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Slot-die coating | The rigid substrates employed in sheet-to-sheet systems are not compatible with the roll-to-roll processing method. Sheet-to-sheet systems rely instead on a rack-based system to transport individual sheets between the various stations of a process line, where transfer between stations may occur in a manual or automated manner. Sheet-to-sheet lines are therefore more analogous to a series of semi-coupled batch operations rather than a single continuous process. This allows for easier optimization of individual unit operations at the expense of potentially increased handling complexity and reduced throughput. Furthermore, the need to start and stop the slot-die coating process for each substrate sheet places higher tolerance requirements on the leading and trailing edge uniformity of the slot-die step. In sheet-to-sheet lines, the substrate may be fixed in place as the substrate passes underneath on a moving support bed (sometimes referred to as a "chuck"). Alternatively, the slot-die may move during coating while the substrate remains fixed in place. |
Slot-die coating | Slot-die coating is a non-contact coating method, in which the slot-die is typically held over the substrate at a height several times higher than the target wet film thickness. The coating fluid transfers from the slot-die to the substrate via a fluid bridge that spans the air gap between the slot-die lips and substrate surface. This fluid bridge is commonly referred to as the coating meniscus or coating bead. The thickness of the resulting wet coated layer is controlled by tuning the ratio between the applied volumetric pump rate and areal coating rate. Unlike in self-metered coating methods such as blade- and bar coating, the slot-die does not influence the thickness of the wet coated layer via any form of destructive physical contact or scraping. The height of the slot-die therefore does not determine the thickness of the wet coated layer. The height of the slot-die is instead significant in determining the quality of the coated film, as it controls the distance that must be spanned by the meniscus to maintain a stable coating process. |
Slot-die coating | Slot-die coating operates via a pre-metered liquid coating mechanism. The thickness of the wet coated layer ( t w e t {\displaystyle t_{wet}} ) is therefore significantly determined by the width of coating ( W {\displaystyle W} ), the volumetric pump rate ( Q {\displaystyle Q} ), and the coating speed, or relative speed between the slot-die and the substrate during coating ( U {\displaystyle U} ). Increasing the pump rate increases the thickness of the wet layer, while increasing the coating speed or coating width decreases the wet layer thickness. The coating width is typically a fixed value for a given slot-die process. Hence, pump rate and coating speed can be used to calculate, control, and adjust the wet film thickness in a highly predictable manner. However, deviation from this idealized relationship can occur in practice due to non-ideal behavior of materials and process components; for example when using highly viscoelastic fluids, or a sub-optimal process setup where fluid creeps up the slot-die component rather than transferring fully to the substrate. |
Slot-die coating | The coating window can be visualized by plotting two such key parameters against each other while assuming the others to remain constant. In an initial simple representation, the coating window can be described by plotting the relationship between viable pump rates and coating speeds for a given process. Excessive pumping or insufficient coating speeds result in defect spilling of the coating liquid outside of the desired coating area, while coating too quickly or pumping insufficiently results in defect breakup of the meniscus. The pump rate and coating speed can therefore be adjusted to directly compensate for these defects, though changing these parameters also affects wet film thickness via the pre-metered coating mechanism. Implicit in this relationship is the effect of the slot-die height parameter, as this affects the distance over which the meniscus must be stretched while remaining stable during coating. Raising the slot-die higher can thus counteract spilling defects by stretching the meniscus further, while lowering the slot-die can counteract streaking and breakup defects by reducing the gap that the meniscus must breach. Other helpful coating window plots to consider include the relationship between fluid capillary number and slot-die height, as well as the relationship between pressure across the meniscus and slot-die height. The former is particularly relevant when considering changes in fluid viscosity and surface tension (i.e. the effect of coating various materials with significantly different rheology), while the latter is relevant in the context of applying a vacuum box at the upstream face of the meniscus to stabilize the meniscus against breakup. |
Talaat Harb Street | Despite Nasser's attempt to mask colonial Egypt's history, done in the 1950s and 1960s, the structural design of the upper building facades on Talaat Harb Street is a reminder of a multi-colonial past. Various types of architecture representing different eras of Egyptian history are displayed on the floors above the new roughly redesigned yet inviting store facades on street level. Most of these buildings appear to be left over from the days of Khedive Ismail and his goal to create a new European inspired quarter in Cairo during the second half of the 19th century. He who stressed urban planning for the first time in Cairo, to include broad, linear gridded streets, open spaces and parks, geometric balance and harmony, and then modern European architectural styles. Yet the once grand appearance of these buildings has been lost to the clinging dust, battered shutters and general lack of outward upkeep. Interspersed between these sad structures are their modern counterparts, which appear significantly more aged than the actual date of the structure would suggest due to their hasty and incomplete construction. Identical glossy storefronts strung together along the street level provide a degree of continuity and collectively sacrifice the history disappearing above them for an eager pursuit of western culture and commerce. |
Talaat Harb Street | J. Groppi, the once world famous chocolatier, still holds its place in the midan on Talaat Harb Street, without its former global prominence. In the late 1920s Groppi opened a shop in Soliman Pasha square and continued conducting business with Egypt's elite. Established in the early 1900s, Groppi was once "the most celebrated tearoom this side of the Mediterranean" and was repeatedly the shop of choice for gifts among royalty, including princess Margaret and Elizabeth of England. Miraculously, Groppi narrowly escaped the destruction of Black Saturday and the burning of Cairo in January 1952, although much of this downtown area did not. Perhaps of greater destruction to the Groppi enterprise was its interaction with President Nasser, as he ordered a bomb be placed inside the downtown shop in an effort to promote public insecurity and gain his legitimacy. During the following years Groppi lost its original flavor of successful innovation as expert business practices gave way to the socialism of Nasser's Egypt. Groppi still exists today, with unprofessional staff, a minuscule choice of pastry and drinks, and tables and floors uncleaned for a long time making the establishment into a museum not of its past glory but of Soviet-style mismanagement and contempt of customers. |
2019 Gabonese coup attempt | The pro-coup forces seized control of the national broadcaster Radio Télévision Gabonaise. Gabon's Republican Guard deployed various armoured vehicles throughout the capital, including Nexter Aravis MRAPs, a type not previously known to have been in the Gabonese military's inventory. The coup attempt was put down by 10:30 am after the Gabon's Gendarmerie Intervention Group assaulted the Radio Télévision Gabonaise in which the pro-coup forces were holed up. Two pro-coup soldiers were killed in the assault. Officers involved in the coup took hostages which have since been released by Gabonese officials. Hours after the coup announcement, government officials stated that the situation was "under control" with rebels arrested or on the run; two of the rebels were shot dead and Lieutenant Obiang was reported under arrest. NetBlocks observed that internet connectivity was briefly (though partially) restored across Gabon by 10:00 am UTC before falling back offline, and only returning fully 11:00 am the next day. Security Minister Guy-Bertrand Mapangou stated that the eight arrested people were handed over to the public prosecutor. The government of Gabon announced that President Bongo would be returning to the country "very soon". |
1553 succession crisis | The plan to remove Mary from the succession and replace her with a Protestant heir from the younger Tudor branch had been in Edward's mind since December 1552. In June 1553, the terminally ill Edward, influenced by the regent John Dudley, named sixteen-year-old Jane Grey, great-granddaughter of Henry VII and daughter-in-law of John Dudley, as his successor. On July 6, 1553, Edward died, and three days later the Privy Council proclaimed Jane Grey Queen of England. Mary, anticipating the actions of the London authorities, fled to eastern England, proclaimed herself queen, and led an armed rebellion. By July 13, when John Dudley personally led a military operation against Mary, she had mobilized up to six thousand armed supporters. Not daring to attack the superior rebel forces concentrated at Framlingham Castle, Dudley retreated to Cambridge and ceased his resistance. The actions of the smaller forces of Jane Grey's supporters on land and sea, and the actions of Princess Elizabeth's detachment, did not affect the outcome of the conflict. On July 19, the Privy Council deposed Jane Grey and proclaimed Mary Queen. John Dudley surrendered without a fight, and his allies joined the victors. On August 3, Mary triumphantly entered London and took control of the country. A five-year period of Catholic Counter-Reformation began in England. |
