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77,000 Year Old Mattress
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Jan 11, 2014 | Archeology, Blog | 0 comments
The world's oldest known mattress unearthed in South Africa.
The mattress—which consists of layers of reeds and rushes—was discovered at the bottom of a pile of bedding made from compacted grasses and leafy plants. The bedding had accumulated at the Sibudu Cave site in KwaZulu-Natal over a period of 39,000 years, with the oldest mats dating to 77,000 years ago. "What we have is evidence of plant bedding that is 50,000 years older than any previous site anywhere in the world," said study leader Lyn Wadley of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The compacted layers of fossil plants—excavated from sediments 9.8 feet (3 meters) deep—show that the bedding was periodically burned, possibly to limit pests and garbage.
Insect-Repelling "Top Sheet"
What's more, researchers believe the ancient people added a "top sheet" to the bedding made of insect-repelling greenery, possibly to ward off biting bugs such as mosquitoes and flies. This fine covering of leaves may also represent the earliest known use of medicinal plants by humans. The leaves are from the tree Cryptocarya woodii, or river wild-quince, a medicinal plant that produces insect-killing chemicals. While there's no evidence that the cave dwellers suffered from bed bugs, they likely used the leaves to counteract body lice, Wadley said.
Comfortable Bedding for Whole Family
At an estimated 12 inches (30 centimeters) or so high, the mattresses would've been a "very comfortable" and "quite long-lasting form of bedding," Wadley said. Measuring up to 22 square feet (2 square meters), the beds were also large enough to accommodate a whole family. For modern hunter-gatherers, such as the Inuit and Kalahari Bushmen, "the idea of just one or two people sleeping on a bed is unknown," she noted. "Hunter-gatherers tend to live with each other in kinship groups. It was probably the same in the Stone Age—parents, children, grannies, and all sorts of people using the same bed."


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The Arrival of the first "20 and Odd"
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven
who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
We know that they were not the first Africans on the continents of North and South America. Africans had been crossing the Atlantic since Before the Common Era (BCE). On August 25, 1619, the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to English occupied North America landed at Point Comfort (today's Fort Monroe) in Hampton, Virginia. From that perilous landing, their presence has had a profound impact on the cultural manifest of America's past, yet their descendants remain subject to socioeconomic and political disparities today.
The first Africans did not land at Ellis Island, Plymouth Rock, or Jamestown Island, but landed as human cargo that had been captured on the high seas during the transatlantic slave trade. The English privateer ship the White Lion, with aid of another privateer the Treasurer, attacked the Spanish slave ship São João Bautista or San Juan Bautista in a fierce battle in the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico. The White Lion continued on to land at Point Comfort carrying the captured and documented "20 and odd" Africans from the San Juan Bautista seeking to trade for provisions.
This first generation of enslaved Africans brought to Virginia were captured from the villages of Ndongo, Congo, and Kabasa in the Angola region of Africa and were skilled farmers, herders, blacksmiths, and artisans. They had the perfect skill set needed for the colonies to survive. Along with their culture, language, and beliefs, they also brought many ideas and innovations including food production, crop cultivation, music, and dance. It was their unbridled spirit and labor that helped build the United States.
For generations, Africans and their descendants would toil to survive the evils of slavery. Facing civil unrest, physical attacks, and other atrocities, they endured a long march to become legal citizens of the United States. Those first "20 and odd" Africans marked the beginning of 246 years of slavery in the United States.
Two Africans who arrived on the White Lion in 1619 at Point Comfort were Antoney and Isabella. In January 1625, according to the Virginia census Isabella, Antoney and their son William were living in Hampton in the home of Captain William Tucker, the commander of Fort Algernourne. Their son William is the first documented African child born in English North America. He was baptized on January 4, 1624.
THE CALM depicts two sacred women and one sacred child before the upheaval of their lives, as they are soon forced to leave their homeland for unfathomably distant shores once as cargo.
The sentry in the foreground is alerted to the turmoil that will soon befall the trio, as they are soon to be forced to leave all they know and understand behind, and rely on the lessons of their lives up to that day, to live on in a world, not of their choosing.
The Calm resonates with a foreboding only witnessed from the point of view of the kinetic energy coined in the phrase, "The calm before the storm" — an impending storm that embodies the prescience of upheaval.
MARKING TIME |
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Marking Time is this Church's yearlong tribute to 400 years of the creative industry of a people who were kidnapped and brought unwillingly to these shores and who, with resolute African spirit, fought for human dignity and equality.
This year, the world marks 400th Commemoration of the arrival of the first African men and women held as slaves at Point Comfort, present-day Fort Monroe, in Hampton, Virginia. Some of the Africans became part of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia., the cornerstone of this nation. The forced migration of Africans to the Virginia colony in 1619 reminds us that they came before the Mayflower (1620).
Our Church pays tribute to 400 years of the creative industry of a people who were kidnapped and brought unwillingly to these shores and who, with resolute African spirit, fought for human dignity and equality.
©2020 by Magnolia Missionary Baptist Church

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I have been some what quiet on Word Press for a while because I have been writing a few books! This excerpt comes from my devotional book which will be published early in 2019. As I was proofreading today, I thought I would share this rich truth with you.
Other people may retain their anger toward us until we die, but God does not. God delights in mercy. Let me say that again, God delights in mercy. Say that to yourself over and over, let its truth wash over you. He will have compassion on you and subdue your iniquities. And when you ask for forgiveness, He will cast all of your sins into the depths of the sea and envelop you in His love.
Let's Pray! O Lord God, you truly are beautiful. Who is like you, O God?? Pardoning and passing over my sin, washing it clean in the blood that Jesus died for me. Thank you that you delight in mercy. Thank you that you have compassion on me, knowing me as but a man, human and faulty. You have compassion, because you walked as we walked and were tempted in every way that we are. You are sinless and transparent, Holy and approachable, High and lifted up and lowly. Thank you that you chastise me with the love of a Father. Thank you that you cast every last sin in to the sea of forgiveness that envelops me in love. Thank you my loving Father, Holy Spirit that leads me into all truth, and merciful Savior, friend, Amen.


