Tally can't wait to turn sixteen and become Pretty. Sixteen is the magic number that brings a transformation from a repellent Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks, Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend, Shay, isn't sure she wants to be Pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the Pretty world - and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn Pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
I bought this book because I loved its premise - upon a person's 16th birthday, they are turned from 'ugly' (read: normal), to 'pretty', in an operation that maximises their evolutionary appeal and usefulness, with ceramic teeth and perfect vision. It's set 100 years in the future; people in today's society are known as 'rusties', with pollution having wiped the majority of us out, and things such as anorexia having been abolished with the new government's operation.
At first, I thought probably wasn't the best start for me. I think my own perspective on physical inadequacy (in that I love the idea of being made beautiful, with all the fat sucked out and no health problems) meant that I was rooting for Tally to get the operation she wanted, even though I could tell something wasn't quite right. This turned out not to matter though - you're supposed to root for Tally, and I think what I was feeling was the confusion she was supposed to be going through.
Around halfway, I was thoroughly swept away, and was really disappointed that I wasn't able to buy the next book straight away (as there was no internet where I was staying). The cliffhanger at the end of the book is really effective - I was so invested in Tally that I really wanted to read on.
The world in the book was different to anything I've read before, and I really enjoyed reading about things like hoverboards and bungee jackets, not to mention imagining the pretties and specials. I think it's a contemporary, teenage version of 1984, in that the government is watching (if not as openly as in George Orwell's book) and is very happy to tamper with people's minds to make them conform.
Even though the book is all about becoming 'pretty' - which is what attracted me, and will doubtless attract many others - it's a subtle message that looking that good isn't all it's cracked up to be, and can sometimes come at a price. I really enjoyed it.


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Character(s) Portrayed:
Dana Barrett, Rebecca Gorin
Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters (2016 Movie)
External Link(s):
Sigourney Weaver on IMDB
Sigourney Weaver on Wikipedia
Sigourney Weaver is the actress who played Dana Barrett in both Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.
1 Film Roles
2 Ghostbusters II
3 Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Film Roles
In addition to her role as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters films, Sigourney Weaver is well known for her roles as Ellen Ripley in the Alien films.
Reportedly, Columbia tried avoid paying Sigourney Weaver for the profits the first movie. She threatened litigation. Initially, Dana Barrett was in the sequel. Then in later drafts, Dana was replaced with a new character named Lane Walker. Bill Murray took part in auditions for Lane.[1][2] Then Dana had a cameo appearance in a draft. Ultimately, Dana returned as the main romantic lead in the final drafts. Sigourney Weaver was offered a flat fee of $1 million to be in the movie.[3]
According to Vivendi Executive Producer John Melchior, Weaver was never contacted to reprise her role for Ghostbusters: The Video Game despite Terminal Reality's Creative Director Drew Haworth writing she turned down an offer to reprise the role.[4][5] Allegedly, she tried to come aboard upon learning Bill Murray had agreed to the project, but development was too far along by that point. [citation needed]
Sigourney Weaver auditioned for the role of Dana by acting like a dog.[6]
On the first day of filming at the New York City Public Library, Sigourney Weaver visited the set to introduce herself to Bill Murray. He in turn picked her up and carried her down Fifth Avenue calling her by her real name, "Susan."[7]
During filming of the first movie, Sigourney Weaver would go to a corner to prepare herself for a scene but Bill Murray would sneak up behind her and goof around like tickle her or lift her up.[8][9]
Sigourney Weaver came up with the "game show host" line instead of the scripted "used car salesman" one.[10][11]
Sigourney Weaver was sealed inside the charred Terror Dog so there was an urgency to do the sequence quickly. Ivan Reitman made the sequence seem slower by repeating shots on angles.[12][13]
In the "Visitation" back up story from Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #7 and Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #8, the teacher is visually based on Sigourney Weaver.
On the Regular Cover of Ghostbusters 101 #1, the map credit references Sigourney Weaver.
On page 11 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2, in panel 3, on Peter's locker door is an official 8x10 photograph of Sigourney Weaver in costume as Dana from the first movie.
On page 2 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #3, Dana's outfit is based on an outfit worn by Sigourney Weaver's character Lauren Slaughter in the 1986 movie "Half Moon Street".
↑ Spelling, Ian (1989). "Bill Murray Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts!" Starlog #140, page 32. Starlog Group, Inc, USA. Bill Murray says: "She's not even in the cartoon, so I don't know if she's going to be in the film. The original idea was that she would be in it. The ideas they sold me on to say, 'OK, let's do it,' are no longer in the script. Sigourney was one of those ideas."
↑ Spelling, Ian (1989). "Bill Murray Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts!" Starlog #140, page 32. Starlog Group, Inc, USA. Bill Murray says: "They've gone all the way around trying to figure out how to make it. I had to audition with some actresses, but we all like Sigourney. The only problem with Sigourney is she's so tall. Naaah, I'm just kidding. She's tall, but she's not too tall. The problem is that you would wind up with a story that was tilted and like the Flintstone family. Sigourney and I would be this major thing and it would be hard to figure out how the Ghostbusters' dynamic would grow. The sort of story they were writing ended up not really needing the other three guys."
↑ Sanello, Frank (1994). "Heroic Stature" Starlog Platinum Edition Vol. 2, page 13. Starlog Group, Inc , USA. Line reads: "The actress was promised part of the profits from Ghostbusters (1984). When Columbia claimed the movie hadn't turned a profit, she threatened an audit and a lawsuit. To gain her services for the sequel, the studio anted up and offered her a flat fee of $1 million for Ghostbusters II."
↑ Playboy "The Untold Story of the Ghostbusters Video Game that was Almost a Masterpiece" 7/13/16
↑ IGN Blogs "The Storyline and Characters" 5/12/09
↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 17:18-17:37). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "And um actually agreed to audition. She came into my office and not like I'm giving anything away saying she turned into a dog at some point in this film and uh I remember her getting up on the couch and actually auditioning like a dog and I knew at that point she had to be in the film. "
↑ Sigourney Weaver (2009). Ghostbusters- Slimer Mode (2009) (Blu-Ray ts. 24:10-24:34). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Sigourney Weaver says: "I was, you know, a huge fan of Bill Murray's, actually, but I met him the first day they shot at the public library, and there Bill was in a suit and stuff and I kind of went over and introduced myself. And before I knew it, he had picked me up and was carrying me down 5th Avenue calling me Susan, which is my real name."
↑ Joe Medjuck (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 27:04-27:13). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Joe Medjuck says: "And she would go off into a corner to prepare herself for a scene, and Bill would sneak up behind her and tickle her or something. Bill would like to be in mid-sentence before he stepped onto the set and..."
↑ Ivan Reitman (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 27:14-27:17). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "Or lift her up. He likes lifting women."
↑ Ivan Reitman (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 28:05-28:07). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "Actually, that was hers. That was Sigourney's line."
↑ Harold Ramis (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 28:09-28:12). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Harold Ramis says: "We had a line, "You're more like a used car salesman" in the script. She said, "You're more like a game-show host.""
↑ Harold Ramis (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 01:36:21-01:36:27). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Harold Ramis says: "I remember there was a little bit of hurry up to this 'cause she was actually sealed inside that thing."
↑ Ivan Reitman (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 01:36:30-01:36:39). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "And there's just so much that this could take. Although, in the cutting, actually, I increased how long it took to get her out by repeating shots on angles."
Autographed Photo (formerly owned by Paul Rudoff)
with Bill Murray at the Spike Scream Awards 2010
As seen in Ghostbusters II Electronic Press Kit
As seen in World of the Ghostbusters featurette
Teacher based on her in Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #7
Non-Canon reference seen on Ghostbusters 101 #1 Regular Cover
Photo seen in Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2
Non-Canon reference seen in Ghostbusters Year One Issue #3
Retrieved from "https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver?oldid=187602"

