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Heroes of Science Volume III, now +21
December 07, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Science
I've just posted the third edition of Heroes of Science, which features another 21 science heroes, including Brian Greene, Peter Higgs, Lawrence Krauss, Wolfgang Pauli, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley, Andrei Sakharov, David Hilbert, Lord Kelvin, Emmy Noether, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Andrew Wiles, Norman Borlaug, Barbara McClintock, Tim Berners-Lee, Steven Pinker, B F Skinner, Konrad Lorenz and Edward O Wilson!
You can check it out at DeviantART, and there's an FAQ over here.
Thanks, everyone, for your support and comments on the various incarnations of the Heroes of Science figures. You can find more posts on colonpipe.com about them by clicking this linky thing here.
December 07, 2013 /Russell Gawthorpe
Action figures, DeviantART, Heroes of Science, toys
Art, Science
More heroes: Another three scientists
May 29, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Science
Hello! Please find below another sample of new scientists. These guys will be included in Heroes of Science Volume III, should I ever get around to finishing it.
Identify them in the comments, if you can!
May 29, 2013 /Russell Gawthorpe
Action figures, Heroes of Science, things that are not real
Heroes of Science: Norman Borlaug
Continuing the Heroes of Science series, here's Norman Borlaug. An agronomist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate, Borlaug has been labelled the "father of the Green Revolution" and the "Man Who Saved A Billion Lives" for his work in developing high-yield and disease-resistant varieties of wheat. Borlaug took home the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
For more heroes, click here. For the original, click here. For frequently asked questions and answers, click here.
Action figures, argonomist, Heroes of Science, Norman Borlaug, science
Heroes of Science: Konrad Lorenz
It's about time the Heroes of Science included an ornithologist. Here's Konrad Lorenz, ornithologist, zoologist and ethologist. He's the guy who (along with Douglas Spalding, a century beforehand) developed the idea of imprinting in birds, and was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discoveries in social behaviours.
More heroes here, FAQ here, thanks for your support!
Action figures, geese, Heroes of Science, Konrad Lorenz, ornithology, zoology
Twitter: Gibson & Atwood like Heroes, disagree about clothing choices
May 09, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Science, Technology
It's been a while since the Heroes of Science gathered any attention, so I was surprised to be informed that William Gibson and Margaret Atwood had a brief discussion about them over Twitter:
Heroes of Science action figures (working link)neatorama.com/2012/11/23/Her… #wantturing
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) May 7, 2013
@greatdismal: But I wish the Heroes of Science action figures were dressed symbolically, rather than in their boring real outfits, eh?
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) May 7, 2013
@margaretatwood For me a huge part of the charm lies in their schlump scientist outfitting.
@ajkandy @greatdismal : Me, waiting for the Glo in the Dark Marie Curie(sorry, bad joke).
..I did say it was a brief discussion.
Extra love to the others who joined in on the conversation to point out the lack of women in the original image. Check out the FAQ for reasoning behind this, and also check out the sequel for more scientists (and more women!).
Thanks for your continuing support, folks!
(Thanks to Derek for the tip.)
Action figures, author, celebrity, Heroes of Science, Margaret Atwood, Mars Needs Women, Science: It works bitches!, Twitter, William Gibson
Art, Science, Technology
Heroes of Science: Edward O. Wilson
Still continuing the Heroes of Science series: Here's Edward O. Wilson, biologist, sociobiologist, theorist, naturalist, myrmecologist and author. And probably the world's number one authority on ants. (No, he probably didn't wear a tie with ants on. Sorry. Artistic license.)
More about Heroes of Science on the FAQ. Thanks for your support!
Action figures, ants, Edward O Wilson, Heroes of Science, myrmecology, science
Heroes of Science: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Another installation in the Heroes of Science series: Burrhus Frederic (B. F.) Skinner, behaviourist, educator and all-round very smart man. You can read all about him on everyone's friend, Wikipedia, and you can find the B. F. Skinner Foundation over here.
Action figures, B F Skinner, education, Heroes of Science, science
Heroes of Science: Peter Higgs
Yet another continuation of the Heroes of Science series, here's a figure of Peter Higgs, the fellow at CERN after whom the Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, and Higgs Several-other-things are named.
Here're the first bunch of figures (well, first and second, really), and some FAQs. Enjoy!
Action figures, Heroes of Science, Higgs Boson, Peter Higgs, quantum physics, science
Heroes of Science: Wolfgang Pauli
Continuing the Heroes of Science series, here's Wolfgang Pauli. Pauli was one of the pioneers of quantum physics, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945, and rocked the crap out of a pair of pinstriped trousers.
More Heroes of Science shenanigans can be found on DeviantART, here, here and here. You can find Frequently Asked Questions about the fake figure series here, and everything that I've posted about the damn things here. Information, if nothing else, is in abundance.
Thanks for your continuing support, you little supporter, you.
Action figures, Heroes of Science, quantum physics, science, Wolfgang Pauli
Heroes of Science: Lord Kelvin
April 30, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Science
In continuation of the Heroes of Science fake action figure series, here's Lord Kelvin, the chap responsible for developing the absolute scale of temperature, which he aptly named the Kelvin temperature scale -- thus ensuring he'd live on eternally in the minds and memories of science geeks and anyone who's ever tried to set white balance on a digital camera.
You can also find this image over on DeviantART if you're not comfortable viewing or commenting on it here, or feel your action figure examining experience would be enhanced by the greenish grey viewing experience of a DeviantART window.
April 30, 2013 /Russell Gawthorpe
Action figures, DeviantART, Heroes of Science, Lord Kelvin, science, William Thomson
Heroes and Champions
April 18, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Graphic design, Science
I haven't given up on the Heroes of Science series, and I'm working on adding some new faces to the collection. Here's a nameless preview of the entire cast so far --
This is all part of a spreadsheet I've been using to visualise how the final poster-sized image will work out. So far I've completed two columns and almost one entire row! Please bear in mind that these little people take about 2 hours each to create.
On a similar note, here's an awesome piece of art along the same vein as Heroes of Science. This one's entitled "Champions of Reason", and is by graphic designer and comic artist Saejin Oh:
You can view the full-sized image over at Art of Jin, and you can even download a humungous PSD version of the image, should you wish to non-profitly print one and hang it on your wall.
Action figures, art, Artwork, Champions of Reason, Dawkins, Heroes of Science, Saejin Oh, Sagan, spreadsheet, toys, WIP, work in progress
Art, Graphic design, Science
Ancient aliens, minus "That Dude With the Hair"
April 15, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Nostalgia, Paranormal, Space
Here's some old artwork -- some aliens doing what they do best: terrorising a caravan and a small country town. These were painted with cheap acrylics on some vinyl tiles, and were meant to be part of a larger series, which would go on to include an adorable representation of cattle mutilation, a cute attempt at alien probing, and a cartoonish bunch of crop circles. Like most (if not all) of my projects, it remains - to this day - entirely unfinished.
Feel free to comment, perhaps you'll encourage me to create some more. (Although the odds are against you, these guys fell on to their canvases circa 1999.
Aliens, art, Artwork, caravan, flying saucer, Jeff, paintings, space, town
Art, Nostalgia, Paranormal, Space
Prehistoric obsession
April 08, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Graphic design, Movies
This is something I worked on a while ago, but it seemed appropriate with Jurassic Park: 3D being released this week. This is a mockup of a poster for a fourth Jurassic Park movie, which I created while I was entertaining the idea of writing a JP fan film (the idea hasn't completely dissipated, by the by). The byline is "Las Cinco Muertes", or "The Five Deaths", which was the eerily appropriate local name for the chain of islands that John Hammond bought up in the novels by Michael Crichton.
It's one of those projects that I started, then couldn't stop until it was perfect. This happens, occasionally. Sometimes I don't get much sleep.
The logo and poster are entirely made in Photoshop. The credit text is the only thing I skipped out on: It's "borrowed" from the poster for the first Jurassic Park.
Enjoy! And if you're Steven Spielberg, Universal or Amblin Entertainment, don't be offended, it's just an image. If I've stolen your idea, then damn -- I'm better at this than I thought I was.
art, dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Movies, Photoshop, poster
Art, Graphic design, Movies
Colonpipe: Evolution
January 30, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Graphic design
In case you've ever wondered, here's the history of colonpipe.com, in convenient image format. This should answer a bunch of questions you didn't know you wanted to ask, including: - Has Russ ever had good design abilities? (Hint: no) - Has the website ever contained good, quality content? (Hint: no) - How many php-based randomising scripts can one actually use to create the illusion of a dynamic, interesting website? (Hint: all of them)
Many of the images below are from archive.org's Wayback Machine, which seems intent on preserving every embarrassing thing the internet has ever done.
Hit the jump to explore the history of a website that probably shouldn't be recorded --
Dark Spark: 2001.
I'm afraid this is all that's left of my original website, from circa 2000-ish. I recall it had some kind of funky background behind it, and a banner/side menu combination that somehow fit together. It looks like archive.org didn't care to archive those images or files.
I believe the quote from Mark Twain, top right, obscured by white text on white thanks to the absent background images, was "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt".
Back then, my website was called "Datazoid's Reality", and was hosted on webspace provided by my dial-up internet provider. This was a big deal in 2000, though.
For some reason, I felt that my website needed an all-genre-encompassing science fiction introductory passage, it appears.
Design wise, I have noticed: - I haven't yet learned the value of CSS, particularly for taking the damned underlines away from links once in a while. - I've actually used "valign="middle"" on the little red triangle bullets to center them. Not bad. - I remember making the little "Made with Macintosh" .gif, and thinking that it looked cool all desaturated like that. - The little gold balls that bullet-point the articles are actually rendered images, I made them in some dodgy 3D program. This was a big deal in 2000.
Other things: - I had a Global Freeway e-mail address. Global Freeway was a "free" internet provider that served you with a little application that would pop banner ads up on your screen. They never claimed to provide service for Macintosh computers, but I was pretty delighted to get my installation CD in the mail and discover that just inputting the login details was enough to give a Mac user internet access. Really bad, unreliable internet access, at that. But internet access. And without the ads, to boot. - "See y'all around"? When did I move to Texas? - I believe Josh sent me the scan of the ant farm keyring. - Guestbooks. I remember those. Good lord. The dark ages. - The block of grey crap that looks like an un-loaded image in the top left corner is actually a bunch of letters that spell out "D A T A Z O I D" and would dangle beneath your mouse pointer, in a way that couldn't possibly annoy anyone, ever. Thanks to the cleansing power of the modern internet, they now do nothing. (Either that, or archive.org doesn't archive extremely questionable Javascripts.)