1) demolition debris from the mid-1970's project of Argentina's military dictatorship to clear out marginalized urban neighborhoods and lace the capital district with highways, Robert Moses-style. This material was used to construct the perimeter levee about 20' about mean sea level.
3) the biological and geological excess of the Rio Paraná, one of the worlds largest rivers and the main source of water in the Rio de La Plata, which produced a 24' flood in 1983, flushing massive amounts of suspended sediment and biological excess from the subtropical zones of South America (seeds, animals, rhizomes) over the perimeter walls of the future Reserva, where some of it settled out.
In a co-authored paper (with architect Erin Putalik) I go into more detail about this extreme and instructive case of a fairly common condition- semi-intentional landscapes produced through the processes of urbanization- in this case, by a megacity on the banks of one of the largest rivers in the world. This thinking tries to further Alan Berger's important work on drosscapes and Pierre Belanger's work on landscape as infrastructure. The three processes listed above came to a head in the mid-80's, and since then the landscape has become an important social and ecological space inhabiting the liminal zone between city and river (or really, estuary). Components such as the levees and interior topography are intentional and anthropogenic, while the vegetation and micro-topographies were constructed by the powerful geological and biological force that is the Rio Paraná.
But let's talk a bit more about the vegetation. While much of it is autochthonous and originally unintentional, it is also directly affected by the composition of the perimeter levees and interior subsoil- the busted brick, concrete, rusting steel, the contaminated sands and fine clays dredged from the port, as well as the exaggerated height differences caused by the perimeter levee. These unique conditions have produced a strange subset of regional riparian species and favorites from the private patios and gardens around the city, whose seeds are deposited here by birds and winds and who can exist on the rocky exterior levees and elevated platforms or the contaminated mudflats.
3) expand local knowledge (presumably both professional and public) about native species and their ecological role in the context of Buenos Aires and the Rio de la Plata estuary.
The existence of a plant nursery in a public park is very intriguing from a landscape architectural perspective, especially given our current (well-placed) interest in productive landscape and ecological performance (I would add sustained engagement with places to that, though that isn't really a widespread interest yet). As the great Nelson Byrd Woltz Orongo Station project in New Zealand showed, locating practices and instruments of plant propagation and cultivation for distribution in a wider landscape in that same landscape can be visually stunning, effective, and meaningful. Plant propagation and cultivation is a realizable, specific instance of productivity and performance, and considering how to integrate these practices into a public landscape is a promising way forward for enriching urban public spaces.
But there are two things in particular about this nursery that are especially interesting. I had a chance to visit this place and speak with some of the workers there, and they revealed an interesting detail- the plants are propagated seed and specimens collected on site. This practice requires more knowledge of the existing landscape and integrates with typical management practices of clearing and cleaning the public spaces, as well as ongoing scientific practices of documenting species and their behavior. In addition, the plant material tends to be exceptionally well-suited to the particular conditions of the place (the existing mycorrhizal communities, or soil contaminants for instance).
Secondly, the location of the nursery is unique- upfront by one of the two main entries, at the nexus between the container port to the north, the city to the west, and the rest of the Reserva. Currently, despite being steps off the main path, the connection between the public route (on top of a levee) and the nursery grounds is ad hoc- a muddy path strewn with earth-moving machinery leading up to the office. But, one could imagine a unique circuit taking visitors around or through the nursery, with ever-changing vews out toward the port, the city, the estuary, and the rest of the Reserva, and interior views of the production spaces and operations (most occurring at the languid pace of vegetation growth). Currently the potted plants in the covered zones blend into the autochthonous vegetation of the Reserva, the shade cloth and hoop house offering some architectural articulation within the mutant, verdant landscape. It's all very confusing, and yet it is a great way to be introduced to this massive public landscape that has perched itself between Buenos Aires and its estuary.


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Q: Block diagonalizing a Hamiltonian using a symmetry I have the following Hamiltonian, describing the 3 state Chiral clock model in 1D:
$$H = -f \sum_{j=1}^L (\tau_j^\dagger e^{-i \phi}+h.c.)-J\sum_{j=1}^{L-1}(\sigma_j^\dagger\sigma_{j+1}e^{-i\hat{\phi}}+h.c.)$$
This is essentially a generalization of the Transverse Ising model, where the first term generalizes the flip term and the second generalizes the interaction term. If I restrict my spin values (the $\sigma$s) to take on the values 1, $\omega$ and $\omega^2$, where $\omega = \exp{(i 2 \pi /3)}$, I have a symmetry in that if all the spins are rotated by $\omega$, nothing changes. The operator that effects this symmetry is defined as
$$\omega^P = \prod_{j=1}^L \tau_j^\dagger$$
It can be seen that
$$[\omega^P,H]=0$$
And for different values of L, $\omega^P$ always has 3 eigenvalues with multiplicity $3^{L-1}$. This tells me that there should be a way to Block diagonalize $H$ so that, into sectors. such that each sector corresponds to a particular eigenvalue of $\omega^P$. I am lost as to how I can go about doing this. For concreteness, I am currently working with L = 3 and L = 4. How should I implement the block diagonalization? Do I need to first convert my Hamiltonian into non-local form, since $\omega^P$ is itself non-local?

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In this example we will explore some data on exoplanets - planets outside our own solar system. The data used here is a subset of data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
We will start by using the data to answer some questions about the set of exoplanets in the archive. Then we will do some calculations to try to identify planets in the archive that might be capable of supporting life.


A panel of experts will discuss the challenges faced by journalists bas ed in Israel and Gaza at the launch of a book about the subject by City academic Dr James Rodgers.
The event, which will take place at City on Thursday 15th October, will mark the release of Headlines from the Holy Land: Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Dr Rodgers, a former Gaza correspondent for the BBC, will be signing copies of the book after the launch, which is free for the public to attend and begins at 6pm.
A Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism, the academic will be joined on the panel by Guardian journalist Harriet Sherwood and Sir Vincent Fean, a former British Consul-General in Jerusalem.
Dr Rodgers said: "As I say in the introduction to the book, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the ultimate challenge for an international correspondent. In no other part of the world is every single word which is written or broadcast subject to such close scrutiny.
"But journalists have a perspective which is available to few others, and news reports are what most people use to form their opinions of the conflict. So at a time when the Middle East as a whole is facing conflict and instability, the coverage is more important than ever."
The event is being jointly held by The Olive Tree Programme – a scholarship scheme for Palestinian and Israeli undergraduates at City – and the Department of Journalism.
It comes just over a year after the 2014 Israel-Palestinian conflict that resulted in large-scale loss of life and destruction of property in Gaza.
Dr Rodgers and his guests will discuss the relationship between journalism and diplomacy, the challenges facing foreign correspondents and the media coverage of tensions in the region.
Click here for more information about Headlines from the Holy Land: Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
A drinks reception will follow the event. To sign up, click here.


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Kazakhstan activists recall path from protest to bloodshed
By KIRILL ZARUBIN and DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The mass protests in Kazakhstan that began over New Year's weekend because of high fuel prices were peaceful at first, but then something changed. At demonstrations in the largest city of Almaty, protesters say groups of armed men reportedly joined the peaceful rallies and urged them to storm police stations and government buildings. Soon, city hall was ablaze, cars and buses were set on fire and gunshots rang out. Scores of people were killed and thousands arrested. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has blamed the unrest on "terrorists" who received foreign training and support, but the government has not presented any evidence to support its allegation. Protesters say their peaceful rallies were somehow undermined, leading to the crackdown.


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vdB 61 è una piccola nebulosa a riflessione visibile nella costellazione di Orione.

La sua posizione si individua circa 2,5° a SSW della brillante Betelgeuse; può essere scorta nelle fotografie a lunga posa come un filamento di gas molto tenue visibile in direzione nordovest rispetto alla stella responsabile della sua illuminazione. Questa stella, catalogata come HD 39398, è una gigante gialla di classe spettrale G6II-III, che imprime alla nube un colore bianco-verdastro; la sua distanza è determinabile dalla misurazione della sua parallasse, pari a 3,87±0,96 mas corrispondente a circa 258 parsec (842 anni luce).

