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Posted on September 26, 2021 by beenasarwar
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Marking two decades of the September 2001 attacks on New York City, global thought leaders and activists from across South Asia and the diaspora will meet across time zones this Sunday to discuss the impact of "9/11" on the region and its people.
The online event also commemorates the global International Peace Day, September 21.
Sapan series Imagine! Neighbours in Peace – VI
20 YEARS AFTER 9/11: IMPACT ON SOUTH ASIA, AND SOUTH ASIANS
Date: Sunday, 26 September 2021
Time: 11:00 am U.S. Eastern / 8:00 pm Pakistan / 8:30 pm India / 9:00 pm Bangladesh (Duration: Two hours)
Dr Noam Chomsky, the renowned American linguist, philosopher, historian, and political activist, had travelled to India and Pakistan in November 2001. In Pakistan, he delivered the Eqbal Ahmad Distinguished Lectures series in memory of his late friend and colleague. The event includes references to Dr Eqbal Ahmad's prescient 1998 talk on 'Terrorism, theirs and ours'.
Speakers include Afghanistan's former Minister of Women's Affairs Dr Sima Samar, a former Ramon Magsaysay awardee. Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy, Chair of the South Asians for Human Rights and former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women will join from Colombo. Mejindarpal Kaur, International Legal Director, United Sikhs will join from the UK. Former air force pilot from Bangladesh, Rais Bhuiyan, a post-9/11 hate crime survivor and World Without Hate founder will join from his base in Seattle.
Raza Rumi, Director Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College, founder of NayaDaur Media and founder member Sapan, will moderate the panel and virtual round table. Rumi himself is the survivor of an assassination attempt that killed his driver, an attack that can be traced to the post-9/11 trajectory.
Discussants include well known feminist activist Khushi Kabir in Dhaka, and Chicago-based human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar, themuslimguy.com, author of the recently published Fear of a Muslim Planet: Global Islamophobia in the New World Order.
Since its inception in March, Sapan has conducted a virtual event on the last Sunday of every month. Sapan monthly events traditionally start with a noted figure sharing the Sapan charter — this month, renowned journalist Kanak Mani Dixit.
Sapan events also feature an 'In Memoriam' slideshow commemorating the leaders whose vision Sapan is taking forward, as well as victims of the Covid-19 pandemic and other losses over the past month.
The event is free and open to the public and will also be broadcast via Facebook Live.
To join via Zoom, please REGISTER HERE.REGISTER
Past discussions have focused on public-health issues including the rights of the incarcerated, sportswomen in South Asia, and the need for a regional approach particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Forthcoming topics include more focus on public-health issues like climate change, gender-based violence, and human rights.
Please share your inputs to this preliminary survey to assess the impact of 9/11 on South Asia and South Asians. It should take less than 2 minutes to fill.
If you'd like to share any other personal experiences on how your life was personally impacted by 9/11, to potentially include in our upcoming event please feel free to email it to us at southasiapeaceactionnetwork@gmail.com. Alternatively, drop us your contact details and we will get back to you.
More about Sapan
South Asia Peace Action Network or Sapan was formed on 28 March 2021 after a brainstorming meeting. Sapan is a coalition of individuals and organisations across the region and diaspora joining hands to take forward the principles and ideals of peace, justice, democracy and human rights that mentors and leaders like I.A Rehman, Asma Jahangir, Dr Mubashir Hasan, Nikhil Chakravartty, Nirmala Deshpande, Kuldip Nayyar, Rajni Kothari and others envisioned and worked for.
Members of the Sapan coalition believe that the way forward lies in greater socio-economic cooperation, resource-sharing, and a visa-free South Asia or a confederation of nations with soft borders. Our founding charter, open for endorsements, reiterates our commitment to peace in South Asia, and underscores the need for regionalism and cooperation.
The pandemic-induced humanitarian crisis and unprecedented loss of lives and livelihoods underlines the need for collective action and regionalism, as our 30 May Resolution underlines (also open for endorsements). Our grief is collective, and so is our struggle for justice and peace, through peaceful, collective, consistent action.
You can find media coverage of Sapan here.
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Rachel Wyon, on September 27, 2021 at 7:36 am said:
excellent – Beena thank you for organizing this and for having it on Facebook Live – I was able to see it tonight. All best,
*Rachel*
Rachel Wyon r.wyon2010@gmail.com
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 12:51 AM Journeys to democracy wrote:
> beenasarwar posted: " Marking two decades of the September 2001 attacks on > New York City, global thought leaders and activists from across South Asia > and the diaspora will meet across time zones this Sunday to discuss the > impact of "9/11" on the region and its people. " >