1553 succession crisis | The first documentary evidence of Edward's plans is his My Deuise for the Succession. The surviving document is written from beginning to end in Edward's hand, in the firm handwriting of a physically fit man. The imperfect, confused language of the order, according to David Lodes, betrays the political immaturity of its author. It is not known whether it was Edward's sole initiative or whether the king's tutor William Thomas had a hand in its creation. There is also no consensus on the date of composition of the first text of the Deuise. Wilbur Jordan, David Lodes, Linda Porter, Geri McIntosh, and other modern historians believe that it was composed by Edward in full health — that is, no later than February or even January 1553. According to Stanley Bindoff, it was written in mid-May, shortly before the wedding of Jane Grey and Guilford Dudley. In all interpretations, the Deuise is seen as the will not of a dying king, but of one who was either healthy or expected to recover. It remained a secret not only from Mary and Elizabeth but also from the regent John Dudley until early June 1553. Edward probably realized that his proposal was against his father's will and custom (in the Plantagenet and Tudor dynasties, power always passed through the male line) and did not risk discussing it even with his closest supporters. |
1553 succession crisis | The essence of the document was to give priority to the throne to the unborn sons of Lady Frances Grey, followed by the unborn sons of her unmarried daughter Jane Grey. The choice of the descendants of Henry VII's youngest daughter was easy: Edward had no choice. He could not follow Salic law because of the paucity of men in the Tudor line: the only such man, the eight-year-old Henry Stuart, was Catholic — and therefore unacceptable. The Plantagenet men were also unacceptable: Edward Courtney spent his entire conscious life imprisoned in the Tower, cardinal Pole and his brothers were Catholics and political emigrants. Having excluded from consideration the descendants of the Plantagenets, Henry VII's eldest daughter Margaret (the Scottish Stuarts) and his son (sisters Mary and Elizabeth), Edward was forced to choose from the descendants of Henry VII's youngest daughter Mary. There were no male descendants in this branch of the Tudors, and the oldest woman of childbearing age was Mary's thirty-five-year-old daughter Frances Grey. If Frances could not bear a child, Frances's eldest daughter, Jane, could. She was young, healthy, and brought up in the Protestant faith, and her other qualities were of no importance. Jane Grey was only a temporary means of reproduction. Once Edward had children of his own, there would be no need for Jane and her offspring. |
1553 succession crisis | On February 6, 1553, Edward fell ill. After two weeks of bed rest, he appeared in public on February 21, though he was still not fully recovered. His condition was not initially alarming, as he was considered a robust and healthy teenager. Government operations continued as usual. On March 1, Parliament met in London to discuss arrangements for an extraordinary tax. Edward visited Parliament on March 31 to extend its session. After a brief public appearance on April 11, Edward retired to a country palace in Greenwich. The precise course of his illness in April 1553 is not well-documented. It is likely that he felt some relief later in the month, but by May 7, he was too weak to receive the French ambassador. On May 12, doctors diagnosed Edward with a "suppurative tumor of the lung". Despite rumors circulating in London, aristocrats and diplomats did not perceive the situation as critical. According to ambassadors who visited the king on May 17, there was no immediate threat to his life. |
1553 succession crisis | In April-May 1553, regent John Dudley focused on arranging two significant marriages within his family. He married his daughter Katherine to Henry Hastings, heir to the Earl of Huntingdon, and his son Guildford to Jane Grey. Jane's sister Katherine had also married Henry Herbert. Guildford and Jane's wedding took place on May 21. Charles V's ambassador, Jean Scheyfve, was the first to recognize the political implications and reported to the emperor on June 12, that Dudley was orchestrating a coup to place Jane Grey on the throne. Scheyfve may have anticipated these developments and attributed plans to Dudley that were not yet fully formulated. The marriage between Jane Grey and Guildford Dudley was not Dudley's primary goal. Initially, Dudley aimed to marry Guildford to Margaret Clifford, but the Clifford family refused due to Dudley's lack of noble lineage, leading him to negotiate with the Grey family instead. Dudley did not intend to incite an armed rebellion, and legal avenues to remove Mary from the line of succession did not become available until June. Until early June, Dudley, invested in the king's recovery, remained hopeful. He summoned physicians to attend the ailing king and utilized all known remedies of the time, which fueled public speculation about Edward's possible deliberate poisoning. |
1553 succession crisis | The king's will alone was not enough to change the order of succession. Edward had to approve it by one of two possible procedures: either the law had to be approved by Parliament, or a royal letters patent had to be approved by the Privy Council, the high clergy, and the chief judges and then ratified by Parliament. Parliamentary hearings required time, which Edward no longer had and would have led to unwanted publicity, so the king and Dudley took the second route. On June 11, Edward summoned the high justices to his house for the initial approval of the next, third, revision of the Deuise. The judges were to edit the text, unanimously approve it, and submit the final, fourth revision to the king for approval. However, on June 12, at a meeting with the king, Chief Judge Edward Montagu strongly refused to approve the draft and accused Dudley of treason. Dudley responded with counter-accusations, and the dispute nearly ended in an armed clash. As a result, on June 15-16, the judges drew up a legal document unprecedented before—a will, a royal patent, and a public manifesto at the same time. |
1553 succession crisis | Up to this point, the Privy Council, torn by partisan interests, had no unanimous opinion on the succession to the throne. However, the news of the judges' support for the royal project radically changed the balance of power: now only a few dared to oppose the king's will. Dudley persuaded those who hesitated with bribes and threats, and by June 18, the Council had reached a consensus. Thomas Cranmer and William Cecil, who had hitherto objected, gave up the fight and joined the majority of the Council. On June 21, Edward signed the clean slate of the fourth revision; the very next day, Dudley collected a sufficient number of signatures from the titled nobility and high clergy. 102 people signed the Succession Act: the first, as the highest clergyman, was Cranmer; the last, after Edward's death, were the aldermen of the City of London Corporation. Having secured the approval of the royal patent, Dudley did not venture to announce it publicly. This decision, whose motives can only be guessed at, was wrong: at the critical moment, the provinces, which considered Mary the rightful heiress, refused to support Jane Grey. |
1553 succession crisis | Mary's party consisted of a core of committed Catholics and many fellow travelers who joined the rebellion for a variety of motives. Mary made full use of the underground network of like-minded Catholics, but she also needed the support of Protestants and therefore refrained from religious rhetoric for the time being. Paradoxically, the rebellion was supported not only by individual Protestants but also by entire Protestant communities, such as the urban community of Coventry. Suffolk peasants were brought into Mary's camp by their hatred of Dudley for his brutal defeat of Robert Kett's rebellion. The lord-lieutenant of Norfolk, Henry Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, was forced to defect to Mary's side and led her army after the rebels took his son hostage. The Lord Viceroy of Suffolk, Thomas Wentworth, supported Jane Grey on July 11 but moved with his troops to Mary's side on July 14, probably out of self-preservation as his home was only twenty miles from the rebel camp. Thomas Cornwallis, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Richard Southwell, one of the authors of the "Declaration", did the same. The reluctant John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, was persuaded by his own servants, who were prepared to go to Mary with or without their master. Osbert Montfort, a merchant from King's Lynn, sided with Mary and secured the arrest of rivals who supported Jane Grey. Protestant adventurers Peter Carew and Nicholas Throckmorton voluntarily campaigned for Mary — and six months later participated in a rebellion against her. |
1553 succession crisis | Between July 10 and 13, the Privy Council recognized the threat posed by Mary and decided to send a full military expedition to East Anglia. The road to this decision was not an easy one: there was no consensus among the advisors, and Jane Grey unexpectedly intervened. According to one source, she demanded that her own father be appointed commander; according to others, she protested against such an appointment. Contemporaries recognized that Henry Grey was unsuitable for the role, and other available candidates were weak. John Dudley was forced to take command of the punitive campaign, leaving London in the care of the same Henry Grey and unreliable fellow travelers from the Privy Council. On July 11, without waiting for their decision, Dudley began feverishly recruiting mercenaries. His agents offered hired infantrymen, according to various sources, from 10 to 20 pennies a day—against the usual pay of 6 pence. The number of troops raised by Dudley is not reliably known. David Lodes writes of 1,500 men marching from London. Foreign ambassadors estimated it at 3,000 to 4,000 men, while the prosecutor at John Dudley's trial cited 3,000 (including any reinforcements received en route). The composition of the force (mostly mounted) was far from optimal, but Dudley had artillery, which Mary had not had until the arrival of naval guns from Brooke's squadron. Dudley himself and his companions, William Grey and Edward Clinton, were the best English generals of their day, and the quality of Dudley's cavalry was described by witnesses as excellent. |
1553 succession crisis | On the morning of July 18, Dudley left Cambridge for Framlingham, expecting to receive reinforcements along the way. Instead, he was met at Newmarket by a messenger with alarming news from London. Dudley reached Bury St. Edmunds, turned back, and returned to Cambridge on July 19 or 20, where he was overtaken by news of a coup in London. There are several explanations for what happened at Bury St. Edmunds. According to the traditional version, Dudley's forces were undermined by mass desertions: by July 19, the Regent had nothing to fight with. However, all sources reporting militia desertions are based on hearsay, and all influential, named commanders remained in the ranks on July 19. It has been suggested that Mary's agents deprived the army of food by stealing cattle. According to Eric Ives, Dudley refused to fight because of the intelligence he had received about the size and composition of the enemy forces. As they approached, the quality of the intelligence improved, and by July 19 Dudley was convinced that he was facing ten thousand men in prepared positions. Perhaps, writes Ives, the decisive factor was the news of the arrival of shipboard artillery. |