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Last year, nature bloggers kept us enthralled with their wildlife tales and now our Bloggers of the Month have been whittled down to one.
The 13 Local Patch Reporters who won BBC Wildlife's Blogger of the Month competition throughout 2017 made up our Blogger of the Year Awards 2017 shortlist. The judging panel of four natural history TV presenters – Gillian Burke, Lizzie Daly, Ben Garrod and Miranda Krestovnikoff – had the tricky task of picking an overall winner.
The Local Patch blogs they read covered a range of wildlife topics, from tracking the seasonal changes in a garden to visiting UK nature reserves.
Cornish marine life is surprisingly rich. People often find it astonishing that it's possible to see anemones, corals, starfish, lobsters, sharks and bizarre sea slugs with just a decent tide and a pair of wellies. My blog shares the thrill of discovering this alien world.
I'm lucky to be part of a growing network of keen citizen scientists recording wildlife and promoting marine conservation. Knowing that my blog is inspiring others to try rockpooling and to protect our beaches keeps me going on those freezing winter days when any sane person would stay at home in the warm!
Fish eggs are fabulous things to photograph in early summer. If you catch them when they're close to hatching you can see each baby fish staring out, its tail curled tight around its head like a scarf.
In May, my son and I were looking at rock goby eggs, which formed a black-specked carpet of grey. It was only when I saw a tentacle move that I realised that I had discovered the very rare sea slug, Calma gobioophaga, feeding on them. The species is under a centimetre long and was perfectly camouflaged.
Finally, an in-depth blog about intertidal wildlife! Everyone loves rockpooling – but this blog actually highlights how important rockpools are. I'm really pleased to see a platform for the public to learn about what they've seen and even contribute to science. Brilliant!
I love the idea that this whole blog focuses on one particular habitat in one particular area. Rockpools appeal to us all and have so much to offer, not only throughout the year but also monthly and even daily. This fun blog is jam-packed with a whole range of in-depth content, including sections on specific animal groups and tips for those wishing to discover the wonder of rockpools for themselves. The style is relaxed and informal but none of the quality is lost. I read this and immediately wanted to head to the nearest rocky coast!
I live in a beautiful part of Northern Ireland, and want to celebrate its beauty. Observing and writing my thoughts has become a very important part of my life (I have Asperger's). The platform has become a valuable communication tool.
It has to be observing the hen harriers on my local patch, especially when I saw two males fighting for territory.
The maturity from 13 year old Dara is astonishing and his honesty about how nature has held him coping with Aspergers is humbling. I love his energy and focus in all things environmental and conservation - it's so great to see future wildlife heroes in the making.
My blog is a regular account of what happens on a local patch in Oxfordshire. I use a camera-trap and photography to capture local and visiting wildlife, from insects and birds, to a range of mammals, including deer and badgers.
My wildlife highlight was finally finding a local little owl after months of hearing it, and even one of this year's young.
This blog has been running for four years, since its creator was just ten years old. But don't make the mistake of thinking this is 'by a kid for kids' blog. Alex has taken the passion for his local patch and blogs in a wonderfully expressive style, emulating a private secretive diary. The photography is better than anything I could hope to achieve and the detail covered clearly shows the time, effort and dedication that has gone into this blog. This site really does inspire the reader to go out and explore the world around them.
My blog is a mixed bag of my passions and interests, which include my work, garden wildlife and recipes for foraged food. I'd like my blog to enthuse people and encourage them to protect wildlife.
Working with farmers in Kent as we have managed to double the number of lapwing chicks fledged from their land.
Carol's frank writing often had me laughing out loud. I have a hunch that we'd have plenty to chat about over a pint or two.
We started this blog to share some incredible wildlife encounters we had during an 15-week trip abroad. Since returning to Scotland we have tried to see some of the creatures on our doorstep and shed some light on their conservation status.
While exploring a loch for a place to photograph grebes a lone otter appeared. We'll never forget the sight of it staring back at us through the reeds.
I was really impressed by this blog. First and foremost the photography is beautiful and used to tell each story very succinctly. There's plenty of content on a variety of species too. Each story tells an intimate tale of experiences photographing each species, laced with interesting facts and video footage. A really professional blog well done Kirsten and Elliot.
My blog celebrates the birds and beasts of the gorgeous Somerset Levels and moors. It is an area of beauty and rare habitats, which is full of history and astonishing wildlife.
While visiting Aller Moor, a turquoise dart flew towards me and away. The kingfisher repeated this until I moved and it could return to its fishing post.
I love the use of language in this blog: conversational and personal. I felt as though I was walking with CeeDee on her rambles, foraging with her and smelling and tasting the countryside as she was. Her descriptions of adventures in the great outdoors made me smile!
Gillian Burke is a biologist and presenter on BBC Two's Springwatch and Autumnwatch. She lives in Cornwall with her two children.
Lizzie Daly is a wildlife and children's TV presenter. She is completing her Masters degree in the electroreception of arthropods.
Ben Garrod is an evolutionary biologist, great ape conservationist and presenter. He regularly contributes to BBC Wildlife's Q&A section.
Miranda Krestovnikoff is a biologist, trained diver and wildlife expert on BBC One's The One Show. She is also president of the RSPB.