What The Hell Is This: 2002.
This one didn't last long. Unfortunately, the colour scheme must have stuck in my head, because it'll come back to bite me later on in this article.
Same website as above, ultimately, but with a spectacularly bland colour scheme and very little graphic elements. Maybe it was ahead of its time. (Maybe it wasn't.)
Dot Com Boom: 2003.
In 2003, I splurged on a domain name (or two). At this particular time, I was using data-zoid.com, after I was thwarted from "datazoid.com" by a legitimate business in California.
All good websites in the early noughties required a splash screen -- something we wouldn't dare think about anymore. This particular one, which I believe has had its html slightly cocked up as the giant "Z" should fill the white (blue?) space to the right of the various logos, resulting in a much shorter window, graced the entrance to the dot com.
The departments on the left were largely other people to whom I farmed out some webspace, in this case it was Mike, Chris, Derek and the old Rafters forum. Clicking the giant "Z" logo brought you to...
..the website proper. I believe that I either had a very badly calibrated monitor, or zero understanding of contrast. Possibly both. Some of the images have disappeared from this, resulting in the little end caps from the menu titles turning into white boxes. Oops.
Turquoise and gold was probably not the wisest of all colour choices.
Not sure why I included the standard HTML-include date and time at the top. Looks kinda cool, though, I suppose. Also, pageview counter. Who uses those anymore? Who cares about those anymore?
At some point in 2003, I changed the colours. In hindsight, it was for the best. In hindsight, it's still horrible, with a capital "HORR".
What we're looking at here, is the result of a man who just purchased Photoshop. The gradients, bevel-and-embosses, drop shadows and strokes on the title banner alone should be enough to make me take this image, snap it into quarters and flush it. Repeatedly.
Regardless, it's history, and I can't erase it from archive.org. It's essentially the same design as above, having gained a left column of information, no splash screen because the sub-site buttons are now below the banner, and a colour scheme that I cannot recall the inspiration for but suspect perhaps it started with "Tel" and ended in "stra".
It kind of grows on you.
The Prior Art-O-Matic still exists, by the by.
Now We're Getting Somewhere: 2003.
Finally, towards the end of 2003, I made something work. Contrast adjusted! Colours palatable! Overly complex use of tables to create a html layout, achieved!
This is probably my favourite "look" for colonpipe.com. At some point, I changed the link colours from green to blue, but all in all, it's workable. I've actually re-used the little graphics for "post" and "comment" from this layout (albeit enlarged to 200%).
The colonpipe graphic in the logo was designed by fraxyl, and has been used pretty extensively since this design.
This appears to be the point in time when I began my obsession with 88x31 web buttons, thus explaining the army of them in the right-hand column.
This was also when I began experimenting with using a php-based random generator. The quote in the top bar was generated from a file of some 1,800 short quotes I'd collected from specific people on internet forums. Primarily Chris. The one displayed here is most definitely one of his.
"The Random News" used a half-dozen randomisers to generate parts of each paragraph, creating a similarly-constructed but esoterically madlibbed news article each time the page was refreshed.
Also, 99% of my updates back then related to searchstrings and the site's statistics. I was either destined to bore the sweet bejeezus out of every single one of my visitors, or I'd accidentally stumbled upon creating the most meta website in existence.
It's Got Nothing To Do With Your Bumhole: 2010.
Prior to this design, there was another Wordpress-based appearance. Unfortunately, I've lost all record of it. It was white, and that's about where my memory of it chooses to erase itself. I can only imagine it was horrible, and the less we speak about it, the better. Even archive.org didn't care to record much about it, and doesn't have the CSS sheet saved. Oh, well.
This is the first colonpipe design since I actually started to take some pride in my work as a designer, and I believe it shows. The title graphic (still in use today, in some capacity) was properly rendered, and I put considerable effort into making the typography both appropriate and pretty sexy-looking. (Well, sexy for Arial Rounded, anyway. You can only expect so much.)
Content-wise, I'd boiled the entire site down to be a "best of" compilation of what had come before. This is about the point at which I realised that what had come before was largely filler, and that there was very little of colonpipe.com of which I was actually proud, and a stonkingly massive amount of it of which I was both embarrassed and terrified, to the point that I found myself retreating to a corner with the longest broom I could find, poking ineffectually at it when it drew near.
The Red Curtains: 2012.
Not a new design in itself, this one was just a swap-out of the background graphic. I decided -- for some reason -- to replace the stars and galaxy with a red curtain. Perhaps it lent an austere air of comedy club, suggesting wit of the calibre of Jerry Seinfeld or Larry the Cable Guy. Or perhaps it didn't. Either way, it was not to last long.
Pixelpipe: 2013.
There's every probablity that you're looking at this design right now. However, if it's in the future, maybe you're not. Or maybe you are. Or...who knows. At any rate, this is the design of the site at time of writing. You can see the graphics for "post" and "comments" borrowed from the earlier design. You can see the bars of social media share buttons that I loathe, but tolerate for their expected necessity. You can also see a tagline that I'm actually pretty happy with. (At least it doesn't use the word "bumhole", which has to make it better, right?)
Thanks for sticking around.
January 30, 2013 /Russell Gawthorpe
2000, 2001, 2003, 2010, 2012, 2013, colonpipe-com, evolution, internet, web design
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January 23, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Science
Just passed 260,000 collective views between Heroes of Science Action Figures and Heroes of Science Volumes I and II on DeviantART. That's a bit nuts.
DeviantART, Heroes of Science, useless statistics
Map of the history of Sydney's railways
January 21, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Trains
This is a project that I started -- and kind of abandoned -- several years ago. The story is this: Once, during a trip to Melbourne, I picked up a cool poster showing the entire railway network of the city, complete with all of the stations and lines that had closed down over the years. I quite liked it. I decided to make one for Sydney. I stupidly underestimated the magnitude of this task.
So, I edited it, on-again-off-again, until I ended up with the final version, which I display here. Is it 100% accurate? Probably not. Is it educational? Undoubtedly. Should you always do further research when presented with information on the internet? Of course you should.
Thanks to all the folks at railpage.com.au's forums who helped all those years ago, without your assistance, I would never have had the impetus to continue with this thing. Thanks also to nswrail.net for being such a ludicrously awesome resource for New South Wales railway history, and a fantastic tool for clarifying a lot of the details that went into this map.
If you find any glaring errors, by all means, let me know. I probably won't make any changes, though, because this project has very much been and gone, and it's a huge undertaking to edit it.
Click here for the full, high-res (but heavily compressed) version if you want to read the text. (Warning: is gigantic, won't work in full-resolution on an iPad or iPhone without special software.)
cartography, CityRail, diagram, infographic, map, New South Wales, Sydney, trains
Art, Trains
Live, from the Noel Crichton Browne room...
January 18, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Television
Who's been dancing, lewdy-style, on the tiny stage, before the dimming footlights of your mind, this week, pal? Who'd have thought there'd be more fake action figures? This time, it's Roy & H.G, from "Club Buggery", "The Bughouse", "The Dream", "This Sporting Life", and a crudload of other things.
Based on the same Star Trek: DS9 action figures as last time. Click on the image below to embiggen, if that's the kind of thing you want to do.
ABC, Action figures, Club Buggery, hobbies, Roy & HG
Art, Television
Vintage Photo Extravaganza
January 13, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Photography
I recently posted an article about smartphone apps like Hipstamatic and Instragram, and how they're ruining the originality of photography. I'm about to be spectacularly hypocritical and backtrack over a great deal of what I said. There's a caveat, though. All of the pictures I'm about to post are original, and deliberately edited. I have a huge collection of photographs. I take photos of crap constantly. I have a lot of photos that I like, but I just don't like enough to do anything with. Photos of things, photos of places, photos of the sky. Lots of photos of, just, stuff, really. On their own, none of them stand up to scrutiny. I've posted a few on DeviantART, and some of them have been successfully received. Balanced Barbs, Probably Unsafe and No Sense of Time are a few examples of images that aren't widely hated. Generally, if I post these pictures, they sink to the bottom of the pile, and I eventually delete them because they just end up as clutter.
I'm going to shamelessly self-indulge, now, and post a shit-ton of them all at once. They kind of function as a collection. Put them all together and they get a weird nostalgic feel to them, with their cross-processed filters and Hipstamatic flavour.
So, without further ado, here's a LOT of little pictures. Click "Read more" to, uh, read more. Although I suppose it's more looking at pictures than reading. Click on the images to embiggen. Enjoy!
Art photography, cross process, DeviantART, effects, fine art, hobbies, huge gallery, self indulgence, square, vintage
Art, Photography
Lightpainted Hut
December 28, 2012 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Photographs, Photography
Christmas, Collarenebri, hut, light painting, Our Shop
Art, Photographs, Photography
Heroes of Science
December 07, 2012 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Science, Space
In November, I created an image called "Heroes of Science Action Figures", in which I digitally altered some Star Trek action figures to resemble famous scientists. It went a little bit viral, and has (to date, Jan 2013) some 230,000 views on DeviantART.
I've since created a "sequel" to this image, featuring all of the original scientists (with Neil deGrasse Tyson now sporting his famous Celestial Vest), plus an additional 26 new heroes. I managed to fulfil a few requests, included a few more female scientists to offset the alarmingly testosterone-laden original image, and squeeze in another couple of my own personal heroes of science.
I also created a FAQ page for the project, answering in tedious detail a bunch of questions and criticisms the graphic has received.
As an added bonus, here's the 27th new figure. I created the image of a Yuri Gagarin action figure before I made the decision not to include anyone who was involved in the space race/space age/space program. The reasoning behind this was entirely practical: it opened a gigantic can of worms, and I would have no choice but to include another fifty figures to do the space era justice! Maybe one day I'll make another graphic specifically for that task. :D
Thank you everyone who's supported this crazy infographic.
Science rocks.
Action figures, Heroes of Science, infographic, space, toys, Yuri Gagarin
Art, Science, Space
You're awesome. We're awesome. Everyone's awesome. Except that guy. He knows who he is.