1553 succession crisis | On July 19, the Privy Council deposed Jane Grey, proclaimed Mary Queen, and ordered Dudley to cease his resistance. The circumstances and motives of this decision are not known (all witnesses distorted the facts to some extent to save their own lives from Mary's wrath), but its timing is known. It is likely that the organizers of the coup in the Council, William Herbert (Earl of Pembroke), William Paget, and Henry Fitzalan (Earl of Arundel), decided to switch to Mary's side no later than July 18. However, by the morning of July 19, all available members of the Council were acting on Jane Grey's side. In the afternoon, they met at Herbert's house at Baynard's Castle in London and agreed to give the crown to Mary. The nobles then summoned the Lord Mayor of London and the aldermen to the castle and announced their decision. The news quickly spread to the streets, and even before it was officially announced, a popular celebration had begun. In the evening, Paget and Fitzalan carried the Council's letter of repentance to Framlingham. After swearing an oath to Mary, Paget and Fitzalan set out for Cambridge on her orders to arrest John Dudley. |
1553 succession crisis | After brief interrogations, the seven principal arrestees were brought before a court presided over by the recently pardoned Thomas Howard. At the trial on August 18, William Parr and Dudley's eldest son, John (Earl of Warwick), pleaded guilty in full, while the elder Dudley defended himself vigorously, arguing that he had acted solely within the royal mandate. The next day, Andrew Dudley, John Gates, his brother Henry, and Thomas Palmer were tried; all seven were sentenced to death. After the sentence was pronounced, Dudley converted to Catholicism, confessed to Stephen Gardiner, and was then led through the city in a pompous Catholic procession with the other renounced Protestant convicts. On August 22, the disgraced regent John Gates and Thomas Palmer were executed. Palmer was not a member of Dudley's inner circle and had not participated in Mary's whitewashing; her reasons for singling him out of the hundreds of supporters of the fallen regent remained a mystery. All the others arrested (including the four men sentenced to death with Dudley) escaped execution: some, like the unfortunate Captain Grice, were quickly released and suffered no punishment, while others spent several years in prison. Henry Grey, Lord Admiral Edward Clinton, and Judge Montague bought their freedom by paying several thousand pounds each in attributions to Mary. |
Permanent signal | Permanent signal (PS) in American telephony terminology, or permanent loop in British usage, is a condition in which a POTS line is off-hook without connection for an extended period of time. This is indicated in modern switches by the silent termination after the off-hook tone times out and the telephone exchange computer puts the telephone line on its High & Wet list or Wetlist. In older switches, however, a Permanent Signal Holding Trunk (PSHT) would play either an off-hook tone (howler tone) or a 480/500 Hz high tone (which would subsequently bleed into adjacent lines via crosstalk). Off-hook tone is a tone of increasing intensity that is intended to alert telephone users to the fact that the receiver has been left off the hook without being connected in a call. On some systems before the off-hook tone is played, an intercept message may be announced. The most common message reads as follows; "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator." |
Carlton Lassiter | It was first mentioned in Lassiter's blog that he has a sister; in the season 5 episode "Dead Bear Walking", she is revealed to be a younger sister named Lauren, played by April Bowlby. Lauren visits Lassiter to film a documentary about police work. After meeting Shawn and Gus, she is impressed by their methods and decides to film them instead, which irritates Lassiter. After seeing Lassiter one-upped by Shawn and Gus again, Lauren shares with them that she looked up to Lassiter when she was growing up, and says that he may not be the man she thought he was after all. With a little help from Shawn, Lassiter is able to solve the case which restores his view in Lauren's eyes. She tells Lassiter that she is proud of him. Other family members include a missing brother who may or may not be in South America, a brother-in-law named Raul, a nephew named Peter, and an overbearing mother who is involved in a lesbian relationship with a black woman named Althea. In the second film "Psych 2: Lassie Come Home" it is revealed that Lassiter's father, played by Joel McHale, died in surgery when Lassiter was a child. In the episode "High Noon(ish)" it is said that Lassiter's mother never had time to take care of him and dropped him off at Old Sonora, a tourist Western town, every weekend. Additionally, it is revealed in the episode "Weekend Warriors" that Lassiter is an avid Civil War buff who actively participates in reenactments. |
Carlton Lassiter | However, over time he has developed a grudging respect for Shawn's investigation skills, something he admits in one episode only after becoming intoxicated. Omundson describes his character's animosity towards Shawn as stemming from the fact that Lassiter has worked hard to climb the chain of command and become good at his job. While Lassiter is rarely seen solving cases, he has an excellent record for "normal" casework, having closed or solved hundreds of routine cases ranging from petty theft to murder. His approach favors simple explanations and he tends to draw obvious conclusions, in sharp contrast to Shawn's theatrics and frequently convoluted explanations. On-screen, he is frequently frustrated in his cases by Shawn's parallel investigations, generally because he must confirm or debunk all of Shawn's psychic 'leads' even when they are wrong. He is also unaware that Shawn frequently conceals or withholds crucial evidence to conduct his own work, usually revealing the deception after the evidence is no longer necessary or it identifies the true perpetrator. By comparison, Lassiter prefers a straightforward investigative approach to form a single accusation and arrest; however, once he has formed his conclusion he can be rigid about changing his mind, especially if the suspect is a known criminal or has committed other illegal acts. |
Carlton Lassiter | Overall, Lassiter is both proud to be a police officer and seemingly organizes his entire life around his job; in a humorous example, he is once shown in a 'casual' outfit that is identical to what he wears to work, just wearing different shoes. Lassiter prides himself on his sternness and professionalism but is frequently shocked to discover that his peers, colleagues, and (occasionally) suspects do not hold him in equally high regard. In "Extradition: British Columbia," after successfully apprehending a master thief that he has spent years tracking down, the thief rebuffs Lassiter's gloating, commenting that he has no idea who Lassiter is. In contrast to Shawn's mercurial demeanor, Lassiter is remarkably consistent and stubborn, with none of these deflating instances nor Shawn's constant belittling ever impacting his ego for more than a few moments. In playful recognition of Lassiter's persistence, endearing loyalty, and dedication, Shawn frequently refers to him as, 'Lassie', intended to be both a jab at Lassiter's name and an affectionate comparison to the beloved icon -- which Lassiter openly hates. |
Can I Get It | "Can I Get It" is a pop song, with influences of pop rock and country pop. The song has a kitchen sink production, which incorporates "acoustic guitar breakdowns, slickly produced drum loops, and horns" according to Exclaim!'s Kyle Mullin. It includes a three-chord riff and Martin and Shellback provide a 2010s music-influenced whistle for its hook. This inclusion was likened to Flo Rida's single "Whistle" , and Lady Gaga's song "Why Did You Do That?" . The Los Angeles Times's Mikael Wood and Variety's Chris Willman likened the "boot-scooting acoustic groove" and chorus guitar strums of "Can I Get It" to George Michael's single "Faith" . Adele moans during the song's chorus; writing for Slant Magazine, Eric Mason stated that its spirited percussion instrumentation and her hushed moans construct a sultry atmosphere but get interrupted by its "discordantly chirpy whistle drop". Ilana Kaplan of Consequence described it as a "'70s rock-inspired track" and David Cobbald of The Line of Best Fit called it an "American-inspired, stomping rodeo of a song". |
Can I Get It | "Can I Get It" received mixed reviews from music critics, who thought it strayed from the rest of 30, which consisted mostly of emotional ballads that seek Adele's identity outside of romantic relationships. MusicOMH's Graeme Marsh thought the song's optimism and whistled portion made it sound misplaced. Peter Piatkowski of PopMatters stated that its brazen pop production felt "a bit shocking, almost disrespectful, and discordant" in the context of the album but praised its "earworm" hook and infectious chorus and favourably compared it to Adele's 2010 single "Rolling in the Deep". Writing for DIY, Emma Swann viewed "Can I Get It" as "easily Adele's most conventionally 'pop' moment to date" and added that though its production defies her signature ballads, it also projects more character. The A.V. Club's Gabrielle Sanchez wrote that the song constituted the "most pop-oriented and straightforward" segment of 30, along with "Oh My God", but criticised its whistling as "a hollow carry-over from 2010s radio pop". Maura Johnston of Entertainment Weekly opined that it was one of "a few grand pop moments" on the album and noted that its carefree production complements its lyrics. Writing for Billboard, Jason Lipshutz ranked "Can I Get It" as the second-best song on 30; he believed it succeeded on all levels and could outdo the radio success of "Easy on Me". |