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Paul Vickers and The Leg - Jump
Paul Vickers is all tied up in the video for Chieftain of Paradise, the first single taken from Jump, the fourth album by Paul Vickers and The Leg. In the video, Vickers is tethered to a ship's mast by his band-mates, who thrust assorted pop cultural totems in his face to illustrate the song's lyrics, in which both Elvis Presley and artist William Turner make an appearance.
At other points, Vickers and co play chess in the spirit of the album cover painting that references Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal by way of characters from Jump. Despite the song's apparent sing-a-long levity, Vickers is making a serious statement about the state of art and commerce in difficult times.
"The idea of the song is that you can never predict which way things are going to go as far as the zeitgeist is concerned," says Vickers on the eve of Jump's launch at an intimate show tomorrow night in an Edinburgh church. "The idea of being the chieftain of paradise is of someone who suffers for their art, but who gets there in the end."
Even the most commercially successful artists, the song suggests, can be rooted in oddball ideas that go on to infiltrate the mainstream, where such ideas are eventually taken for granted.
"At the beginning of rock and pop," Vickers observes, "when you look at what was put out, it didn't really make sense. Elvis put out records about a pair of shoes and a party in a prison. Who would have thought they'd turn out to be gold-dust? But I suppose in the 50s people couldn't afford shoes, and making a record about a party in a prison was probably quite subversive for that time."
Vickers and Co's crunchy fantasias, post-punk show-tunes and wild live shows have been expanding enlightened minds since forming out of Edinburgh's grassroots music scenes over a decade ago. Jump is the band's fourth album, continuing Vickers' alliance with The Leg, still a band in its own right led by mercurial song-writer Dan Mutch, and featuring classically trained cellist Pete Harvey and infinitely inventive drummer Alun Scurlock. This followed Vickers' peripatetic tenure fronting Dawn of the Replicants over five albums and much critical acclaim.
With Vickers moonlighting with a surreal comedy career as Mr Twonkey, Paul Vickers and The Leg's previous collections, Tropical Favourites, Itchy Grumble, and The Greengrocer, showcased a ribald stew of Beefheartian clatter and absurdist narratives tempered by a quasi-music-hall bounce. As its title suggests, however, Jump sees Vickers and co taking a zig-zagging leap forward.
"There are more songs drawn from personal experience," says Vickers, "which you wouldn't believe from listening to it, but it's there in ones like Do your Best. There's an attempt to make things a bit more melodic, and there are loads of hooks in there, which no-one ever picks up on. I think certain ones come from the Twonkey shows, and I suppose you've got Hopelessadocus, but I think I've changed a bit as well in the way I sing and present things. I'm less sheepish now. Some people think my voice is horrible, but listening to old Replicants stuff, it sounds like evil Coldplay, whereas now I think I've become a little bit more Shirley Bassey."
The changes have clearly bolstered the band's vision and drive.
"I think we've worked harder on this record than any of the others," says Vickers. "Tropical Favourites kind of fell together, and we had a good time making it. Itchy Grumble was more intense. That was our Trout Mask Replica. Then, for The Greengrocer, the process was really drawn out, both making it and releasing it. To me, The Greengrocer was a hybrid between Itchy Grumble and Tropical Favourites, whereas Jump, it's not completely new territory, but if I had to choose three albums I've made in my lifetime, I think it would be in there. I think it's a great record. It's more coherent, and quite muscular, but there's a lot more tenderness in there as well."
Released on Edinburgh cottage industry label, Tenement Records, Jump marks the arrival of an expanded line-up, with Vickers, Mutch, Harvey and Scurlock joined by guitarist James Metcalfe and bass player John Mackie. Metcalfe's pedigree has seen him play with the sorely under-rated Pineapple Chunks, while he currently plays with Zed Penguin and Tardigrades, which also features Mutch and Scurlock. Metcalfe is also the artist behind Jump's cover painting. Mackie was an original member of Khaya, the John Peel approved band led by Mutch.
"Both John and James have brought new layers to the sound," says Vickers. "John's bass works naturally with Dan's guitar, and he takes the heat off Pete. James adds an almost My Bloody Valentine edge to things, but he knows when to leave space."
For all Vickers' clubland intimations, songs on Jump such as Chicken Church, Sherbert and Chilli and The Blackburn Giant remain fantastical products of a fertile and singular imagination.
"When Dan's being cruel he calls me a psychedelic Tory," says Vickers. "I'm not a Tory, but I kinda know what he means. There's a slight element of Rupert the Bear coming through, and there's nothing I can do about that. I must have been damaged as a child."
Vickers is joking, but, like those immortalised in Chieftain of Paradise, he's serious about his art, however misunderstood it may be sometimes.
"I get annoyed when reviews keep saying the record is so mental," he says. "You read that and you think it's going to be torture, but it's not. You could argue that Little Turtle Wars sounds a bit like Black Sabbath, but we're not trying to be obtuse. We want to be entertaining, but I always think we have to be unique, and that's sometimes a difficult road to go down, because that's not necessarily what people want."
Paul Vickers and The Leg launch Jump tomorrow with a live show at St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh at 7pm, with support from Dominic Waxing Lyrical and Cowboy Builder. Jump is released tomorrow on Tenement Records.
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The Voinovich School has a long history of education research and evaluation that is practitioner driven and provides insight into policy implications and practical application.
The Voinovich School is an active partner in the Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) a collaborative partnership among six Ohio universities (Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, Miami University, Ohio University, Case Western Reserve University, Wright State University) and four organizations (Battelle Memorial Institute, Battelle for Kids, Community Research Partners, and the Strategic Research Group) The OERC carries out a P-20 education research agenda in collaboration with ODE and the Ohio Board of Regents.
This is a two-year evaluation project conducted by the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs on behalf of the Law and Leadership Institute, LLC (LLI). Founded in 2008 and based on New York City's Legal Outreach program, LLI is a statewide, collaborative nonprofit aimed at increasing racial and economic diversity within Ohio's legal community. LLI works with students from the summer before ninth grade through high school graduation to develop the academic skills and drive necessary to succeed in the field of law.
The Voinovich School serves as evaluator for nine Kids on Campus academic year programs located in six Appalachian school districts across southeastern Ohio. The programs are supported through the U.S. Department of Education's 21st Century Community Learning Center grants as distributed by the Ohio Department of Education as well as through contributions from individuals and organizations in the Athens County area, and numerous departments and offices at Ohio University. The program serves elementary, middle, and high school children and targets those who face socioeconomic and/or academic challenges. Areas of enrichment include reading/math proficiency, homework help, youth development, art and science activities and supplemental nutrition.
The Ohio Appalachian Collaborative Personalized Learning Network (OAC-PLN) is a consortium of 27 rural school districts who are partnering with Battelle for Kids to increase student achievement. The goal of the OAC-PLN is to accelerate student achievement by increasing access to advanced learning and effective instruction through a networked 6-12 grade, high quality blended learning and dual enrollment system. Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs serves as the external evaluator of the project. The comprehensive evaluation tracks both implementation and outcomes of this multi-year initiative.


Please make sure you have an account on the LABINF PCs before the last lecture (lab practice). It is *not* the account you use to log in to the PCs in the other LAIB labs. You can register an account at LABINF (map) every day from 2pm to 3pm. Student card and Certification of enrolment are needed. Specify that you are enrolled in the "Data mining: concepts and algorithms" course (check the Labinf website for further details).
Experimental analysis tasks in LABINF, at the end of the last lecture.


