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Armored Core 6 set for hour-long FromSoftware presentation next month
After the Armored Core 6 reveal trailer confirmed that Dark Souls, Sekiro, Elden Ring, and Bloodborne developer FromSoftware is returning to some of its robot game roots, a lot of us have been wondering how the Japanese developer plans to revive the Armored Core series, and we may just start to get some answers when it appears at a trade show soon.
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is set to appear at the Taipei Game Show next month in February with an hour-long showing, although it isn't entirely clear what will be shown, like potential Armored Core 6 gameplay, and what will be revealed about Elden Ring developer FromSoftware's next game.
We do know that Armored Core series producer and FromSoftware marketing manager Yasunori Ogura will be at the show though, presenting some of the hour-long showcase dedicated to Armored Core 6.
The Armored Core 6 showcase will take place on February 3, 2023, at 4am PST, 7am EST, 12pm GMT, 1pm CET, and 11pm AEDT. You can see the show, scheduled for February 3, below.
There hasn't been too much information (and no gameplay) revealed about Armored Core 6 up to this point, but we do know that FromSoftware is not aiming to make a mecha soulslike game, instead modernising what makes the Armored Core series appealing in the first place.
"We've not been making a conscious effort to try to direct it towards more Soulsborne type gameplay," Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki says. "Let me just make that clear."
"There are no elements directly referring to Sekiro," Dark Souls developer Masura Yamamura tells adds, "but I feel both titles share the same essence of battle such as aggressive, speed change and action-oriented fighting. For this title, by continuing to attack even the strongest enemy, the force of impact can break the enemy's posture and inflict a large amount of damage – a critical hit."
Armored Core 6 will take you through individual 3D levels (like the previous games in the series) and let you fully customise your own mech down to some incredibly intricate details. An action game at its core, Armored Core 6 will be a standalone story in the series that will require you to master both ranged and melee combat.
You can learn more about the Taipei Game Show and all the other games being shown at the event's official website.
If you're in the mood for something loosely similar to Armored Core, it may be worth checking out our lists of the best RPG games and best space games, either of which may help you wait out FromSoftware's next game.
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package fuse

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"path"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
	"sync"
	"syscall"
)

var (
	errNoAvail         = errors.New("no available fuse devices")
	errNotLoaded       = errors.New("osxfuse is not loaded")
	errOSXFUSENotFound = errors.New("cannot locate OSXFUSE")
)

func loadOSXFUSE(bin string) error {
	cmd := exec.Command(bin)
	cmd.Dir = "/"
	cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
	cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
	err := cmd.Run()
	return err
}

func openOSXFUSEDev(devPrefix string) (*os.File, error) {
	var f *os.File
	var err error
	for i := uint64(0); ; i++ {
		path := devPrefix + strconv.FormatUint(i, 10)
		f, err = os.OpenFile(path, os.O_RDWR, 0000)
		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
			if i == 0 {
				// not even the first device was found -> fuse is not loaded
				return nil, errNotLoaded
			}

			// we've run out of kernel-provided devices
			return nil, errNoAvail
		}

		if err2, ok := err.(*os.PathError); ok && err2.Err == syscall.EBUSY {
			// try the next one
			continue
		}

		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return f, nil
	}
}

func handleMountOSXFUSE(helperName string, errCh chan<- error) func(line string) (ignore bool) {
	var noMountpointPrefix = helperName + `: `
	const noMountpointSuffix = `: No such file or directory`
	return func(line string) (ignore bool) {
		if strings.HasPrefix(line, noMountpointPrefix) && strings.HasSuffix(line, noMountpointSuffix) {
			// re-extract it from the error message in case some layer
			// changed the path
			mountpoint := line[len(noMountpointPrefix) : len(line)-len(noMountpointSuffix)]
			err := &MountpointDoesNotExistError{
				Path: mountpoint,
			}
			select {
			case errCh <- err:
				return true
			default:
				// not the first error; fall back to logging it
				return false
			}
		}

		return false
	}
}

// isBoringMountOSXFUSEError returns whether the Wait error is
// uninteresting; exit status 64 is.
func isBoringMountOSXFUSEError(err error) bool {
	if err, ok := err.(*exec.ExitError); ok && err.Exited() {
		if status, ok := err.Sys().(syscall.WaitStatus); ok && status.ExitStatus() == 64 {
			return true
		}
	}
	return false
}

func callMount(bin string, daemonVar string, dir string, conf *mountConfig, f *os.File, ready chan<- struct{}, errp *error) error {
	for k, v := range conf.options {
		if strings.Contains(k, ",") || strings.Contains(v, ",") {
			// Silly limitation but the mount helper does not
			// understand any escaping. See TestMountOptionCommaError.
			return fmt.Errorf("mount options cannot contain commas on darwin: %q=%q", k, v)
		}
	}
	cmd := exec.Command(
		bin,
		"-o", conf.getOptions(),
		// Tell osxfuse-kext how large our buffer is. It must split
		// writes larger than this into multiple writes.
		//
		// OSXFUSE seems to ignore InitResponse.MaxWrite, and uses
		// this instead.
		"-o", "iosize="+strconv.FormatUint(maxWrite, 10),
		// refers to fd passed in cmd.ExtraFiles
		"3",
		dir,
	)
	cmd.ExtraFiles = []*os.File{f}
	cmd.Env = os.Environ()
	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, "MOUNT_FUSEFS_CALL_BY_LIB=")

	daemon := os.Args[0]
	if daemonVar != "" {
		cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, daemonVar+"="+daemon)
	}

	stdout, err := cmd.StdoutPipe()
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("setting up mount_osxfusefs stderr: %v", err)
	}
	stderr, err := cmd.StderrPipe()
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("setting up mount_osxfusefs stderr: %v", err)
	}

	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("mount_osxfusefs: %v", err)
	}
	helperErrCh := make(chan error, 1)
	go func() {
		var wg sync.WaitGroup
		wg.Add(2)
		go lineLogger(&wg, "mount helper output", neverIgnoreLine, stdout)
		helperName := path.Base(bin)
		go lineLogger(&wg, "mount helper error", handleMountOSXFUSE(helperName, helperErrCh), stderr)
		wg.Wait()
		if err := cmd.Wait(); err != nil {
			// see if we have a better error to report
			select {
			case helperErr := <-helperErrCh:
				// log the Wait error if it's not what we expected
				if !isBoringMountOSXFUSEError(err) {
					log.Printf("mount helper failed: %v", err)
				}
				// and now return what we grabbed from stderr as the real
				// error
				*errp = helperErr
				close(ready)
				return
			default:
				// nope, fall back to generic message
			}

			*errp = fmt.Errorf("mount_osxfusefs: %v", err)
			close(ready)
			return
		}

		*errp = nil
		close(ready)
	}()
	return nil
}

func mount(dir string, conf *mountConfig, ready chan<- struct{}, errp *error) (*os.File, error) {
	locations := conf.osxfuseLocations
	if locations == nil {
		locations = []OSXFUSEPaths{
			OSXFUSELocationV3,
			OSXFUSELocationV2,
		}
	}
	for _, loc := range locations {
		if _, err := os.Stat(loc.Mount); os.IsNotExist(err) {
			// try the other locations
			continue
		}

		f, err := openOSXFUSEDev(loc.DevicePrefix)
		if err == errNotLoaded {
			err = loadOSXFUSE(loc.Load)
			if err != nil {
				return nil, err
			}
			// try again
			f, err = openOSXFUSEDev(loc.DevicePrefix)
		}
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		err = callMount(loc.Mount, loc.DaemonVar, dir, conf, f, ready, errp)
		if err != nil {
			f.Close()
			return nil, err
		}
		return f, nil
	}
	return nil, errOSXFUSENotFound
}