Rosina Cazali | She has participated in theoretical events such as: Temas Centrales, organized by Teorética in San José, Costa Rica in 2000 and 2012; Curatorial Practice and Criticism in Latin America, by Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, March 2011; IV Diálogos Iberoamericanos/POST Issues, Valencia, Spain 2001; No title, International Symposium on Latin American Art in Global Context, the University of Austin, Texas, March 2006; ARCO's debate forums, Madrid, Spain 2006; Contemporary Art in Guatemala. A Comparative Lecture, New Mexico University, Alburquerque, September 2008; Contemporary Art in Guatemala, 3 type events at the seminar Tras Signos en Rotación, organized by the project Ojo Atómica and Anti-Museo, Spanish Cultural Center in México, 2009;La vida nuda, preliminary encounter at Kasell Documenta in México City and Cairo; Between the museum and practice: Reconsidering Latin American Art in the XXI Century, Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA, Long Beach, California, in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute, Lima, Perú 2011; Foro Latinoamericano de Fotografía de São Paulo, Brasil, 2013; Daegu Photography Biennial and Symposium, Seul, Korea. 2014. |
Rosina Cazali | She was part of the Orientation Trip 2010, which took place in Istanbul, Lagos, and Bamako and was realized by the Mondrian Foundation and the Prince Claus Foundation. In 2011 she was invited to teach a workshop entitled Inmonumental, a review, and deconstruction of the symbols and discourses of the monuments as part of the contemporary art project Demolition/Construction, in Córdoba, Argentina. In March 2012, she was invited by ICI, Independent Curators International, to be part of the Curator's Perspective, an itinerant public discussion series that features international curators who distill current happenings in contemporary art, and their views on recent developments in the art world; the New Museum of Art, New York. In 2010, she received the John Simon Guggehnheim Grant to conduct research on contemporary art in Guatemala. She works and resides in Guatemala City, Guatemala. In 2014 she received from Fundación ArsTeorética, San José Costa Rica, a grant for research on Grupo Imaginaria, a collective of artists from the 1980s in Guatemala. |
Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome | The syndromes within CAPS overlap clinically, and patients may have features of more than one disorder. In a retrospective cohort of 136 CAPS patients with systemic involvement from 16 countries, the most prevalent clinical features were fever (84% of cases, often with concurrent constitutional symptoms such as fatigue, malaise, mood disorders or failure to thrive), skin rash (either urticarial or maculopapular rash; 97% of cases) especially after cold exposure, and musculoskeletal involvement (myalgia, arthralgia, and/or arthritis, or less commonly joint contracture, patellar overgrowth, bone deformity, bone erosion and/or osteolytic lesion; 86% of cases). Less common features included ophthalmological involvement (conjunctivitis and/or uveitis, or less commonly optic nerve atrophy, cataract, glaucoma or impaired vision; 71% of cases), neurosensory hearing loss (42% of cases), neurological involvement (morning headache, papilloedema, and/or meningitis, or less commonly seizure, hydrocephalus or intellectual disability; 40% of cases), and AA amyloidosis (4% of cases). |
2010 European Men's Handball Championship squads | Squad: Adam Malcher (Zagłębie Lubin), Sławomir Szmal (Rhein–Neckar Löwen), Piotr Wyszomirski (KS Azoty Puławy), Michał Adamuszek (MMTS Kwidzyn), Karol Bielecki (Rhein–Neckar Löwen), Rafał Gliński (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Piotr Grabarczyk (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Mateusz Jachlewski (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Bartłomiej Jaszka (Füchse Berlin), Mariusz Jurasik (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Bartosz Jurecki (SC Magdeburg), Michał Jurecki (TuS N-Lübbecke), Mariusz Jurkiewicz (Reyno de Navarra San Antonio), Damian Kostrzewa (AZS AWFiS Gdańsk), Kamil Krieger (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Patryk Kuchczyński (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Krzysztof Lijewski (HSV Hamburg), Marcin Lijewski (HSV Hamburg), Arkadiusz Miszka (Wisła Płock SA), Jarosław Paluch (SPR Chrobry Głogów), Paweł Piwko (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Paweł Podsiadło (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Tomasz Rosiński (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Artur Siódmiak (TuS N-Lübbecke), Tomasz Tłuczyński (TuS N-Lübbecke), Adam Twardo (Wisła Płock SA), Marcin Wichary (Wisła Płock S.A.), Daniel Żółtak (KS Vive Targi Kielce) |
2017 U.S. Open (golf) | Brooks Koepka tied the U.S. Open scoring record and won his first career major championship by four strokes over Brian Harman and Hideki Matsuyama. Beginning the round a shot out of the lead, Koepka quickly erased the deficit with birdies on his first two holes. After saving par with an eight-foot putt on the 13th, he then recorded three straight birdies on his way to a round of 67 (−5). His total of 16-under par tied the tournament scoring record set by Rory McIlroy in 2011. Harman entered the round with the lead but fell into a tie for second with three bogeys on the back-nine. Matsuyama shot the low round of the day with 66 (−6) and jumped into a tie with Harman. After establishing a new tournament scoring record in the third round, Justin Thomas bogeyed three of his first five holes and finished three-over on the round to drop to a tie for ninth. Tommy Fleetwood also began the round a shot behind but three bogeys on the front-nine dropped him from contention. The low amateur was Scottie Scheffler, who finished at –1, beating Cameron Champ by just one stroke. In all, thirty-one players finished the tournament under par, breaking the U.S. Open record set in 1990. |
East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance | There are five Departments under the College of Health and Human Performance umbrella. The Department of Kinesiology works to promote well-being through academic and research leadership in human movement and sport. The Department of Health Education and Promotion seeks to advance knowledge and understanding of the factors affecting health, and prepare students for professional and leadership roles in athletic training, environmental health, and health education and promotion. The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies works to prepare future leaders in recreation, parks, tourism, and recreational therapy to enhance the quality of life for all in a variety of settings. The Department of Aerospace Studies (Air Force ROTC) commissions pilots, navigators, and a majority of ECU cadets into non-flying Air Force Officers positions. The Department of Military Science (Army ROTC) recruits, retains, develops and graduates leaders who are mentally, physically, emotionally, and morally ready to serve the Nation as commissioned officers in the US Army. |
East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance | The College of Health and Human Performance has nine laboratories. The Activity Promotion Lab is a lab to research projects on physical activity, fitness, and obesity in children. The Biomechanics Lab was built to discover, disseminate, and use knowledge concerning the biomechanics of human movement. The Biofeedback Lab is an accredited training lab where students work with biofeedback and video gaming to assist with stress and anxiety reduction, childhood obesity, and posttraumatic stress disorder (particularly with returning Armed Forces service members). The Human Performance Lab is to discover and disseminate knowledge in the area of exercise physiology through research, service and education. The Developmental Motor Lab has been preparing adapted physical education specialists to meet the activity needs of children and adults with disabilities since 1978. The Regional Training Center is a substance abuse prevention/education program targeting adult populations within the state who have contact with high risk youth and young adults. The Visual Motor Lab engages in projects that examine visual attention, arousal, mental workload and attentional bias. The Sensory Lab provides the equipment and space to research various projects involving sensory stimulation as well as observation, sound and listening based research. Multiple computer labs are also housed in the College of HHP. |
Efficiency wage | In the Shapiro and Stiglitz model, workers either work or shirk, and if they shirk they have a certain probability of being caught, with the penalty of being fired. Equilibrium then entails unemployment, because to create an opportunity cost to shirking, firms try to raise their wages above the market average (so that sacked workers face a probabilistic loss). But since all firms do this, the market wage itself is pushed up, and the result is that wages are raised above market-clearing, creating involuntary unemployment. This creates a low, or no income alternative, which makes job loss costly and serves as a worker discipline device. Unemployed workers cannot bid for jobs by offering to work at lower wages since, if hired, it would be in the worker's interest to shirk on the job, and he has no credible way of promising not to do so. Shapiro and Stiglitz point out that their assumption that workers are identical (e.g. there is no stigma to having been fired) is a strong one – in practice, reputation can work as an additional disciplining device. Conversely, higher wages and unemployment increase the cost of finding a new job after being laid off. So in the shirking model, higher wages are also a monetary incentive. |
Efficiency wage | Self-selection (often referred to as adverse selection) comes about if the workers' ability and reservation wages are positively correlated. The basic assumption of efficiency wage theory is that the efficiency of workers increases with the increase of wages. In this case, companies face a trade-off between hiring productive workers at higher salaries or less effective workers at lower wages. These notes derive the so-called Solow condition, which minimizes wages even if the cost of practical labor input is minimized. Solow condition means that in the labor market, the wage level paid by enterprises should equal the marginal product of workers, namely the market value of labor force. This condition is based on two basic assumptions: that firms operate in a competitive market and cannot control market wages and that individual workers are price takers rather than price setters. If there are two kinds of firms (low and high wage), then we effectively have two sets of lotteries (since firms cannot screen), the difference being that high-ability workers do not enter the low-wage lotteries as their reservation wage is too high. Thus low-wage firms attract only low-ability lottery entrants, while high-wage firms attract workers of all abilities (i.e. on average, they will select average workers). Therefore high-wage firms are paying an efficiency wage – they pay more and, on average, get more. However, the assumption that firms cannot measure effort and pay piece rates after workers are hired or to fire workers whose output is too low is quite strong. Firms may also be able to design self-selection or screening devices that induce workers to reveal their true characteristics. |