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Chinese anti-corruption authorities in the northwest Qinghai province have launched a three-month campaign to crack down on "Himalayan Viagra," a fungus that is more valuable than gold and is used to bribe officials, the country's anti-corruption watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), said in an online statement.
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Hyalesthes obsoletus  è una specie di omottero appartenente alla famiglia Cixiidae. Detta anche Cicalina del Legno nero.

Descrizione
Hyalesthes obsoletus è una cicalina appartenente alla famiglia dei Cixiidae nota in viticoltura in quanto vettrice del fitoplasma che causa il Legno nero, giallume della vite analogo alla Flavescenza dorata in grado di determinare notevoli perdite di produzione.

H. obsoletus è lungo 4-5 mm; la femmina è di norma poco più lunga del maschio. Ha ali trasparenti, occhi rossastri, capo e corpo neri.
È polifago; vive soprattutto su specie erbacee quali convolvolo, ortica, clematide, numerose specie di solanacee e labiate. Solo occasionalmente si sposta sulla vite.
Compie una generazione all'anno. Le forme giovanili svernano nel terreno a contatto con le radici prevalentemente di ortica. Gli adulti compaiono scalarmente a partire da giugno fino ad agosto/settembre.

I trattamenti insetticidi contro H. obsoletus sono poco efficaci a causa della notevole polifagia di questo insetto che, come detto, visita la vite solo occasionalmente. Inoltre H. obsoletus è in grado di infettare una pianta di vite ma non di acquisire Candidatus Phytoplasma solani, agente eziologico del Legno Nero, da una vite infetta. Di conseguenza estirpare le viti infette presenti in campo non contribuisce ad un controllo della diffusione della malattia. Più utile è la lotta agronomica, volta all'eliminazione delle specie spontanee predilette da quest'insetto, pur considerando che le specie giovanili svernano a contatto con le radici.

Piante ospiti
La sua pianta ospite principale è il convolvolo (Convolvulus arvensis). Occasionalmente, si nutre anche di altre piante erbacee come il ranuncolo (Ranunculus spp.), l'ortica (Urtica dioica), l'artemisia (Artemisia vulgaris); raramente sono state rinvenute su piante legnose come il salice.

Occasionalmente può interessare anche la vite (essendo vettrice della fitoplasma del Legno nero), pomodori e patate (stolbur-fitoplasmosi). Però è ritenuta difficile da controllare e contrastare dato che è specie abbastanza polifaga e che svolge a terra gran parte del suo ciclo vitale.