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'Chemo brain' caused by malfunction in three types of brain cells, study finds
By ONA Editor	 December 12, 2018 No Comments
More than half of cancer survivors suffer from cognitive impairment from chemotherapy that lingers for months or years after the cancer is gone. In a new study explaining the cellular mechanisms behind this condition, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have demonstrated that a widely used chemotherapy drug, methotrexate, causes a complex set of problems in three major cell types within the brain's white matter.
The study, which will be published online Dec. 6 in Cell, also identifies a potential remedy. A drug now in clinical trials for other indications reversed symptoms of "chemo brain," as the condition is known, in a mouse model, the researchers found.
Chemo brain is becoming more common as cancer therapies increasingly allow patients to live many years beyond their diagnoses. There are 15.5 million cancer survivors alive today in the United States, a figure expected to reach 20 million by 2026, according to the National Cancer Institute. But the cognitive side effects of cancer treatment can be debilitating and prolonged: Adults may be unable to return to work, and children often struggle in school.
"It's wonderful that they're alive, but their quality of life is really suffering," said the study's lead author, Erin Gibson, Ph.D., a research scientist at Stanford. "If we can do anything to improve that, there is a huge population that could benefit."
Scientists have long known that drugs like methotrexate impair all of the body's rapidly dividing cells, but how such drugs affect the function of brain cells has been poorly understood.
"Cognitive dysfunction after cancer therapy is a real and recognized syndrome," said Michelle Monje, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences and the study's senior author.
"In addition to existing symptomatic therapies—which many patients don't know about—we are now homing in on potential interventions to promote normalization of the disorders induced by cancer drugs. There's real hope that we can intervene, induce regeneration and prevent damage in the brain."
Chemo brain is especially severe in childhood cancer patients, Monje added, and children have the most to gain from better remedies.
Inside the white matter
In addition to neurons, which transmit nerve impulses, the brain's white matter contains other cells that help the neurons function. The research focused on three types of those cells: oligodendrocytes, which produce and maintain myelin, the fatty insulating sheath around nerve fibers; astrocytes, which link neurons to their blood supply, promote proper connections between neurons and maintain the neurons' environment; and microglia, immune cells that can engulf and destroy foreign invaders in the brain, as well as sculpt neural circuitry.
Comparing postmortem frontal lobe brain tissue from children who had and had not received chemotherapy, the researchers showed that there were far fewer oligodendrocyte lineage cells in the brains of the chemotherapy-treated children.
To figure out what was happening to these cells, the researchers injected young mice with methotrexate at levels designed to replicate human exposures during cancer treatment. The mice received three doses at weekly intervals. Four weeks later, the researchers compared the mice's brains to those of mice that had not received the drug.
Methotrexate chemotherapy was found to damage the brain's populations of oligodendrocyte precursor cells. Normally, these cells can quickly divide to replace any that are lost, but after methotrexate was administered, this self-renewal process did not happen correctly. More precursor cells than normal were starting down the path of maturation to oligodendrocytes, but they were getting stuck in an intermediate, immature state. The same problem was seen in mouse brains six months after methotrexate was administered.
Transmission electron microscopy of the mouse brains after methotrexate administration revealed deficiencies in the thickness of the myelin insulation around nerve fibers, similar to changes in the brains of humans who have received chemotherapy. Mice exposed to methotrexate also exhibited behavioral problems after four weeks that were similar to humans with chemo brain, including motor impairment (slower movement of their forepaws), signs of anxiety on an "open field" test used to assess how threatened the animal feels in an unsheltered environment, and impaired attention and short-term memory function, evidenced by the inability to discern between novel and familiar objects—a symptom that persisted for six months after methotrexate was given.
The researchers injected oligodendrocyte precursor cells from healthy animals into the brains of animals that had received methotrexate to see if the cells' maturation problems were caused by some aspect of the brain environment after chemotherapy. The precursor cells still began maturing at higher-than-normal rates but did not get stuck partway through the maturation process, indicating that the brain environment was partly responsible for the cells' abnormal maturation.
Microglial activation
Further study showed that microglia, the brain's immune cells, were persistently activated after methotrexate exposure for at least six months. The activated microglia caused problems for astrocytes, the cells that help neurons get nutrients and function properly. Administering a drug that selectively depleted microglia to mice that had been treated with methotrexate reversed many of the cognitive symptoms of chemo brain and reversed the abnormalities in maturation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells, activation of astrocytes and myelin thickness.
"The biology of this disease really underscores how important intercellular crosstalk is," Monje said. "Every major neural cell type is affected in this pathophysiology." She suspects this type of complex dysfunction may also underlie other cognitive disorders. "I think that is probably more the rule than the exception," she said.
More research is needed to understand exactly how the different cell types are signaling to each other, as well as when and how medications could be best deployed against chemo brain.
"If we understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that contribute to cognitive dysfunction after cancer therapy, that will help us develop strategies for effective treatment," Monje said. "It's an exciting moment."
Source: Stanford University Medical Center
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With members drawn form all over Sussex, the new Sussex Opera Company says that "The heart of the company is its expert but unpaid chorus and the team which does the administration and behind the scenes work".
There are plenty of opportunities to get involved and the company also runs a Friends programme.
Professional opera company based in Haywards Heath who perform at prestigious venues across the UK.
A professional opera company based in Chichester whose goal is to provide opportunities for up and coming singers and local musicians to be involved in art of the highest quality - opera opportunities that wouldn't otherwise get.
Don't believe the review they got from PT Barnum though!


When I first saw the DV Tenor 7 mouthpiece I was intrigued by its striking appearance. The sound was OUTSTANDING! It provides controlled projection equally on both high and low registers. The altissimo register plays with ease which is usually a common issue among mouthpieces. I attempted to compare the JodyJazz to the mouthpiece I was using at the time (very well-known mouthpiece) and immediately realized there was no comparison. I would HIGHLY recommend the DV.


What have we learned from the FIFA corruption/RICO cases? What do we now know about how Russia and Qatar managed to secure the right to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups?
If your offices, like ours, are currently filled with colorful jerseys and employees furtively checking scores on their phones, you know that soccer (or football or futball) has the attention of much of the world right now.
Andy Spalding: Will FIFA now follow the IOC's lead?
The 2026 FIFA World Cup vote already reflects the significant steps FIFA has taken to reduce corruption. Will it now follow the International Olympic Committee example and take the next step?
The New York Times reports that U.S. prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas in what appears to be an expansive investigation of corruption in international soccer, track and field, and the Olympic Games.
In recent years, the global sports audience has witnessed many corruption scandals. Such scandals can significantly impact the reputation of the brands sponsoring athletes and the competitions organized by sports institutions.
The former governor of Rio State, Sergio Cabral, was arrested in November on corruption charges. He was accused of taking bribes from construction companies. One of the contracts under investigation involved the renovation of the Maracana stadium ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games.
A Miami man pleaded guilty Thursday to bribing FIFA and North American and Caribbean soccer officials to win media and marketing rights to international soccer tournaments.


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Beacon PR Blog
Archive for Family adventure breaks
Parents Go Free on PGL Family Adventures
An amazing new offer from PGL Family Adventures saves up to £1048 on a family week in France and up to £808 on a week's holiday in the UK.
One parent is free, and a second adult is half price on selected holidays. In the UK, there is a choice of eight adventure centres across the country, from Perthshire in Scotland to the Devon coast. In France, the offer is on holidays at PGL's château-style adventure centre close to Disneyland® Paris, and canoeing holidays on the Ardèche river.
For example, in France, a seven-night stay at Château de Grande Romaine starting 28 July, 4 or 25 August includes entrance tickets for two days at Disneyland Resort Paris and two days of activities as well as ensuite accommodation and meals (but not travel to France).
The holiday is now offered with one FREE adult place worth £699, and one HALF-PRICE place at £349.50, saving 1048.50 in total – that is when parents share a twin room and the children aged five to 18 years pay £625 each to share an adjacent room. (Three and four year olds pay £349 each.)
In the UK a seven-night holiday at Barton Hall just above Torquay, starting 20 or 27 July, 3, 10, 17 or 24 August would have cost £539 per parent sharing a twin room, with the children paying £459 each for five to 18 year olds in an adjacent room. (Children two to four years old are free.)
With the offer, each family can take advantage of one FREE adult place, and one HALF-PRICE place, saving £539 and £269.50 respectively (£808.50 in total).
Selected four-night UK multi-activity breaks are also included in the offer, for example, four nights at PGL's Liddington Adventure centre in Wiltshire starting 26 August is now offered with one free adult place worth £405, and a half-price place at £202.50, saving £607. Children five to 18 pay £345 each for the same break.
Activities vary between centres, typically including archery, climbing, water-sports, mountain biking and zip-wire thrills. The evenings are also – especially for the children – full of fun with games and entertainment organised by PGL staff, often enabling parents to relax with a drink after dinner. Accommodation is simple, but all rooms have private shower/wc. All meals are included in holiday prices. A second offer on alternative summer dates allows one free adult place per family.
Book by 19 July quoting FASS19X on 0333 321 2114, www.pgl.co.uk/families
EDITORS – Please contact Beacon PR if you are interested in experiencing a PGL Family Adventure for yourself during the summer holidays. Press stays are available for commissioned features.
About PGL
PGL was founded in 1957 by Peter Gordon Lawrence and is Britain's original and best provider of activity holidays.
Hundreds of organised school and youth groups attend curriculum-based courses at PGL centres every year.
During school holidays, centres welcome unaccompanied children and families on activity holidays.
PGL centres in Britain are registered with and inspected by Ofsted and operations are subject to the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority regulations.
PGL works closely with the Royal Yachting Association, the British Canoe Union, the Grand National Archery Society, British Fencing Association and other national sports bodies.
For further comment contact Steve Hougham at PGL on 0333 321 2114
Images and further press info from Jane Williams at Beacon PR (01572) 748 800
Save 50% on Half Term Family Adventures at PGL Centres
Activity holiday company PGL is offering 50% off Family Adventure breaks at three of its UK centres this October half term.
Four-night Monday to Friday breaks start on 22 and 29 October, with prices now from £588 for a family of two adults and two children five to 18 years, saving £588 – half price! That's when sharing a simple but ensuite family room.
When parents opt for a twin with children in an adjacent room, a four-night stay is also now half price, down to £628.
As always with PGL, breaks include accommodation, all meals, activities, equipment and family-orientated evening fun, making them great value. Locations with half price breaks are Liddington in Wiltshire, Boreatton Park on the Welsh borders and Osmington Bay on Dorset's Jurassic Coast.
Activities vary from centre to centre but may include archery, aeroball, ropes course challenges, climbing and fencing.
While most children aged five and upwards can take part in all activities, tinies aged two, three and four years old are also welcome and are completely free, but PGL does not have creche facilities so a parent must take responsibility for the non-participating child at all times.
Quote FAOCT50 when booking.
Call 0333 321 2114, or go to www.pgl.co.uk/families
Kids Go Free on PGL Family Adventures in France
Selected PGL Family Adventure breaks in France now have free places for kids, saving up to £505 per child!
Half an hour from Disneyland® Paris, and 40 minutes from the city of Paris, Château de Grande Romaine has excellent family-friendly accommodation and 70 acres of grounds including an outdoor heated pool. It's a great base for families with children as young as five – with two to four year olds also welcome as long as mum or dad can supervise.
Here, there's a choice between a Disneyland® Adventure week with tickets for two whole days in the theme park, or a Paris and Disneyland® Paris holiday with one day at the theme park and one day in the centre of Paris. Both holidays include fun family activities so everyone can try their hand at – for example – archery and abseiling, or the high-flying trapeze and zip wire!
In Normandy, at the Château du Tertre, a Fantastic French Adventure week for families with children as young as five includes canoeing on the River Varenne and other activities in and around the centre's 36 wooded acres, all 90 minutes' drive from Mont St Michel.
And now each full-paying adult can take up to two children FREE!
Paris & Disneyland® Paris holiday
7 nights from 13, 20 or 27 August: adults each pay £535 and up to two children are now free, saving up to £489 per child.
Disneyland® Adventure holiday
Fantastic French Adventure holiday in Normandy
7 nights from 13 August: adults each pay £489 and up to two children are now free, saving up to £419 per child.
All prices are based on own travel to France, but include simple ensuite accommodation (typically in a family room), all meals, activities, equipment and instruction, entrance fees to theme parks where applicable, and family-friendly evening entertainment.
0333 321 2114, www.pgl.co.uk/families