Efficiency wage | Standard economic models ("neoclassical economics") assume that people pursue only their self-interest and do not care about "social" goals ("homo economicus"). Neoclassical economics is divided into three theories, namely methodological individualism, methodological instrumentalist, and methodological equilibration. Some attention has been paid to the idea that people may be altruistic, but it is only with the addition of reciprocity and norms of fairness that the model becomes accurate. Thus of crucial importance is the idea of exchange: a person who is altruistic towards another expects the other to fulfil some fairness norm, be it reciprocating in kind, in some different but – according to some shared standard – equivalent way, or simply by being grateful. If the expected reciprocation is not forthcoming, the altruism will unlikely be repeated or continued. In addition, similar norms of fairness will typically lead people into negative forms of reciprocity, too – in retaliation for acts perceived as vindictive. This can bind actors into vicious loops where vindictive acts are met with further vindictive acts. |
Efficiency wage | In practice, despite the neat logic of standard neoclassical models, these sociological models do impinge upon many economic relations, though in different ways and to different degrees. For example, suppose an employee has been exceptionally loyal. In that case, a manager may feel some obligation to treat that employee well, even when it is not in his (narrowly defined, economic) self-interest. It would appear that although broader, longer-term economic benefits may result (e.g. through reputation, or perhaps through simplified decision-making according to fairness norms), a significant factor must be that there are noneconomic benefits the manager receives, such as not having a guilty conscience (loss of self-esteem). For real-world, socialised, normal human beings (as opposed to abstracted factors of production), this is likely to be the case quite often. As a quantitative estimate of the importance of this, the total value of voluntary labor in the US – $74 billion annually – will suffice. Examples of the negative aspect of fairness include consumers "boycotting" firms they disapprove of by not buying products they otherwise would (and therefore settling for second-best); and employees sabotaging firms they feel hard done by. |
Efficiency wage | Rabin offers three stylised facts as a starting point on how norms affect behaviour: (a) people are prepared to sacrifice their material well-being to help those who are being kind; (b) they are also prepared to do this to punish those being unkind; (c) both (a) and (b) have a greater effect on behaviour as the material cost of sacrificing (in relative rather than absolute terms) becomes smaller. Rabin supports his Fact A by Dawes and Thaler's survey of the experimental literature, which concludes that for most one-shot public good decisions in which the individually optimal contribution is close to 0%, the contribution rate ranges from 40 to 60% of the socially optimal level. Fact B is demonstrated by the "ultimatum game" , where an amount of money is split between two people, one proposing a division, the other accepting or rejecting (where rejection means both get nothing). Rationally, the proposer should offer no more than a penny, and the decider accept any offer of at least a penny. Still, in practice, even in one-shot settings, proposers make fair proposals, and deciders are prepared to punish unfair offers by rejecting them. Fact C is tested and partially confirmed by Gerald Leventhal and David Anderson , but is also reasonably intuitive. In the ultimatum game, a 90% split (regarded as unfair) is (intuitively) far more likely to be punished if the amount to be split is $1 than $1 million. |
Efficiency wage | Solow argued that wage rigidity may be partly due to social conventions and principles of appropriate behaviour, which are not entirely individualistic. Akerlof provided the first explicitly sociological model leading to the efficiency wage hypothesis. Using a variety of evidence from sociological studies, Akerlof argues that worker effort depends on the work norms of the relevant reference group. In Akerlof's partial gift exchange model, the firm can raise group work norms and average effort by paying workers a gift of wages over the minimum required in return for effort above the minimum required. The sociological model can explain phenomena inexplicable on neoclassical terms, such as why firms do not fire workers who turn out to be less productive, why piece rates are so little used even where quite feasible; and why firms set work standards exceeded by most workers. A possible criticism is that workers do not necessarily view high wages as gifts, but as merely fair (particularly since typically 80% or more of workers consider themselves in the top quarter of productivity), in which case they will not reciprocate with high effort. |
Efficiency wage | Raff and Summers conduct a case study on Henry Ford's introduction of the five dollar day in 1914. Their conclusion is that the Ford experience supports efficiency wage interpretations. Ford's decision to increase wages so dramatically (doubling for most workers) is most plausibly portrayed as the consequence of efficiency wage considerations, with the structure being consistent, evidence of substantial queues for Ford jobs, and significant increases in productivity and profits at Ford. Concerns such as high turnover and poor worker morale appear to have played an important role in the five-dollar decision. Ford's new wage put him in the position of rationing jobs, and increased wages did yield substantial productivity benefits and profits. There is also evidence that other firms emulated Ford's policy to some extent, with wages in the automobile industry 40% higher than in the rest of manufacturing . Given low monitoring costs and skill levels on the Ford production line, such benefits (and the decision itself) appear particularly significant. |
Annie Burton | This narrative is the autobiographical account of Annie Burton as she grows up enslaved in the United States. Burton recounts her life as a child on the plantation she was born on in Alabama. She has relatively pleasant and fond memories of her childhood. She was raised by her mistress after her mom escaped until she eventually returned and took her children back. Eventually, Burton learned how to read and write from her employer as she worked as a nanny. She moved to several different states including Massachusetts, Georgia, and Florida before returning to Boston, Massachusetts, and marrying her husband. In order to broaden her education, Burton attended classes at the Franklin Evening School and, from her learning, was inspired to write her autobiographical slave narrative. Overall, the narrative's focus is mainly on the happier memories of Burton's life as a slave, which differs from other slave narratives of the time that focused instead on the harsh realities and intense violence of being enslaved in the United States. |
Lady Tan's Circle of Women | When Yunxian is fifteen, she marries into the Yang family. Despite being cut off from the Tans and Meiling, isolated by the rest of the wives and concubines, and her tense relationship with her mother-in-law Lady Kuo, she maintains her interest in medicine and covertly treats a concubine's daughter. Yunxian becomes pregnant at the same time as Miss Chou, Maoren's father's concubine. Miss Chou bears a son named Manzi, but Yunxian has a difficult breech birth that neither the family's favored midwife nor their family doctor Doctor Wong is able to treat; eventually Meiling is summoned and successfully delivers Yunxian's daughter. The two begin to repair their friendship. Shortly after the birth, Yunxian finds a great-aunt referred to as Spinster Aunt dead in a pond, prompting an inquest. The death is ruled an accident. Yunxian falls ill and is cared for by her natal family; Grandfather Tan also negotiates for better treatment for her in exchange for imperial connections for Maoren. Meiling becomes the midwife used by the Yangs. |
Mike Opat | Michael Joseph Opat is an American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota. He serves on the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, the governing body for the largest county in Minnesota, with more than 1.25 million residents and an annual budget of $2.4 billion. Opat represents District 1 (out of 7 districts), an area that includes more than 170,000 residents and encompasses six suburban cities: Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Crystal, New Hope, Osseo, and Robbinsdale. In his time on the County Board, Opat has led, among other initiatives, policy and governance changes at Hennepin County Medical Center, numerous advancements in public infrastructure including the revitalization of the Humboldt Greenway, reconstruction of Highway 100 in the northern suburbs, construction of the new Brookdale library, the construction of Target Field and expansion of the Twin Cities area transit network, including the planned Bottineau Light Rail line along County Road 81 through the northern part of the county. |
Mike Opat | The Humboldt Greenway project is the revitalization of the Shingle Creek and Lind-Bohanon neighborhoods by changing the character of Humboldt Avenue North to a landscaped greenway. Opat is credited for leading the revitalization for the avenue in the mid-1990s. Opat insisted the new neighborhood should offer home buyers a variety of housing that would be affordable to middle-class residents, provide enhanced views of Shingle Creek, and fit into the scale of homes found on Victory Memorial Drive. In 2000, work began to remove about 212 existing single family homes and replace them with about 270 new single family homes and townhomes, building value and enhancing the existing tax base through investment in parks and improved infrastructure. "I think the results are great, especially the public open spaces," Opat has said. "Humboldt Avenue is terrific, after we gave it a curving look, streetscaping and bike paths. There's better storm water runoff, too. We've even gotten the railroad to clean up its part of the area." |