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Tarot Origin Theory
(En français)
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (1925-2011 )
First, let me quote Sir Michael Dummett, this laborious worker of the history of the tarot deck of cards, the father of the Lombardian Renaissance Theory of Tarot Origin:
« The progress achieved in the history of the playing cards and the card deck are often due to methods worthy of the detectives of detective novels: all rests on unimportant details which attract all of a sudden the attention, on hazardous but sometimes conclusive details brought together and on daring reasoning to explain the unexplainable one (…) It is, certainly, possible that the figures of the cards, the choice of the allegories or their arrangement authorize a type of esoteric reading or symbolic system. For my part I doubt it but I am ready to discuss it. One can be mistaken without risk on this precise point but it is a total ignorance of the game of tarot to admit the largely widespread idea, and yet without base, that it would have been invented for a occultist use, or it would have been an instrument of divination until his appearance as a game 350 years ago. » (1)
Dummett makes a distinction between esoteric or symbolic reading and occultist use. The formulation and the choice of the words testify to his doctrinal bias. M. Dummett is a philosopher. Rhetorically speaking, he sees the world trough the logico-immanentist filter, an approach where one drapes himself in the cloak of objectivity, thereby coming in contradiction with the fundamental polemic nature of historiography, as defined by historian Ronald Rudin. Historiography is not neutral and never should try to be.
It should be known that this Protestant author converted to Catholicism. As it is often the case with the¨conversi¨, he gives the impression to walk on water. His style is appropriate nevertheless for the work that he achieved about the presence of the Tarot in the adoption compost of Lombardy where the game truly took its rise as a tool of entertainment.
The Modern ones (Moderni) who designed the Tarot did not suffer from the cleavage lent indirectly to them by our Anglo-Saxon researcher. It is precisely to make of it an instrument of divination that the game of Tarot is impregnated with symbolism. It is the same logic which stands at the basis of the construction of the cathedrals, all due respect being paid to those who differ on this subject.
The allegorical representations raise the heart and prepare its spiritual ascent with prayers and, in last analysis, with divination. These representations are on various and varied levels covered with veils, filters of reading. I agree here with Victor Hugo who included/understood and celebrated better than anybody what hides behind the character of semantic opacity of these buildings of worship.
The meticulous analysis of the codings of the Tarot relegates to the dungeon the extraordinary theory which gives a Lombardian origin to the Tarot. It is an extraordinary theory even without my findings. It is extraordinary simply because it defies the scientific approach. It is an extraordinary theory because it is not a theory! It's author is an obscure Oxford scholar who tried to have some impact somewhere, without much success. His Tarot contribution is the exception that confirms the rule.
He did have an impact there.
It should be known that the simple addition of the suffix co or chi to the word tarot is a typical tendency of the Lombards of the time. They adapted en masse the elements of the close dominant French culture which flowed on their territory trough the famous road which connected France and Italy of the time, the celebrated Via Francigena.
For Émile Male, ¨(…) French poetry entered in Italy by the main roads of the pilgrims; it is by these roads also that entered French art. In the current of XIIth century, we see the lombardian churches growing rich by new ornaments coming from France.¨(2) ¨What marvellous history that of these main roads of humanity! Rome had made them to be used for the conquest of the world, France makes use of it in its turn to spread its genius, and, with its pilgrims, its knights its poets, its artists, it starts, as of XIIth century, its eternal apostolat.¨(3)
It is Mircea Eliade which illustrates best the dangers which threaten the amateur historians or the scholars who have fallen for the restrictive so-called instrumental reasoning approach. Obviously, it is the trap into which Dummett fell when he considered the question of Tarot origins. ¨Every document, even contemporary, is veiled a long as one is not able to decipher it by integrating it in a system of significances. A tool, prehistoric or contemporary, can reveal only its technological intentionality: all that its producer or his owners felt, dreamed, imagined, hoped in relation to it escapes us. It is at least necessary to test us to the non material values of the tools (…). If not, this semantic opacity can impose to us a completely erroneous design of the history of the culture. We risk, for example, to confuse the appearance of a belief with the date with which it is clearly attested for the first time.¨(4)
In short, even if it is attested that the first specimens of tarocchi appeared in the Italy of the Renaissance, in no case is this sufficient to issue that it is the period and the place where the game was created.
I thus trace the line clearly. Dummett's credo is a fossil. His whole argument has set back the research on the origin of Tarot by two hundred years. Ground will only be regained here by going back to classic iconographic analysis, such as the one attempted by abbot Constant, for example.
The discovery of a code in the Tarot de Marseille makes it possible to attach the game to one precise historical period, the one which Jacques Le Goff calls the beautiful Middle Age, and to illuminate it in a new light. We have to mourn for many obsolete concepts. The lighting that I propose makes us consider the game and the time which gave it birth in a new paradigm. We must give up the idea that it was born in the Italy of the Renaissance. After all, we are in the XXIth century, at the time of the euro; one cannot continue to count eternally in liras!
The Tarot was invented by the abbot Suger of Saint-Denis (France), a benedictine monk, the precursor of Gothic art, in the scriptorium which was next to its abbey church, in the middle of the XIIth century. The specialists recognize that the inspiration in the symbolic system at the base of the constitution of the images of the Tarot is of comparable nature with that which gave rise to the Gothic art.
Many however still hesitate to place the origin of the Tarot in the France of XIIth century. The documentary evidence seems non-existent. This debate recalls the contradictory discussions about the origin of the famous Roman de Renart. There, research progressed only at the time when researchers agreed to consider the nature of various versions of this text rather than dwell endlessly on the documentary sources existing about it. When one agrees to examine the game itself, one will have to go to the obvious that its codings can only be the fruit of the period and the geographical area that I identified.
Actually, the possibility that the original Tarot was a tool designed in secrecy – thus leaving little or no documentary traces – corresponds to the criteria which define the parameters of historical research. The Tarot initially surfaced abroad following a break in the veil which covered its existence. It reappeared in its country of origin, after a long period of hibernation.
The work of Tarot is closely related to the France of the Middle Ages and the French language even if it is impregnated with external contributions. However, the often disrespectful aspect of some parts of the unit gives the impression that it was conceived by critical observers – ones who did not lack humor – operating a little in the background of the society that they depicted.
Thus, it is also a work of art.
My findings concern some of the keys of this masterpiece of ingeniousness. I do not claim to have said all that there is to say on it. However, the framework of interpretation rediscovered here should make it possible to establish the bases of a new comprehension of the game and perhaps to establish a bridge between researchers working within other disciplines.
This translation is by the author, Rom, with Babelfish
1) Michael Dummett, in Tarot, jeu et magie, p. 9-10
(2) Émile Mâle, L'art religieux au XIIe siècle en France, p. 273
(3) Id., p. 279
(4) Mircea Eliade, Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses, tome I, p. 17
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7 réponses à MICHAEL DUMMETT'S THEORY of the ITALIAN RENAISSANCE TAROT ORIGIN
Rom dit :
Bpnjour Jérôme,
je suis heureux de voir que tu es toujours aussi passionné. Je vais suivre ces pistes. J'ai été très pris ces jours-ci.
Rom, do you know that Michael Dummett is known to have elaborated a concept that could interest you: Retrocausality.
Michael Dummett's Retrocausality concept
Retrocausality (also called retro-causation, backward causation and similar terms) is any of several hypothetical phenomena or processes that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause.
Retrocausality is primarily a thought experiment in philosophy of science based on elements of physics, addressing the question: Can the future affect the present, and can the present affect the past?
Established physics does not generally employ retrocausality. Nevertheless, a number of theories allowing particles or information to travel backward in time have been proposed by respected scientists or have received meaningful evaluation by the scientific community.
Strange… I suppose this could lead to a certain sympathy between you. And I guess Tchalaï would have approved this concept, cause she said : « Tarot comes from the future… » That's retrocausality for you !
Last but not least : you made me write in english. Meaning retrocausality has its unpleasant side-effects…
Most scholars will agree with you. I begged to differ is all. To quote Sam : Dummet's work is so obscure that exegesis about it never ends in consensus. He has worked almost wholly in vain. His tarot theory sounds totally… unsound.
plie dit :
It seems to me either ignorance or bad faith to assert that Sir Michael Dummett is an « obscure Oxford scholar who tried to have some impact somewhere, without much success. His Tarot contribution is the exception that confirms the rule.He did have an impact there.
On the feebleminded… »
Actually he is recognized as one of the most important and influential living philosophers, whose contribution to philosophy are fundamental for most scholars. Just digit his name on Google and you will be satisfied. Suggestion: don't you think that it is better to fight an important figure instead of an unimportant person?
Nice work on your part. But you need to publish your findings if you want to sit at the table with the old boy.
You don't say ! Thanks for bringing water to my mill.
Dummet's work is so obscure that exegesis about it never ends in consensus. He has worked almost wholly in vain. His tarot theory sounds totally… unsound.

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Guarding the mouth of Port Ross are Rose Island, Enderby Island, Ewing Island, and the tiny Ocean Island.

The harbour is the most well-established congregation ground for southern right whales in New Zealand waters.

In 1842, members of the Ngāti Mutunga Māori arrived in Port Ross from the Chatham Islands with Moriori slaves in an attempt to establish a settlement.

In the late 1840s, an agricultural and whaling community set up in Erebus Cove, on the harbour, and named Hardwicke. Due to the inhospitable climate, the settlement was abandoned within three years. A cemetery remains, later used to bury victims of shipwrecks. Survivors of the 1866 wreck of the General Grant set up a camp in the harbour, where they lived for 18 months before rescue. Later, castaway depots were established in Port Ross to provide succour for any sailors wrecked or marooned on the islands. In 1887 it provided relief for the survivors of the Derry Castle. It was also one of three sites occupied by the wartime Cape Expedition coastwatching stations established on New Zealand's subantarctic islands.