At first blush, I didn't think a book entitled How to Live Forever was for me. I was expecting a hard sell on a new killer vitamin that would add years to my life…gene therapy that could prevent chronic disease…botox for the brain. That sort of thing.
As with many books, however, the book's main message is revealed in its sub-title: "The enduring power of connecting the generations." The author, Marc Freedman, CEO of Encore.org, wants us to understand that we live in an age-segregated society, one where housing, labour markets, education and pensions policy combine to separate the old from the young. This "age apartheid" is not only out of step with current demographic trends, he argues, but down-right counter-productive: It impedes the happiness of individuals, who benefit enormously from these cross-generational relationships, and it limits progress on a host of social ills.
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Taking the Wrinkles Out of the Production - ProSoft Technology, Inc.
Man or woman, no one likes wrinkles - well, unless you're a fan of Shar Peis or Klingons. Wrinkles are a sign of old age and people usually avoid them for as long as possible, mainly through the use of cosmetic products. In a production process, though, old, aging equipment can slow down productivity and affect the bottom line. Merrid Controls took the wrinkles out of a major cosmetic and beauty manufacturer's production process in Poland by installing ProSoft Technology radios. Data transmission wrinkles, to be exact.
The cosmetics manufacturer had an existing system using an antiquated PC computer as an HMI and a PLC. Spare parts and customer service support were scarce. The PLC's job was to control the rotating filling process, whether it was perfume, wrinkle cream, or any other cosmetic product.
"The machine is an important part of the production line, so they decided to modernize it," said Piotr Pasierowski, a control systems development engineer with systems integrator Merrid Controls. And to emphasis its importance, the machine has no backup. If it goes down, so does the entire plant.
ProSoft Technology and Merrid Controls proposed using a radiating cable and wireless radios.
"Because it would be the first radiating cable application in Poland that ProSoft Technology sold, they had doubts as to whether it would work," said Krzysztof Hajzyk, ProSoft Regional Sales Manager. These doubts were quickly dispelled after a prototype of the system was built to ensure the radiating cable would work. The prototype was flawless, but would it work on the plant floor?
They installed the system, which included a new PanelView™ Plus, so that it would work parallel to the old HMI, to further ensure its success. The radiating cable was installed inside the rotating table.
The benefits of this solution include a solid platform and communications architecture.


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A nationally representative survey showed that natural product use in the U.S. has shifted since 2007, with some products becoming more popular and some falling out of favor. Overall, natural products (dietary supplements other than vitamins and minerals) remain the most common complementary health approach.
The complementary health questionnaire was developed by NIH's National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The complementary health questionnaire is administered every 5 years as part of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual study in which tens of thousands of Americans are interviewed about their health and illness related experiences. The 2012 NHIS survey is the most current, comprehensive, and reliable source of information on the use of complementary health approaches by U.S. adults and children.
• Fish oil was the top natural product among adults.
• Adults' use of fish oil, probiotics or prebiotics, and melatonin increased between 2007 and 2012.
• Adults' use of glucosamine/chondroitin, echinacea and garlic decreased between 2007 and 2012.
• Fish oil was the top natural product among children. This is a change from 2007, when echinacea was first.
• Melatonin was the second most used natural product by children in 2012. Its use increased substantially from 2007 to 2012.
The 2012 survey results, released in a National Health Statistics Report by NCHS, are based on combined data from 88,962 American adults and 17,321 interviews with a knowledgeable adult about children aged 4-17 years. The 2012 survey is the third conducted by NCCIH and NCHS—previous surveys occurred as part of the 2002 and 2007 NHIS. Children's data were assessed in 2007 and 2012.
"The changes in use of individual natural products seen in the surveys are generally consistent with changes in nationwide sales data. Having independent confirmation of the NHIS data strengthens confidence in our findings," said Richard Nahin, PhD, MPH, the NCCIH senior advisor for scientific coordination and outreach. Dr. Nahin leads NCCIH's efforts to gather healthcare use statistics and has co-authored the surveys' reports.
Knowing the patterns of use of complementary approaches helps to inform NIH's research priorities in this area. The scientific evidence on many complementary approaches shown by NHIS results to be popular is limited. Use by the American public is one of the four guiding principles that determine the practices and products studied by NCCIH, and these NHIS findings reflect the importance of continuing to study approaches to health and wellness that the public is using, often without the benefit of rigorous scientific study. The center's research priorities also include the study of other complementary approaches—such as spinal manipulation, meditation, and massage—to manage pain and other symptoms that are not always well-addressed by conventional treatments.
NCHS Reviews Regional Complementary Health Approaches in the U.S.
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Whoops! The Play That Goes Wrong celebrated one year on Broadway since it began performances on March 9, 2017. That's one year of miraculous mistakes and ensuing comedic gold: falling sets, incorrect props and forgotten lines aren't even the half of the fun failings that go terribly wrong in the production within a production at the Lyceum Theatre. The cast, including principals Akron Watson, Ashley Bryant, Mark Evans, Amelia McClain, Harrison Unger, Alex Mandell, Jonathan Felding and more, gathered together for a photo and a slice of cake. Of course, there just had to be an error on the celebratory treat! Peek the pics, and then enjoy some belly laughs live at the Lyceum Theatre!
Cake fail! It's only fitting for the cast of The Play That Goes Wrong.


A graceful and energising practice, linking breath with movement. This class has a strong focus on the core and the dynamic element that will make you sweat.
Start your morning right, sweat it out then slip into a sweet relaxing savasana to leave the stresses of the week behind.
A gentle but flowing practice suitable for all levels will bring a gentle heat to the body and reinvigorate tired minds. Sequences are specifically designed to bring length to your body and improve posture.