Iliko Lalev | Iliko Lalev was the vojvoda (chieftain) of Kuči. Iliko was the second of four sons of Lale Drekalov and a daughter or sister of a Bratonožići vojvoda, Pejo Stanojev. He had an older brother Vujoš, and younger brothers Čejo and Mijo. Iliko was mentioned in 1658. Kuči had been united under one vojvoda sometime in the 17th century. His brother Vujoš first inherited the title of Voivode, but unsatisfied with his descendants insubordinance, he passed it to Iliko. As Iliko accepted the title of vojvoda over the Kuči, he assembled an army, composed of Kuči, Bratonožići, Piperi and Kelmendi, and attacked Kolašin. In 1658, the seven tribes of Kuči, Vasojevići, Bratonožići, Piperi, Kelmendi, Hoti and Gruda allied themselves with the Republic of Venice, establishing the so-called "Seven-fold barjak" or "alaj-barjak", against the Ottomans. Iliko had three sons: Ivan, Petar and Mirčeta. All three brothers held the title of Voivode respectively. Ivan first succeeded Iliko, with his brother Petar succeeding him after his death, ending with Mirčeta who gained the title after Petar died fighting the Turks. Ivan's descendants formed the brotherhood of Ivanovići, Petar's formed the brotherhood of Petrovići and Mirčeta's, who was a priest (Serbian: pop), formed the brotherhood of Popovići. After Mirčeta's death the title of Voivode was inherited by his nephew, Petar's son Radonja. |
Angel investor | An angel investor (also known as a business angel, informal investor, angel funder, private investor, or seed investor) is an individual who provides capital to a business or businesses, including startups, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. Angel investors often provide support to startups at a very early stage (when the risk of their failure is relatively high), once or in a consecutive manner, and when most investors are not prepared to back them. In a survey of 150 founders conducted by Wilbur Labs, about 70% of entrepreneurs will face potential business failure, and nearly 66% will face this potential failure within 25 months of launching their company. A small but increasing number of angel investors invest online through equity crowdfunding or organize themselves into angel groups or angel networks to share investment capital and provide advice to their portfolio companies. The number of angel investors has greatly increased since the mid-20th century. |
Angel investor | Angel investments bear extremely high risks and are usually subject to dilution from future investment rounds. As such, they require a very high return on investment. Additionally, angel investors often mitigate the risk of an angel investment by allocating less than 10% of their portfolio to these types of investments. Because a large percentage of angel investments are lost completely when early-stage companies fail, professional angel investors seek investments that have the potential to return at least ten or more times their original investment within 5 years through a defined exit strategy, such as plans for an initial public offering or an acquisition. After taking into account the need to cover failed investments and the multi-year holding time for even the successful ones, however, the actual effective internal rate of return for a typical successful portfolio of angel investments is typically as 'low' as 20–30%. While the investor's need for high rates of return on any given investment can make angel financing an expensive source of funds, cheaper sources of capital, such as bank financing, are usually not available for most early-stage ventures. |
Pan Jiluan | Pan was born in Ruichang County (now Ruichang), Jiangxi, on 24 December 1927. He primarily studied at Binxing School (滨兴小学) in Jiujiang County and secondary studied at Yunnan Provincial High School. In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, in order to avoid the massacre of the Imperial Japanese Army, their family fled from their home in Jiujiang County to Kunming, Yunnan. In August 1944, he was accepted by National Southwestern Associated University, majoring in the Mechanical Department. In July 1946, the National Southwestern Associated University was abolished, and he transferred to the Department of Machinery of Tsinghua University to continue his study. After university in August 1948, he stayed and taught at the university. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 1948. In August 1950, he began graduate work at Harbin Institute of Technology and earned his master's degree in 1953 under the advisement of Soviet scientist Prokhorov. After graduating, he taught at the institute. |
Narrandera railway station | In April 1873, John Sutherland, the Minister for Public Works, set out a policy to complete 'the main trunk railways'; both the Main Southern line to Albury and the Western trunk route to Bourke on the Darling River were responses to the threat that wool from the Riverina and the west would be diverted to Melbourne via river boats and the Victorian railway to Echuca on the Murray River, which opened in 1864. The construction of the line to Narrandera, however, was perpetuated by pastoral interests that overthrew the "Trunk Railways Policy". This laid the foundations for the era of "railway mania" between 1877 and 1887 when railway leagues were established in towns and villages across the inland to lobby for branch lines to serve their area. In the five years from December 1879, the NSW railway network increased 136 per cent from 1174 km to 2771 km in length, dubbing the period as the "Great Railway Years". Narrandera was one of many centres in NSW (along with Hay and other towns in surrounding districts) to benefit from the "railway mania" of the 1870s and 1880s. |
Narrandera railway station | The site is significant as a partly intact late Victorian railway complex with items dating from the opening of the station in 1881. Railway operations at Narrandera date back to the "Great Railway Years" in NSW in the late 19th century, with the station opening during the time of the earliest development of railway infrastructure in south western NSW in the 1880s. Narrandera Railway Precinct has historic significance for its connection to the NSW Government Railway's ambitious programme to open up the agricultural regions of the state to commerce and communication in the late 19th century. The penetration of the railway into the Riverina area also reveals inter-colonial rivalry in the late 19th century, namely concerns by the NSW government about Victorian competition for agricultural produce in this region. The site is significant for the role it played in the decline of the riverboat trade which helped secure the Riverina wool trade for Sydney, instead of Melbourne. Narrandera prospered greatly after the arrival of the railway, with the railway enhancing transport, communications and commerce in the Narrandera area. Narrandera is also significant as the junction for the branch line to Jerilderie and Tocumwal. |
Tapas Acupressure Technique | No scientifically plausible method of action is proposed for Tapas Acupressure Technique, instead relying on unvalidated putative energy and meridians with no identified biophysical or histological basis. A 2005 review of so-called "Power Therapies" concluded that TAT and similar techniques "offered no new scientifically valid theories of action, show only non-specific efficacy, show no evidence that they offer substantive improvements to extant psychiatric care, yet display many characteristics consistent with pseudoscience." TAT also conforms to the "nine practices of pseudoscience" as identified by AR Pratkins. There are many, primarily psychological, explanations for positive therapeutic outcomes such as the placebo effect or cognitive dissonance. A 2009 review identified "methodological flaws" in research that had reported "small successes" for TAT and a related "energy psychology" therapy (Emotional Freedom Techniques) "are potentially attributable to well-known cognitive and behavioral techniques that are included with the energy manipulation." The report concluded that "Psychologists and researchers should be wary of using such techniques, and make efforts to inform the public about the ill effects of therapies that advertise miraculous claims." |
Richard Garwin | After graduating from the University of Chicago, Garwin joined the physics faculty there and spent summers as a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory working on nuclear weapons. Garwin was the author of the actual design used in the first hydrogen bomb (code-named Mike) in 1952. He was assigned the job by Edward Teller, with the instructions that he was to make it as conservative a design as possible in order to prove the concept was feasible. He also worked on the development of the first spy satellites, for which he was named one of the ten founders of national reconnaissance. While at IBM, his work on spin-echo magnetic resonance laid the foundations for MRI; he was the catalyst for the discovery and publication of the Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm, today a staple of digital signal processing; he worked on gravitational waves; and played a crucial role in the development of laser printers and touch-screen monitors. He has been granted 47 patents and has published over 500 papers. |
Richard Garwin | Garwin served on the U.S. President's Science Advisory Committee from 1962–65 and 1969–72, under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. He has been a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group since 1966. As a member of the Institute for Defense Analyses' Jason Division of U.S. university scientists. on Sat. February 3, 1968, Garwin "traveled to Vietnam" with Henry Way Kendall and several other scientists "to check on the operation of the electronic barrier" he and other Jason scientists developed for the Pentagon to utilize in Indochina, according to The Jasons by Ann Finkbeiner. And, in the 1960s, "Jason scientist Richard Garwin, a nuclear physicist who, years before, helped design the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb, held a seminar on the SADEYE cluster bomb and other munitions that would be most effective when accompanying the sensors" of the electronic barrier in Vietnam, according to page 205 of Annie Jacobsen's book, "The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency," that Little Brown & Company, NY published in 2015. During the 1980s and 1990s he advocated anti-ballistic missile concepts such as the bed of nails defense, a plan that was never implemented. |
Richard Garwin | Garwin received the National Medal of Science, the United States' highest honor for the fields of science and engineering , for "his research and discoveries in physics and related fields, and of his longstanding service to the Nation by providing valuable scientific advice on important questions of national security over a half a century." He also received the equivalent, La Grande Médaille de l'Académie des Sciences, from France for his role in discovering parity violation in pion decay. He is among a select few scientists to have been elected to all three U.S. National Academies: the National Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Medicine , and the National Academy of Engineering . He was also a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Garwin with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Garwin also received 1988 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility and the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1997. |