See also
List of inlets of the Auckland Islands

References

Landforms of the Auckland Islands
Ghost towns in New Zealand
Former populated places in New Zealand
History of the New Zealand outlying islands
1842 establishments in New Zealand

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15. For how long should PeaPure be taken before results can be noticed?
Generally, the initial results will be noticeable within 2 months after starting to take PeaPure. Depending on various factors, it may take longer for certain users.
Sometimes the results are only noticed when a person stops taking PeaPure, because only then the difference will be clear between taking or not taking PeaPure.
To get the most out of PeaPure, it is advisable to take PeaPure for at least 2 months. This is a realistic evaluation period in order to determine which steps should be taken next. Sometimes it can take a while before a response can be noticed.
16. Why may it take a long period of time before any results are noticeable?
The effectiveness of Palmitoylethanolamide is rendered via natural mechanisms of the body. After starting to take PeaPure, many biological activities occur in the cells and it may take some weeks before any results are noticeable.
17. Does it ever occur that PeaPure does not work?
Yes, that is possible. The desired or expected results may not always be achieved for some people taking PeaPure. As yet, most people react in a positive way to PeaPure. However it is advisable to take PeaPure for at least 2 months before a fair judgement can be made.
18. Is PeaPure covered by health insurance companies?
No, as PeaPure is a dietary supplement it is generally not covered by health insurance companies.
A new treatment paradigm for Glaucoma?
Following on from earlier studies demonstrating that systemic administration of palmitoylethanolamide (PEA), a fatty acid ethanolamide, reduces intraocular pressure (eye pressure or "IOP") in patients with glaucoma and ocular hypertension,1–3 Dr Caterina Gagliano has conducted a further study into the effects of systemic PEA on glaucoma. The results of the study — Clinical trial for the evaluation of neuroprotective effects of palmitoylethanolamide: Visual Field and Pattern-ERG — were communicated through an oral presentation at the EVER congress, held in Nice, France.
While previous studies have focused solely on the eye pressure-lowering effect of PEA, this study increased the dose of PEA administered and measured change in visual field, to assess the impact of PEA on the trabecular meshwork (TM) and its potential neuroprotective activity in glaucoma patients.
Discussing the rationale for the trial and its potential applications in glaucoma, Dr Gagliano explained, "Activation of the glial cells and the consequent neuroinflammatory response is increasingly recognized as a prominent neuropathological feature of glaucoma damage and should therefore be addressed."
The prospective, randomised, crossover, double-blind clinical trial evaluated the effects of PEA on intraocular pressure, visual field (VF) and pattern-ERG (PERG) in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and ocular hypertension (OH) patients.
Prior to enrolment in the study, the 36 patients included were all receiving topical treatment with timolol 0.5% and had undergone a minimum of five VF tests using the Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer (Threshold 30-2) over a 2-year period. Upon enrolment, study subjects were randomly assigned to either Group A (PEA 300 mg orally twice daily) or Group B (placebo), and were examined at baseline and after 6, 12, 18 and 24 months of treatment. The assessment parameters were change of progression rate of VF using mean deviation (MD) and pattern standard deviation (PSD). Comparison of means was performed with the paired t-test.
"To monitor progressive change of retinal ganglion cell function, we used the pattern electroretinograms twice annually over at least 2 years," noted Dr Gagliano. "The evaluation of the pattern ERG used the amplitude of P50 and N95, and each of the parameters were respected."
PEA-treated patients experienced a statistically significant reduction in intraocular pressure compared with the eye pressure-lowering achieved by subjects receiving placebo (16.94 ± 3.96 vs 13.8 ± 3.24 mmHg; P < 0.001). There was also a statistically significant difference in the MD between the two groups (Group A: –2.9 dB ± 2.93; Group B, –8.55 dB ± 6.51; P = 0.001). The change in PSD reached statistical significance after 24 months of treatment (Group A, 2.64 dB ± 1.47; Group B, 6.59 dB ± 6.51; P = 0.002). PERG amplitude increased significantly (P < 0.01) in Group B patients compared with in Group A patients: at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months, a significant decrease of P50 and N95 amplitude in PEA-treated patients was observed.
"Significant intraocular pressure reduction was observed in Group A," summarized Dr Gagliano. "At 24 months, the mean intraocular pressure decreased 16% from baseline. Additionally, Circadian rhythm variance reduced from baseline by 10%, and a statistically significant difference in the MD was found between the two groups after 12, 18 and 24 months."
Moreover, throughout the 2-year treatment period, PEA medication remained safe and well tolerated, with no drug-related adverse events.
"These findings show substantial clinical benefits of PEA treatment in POAG patients: reduction of intraocular pressure as well as significant improvement in VF and PERG," Dr Gagliano noted. "Based on this evidence we also assessed the relevance of this neuroprotective effect of PEA to treatment in glaucoma patients."
Dr Gagliano reported that the reason her team had chosen to research the neuroprotective effect of PEA had been to examine the hypothesis that the effect of PEA — which has been demonstrated to reduce the activation of microglial cells, reducing chronic inflammation — could also work in the same way to preserve or repair cells in glaucoma.
"We believe that targeting the signalling pathways in glial cells responsible for neuroinflammation represents a promising new therapeutic approach in glaucoma," she asserted, adding, moreover, that PEA may also be able to protect against neurotoxicity, and should continue to function even once an insult has been initiated. "Treatment with PEA has an impact on the degree of apoptosis, with up-regulation of pro-apoptotic BAX and down-regulation of anti-apoptotic BCL-2 among the changes," Dr Gagliano noted, to explain this hypothesis.
"All these actions — the intraocular pressure-lowering effect as well as neuroprotection — are mediated by receptor mechanism peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alfa (PPR-alfa) and G-protein coupled receptor 55 (GPR55)."
The future of glaucoma management?
Dr Gagliano concluded her presentation by asserting that, if other clinical trials and laboratory evidence support the results of this study, the treatment paradigm in glaucoma has the potential to shift beyond the current efforts to reduce intraocular pressure and will in addition begin to focus on our ability to preserve visual function for glaucoma patients.
"Although there's still much work to be done in this area, we shouldn't forget what a long way we've already come," she asserted.
1. C. Gagliano et al., Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci., 2011;52(9):6096–6100.
2. A. Kumar et al., Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci., 2012;53(8):4416–4425.


No expense spared with Arthur Mulliner on this car.
3600 miles since £96,749.09 of restoration work by Ristes of Nottingham including engine rebuild.
£6,250 new & correct set of 33" x 5" straight sided wheels and tyres fitted recently. Twin side-mounts. This new set has replaced the well-base wheels & tyres fitted until recently.
A gorgeous family limousine for summer picnic outings, incidental Wedding Car use for friends, family or even occasional hire if so minded.
This is a very large and imposing motor car with no illusion to its high status in the day.
6'9" in height, 16'7" in length. 12'6" long wheelbase.
Measure your motor house or enquire about professional car storage & come to view this long wheelbase Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.
A perfect example of one of the finest & most elaborate luxury motor cars of the early 1920s having had restoration invoices of £103,000 in the last 10 years.
The 2nd owner was internationally famous; Fred Roper is pictured here with his Wonder Midgets in 1931.