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COVID-19: Decongest our prisons-former deputy interior minister advocates
A former Deputy Minister of the Interior, James Agalga, has called for Ghana's prisons population to be decongested immediately.The current situation in the prisons, he said, is too dangerous for comfort in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. He argued that the overcrowding in prisons appear to have escaped the country in the scramble to observe the social distancing directive of the government and avoiding large crowds of more than 20 people.
He said, "As I speak the prisons population is about 14,000 and yet the prisons facilities can only contain about 8,000 inmates." "This means overcrowding in our prisons is about 50 percent and we are all under threat from this coronavirus pandemic." Mr. Agalga made the call in an interview with this news portal in Parliament on Thursday.
He stressed that this is the right moment for President Nana Akufo-Addo to consider the option of exercising his prerogative of mercy function under the Constitution to grant pardon to some prisoners. "At least the petty offenders who have been incarcerated so that we can decongest our prisons facilities," he stated.
"God forbid, if there is an outbreak in the prisons we are headed for disaster.""I use this opportunity to call on the President to immediately grant pardon to some of our inmates as part of the strategies to be deployed to deal with the coronavirus pandemic," he appealed.
Mr. Agalga, who is also the Ranking Member of the Committee on Defence and Interior, noted that the last time President Akufo-Addo granted pardon to prison inmates was in 2017, ten days after he was sworn into office. "Since then he has not granted pardon to prisons' inmates." "I'm saying there is a compelling reason why those powers which are provided for under the Constitution should be invoked at this moment," he said.
Ghana, he said, should be drawing lessons from what happened in Colombia where 23 prisoners lost their lives because of agitation over the Coronavirus , which led to rioting. According to him, the United Kingdom and other countries have drawn useful lessons from the Colombia incident and are in the rocess of granting pardon to some prisoners.
"If we were to exercise the option to release some of the prisoners at this point in time, it would not be out of place.""It wouldn't even be an act in isolation." Mr Agalga argued that many inmates in Ghana's prisons are pretty offenders so they could be pardoned to free up space in the prisons. He expressed the hope that President Akufo-Addo will listen to 'wise counsel' and lockdown and also grant presidential pardon to some prisoners with a view to dicongesting the prisons.
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I95.3 is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of hypotension of hemodialysis. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code I95.3. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.
This is the official exact match mapping between ICD9 and ICD10, as provided by the General Equivalency mapping crosswalk. This means that in all cases where the ICD9 code 458.21 was previously used, I95.3 is the appropriate modern ICD10 code.


One Florida man's unemployment claim could help take down a unicorn.
In April, Darrin McGillis filed for unemployment benefits from Uber, claiming that he was unable to continue driving for the company after his vehicle was damaged. Uber is already facing a handful of lawsuits alleging that drivers should be classified, treated and paid as employees, but McGillis effectively jumped the line. With his claim approved by the state, he is effectively Uber's first employee driver — and a forerunner of likely more legal trouble to come for the growing app-based service economy that relies on legions of underpaid and underprotected contract workers in order to boost their profits.
The companies of the gig economy, the on-demand economy, the 1099 economy — whatever you want to call it — have proved the most financially successful and most ethically and legally vexing of Silicon Valley's recent startup surge. The apps may be new, but the contract work arrangement keeping these companies humming is hardly a unique or recent innovation. Hiring contractors to lower tax and legal liabilities has been a business strategy for decades. Taxi drivers were freelancers long before Uber disrupted personal vehicle travel, and they joined blue- and white-collar freelance workers across a variety of industries, from home health aides to truck drivers to engineers.
Potential class-action lawsuits like the ones pending against Lyft and Uber in California may chasten the fast-growing app-based service economy and raise awareness of worker misclassification. But the other millions of freelancers who bear the higher cost of independence with few if any of the protections that come from having a staff job will be as precarious as ever without reforms.
orientation, this study demonstrates that ideological differences in political strategies shape digital activism. A top-down reformist union had much more of an active Internet presence. It practiced representative democracy and embraced the Internet primarily as a conduit to those in power. A radical union was bottom-up and participatory, yet had low levels of digital engagement. This union viewed the Internet as just one of many tools to organize the powerless rather than a way to reach the powerful.


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24 Facts About The Bell Rock Lighthouse
by Listerious March 18, 2020, 12:38 pm
It's standing majestically in the North Sea and has been guiding ships to safety for over 200 years. In this post, you'll discover the ultimate list of facts about the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Related: Did you know that the Bell Rock Lighthouse is one of the 7 wonders of the industrial world? Discover the other 6 here.
Interesting facts about the Bell Rock Lighthouse
1. What is the Bell Rock Lighthouse?
2. Where is the Bell Rock Lighthouse located?
3. How big is the Bell Rock Lighthouse?
4. When was the Bell Rock Lighthouse built?
5. There was a huge problem in the early stage
6. Disaster nearly struck in September 1807
7. Disaster struck a lot before the lighthouse was built
8. An initial proposal was shelved
9. A new disaster woke people up
10. Stevenson's plan was finally approved
11. Who actually constructed the Bell Rock Lighthouse?
12. Stevenson used a trick to keep Rennie away
13. The design was based on an existing lighthouse
14. 60 workers were hired in total
15. The Bell Rock Lighthouse is made of granite
16. Only 1 horse was used to carry the stones
17. Building the lighthouse was very expensive
18. The result of construction paid off
19. The lighthouse is automated since 1988
20. The original lamps and reflectors of Bell Rock Lighthouse are on display
21. The Bell Rock Lighthouse used to have a colleague
22. The signal tower was converted into a museum
23. How did the lighthouse get its name?
24. The legend was immortalized
The Bell Rock Lighthouse is the oldest surviving lighthouse that actually stands in the sea. It's built on a semi-submerged reef off the east coast of Scotland.
It's considered to be one of the most impressive feats of engineering ever built and hence, earned a spot in the list of 7 wonders of the industrial world.
The Bell Rock Lighthouse / John McMillan / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
The lighthouse stands about 11 miles (18 km) off the east coast of Scotland in the Firth of Tay, which is in the council area of Angus.
What's remarkable about its location is that it stands in the sea on a reef called the "Bell Rock" which is also sometimes referred to as the Inchcape.
An interesting fact about the Inchcape is that its name refers to the Gaelic "Innis Sgeap," meaning "Beehive isle." The most common assumption is that this refers to the shape of the reef, which resembles an old-style beehive.
The Bell Rock Lighthouse far away / Mike Pennington / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
If we compare the Bell Rock Lighthouse with one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, then it's definitely not a huge tower. The one in Alexandria, which was destroyed by a severe earthquake in the 14th century, is believed to have been about standing 100 meters (330 ft) tall.
The lighthouse off the coast of Scotland stands about 35 meters tall (115 ft) and its light can be visible over 35 miles (56 km) inland.
Lighthouse of Alexandria as it supposed to have looked / Wiki Commons
One of the most remarkable facts about the Bell Rock Lighthouse is that it was built over 200 years ago when. Civil engineering and the equipment weren't at the same level we know today.
Construction started in 1807 with the excavation, but it wasn't until February 1811 that the light was lit for the first time.
Since the lighthouse is built on a reef, the surface where the excavations took place was only uncovered during low water.
At high water, the site was completely submerged, up to 16 feet (4.8 m) deep! This made it impossible to work during this time and made conditions considerably harsh.
The workers were brought to the construction site by a boat named the "Smeaton," which was attached to a moor while they were working.
Unexpectedly, the Smeaton got released from its mooring and started drifting. soon it disappeared in the distance, over 3 miles away. At the construction site, there were 32 men and 2 small boats which could carry 8 people each.
As tensions rose on the site and the men realized at least half of them would die a horrible death in the freezing water, the unexpected happened. A large boat that came to deliver some letters to the men appeared in the mist. We can only imagine the sense of relief the sight of their savior must have brought to the men.
Interesting fact: 18 of the construction workers refused to board the boat the next morning to go to work.
The scenario of the men being stranded on the Bell Rock was voided / Wiki Commons
The Bell Rock Lighthouse was constructed in order to avoid the numerous shipwrecks that the rocks off the east coast of Scotland caused.
It's estimated that on average, 6 ships were getting wrecked on the rocks that are located just below the sea surface every year.
In one major storm around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, 70 ships were wrecked. It's clear that a lighthouse was desperately needed.
The young and ambitious Scottish civil engineer Robert Stevenson understood that something needed to be done in order to avoid additional disasters.
In 1799, he was the first to submit a proposal for a lighthouse at the location the Bell Rock Lighthouse was constructed.
The proposal was shelved because the cost was high, the idea of constructing the lighthouse in a reef that only sees low tide 4 hours a day was too radical, and Stevenson was just 27 at the time of his submission.
Model of the Bell Rock Lighthouse / Nick Birse / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
On December 26, 1803, the HMS York, a ship of the Royal Navy set sail for a routine patrol in the North Sea. The ship in all its glory was never seen again, as well as the entire crew.
It's believed that she got wrecked on the Bell Rock near the location that the lighthouse would be constructed just 3 years later.
The outrage in the parliament was so big that everybody realized that the construction of a lighthouse would be of immense benefit and would save a lot of money in the long run.
The HMS York (1796) / Wiki Commons
Following the situation regarding the Bell Rock closely, Robert Stevenson saw the opportunity to submit his proposal yet again, this time to John Rennie, an established civil engineer who was 9 years older than Stevenson.
He made sure the plan and the cost were approved using his reputation, so the legislation was passed in 1806.
Who actually got credit for the construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse led to disputes between Rennie and Stevenson. It's clear that Stevenson was in charge of the construction and made the design. It's also clear that without Rennie, the funding for its construction wouldn't have been approved.
Stevenson didn't give any credit to Rennie in his notes, so it's assumed that he was in complete charge and is therefore considered to be the creator of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Robert Stevenson / Wiki Commons
Even though Stevenson was in full control of construction, this didn't mean that Rennie didn't sometimes visit the site.
At one of his visits, Stevenson got frustrated as he felt Rennie was trying to interfere with his work.
So how did Stevenson keep him away from the site?
He sent him a grand total of 82 letters, asking very specific questions about the construction. Rennie replied in full detail to every letter, which Stevenson largely ignored.
It's clear that both men didn't get along too well.
Robert Stevenson didn't have to start from scratch when he started working on the design of the Bell Rock Lighthouse. He got the idea from another lighthouse which he inspected back in 1801.
The lighthouse in question was the third version of the Eddystone Lighthouse which was also located on a reef and which was completed in 1759.
A remarkable fact about this lighthouse is that it was designed by John Smeaton, the first self-proclaimed "civil engineer" and therefore referred to as "The Father of Civil Engineering."
The third version of the Eddystone Lighthouse by John Smeaton / Wiki Commons
To emphasize that the construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse was a serious endeavor back in 1807, Stevenson was in charge of a total of 60 workers.
To give you a better idea about this, the massive Brooklyn Bridge in New York had 600 workers and The Eiffel Tower in Paris only had 250 workers.
Both these massive structures were built nearly a century later as well.
And more specifically, Aberdeen Granite, a very popular building material at the time which was quarried in and around the city of Aberdeen. No wonder that Aberdeen is nicknamed "The Granite City" right?
During the winter, the workers stopped working on-site and stonemasons cut out granite for the lighthouse to be built with.
One of those interesting facts about the Bell Rock Lighthouse is that its building material, Aberdeen Granite, is one of the most durable materials on the planet, which is very much needed for the harsh conditions it faces every day.
Houses in Aberdeen made from granite /
This reminds you that the lighthouse was built back in 1807. There wasn't a road network as we know today and definitely nothing like big trucks to bring the stones from the quarry to the construction site.
The lighthouse consists of 2,500 granite stones that were brought to the site by a single horse named Bassey.
Well done Bassey, we hope you got fed well during your labor!
Working on this project for 4 years with 60 people was pretty expensive. It cost a total of £ 42,000 which exceeded the original budget by about 40 percent.
£42,000 back then is the equivalent of over £2.5 million today.
Detail of construction works in 1809 / Wiki Commons
While the price to build the lighthouse was very high, what is accomplished has been priceless. Since the Bell Rock Lighthouse became operational, only 2 ships have wrecked, one being the "Rosecraig" in 1908 and the other being the "HMS Argyll" in 1915 during a war-time blackout (so essentially not the lighthouse's fault).
This compared to 6 ships on average every year and dozens of lives lost in these disasters, it has been one of the best investments ever.
The HMS Argyll in 1909 / Wiki Commons
The first time the lights of the lighthouse were lit was on February 1, 1811. Apart from the replacement of the lamps and reflectors in 1843, the lighthouse has always operated the same way since the first time it was lit.
It wasn't until 1988 that modernizations were done and the lighthouse operations were completely automated.
But not off the coast of Scotland.
When the lamps and reflectors were replaced in 1843 they were actually moved to the lighthouse of Cape Bonavista in Newfoundland, Canada.
In the museum on the second floor of that lighthouse, you can get to see the items that were moved from Bell Rock along with everything else related to the history of it.
Bonavista Lighthouse with the original lamps and reflectors of the Bell Rock Lighthouse / Source
The keepers of the lighthouse were stationed on the "Rock" as it was referred to. On land, however, the families of the lighthouse keepers were stationed in the "signal tower," along with the shore staff who ran the lighthouse tender that supplied the light.
The building was completed in 1813 and was operational until the advent of helicopters in 1955 which rendered its purpose useless.
The signal tower of the Bell Rock Lighthouse / Source
The museum exhibits items related to the region and more specifically the companies that were located there such as Shanks Lawnmowers, Giddings + Lewis-Fraser, and Keith & Blackman, as well as items related to the fishing industry such as scale models of fishing boats.
Most importantly, a lot of items related to the Bell Rock Lighthouse can be found here as well such as models and items that were used during its 2+ centuries of operations.
The Signal Tower Museum / Davis Mcintosh / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
The story goes that the rock is called Bell Rock because the local Abbot tried to install a warning bell on it for sailors who were in imminent danger of wrecking their boats in the 14th century.
After the bell was erected, it got stolen by pirates. This happened just one year after the bell was erected.
Apparently, Robert Stevenson wasn't impressed and deemed this story implausible and commented on it with the world: "The erection of the bell is not, however, an improbable conjecture, and we can more readily suppose that an attempt of that kind was made…"
A poem was made in 1802 by English poet Robert Southey named "The Inchcape Rock," referring to the story of how Bell Rock got its name. Below are 4 of the 17 quatrains which refer to the placing of the bell by the Abbot:
The holy Abbot of Aberbrothok
Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock
On a buoy in the storm, it floated and swung
And over the waves, its warning rung.
When the Rock was hidden by the surge's swell,
The Mariners heard the warning Bell
And then they knew the perilous Rock
And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok
The Inchcape Rock By Robert Southey
This concludes the ultimate list of facts about the Bell Rock Lighthouse, one of the most amazing feats of engineering in history!
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James William Llewellyn Alford (15 October 1913 – 5 August 2004) was a Welsh track athlete who was born in Cardiff, Wales. In 1938 Alford won the Mile Empire Games gold medal in Sydney, becoming the first athlete in a Welsh vest to strike gold in the Empire Games. He was also a member of the British 4 x 1500 metre team that broke the world record. At home he won 11 Welsh titles in disciplines ranging from the 440 yards to cross country. He became first national coach for athletics in Wales in 1948 and is a member of the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame.