2022 United States local elections | In the 2022 Clarksville mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Joe Pitts was re-elected. In the 2022 Murfreesboro mayoral election, incumbent Republican Shane McFarland was re-elected. In the 2022 Fort Smith, Arkansas, mayoral election, incumbent Democrat George McGill was unopposed and re-elected. In the 2022 Lexington, Kentucky, mayoral election, incumbent Republican Linda Gorton won reelection against Democrat David Kloiber. In the 2022 Little Rock mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Frank Scott Jr. won reelection against Republican Steve Landers. In the 2022 San Bernardino mayoral election, independent Helen Tran defeated independent Jim Penman for the mayor's seat, John Valdivia, another independent who was defeated in the June 7 primary. Tran is set to become the city's first Asian-American mayor. In the 2022 Tallahassee mayoral election, incumbent Democrat John E. Dailey won reelection against Kristin Dozier. In the 2022 Shreveport mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Adrian Perkins lost reelection, as Republican Tom Arceneaux and Democrat Gregory Tarver advanced to the runoff election. Arceneaux, a former city councilor, won the runoff on December 10. He was the first Republican elected to the position in 28 years. |
2022 United States local elections | In the 2022 Reno mayoral election, incumbent independent Hillary Schieve won reelection against independent Eddie Lorton. In the 2022 Raleigh mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Mary-Ann Baldwin won reelection against liberal challenger Terrance Ruth. In the 2022 Washington, D.C., mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Muriel Bowser won reelection against independent Rodney Grant and Republican Stacia Hall. In the 2022 Anaheim mayoral election, incumbent Republican Harry Sidhu resigned amid a federal corruption investigation into his office, and was succeeded by attorney Ashleigh Aitken, the first woman elected mayor of Anaheim. In the 2022 Chula Vista mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Mary Salas was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits, and was succeeded by John McCann, who won against Ammar Campa-Najjar by about 5 percentage points. In the 2022 Long Beach mayoral election, Rex Richardson won the election against Suzie Price to succeed Robert Garcia, and is set to become the city's first Black mayor. In the 2022 Oakland mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Libby Schaaf was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits, and was succeeded by Sheng Thao. In the 2022 San Jose mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Sam Liccardo was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits, and was succeeded by Matt Mahan. |
2022 United States local elections | In the 2022 Austin mayoral election, incumbent Democrat Steve Adler was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits. In the general election, state representative Celia Israel and former mayor Kirk Watson took the first two spots, leading realtor Jennifer Virden and several other candidates. Because no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, the race proceeded to a runoff election between Israel and Watson on December 13, which Watson won with 886 votes—the narrowest margin in over two decades. In the 2022 Laredo mayoral election, city councilman Mercurio Martinez III and doctor Victor Trevino advanced to a December 10 runoff, as incumbent Pete Saenz was term-limited. Trevin won out over Martinez. In the 2022 Lubbock mayoral election, incumbent Republican Dan Pope retired, and was succeeded by Tray Payne. In the 2022 Providence mayoral election, Brett Smiley, a Democrat, won the election unopposed. She succeed another Democrat, Jorge Elorza, who was term-limited. In the 2022 Newport News mayoral election, incumbent independent McKinley L. Price retired, and was succeeded by Phillip Jones. |
Swedish Rhapsody (numbers station) | Although the station was of unknown origin during the Cold War, declassified documents released by the Polish Government in 2014 revealed that the station was indeed operated by the government of the Polish People's Republic, and its secret police force, the Ministry of Public Security (Służba Bezpieczeństwa). The Stasi "Sprach-Morse Generator" which provided the automated voice was of East German origin, and known to be used in similar coded broadcasts sent by the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance. Although the East German broadcasts are similar, the voice used for the Swedish Rhapsody was created by tweaking the audio on the Sprach machine, which confused listeners into thinking that the voice was that of a young girl. The documents further reveal that the station was broadcasting from at least the 1970s and transmitted on numerous shortwave frequencies, which were often changed depending on the time of the year. The messages were sent as numbers in groups of five, spoken in German, which were preceded by the voice shouting "Achtung!" (German for "attention!"). The messages were to be decrypted using a one-time pad. |
Dorylus | Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu, is a large genus of army ants found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range also extends to southern Africa and tropical Asia. The term siafu is a loanword from Swahili, and is one of numerous similar words from regional Bantu languages used by indigenous peoples to describe various species of these ants. Unlike the New World members of the former subfamily Ecitoninae (now Dorylinae), members of this genus form temporary subterranean bivouacs in underground cavities which they excavate and inhabit - either for a few days or up to three months. Also, unlike some New World army ants, driver ants are not specialized predators of other species of ant, instead being more generalistic with a diet consisting of a diversity of arthropods. Their colonies are enormous compared to other ant species, and can contain over 20 million individuals. As with their American counterparts, workers exhibit caste polymorphism with the soldiers having particularly large heads that power their scissor-like mandibles. They are capable of stinging, but very rarely do so, relying instead on their powerful shearing jaws. A large part of their diet consists of earthworms. Driver ant queens are the largest living ants known, with the largest measuring between 40 - 63 millimeters (1.5 - 2.4 inches) in total body length depending on their physiological condition. |
Dorylus | The characteristic long columns of ants will fiercely defend themselves against anything that attacks them. Columns are arranged with the smaller ants being flanked by the larger soldier ants. These instinctively take up positions as sentries, and set a perimeter corridor through which the smaller ants can run safely. Their bite is severely painful, each soldier leaving two puncture wounds when removed. Removal is difficult, however, as their jaws are extremely strong, and one can pull a soldier ant in two without it releasing its hold. Large numbers of ants can kill small or immobilized animals and strip them to husks. Such is the strength of the ant's jaws that, in East Africa, they are used as natural emergency sutures. Various East African indigenous tribal peoples (e.g. the Maasai moran), when suffering from a laceration in the wilds, will use the soldiers to stitch the wound by getting the ants to bite on both sides of the gash, then breaking off the body. This use of ants as makeshift surgical staples creates a seal that can hold for days at a time, and the procedure can be repeated, if necessary, allowing natural healing to commence. All Dorylus species are blind, and, like most varieties of ants, communicate primarily through pheromones. |
Dorylus | Male driver ants, sometimes known as "sausage flies" (a term also applied to males of New World dorylines) due to their bloated, sausage-like abdomens, are among the largest ant morphs and were originally believed to be members of a different species. Males leave the colony soon after hatching but are drawn to the scent trail left by a column of siafu once they reach sexual maturity. When a colony of driver ants encounters a male, they tear his wings off and carry him back to the nest to be mated with a recently hatched queen. As in the majority of ant species, males die shortly afterward. Driver ant queens exhibit polyandry; young queens from some species with large colony sizes must mate with 10–20 males before they have gathered enough sperm for their reproductive lives. Once the queen is ready, roughly half of the workers in the colony will leave with her to found a new colony. Driver ant queens are the largest ants on Earth and have the greatest egg-laying capacity among insects, laying several million eggs each month. |
Fortified Sector of Savoy | Italy declared war on France on 10 June 1940. Late snows in the area slowed down the Italian attack, which did not start until 20 June. In Savoy, the Italian Alpine Corps attacked over the Col de la Seigne and the Little St Bernard Pass in Operation Bernardo., with the Italian 1st Corps attacking over the Mont Cenis Pass. About 5500 French troops were deployed against 50,000 Italian soldiers. . The Italian Taurinense Alpine division moved over the Col de la Seigne, stopped by sustained fire from the avant-poste of Seloges. The Trieste motorized division crossed the Little St. Bernard Pass after bombarding he Redoute-Ruinée post for eight hours. The initial Italian assault was stopped at the walls of the fort. Attacks continued over the next two days, then stopped until the armistice, but the avant-poste was isolated and bypassed, Italian troops moving close to Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Sainte-Foye. Redoute-Ruinėe was finally evacuated by French forces on 2 July. Total casualties in the area amounted to 9 French dead, and 72 Italian dead with more than 700 Italian wounded. |
Fortified Sector of Savoy | In the Maurienne valley, 13,000 French troops faced 40,000 Italian troops. Italian forces advanced on the Mont Cenis road and moved across the high plateau along the frontier. The Italian attack was supported by forts in the Italian Alpine Wall positions. The French La Turra outpost on the Mont Cenis road was bombarded by the Italian Fort Paradiso, but the Cagliari Division could not advance past La Turra. Other elements of the Cagliari Division tried to advance on the Little Mont Cenis Pass and entered the valley of the Arc river, but were held there by the line of avant-postes. Nearer Modane, the Superga Division crossed the Col du Fréjus and came under fire from ouvrages Arrondaz, Pas du Roc and Le Lavoir, backed up by covering artillery in the valley at Sapey, Saint-Antoine and Saint-Gobain. Arrondaz and Pas-du-Roc fired on Italian troops on each others' superstructures and drove them off. Italian forces made little progress against the mutually-supporting fire until the cease-fire of 25 June. Casualties were 4 French dead and 108 Italians, with 1,000 Italians wounded. |