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During negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, President Obama repeatedly pressed the intelligence community to make a determinative judgment on the real intentions of Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader. The intelligence community remained divided, however, and failed to come to a consensus on Khamenei's policy goals.
Based on the few open-source documents (listed on Jeffrey Lewis' Arms Control Wonk blog and available in FBIS) describing Iran's nuclear decision-making after it was revealed that Iran had an undeclared nuclear program in August 2002, Iran's nuclear policies are made by consensus and based on Khamenei's careful bureaucratic management of Iran's political factions. As Farzan Sahbet and this author noted, "Analyzing the Islamic Republic of Iran's fragmented political system is a notoriously difficult task, and Tehranology is at the best of times an imprecise science." For simplicity, Iran's most prominent political currents are divided into four categories forming two broad camps: reformists and centrists, who together form the "moderate" camp, and neo- and traditional principalists, who constitute the "conservative" camp.
These camps were all represented in the deliberations about the direction of Iran's nuclear policy after the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the civilian arm of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK), shined a light on the infrastructure supporting Iran's two nuclear programs in August 2002. (MEK is a terrorist organization working to overthrow the Islamic Republic's government.) The camps adopted different policies vis-à-vis engagement with the West, albeit with one key exception: all agreed on the need for Iran to maintain its enrichment program, and thereby ensure that its "right to enrich" was not undermined. Iran's subsequent decision-making reflected the country's politics. During times of conservative empowerment (2005-2013), Iran grew more combative. By contrast, during times of "moderate" rule (1998-2005; 2013-Present), Iran was more amenable to political compromise on the nuclear issue.
In the latest round of negotiations, Iran's moderates have the upper hand, which suggests that the United States has an overarching interest in pushing forward with negotiations intended to reach a final agreement to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. The current Iranian government is moderate in its outlook, which means that the international community has an opportunity to finalize an agreement with robust inspections. A more conservative government, for example, may balk at the terms required to assure the world that Iran's nuclear program is peaceful.
Moreover, Iran's commitments – released in a U.S. government fact sheet about the negotiations – further suggest that key Iranian moderates are influencing nuclear decisions and, most importantly, have been able to sway the Supreme Leader to tepidly embrace their positions. Iran has made key concessions that if implemented will severely curtail any conceivable route to the bomb. This position is at odds with Khamenei's history of support for Iran's nuclear weapons program, as well as the policies pursued by conservative elements between 2005 and 2013. However, they are in line with Iran's diplomatic history, suggesting that the route to a successful negotiation started in Tehran.
Iran's nuclear weapons program began in 1985. Two years later, Khamenei personally led a delegation to Pakistan to procure the front-end of the nuclear fuel cycle. A year after, a representative from Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp met with a representative from the AQ Khan network in Dubai. Iran ultimately purchased the list of Khan's European suppliers for specialized centrifuge components, as well as a document detailing the reduction of uranium gas to metal and then the manufacturing of the precise spheres used in the core of a nuclear weapon.
Iran subsequently divided its nuclear program into two. The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) oversaw the civil side of the program and was based at Tehran University and later at the Kalaye Electric facility, where Iran first enriched uranium in 1999. The military's efforts were separate from the AEOI's work, and further divided into two components: the first centered on procurement and was based at Sharif University; and the second focused on developing the tools and designs needed to deliver and detonate a nuclear warhead. This program, it appears, was based at Lavizan Shian.
After the NCRI revealed much of Iran's undeclared nuclear infrastructure in August 2002, Khamenei put together a bureaucratic entity dubbed the "Council of Heads" to craft and review Iran's nuclear policies, particularly as they pertained to the then negotiations with the EU-3. The Council was under the direction of Hassan Rouhani, but included key conservative leaders like Minister Ali Akbar Velayati and the Khamenei-appointed director of the AEOI, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh. This entity balanced the interests of the so-called conservatives and moderates, which thus gives Iranian nuclear researchers a glimpse into the inter-bureaucratic dynamics underpinning the Iranian nuclear negotiating position.
During these debates, Khamenei acted as the bureaucrat-in-chief, and ultimately sought to balance the conflicting proposals put forward by Iran's differing political factions. From the outset, the moderate camp advocated for a more conciliatory approach to the West, whereas Aghazadeh and Velayati both argued in favor of a more hardline approach. The AEOI's position, it appears, was based on ignorance and a lack of understanding about the IAEA's environmental sampling techniques used to detect particles of enriched uranium.
According to Rouhani, the AEOI was "taken aback" by the results of IAEA sampling, before learning that contamination came from the centrifuges purchased from Pakistan. These surprises, in turn, resulted in Rouhani working to bring "all issues involving the nuclear case … under one person's authority" and his "orders be mandatory for all organizations related to the case." Having learned this lesson, it stands to reason that the IAEA now serves as a deterrent against Iranian cheating at declared facilities – with the contamination at Sharif University remaining a point of suspicion about a potential military program.
The Foreign Ministry, by contrast, was concerned about the possibility of Iran's nuclear case being referred to the United Nations Security Council, which would imply indirectly the potential for U.S.-led military action. This debate was taking place months after the United States and its coalition partners easily defeated the Iraqi military during its march to Baghdad, and before the start of the insurgency. Indeed, the United States was at the apex of its power in the region, and thus the speculation that Iran could be next was rife in Western and regional capitals.
Despite this threat, Iran still sought to find a middle ground. The Council never endorsed a plan to end enrichment. Instead, the policy was to pursue a strategy of "suspension," whereby Iran would retain its nuclear infrastructure after the questions about its nuclear program were resolved. This suggests that threat of U.S. military action, while a salient factor in these early negotiations, was second to that of Iran's steadfast insistence on maintaining some semblance of an enrichment program.
This position was ultimately reflected in the language in the 2004 Paris Agreement, which entailed Iran "suspending" enrichment and conversion, but not an Iranian commitment to give up its enrichment program. Khamenei's actions during this period suggest that he was the final arbiter on Iran's nuclear policy. However, that policy was shaped during debates in the Council of Heads. Between 2003 and 2005, Khamenei sought to balance the moderate and conservatives factions' against one another and ultimately endorsed a middle ground, whereby he agreed to suspend enrichment and conversion, albeit while keeping elements of the military program in place.
Khamenei's deference to the moderate position shifted in 2004, owing to the empowerment of the Iranian conservative movement, and the eventual election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Thereafter, Iran's position began to reflect the more conservative members on the Council of Heads; ultimately resulting in Iran restarting its enrichment program in 2006. This policy shift took place at a time when the U.S. military option had not yet been discredited. This suggests that domestic politics drive Iran's decision-making calculus – and therefore Iran's willingness to cooperate after the 2013 election of Rouhani is indicative of the empowerment of Iran's moderates over that of the conservative movement.
The United States was caught off-guard when Hassan Rouhani beat the Khamenei-favored Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in the 2013 election. During the campaign, Iran's moderates endorsed reaching a nuclear agreement with the P5+1. Following Rouhani's victory, Khamenei authorized the negotiations by calling for "heroic flexibility" and labeling Javad Zarif, Iran's Foreign Minister, and his negotiating team as "children of the Revolution." Iran's position during the recent multi-staged negotiations was similar to that of its position in 2003. Enrichment remained the one red line, but in a similar position to that of the Foreign Ministry between 2003 and 2005, the Iranian side was far more willing to make serious concessions.
There are three key differences from Iran's previous moderate-led negotiations. First, as of 2014, Iran had installed some 19,000 centrifuges under vacuum of which about 10,000 were actually enriching uranium. Second, during the Ahmadinejad presidency, Iran decided to build a secret centrifuge facility, near the city of Qom. The facility is buried under a mountain and is impervious to all but the latest version of U.S. penetrating munitions. Third, within the latest iteration of Iran's internal bureaucratic debates, the 2003 Khatami position favoring greater transparency appears to have won out.
Balanced against these key challenges has been the centralization of Iran's nuclear file. Rouhani, speaking in 2005, notes that before the revelation in August 2002 that the program was fragmented and few people inside Iran had a complete understanding of Iran's nuclear research. This admission further suggests that there was, in fact, two centrifuge programs in Iran. Centralization, in turn, has streamlined Iran's negotiating position and may explain why the position long-held by Iran's moderates were reflected in the U.S. fact sheet.
These political changes – and the proposed policy fixes – are evident in the U.S. drafted fact sheet on the parameters of the final agreement the two parties will try to reach before the end of June. Iran has agreed to reduce the number of centrifuges installed at Natanz to ensure that the time needed to enrich a reduced stockpile of low enriched uranium to 90% would be greater than or equal to one year. To do so, Iran will decrease the number of centrifuges installed at Natanz to 5,104. The key P5+1 concession, it appears, is the allowance of 1,000 centrifuges at Fordow, while requiring Iran to remove fissile material from the site and mandating that the installed centrifuges don't spin uranium hexafluoride gas – and thus will not be producing enriched uranium at the site.
Instead, per Zarif's comments on the subject, the facility will be upgraded with an unnamed P5+1 member state to produce medical isotopes, which probably entails only a select number of the 1,000 centrifuges on site separating non-fissile isotopes for medical purposes. Similarly, the U.S. fact sheet indicates the core of Iran's heavy water reactor, the IR-40, will be replaced to decrease the amount of plutonium produced from the fuel rods. Moreover, in a concession that the United States has been trying to wrangle from Iran for close to five decades, the agreed framework includes an Iranian agreement to forego reprocessing.
To further protect against the threat of Iranian "sneak-out," whereby Iran could try and construct a secret facility to enrich uranium, the U.S. fact sheet calls for inspections in centrifuge machine shops and, critically, the monitoring of Iran's uranium mines and uranium conversion facility. These twin provisions, once enforced, will allow for the IAEA to monitor the complete front-end of Iran's nuclear fuel cycle – and thereby ensure with a level of credibility that Iran cannot produce centrifuges in secret, syphon off uranium converted at the conversion facility, and then enrich it in an undisclosed location. These inspections, when paired with the conversion of Arak and the agreement not to reprocess, deprive Iran of any conceivable route to acquiring the necessary fissile material (enrich uranium or separated plutonium) to construct a nuclear weapon.
The potential problems stem from the pace and sequencing of sanctions relief, which appears tied to Iran's on-going discussions with the International Atomic Energy Agency about the allegations surrounding its previous weapons-related experiments. The sequencing and pace of sanctions relief remains the biggest obstacle to the drafting of a final accord. The two sides have never been closer to signing a comprehensive agreement that would address the international community's justifiable concerns about Iran's nuclear program. The framework – should it be finalized – is robust and includes hitherto never implemented inspection provisions to ensure that Iran cannot cheat and surreptitiously develop nuclear weapons.
The available evidence indicates that Khamenei remains Iran's bureaucrat-in-chief and is taking his cues from the moderates beneath him. Enrichment remains a key red line, but at least for now the faction within Iran advocating for greater transparency has the political weight within the bureaucracy to conclude an agreement with robust nonproliferation provisions. The critical test is still to come. Iran still has to finalize the agreed upon framework. There is little doubt that the sanctions issue will remain difficult to overcome. But there is indication that both sides have sufficient political will to overcome this decades old problem. This political will, in turn, stems from the empowerment of Iranian moderates, who have long advocated for an agreement with P5+1, but lacked the bureaucratic influence to convince the Supreme Leader.
Aaron Stein is a doctoral fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy and an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.