As a coach Jim Alford guided and advised many UK athletes to represent the UK and gain honours internationally.  He always had time to give to disadvantaged athletes, inspiring them to reach their potential.

He was the author and collaborator of several books and many articles, also translating many overseas books and articles into English.

He worked for the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) for a number of years, organising coaching forums and writing many articles.  He was greatly respected internationally and loved and appreciated by local athletes.

External links

 Jim Alford 1938 Empire Games gold medallist dies at 90, obituary at IAAF, 9 August 2004
 Obituary by Robert Cole in The Independent, 21 August 2004

Welsh male middle-distance runners
Sportspeople from Cardiff
Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Wales
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
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Q: How to compute with Mathematica the space representation of a group for a given point set? A set of points $P = \{p_1,p_2,\dots\} \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ in 3D is given. A symmetry transformation $S \in \mathbb{R}^{3 \times 3}$ is considered here as a matrix which maps the elements of $P$ to a set $P' = SP = \{Sp_1,Sp_2,\dots\}$ such that $P=P'$ holds in the sense of sets, i.e., $P\setminus P' = \emptyset$. The set of all symmetry transformations is referred here as the point group $G = \{S_1,S_2,\dots\}$ of the given point set $P$.
For given point set $P$, how would you compute $G$ in Mathematica?
I know that for several point sets, group theory data is available and you can get the group matrices $S_i \in G$ if you know the name for the corresponding group. But I am interested on a way to get the matrices $S_i$ with Mathematica in the case I do not know the name of the corresponding group.
Explicit example: consider the 8 corners of a cube centered at the origin
P = {
   {0, 0, 0}
   , {1, 0, 0}
   , {0, 1, 0}
   , {0, 0, 1}
   , {1, 1, 0}
   , {1, 0, 1}
   , {0, 1, 1}
   , {1, 1, 1}
   };
P = P - 1/2;
Graphics3D[{PointSize -> Medium, Point@P}, Axes -> True]

For this case I know that the octahedral group $O_h$ containing 48 symmetry matrices fulfills what I want, i.e.,
G = FiniteGroupData[{"CrystallographicPointGroup", 32}, "SpaceRepresentation"];
Dimensions@G
check = And @@ (Complement[P.#, P] == {} & /@ G)

{48,3,3}
True

But I have no real idea on how to get these symmetry matrices just starting from a point set for which I have no intuition for. I do not know how to use Complement in Solve. I have been playing around with Sort in order to define some order on the set of points but, of course, that does not help in general, since you can then get only a solution for special cases.
S = Array[s, {3, 3}];
S /. First@Solve[Sort[P.S] == Sort[P]]

{{0, 0, 1}, {0, 1, 0}, {1, 0, 0}}

How would you tackle the problem with Mathematica? Thanks!