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Reasons that epoxying your garage floor before a home remodel will make a world of difference.
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The rise in the use of the garage as a storage and project space is one of the reasons epoxy flooring gained such massive appeal in garage applications.
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Some of the reasons you may want to consider flake flooring for your warehouse or commercial building.
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Garage floor epoxy has many benefits!


I'm writing this from Cupertino, where I'll be attending the FCP X Creative Summit tomorrow, and where FCP X 10.3 was just demonstrated for the first time, also showing off the new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar. While the new hardware looks terrific, it's the new software that really looks amazing. The new UI, new timeline features and much more make this very likely to be the most significant update in FCP X's history. Let's dig in!
The first thing that hits you is how flat everything has just become. Drop shadows have been nearly eliminated, icons are crisp monochrome, text labels everywhere have been updated to the new San Francisco system font, and if you've seen the latest iMovie recently, there's a clear lineage on show. The FCP X version includes a great deal more complexity, however. As an existing user, your first reaction may well be: So where is everything?
Looking at the horizontal toolbar in the center of the interface, it now starts with "Index" (a text-only button which opens the Timeline Index).
Moving to the right, the Connect/Insert/Append buttons have been joined by Overwrite, a function that's always been there but never had a button before. Tools are in their menu as before.
In the center of the toolbar, there's a new readout, showing the name of the current Project, selected duration and total duration. Either side of this are the Timeline History arrows that step backwards or forwards between recently opened projects—these used to be at the top left of the timeline.
The Enhancements (magic wand) and Retime menu have moved up and now sit next to the Transform/Crop/Distort menu just below the viewer. The timecode readout has now also moved here, as have the clickable mini audio meter buttons.
Moving further to the right, the Skimming/Audio Skimming/Solo/Snapping buttons that used to sit just below the toolbar have moved up, and are joined by a button to change the timeline's appearance, that used to sit to the lower right of the timeline.
The Photo, Audio, Titles and Generators browsers have moved to the top left corner alongside your Libraries. This makes logical sense, as they're all things you can add to a project, but it's one of the biggest moves. The dedicated Themes view has been removed, though Themes still exist within the different browser categories.
Effects and Transitions are both still in the far right of the toolbar, though the icons have changed. That also makes sense, as these items change clips in the timeline rather than adding new elements.
In Libraries, the Favorite/Unrate/Reject buttons have been removed entirely, though the shortcuts (F/U/delete) remain the same. The Filmstrip and List buttons have consolidated into a single toggle that now sits at the top of the Libraries pane, between the Clip Filtering menu and Search button.
The Inspector can still be raised with Command-4, though it's taken on a new appearance. Instead of text panes (Video/Audio/etc.) centered at the top, there are now icons to the top left. More useful again is that you can now double-click the Inspector to expand it to fill the full available vertical space, pushing the timeline and Effect/Transition browsers to the left.
What else? The Import, Keyword and Background Tasks buttons are now at the very top left, next to the traffic light window controls (except in full screen mode, where they're at the very top left). Share is at the very top right, and just to the left of Share, there are three new buttons which need a section all of their own.
Two of the new buttons in the top right corner hide the Libraries pane and the Inspector—both of which were possible before. However, you can now also hide the Timeline with the middle button of these three, giving you an optimized view for logging and keywording.
More powerful still is that under Window > Workspaces you can now switch between these combinations of open panes quickly (Default, Organize, Color & Effects, Dual Displays) but these workspaces remember the specific combinations of Scopes and Browser panes you've kept open. It's faster than ever to switch between different window layouts, and that's a definite improvement.
The timeline remains magnetic, and no, they didn't bring back tracks. However, for audio editing, they came close, with an enhanced mode for Roles to play, and Audio Lanes that give a whole lot more control when working with audio.
You can now adjust levels or add effects to any individual role within a compound clip. At the end of your project, if you want to lower volume of all the music and apply a compression effect to all the dialogue, that's very simple indeed.
Motion templates, including titles, effects, generators and transitions, can be consolidated into a Library, to greatly reduce the chances of these elements being lost when moving between different Macs.
A new "Flow" transition uses Optical Flow to move from one clip to another as invisibly as possible.
The Trim Start and Trim End commands can now trim all selected clips at once.
The long-requested Remove Attributes has finally been added, along with the less selective Remove Effects.
Command-Up and Command-Down will select clips above or below the skimmer (or playhead), making keyboard-based editing more powerful than ever.
You can add an audio fade to an entire clip, or just the start or end, with a single key command. Search "Fade" in the Command Editor to find the new commands and add some shortcuts.
Libraries and Projects can now be set to process color in Wide Color, AKA the Rec. 2020 color gamut that newer Macs, iPads and iPhone support. While it may not make a huge difference to many workflows immediately, this will become more and more important in the future.
As usual, you should not update if you're in the middle of a project, and this is even more true this time around—Apple have released a support document warning of possible audible changes in upgraded projects. Always keep a copy of the older versions of FCP X/Motion/Compressor before you upgrade, and keep a copy of important recent libraries too, just in case.
It's been a while coming, but this release will make a lot of people very happy. Existing users will need to retrain their brains with the new locations of all the buttons, but new users will have an easier time than ever. If you'd previously dismissed FCP X, it's definitely time to take another look. Audio has never been more powerful and the timeline has never been so nimble. It's a great update, it's a free update, and you're going to love it.
Look out for new articles and training courses soon exploring all the new features of FCP X 10.3 and also looking at the newest releases of Compressor and Motion.