Class Ireland has great fun on the playground today reenacting Boudicca's revolt against the Romans.
Queen Boudicca was the queen of the Iceni tribe. The Iceni tribe ruled the East Anglia territory in Britain. . When King Prasutagus (Boudicca's husband) died the Romans demanded half the land of the Iceni tribe. Boudicca disagreed. The Romans tied Boudicca and her daughters up and beat them as a warning to others not to disobey the Roman rule.
Queen Boudicca decided to raise an army and rebel. She marched on Colchester, unprotected by the Romans at this time. Queen Boudicca razed the city to the ground burning everything and killing all of the Romans her army found. After Colchester Queen Boudicca's army marched on London. It burnt London to the ground.
The army marched from Wales. Queen Boudicca ambushed them in a forest and defeated the 1,500 soldiers. It was a humiliating defeat for the Romans. Next to St. Alban's. The Romans defeated the Celts during the battle. If Queen Boudicca was captured then she would have been taken to Rome as a prisoner. However, she decided to take her own life instead of suffering with the defeat.


The ZOPT2201 Sensor is known for integrating Ultraviolet Energy Sensor (UVS) and Ambient Light Sensor (ALS). The equipment can be easily connected through an 12C interface with an e=outer microcontroller. Other SMBus and 12C devices can easily be connected using the very same interface. The device also bears a programmable interrupt with a hysteresis that reacts to events and brings down the microcontroller tasks. These devices can majorly be used in smart phones and several other mobile handsets to give access to brightness control over screen panels (ALS), other diverse health care application as well as contextual awareness algorithms (UV).
Very high UV energy sensitivity and ambient lighting.
Better suppression of infrared energy.
Very subtle spectral response to angle of light incidence.
The integrated ALS resembles human eye very closely, therefore, it is capable of responsding to different light sources for high lux accuracy.
The ALS sensitivity is absolute in a range of 0.008 – 157000 lux.
Resolution of configurable ALS output: 13-20 bits.
ALS Analog gain within configurable limits: X1 – X18.
Keeps ALS immune from flickering over 50Hz/60Hz as well as fluorescent light.
Lowest repeat noise over conversion.
The 12C interface is capable enough to work on standard mode as well as fast mode of communication: it is compatible up to 1.8V logic.
The programmable interrupt function is available for UVS and ALS with both upper and lower end thresholds.


Nurture French Bourguinon made with Nurture Ranch Grass Fed Beef Tenderloin Filet.
1) Remove tenderloin from refrigerator 20 minutes before cooking and cut into 2" chunks. Set aside one small chunk and finely chop to prevent the meat from getting shocked when it hits the hot pan, maintaining the skillet's temperature.
2) Pat dry the remaining beef chunks with a paper towel. Season with salt and pepper on all sides.
3) Place onions in a microwave bowl and cover with a paper towel. Microwave 3-4 minutes, until cooked through. Set aside.
4) Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Pour in olive oil and swirl to coat pan.
5) Add the large beef chunks to the pan in batched batches to avoid over crowding the pan, and quickly brown on all sides. Remove beef from the pan and set aside in a bowl.
6) Once all beef chunks have been browned, add the finely diced beef and bacon to the pan, stirring frequently. Add mushrooms and saute until lightly brown, for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally.
7) Add garlic and thyme and stir until fragrant. Add tomato paste and cook for an additional minute, stirring constantly.
8) Remove the pan from heat and pour in wine. Place back on heat and bring to boil, stirring and scraping the bottom of the pan with the back of a wooden spoon to release the browned flakes and cook until wine is reduced to half.
10) Add butter and season with mint and black pepper. Add the browned beef chunks and continue to cook over medium heat until the beef is medium-rare, for 2-3 minutes. Serve with mashed potatoes and garnish with fresh thyme leaves.


Braval organises a summer programme with activities for children aged 7 to 14. Divided into teams by age, they take part in a programme that combines culture, sport and social aspects with outings and activities throughout Catalonia. The ultimate goal is personal improvement and greater social integration.
Volunteers will work for a minimum of two weeks, in two shifts: the first two weeks or the last two weeks of July. They may also volunteer during all four weeks of July.
Times: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Terral organises a summer camp for girls aged 4 to 14. It is looking for female students to work as team monitors or to carry out activities such as arts and crafts, photograph, painting, cooking, etc. As the children must be supervised and their activities assessed, volunteers must commit to fulfilling the volunteering period agreed upon with the association.
4 weeks in July. Volunteers will provide support on a full weekly basis.


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Mathematics of Statistics. Statistics as a scientific tool; frequency distributions, tabular and graphical representation of data; measures of central tendency; normal curve; correlation; sampling; probability curve fitting; limitations of theory. Or Basic Business Statistics. A basic statistical foundation is developed; emphasis is then placed upon practical business applications including hypothesis testing, ANOVA, contingency table analysis, and introductory regression analysis; material is related directly to business applications.
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Every time I play a song, It keep ask to save the lyric which I thought already saved. Is it saved or not? If it is saved, where is the file location?
Can you add support for playing a cue file?
It is saved in the file's metadata, but only on compatible formats (such as mp3, flac). If it keeps asking you there's either a bug in the Lyric Add-on (MLyrics) or in the metadata writing. Afaik we bundle taglib on Mac, so the metadata writing library should be find. @ilikenwf: mac build config?
From what I found cue files are not media files, but files that split other media into parts, right? I don't see a way to implement cue file playback then, as we rely on one file per library entry. If somebody comes up with a crazy wrapper and a own url shema it could theoretically be added, but that would be much work so I don't think that will get implemented too soon. If you're able to code...?
Actually, MusicBee feature about splitting a big file in songs reading a .cue, is pretty useful for backed up CDs or vinyls... I'm able to code reaaaally poorly (still a student), but the trick should be to start playback from a certain second you read in the .cue, I think it's nothing that hard.
(06-17-2015, 05:45 AM)fabio94xx Wrote: I'm able to code reaaaally poorly (still a student), but the trick should be to start playback from a certain second you read in the .cue, I think it's nothing that hard.
The hard thing is to update the sequencer to support virtual media items arising from the cue file (as one physical track would need to appear in chunks in the library, with metadata and stuff for each). Having an add-on providing the ability to skip to a specific part of a long track based on cue files would indeed not be hard, and likely quite similar to the audio bookmarks add-on (probably except the file format). If you are insterested in implementing either of the two, feel free to start with that and contact us on any issues occurring while you do so!