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Hope vs. Hate: 3 reasons why the left attacked Mike Lindell; AOC's coronavirus race card
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has come under attack from the left for daring to commit not one, but three deadly "sins." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plays the race card to score political points, and China is being sued over the coronavirus. All that and more on today's show!
Who would have imagined that in the span of just two or three minutes, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell would commit three "sins" that would have leftwing media in a total meltdown. Well, Lindell did it, and now he knows the true nature of those on the left.
Rather than being helpful in any way, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is blaming New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for racist policies regarding homeowners and renters. China is being sued over the coronavirus, and the latest White House press briefing indicated that the world responded slower to the outbreak because of the disinformation coming from China.
Check out today's show for all the details.
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Joeseph Zambreno, an Associate Professor in the Iowa State Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, is drawing from three frontiers of computer architecture – Exascale computing, data mining and "fused" chipsets – to propose new approaches to data collection and chip design.
Today, most computer users measure space in terms of gigabytes and, more recently, terabytes. Large-scale data users like Google and Facebook measure their server farms in terms of petabytes, equal to 1,024 terabytes. A petabyte is a staggeringly large unit of measurement. To watch one gigabyte of high definition video, for example, you would have to watch for about seven minutes. To watch one petabyte of HD video, you would have to watch for 13 years and four months.
Some of the world's largest databases have already begun to break the exabyte (1,024 petabytes) barrier, but computing performance has lagged behind the rate of data expansion. In short, we have all this data, but not enough computing power to sort through it.
Zambreno is setting his sights on rectifying that situation, one step at a time. With funding provided by a National Science Foundation Computer Systems Research Grant Using a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based machine programmed to act like an exascale-era chip, Zambreno can run numerous tests to find strengths and weaknesses for multiple architectural setups.
Though the actual creation of an exascale system is likely several years away, the push toward the exascale era has resulted in many useful breakthroughs.
He doesn't consider his goal of aiding in the design of exascale-era chips as an accomplishment by itself, though. Zambreno is much more interested in what those future exascale chips could be used for.
When processors are powerful enough to sort through exabytes of data, finding useful patterns in that data – data mining – will be vital to businesses and future researchers.
Data mining has an enormous number of potential uses; from businesses using it to predict the buying habits of potential customers, to scientists employing it to map relationships between strands of DNA and study disease. Today, however, the gap between the amount of data available and the amount of data that processors are able to handle is widening. Zambreno's work involves shrinking that gap and figuring out how to build computer architecture that takes every advantage of its increased power.
Creating ever-larger and ever-faster chips will always be the goal of computer engineers, but creating a smarter chip is another part of Zambreno's research.
Traditional computer architecture revolves around a Central Processing Unit (CPU) carrying out instructions, handling logic and performing computations while a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) renders graphics, handles display output and works with multi-threaded tasks. Today's "fused" chips, including the AMD Fusion, the Intel FMA HD and the NVIDIA Tegra, feature integrated CPU/GPU designs which promote faster interfacing and more efficient use of processor power. However, today's "fused" chip model utilizes a CPU and a GPU performing the same roles they always did, just in closer proximity. Zambreno wants to turn this line of thinking on its head.
Funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Zambreno is working on a proposal for a hybrid chip, one that is the best of both a CPU and a GPU.
"We're looking at what CPUs do very well and what GPUs do very well and figuring out how we can get the best of both worlds in terms of memory efficiency, computational density and in terms of power efficiency," He says.
Zambreno's work in exascale computing, data mining and "fused" chip design represents the cutting edge of computer architecture. Still, Zambreno defines his work in terms of service to other fields.


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My implementation of the Stable Marriage Problem. I did most of it just by reading off the wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem)
When I got stuck, I took some guidance/inspiration from (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem#Ruby) but my implementation has some small differences.

## Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

    gem 'smp'

And then execute:

    $ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

    $ gem install smp

## Usage

You can run the full test of the matching and stability algorithms with "rake test".

## Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/smp/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create a new Pull Request

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Dieser Artikel behandelt die Sambische Fußballolympiaauswahl während der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1980.

Olympia-Qualifikation

Nachdem man in der 1. Runde ein Freilos hatte, setzte sich Sambia in der 2. Runde gegen Lesotho durch und zog in die entscheidende 3. Runde ein. Dort unterlag man Ägypten und verpasste ursprünglich die Qualifikation für die Olympischen Sommerspiele 1980 in Moskau. Aufgrund des Boykotts von Ägypten wegen der Sowjetischen Intervention in Afghanistan, wurde Sambia nachträglich von der CAF für das olympische Turnier gemeldet.

1. Runde

2. Runde

3. Runde

Olympia-Endrunde

Kader

Spiele
Nach zwei Niederlagen gegen Kuba und Gastgeber Sowjetunion konnte Sambia am letzten Spieltag nicht mehr das Viertelfinale erreichen. Nach der 1:2-Niederlage über Venezuela belegte die Mannschaft den vierten Gruppenrang und schied aus dem Turnier aus.

Vorrunde (Gruppe A)

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Literatur

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Sambia
Sambische Fußballnationalmannschaft
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What is DuoDerm and why is It Used to Treat Bed Sores?
DuoDerm is the brand name for a commonly used hydrocolloid dressing manufactured by ConvaTec that is used to treat bed sores (or similarly referred to as: pressure sores, pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers). Hydrocolloid dressings have gel-like properties to absorb excretions from the wound and protect the wound debris and potentially infection causing bacteria. Hydrocolloid dressings dressings help the wound to autolytically debride itself (the body uses its own enzymes to break down dead tissue as opposed to surgically removing it).
DuoDerm dressings are impermeable to water vapor, oxygen and bacteria. One of the reasons DuoDerm dressings are so popular is because they will not stick to the wound bed itself and can be removed without tearing the granulation tissue underneath. They are best applied to wounds that produce light to medium exudate or transudate (extravascular fluid with low protein content, a low specific gravity and low nucleated cell counts). Depending on physician orders, DuoDerm dressings can be used on stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed sores.
The length of time a DuoDerm patch may be left on a wound is determined by the amount of moisture in the wound. Under normal conditions, DuoDerm can be left on the wound for 3-4 days. One of the advantages to using DuoDerm is that, unlike other dressings, it can be placed on wet wounds and wet surrounding skin and will remain in place due to the product's 'wet tact'.
Because DuoDerm essentially creates a moisture barrier, they should not be used on people with infected bed sores. Under normal circumstances, wounds covered with DuoDerm are likely to develop a strong odor after several days. The odor is consider to be a normal part of of the product.
Can young people develop bed sores during an admission to a medical facility?