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Tag Archives: First Nations – National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
30th Anniversary of February 14 Women's Memorial March
Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls! End the Violence!
Women's memorial events are being held on Valentine's Day in cities across the country to demand justice for Indigenous women and girls who have been murdered or have gone missing, and to get the government to take measures to end the violence. The marches began in 1992 in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to demand that action be taken following the murder of a Coast Salish woman whose death was met with indifference from the authorities and the media.
Today, people from all walks of life are demanding justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls and opposing all forms of violence against women. Violence against women has been on the rise since the beginning of the pandemic, as the isolation imposed on everyone renders them all the more vulnerable.
The persistence of Indigenous women and peoples in asserting their right to be is an inspiration to all, especially their insistence on defining what it is they need and not permitting others to define what is acceptable. Continue reading →
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Patrick Brown: Am I missing something?
International Women's Day March, Toronto, March 2017
(Revised and expanded from a Facebook post on January 25) – CBC TV's The National hosted by Michael Serapio devoted the first 21 minutes of its 3-4 p.m. newscast on 25 January to the case of Patrick Brown, who has resigned/sacked as leader of the Conservative Party in Ontario although not his seat as an MPP after two women accused him of sexual misconduct. The case is dominating the news cycle. Premier Wynne, head of a government known for corruption and selling out the interests of the working class as in the case of U.S. Steel, was "shocked." For its part, the Ontario PC Party declared it "unequivocally upholds the principle that a safe and secure society is what we expect and desire" and has "a message of change." Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called the Brown allegations 'heinous." Tory MP Lisa Raitt says she has an "open door" for anyone experiencing harassment. All apparently stand for women's empowerment. Continue reading →
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Ending colonial relations with Indigenous peoples must be a central demand
Two-Row Wampum leads the march against Bill C-51, Parliament Hill, May 30, 2015. Participants affirm nation-to-nation relations with Indigenous peoples as the basis of unity in action in defence of the rights of all.
Government's agenda for First Nations sidesteps crucial issue of where sovereignty lies – Philip Fernandez
Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report underscores need to end colonial relations with Indigenous peoples
Highlights of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report
First Nations and Allies demand full participation in National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Profound opposition in Quebec to police abuse of Indigenous women – Diane Johnston
Government's agenda for First Nations sidesteps crucial issue of where sovereignty lies
By PHILIP FERNANDEZ
On December 8, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the annual Special Chiefs Assembly of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN). Among various pledges he made there, he called for a "renewed nation-to-nation" relationship with First Nations based on "respect, co-operation, and partnership," guided by "the spirit and intent of the original treaty relationship; one that respects inherent rights, treaties and jurisdictions, and the decisions of our courts."
Trudeau's speech was received with optimism at the AFN Special Chiefs' Assembly, surely because his words promise an improvement over the Harper government's abysmal relationship with First Nations. But what the Trudeau government claims will be a "renewed nation-to-nation" relationship has as yet to be fully revealed. Continue reading →
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Do you know opposites, yes or no? On. Off. Asleep. Awake. Opposites are a piece of cake . . . right? Not so fast! Time for a quick double take. Who knows what's BIG unless there is SMALL? Does SHORT mean a thing except next to TALL? What is ABOVE and what is BELOW? The answer depends on who wants to know! Writer Susan Hood and illustrator Jay Fleck lead us on a topsy-turvy fun-house journey into the concept of opposites and takes it to the next level - with detours into relative terms and points of view (and a dollop of yin and yang for good measure) .
Brand-new for 2017 is DOUBLE TAKE: A NEW LOOK AT OPPOSITES, illustrated by Jay Fleck and published by Candlewick. This topsy-turvy rhyming concept book explodes the notion of simple opposites by introducing relative terms and perspective, showing kids how point of view can affect what you see. "A powerful and timely message," says School Library Journal. "Highly recommended."
2016 was a busy year with four new picture books, starting with LEAPS AND BOUNCE, illustrated by Matthew Cordell (Hyperion) . Kirkus Reviews said, "The life cycle of a frog becomes a joyful, energetic celebration of growing up." Named a Bank Street Best Book of the Year.
Susan's first nonfiction picture book - ADA'S VIOLIN: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay - won the Bank Street Flora Steiglitz Straus Award for distinguished nonfiction; received the Christopher Medal; and was named an E.B. White Picture Book Award honoree. Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport, this is the extraordinary true tale of children living on a garbage dump in one of the poorest slums in South America and the man who saved them by creating musical instruments from the trash. Profiled on 60 Minutes, the children formed an orchestra and are now performing around the world! In a starred review, School Library Journal called the book "a virtuoso piece of nonfiction, gloriously told and illustrated." Available from Simon and Schuster in both English and Spanish editions.
published by Random House, received a starred review in Kirkus and was named a Bank Street Best Book of the Year.
THE FIX-IT MAN with illustrations from Arree Chung of NINJA fame (HarperCollins) is perfect for young builders, tinkerers and inventors and fans of MakerSpaces.


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Sermon outline: Intro – Are our words effectual? (1.) God's timing is providential, 1-16. (2.) God's message is eternal, 17-27. (3.) God's compassion is personal, 28-37. (4.) God's call is effectual & powerful, 38-44. Close – faith, but trouble looms, 45-46.
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W gli sposi è un film del 2019 diretto da Valerio Zanoli e trasmesso su Canale 5 in prima visione il 20 dicembre 2019.

Girato tra il 2016 e il 2017, è l'ultimo film interpretato da Paolo Villaggio, Gianfranco D'Angelo e Lando Buzzanca.

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Maria e suo cognato Mario, quest'ultimo di nobili origini, partono da Milano per un piccolo villaggio rurale degli Stati Uniti, per il matrimonio di Chris, figlio di Maria. Arrivati a destinazione i due scoprono che Chris è gay e ha deciso di sposare il suo compagno Michael. Entrambi vivono felicemente in una fattoria e la mamma di Michael, Rosetta, gestisce un ristorante italiano nel centro della piccola cittadina. Maria e Mario prendono male la notizia e cercano in tutti i modi di far saltare le nozze, finché Maria capisce l'importanza di mettere la felicità di suo figlio al primo posto. A questo punto, insieme a Rosetta e Chanel, la migliore amica di Chris e Michael, dovrà cercare di far cambiare idea anche a Mario. Nel corso della loro avventura, Maria e Mario sono seguiti a distanza, tramite tablet, dalla loro guida psicologica, il Dr. Schultze, e da quella spirituale, il gruppo formato dal Reverendo, il Sacrestano, Suor Clementina e Don Celestino.

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The revised 30-Hour program is intended to make it possible for teachers to complete the requirements for the professional certificate and to work with the bilingual child.
The College at Brockport, College Senate, "Education: 30 Hour MS Bilingual (Spanish)" (2004). College Senate Resolutions. 1169.


Oh man. I'm really bummed to read this review. I've been dying to get my hands on a copy for a long time now. I mean, the cover and the synopsis are so amazing that I thought this would be a real page turner. I'll still hold out hope that my library gets a copy in but maybe I will take it off of my "buy" list for now.


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Le château du Nouveau-Windstein est un monument historique situé à Windstein, dans le département français du Bas-Rhin.

Localisation
Ce bâtiment est situé à Windstein.

Historique

La première mention du château remonte au 16 juillet 1205. Henri de Windstein cède à Philippe de Hohenstauffen une dépendance de son château. Celui-ci la transmet à l'abbé Pierre de Neuenbourg qui y construit une maison. Il semblerait que ce soit le rocher du Nouveau-Windstein. Cela devient vite un repaire de brigands, détruit par Bertold de Bucheck aidé par la ville de Haguenau.

Le château aurait été érigé par Wilhelm von Windstein (Guillaume de Windstein) vers 1340 sur les ruines du précédent. Après sa mort, étant sans descendants, le château devient propriété de Roderich von Schmalenstein et Johann Ostertag von Windstein.

En 1413, il devient propriété de l'évêque de Spire. En 1469, le château devient copropriété des familles Lichtenberg, Henri d'Altdorf et Eckbrecht von Dürckheim.

En 1515, durant la guerre des paysans, le château est endommagé par les troupes d'Anton von Lothringen. Au , c'est la famille d'Eckbrecht von Dürckheim qui est propriétaire. Le château devient refuge pour les habitants locaux lors de la guerre de Trente Ans.

En 1680, les troupes françaises du baron de Monclars assiègent le château. La chronique raconte que Obrist von Dürckheim qui défend seul le château s'enfuit alors que la toiture est en feu ; il rejoint la région du Palatinat. Ses biens confisqués lui seront rendus par l'État français.

En 1820, la ruine devient propriété de la famille de Dietrich.

L'édifice fait l'objet d'un classement au titre des monuments historiques depuis 1983.

Description
À noter que le château est dépourvu de donjon.