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'All I Am is Who I'm After' | Heat at 25
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By Andrew Carroll Last updated Dec 13, 2020
Rarely equalled, never bettered is a phrase that's easily used to describe masterpieces. There is no film of its kind better than Heat and, in the rarest case, it has no equals either. The peak, if not the conclusion, of Michael Mann's obsession with cops and robbers stories, Heat is also a masterclass in technical expertise and in wringing emotion out of two of western cinema's most stoic archetypes. It's the "dudes rock!" sub-genre of film distilled into its most primal, chemical form. It's one of the few blu-rays on my shelf that if the heat was 30 seconds around the corner I'd risk it all to go back for it.
Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is a master thief who, with his crew Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), Michael Cheritto (Tom Sizemore) and Trejo (Danny Trejo), often pulls off complex heists worth millions of dollars. After an armoured car robbery with new hire Waingro (Kevin Gage) goes awry due to Waingro's violent tendencies the crew draws the attention of the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide division led by the fanatical Lieutenant Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). As McCauley embarks on a relationship with graphic designer Eady (Amy Brenneman) and Hanna's marriage to Justine (Diane Venora) implodes, the two men find themselves spiralling towards each other like asteroids on a collision course.
In the grand canon of crime epics Heat is technically underrated. Compared to the likes of The Godfather trilogy, Scarface or Carlito's Way – all of which starred Pacino, "Hoo-Ah!" as much as you like, that's a legacy set in gold right there – its commercial and awards season success looks slight. Critically it occupies the slot below a lot of these films but Heat has one thing The Godfather trilogy and Once Upon a Time in America don't: brevity.
It might seem strange to say that about a film that's just shy of three hours but nothing about Heat feels extraneous. Every line, shot and cut adds to the film. Although the Waingro or Roger Van Zant (William Fichtner), the investor McCauley rips off, subplots focus on genuinely evil men, it's always fascinating to see character actors like Gage and Fichtner dig through the muck of the human soul in order to make McCauley and his crew if not more honourable than less damned.
Despite Heat having a who's who of 90s character actors, the film is carried by De Niro and Pacino. They're the twin suns every other character orbits around from young guns like Val Kilmer and Natalie Portman as Hanna's troubled stepdaughter Lauren to hard bitten journeymen of the craft such as Wes Studi or Tom Noonan. De Niro has mostly excelled when he's locked in to the reserved simmer that's suited him so well in Casino, Jackie Brown and The Irishman. Not to say that his full-on blow-outs in Mean Streets or glowering comedic menace in Meet the Parents are lesser modes but Heat calls for a collected calm bubbling into fiery anger and De Niro delivers without ever raising his voice.
Mann's influence on 21st century cinema is easy to see from the films of Christopher Nolan – especially The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception – as well as lesser fare like Den of Thieves. No one however has mastered Mann's understanding of both human emotion and technical wizardry. Whereas Nolan has certainly mastered the technical aspects Mann so clearly inspired him to try, he has always struggled with real human emotion. His later films feel and look like elaborate machines that try to use tired old tricks like dead wives and shattered families to draw emotion from their audience. Mann, no matter what you may think of him or his work, never stooped to cheap tricks.
An underrated component of every Michael Mann film is the way he uses romance to advance his stories. From Thief onwards he always approached love and relationships in unusual ways. Through sheer force of will, James Caan's Frank convinces Tuesday Weld's Jessie to get married and adopt a child in Thief. It's unconventional but it works because we understand that Frank lives outside of normal society due to over a decade spent imprisoned so his approach to work, romance and life is different. Ditto Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) seducing Isabella (Gong Li) via powerboating in Miami Vice or Francis Dollarhyde (Tom Noonan) offering blind Reba McClane (Joan Allen) the opportunity to pet a tiger in Manhunter. Although Heat has nothing so unconventional as these films in terms of romance, the relationships still feel more lived in and real than any other crime thriller from that decade.
Eady recognises a loneliness in McCauley she saw only in herself before. His air of mystery and her naivety are a brief match made in heaven only made more bittersweet by McCauley's rule of "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner". It's in the way De Niro looks at Brenneman as she gazes out at L.A. from her hilltop house and when he leaves her sleeping in the blue pre-dawn light. We know he'll be back because McCauley's never known a connection like this before and it's all he can do to try and stoke the embers. Elsewhere the conflagration of Vincent and Justine's relationship is burning out.
1995 found Al Pacino's career in a weird place. Where lifelong friend De Niro was often icy cold Pacino was a barely tamped down blaze. Even in The Godfather trilogy he was just waiting for someone to pour petrol on the fire. Still, many were getting tired of what they saw as a kind of 80s excess brought into a decade still suffering from the hangover the 80s left. Mann manages to balance out Pacino's explosive fury with the numbness that fury leaves in its wake. Heat, despite its multiple subplots, is a film about two men who are very good at their jobs and how one's weaknesses are the other's strengths. McCauley's Arctic temperament allows him to meticulously plan and execute his heists but Hanna's passion drives him to extremes that help him catch the crooks.
"It keeps me sharp, on the edge, where I gotta be," Hanna says of his drive to solve ugly violent crimes but this life on the edge has destroyed three marriages and left him incapable of ever truly loving someone. He admits it himself, saying "All I am is who I'm after". For all the intimacy he shares with Justine and the genuine fatherly love he has for Lauren neither can keep him away from the bad guys for very long. It's what makes the fire-and-ice pursuit across Heat's runtime so compelling and it lends the film's well-oiled action a gravitas few other films ever manage.
The cops and robbers of Heat are two sides of the same coin. McCauley and Hanna are extreme cases but that obsession with the next big score runs through all of them. It's not about who's good or bad in Heat it's about whether Hanna will catch McCauley or be left grasping at empty air. The shoot out that decimates McCauley's crew and the LAPD isn't just an example of Mann's textbook precision; it's an exercise in tension as well. Once Hanna's fellow detective Bosko (Ted Levine) goes down with a bullet in his neck all bets are off. No one that we've spent the last two hours with is safe anymore.
It says a lot about how well written McCauley and his crew are that we still care about them even when they're putting civilians in danger. It's only when Cheritto takes a child hostage that his character is pushed over the edge from honourable thief to damned criminal. The sequence ends with Cherrito's death at the hands of Hanna but the entire shoot out feels like the rhythm section of an orchestra kicking into overdrive. From the moment McCauley, Shiherlis and Cheritto walk into the bank to the final beat of Hanna's bullet through Cheritto's brain it's a flawless performance with not a single misplaced cut, shot or step. It's the definitive shoot out sequence of the 20th century and it's still yet to be beaten.
But none of this would matter if we didn't care about the characters. Take a film like Den of Thieves for example. Obviously inspired by Heat, Christian Gudegast's film has a shootout between cops and robbers as its centrepiece but it doesn't work because the audience doesn't care about the characters. It hurts to see what's done to Trejo near the end of Heat because we care. I can't say the same about 50 Cent in Den of Thieves and nor can I say that the moment where Gerard Butler's sheriff and Pablo Schreiber's thief come face-to-face has the same impact as a similar moment in Heat.
McCauley and Hanna only meet twice in Mann's epic. As opposite as they are in their goals and ideals they still respect one another. Their first meeting is a quiet scene, a lesson in understatement at a late night diner. By this stage an audience will have seen that Hanna is the flip side to McCauley and vice versa but Mann knew he couldn't make a movie with De Niro and Pacino without having them both onscreen at the same time. You have to give the people what they want after all.
In 2016 at a panel hosted by Christopher Nolan, Pacino revealed that his character Vincent Hanna was on cocaine throughout the movie which goes a long way to explain his behaviour. He has thunderous highs and craterous lows throughout. From bellowing "She's got a great ass!!!" at Hank Azaria to the ugly, gnarly introspection he sinks into in his conversation with McCauley and earlier with Justine. With that information in mind, something never revealed in the film outside of implication, it's easy to see why the diner scene works so well in its understatement. It's a grace note that explains the film's themes while giving dads everywhere exactly what they want to see.
Grace is what Heat ends with. McCauley is the last of his crew left. Cheritto, Trejo and replacement driver Donald Breedan (Dennis Haysbert) are all dead while Shiherlis has escaped but at a terrible price. Planning to flee the country with Eady, McCauley can't resist the siren call of revenge so he goes after Van Zant and Waingro and this is when Hanna finally gets his man.
Heat communicates as much through silence as it does through dialogue. Its final chase sequence is bookended by moments of longing and loss that say a great deal more than a long monologue ever could. It's in the look McCauley gives Eady just as it's in the wearied resignation etched deep into Hanna's face before the credits roll.
Mann's film ends on a grace note, a moment of brotherhood across lines that society says should not be crossed. In crossing these lines, the movie's tender heart is revealed. By combining the muscularity of Mann's specific brand of filmmaking with this tenderness, Heat is a masterpiece that 25 years on has never been bettered nor equalled.
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Fashion is always more than just the clothes we are wearing. It is our ability to express who we are without speaking one word. Our first impression is completely in our control. When you are a couple, it is not just our own personal image that we are focusing on. But, it is the image of both of you and your partner that matters. Getting educated on the topic is always a good start.
When it comes to male styling, what are good ties that match certain events? Do our guys know what looks are casual versus dressy? Thankfully, brands like The Black Tux are here to help.
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Conceptum Logistics has moved a 107.5-tonne industrial press from Hamm to Baunatal, Germany.
The cargo was loaded in Melbourne, Australia and arrived in Bremerhaven on board a ro-ro vessel. The unit was then barged to Hamm where Conceptum transported the cargo by road to the final destination in Baunatal.
The 16-axle convoy measured 45 m in length and was accompanied by both private and police escorts.


