them.
"The bad news," says Dina, "is the tactics used to set up the abuse dynamic are simple and extremely effective.
"The good news," she goes on to point out, "is they're also almost completely universal, easily identifiable and once you see the signs you can recognise it for what it is and take a course of action to get away from the perpetrator."
Abusers move fast. They sweep in and take over a person's life.
He may tell you how wonderful you are (before he even knows you well) or flatter you outrageously. He may listen closely to everything you say, always wanting to know more, and pay your bills or buy you lovely gifts within the first few weeks of knowing you.
The process will also include convincing you that his other actions are also demonstrations of love. He will insist his criticisms of you and your friends and constant demands, jealousy and spurts of anger, are also due to his passionate interest in you.
Avoid automatically associating what appear as romantic actions with positive intentions.
Reflect and take the time to learn about his real goals and objectives.
What about female abusers?
Personality traits are often genderless and female abusers do exist. However, Dina argues that there is not a single cultural norm that encourages a man to stay involved in an abusive relationship.
In the early days of a potentially (or worse) abusive relationship, many women believe and probably have friends and family confirm that the behaviour is "so romantic" or that "he loves you so much, he wants you with him all the time". However, Dina says, as the process continues and the person is further marginalised, their self-esteem is further eroded and the opportunity to leave becomes more and more difficult.
Domestic abuse affects families, women and children, and it inhibits potential. Living in fear increases anxiety, emotional and physical turmoil, and this has been shown to affect a person's high-level thinking and leave them functioning below capacity.
"I don't want people to be so paranoid they think that someone buying them flowers is an abuser," explains Dina, "but I do want women to remain aware and reflect on behaviours before getting involved with someone."
For more, contact drdina1@msn.com
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