Références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 Maurice Frey, « Observations archéologiques au château de Neu-Windstein 1985-1987 », in Études médiévales, archéologie et histoire, 1992, ,
 Alain Kieber, « Le Nouveau-Windstein : mise en valeur du patrimoine castral en Alsace du Nord », in L'Outre-Forêt, 2011, ,
 Alain Kieber, Le Nouveau Windstein : à la découverte d'un château fort au cœur du parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord, A. Kieber, Betschdorf, 2014, 67 p.
 Nouveau Windstein, sur chateauxalsaciens.free.fr/
 Château du Nouveau-Windstein, sur www.chateauxfortsalsace.com/
 Windstein, Jaegerthal et ses châteaux ..., sur reichshoffen.free.fr/

Articles connexes

 Liste des châteaux du Bas-Rhin
 Liste des monuments historiques du Bas-Rhin

Liens externes

 Le nouveau windstein

Monument historique dans le Bas-Rhin
Monument historique classé en 1983
Windstein Nouveau
Windstein Nouveau


3 December Katowice, Poland - The Pacific and Koronivia Pavilion has opened its doors at the Twenty-fourth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, bringing the Pacific flavour to the event in Katowice, Poland.
The Pavilion will showcase events highlighting Pacific innovation and climate action, being freely available to the 20,000 plus delegates attending the UNFCCC COP24.
The official Opening event brought together not only delegates from around the Pacific and New Zealand, but also delegates and participants from around the world.
The Pavilion itself is a unique partnership between COP23 Presidency of Fiji, with support from the New Zealand Government, and the Pacific's regional agencies. These agencies include the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the agencies of the Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific, namely the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat through the Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner, the Pacific Community and the Pacific Islands Development Forum.
The opening event featured the Hon. Inia Seruiratu, COP23 High Level Climate Champion of Global Climate Action, and Minister for Defence and National Security of Fiji on behalf of the COP23 Presidency; Ms Anna Broadhurst, Climate Change Unit Manager, and Head of Delegation for the Government of New Zealand; and Ms Tagaloa Cooper-Halo, Director of Climate Change Resilience Programme of SPREP.
On behalf of the New Zealand Government, Ms Anna Broadhurst congratulated the COP23 Presidency of Fiji for leaving a successful legacy for COP24, and expressed New Zealand's excitement over the Pavilion partnership and the side events to come over the next two weeks.
"This Pavilion is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people, and we are excited about the next few weeks. As fellow Pacific countries – prosperity and our security are intrinsically linked – climate change, as Pacific leaders have acknowledged, is the single greatest threat to the livelihoods and security and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific, and New Zealand hears that message," said Ms Broadhurst.
Climate Champion, Hon. Inia Seruiratu spoke on behalf of the Fiji Prime Minister, Hon. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, to thank the Government of New Zealand and acknowledge the support of all including the regional agencies which came together for the Pavilion.
"This is a unique partnership we have forged, and through it we have the opportunity to highlight the particular vulnerability of Pacific islanders to climate change and spread the word about our collective mitigation and adaptation efforts," said Hon. Seruiratu.
The Pacific and Koronivia Pavilion is centred around three key themes stemming from COP23: the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA); the Ocean Pathway Partnership; and the Talanoa Dialogue.
"Koronivia is the name of the place outside of Suva, where for many years the Fijian Government has had an agricultural research and training station where many prominent Pacific agriculturists have received training. So it is fitting that the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture is named after this site given its history of innovation and strengthening capacities of Small Island Developing States," said Hon. Seruiratu.
While Fiji has formally handed over the presidency of COP to Poland, the Fijian Government has expressed its intention to continue playing a lead role in the area of climate change, especially in the Talanoa dialogues that have occurred not only at COP but around the world.
"We can all be proud that our Talanoa concept of inclusive and respectful engagement has captured the imagination of the whole world, and is a wonderful legacy for the Fijian Presidency. We encourage you to actively engage in open and constructive talanoa over the next few days," concluded Hon. Seruiratu.


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This is the only known 1911 Great Britain 5 Pound Die Trial. It was struck on March 14, 1911 on an oversized lead planchet with a width of 44.32mm and is 5.69mm thick. It is a uniface die trial of the finished obverse die used strike the 1911 gold 5 Pound in proof.
The gold issue in proof, with a low mintage of 2,812 pieces, was struck in 1911 to commemorate the coronation of King George V. The obverse was designed by Bertram MacKennal. The fineness is .9170, the weight is 39.94 grams and the diameter is 37mm.
King George V was from the German Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The British Royal Family changed it's name to the House of Windsor during WWI, making King George V it's first monarch with this title.
Discovered in the vaults of Baldwin's, a major London numismatic dealer and auctioneer established in 1872, it was authenticated by The Royal Mint in 1983 after having been stored in the vault for decades. It was subsequently pedigreed to the C.M. Kraay Collection which included unique lead die trials from Great Britain and British colonies.
In the Ashmolean Museum, a part of the University of Oxford England, is an exhibit on display loaned from The Royal Mint Museum in London. Included in this display are coinage tools from the reign of King George V, showing the sequence in producing his coinage. Two of the most fascinating items are plaster models of the final adopted design of the portrait of King George V, which is found on all coinage during his reign.
It was recently authenticated and certified by NGC and is considered unique in private hands. It is struck in high relief exhibiting a full strike and detail, which is unusual with lead die trials. This is a historical and fascinating numismatic rarity from Great Britain's Royal Mint and belongs in a world class collection of coinage or patterns.