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Lehigh Valley Suite Spot: Q&A Bio Med Sciences' Mark Dillon
By Nicole Radzievich Mertz on December 5, 2022
CEO Mark Dillon founded Bio Med Sciences 35 years ago and recently tripled its footprint in the Lehigh Valley. (Photo/Glenn Koehler)
Editor's Note: Lehigh Valley Suite Spot is a monthly interview series featuring Lehigh Valley executives from a wide range of industries and company sizes.
Photographs of a burned infant and another of grafted skin hang on the walls of the Lehigh Valley manufacturing facility where Bio Med Sciences recently moved.
The graphic images tell the story of the half million burn and scar patients helped by the company's novel brand of skin products invented 35-years ago by Bio Med founder and CEO Mark Dillon.
Bio Med's signature products, which use Silon technology, blend the best properties of silicone and polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) to mimic the protective and permeable characteristics of skin. The artificial skin doesn't stick to the wound, as other bandages do, and complicate healing.
"The photographs are an effective way of explaining what we do, but just as importantly, I would like the employees here to know what we're doing and how important it is," Dillon said. "We're making a difference in the world. We're improving lives."
In an industry dominated by the commercial success of cosmetic skin care products, Dillon has built his business in the highly specialized niche of burn and wound treatment. The company makes a dozen products under the brands of Oleeva, Rylon, and Silon. One product, a face mask customized for a woman assaulted with acid, has turned into a symbol for ending violence against women in Columbia. Bio Med is also expanding into the retail market with scar treatment and anti-aging products such as SeaAllure, reaching 20 million consumers, and developing new technology that could save soldiers wounded on the battlefield.
Dillon, who holds 60 patents, muses the business came to pass because of a professor who inspired his senior thesis that defied the conventional wisdom that silicone and polytetrafluoroethylene don't mix.
With the encouragement of his professor, now a company shareholder, Dillon patented the idea and that led him to the Lehigh Valley where the world's authority on the subject taught at Lehigh University. The late Professor Les Sperling referred him to Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania where his idea grew into a business.
Bio Med Sciences, which now employs over 30, is poised for growth and is part of the Lehigh Valley's expanding Life Sciences sector, which includes more than 170 research, manufacturing, and distribution facilities. Bio Med Sciences recently tripled the footprint of its operation after a recent move into Lehigh Valley Industrial Park in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, and secured a collaborative research and development agreement with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research.
Dillon recently sat down with the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC) to talk about industry trends.
How did you get silicone and Teflon to mix as an undergraduate student at Alfred University?
The conventional wisdom, which I didn't know at the time, but my professor knew, was that it was like oil and water. It didn't mix. I took a simple approach to it. People had tried previously to make a co-polymer where the molecule would be half Teflon and half silicone. What I created is a mixture of the two that forms like a matrix embedded within a second matrix, and each matrix is continuous.
How did Ben Franklin help?
The Ben Franklin program helped in several different ways: the assistance of some seed capital, the resources the university for more sophisticated chemical analysis and testing, and the advisory capacity of business people who are familiar with the entrepreneurial process.
It lent a lot of credibility to what I was doing. There's an approval process to get into the Ben Franklin program. They screen the applicants. They have a great success rate largely because of how effective the program is but also because of screening. So, when I was still raising capital, saying I was part of the Ben Franklin program automatically gave a level of credibility to what I was trying to do.
What was your eureka moment when you knew the business was going to make it?
The first time we put it on a human being. It was at Lehigh Valley Hospital. We did it on a skin graft donor site where they harvest skin to treat a third-degree burn. Where they harvest the skin from leaves a wound. That's usually a good place to evaluate a new product because you know exactly how that wound is going to heal. It's well controlled and relatively clean.
The surgeon covered one half of the wound with the product that he normally used, and he covered the other half of the wound with the Silon material.
I came back a couple of days later to see the patient. The patient thought the products were reversed. And he was kind of almost apologetic, saying it kind of hurts a bit but the other stuff is really nice. He had it backwards. That was a bit of a eureka moment when I saw with my own eyes for the first time this is way better than what they were doing.
At that point, I knew that I had something.
There was a news story a few years ago about a woman in Columbia, a domestic abuse victim who wore a mask your company produced to treat her burns. She came to meet you. Tell us about her.
She had been doused with acid. It wasn't a crime to do this in Columbia, so she went on a campaign to change the legislation — make it a crime, put regulations on the sale of acid and require national identification. You had to explain what you wanted to use it for. She became a total fighter for this cause. The mask became a symbol of the cause. She got the first lady of Columbia to wear the mask.
I'm trying not to exploit the story, but it's a proud moment. I knew when I made this stuff, it was going to change people's lives. I knew this product was going to have an impact. I didn't know it was going to become a geopolitical symbol.
Bio Med makes many products for the clinical and retail markets. What part of your business is growing the fastest?
The fastest growing market for us is the cosmetic area, wrinkle treatment. Now, that's a very mature market, it's a very big market. There are very big players in it. We're relatively new to it and are a small player in it, but it's our fastest growing segment.
What new products are you developing?
It involves antimicrobials — for example, putting active ingredients into the wound dressing to fight infection or to speed healing. And along the same line putting a drug into the scar management products that would actively reduce scarring. The U.S. military is interested in both of those fields.
What would the military use the product for?
The terminology we use is a field combat dressing. And particularly, what we're interested in is what we call prolonged field care. Someone gets injured, and they may not get to a hospital for three days.
If it's significant burn, they're going to die within 72 hours. So, we need to apply a wound dressing that is going to mimic the function of skin so that, physiologically, the patient is stabilized. But the care also needs to fight infection. If infection sets in, the patient's not going to survive.
Are there other applications for this product?
Another area of interest is in mass casualty events. To put this into context: there are 1,500 hospital beds in the United States in burn units that are designated for burn patients. And they're dispersed over the entire country.
If you had a major disaster — anything that generated thousands of burn patients — you overwhelm the system. So, you need a first-responder type of an application to stabilize patients.
You need something that doesn't require specialized training, something really simple. For example, we can make a roll big enough to cover an adult person because this stuff is so thin. It's lightweight. It's stable. It's the medical equivalent of putting food in saran wrap.
How has Russia's war against the Ukraine impacted your business?
We were selling a fair amount of product in Russia through a partnership with a pharmaceutical company in Europe. They made a strategic decision, and rightfully so, to withdraw all of their over-the-counter products from the Russian market in response to the invasion.
That bit of revenue wasn't huge for us, but it was significant on top of supply chain issues, inflation, and everything else.
Another example is one of our key suppliers in the silicone area is in Germany, and they're dealing with 30% less power available to manufacture. And they're a big operation. I was talking with the CEO of the company a couple of months ago, and he didn't know how he was going to fill the gap in electrical power to run his manufacturing operations.
What kind of advice would you give to other manufacturers going through this this process?
Backup supply chains — qualified backup alternatives, preferably domestic. Ten or 15 years ago, everybody was a little high on the whole idea of globalization. Let's live in harmony. Let's build bridges. And you realize when geopolitical things come into play, some of that stuff falls apart.
You applied to Alfred University, which has the New York State College of Ceramics, because you originally wanted to study pottery and sculpture. You changed your mind when you were exposed to ceramic engineering, which put you on the path to developing Silon technology. You still make pottery at the Baum School of Art and the Banana Factory. What role do the arts play in preparing for a career?
A friend's daughter was trying to figure out what she wanted to do and was thinking something medical, and I gave some advice about what I thought about the field of medicine and this kind of engineering was going.
Toward the end, I asked: are you creative? Do you do any art or anything like that? You really want to foster creativity because once you have the engineering tools and, if you can keep the creativity, you will be an inventor. You'll come up with an idea and know how to pull it off.
It's all about looking at something with a totally different perspective or come up with an idea that somebody else wouldn't have thought of.
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Land Observations: Exclusive Artwork
Take a bizarre Roman road trip with James Brooks through his minimalist topographical-inspired album on Mute
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Using the organic and pure rhythms of an electric guitar, former Appliance guitarist James Brooks interprets his 'road drawings' into a banging new solo project, aptly named, Land Observations. Brooks freshly released EP, 'Roman Roads IV-XI', is compiled with minimalistic and yet, complex, head nodding layers. With historical and topographical interests colliding and creating a conceptual stream of soft tracks, Land Observations soaks up its surrounding environment and projects a visual reaction.
It was important that the record wasn't just about where I lived. It felt necessary to be about the bigger picture of the Roman road network.. So the record purposefully has a geographical cross-section of roads
Tracks such as "Aurelian way" and "From Nero's Palace" radiate the vestiges of ancient empires in the most contemporary sense, blending the past and the future with persistent beats and serene melodies. Brooks essentially takes us with him on a road trip through early architectural landscapes in his album.
Dazed Digital: How did the idea of interpreting geographical features into music first occur to you?
Land Observations: Well, it's one of those situations where you realise it has been burning away for many years without you fully grabbing hold of it... at least within my music making. However, with my art practice this idea of observation has been there for sometime- of looking at the world from a specific, acute angle.
Then, when I first started to pass by a while ago the 'Kingsland Road' in Dalston, London, I began asking myself what had gone before - the history of its previous incarnation as an historical route into and out of London. As I researched more, I liked the way some roads had evolved into major routes from city to city as motorways or A roads, then others had been abandoned for public use - becoming faint echoes of their former selves. Then as a listener, I'm instinctively drawn to music about places, whether through titles or the background information. Along with, for a long time I've had a fascination, amongst other things, with the repetitive motorik sound of the post-war kosmiche bands - Neu, Harmonia, Kraftwerk, Can etc.
DD: How was this process devised?
Land Observations: Once I had decided that this record was going to be about writing instrumentals for different 'Roman Roads' around Britain, Europe and Asia, I started researching various routes that interested me- finding out a little bit about them. Whether the roads travelled through 'mountainous, coastal areas etc...' or, whether it was a road about consolidation, rather than exploration. For example, for the track 'From Nero's Palace' it was important that it had a comfortable/slightly self satisfied feel... hopefully akin to Nero's hedonistic, indulgent life style and over the top building program. In counterpoint to this, the recording - 'The battle of Watling Street' needed to have a melancholic sense of loss about it. I guess in my own way it was trying to channel 'sound' towards being specific and emotive of environments. Initially the pieces of music were more tied to down to consistent systems and rules, but it evolved that I realised I needed to retain an element of flexibility in within each piece - creating a specific mood, dynamism within the music. Also, it was important that the record wasn't just about where I lived. It felt necessary to be about the bigger picture of the Roman road network - like a big interlocking communication network.. So the record purposefully has a geographical cross-section of roads.
DD: Has geography, roads and landscapes always been of personal interest to you?
Land Observations: Of course, instinctively it's there for all of us in some way - the landscape as a part of our lives - and I don't mean just the idea of picturesque spaces. More specifically, yes it has been hovering around. When I was first at art school, I started taking photographs and making paintings of electric substations and functional architecture, as I liked the way they were so real and unforgiving. This sort of developed onto 'Roads' as simple, minimal sculpture. Then a few years back, I filmed and showed a 3 hour road journey across France, Belgium and Germany back in real time - encouraging the ideas in travel of boredom, monotony and more importantly 'daydreaming.' I thought it worked well of just setting up a space for the introspection of travel if you like... almost like reality TV - but others might not agree... I like the way roads are like modernist functional sculpture - minimalism that Carl Andre would have been proud of! So, I guess my 'road drawing' inside the album are part of all this continuum....
DD: What has been the most interesting fact you've discovered in your research into Roman roads for this project?
Land Observations: Well... I've got to be careful, this could become a very Monty Python moment..."the aquaduct, sanitation, roads, irrigation...." Plus, I don't want to become like a musical time team... But I guess the facts that have stuck in my mind are, that Scotland had Roman roads, from an early conquest. A well known one, but still damn impressive, is Nero's revolving dining room, and that a Roman mile is a thousand paces - which I think is so beautifully simple...
DD: What's next?
Land Observations: I'd like to travel some of the roads across Italy that I've researched... 'The Aurelian way' looks and sounds like it would be a fantastic road to travel- taking in some great landscapes and places- So I'll would like to do this as a road trip at some point and report back... Then, I've actually have already started demoing a new set of tracks, as there are many more Roman Roads for me to write about- I think there was approximately 50,000 miles of roads...
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Plaek Phibunsongkhram (thaï : พิบูลสงคราม de แปลกพิบูลสงคราม ou ป. พิบูลสงคราม), de son nom de naissance Plaek Khittasangkha, né le , mort le , était un militaire et homme d'État thaïlandais. Il était également désigné sous les noms de Chomphon Po (littéralement : le maréchal P) ou simplement Phibun. Il fut Premier ministre et dictateur militaire de la Thaïlande de 1938 à 1944, puis de 1948 à 1957.