Distribuzione e habitat
Le regioni di rinvenimento sono l'Europa centro-meridionale, il Mediterraneo, il sud della Russia, Kazakistan e Asia Minore. La specie è termofila.

Bibliografia
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Jimmy Butler sits, Miami still beats Boston 111-106
Associated PressAug 4, 2020, 10:49 PM EDT
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — With or without Jimmy Butler, the Miami Heat felt they needed to send a message to the Boston Celtics.
Bam Adebayo had 21 points and 12 rebounds, and the Heat never trailed in beating the Celtics 111-106 on Tuesday to remain alone in the fourth spot in the Eastern Conference.
The Celtics had their lead for the No. 3 seed cut to 1 1/2 games over the Heat. Miami has a game lead on Indiana and improved to 2-1 so far in the seeding games, despite Butler sitting out with a sore right ankle after playing Monday in a loss to Toronto.
"A lot of guys stepped up," Heat coach Eric Spoelstra said. "This couldn't be two, three guys playing well. We're going to need several guys playing well and doing it over the course of 48 minutes."
Adebayo said this victory meant something more after losing twice to Boston during the regular season.
"Instead of being beat 3-0, we were like, 'We got to make a stand. We got to prove a point,'" Adebayo said. "And like I said before, I feel like this team can battle with anybody … Who knows how the game could've been if had we had Jimmy?"
Duncan Robinson also had 21 points for Miami. Goran Dragic added 20 off the bench, Kelly Olynyk scored 15 and Tyler Herro 11.
Jayson Tatum led Boston with 23 points. Jaylen Brown had 13 points and 10 rebounds, Gordon Hayward and Kemba Walker each added 15 points and Enes Kanter scored 10.
"We let our emotions play too much of a part today," Tatum said. "We've just got to do a better job of just focusing on what we can control and not worry about other things."
Walker, who beat the buzzer with a shot from mid-court at the end of the third, hit a 3 with 1:26 left to pull Boston within 108-101. Daniel Theis hit a pair of free throws with 19.8 seconds left, then Dragic traveled. Walker hit another 3 with 13 seconds remaining to pull Boston within 109-106.
Andre Iguodala hit a free throw, and Robinson hit two more in the final seconds in a win that meant a lot to someone who grew up 45 minutes north of Boston.
"I grew up going to TD Garden," Robinson said. "We've played them multiple times, we haven't done well. I haven't done well, and I was reminding myself of that constantly."
Miami scored the first bucket and led by as much as 10 before being up 33-28 at the end of the first quarter. The Heat pushed that lead to as much as 16 in the second quarter with a 10-point spurt capped by four free throws by Adebayo. The last pair, with 51.6 left, made it 63-47. Miami led 63-51 at halftime.
The Celtics went on a 16-3 run to pull within 69-68 on an alley-oop dunk by Theis off a pass from Tatum with 6:08 left in the third. The Heat answered with a 14-2 spurt capped by a three-point play by Adebayo with 3:20 to go for an 83-71 lead. Miami led 91-83 at the end of the third.
"We weren't solid, and they exposed that," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. "Our defense has to improve from what it's been in the three games or so. Credit Miami. They played with unbelievable intensity and togetherness tonight."


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The Tahoe was traveling westbound on Irving Park Rd. and as it was being driven by a 78-year old male resident of Schaumburg. The 78-year old female passenger of the Malibu was pronounced deceased at the hospital. Her name is being withheld by Schaumburg Police at this time until we can confirm her family has been properly notified. The two drivers are being treated for what is believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
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Missouri Educators Organize and Save Planning Time
In many states, planning time for teachers is micromanaged, or attempts have been made to reduce it entirely.
By: Brenda Álvarez
In November 2019, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) suggested a change to teachers' planning time. It did not go well for them. The suggestion: remove 250 minutes of planning time from its administrative rules and leave it up to each school district to decide how much time to allocate to teachers.
When Sarah Regan, a fourth-grade teacher in the Mehlville school district, heard about the proposed change, fear, among other emotions, set in.
"It was scary," she shares. "Our number one goal as educators is to provide students with the best education possible. Our planning time allows us to reflect on how things went, where we want to go moving forward, and what students need.
The proposed language change by the state of Missouri upset a lot of us. It felt like we were being stopped from doing our job effectively."
While teacher salary normally makes the five o'clock news, planning time is often just as precious to teachers. Yet, in many places nationwide, planning time has become micromanaged or attempts have been made to reduce it entirely—as was the case in Missouri.
Regan uses her planning time to collaborate with other educators in what is known as professional learning communities. There, she partners with her grade-level team and administrator to talk about her students' progress. She also co-teaches with the English language learner and special education teachers, and time is set aside to co-plan with them.
The four-year elementary school teacher says she works in a district that is "awesome" and a school building that allows for self-directed planning time—meaning teachers get to decide what to do with their prep time. Yet, Regan was still upset, discouraged, and disappointed over this proposal.
"I also took it a little personal," she adds.
So personal that she and thousands of her peers statewide joined Missouri NEA's (MNEA) "Planning to Succeed" campaign to push back against DESE.
Planning to Succeed
If someone ever asks, "what can a union do for you," direct the person to MNEA's "Planning to Succeed" campaign. What started from a typical no-frills state board of education meeting, turned into a full-scale organizing and mobilization effort of thousands of educators.
MNEA is the only education organization to send representation to the state board of education meetings—and that person back in November was Ann Jarret, teaching and learning director for the state affiliate. When she heard what the state board was planning, she immediately informed MNEA's political director, Mark Jones, who then worked closely with the affiliate's three UniServ directors (the union staff person members turn to when a problem arises), Alice Floros, Kristin Owen and Elizabeth Zerr to develop statewide organizing proposal.
And like dominoes, the pieces started to fall in place.
Within weeks, state affiliate staff built a successful campaign centered on a rapid organizing response from field staff and members, with vital assistance from program staff and leadership from MNEA governance.
"Planning time is about respect for our educators," says MNEA's Elizabeth Zerr, Uniserv director. "They use their 250 minutes a week to craft engaging lesson plans for the week ahead, prepare a room for hands-on learning, or update parents on their child's progress."
Organizing tools were built and deployed statewide for field staff and included online petitions, letters, and post cards—ll directed to the education department and its board members. In fact, Postcards describing how educators use their planning time were mailed to the homes of school board members. The numbers were impressive, and thousands of educators acted.
These actions started on December 6 and by the 13th, the education department walked back on its suggestion and kept in place the 250-minute standard. A victory, indeed.
Within seven days, more than 5,000 educators took some form of action.
If these changes would have passed, "we wouldn't have had not enough time to effectively plan," explains Sarah Regan, "and this would have been detrimental to our students' education, exploration, and engagement. Every student deserves a well-resourced school that inspires their natural levels of learning and curiosity, and we have the responsibility to support our students in that—planning time allows for this to happen."
Lift as You Climb
Missouri's School Improvement Plan included language that excluded counselors and librarians from getting the 250 minutes of planning time. After teachers saw their power through collective action, they took their organizing efforts one step further and reached back to help other educators.
Planning time is about respect for our educators. They use their 250 minutes a week to craft engaging lesson plans for the week ahead, prepare a room for hands-on learning, or update parents on their child's progress." - Elizabeth Zerr, Missouri NEA
"Returning to the status quo wasn't enough for our members," says Zerr, "and so we pushed harder and asked for the exclusion to be removed for our counselors and librarians. Many elementary school librarians, for example, teach all day and so for them to not have planning time is criminal."
They also asked for planning time to be self-directed so educators can decide how to spend their time.
Educators went from having no minimum requirement for planning time language to in just a few days of the campaign having the 250-minute minimum reinstated and new language on adequate self-directed planning time of at least 250 minutes per week provided to certificated and licensed educators.
"We got everything we wanted," says Zerr, emphasizing that his victory was possible because of "the work of my colleagues, the other UniServ directors, and our members—without their work all across the state, this plan would not have come together."
Wins Within the Win
While the overarching goal of Missouri NEA's campaign was to reinstate 250 minutes of planning time for teachers, counselors, and librarians, the campaign also served up other wins:
• Nearly 1,500 educators, who are not members (yet!) of the state affiliate, took some form of action. They either signed a petition, sent a letter, delivered a postcard, or did all three. "MNEA turned a potential setback into an opportunity: We will use the victory at the state level to advance even stronger planning time protections in local contracts." explains Elizabeth Zerr.
• In some locals, 60 percent of members took an action. Typically, 20 percent of membership will take an action. Getting more than half of a local involved and engaged on an issue is a victory worth noting, as it builds community.
• Educators are usually closely connected to their locals, particularly in rural areas. The "Planning to Succeed" campaign connected educators to their state affiliate and underscored how the state apparatus organizes, provides resources, and works on their behalf.
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Q: Integrating drag force I need help with an integration problem. We have $F_d = \frac{1}{2} \rho c_d Av^2$ and $$W = \int F_d\cdot dx = \frac{1}{2}\rho c_dA\int v^2\cdot dx = \frac{1}{2}\rho c_dA\int(\frac{dx}{dt})^2\cdot dx.$$ I need to find this integral to find the drag coefficient. I tried integration by parts which didnt work. Any tips?