I started my research by examining photographs of the damage to San Francisco and surrounding towns. Imagine my shock when I came across the following picture (Fig 1). It shows the 1906 damage to the very library in which I was sitting some 50 years later! The violent shaking had destroyed 14 buildings at Stanford, killing two students.
This reading was examined for its veracity according to the ten evaluative criteria provided in our article, "The Sources and Veracity of Edgar Cayce's Readings – Part 2." My commentary on the reading's veracity is given below.
The reading was given for a 50-year-old male, a Protestant and an accountant. Present at the reading were Gertrude Cayce (conductor), Gladys Davis (stenographer), Estella Smith, Jack Tobin, Jr., and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
In trying to apply evaluative factors to the relevant fragment of reading 270-35, I could find no reason to suspect any wavering or shading of the information being transmitted from Cayce's subconscious to his conscious mind. Thus, my summary evaluation for reading 270-35 is that the reading fragment seems to be reliable and without any components of wavered truth. The reading fragment is believed to have true insight into the causes of earthquakes and has predictive capability for the 'inundations" by earthquakes yet to come.
Let's examine each of the several causes of quakes as given in the section of the above reading highlighted in yellow.
….the cosmic activity or influence of other planetary forces and stars and their relationships produce or bring about the activities of the elementals of the earth….
Now we can predict this apocalyptic date to within a couple of years. A remarkable chain of evidence, much of it known for decades but never before linked together, points to 1982 as the year in which the Los Angeles region of the San Andreas fault will be subjected to the most massive earthquake known in the populated regions of the Earth of this century. At the end point of the chain, directly causing this disaster, is a rare alignment of the planets in the Solar System. By disturbing the equilibrium of the Sun, which in turn disturbs the whole Earth, the planets can trigger earthquakes.
But there was no massive earthquake in the Los Angeles area in 1982. Why not?
Almost everything we forecast for 1982 actually happened -- two years early. Events came to the boil in the second half of 1979, as the Sun's activity rose rapidly toward peak levels. Sticking only with the western seaboard of the United States, the region we concentrated on in our original forecast, three moderate earthquakes in the Transverse Ranges near Los Angeles in 1979 were put in the shade by a pair of jolts that struck near Gilroy, south of the San Francisco Bay area, on Monday, August 7, 1979.
The authors then go on, justifying further their two-years-too-soon Jupiter-effect prediction. They cite quakes in 1979 near Livermore, California, and the 1980 Mt. St. Helens volcanic eruption.
There is some credible and interesting information in portions of Gribbin and Plagemann's second book. It consists of several examples of historical correlations between earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the positions of the planets, the sun, and/or the moon. Could it be that the authors were two years off and an earthquake magnitude or two too short in their predictions of planetary effects because they couldn't take into account the influence of one or more stars?
Whether or not gravity waves from stars are behind the reading 270-35's statement about the 'influence' of stars on earthquakes is about as certain as it would be to say that etheric energy from certain stars will cause earthquakes. Too little is known about either possibility to say anything approaching certainty.
We do know, however, that a binary pulsar star was discovered by Taylor and Hulse in 1974 and that measurements of the periodic Doppler shift of the pulsar's radiation prove that its orbit is slowly shrinking. The rate at which the orbit is shrinking is exactly what would be predicted by relativity theory if the energy were being carried off by gravity waves. Two large observatories that use laser interferometry (one in Hanford, Washington and one in Louisiana) are being built to look for gravity waves.
Elementals and their activation. Here we will assume that any part of the solid or plastic crust and mantle that can experience earthquakes as a result of planetary and stellar gravitational forces is to be called elemental "earth." Most all of earthquake seismology concerns itself with the response of the crust and upper mantle only to changes in the internal state of stress or strain in earthy matter. But to say that earthquakes are caused almost entirely by sudden changes in Earth's stress and strain fields is like saying that cigarettes are the leading cause of cancer statistics.
The reading, however, is trying to tell us that changing planetary and stellar configurations, that in turn activate new combinations and replacements of earth-matter, gases, heat, and/or fluids, is what is responsible for causing earthquakes. It is, then, primarily the activation by outside forces of the elementals of air (gases), earth (rocks), fire (planetary heat), and water (fluids) that causes earthquakes.
Water.Is there a lubricating or other role for water in the deeper rocks of the outer Earth? In 1997, fluid was injected from the surface into the German Continental Deep Drilling Borehole, to a depth of around 28,000 ft. This pressurized fluid induced almost 400 micro-earthquakes at distances up to 2,200 ft. from the borehole. And geoscientists have recently determined that below the surface to a depth of more than 250 miles inside the Earth there may be enough water to replace the surface oceans more than ten times over (New Scientist, 08/30/97). Thus, there's enough water in the crust and upper mantle to play an important role in earthquake generation.
Heat.In an earlier article, entitled "Tales From The December 2002 Meeting Of The American Geophysical Union", we have indicated that the Earth must almost constantly be supplied with heat from the innermost core to maintain volcanic activity, motions of plastic mantle rock, and currents in the fluid iron outer core. Simple radioactive decay seems clearly not to be able to have produced sufficient heat over the billions of years of Earth's life. Thus, we agree with the hypothesis that a natural nuclear reactor resides in the innermost core.
In any event, various heat sources are available within the Earth and heat from them is constantly trying to escape.
Gases. A role for gases in earthquake generation may strike one as a little strange. But this potential function of gas has been vastly underestimated. Consider this sample of the importance of gas along a famous fault in California.
New Scientist magazine for 11/22/97 carries an article subtitled, "Gases under incredible pressure could cause California's quakes." The article covers work by a team of geologists at the USGS who show that carbon dioxide, at earthquake-focus depths in the San Andreas Fault, is under such pressure that it could push apart the lithospheric plates on either side of the fault. This would be sufficient to reduce friction and produce earthquakes every century or so. "That timescale means it's possible that this gas could alone be the trigger behind the earthquakes," said geologist Y. Kharaka, USGS team leader.
Hydrocarbons are primordial. It is now common knowledge that hydrocarbons were a common constituent of the primordial substances that built the Earth. And spectrographic studies have revealed that carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe and our solar system, after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. In the planets, carbon is found mostly in compounds with hydrogen. These hydrocarbons, at different pressures and temperatures, may be gaseous, liquid, or solid. Our Earth is full of them, from the surface down to the liquid outer core.
The Earth was subjected to only a partial melt. Until about 50 years ago scientists thought that our planet had formed as a ball of hot liquid rock. It then cooled slowly and developed a crust. In such an evolutionary environment primordial hydrocarbons would have been destroyed. Its now know that Earth and the inner planets are accretions of solids that condensed from a gaseous planetary disk. The primary condensates contributing to the formation of the Earth ranged in size from small grains to asteroid sized objects. Early on, however, partial melting of the accreted mass took place, as a result of heating by radioactive decay. Melts of higher density sank toward the center of the planet, giving rise at the extreme density point to the natural uranium nuclear reactor proposed by Herndon to lie in the innermost inner core. Low-density partial melts produced the crust.
As the cold part of the accreted planet began to heat up due to the heat evolved in chemical reactions (and the heat supplied by the core's nuclear reactor?), gases started to move outward toward Earth's surface. Stability of the rising hydrocarbons against oxidation, via combining with oxygen resident in silicate and other rock minerals, depends on the details of the outgassing mechanism. If the gases move upward in the regions of magma, this would favor oxidation of the hydrocarbons. It is for this reason that volcanoes emit mostly carbon dioxide rather than methane. When gases move upward through solid rock, however, they first strip out the available oxygen on the surface of the pores and then, over time, will pass through in generally unoxidized form.
Hydrocarbons are stable at great depth. It was once thought that temperatures above 600ºC would break apart even the most heat-resistant hydrocarbon, methane. Heavy hydrocarbons were thought to be destroyed at half that temperature. Because such temperatures are generally reached at depths of 10 to 20 miles in the crust, it seemed counterintuitive to expect the occurrence of hydrocarbons from non-biological sources at greater depths. But in publications beginning in 1976, Russian scientists calculated that hydrocarbons could indeed be stable to depths of 185 miles, if not residing in crustal regions warm enough to violate Earth's average temperature gradient.
Rock at depth contains pores. Rocks of the same composition become less porous with depth. If connections between pores become too diminished, rocks will provide great resistance to the flow of fluids and gases. At a critical depth limit, where flow is significantly resisted due to compression of rocks, an effective barrier is formed which allows a higher pore pressure to be built up beneath it by fluids under higher pressure coming up from below. In this deeper domain one can expect high rock porosity and permeability. Several levels of barriers, underlain by zones of higher porosity and permeability are believed to be present as one proceeds downward through the mantle. Figure 2 illustrates the concept.
Figure 2. Domains of fluid-filled pores in a vertical series of pressure regimes. Low permeability layers (LPLs) retain domains of higher permeability below.
Over time, upward migrating fluids may exert enough pressure to breach an LPL, eventually reaching the surface (as gas) and perhaps engendering earthquakes along the way. LPLs and other rocks are fractured by rising fluid, and then ultimately gas, pressures in the uppermost mantle and crust.
These changes in the earth will come to pass, for the time and times and half times are at an end and there begin these periods for the readjustments.
Hydrocarbons are still upwelling. This final assumption is required for acceptance of the non-biological ("abiogenic") hypothesis of the origin of petroleum, and along with it, the important role of upwelling fluids and gases as a cause of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. A hydrocarbon source must still be present at great depth in the Earth. Gold resorts to the use of chemical data to prove that the hydrocarbon source exists. He also presents empirical information from the results of deep drilling in an igneous-rock geological province where, according to conventional theory, hydrocarbons simply cannot exist. Then, almost as an aside to his quantitative presentation, Gold inserts a chapter in which he analyses subjective reports of fluids and gases exuded prior to and during large earthquakes. We turn to this subject area next.
Ancient eyewitness reports are no different from those of today. These are the natural phenomena of interest observed in the vicinity of the epicenters of earthquakes: fountains of water and mud, sand blows, asphyxiation, odors, noises, lightning, lights, and flames.
San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906 (just after 5:00 a.m.): Some 81 reports of sounds heard in connection with the quake were catalogued on pp. 377-380 of the Carnegie Institution report on the disaster. (Refer to footnote 1). Of these, 40 reported having heard sounds before having felt the shock, and 19 reported hearing unusual sounds at the time of the earthquake, without further specification. The observations were "fairly well distributed over the region affected by the shock." This interested the compilers of the report. They note, "Seismic waves traverse the earth's crust very much more swiftly than sound-waves do the air, so that it is a physical impossibility for sound-waves generated in the air above the seat of disturbance to outreach them." They wouldn't have been puzzled about this had they known about massive releases of gases that can precede earthquakes. Here is a report from a watchman in Santa Rosa, a town that bore the brunt of the quake.
Most of the remaining 40 reports of sounds that preceded the quake mentioned roaring sounds.
New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812. These earthquakes constituted one of the greatest natural disasters to strikeNorth America. Some of the relevant earthquake effects mentioned in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution are belching forth of muddy water, blue clay, coal, and sand as well as "explosions of the earth "and swamp water temperatures over 100ºF. Most telling is the conclusion that "the face of the country was changed by the terrific explosions." And in two of the letters odors were described when the first quake hit on December 16, 1811. In Eliza Bryan's letter one reads of a "complete saturation of the atmosphere by sulpherous vapor, causing total darkness." Anonymous, in a letter to the Lexington Reporter says much the same.
Evidence of gas emissions prior to earthquakes is relatively well known. Animals seem to react to low odor levels just before quakes by behaving strangely. Air and groundwater temperatures may rise as well. This was used to predict an M 7.3 quake in the Hai-cheng region of northeastern China in 1975. The local meteorological station that in the weeks preceding the earthquake the air temperature in the vicinity of the Hai-cheng fault was higher than in the surrounding region. Then, when the temperature differential reached 10ºC, the town was ordered evacuated. Hai-cheng was evacuated two hours before the major quake struck.
During the month before the quake, a gas with an extraordinary smell appeared in the areas including Tantung and Liao-yang. This was termed "earth gas" by the people…one person fainted because of this….Many areas were covered with a peculiar fog (termed "earth gas fog" by the people) just prior to the quake. The height of the fog was only two to three meters. It was very dense, of white and black color, non-uniform, stratified, and also had a peculiar smell. It started to appear one to two hours before the quake, and was so dense that the stars were obscured by it. It dissipated rapidly after the quake. The area where this "earth gas fog" appeared was related to the fault area responsible for the earthquake.
The careful monitoring of air quality and temperature saved many lives, due to a realization of the importance of gas in the causation of earthquakes.
Summary. The causes of earthquakes as described in reading 270-35 are considerably more complicated than today's seismologists understand. The main causative force lies in Earth's internal movements such as thermal plumes, mantle motions, mountain building, subsiding sedimentary basins, and rocks undergoing folding. Secondarily, the causes lie in a confluence of planetary and stellar forces that act upon Earth. By a mechanism only dimly perceived if at all, these "outside forces" activate the "elementals" of our planet, the earth, air, fire, and water. To further complicate things, interactions between the elementals and the states of stress in Earth's crust act to influence the locations and magnitudes of the earthquakes produced.
It seems that humankind has little chance accurately to forecast earthquakes and, indeed, all attempts to do so have failed. But the monitoring of known earthquake-source environments near population concentrations may provide generalized warnings of impending earthquakes – warnings sufficient to save the lives of those willing and able to heed them.
Further considerations. Note now that reading 270-35 made the following additional predictions about specific earthquakes.
If there are the greater activities in the Vesuvius [area?] or Pelee [area, or in Pele's realm on the island of Hawaii?], then the southern coast of California —and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada—may expect, within the three months following same, an inundation by the earthquakes. But these, as we find, are to be more in the southern than in the northern hemisphere.
Let's examine only the primordial hydrocarbons hypothesis of volcanism and earthquake generation in trying to puzzle out what Cayce's source was talking about here. Speculations about which specific volcanoes were meant in the reading, or about the meaning of "an inundation by the earthquakes' is dealt with in "Signs of the Predicted Pole Shift and Earth Changes." Our interest here is the connection between the eruptions, say, of Mt. Vesuvius (or Campi Flegri in the immediate area, and earthquakes some 6,000 miles away in the Wasatch Fault Zone of Utah.
At the outset, I'm going to propose that volcanoes that suddenly begin to show "greater activities" are merely signaling greater releases of gases from upwelling primordial fluids. For reasons known only to Cayce's psychic sources, volcanoes like Vesuvius or Pelee, or those in their vicinities, are the best predictors of a renewed worldwide period of gas upwelling, and exit through crustal fractures or volcanic vents to the atmosphere. We know now that some gas releases may be responsible for earthquakes. So, once again, what's the commonality between a volcano signaling-event and the occurrence of earthquakes thousands of miles away?
The commonality seems to lie in the relationship of Vesuvius or Pelee, and the earthquake belts of Idaho, Nevada, and southern California, to gas belts that are found in Earth's geologically young fault and fold belts. (See Figure 3). Indeed, the eruption of Pelee in 1902 exhibited flames, as did Krakatau in 1928. And that gas had occurred in the eruptions of Vesuvius seems evident by the observation of Seneca. He wrote that a flock of hundreds of sheep was killed in the Pompeian district during an earthquake some 16 years prior to the disaster of the eruption of Vesuvius that covered Pompeii with ash.
T. Gold provides an interesting analysis of the significance of mud volcanoes to his hypothesis of the role of gas flow in inducing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Locations of mud volcano fields are shown in Figure 3.
All the evidence of eruptions shows that large quantities of some gases accumulate at depth and can blow with violence. This can occur either through vents that are created by the high pressure gas itself, or through vents that are held open by another fluid. These gases are frequently flammable.
The sudden onset of [lava] volcanic eruptions can be understood best as due to a very rapid flow of gas through a freshly opened crack in solid rock, leading into a magma channel.
Turning back to Figure 3, we note something provocative, if we dare call the fold-and-fault belts "gas belts." These gas belts coincide with many of the locations mentioned in the Cayce readings as being ripe for Earth changes. In addition to those in America mentioned just above are Japan, the Mediterranean (including the Etna area), the Persian Gulf, South America from the uppermost portion to the end, many of the WWII battlefields, and in the Antarctic off of Tierra del Fuego.
One can believe in Churchward's chronicling of gas belts from ancient texts, or in the modern scientific research of Gold and others. There is clear scientific evidence of the importance of primordial hydrocarbon fluids and/or their gases in producing Earth upheavals. These fluids and gases are two of the "elementals" that, at least according to reading 270-35, may be activated by cosmic forces to cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908, Washington D.C.
LaViolette, P., 1997, Earth under fire, Starlane Publ., Schenectady, NY, pp. 314-315.
Gold, T., 1999, The deep hot biosphere," Springer-Verlag, New York, 235 pp.
Gold, T., 1987, Power from the Earth, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 208 p.
See Griffith, J., 2002, James Churchward and his lost Pacific continent, World Explorer, pp. 16-25.