Biographie
Plaek Khittasangkha est né dans une famille de fermiers d'ascendance chinoise et thaïlandaise. Il étudia dans divers temples-écoles, puis entra à l' et intégra le corps d'artillerie en 1914. Il fit des études supérieures en France à l'école d'artillerie de Fontainebleau. Il rencontra en 1927 Pridi Phanomyong et trois, quatre ou cinq autres jeunes lors d'une réunion de l'association des étudiants siamois en France au numéro 9 de la rue Du Sommerard dans le quartier latin de Paris : ce jour-là, ils ne se contentèrent pas de revendiquer une revalorisation du montant des bourses scolaires ; ils planifièrent ensemble de renverser la monarchie absolue du roi Rama VII pour la transformer en monarchie constitutionnelle.

De  retour en Thaïlande en 1928, le titre nobiliaire honorifique de Luang Phibunsongkhram lui fut décerné par le roi Prajadhipok (Rama VII). Il adopta plus tard Phibun comme nom de famille.

Révolution de 1932
Devenu lieutenant-colonel, il mit en œuvre avec Pridi Phanomyong et une centaine de militants civils et militaires du Parti du peuple (Khana ratsadon / คณะราษฎร) (49 soldats et 65 civils) le plan élaboré en 1927 à Paris. Dirigé par le colonel Phraya Songsuradet, il  fit partie des chefs de l'aile militaire du Parti du peuple, qui organisa  le coup d'État de 1932, aboutissant au renversement sans effusion de sang de la monarchie absolue en Thaïlande et à la mise en place d'une monarchie constitutionnelle avec, dès 1933, l'élection d'un Parlement au suffrage universel (qui inclut déjà les femmes).

Phibun assit sa popularité en écrasant l'année suivante la . Le roi Prajadhipok (Rama VII), bien que n'ayant pas de lien avec la rébellion, se trouva politiquement en porte-à-faux, et finit par abdiquer le . Le nouveau roi, Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), était encore un enfant et suivait sa scolarité en Suisse.

Premier ministre de Thaïlande

En 1938, Phibun remplaça Phraya Phahol en tant que Premier ministre, et consolida sa position en nommant plusieurs membres de factions militaires à des postes gouvernementaux influents.

Il fit arrêter 40 opposants politiques, monarchistes comme démocrates, en 1939. Après une parodie de procès, 18 d'entre eux furent exécutés.

Phibun commença par accélérer la modernisation de la Thaïlande et mit sur pied un régime inspiré du fascisme européen, basé sur une propagande ultranationaliste nommé programme de "thaïfication". Avec l'aide de son ministre de la Propagande Luang Wichitwathakan, il diffusa de 1939 son propre culte de la personnalité. Les portraits de Phibun étaient présents partout, tandis que ceux de l'ancien roi Prajadhipok étaient interdits, et que la presse et la radio de Thaïlande diffusaient continuellement propos et slogans du Premier ministre.

La propagande du régime visait à . Le gouvernement imposa comme langue nationale la langue parlée à Bangkok, par opposition aux dialectes locaux. La population fut incitée à adopter le vêtement occidental.

En 1939, Phibun changea le nom de pays qui, de Siam, devient Prathet Thai (« pays des Libres ») ou Thaïlande. En 1941, le  janvier fut adopté comme jour officiel de la nouvelle année, en lieu et place du  avril traditionnel.