A: Other approaches might work better,
perhaps you could get $\frac{dv}{dt}$ (from $F=ma$) in terms of $v^2$ and go from there,
or put weight equals the drag at terminal velocity (if your equation is for a falling object).  The integration you are trying might not be the best way...

A: The acceleration due to gravity and drag is $\boxed{a = g - \beta v^2}$ where $\beta$ is some known factor. We can also find the terminal velocity $v_{\rm term} = \sqrt{g/\beta}$ where the body will no longer accelerate.
The direct integration of acceleration yields the drop distance and time as a function of speed
$$ t = \int \frac{1}{a} \,{\rm d}v = \frac{1}{2 \beta v_{\rm term}} \ln \left( \frac{v_{\rm term} - v}{v_{\rm term}+v} \right) \tag{1}$$
$$ x = \int \frac{v}{a} \,{\rm d}v =-\frac{1}{2 \beta} \ln \left(1 - \left( \frac{v}{v_{\rm term}} \right)^2  \right) \tag{2}$$
So at any time, you can reverse (1) to find the velocity. And from the velocity $v$, the kinetic energy is found $$T = \tfrac{1}{2} m v^2$$
Also from the velocity, the drop distance $x$ is found from (2), and thus the potential energy
$$ P = -m g x $$
Finally, the work expended by drag is simply the sum of the energies above (a negative value)
$$ W = T + P $$

A: Unfortunately, $v=dx/dt$ isn't known from just your expression for the drag force. In general, you would find an expression for $v(t)$ using the differential equation, then integrate the force integral with respect to time by replacing $dx$ with $v dt$. Here's how it might be done:
First, assuming you have an object with mass $m$ that has an initial velocity $v_0$ experiences this drag force, and no other forces. Then, writing $F=ma$:
$$ma = -\frac{1}{2} \rho c_d A v^2$$
$$\frac{dv}{dt} = -\frac{\rho c_dA}{2 m} v^2$$
This differential equation can be solved by separation of variables:
$$\int_{v_0}^{v(t)} \frac{dv}{v^2} = \int_0^t -\frac{\rho c_d A}{2m}dt$$
$$\frac{1}{v_0} - \frac{1}{v(t)} = -\frac{\rho c_d A}{2m}t$$
$$v(t) = \frac{1}{1/v_0 + \rho c_dAt/2m}$$
In order to find the work, you would integrate as follows:
$$W = \int -\frac{1}{2} \rho c_d A v^2 dx = \int - \frac{1}{2} \rho c_d A v^2 (vdt)$$
$$ = -\frac{1}{2} \rho c_d A \int v^3 dt$$
$$ = -\frac{1}{2} \rho c_d A \frac{1}{\rho c_dA/m (\rho c_d At/2m + 1/v_0)^2} + C$$
which is just equal to $\Delta K = \Delta (\frac{1}{2} mv^2)$ as expected from the work-energy theorem.

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First ferry docks in Greece, hailed as 'very positive' (updated)
By Nick Theodoulou June 20, 2022 June 20, 2022 03653
The first ferry linking Cyprus to Greece docked at Piraeus port on Monday afternoon/photo ANA-MPA
The first ferry trip between Cyprus and Greece in 21 years dropped anchor in the Greek port of Piraeus at 6.30pm on Monday afternoon, marking the reconnection between the ports of Limassol and Piraeus after a 21-year hiatus.
The Daleela was warmly welcomed by Greece's Deputy Minister of Shipping Sophia Zacharaki, who met her counterpart Vassilis Demetriades and other passengers as they disembarked.
The journey was earlier hailed as "very positive" by Demetriades speaking onboard.
"As President Anastasiades said yesterday, the umbilical cord between the two countries is being reattached with this voyage. I call on both Cypriots and Greeks to embrace it to make it sustainable and enjoy it forever," he said.
The vessel will make a total of 22 trips this season, four in June, eight in July, seven in August and three in September.
Motorcyclists, pensioners, nervous flyers and students are just some of the 173 people who took the maiden voyage, with a travel time of 30 hours.
The deputy minister said that the first impressions have been overwhelmingly positive, adding that there was live entertainment onboard, along with amenities such as cafés and restaurants.
He emphasised that any issues which may arise, as are expected during such a project, will be worked out and improved.
Some passengers were surprised to learn that there is no Wi-Fi onboard.
The deputy minister addressed those concerns by explaining that such a feature would be very expensive for the company to provide but that it is something which can be looked at in the future, if it is indeed an issue.
"This is a point but not something which is linked to the specific company, it's a factor for all boats," Demetriades said.
He reminded the public that 5G remains an option.
Asked as to who his fellow travellers are, and why they chose the ferry, Demetriades said that he has spoken to motorcyclists who have eagerly been awaiting the ferry for years.
Elsewhere, he spoke to people who last travelled on the ferry link over two decades ago and wished to relive the experience.
Demetriades also explained how some students have opted for the boat as it is easier for them to transport more personal items and luggage than by plane, and at a cheaper cost. Naturally, there were some nervous flyers amongst the passengers, too.
The first trip ferried Demetriades, tourism minister Savvas Perdios, Limassol Mayor Nicos Nicolaides, some MPs, journalists, and members of the team that worked on the project.
The last ferry voyage between Greece and Cyprus took place on October 8, 2001 with the ship Salamis.
For its part, the Cyprus Ports Authority hailed the reconnection of Cyprus and Greece by ferry and stressed the importance of the coastal connection for the island with Greece and by extension with Europe.
"The resumption of the Cyprus-Greece ferry connection is a historic moment for our country. After 21 years of the absence of this option, now there is this option for everyone," President of the Cyprus Ports Authority Antonis Stylianou said.
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PEHO syndrome (progressive encephalopathy with edema, hypsarrhythmia and optic atrophy) is an autosomal recessive and dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disorder that starts in the first few weeks or months of life. Early symptoms include infantile spasms, hyparrhythmia, and seizures, and optic atrophy. Other features include arrest of global developmental delay, severe intellectual deficit, encephalopathy, tapered fingers, and facial dysmorphism.

There is no specific treatment for PEHO syndrome; only the symptoms associated with the syndrome can be managed. PEHO syndrome affects the Finnish population with an estimate of 1 in 78,000; cases have been described in non-Finnish persons and from other countries.