The two museums are joining forces for a special Golden Ticket membership for their golden anniversaries.
MANITOWOC - The year 2019 brings a milestone anniversary for not just one, but two of northeastern Wisconsin's most treasured cultural institutions. Both the Wisconsin Maritime Museum (WMM) and Door County Maritime Museum (DCMM) were founded in 1969, meaning both museums are celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year.
To commemorate their "Golden" birthdays, the two museums are joining forces to offer a "Golden Ticket" joint membership in both institutions. For a $100 donation for an individual or $160 for a family membership, contributors will receive full membership privileges in both museums for 12 months, along with a special 50th anniversary commemorative membership card that provides free admission to both museums. Golden Ticket joint memberships can be purchased at either institution and are good for new memberships only.
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the WMM is presenting a suite of more than 90 events this year — from movie screenings and shipwreck lectures to exhibit openings and science clubs. The Ladies of the Lake exhibit on Wisconsin's women and their influence on maritime culture opened March 2, and the museum's annual summer submarine celebration SubFest is scheduled for July 12-14. Additionally, the museum in Manitowoc is honored to host two important gatherings this year: the annual conferences of the Council of American Maritime Museums in April and the Historic Naval Ships Association in September.
"The Water Defines Us: DCMM@50" is a new exhibit at the DCMM in Sturgeon Bay that celebrates the half-century of maritime preservation and education that the people of Door County have made possible. The exhibit traces the journey of the museum from its early roots in northern Door County, as a small group of dedicated men and women pursued a simple vision to commemorate the maritime and fishing culture of the area. The museum — and the vision of its leaders — continued to grow to eventually encompass two museum locations, the Cana Island Lighthouse and the restoration of the Tug John Purves.
The Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society, Inc., preserves Great Lakes maritime history, primarily focusing on Door County, and provides interpretive and educational opportunities for current and future generations. The museum operates three locations, including the Door County Maritime Museum along the working waterfront in Sturgeon Bay; the iconic Cana Island Lighthouse in Bailey's Harbor; and the Death's Door Maritime Museum in Gills Rock. As one of northeast Wisconsin's top tourism destinations, the DCMM serves as a resource for all 72 counties in Wisconsin. For more details, visit DCMM.org or call 920-743-5958.
Founded in 1970 as the Manitowoc Submarine Memorial Association, the WMM has grown into one of the largest maritime museums in the Midwest. In addition to commemorating the maritime heritage of the Manitowoc-Two Rivers area and the submarines built there during World War II, the WMM is a leader in preserving the maritime history of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region. For more details, visit wisconsinmaritime.org or call 920-684-0218.
The three-masted schooner S/V Denis Sullivan was in Manitowoc on Aug 17, 2017 as part of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum's celebration of Maritime Heritage Day.


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est un film d'animation du Studio Ghibli, sorti en 1995, dont l'histoire est issue du manga éponyme de Aoi Hiiragi. Ce film d'animation est réalisé par Yoshifumi Kondō – alors pressenti comme étant le successeur de Hayao Miyazaki, scénariste du film et plus célèbre réalisateur et scénariste du studio. Ce fut cependant son unique film ; il mourut trois ans plus tard d'une rupture d'anévrisme, . Miyazaki reprit finalement ses activités pour réaliser Le Voyage de Chihiro.