Le régime adopta également une politique nationaliste en matière économique, en menant une politique de quotas visant à réduire la place des produits chinois en Thaïlande, et à favoriser les produits locaux. Dans un discours de 1938, Luang Wichitwathakan compara les Chinois du Siam aux Juifs d'Allemagne.

Le , la Thaïlande reconnut le Mandchoukouo, dans le cadre de son rapprochement avec l'empire du Japon.

Attaque de l'Indochine française

En , le gouvernement de Phibun constata que les Japonais avaient pu sans grande difficultés envahir l'Indochine française. La Thaïlande attaqua à son tour l'Indochine en  et, en , obtint l'annexion de quelques provinces. L'empire du Japon, soucieux de se ménager un allié en Extrême-Orient, se posa en médiateur entre la France et la Thaïlande.

Phibun fit aux Japonais la promesse orale de leur laisser le passage sur le sol thaïlandais lors de leur invasion de la Malaisie britannique. D'abord fortement pro-japonais, le régime thaïlandais s'inquiéta ensuite des conséquences que pourrait avoir le déclenchement du conflit sur l'intégrité territoriale de la Thaïlande, qui ne pourrait avoir aucun allié du fait des rapports diplomatiques désastreux avec les pouvoirs occidentaux dans le secteur.

Alliance avec le Japon

En , la Thaïlande, hésitante, n'avait toujours pas répondu officiellement aux demandes des Japonais, qui réclamaient le passage sur son territoire pour envahir la Malaisie. Le 8 décembre, les Japonais décidèrent de passer outre et pénétrèrent sur le sol thaïlandais. Des heurts se produisirent entre les troupes thaïlandaises et japonaises, avant que Phibun ne décrète le cessez-le-feu général. Mais constatant l'avance foudroyante des Japonais en Malaisie, le gouvernement thaïlandais oublia ses hésitations. Les troupes britanniques, qui tentaient de passer par le sol thaïlandais pour prendre les Japonais à revers, durent essuyer les tirs de la Police royale thaïlandaise et rebroussèrent chemin. Le , un traité fut signé avec le Japon. Phibun chassa du gouvernement les ministres opposés à l'alliance. Les troupes japonaises furent autorisées à stationner en Thaïlande, et à y créer des camps pour y parquer des prisonniers alliés.

Le , les troupes thaïlandaises pénétrèrent en Birmanie pour y affronter les Britanniques.

Une opposition se fit néanmoins jour face à la politique de Plaek Phibun. Seni Pramoj, ambassadeur de la Thaïlande aux États-Unis, refusa de remettre la déclaration de guerre, et fonda à Washington les Forces thaïlandaises libres, soutenu par , veuve de l'ancien roi, qui militait dans le même sens au Royaume-Uni. Le régent Pridi Banomyong anima secrètement des mouvements anti-japonais. L'économie de la Thaïlande souffrit fortement de sa participation au conflit mondial. En tant qu'allié du Japon, le pays subit des bombardements.

Première chute

En , alors que la situation militaire du Japon s'aggravait de jour en jour, Phibun se trouva mis en minorité par l'Assemblée nationale, qui rejeta notamment son projet ruineux de déplacer la capitale de Bangkok vers Phetchabun. Ayant également perdu le soutien d'une partie de l'armée, Phibun dut démissionner et fut remplacé comme Premier ministre par Khuang Abhaiwongse qui maintint en apparence l'alliance avec le Japon, tout en liant contact avec les mouvements anti-japonais.

À la fin de la guerre, Phibun fut arrêté par les Alliés et inculpé de crimes de guerre. Il fut finalement acquitté sous la pression populaire, une majorité de Thaïlandais considérant qu'il n'avait fait que servir les intérêts du pays et son indépendance.

Coup d'État et retour au pouvoir

En novembre 1947, les unités de l'armée sous le commandement de Phibun effectuèrent un coup d'État qui renversa le gouvernement de Thawal Thamrong Navaswadhi. Khuang Abhaiwongse assuma à nouveau la charge de Premier ministre jusqu'au , quand un nouveau coup de force remit Phibun au pouvoir.

Plaek Phibun s'attacha cette fois à donner à son gouvernement une apparence de démocratie, et soutint l'ONU durant la guerre de Corée ce qui lui permit de recevoir une importante aide de la part des États-Unis. Son gouvernement reprit cependant ses campagnes anti-chinoises, en stoppant l'immigration chinoise et en entreprenant de limiter la domination économique chinoise du marché thaï. Les écoles et associations chinoises furent de nouveau fermées. Phibun établit néanmoins vers la fin des années 1950 des liens discrets avec la République populaire de Chine.

Le , Phibun assistait à une cérémonie à bord de l'USS Manhattan quand il fut pris en otage par un groupe d'officiers navals. Les négociations entre le gouvernement et les putschistes tournèrent court, menant à des combats de rues à Bangkok entre la marine et l'armée. Phibun réussit à s'échapper à la nage du cuirassé Sri Ayutthaya, où il était détenu, et la tentative de coup d'État échoua. Le  de la même année, l'armée affirma à nouveau son contrôle sur le pays, en rétablissant la constitution autoritaire de 1932.

Seconde chute

À la fin de son second mandat comme Premier ministre, Phibun fit l'objet de soupçons accrus de fraude électorale. Les États-Unis soutinrent ses opposants. En 1957, le maréchal Sarit Thanarat organisa un nouveau coup d'État, soutenu par une partie des royalistes. Phibun dut alors partir en exil pour le Japon, où il demeura jusqu'à sa mort en 1964.

Notes et références

Premier ministre de Thaïlande
Ministre thaïlandais de la Défense
Ministre thaïlandais de l'Éducation
Ministre thaïlandais des Finances
Chef d'État ou de gouvernement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Militaire thaïlandais
Collaborateur pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Récipiendaire de l'ordre de l'Éléphant blanc
Naissance en juillet 1897
Décès en juin 1964
Décès à 66 ans
Personnalité morte en exil
Réfugié au Japon
Naissance dans la province de Nonthaburi


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MEDIA COURTHOUSE — The former business supervisor for a local roofing company pleaded "no contest" Tuesday to a few crook lawsuits charging her with stealing extra than $63,000 from her corporation.
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Q: Python pandas - Numeric column in dataframe is in exponent number I've recently started facing this problem where in a column few values are in Exponential form and rest are regular numbers.
I want to merge two columns but it is not yielding any result for the one in exponent form. I would like to how can I overcome this problem to merge 2 dataframes.
example
df1
2780989
2780749
2816256

df2
2780989
2780749
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pd.merge(df1,df2, on = 'column1')
2780989
2780749

I tried changing both columns in strings then it is either showing
2780989.0
2780749.0
2816256.0

I have a workaround which is keeping the column I want to merge as the very first column in my df but if it is on 2nd position it will start showing values as I mentioned above.