Cause
The cause of the Finnish-type PEHO syndrome is homozygous pathogenic variants in the ZNHIT3 gene. Variants affecting the motor domain of KIF1A has also been suggested to cause full or partial phenotype of PEHO in others. There has been other pathogenic variants in other genes known to be associated with the syndrome.

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Abington Avenue School Students Are #1
Elementary School is Selected as NPS' Most Active School
[Newark, NJ – June 22, 2018] Abington Avenue Elementary School was recently celebrated as "Newark's Most Active School," in the annual Activity Works Program. The school is the recipient of a $1,000 cash prize to improve the health and wellness of students at their school. Activity Works is the classroom-based program that combines physical activity and core curricula content to get students up and moving each day is being sponsored by Novo Nordisk and the Devils Care Foundation.
"On behalf of the principals, administrators and students of our 10 participating schools, thank you for bringing Activity Works to Newark Public Schools," said A. Robert Gregory, Interim Superintendent of Newark Public Schools. "I want to thank our partners, particularly the Prudential Center, who continue to support the many programs and services of Newark school children.
Activity Works (activityworks.com), an interactive on-demand physical activity video series for K-4 classrooms designed to reduce childhood obesity, is now available to hundreds of more classrooms in Philadelphia, Newark and Trenton thanks to a new three year grant from Novo Nordisk, a global leader in diabetes care. With new classroom activations having begun in January 2018, Activity Works is already on track to be implemented in approximately 500 classrooms in these new markets, with aspirations to grow to more than 1,500 active classrooms by year three. Since its inception, the annual goal of Activity Works has been to empower as many children and families through physically-based wellness curricula and programming.
Tom Sullivan, CEO of Activity Works said, "We are so proud of the students at Abington Avenue for their contagious energy and joyful performances today. It is easy to see why they were the winners of Newark's Most Active School Contest. Newark Public Schools should also be proud because their participating schools achieved over 93 million steps since February and led the way among participating districts including Philadelphia and Trenton."
"We believe in programs that grow the mind and body of our next generation" said Jim Leonard, executive director of the Devils Care Foundation. "The partnership we have with Activity Works and the Newark Public Schools does just that, and we are proud to be involved in such a worthwhile endeavor" said Jim Leonard, Senior Vice President, Government Relations, of the Prudential Center.
During Newark's Most Active School contest (February 1, 2018 – April 30, 2018), Abington Avenue Elementary alone achieved:
185,000 Minutes of Physical Activity
645,000 Calories Burned
15.4 Million Steps
Abington Avenue School Principal Nelson Ruiz said, "Thank you to the students, teachers and our sponsors for all they have done to improve the health and wellness of our students."
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Cnaeus Domitius Calvinus Maximus est un homme politique romain du début du , consul en 283

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Il est membre des Domitii Calvini, branche de la gens plébéienne des Domitii. Il est le fils de Cnaeus Domitius Calvinus, consul en 332  et le petit-fils d'un Cnaeus Domitius. Son nom complet est Cnaeus Domitius Cn.f. Cn.n. Calvinus Maximus.

Biographie

Édilité curule (299)
Selon Pline l'Ancien, Cnaeus Domitius est battu avec Caius Poetelius en 305  lors de l'élection pour l'édilité de Cnaeus Flavius et de Quintus Anicius Praenestinus pour l'année 304  Cnaeus Domitius devient édile curule en 299  avec deux patriciens et un autre plébéien.

Consulat (283)
Cnaeus Domitius devient consul en 283  avec Publius Cornelius Dolabella pour collègue. Au début de leur mandat, Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter, consul l'année précédente et prorogé à la tête de son armée en tant que préteur, est défait par les Sénons en Étrurie. Manius Curius Dentatus le remplace en tant que préteur suffect et entame des négociations avec les Gaulois. Pendant ce temps, Dolabella prépare une campagne en Étrurie pour réprimer les soulèvements qui ont suivi la défaite romaine. Le rôle de Calvinus demeure méconnu, il semble qu'il soit resté à Rome pour préparer la défense en cas de nouvelle invasion gauloise.

À la nouvelle de la mort des legati romains envoyés par Dentatus, Dolabella marche contre les Sénons qu'il défait, puis se dirige vers leurs terres qu'il ravage. Selon Polybe, les Boïens, craignant de subir le même sort, se joignent aux Étrusques pour former une armée coalisée qui progresse vers Rome jusqu'à  au nord. Selon Appien, Cnaeus Domitius détient le commandement militaire lors de la bataille du Lac Vadimon qui voit la défaite de l'armée coalisée tandis que son collègue Dolabella ravage le territoire des Sénons (Ager gallicus). Toutefois, il semble que le commandement ait plutôt échu à Dolabella de retour du nord de l'Italie. L'armée de Calvinus entre en Étrurie peu après et défait une bande de mercenaires Sénons, probablement des fuyards qui se sont regroupés. Les deux consuls célèbrent chacun un triomphe pour leurs victoires.

Dictature (280)

D'après les Fastes capitolins, Cnaeus Domitius est nommé dictateur en 280  afin de convoquer les comices et de gérer l'organisation de nouvelles élections (comitiorum habendorum causa).

Censure (280)
La même année, après la dictature (posteaquam dictatura abiit), Cnaeus Domitius atteint la censure avec peut-être Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus pour collègue. Il est le premier plébéien à accomplir la cérémonie du lustrum.

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Voir aussi

Consul de la République romaine
Censeur romain du IIIe siècle av. J.-C.
Dictateur (Rome antique) du IIIe siècle av. J.-C.
Consul romain du IIIe siècle av. J.-C.