Thème
L'action se déroule dans les années 1990, dans la ville nouvelle de Tama, dans la banlieue de Tokyo.

Le thème principal s'articule autour de la relation naissante entre les deux principaux protagonistes ainsi que la recherche de sa voie par Shizuku.

On note, en thème secondaire, un jeu de chassé-croisé amoureux entre jeunes adolescents.

Comme souvent dans les films de Hayao Miyazaki (qui n'en est pas le réalisateur, mais s'est beaucoup impliqué dans le projet), le thème du travail manuel et de l'artisanat se trouve aussi en toile de fond.

Synopsis
Passionnée de lecture, Shizuku Tsukishima fréquente assidûment tant la bibliothèque municipale, où travaille son père, que celle de son collège, y compris pendant les congés scolaires, usant pour cela des bonnes relations qu'elle entretient avec l'infirmière.

Lors de ces lectures, elle remarque grâce aux fiches de suivi que tous les livres qu'elle a emprunté l'ont précédemment été par un certain Seiji Amazawa.

Shizuku Tsukishima possédant un talent pour la poésie, ses amies lui ont demandé d'adapter en japonais la chanson Country Roads ; parallèlement à cette adaptation, elle a également écrit sur le même thème musical une chanson parodique Concrete Road (la route en béton) moquant sa banlieue. Après avoir présenté ces deux versions à son amie Yuko Harada, elle oublie sur un banc le livre contenant les paroles des chansons. Revenant sur ses pas pour le récupérer, elle le trouve dans les mains d'un garçon inconnu qui le lui rend tout en se moquant de sa négligence ainsi que sa chanson parodique.

Peu après, alors qu'elle se rend à la bibliothèque municipale pour consulter des livres mais aussi apporter son repas à son père, Shizuku voit un chat prendre le train avec elle. Intriguée et amusée par le comportement du félin, elle le suit pour arriver, après quelques déambulations, dans une petite boutique d'antiquités. Elle y rencontre le propriétaire, un vieil homme sympathique.

En retard, elle sort précipitamment de la boutique et rencontre à nouveau le mystérieux garçon, accompagné du chat, qui lui apporte le bentō oublié chez l'antiquaire, et se moque à nouveau d'elle à propos de sa chanson.

Par la suite, elle se rend à nouveau plusieurs fois à la boutique, où elle trouve porte close.

Elle y rencontre finalement le garçon moqueur, qui s'avère être le petit-fils de l'antiquaire, mais aussi le fameux Seiji Amazawa ! À cette occasion, Shizuku se lie d'amitié avec Seiji et apprend que celui-ci travaille à devenir luthier et souhaite aller étudier ce métier à Crémone.

Lorsque Seiji part en Italie pour un stage d'essai chez un luthier ami de son grand-père, Shizuku, honteuse de ne pas avoir une telle ambition, décide d'écrire un roman pendant son absence. Le sujet est inspiré d'une statuette ayant une grande valeur sentimentale pour le grand-père de Seiji. Celui-ci encourage Shizuku dans son projet d'écriture et ils conviennent qu'il sera le premier lecteur du roman.

Shizuku néglige alors ses études et tombe en échec scolaire. Sa famille est inquiète pour ses chances d'intégrer un bon lycée d'autant plus qu'elle refuse de révéler à quoi elle consacre son temps. Ses parents la laissent finalement libre de ses choix en lui rappelant toutefois que celui qui trace son propre chemin ne peut s'en prendre qu'à lui-même en cas d'échec.

Une fois le roman achevé, le grand-père de Seiji le lit et assure Shizuku de son talent, comparant les défauts de l'œuvre aux inévitables imperfections du travail d'un apprenti. Le grand-père raconte la véritable histoire de la statuette qui a de curieuses similarités avec l'histoire imaginée par Shizuku et exprime son admiration devant le fait que Shizuku ait transformé une histoire triste en une histoire pleine d'espoir.

Shizuku, consciente qu'elle n'a pas encore la maturité pour être un bon écrivain, décide de l'acquérir en se remettant à ses études et rassure sa famille à ce sujet.

Seiji revient de son premier voyage en Italie. Son maître luthier, réputé sévère, se porte garant de son talent auprès de ses parents, qui le laissent repartir pour effectuer dix années d'apprentissage auprès de ce maître. Il déclare sa flamme à Shizuku qui lui avoue la réciprocité de son sentiment et promet de l'attendre jusqu'à son retour.

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 Titre original :
 Titre français : Si tu tends l'oreille
 Réalisation : Yoshifumi Kondō
 Scénario et story-board (ekonte) : Hayao Miyazaki, d'après l'œuvre d'Aoi Hiiragi
 Dessin des personnages : Yoshifumi Kondō
 Direction artistique : Satoshi Kuroda
 Photographie : Atsushi Okui
 Musique : Yūji Nomi
 Durée : 111 minutes
 Date de sortie :
 Japon :

Personnages

Collégienne de 14 ans, passionnée de lecture, douée pour les lettres, rêveuse. Au début du film, elle ne s'est pas encore interrogée sur l'orientation à donner à sa vie.

Le « mystérieux garçon des livres ». Scolarisé dans le même collège que Shizuku mais dans une autre classe et secrètement amoureux d'elle. Il travaille à devenir luthier, incité par son grand-père mais contre le souhait de ses parents.

Mère de Shizuku. Mère au foyer active, ayant repris des études afin de pouvoir travailler.

 Père de Shizuku. Il est employé à la bibliothèque municipale.

Statuette anthropomorphe à tête de chat. Elle a été acquise en Allemagne avant-guerre par M. Nishi, alors étudiant. Elle revêt une très grande valeur sentimentale à ses yeux.

Grand-père de Seiji. Sa boutique d'antiquités abrite également un atelier d'apprentissage pour luthiers.

Meilleure amie de Shizuku, ne se posant aucune question sur l'avenir, secrètement amoureuse de Sugimura.

Infirmière du collège de Shizuku.

Muta
Aussi appelé Moon. Gros chat très indépendant, prenant le train tout seul et fréquentant, entre autres domiciles, la maison de M. Nishi.

Ami de Shizuku et secrètement amoureux d'elle.

Grande sœur de Shizuku, elle entre dans la vie active et quitte le foyer familial. Contrairement à sa petite sœur, elle ne se pose pas beaucoup de question sur le sens de sa vie, se contentant de suivre le chemin tout tracé par la société.

Production
Les décors des scènes montrant les aventures de Baron ont été réalisés par Naohisa Inoue et se réfèrent à un univers de son invention, Iblard, qu'il décrit dans ses tableaux.

Dans le film, Shizuku traduit la chanson Take Me Home, Country Roads (coécrite et enregistrée par John Denver) en japonais pour la chorale de son école. Elle écrit aussi une parodie japonaise de la chanson, appelée Concrete Road, à propos de sa maison à l'ouest de Tokyo. Ces chansons jouent un rôle important à plusieurs moments du film.

Le chat « Moon » (Lune) ou « Muta » tel qu'il apparaît dans le film a eu pour modèle une chatte qui avait pris ses quartiers dans les locaux du Studio Ghibli. Le dos d'un livre dans la bibliothèque de l'école porte le nom de Totoro, la pendule dans la boutique est de la marque Porco Rosso, et une étiquette sur laquelle est inscrit « Nausicaa » est fixée sur le panneau de patrons de violon dans l'atelier ; ce sont des allusions aux films des mêmes noms de Hayao Miyazaki. En outre, la figurine de sorcière vers le bureau du personnage principal qui fait référence au film Kiki, la petite sorcière. De telles auto-références sont assez rares dans un film du studio Ghibli.

Distribution
 Au cours de son exploitation au Japon, le film était précédé du clip On Your Mark réalisé par Miyazaki pour la chanson éponyme du groupe Chage and Aska.

Anecdotes
Le personnage de Shizuku a beaucoup inspiré la lofi-girl de la chaine ChilledCow, quand elle étudie en écoutant de la musique.

Seconde histoire dans le même univers
Aoi Hiiragi, l'auteur du manga dont est adapté Si tu tends l'oreille, a publié ensuite un autre manga, , dans lequel elle reprend certains personnages de la première histoire dans une intrigue toute différente et sans autre lien avec la première (c'est donc une autre histoire dans le même univers plutôt qu'une suite). Les deux personnages qui réapparaissent dans cette seconde histoire sont les deux chats Moon et Baron. Un film d'animation du studio Ghibli, adapté de ce second manga, est sorti en 2002 sous le titre Le Royaume des chats.