What's Near Island View Guest House | Caribya!
It's been said that the best places of interest in all of the Virgin Islands are the beaches. Here, you shouldn't be too far from multiple options.
Emerald Beach is the closest to the B & B. Keep in mind that you can find this beach a mile to the south west of this property, so you really won't have to go far to enjoy this beautiful section of the coast. Named after the nearby airport, Lindbergh Bay is home to Emerald Beach, which provides soft, white sand that's popular with locals. The occasional sound of planes and proximity to the airport tends to deter tourists, though it is perfect for those that want calm waters and soft sand, without the hassle of a crowd. You won't have to cut your time at Emerald Beach short, since it has bathrooms on-site for your convenience.
If you're on the lookout for a beach where sunbathers can find plenty of privacy, Brewers Bay might be just right for you. The idyllic and calming atmosphere of Brewers Bay is the area's main attraction and is a great spot for swimming in the Caribbean. Not to be confused with a beach with a similar name on Tortola, this one is located on St. Thomas. It's located a mile and a half west of the property.
Visiting the town or local neighborhood nearest to your B & B can add a little variety to your vacation schedule, whether you're interested in seeing a famous natural attraction, or interacting with the locals while on your trip. Island View Guest House is located in the vicinity of Charlotte Amalie, on St. Thomas; it's 1.7 miles to the west of Charlotte Amalie.
Visitors seeking thrilling outdoor activities while visiting St. Thomas will quickly learn that Island View Guest House makes the perfect place to start a busy day. You will soon notice that this area has a lot of places for vacationers to explore, like Market Square, Market Square East Theater, and Legislature Building. Though there are at least three great attractions nearby, the closest one is Market Square.
If you're looking for an interesting place to visit, Market Square could be just what the doctor ordered. Originally built as a slave market, this old square is now filled with the products and produce of the native farmers and workers looking to sell their wares. Stop by not only to see how a nation can adapt from even the ugliest of histories, but maybe to get a good deal too.
Getting info about nearby lodging options is oftentimes a great way to get a better feel for the area as whole. You'll find plenty of additional properties to look at before reaching a decision, as this portion of St. Thomas offers guests an excellent variety of resorts and hotels to pick from. In order to get more info on hotel booking possibilities available nearby, consult the following table.


I found a geocache several years ago in the Yukon area of Oklahoma. It was a hike through red dunes, to a dry river bed, and the cache was located in the river bed underneath a washed out grain silo. Anyone recognize this cache?
I didn't have too many finds around Yukon, but I'm struggling to find any that aren't right on the road around there. A hike through dunes and dry riverbed does not ring a bell.
What you're describing reminds me of the area around Red Rock Canyon State Park, a little further west, near Hinton, but I'm spitballing here.
If you don't get any other takers, you might want to post this either on the SWAG or COG facebook groups.


The diagnosis and management of Parkinsons disease in China is often sub-optimal and not done in accordance with best practice guidelines, Shanghai researchers say.
Writing in the journal BMC Neurology, they say there are at least two million patients with Parkinson's disease in China, accounting for two-fifths of all Parkinson's patients in the world.
In a study of how the disease is diagnosed and treated, they found that the lack of movement disorder specialists and clinics in China meant that the condition was often treated by general physicians or neurologists with limited expertise in Parkinsons disease.
The findings come from a survey of Parkinson's disease diagnostic methods and management carried out by Dr Chen Wei and colleagues from the Department of Neurology & Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
Their survey showed that most doctors involved in treating patient with Parkinsons disease were aware of the Chinese Parkinson's disease guidelines; however CME activity in the area was very low and few of the doctors surveyed had published Parkinson's disease-related articles.
With respect to diagnostic methods for Parkinson's disease, the standard oral levodopa test and conventional MRI were commonly considered for suspected patients in routine practice, whereas other recommended diagnostic tests such as susceptibility weighed imaging, transcranial sonography and functional neuroimaging were less used.
The researchers say that in China, relative expensive functional neuroimaging methods, such as PET scans are not covered by Chinese medical insurances, and few patients would like to choose them. Additionally, because of lack of knowledge and shortage of transcranial sonography experts in many hospitals, transcranial sonography is rarely accepted as a regular method.
There was a relatively high level of knowledge on therapeutic strategies for Parkinson's disease among movement disorders specialists and those from tertiary hospitals. However, a discrepancy between best practice guidelines and clinical practice still exists in management of non-motor symptoms among all of the clinicians surveyed. Up to 46% of doctors selected olanzapine to treat Parkinsons patients with psychosis, only 23% of those prescribed clozapine. For treating Parkinsons with dementia, the most often prescribed treatment was donepezil, not rivastigmine, as recommended in guidelines.
"Based on these observations, great efforts should be made on CME programs for physicians and general neurologists," the study authors conclude.


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