GASTONIA, NC (WBTV) - Officials received confirmation on the identity of Maddox Ritch after a child's body was discovered Thursday in Long Creek. The discovery came after a six-day search that focused on Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia.
The exact cause of death has not been determined as autopsy results are pending.
The 6-year-old disappeared while he was at the park with his father and the father's girlfriend on Saturday, September 22. On Thursday, the FBI confirmed the body, believed to be Maddox, was found around 1 p.m. off of Marietta Street near Old Dallas Highway.
"Currently, we have found what we believe is Maddox in Long Creek," officials said in a press conference following the discovery.
The body was found near a bridge by the creek. While the location was within walking distance of the park, investigators said it was unlikely Maddox was swept from the lake into the creek because of a screen that blocks the area feeding into the creek.
At a press conference several hours after the body was found, officials said it was "absolutely amazing" that he was found.
Officials said the investigation is ongoing, and they repeated requests for anyone at the park on Saturday to call authorities. "We still want to hear from the people in the park that day."
Chief Welch also stressed that the place where Maddox was found had been searched many times previously and stated that foot patrol, drones and ATV's had all been used over that area as recently as Tuesday.
One question many had was how the little boy could leave the park without anyone seeing him. There is a trail along Long Creek adjacent to the park that continues for more than a mile. It also goes underneath Highway 321 and goes through areas where no one could see someone walking.
The place where the body was found in Long Creek was right beside that trail. Authorities could be seen walking that trail back to Rankin Lake Park after the body was found. There is no official word yet if that is indeed the path the boy took.
A crew of 15 searchers uncovered the body along an area connected by a pathway under Highway 321 in a future greenway area. The body was found partially submerged underwater in an area with significant underbrush.
People close to the scene reacted emotionally when the news about the possible discovery of Maddox's body was found. One neighbor described the area where the body was found.
"We are heartsick... we are just devastated," one neighbor said.
More than two dozen agencies, including the FBI, assisted with the search on ground and in the water. Members of the FBI dive team searched Rankin Lake in the park where 6-year-old Maddox Ritch went missing Saturday.
The specialized dive team used "different equipment" than what was previously used during searches of the lake. A release from the Gastonia Police Department stated the lake was still being drained Thursday morning, which would make it impossible for large boats to be in the water.
Law enforcement agencies continue pleading with the public, asking anyone who was at the park Saturday to come forward.
The FBI's underwater search and evidence team is searching the water at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia in a desperate search to find Maddox. The equipment being used is different than sonar equipment used in previous days, Gastonia police say.
Crews are asking anyone in the park that day to call the tip line: 704-869-1075.
The 911 call reporting Ritch missing Saturday was released Wednesday morning.
Ritch disappeared at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia while with his father and another adult.
According to the 911 call, made by a park employee, Maddox was missing for approximately an hour before the employee made the call.
"We've got a missing kid. He's been missing for the last 30-40 minutes. Hour maybe," the caller said.
As the 911 operator asked for the name of the child, later identified as Maddox, the employee said he was unable to confirm the child's name with the parents, who were out searching for the boy.
"We searched everywhere," the caller stated.
The city of Gastonia tweeted information for a public candlelight vigil that will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Gastonia police released the 911 call Wednesday morning, where the park employee can be heard conversing with the operator about when and where the boy was reported missing.
CBS News Correspondent David Begnaud spoke to Maddox's father, Ian Ritch, who said Maddox outran him at the park. Ian said Maddox took off running after a jogger.
We just interviewed Ian Ritch, father of missing 6yo #MaddoxRitch.
For the second night in a row, community members came together to pray for a little boy who has gone missing in Gaston County.
Gastonia's Rankin Lake Park will remained closed to the public until further notice. Search crews will be on-site overnight.
Investigators say they have followed 150+ leads, conducted hundreds of interviews and searched thousands of acres since Maddox went missing Saturday.
The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to the location of Maddox.
Gastonia Police have provided a missing child poster with a new tip line number in the search for missing 6-year-old Maddox Ritch, who disappeared Saturday at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia. The new tip line number is 704-869-1075.
Maddox disappeared while he was at Rankin Lake Park with his father and another adult. His father was not at Tuesday's press conference but officials said he was out assisting the search.
Maddox has blonde hair and blue eyes. He is 4 feet tall and weighs 45 pounds.
Officials say Maddox is nonverbal.
Officials are asking anyone at the park the day Maddox went missing to come forward - including a male jogger and a photographer who was reportedly at the park taking pictures of children in Dr. Seuss costumes.
"It's been 75 agonizing hours since 6-year-old #MaddoxRitch disappeared."
A park employee called police, officials said.
Additional searching equipment, including ATVs and a pontoon boat with special sonar, was brought in Tuesday as crews continued searching for Maddox.
"He's just sitting there waiting on somebody to come and get him," said Janet Hayes, who shed tears while speaking with reporters.
Monday afternoon, officials held a press conference about ongoing search efforts.
A better photo of the clothes Maddox was last seen wearing was shown, and officials said a recording was being played with a message from the boy's parents, in hopes that he will hear it and come toward their voices.
More than 24 agencies have joined the search, including the FBI, who says they are looking at every possibility, including abduction.
The FBI has a team that is highly specialized in searching for missing children. That team arrived at the scene Sunday.
Monday, deputies blocked the entrances to Rankin Lake Park as the search entered day three.
The search was expanded two miles outside of the park Monday, when the search for Maddox resumed around 7 a.m.
A "missing" poster of Maddox has been added to the FBI's website and social media accounts. A link to the poster can be found here.
Helton is asking people that live around the area of Rankin Lake Park to check their homes and property, including sheds and garages.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is also assisting in the search.
Search boats from the Charlotte Fire Department searched the lake all day, checking the water with sonar devices and divers. Agents and detectives with more than a dozen local, state, and federal agencies have also conducted interviews, and followed many leads.
Efforts continued through Saturday night and into Sunday morning as an entire community has searched for Maddox.
Units were sent out on foot with search dogs and drones were used to continue the efforts overnight.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers and search and rescue teams from local, state and federal agencies are currently involved in the search - looking on the ground and in the water.
Search efforts Sunday included re-tracing steps on foot and canvassing local houses and nearby businesses to see if anyone reports seeing the child during this time.
While Gastonia Police are receiving offers from the public to volunteer to assist in the search, they are keeping the park closed to the public until further notice.
Activities scheduled at the park for Sunday were also cancelled due to the continuing search.
An AMBER Alert has not been issued because police say the case does not fit the criteria as there is no known abduction as of Saturday night.


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Patent Incentives in China - A Changing Focus
Like many countries China provides support for its innovative sector. As part of the wider 'Made in China 2025' policy to move China's economy from a manufacturing to an innovation base, this has included direct financial incentives to file for patent protection locally and internationally. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Chinese companies have caught on quickly.
Like many countries, China provides support for its innovative sector. This support has been provided in a variety of forms, from financial to legislative, and includes direct financial
incentives to file for patent protection. This forms part of the wider Made in China 2025 (MiC2015) policy to move China's economy from a manufacturing base to an innovation base in 10 years. To achieve this, a fundamental change to the way businesses were run was needed. It was not enough to have access to foreign technology, the businesses needed to want to innovate. Part of that process involved understanding and using the patent systems that were in place to promote innovation. To assist this, Chinese companies were provided with incentives to use those systems. This included the direct financial incentives to file for patent protection locally and internationally.
Chinese companies caught onquickly. In 2017 CNIPA received a total of 1,381,594 patent applications (invention/design/utility model). Of these, 1,245,709 were from Chinese applicants (90.2%). WIPO reported that in 2018 China filed 53,345 PCT applications (second only to the US at 56,142). To put this in some perspective, in 2007 China only filed 5,470 PCT applications. However you read the numbers, there is no doubt that Chinese companies have learnt to use the patent system. From China's MiC2025 perspective, the provision of incentives has been a success. It may not have been efficient, but it has been effective.
Part of the inefficiency of any incentive system is the potential for it to be abused. This has undoubtedly happened in China, but it has probably been accepted as a necessary risk of promoting a wider use and understanding of the patent system. The open nature of the incentives and the acceptance of those risks involved have now both changed.
Part of the inefficiency of any incentive system is the potential for it to be abused. This has undoubtedly happened in China, but it has probably been accepted as a necessary risk of promoting a wider use and understanding of the patent system.
SIPO (now CNIPA) issued a Notice in September 2018 which directly addressed this issue (http://www.ipraction.gov.cn/article/xxgk/difang/difangfg/201809/20180900200354.shtml)
This Notice starts by noting that the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China had pointed out that China's economy had shifted from a highspeed growth stage to a high-quality development stage and in line with that said:
• Only granted patents will be funded
• The total amount of funding received by the patent grant recipient shall not be higher than
the official fees and the total patent agency fees actually incurred.
• Funding for patent agency fees will only be provided for fees from agents with patent agency qualifications.
• Repeated or multi-level access to subsidies is not allowed.
• Patent agencies and applicants who file abnormal applications will be dealt with seriously.
The clarification of funding of patent applications is clearly intended to ensure that excessive subsidies are not able to be accessed. The potential for sanctions has appeared before in documents of this type. This time the combination of clarification and sanction has been linked to the move to China's high-quality development stage and the option for sanctions has been acted on.
In March 2019, CNIPA published a list of patent agencies that had been sanctioned
(http://114.247.84.107:8080/ogic/view/index.jhtml) for their involvement in filing abnormal applications. Filing practices included:
• Filing 126 patent applications between November 2017 and March 2018 of which 74 applications were clearly the same
• Filing 75 apparently identical patent applications between April 2017 – July 2018
• Filing 88 patent applications for simple replacement of different parts in IoT cases on
• Filing 123 invention patent applications with obvious technical effects from March to May 2018
Some patent agencies had their licences removed, and one agency's licence was suspended for 12 months. An "Apologize and Rectification Statement"from the agency whose licence was suspended has also been released (http://www.iprchn.com/cipnews/news_content.aspx?newsId=114927). It is clear from the text of this apology statement that Chinese patent agencies will need to be more diligent in ensuring that patent applications are not filed without adequate content review to meet their obligations to CNIPA.
We have also heard of patent applicants being required to undertake a self-examination process for incorrect filing of patent applications. Withdrawal of incorrect applications/patents is being allowed to be made voluntarily and without punishment.
Internationally this change in emphasis will be welcomed. It should result in improved trust in the Chinese patent system and, while FTO searches will still be needed, more certainty around product release. From China's perspective, the changes reflect a growing confidence in its innovation sector. The quality aspects of the sector are being recognised and will continue
to be supported. Enough businesses in that sector now understand the need to innovate and are using the local and international patent system effectively to benefit from that innovation. China's ambitions under the MiC2015 policy will benefit as a result.
This article was first published in The World Financial Review in June 2019.
tjackson@rouse.com