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Aoi Hiiragi
 Le Royaume des chats

Bibliographie

Liens externes

Film japonais sorti en 1995
Film d'animation japonais
Long métrage d'animation Ghibli
Film se déroulant à Tokyo
Film se déroulant au XXe siècle
Série manga
Film mettant en scène un chat
Adaptation d'un manga au cinéma


She did it in style. Patricia Dioguardi of Rochester won a cool million dollars this week on a New York Lottery scratch-off ticket. All thanks to her horoscope, which said she was going to win something big.
After her mother-in-law read that zodiac prediction to her out of the morning paper, Patricia went into work at Wegmans a little early, so she could purchase the eventual winning ticket.
As soon as she scratched it off--the New York Poker version--for the record, she went straight to her boss and filed her two-week notice. She said she had planned on retiring next year, but the win "moved up that date," according to Dioguardi, who's worked at the Wegmans in Rochester for 27 years.
The 61-year-old chose a lump sum payout and received $536,058, after taxes subtracted from her $1 million win. She became the 40th New York Lottery player this year to to win a million dollars or more.
If you aim to be #41 in 2017, this article has some tips on improving your chances of winning. And some math professors believe you should let the computer pick the numbers, instead of relying on favorite birthdates, which rules out all numbers above 31.
I pick mine by taking all the birthdays of my parents and my children, dividing the numbers by the date on the calendar, converting it to Roman numerals then back again, dividing by the amount of times certain politicians want to "study" Something, multiply by the amount of money I have in change in the cup holder in my car, then I just light the money I would use to buy a ticket on fire and watch it burn as that gets me the same result.
Of course, your chances aren't good. You have a better chance of bowling a 300 game, getting murdered during a trip to the Grand Canyon, or dying from chronic constipation. So, play if you want, but also eat your fruits and veggies, just in case.


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1. Acquisition of administrative and organizational skills in the development of policy content and procedures of the United Nations.
2. Acquisition of humanistic skills in administrative group communication and public relations techniques.
3. Development and acquisition of technical skills used in formulating policy and procedures of the United Nations.
Methods for accomplishing the objectives were active participation, discussions, and observations. Objectives were achieved as demonstrated by summary information and products. The internship took place at the United Nations Secretariat headquarters, in the Division of Personnel Services which is the Recruitment Programs Section responsible for recruiting and selecting qualified professional candidates for the United Nations agencies. The period of the internship was from January 1985 to March 1985 and represented 320 hours.
Kasemsuwan, Kanokrat, "Summary of an Internship at the Recruitment Programs Section of the United Nations" (1986). Master's Theses. 3317.


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Mr. Magundi Speaks His Mind
He Is Seldom Blandly Indifferent
About Mr. Magundi
On Conspiracy Theories
April 28, 2014 April 28, 2014 Dr. BoliLeave a comment
"But I'm just not sure the government is that smart," Mrs. Bowman concluded.
"I think you're right," Mr. Magundi agreed. "The conspiracy theorist pays his imagined enemies the extravagant compliment of supposing that they are almost as clever as he himself is. That is probably why I can never be a proper conspiracy theorist: I have difficulty believing that people in positions of great power are even remotely near to being as clever as I am. The only really intelligent people I know all ride the Red Line streetcar to work every morning, which people in positions of great power would not do. Or at least that's what they would like you to believe."
On Nelson Mandela
December 7, 2013 April 28, 2014 Dr. Boli10 Comments
"But I don't see why everyone seems to have forgotten that he was a communist," Mr. Bates was saying. "Sorry if I can't join the party."
"I think it's a little foolish of us to assume that a man was exactly the same when he was young and angry as when he was old and presumably wiser," Mr Magundi replied. "But no matter; I agree that the tributes of the past couple of days have mostly missed the point. The single thing that made Mandela a great hero, the George Washington of his country, was the fact that, when he died, he was not president. It would have been terribly easy for him to say to himself, 'At this time of transition and crisis, the country needs strong and stable leadership. It is necessary for the good of the people that I should remain as their leader.' Like George Washington, he must have seen with absolute clarity that, if he stepped aside, he would be succeeded by a pack of the usual political idiots. How could George Washington look ahead to a Jefferson administration with anything but dread? How could Mandela sit still for Mbeki?
"Yet, when the decision came, he was wise enough to see that the democratic principle was more important in the long run than the question of which idiots would be elected in the short run. He could have been Fidel Castro or Robert Mugabe, but instead he decided to be Cincinnatus.
"Our own Washington had plenty of less-than-admirable qualities. He was a greedy real-estate speculator; he could be imperious and aloof; his administration was full of bickering. Even as a general he was perhaps more lucky than clever. But he proved that he loved his country more than he loved power. Nelson Mandela did the same, and he will be remembered the way Washington is remembered. And his faults deserve the same sympathetic oblivion we grant to Washington's."
On Strategy and Tactics
November 10, 2013 Dr. Boli2 Comments
"So she asked me to ask you," I explained, "because she thought you might have an interesting opinion on the difference between strategy and tactics."
"It's very simple," Mr. Magundi said. "'Strategy' is the business of deciding how many people must die to reach our objective. 'Tactics' is the business of figuring out exactly how to kill them."
On Wisdom and Knowledge
September 16, 2013 Dr. Boli4 Comments
"I was trying to explain the difference between wisdom and knowledge to Derek," Mrs. Bowman said, "but I don't think I really got through to him."
"The difference is simple," Mr. Magundi replied. "Knowledge is progressive, and wisdom is static. We improve in knowledge with every passing generation, and indeed with every passing day; but we have not improved in wisdom since the first man thought it might be a fine idea to eat that fruit after all. We pass our knowledge on to the next generation, by oral tradition or in writing. On the other hand, an individual can grow in wisdom, but for some paradoxical reason, no matter how desperately he tries to pass it on, no matter how many volumes he writes or fine speeches he makes, his wisdom dies with him, and the next generation must discover wisdom for itself."
On State Lotteries
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"But it does benefit senior citizens," I said a bit timidly, knowing exactly what I was getting into.
"State lotteries prey disproportionately on the poor and credulous," Mr. Magundi replied. "Our lottery takes bread out of the mouths of the very people it supposedly benefits, and gives some of them a few state-funded programs in return. They lose far more than they gain.
"But worse than that, the lottery involves us all in a dreadful moral contradiction. We send thousands of people to jail every year for breaking laws against gambling, but we put up billboards in the poorest neighborhoods saying 'Don't forget to play every day.' If gambling is not a vice, then why are people in jail for it? If gambling is a vice, why is our government begging us to indulge in it?
"Now, think how much better off we all would be if that money stayed in the neighborhoods, instead of going to Harrisburg to feed a vast bureaucracy. Neighborhood stores might flourish, so the old and helpless would have some place to buy their bread; more pedestrian traffic in the neighborhood business district would make crime go down, and would encourage more businesses to fill empty storefronts. Money spent locally makes everyone a little richer. And that's why I say we need to take the numbers racket away from the state and put it back in the barber shops where it belongs."
On the Inadequacies of Other People
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Brielle had been telling us about one of her art-school friends. "But all she can talk about is, like, he was all like this, but I was like that, and he like did this, and he should have known better, and can you believe what an idiot he is. And after a while I just have to like tune her out."
"Yes," Mr. Magundi said, "it's surprising how much we love to talk about the inadequacies of other people. While you're on the streetcar, or walking down the street downtown, listen to the conversations around you, and you'll be shocked by how many of them are about the failures of third parties not included in the conversation. And then imagine yourself as a stranger walking by this very streetcar stop at this very moment, and tell me what you hear."
On Foreign Adventures
"What I worry about is that we'll end up putting in people who are just as bad as the ones we kick out," Mrs. Bowman said.
"But that's the nearly inevitable result of picking a side in a civil war," Mr. Magundi declared. "By choosing to support one of the combatants, we have chosen to throw our weight behind people who have publicly declared that the way to solve political problems is by killing other people. We say that we intervene on behalf of the millions of suffering innocents; but, as a practical matter, if we support one side or the other, we must intervene on behalf of warmongers who are causing at least some of the suffering. The only alternative is to conquer the place and install our own government, which is what we used to do—and you remember how that worked out in Cuba and the Philippines."
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Q: Obscure a UITextField password I am doing a login page. I have UITextField for password.
Obviously, I do not want the password to be seen; instead, I want circles to show when typing.
How do you set the field for this to happen?

A: One can do this for Obscure a UITextField password:

CODE
Objective-C:
textField.secureTextEntry = YES;

Swift:
textField.isSecureTextEntry = true

A: Open the Xib file and open the inspector of the password text field and tick the secure property.