I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. Your continued support of this site makes the work and time it takes worthwhile. The legal threats keep coming and the first demand in 2003 to close the site came on the first day of January, but the site is still here and my ever-increasing bills for bandwidth are evidence that I must be doing something right. Actually, the legal threats also prove that I am doing something right, because if the targets of this site care enough to start bullying then they must feel threatened themselves. A day spent annoying some of these people is not a wasted day.
I predict that 2004 will bring more complaints from crooks, charlatans and bigots, and I fully expect that the personal attacks on me will become more ferocious as the Australian Council Against Health Fraud evolves and grows over the year. (The first public attacks on me occurred within 24 hours of the announcement of the formation of the organisation.) I also predict that these complaints and attacks will have just as much effect in 2004 as they have had in the previous five years, which is none. I would again like to thank everyone for their support and for coming back week after week. And I really will try harder to answer all the email next year.
Part of the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is that psychiatry is bad. His original feelings on this might have been influenced by the fact that he was mad and he felt threatened by a medical speciality which existed to treat that madness. Put another way, he felt that if there were no psychiatry there would be no madness for it to treat and this would make him sane by definition. (This is not meant to make sense. Remember than Hubbard was insane.) The real reason that Scientology opposes psychiatry, however, is that Scientology's target market is people who are depressed, unhappy, susceptible to suggestion, and don't feel that they fit in to society. Anybody offering to treat these conditions with some behavioural therapy and a course of Prozac is an obvious threat to a cult which wants to brainwash people into paying several hundred thousand dollars to cross a mythical bridge to personal awareness.
I have just seen some pictures on television of survivors being found amongst the destruction caused by the earthquake which hit Bam in Iran just after Christmas. Inevitably, finding people alive after several days is described as a "miracle", as though there was some supernatural cause which allowed these people to be found alive rather than just the persistent and optimistic hard work of many people who were prepared to patiently examine the rubble in a way which is grossly inefficient but which minimises the possibility of causing more harm to people trapped in the debris. If some god was going to perform miracles a week after the event, it raises the question of why he or she or it allowed 30,000 other people to be crushed to death in the first place. It's not the sort of god I would want to believe in. Some good may come of this tragedy, however, as it seems to have opened a crack in the idiotic diplomatic barrier between Tehran and Washington. It's just a terrible shame that so many people have to die before politicians feel the need to start acting like human beings.
Where were the psychics and astrologers who predicted this earthquake and warned everyone to get out of town? I realise that most professional psychics always predict a couple of earthquakes every year so that they can claim the inevitable hits, but I want to see how they spin this one. "I predicted an earthquake in a country with the letter 'a' in its name". "I said an earthquake would happen in a month with an 'r' in it". "When I took your money for my predictions I said 'Wham, bam, thank you ma'am'. How's that for accuracy? I even got the town right." And they will still take people's money for this fraud next year, and the year after, and ... .
My grand trip to the other side of the world where it's winter and things are measured in feet and inches starts on Friday, January 9, and I will not be back in Ratbag Castle until about January 25. I will be taking my computer with me and I have all the pieces of magic hardware which are supposedly necessary for connecting to the Internet, so I hope to be able to do some site updates while I am away. The real test will be when I wander into a Starbucks somewhere and start following the instructions to connect to T-Mobile's WiFi hot point. It had better work, because I don't think a double latte with chocolate and truffle chips and a splash of crème du radium is going to be enough to calm me down. I might have to have a triple-strength moccha with Italian dressing and a toasted meringue topping, laced with aspartame.
Seriously, though, I don't expect to have too many technology problems, but I won't be able to guarantee an update schedule between now and the end of January. If you want to be notified of changes to the site, please register with ChangeDetection. This is the change notification system used by Steve Gibson at grc.com and he's about as paranoid about security as it is possible to get, so I'm not too worried about email addresses falling into the hands of spammers.
I am now back at the webface after the Grand Tour of the bottom left-hand corner of the USA and the top left-hand corner of Mexico. My intention to update this site while I was away was thwarted by a combination of Murphy's Law and Microsoft (some would say that there is little difference) when all of the components of MS Office decided to stop working until I inserted an Office XP CD. As my CD was several thousand kilometres away, the hotel was still using Office 2000 and I was not about to buy a retail copy of Office, FrontPage was broken and I couldn't do any updates. Of course PowerPoint was also broken, which is how I came to be in Kinko's at midnight burning a CD of my presentation to James Randi's Amazing Meeting so that it could be loaded onto someone else's computer. While I was at Kinko's my travelling companion, SkeptoBear (seen in the picture at right with a magician), was enjoying himself at a pyjama party with many of the ladies attending the conference. Not only did SkeptoBear get to see the pyjamed ladies, but while in Las Vegas he also had his photo taken with Bob Park (of What's New? and the book Voodoo Science), Stephen Barrett (Quackwatch), Eugenie Scott (National Council for Science Education), Michael Shermer (from the Skeptics Society), Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) and Elvis. I was not photographed with any of these people, but am I envious of SkeptoBear? Well, of course I am. One day the full story of the bear's rampage through Las Vegas and California will be told.
Not all of my experiences with travelling technology were bad, and I would like to offer sincere compliments to the T-Mobile HotSpot network and Starbucks who together provided the resources which allowed me to access my email and do other Internet things wherever I went. If you have to travel in the US and you have a WiFi equipped computer I thoroughly recommend getting a T-Mobile temporary account. There seem to be more Starbucks outlets than fire hydrants and the coffee is not too bad, but make sure your battery is full because there aren't many tables with handy power points.
While I'm in a complimenting mood, I must congratulate the organisers of the 2004 Amazing Meeting. There were some problems with the venue but the list of speakers was excellent (you can see some of the names above) and nobody could have come away disappointed. It was one of the best skeptic conventions I have ever attended, and I'm already trying to work out how I can afford to get to the 2005 Meeting. The location has not yet been decided although a return to Las Vegas is quite likely. Many people are rooting for New Orleans (the Australians are barracking for New Orleans rather than rooting), but wherever it is I want to be there. You should be there too.
If you were wondering what sort of an organisation would employ a public relations consultant who only has a mobile phone and gives his office address as a post box then you should meet Tim Bolen's most well-known client. She is not-a-medical-Dr Hulda Clark, and she has The Cure for All Diseases and The Cure for All Cancers, according to her books. Clark has a clinic in Tijuana where she used to steal money from desperate people in a place out of reach of the US legal system. The Mexican authorities shut her down, but her PR apparatus is claiming that this was only a temporary setback and it's business as usual. To get to her clinic, you walk into Mexico at the Tijuana entry point and then turn in the opposite direction from the other tourists. You walk a short distance into what could politely be described as a slum and there it is in all its pinkness. You can click on any of the pictures below to see the place in all its putrid, colourful glory. Keep in your mind the fact that people with AIDS were asked to pay $15,000 per week to go there to be "cured".
One of my New Year resolutions is to be much kinder and gentler to my opponents. An example of this policy in action can be seen in the email quoted in the next article.
To give you an idea of the thought processes of SBS non-believers, here is an email I received this week. It was sent to two different email addresses, seven minutes apart. The second time it arrived the subject line asked "did you write this article on SBS???". I do not know to which article the writer was referring, so I can't answer the question.
I would like to publicly thank PayPal and MailWasher for the excellent service I received from both this week. Someone managed to fraudulently extract money from the PayPal account belonging to the Australian Council Against Health Fraud. As soon as it was reported, PayPal reversed the transaction and made sure that my credit card was reimbursed for any charges. They are investigating how the problem occurred, but the speed of the response is something that anyone who has ever had a problem with a bank credit card will agree is exceptional. I have mentioned before how useful the MailWasher program is in handling spam. I wanted to upgrade my free version to the fully-featured version but I did the wrong thing and my money was recorded as a donation instead. I emailed them with a suggestion that they should make the upgrade process a little clearer and they responded by giving me a free upgrade to the Pro version with updates for life. Again, I would like to congratulate both organisations for showing that the concept of customer service still lives.
While I was in the USA, Mr William P O'Neill of the Canadian Cancer Research Group, a fading quackery organisation responsible for the deaths of at least two people, rang my home and spoke foully to my wife. He also contacted the management of the hosting service for this site in another vain attempt to have this site shut down. He has also sent me a couple of stupid email messages, but as he sent them anonymously they have been added to the Gutless Anonymous Liar page. One of them abused my family. As Mr O'Neill's first ever email to me, four years ago, also abused my wife you would think that he would have figured out by now that this will not make me go away. Well, you might think that because you have an intellect, but we are talking about Mr William P O'Neill here ... Another of his recent stupidities was to announce to the world that my passport had been confiscated and that I would not be allowed into the United States. Mr O'Neill might like to consider the following picture. If he clicks on it he will see a beautiful coloured image of page seven of my passport.
Creationists love to point out that evolution is "only a theory". This is supposed to be an argument that demolishes us Darwinists and evolutionists. In fact, it just tells us that we are dealing with someone who is either ignorant of what words mean or who is prepared to deceive. I received the following devastating rebuttal of evolution this week, and I reproduce it in its entirety.
The short answer is "You don't". This is a typical misuse of the word "theory" by creationists. The word has a specific meaning in science, and that meaning isn't "some untested idea". It's the next stage beyond "hypothesis", where the idea has been comprehensively tested and has been strongly confirmed (if you are a follower of Carnap) and not falsified (if you follow Popper). The electronics in the computer I am using are based on theories in physics, but the thing seems to work. The use of the word "prove" is interesting too, as it originally meant "test". It survives in this meaning in the aphorisms "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" and "The exception proves the rule", as well as in the terms "proof-reading" and the use of the word "proof" as a measure of the alcoholic content of spirits. I would also like to point out that gravity is only a theory, and the writer is welcome to doubt its veracity the next time he is on a balcony or a bridge.
Apparently the state of Georgia in the USA has decided to remove the word "evolution" from text books and replace it with some euphemism like "biological change over time". What idiocy! What cowardice! If they think that this will make the creationists happy they are wrong. All it will do is provide more words for lawyers and duplicitists to argue about. The Australian Museum in Sydney has a display about "biological change over time" and every time I go there I make sure I look at the sign which says "Evolution is a fact". I couldn't have put it better myself.
While in the USA I had the pleasure of visiting the National Center for Science Education. I found it a much more pleasant place to visit than the Institute for Creation Research and the ICR wasn't even open when I got there! If it had been, I would have been faced with the moral dilemma of deciding whether to pay to go into their museum or not. Luckily, some higher power intervened and I was spared the choice, the embarrassment, and the outrage. The NCSE have some wonderful bumper stickers, and you can see one below. My trouble is that the only place I could put it on my car already has a Darwin fish on it, so I guess I will just have to put my sticker on my office wall.


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Tutorials Get started creating your own stunning demonstrations, presentations and tutorials by following these tutorials. All were created with Demo Builder to show its power and flexibility.... JavaFX Tutorial - JavaFX Events « Previous; Next » Clicking on a button usually triggers an event. For example, clicking the print button on the print dialog we meant to print a document to printer.
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Project Window: this area shows the files and folders of our project. The only folder we'll see in our new scene is the Assets folder, which is created automatically and it's where we'll place all the game assets (3D models, scripts, audio files, images, etc).
The new UI components, TreeTableView, DatePicker, and SwingNode, that were introduced in the Java SE 8 are now supported in Scene Builder 2.0. To see the list of JavaFX 8 UI components that are available, type FX8 in the Library panel's search text field.
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COLD WAR CUBA,THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT, AND THE END OF SOVIET BOLDNESS
July 1, 2010 by Lisa Reynolds Wolfe
As chair of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983, Castro came close to gaining a seat for Cuba on the UN Security Council. He lost the bid when his Soviet supporters invaded Afghanistan.
Because of Cuba's sensitive economic situation, Castro had no choice but to fall in line behind the Soviets, a position which greatly undermined his leadership position.
The United States attempted to convert Islamic and other Third World criticism of the Soviet Union into a trend accelerating association with the US; however, most of the non-aligned nations were intent on remaining so.
The era of Soviet boldness came to an end when — in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution — militants seized the American embassy.
The ensuing hostage crisis galvanized the Carter administration into action, spurring a US military buildup.
Third World governments — Oman, Somalia, Kenya — were soon approached regarding continuing American access to naval and air facilities, and a sizable American fleet came to be stationed in the Indian Ocean.
The problems in Iran exacerbated existing fears that the Soviets were involved in creating a broad arc of crisis reaching from Africa throughout Southeast Asia, representing a sweeping assault on the status quo.
Filed Under: Cuba
J GEE says
For historical and intellectual accuracy it would be nice to know the origin of the photo.
Lisa Reynolds Wolfe says
You're right of course. I first used that photo in 2010 and have lost the credit if I ever had it. At that time I was purchasing stock photography.


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Bruce, William Cabell
(12 March 1860–09 May 1946)
Eric R. Jackson
https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1400083
Bruce, William Cabell (12 March 1860–09 May 1946), author, municipal politician, reformer, and U.S. senator, was born at "Staunton Hill," his father's plantation, in Charlotte County, Virginia, the son of Charles Bruce, a planter, Virginia state senator, and captain during the Civil War, and Sarah Alexander Seddon, both members of established, affluent families in Virginia. Although the Bruce family lost much of their wealth during the Civil War, William still grew up surrounded by maids, servants, tailors, and tutors. Bruce's mother, a devout Christian, instilled in William strong religious beliefs that influenced his character throughout his formative years....