Lil Baby release the official music video of his latest single – "Global" which was shot and recorded somewhere across America, western African, Nigeria precisely on his last trip to Lagos state, Nigeria. Lil Baby Global video download below.
Having his last collaborative project with Yo Gotti – "Put A Date On It" still gaining strong stream, he dubbed out a fresh hit which he tagged as global sound. Watch on YouTube and download video below and get inspired.


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Introductory Course of Practical Philosophy - details
Economics with Justice
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About the Wessex School
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Just This Day
Mulhall Annual Lecture 2020
Economics Lecture 30 January 2021
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Welcome to School of Philosophy Wessex
Your Invitation to life with Philosophy
Waterperry House, Oxon. (Click on photo for the Waterperry House website)
After completing a few terms of studying philosophy, students are invited to spend a weekend at one of the School's country study residencies of Waterperry House, which is located to the east of Oxford. Study weekends are an opportunity to meet, study and work with students from other UK Branch Schools and students from the head School in London. (Due to current Covid restrictions, the House is not currently available for residential meetings.)
The house is set in spacious grounds that comprise beautiful gardens, a garden centre, a teashop, a farm shop, a church and several cottages. Click here to go to the Waterperry Gardens website.
Inside the house are numerous works of art, all produced by artists and sculptors who are, or have been, students in the School. The 'Artists' Hall' is richly decorated with marvellous frescoes in which each one depicts a meaningful philosophical story.
You can see the frescoes and more information about Waterperry House and the School from a YouTube video by clicking here.
As students progress through the School, longer study periods of up to a week are available at both Waterperry House and Nanpantan Hall in Leicestershire. (See also the Nanpantan Hall page.)
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The community of Christ the King located at 4011 54th Street invite you to join them for a bible study. Participants will walk away with a newfound love of the Bible and an ability to remember all the important people, places and events as well as the lineage of Jesus Christ. to register contact Patsy Taber at 806-549-0366.


I'm the voice of Bring Mommy A Martini, and author of a book - my very first - You Should Write A Book! True Tales of An Unstable Life, and another (very different) one is in the works.
As a former teacher with a marketing background and a deep interest in psychology and behavior, I sometimes share parenting stories and advice from an educator's perspective - and vice versa.
I also get personal - as a kid, I struggled with perfectionism, depression, anxiety, OCD, and undiagnosed ADHD - (so I was apparently a disaster) all of which run in my family, and a few of which both my boys have unfortunately inherited.
I write about ways I've overcome some of these hurdles (thanks to pharmaceuticals and therapy).
I don't want to make it sound like my childhood was hard or sad - it wasn't at ALL.
I don't have anything life-changing or earth-shattering to offer.
I'm just a girl who wants to make people laugh with stories about life that we can all relate to.
Located outside of Austin, Texas, where I live with my husband, our two boys, and three dogs, you'll typically find me writing or reading, or possibly hanging out with my kids, and most assuredly canoodling a Mexican martini.


Business is a topic that is very often discussed today for its relevancy in the modern world. Many people seem to engage in business as it has proved to be a profitable venture. Although it is seen as a lucrative venture it takes a considerable time and many hardships to be successful in business. Following tips are to help you understand how to become successful in business.
You cannot become successful in business overnight as it takes gradual commitment over a long period of time. You need lots of planning and take up many hardships when you are in the field of business. Therefore you need to have patience within you and try to gradually develop your business if you want to become a successful businessman. You might have to lease out or buy a small place, hire some business accountant and buy only few machinery and equipment. But when you engage in the business in time you will have to stay in alert as to the happenings in the business world and try to improve and gather more knowledge and experience as to different ways you can develop your small scale business.
If your business stays stagnant you are unlikely to become a successful businessman. You need to take measures to develop the state of your business step by step. Developing the business gradually is sure to become a challenging task and you will have to take very critical decisions at times. Your mind needs to be very organized, very forward and strong in order to meet with the challenges when you are moving forward. When developing the business you need to divide the tasks involved in the business among different responsible bodies. You need to make sure you choose the best ones. You can confidently assign the responsibilities relating to auditing and accounts to MGI Parkinson Subiaco. You will need to hire personnel for other tasks involved in the office and you need to make sure they are focused on the targets of your business well when executing their functions.
There are many innovative methods which make the operation of the business simpler and more effective. Assigning back office tasks under the business process outsourcing contracts to more specialized institutions can be widely seen that is adopted in the modern businesses. While that is just and innovative process there are also many innovative products and equipment that seek to make the businesses very effective. Technology is found to be very helpful in the businesses and you need to embrace such in order to make your business successful.


Most of us do a countdown until the weekend, which usually starts on Monday morning. Weekends provide the opportunity for some social time with friends and family, staying up late, and sleeping in. Still, the habits an individual makes on the weekend, does not help come Monday morning when you have to revert back to your weekly schedule.
Unfortunately offices with artificial lighting can mess with an individual's internal clock; making one think it is later than it actually is. That is why it is imperative to expose yourself to as much natural light during the day, as possible. Go for a walk during your lunch, or even sitting by a window periodically during the day can help.


First edition of the Telspain Day on Trends in Virtual Training will be held next November 29 at the Spain's School of Industrial Organization (Madrid). This event is raised in order to "discover and discuss cutting-edge international trends in three key areas of virtual training : MOOC , technological platforms and e-Learning in companies". Carlos Delgado Kloos, the eMadrid Network coordinator, is a member of the organizing committee of this Day.
Telspain, The Spanish network of Enhanced Learning Technologies, organizes this event that will begin with a lecture by Terry Anderson (Athabasca University, Canada) that is titled "Learning Online: Alone and in Nets, Sets and Groups". After this, this event will revolve around three simultaneous workshops addressed, respectively, on each of the above areas: MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses ), technological platforms and e-Learning in companies. The day will end with a sharing of the findings in a final plenary session.
Click here for more information on registration, prices, schedules or program.


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Georgia Ruth has won this year's Welsh Music Prize.
Beating the likes of Neon Neon and Euros Childs, her album 'Week Of Pines' scored the third annual prize at ceremony which took place as part of the Swn Festival, which is currently taking place in Cardiff. Speaking to BBC News the folk-influenced artist said the win was "quite a shock". Of the ceremony she added: "there was quite a lot of tension in the room, it kind of felt like I was back at school." Click above to watch the video for the album's title track.
The annual award, now in its third year, celebrates the finest Welsh music of the year as well as music made by Welsh people around the world. Created by Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens in 2011, previous winners have included Gruff Rhys and Future Of The Left. "We're chuffed for Georgia, because we know how hard she's worked on her career," said Stephens of Georgia's win.
Judges, including NME editor Mike Williams, chose the winner from a 12 track shortlist which included Neon Neon, Euros Childs, Sweet Baboo, Racehorses, Winter Villains and Little Arrow.