A: For Swift 3.0:
txtpassword.isSecureTextEntry = true

A: in Swift 3.0 or later
passwordTextField.isSecureTextEntry = true

A: In Interface Builder check the "Secure Text Entry" checkbox
or
In code set:
Objective-C:
yourTextField.secureTextEntry = YES;

Swift:
yourTextField.secureTextEntry = true

A: Please set your UItextField property secure..
Try this..
textFieldSecure.secureTextEntry = true

textFieldSecure is your UITextField...
For newer Swift version, it is textFieldSecure.isSecureTextEntry = true

A: Simply check Secure Text Entry check box on the storyboard

A: txt_Password = new UITextField {
  Frame = new RectangleF (20,40,180,31),
  BorderStyle = UITextBorderStyle.Bezel,
  TextColor = UIColor.Black,
  SecureTextEntry = true,
  Font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize (17f),
  Placeholder = "Enter Password",
  BackgroundColor = UIColor.White,
  AutocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionType.No,
  KeyboardType = UIKeyboardType.Default,
  ReturnKeyType = UIReturnKeyType.Done,
  ClearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewMode.WhileEditing,
};

secureTextEntry set true.

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Andrew Dice Clay gets down and dirty at The Paramount in NY
Last night: Controversial, offensive, and proud are three words you do not often use together, but in this case we are talking about the one and only Andrew Dice Clay. His fans love him and his foes hate him.
Dice has a way of evoking the deepest of emotions in people and that's what makes him tick. He has been making people laugh since starting his stand-up career in 1978 but it would be another ten plus years till he became a household name.
After a busy year in 1988, which included his launch into the spotlight on Rodney Dangerfield's HBO special Nothing Goes Right, he had an even bigger year in 1989. He released his debut album, Dice, which had a parental advisory on it "Warning: This album is offensive," but despite the warning the album went on to reach gold status. And another memorable moment came that year when he appeared on MTV's Video Music Awards and subsequently got banned for life after performing his adult versions of Mother Goose rhymes.
With all this excitement he had no problem selling out Madison Square Garden for two consecutive nights in February 1990; he became the first comedian to have such an accomplishment under their belt. Also that same year, Dice managed to create a whole lot of controversy surrounding his appearance on Saturday Night Live, with both cast member Nora Dunn and musical guest Sinead O'Connor. And after several television and movie appearances in past years, including M*A*S*H, Diff'rent Strokes and Pretty in Pink, he got a starring role in a movie as Ford Fairlane in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
To date he has released ten albums.
He has appeared and starred in many roles in movies and television, and has had several memorable moments on Reality TV, including appearing on The Celebrity Apprentice 2 in 2009, and he even ruled the kitchen in the 2017 Fox network reality TV show, My Kitchen Rules, where he was the season's winner. And if all this was not enough, add author to his list of accomplishments since in 2015 Simon & Schuster published his brutally honest autobiography, The Filthy Truth.
As busy as he is, he still finds time to take his show on the road to get up close, and personal, with his fans. While he does not tour extensively he does make his rounds and we were there for the first of two nights at The Paramount in Huntington, NY on July 7th. After a week long heat wave the weather was absolutely perfect on Long Island so the streets of Huntington were bustling. Many show goers took advantage of all the great outdoor dining options before lining up under the marquee, awaiting the laughter they would surely be having soon for dessert.
Getting the packed house going was South Philadelphia native Eleanor Kerrigan. Starting out her career in the spotlight as an actress, it was her friend, and one of her biggest fans, Andrew Dice Clay that convinced her to do stand-up. Her brand of comedy is straight from the hip and she holds nothing back. She performed a good twenty-minute set and had the audience laughing from the moment she came out.
She is not afraid to offend anyone, just the right amount of raunchy, a tab bit aggressive and outright hilarious. Kerrigan was the perfect compliment for Dice, and if you are not already familiar with her work, she is someone who you really need to check out soon.
Once Kerrigan concluded her set she introduced "The Diceman" and everyone stood up and cheered to greet him as he walked out from backstage.
Grabbing the microphone and then a cigarette, he lit his fans up and got them laughing immediately.
With his deep Brooklyn accent, his cigarette in his hand to enhance his points as he talked and the way he paced the stage, he included the audience in his subject matter and had his fans completely engaged.
Early on in his set he took aim on a married couple in the first row, a mature man and his voluptuous wife. After establishing that they were married for fifty-four years, Clay joked, "Yea, I've been married for that long, but not to the same woman. Oooh!" Now and again he would return to the man throughout his set and the audience began to know him by the name "Joey." Joey was not safe from answering personal questions either and his participation only helped enhance Dice's jokes.
No matter how raunchy the subject matter got, there was continuous laughter, with an occasional gasp of air now and again from those who could not believe he just said that. Before bringing the show to a close he said, "You're a great crowd, thank you for coming out. Thank you so much!" But before leaving the stage, knowing his longtime fans were waiting for this moment, he broke into his classic nursery rhymes. He hit them for several minutes with rhyme after rhyme, but the highlight was the fact that entire crowd spoke along with him, word for word, including each of his robust "Oooh's" after each rhyme. Once it was over Dice stood for a moment and smiled, then he waved as his fans and they rose to their feet, cheering and clapping as they give him a standing ovation for his stellar performance.
There is no comparing seeing The Diceman perform live and uncensored.
And the fact that he has reached an age where he very well may have an AARP card in his wallet, he has not slowed down in anyway. He is just as macho and raunchy as ever; just the way we like him. Dice only has a few New York and New Jersey dates currently posted for this month, but if you can not make any of these shows I would suggest keeping an eye out for when he will be in you area because you need to catch him live to really appreciate his humor at its best.
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Diane Woodcheke
Diane Woodcheke has had her eye on a camera viewfinder since she was very young. She specializes in Fine Art, Event and Concert Photography. She is also a writer of concert and album reviews, as well as contributing to blogs. For more information please visit her website at www.dwoodcheke.com
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package org.knowm.xchange.coinmate.dto.marketdata;

import static org.fest.assertions.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.math.BigDecimal;

import org.junit.Test;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

/**
 * @author Martin Stachon
 */
public class TickerJSONTest {

  @Test
  public void testUnmarshal() throws IOException {

    // Read in the JSON from the example resources
    InputStream is = TickerJSONTest.class.getResourceAsStream("/marketdata/example-ticker.json");

    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    CoinmateTicker coinmateTicker = mapper.readValue(is, CoinmateTicker.class);

    // Verify that the example data was unmarshalled correctly
    assertThat(coinmateTicker.getData().getLast()).isEqualTo(new BigDecimal("254.08"));
    assertThat(coinmateTicker.getData().getHigh()).isEqualTo(new BigDecimal("255.43"));
    assertThat(coinmateTicker.getData().getLow()).isEqualTo(new BigDecimal("250.02"));
    assertThat(coinmateTicker.getData().getAmount()).isEqualTo(new BigDecimal("42.78294066"));
    assertThat(coinmateTicker.getData().getBid()).isEqualTo(new BigDecimal("252.93"));
    assertThat(coinmateTicker.getData().getAsk()).isEqualTo(new BigDecimal("254.08"));
  }
}