A: Let's convert both dataframes to float:
df1 = pd.DataFrame({'Col1':[2780989,2780749,2816250]}, dtype='int')

df2 = pd.DataFrame({'Col1':['2780989','2780749','2.81625e+06']})

pd.merge(df1.astype(float),df2.astype(float), on='Col1')

Output:
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0  2780989.0
1  2780749.0
2  2816250.0

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Tuesday, Ontario lawmakers had an apparent change of heart, reversing their previous decision of removing recreational marijuana dispensaries from the list of essential businesses.
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AuthorAnna Lucia Krupp
Last week, cannabis dispensaries in Ontario, Canada were forced to close recreational retail stores in the midst of the pandemic. This is after recreational pot shops were originally declared essential businesses by the Canadian government on March 24th and would be permitted to remain open. However, on Tuesday, Ontario lawmakers had an apparent change of heart, reversing their previous decision of removing recreational marijuana dispensaries from the list of essential businesses. Ontario Premier Doug Ford released a statement saying, "We are facing a critical moment in the fight against COVID-19 and we must do everything in our power to keep everyone safe and healthy and prevent our health care system from being overwhelmed. Everyone must do their part to stop the spread and flatten the curve. If you are not an essential business, you need to close your doors, work from home if possible and play a role to help contain this outbreak. This is a matter of life and death." On Friday, Premier Ford said, "We're taking additional steps to flatten the curve. We're announcing the closure of many more sectors of the economy and I can tell you this was no easy task." The two-week shutdown order was announced just a few days prior to being enacted; the closure started on Saturday, April 4th, at 11:59 pm, and will extend through April 18th, if not longer. An extension of the closure is already being expected. In response to the initial removal of cannabis as an "essential" service, Wikileaf put together a petition last Friday to reopen dispensaries under the guidance of allowing delivery and curbside pickup. The petition garnered over 4,000 signatures. Online recreational cannabis sales through the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) will reportedly still be allowed despite the closure order. Medical marijuana dispensaries will also continue to operate; although recreational cannabis has been deemed non-essential, Canadian legislators can at least agree that medical marijuana patients deserve access to cannabis during the shutdown. Owner of Kingston dispensary Calyx & Trichomes Jennawae McLean told Marijuana Business Daily, "If it's a matter of a few weeks for the greater good, we'll be OK and we'll get through it. The fact is, we've gotten over the hard part now because we have our license. Nothing lasts forever, so as soon as we're able to, we'll be out selling cannabis, even if it's in a modified way like only curbside (pickup) or only click-and-collect." The Ontario government has yet to legalize recreational cannabis delivery services. Residents are hoping that the shutdown will motivate lawmakers to expand options for dispensaries and adapt to the current situation. Added McLean, "Hopefully it will encourage the Ontario government to allow cannabis dispensary services, or allow businesses to deliver themselves, like they're allowing restaurants to." Shiny Bud Director Richard Ledesma expressed a similar opinion, saying, "I'd really like to see a little bit more regulation or allowances for (cannabis) storefronts to at least stay open, but maybe have modified procedures…maybe curbside pickup or click-and-collect, and things like this (so) that we can stay and still continue to service our clientele." Canadian journalist Antonia Zerbisias Tweeted earlier today, "Well, if you're gonna be forced to stay on the couchmaster, may as well enjoy the ride…Ontario passes emergency order allowing pot shops to deliver and offer pickup."
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THE LAST DAYS AT FORCADOS HIGH SCHOOL
Author: A.H Mohammed
Jimi Solade is the brightest star at the elite Forcados High School. He has good looks, brains and is the captain of the football team. It�s his last year in senior secondary, and together with his friends- the sweethearted devout Nene and Ansa the nerdy art genius- he�s determined it�s going to be his best year yet.
But rogue brother, Wole, is back-which means trouble can�t be far behind. Then there�s Efua, the beautiful and mysterious new girl in class who seems to have no time for boys. And when Jimi�s mother falls ill, he realizes that things are about to change � and not necessarily in a good way. Can the smooth and confident Jimi handle this tumultuous final year, or will it be too much even for him?
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THE LAST DAYS AT FORCADOS HIGH SCHOOL by A.H Mohammed
Jimi Solade is woken up by his brother Wole. He is so happy to see him as Wole is not always around because of some crime he committed. Jimi rushes to prepare for school as it is the first day of the school year and he was going to be in SS3. He comes to take his breakfast when suddenly his father walks in, seeing Wole , flares up. His wife Mrs Solade pleads with him to forgive Wole (we are made to understand that Wole had forged his father�s signature and made away with a lot of money leaving his father almost bankrupt).
Jimi gets to school with his best friend Ansa just before the Morning Assembly. As the students march into their classroom, jimi is seen to be everyone�s favorite boy. He is said to be smart and friendly. Ansa his friend is only good at Painting.
A new girl Efua Coker is admitted into the school, which is queer because students are not normally admitted into SS3. She is very beautiful, brilliant but strangely quiet and rudely shuns every boy that comes her way. She is seen not to have time for boys. She becomes friends with Nene Ekpo who is a mutual friend of Jimi and Ansa. Jimi leaves his favorite girl Caro to see if Efua could give him some attention but Efua seems to hate him.
A youth corper Miss AgbeneNovi is sent to Forcados High School to assist in English Language, she and Efua becomes friends after Efua was humiliated at the Mid-term Dinner by mistakenly being poured drink by Jimi; she gets to talking with her and finds out that Miss Novi belonged to a group for the support of Women and Child�s right as well as some charity work. Efua joins the group and is soon seen busy with campaigns and Rallies.
Jimi�s Mum dies of Ovarian Cancer, and is buried at a private cemetery. Their Father travels out of the country on a business trip leaving just Wole and Jimi with some money to take care of themselves. Wole goes wild as he throws parties in their house all the time, he invites his friends over while the smoke Heroine. All these become unbearable for Jimi as his grades constantly drop in school. Ansa, Nene and Efua helps him out by convincing him to stay in Ansa�s house. Gradually he gets better.
Nene goes to take her Biology book from Efua�s house, Efua�s aunt tells her to take it from her room as she was not around. When Nene was reading her book, she sees a piece of paper with Efua�s hand writing on it, it contained Efua�s deepest thoughts of her being in Love. When Nene flips it over she sees a letter addressed to Miss Novi telling her how much she treasured their hugs and how she was in love with her. Nene is shocked and just then sees Jimi, she calls him and shows him the letter after making him swear never to show anyone.
The letter is seen everywhere as someone had made photocopies of it. The school gets wild and the principal calls Efua and Miss Novi to his office, Efua explains that the letter was a mere thought as it was harmless. The Principal agrees but tells Efua to stay away from school for the rest of the day, The students are reprimanded for turning the school upside down for the letter they found, Jolly the boy who photocopied the letter is addressed and Miss Novi is sent to another school.
Efua is sick and in the hospital, Nene comes to see her and she tells Nene how she had been sexually abused by her step father leading to her running away from her former school. Nene pities her and swears to protect her in school; and she did.
Wole steals the key to the schools Chemistry lab from Jimi�s school bag, he and his friends makes away with the new microscope and tries to sell it but they are caught.Wole says it was Jimi who gave him the keys, Jimi agrees just so he could save his brother. He is isolated from the rest of the students during their WAEC exams. He is made to apologise to the whole school. But Efua stood up for him and asked the principal series of questions ,in the end AAnsa tells everyone that it was Jimi�s brother who stole the equipments, Jimi had nothing to do with it, he was only standing up for his brother.
Everything is settled. Charges against Jimi are dropped. T heir results are out and excellent. Jimi looks for Efua to thank her but she was nowhere to be found. Nene tells him that Efua already left the country.
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