North Sea Suppliers - Dead or Alive?
Latest DCube release has several enhancements, including: new cost benchmarking functionality, data on onshore LNG plants, metocean data and new Operator Fact Sheet reports.
SCube now covers oilfield service contracts in detail. Use it to identify relationships between service companies and E&P Operators. It is also possible now to produce Fact Sheets on desired service companies from the Tools menu.
Latest version of RigCube is also enriched by Rig Owner Fact Sheets. Activate "Rig Supply Years", choose Rig Owner and select "Rig Owner Fact Sheet" in the Tools menu.
After historical highs in 2014, jackup demand plunged by 25% from 409 units in 2014, to 308 units in 2016. With 72 newbuilds scheduled to come into the market in the next few years and only 63 units retired since 2014, the jackup market is in the midst of an oversupply situation, resulting in low utilization levels and depressed rates.
Rystad Energy forecasts a small increase in jackup demand this year, compared to 2016 levels. In line with this view, we have seen increased tendering activity during the first quarter of 2017.
Based on contract fixture data from Rystad Energy's RigCube, Figure 1 shows the development in contracting activity from Q1 2016 to Q1 2017 for competitive rigs. We see that contracting activity picked up in the first quarter of 2017, with 36 new mutual contract fixtures. This is a 50% increase from the previous quarter and a 33% increase compared to the first quarter of 2016. Tendering activity is still low compared to the peak period between Q1 2012 and Q1 2013, when the number of fixtures for new mutual contracts averaged 77 quarterly.
The blue line in Figure 1 shows the trend of average contract duration per quarter. Durations for contracts signed in Q1 2016 averaged 19 months as compared to Q1 2017 with an average duration of 6 months. This is a 68% decrease in average contract duration for the first quarter of 2017. Eighty-three percent of new mutual contracts signed in Q1 2017 are intra-year contracts. In other words, only six of the units contracted in Q1 2017 will have a contract extending past 2017. This is a large drop compared to Q1 2016, when intra-year contracts accounted for only 42%. While the total backlog for the first quarter of 2016 added up to 25 rig years, Q1 2017 was significantly lower with approximately 18 rig years of backlog. While our forecast calls for a slight uptick in jackup demand, it will still be a very competitive market for the rig owners with units rolling off contract this year.
Taking a deeper look at contracting activity for the competitive fleet during Q1 2017 (sublet, exercised options and new mutual contracts), we see that 33% of the units were already under contract at the time they received additional work. The other 67% of rigs awarded work in Q1 2017 were not under contract at the time of fixture, and on average, had been idle for 11 months. This compares with Q1 2016, where 35% of the jackups receiving new work were already contracted, while the remaining units had, on average, been idle for 7 months. Aside from the "lower for longer" environment and operators "re-tendering", slow approval processes and revisions to the scope of work required only add to the time it takes to secure a contract.
Over the last decade, the Middle East has been the largest market for jackup rigs. Looking at the first quarter of 2017, 30% of the awarded contracts are for work in the Middle East. Saudi Aramco is out in the market with a multi-rig requirement for incremental units as well as renewal against existing units with a start date during Q1 2018 and a duration between three and five years. Elsewhere in the region, Dubai Petroleum is also out with a requirement for term work against the renewal of two incumbent rigs. During Q1 2017, Southeast Asia and North America were slightly behind the Middle East in awarded contracts, with 25% and 22%, respectively. In Q1 2016, tendering was dominated by the Middle East (38%), with South Asia (15%) a distant second.
Figure 2 shows the development in rig rates per quarter in the last year. In order to understand the global trend in rig rates, North Sea jackup rates have been excluded from the quarterly averages. Declining rates persisted throughout Q3 2016, however during the last quarter of 2016, rates appear to be flattening out and even showed signs of a resurgence in Q1 2017 with contracting activity increasing. Rig rates averaged near $69,000/day during Q1 2017, compared to the peak period for jackup rates, between Q1 2013 and Q3 2014, when rig rates averaged $142,000/day. A situation that can still be seen as depressing for the drillers.
Towards 2020, Rystad Energy believes that jackup demand will increase, with an anticipated yearly average growth of 4%. However, the oversupply of existing units in the market, an expected influx of newbuilds and the short-term nature of contracts, contribute to our opinion that rig rates will remain at low levels going forward.


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Stanbic IBTC Reaffirms Market Dominance at 2021 FMDQ Gold Awards
Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of Standard Bank Group, won six awards at the 2021 FMDQ Gold Awards recently.
Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, emerged as the FMDQ FX Market Liquidity Provider of the year, FMDQ OTC FX Futures Bank of the Year and FMDQ Dealing Member of the Year.
Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited, another subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, won the FMDQ Registration Member (Listings) and FMDQ Capital Markets Securities Origination awards. At the same time, Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Limited was named the Most Active Buy-side Participant in the Fixed Income Market of the Year.
Dr. Demola Sogunle, Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC Holdings, appreciated the organisers for the awards. He noted that Stanbic IBTC had over the years provided unparalleled services and designed products tailored explicitly to meet the needs of its customers.
Demola noted that the awards had spurred the organisation to continue excellent service delivery to its clients. The awards reaffirmed the organisation's commitment to provide world-class financial services to its network of clients, including individual and institutional investors.
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MISSION AND MINISTRY | This year's Common Book addresses concerns common to the Loyola Marymount University community: professions of faith, interfaith cooperation, recognizing our own implicit biases, understanding that goes beyond tolerance, and finding our place in America.
"Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice and the Promise of America," by Eboo Patel, the 2018-19 Common Book, draws on all these themes as he presents a history of religious bigotry in American politics, a sociology of nonprofits in the United States, and a "science of interfaith cooperation" and "religious diversity." His main goal is an understanding of the country we live in. "The main character is the one I love the most — America," Patel writes.
Author, educator, and interfaith leader Patel will speak to the LMU community on Feb. 18, 2019, at 3 p.m. in the Life Sciences Building. Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, has worked with governments, nonprofit organizations, and colleges and universities to help realize a future where religion is a bridge of cooperation rather than a divisive barrier. He is a regular contributor to the public discourse around religion in America and a frequent speaker on religious pluralism. He holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.
The Common Book program is an interdisciplinary initiative co-led by the Hannon Library and the Academic Resource Center. While the program focuses on first-year students as an intellectual community builder, it's open to the entire campus community; faculty and staff members are welcome to join the conversations. Each year's Common Book is selected by a committee of about 25 LMU faculty and staff members, and students. The committee selects an area of focus or a partner – in 2017-18 the partner was the Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination and the year before the partner was the Bellarmine Forum – and then a book is selected. More information is available here: https://academics.lmu.edu/commonbook/.
This year's Common Book discussion is co-sponsored by First Amendment Week, an initiative of the Los Angeles Loyolan, the award-winning LMU campus newspaper. During Patel's visit to campus, he will meet with university leadership, have lunch with Common Book committee members, and then meet with student leaders after his speech.
"Sacred Ground" was selected based on a number of considerations, including current conversations that have been happening on campus about dialogue and difficult/polarizing conversations. One committee member believed that this book would integrate well with the intercultural awareness and implicit-bias training being offered to first-year students as part of orientation.


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The 1936–37 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1936–37 NCAA college basketball season. Fred Mesmer coached it in his sixth season as head coach. The team was a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference (EIC) and played its home games at Tech Gymnasium on the campus of McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C. The team finished with a record of 9-8 overall, 3-7 in the EIC.

Season recap

Sophomore guard Ed Kurtyka and sophomore forward Joe Murphy joined the team this season. Georgetown made its first-ever visit to Madison Square Garden to play New York University in the third game of the season, and Murphy scored 11 points in the first of 17 games in which he would score in double figures during his 65-game collegiate career. Kurtyka led the team in scoring for the season, while Murphy averaged 4.9 points per game and finished the year second-highest in scoring behind Kurtyka.

Junior forward Harry Bassin saw less playing time than he had the previous season and averaged a career-low 4.0 points per game, but he nonetheless was an important force in games and scored a season-high 12 points against Syracuse in a Georgetown victory that ended a multi-year Syracuse home winning streak. Junior forward and team captain Mike Petrosky averaged a career-low 4.3 points per game for the season, but put in a strong defensive and rebounding performance.

Despite playing only six home games all season, the 1936-37 Hoyas finished with a record of 9-8, only the second winning season for Georgetown in the last seven. In non-conference games they had gone 6-1, but they had struggled in EIC games, finishing with a conference record of 3-7. The 1936-37 squad was the second and last of Mesmers teams to finish with an overall winning record.

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Junior guard Tom Nolan would go on to serve as Georgetowns head basketball coach from 1956 to 1960, and as the schools baseball coach until the end of the 1978 season.

1936–37 schedule and results
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Did Reggae Die With Bob Marley?
Whether it is bigotry or just plain stupidity, there are some who believe that Bob Marley is bigger than reggae and the music died with him.
Reggae music was born with Bob Marley and it died when the "Get Up, Stand Up" artiste died, according to some music fans.
While the statement couldn't be farther from the truth, it is a sentiment that is held by many outside of the Reggae community.
No one can deny Bob Marley's greatness and what he meant to Reggae. The truth is, however, there are lots of Reggae artists just as talented as Bob Marley, some even more so.
While talent and hard work is a major part of success in the entertainment business, marketing and marketability is equally important. In a world where less than 10% of music and concert tickets are bought by Blacks, they have very little say in entertainment success. Likewise, when less than 1% of the media is controlled by Blacks, they hardly count when it comes to what is broadcast over the world.
The real Reggae fans, regardless of ethnicity, know that there was Reggae music before Bob Marley and the music still lives strong today.
The truth is, only a few people hear the word "Rasta" and think of Leonard Howell and Marcus Garvey, most people think of Bob Marley.
Likewise, most people don't think of Duke Reid, Bunny Lee, Clement Dodd or Toots Hibbert when they think of Reggae; they think of Bob Marley.
Fame and facts are two different things, however, and the fact is, these men have way more to do with the creation of Reggae than Marley; just like it is Howell and Garvey, who created Rasta and not Bob.
Bob Marley reportedly took the message to people who would not have accepted it from a pure black man.
Saying Reggae was born and died with Bob Marley does not only show stupidity, it is disrespectful.


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