Paul Sloggett | Sloggett's art was recognized for its innovations while still a student at the Ontario College of Art. Upon graduation, he was awarded an OCAD Teaching Assistantship Scholarship to work under the direction of Royden Rabinowitch, chair of Experimental Art . His work on the painting scene was quickly noted as remarkable, even "astounding" for its paint quality by Art International magazine. Geometric structure is his method towards making work. "I always felt as if I was building paintings as opposed to painting pictures", he has said. The Art Gallery of Ontario included his work in Four Canadian painters, and it was featured again in 1977 in 14 Canadians: a Critic's Choice, an exhibition held at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, curated by Andrew Hudson. In 1980, Sloggett changed the shape of his canvases to reflect his ongoing interest in sculptural qualities in his work. The faceted nature of the works which followed came from looking at diagrams of basic rock, mineral and crystal structures. |
History of Bogotá | Politically, the area formed part of the Muisca Confederation with the northern ruler called zaque (ruling from Hunza, present-day Tunja) and the southern ruler, based in Bacatá, the zipa. The Muisca were predominantly farmers and traders and formed a dispersed population occupying numerous small villages and settlements with wooden and clay houses, called bohíos by the Spanish. The iraca of sacred City of the Sun Sugamuxi was the principal religious leader. Other rulers were Tundama in the city of the same name, now called Duitama and various independent caciques, mainly of Guatavita, Ubaté, Ubaque and Vélez. The original hunter-gatherer population of the Herrera Period, predating the Muisca, slowly changed into a sedentary community based on agriculture. The people cultivated maize, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, tubers, such as yuca, tobacco, arracacha, sweet potatoes and various fruits and vegetables. The Muisca people were called "Salt People", due to their extraction of salt from brines in large pots. The main salt mines were and are still in Zipaquirá, Nemocón and Tausa, at the northern edge of the Bogotá savanna. Emeralds were mined in Chivor and Somondoco and traded with the Muzo, who were called the "Emerald People". Cotton was cultivated by the higher-altitude neighbours, such as the Lache and U'wa to the north. |
History of Bogotá | From 1533, belief persisted in the sense that Río Grande de la Magdalena was the trail to the South Sea, to Peru, and the legendary El Dorado. To reach the latter was the goal of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the Spanish conquistador who left Santa Marta on April 6, 1536 with 800 soldiers heading towards the interior of current Colombia. The expedition divided into two groups, one under De Quesada's command to move on land and the other commanded by Diego de Urbino would ascend the Magdalena River in four brigantine ships to meet De Quesada's troops at a site named Tora de las Barrancas Bermejas, present-day Barrancabermeja. When they arrived, they heard news about indigenous people inhabiting the south and making large salt cakes used to trade for cotton and fish. De Quesada decided to abandon the route to Peru and cross the Andes in search of "salt villages". They saw crops, trails, white salt cakes and then huts where they found farm fields (called tá in the Chibcha language) with maize, yuca and beans. From Tora the expedition went up the Opón River where the Spanish found indigenous tribes covered with very fine painted cotton mantles. When they arrived on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, of the expedition leaving Santa Marta only 70 men were left. |
Samangan Province | The economy revolves around agriculture, with farmers in Samangan province cultivating grains, fruits, and nuts on the region's fertile river plains. The province of Samangan is second only to the northwestern Afghan province of Badghis in terms of pistachio production. As of 2005, 10 Agricultural cooperatives were functioning in the province with 665 enrolled members controlling an area of 5532 ha which brought prosperity to its members. The staple food crops grown in the province are wheat, barley and potato and flax. The horticultural or garden crops grown are grapes, pomegranates and other fruit and nut trees. Cash crops grown in a few villages were sesame, cotton and tobacco; and they are mostly in Dara-i-Soofi-Payin and Aybek districts; cotton was major crop in Hazrat-i-Sultan district while tobacco was produced on a large scale in the Roi-Do-Ab district. Use of fertilizers is also common among 60% of the on both field and garden crops Industries are almost non existent in the province, except for minor leather industry producing the karakul skin and a few small scale handicrafts producing rugs, shawls, jewellery and carpets. |
Samangan Province | Takht-i Rustam (Haibak), literal meaning the throne of Rustam, named after Rustam, a king in Persian mythology, is a hilltop settlement. It is dated to the 4th and 5th centuries of the Kushano-Sassanian period, which is corroborated by archaeological, architectural and numismatic evidence. It is located 3 km to the southwest of Samangan town. It is the location of a stupa-monastery complex which is fully carved into the mountain rock. The monastery of major Buddhist tradition of Theravada Buddhism, has five chambers, two are sanctuaries and one is a domed ceiling with an intricate lotus leaf beautification. In the adjacent hill is the stupa, which has a harmika, with several caves at its base. Above one of the caves, there is square building in which there are two conference halls; one is 22 metres square and the other is circular. In one of these caves, Archaeological excavations have revealed a cache of Ghaznavid coins. The Buddhist temples near the Takht are 10 numbers known locally as Kie Tehe. |
IBM 5280 | The IBM 5280 Distributed Data System paralleled the design of the IBM 3740 system. The main differences were that the products were faster, the software accomplished the tasks better with more/faster memory, larger diskette storage, etc., more data was made available than ever before. The IBM 5280 was a natural replacement for the aging data input products. It provided programmable platform using a fairly well known languages, RPG and COBOL, but it is not a personal computer - although it looked a bit like a more recent pc-desktop display mounted to a desk with a very large CRT monitor. Unfortunately, the users were already beginning to search for personal computers to solve their data problems and within the company, development of 'smart heads' for the main frame interface was well underway, culminating in the release of a PC-based display for the main frames by IBM in 1983 - the IBM 3270 PC. Although it was based on the PC XT and was followed soon after by powerful computing monitors which were also PC-based, the IBM 5280 Distributed Data System was not viewed by these potential users as a PC-based product. |
IBM 5280 | The IBM 5280 System was intended to be a natural improvement over the IBM 3740 which was now more than 10 years old. However, the industry had spent much of the first five of those years producing the supporting environment for it, but were now at the crossroads where they had to decide if they were going to continue to use the super expensive, guaranteed-not-to-fail IBM 5280, or to move away from what Big Blue was promising them into the nether world of unknown software, incomplete, poorly thought out process changes and daily interruption of work flow due to system crashes of their -not-ready-for-business-but-cheaper-than-dirt- personal computer-based future. They made that decision mainly because it put them more in control of their "stuff" for a lot lower cash outlay - besides that, the kids coming up in the ranks were already whizzes at the pc, having been working with them since high school at least. Only a few had heard of Distributed Data, but that was what the personal computing world did to data - distributed it almost naturally. |
IBM 5280 | So the path forward was clear, and big expensive, though functional, systems like the IBM 5280 were hard to sell to a pc-bent worldview. Besides, there was a huge portion of IBM selling PC-based products that was making the same paradigm shift and saw that the closed system such as the IBM 5280 System was not the way to go from their perspective and the amount of sales impetus on the IBM 5280 Distributed Data System was not nearly sufficient for it to sell very well. The chaos in the business computing market that ensued due to the pc in general and software failure in particular was very painful to watch. The developers of software for businesses essentially used their customers as test subjects for years before the bugs could be ironed out. As a result the businesses chose the winners based on which products most of their people were familiar with, not whether the software is any good, but the flip side is that multiple methods of backup strategies were devised to protect the data from corruption and loss. They survived all of it, and 20 years later we wonder how it is possible that we worked without these things we now enjoy during all of those years past. |
IBM 5280 | The IBM 5280 Distributed Data System was designed to make the station independent of the system for which the data was being collected. The work station could be placed in varied environments to allow on-location data entry according to the needs of the user. The dual work station offered an almost double capacity for locations with heavy data entry requirements. The system offered enhancements allow more processing power for programming, etc., through a standalone programmable control unit which could interface with up to four Programmable Stations. To provide interaction with mainframe and other computers as needed, the Programmable Stations connected using a LAN cable for Token Ring to mainframes such as IBM System/360 or IBM System/370 and mid-range computers like IBM System/3, IBM System/36 or IBM System/38. In addition local matrix printer capability at 40 cps, 80 cps and 120 cps as well as the faster line printer at up to 500 lines per minute are available connected to the Token Ring makes the system even more usable. |
IBM 5280 | The IBM 5256 is a dot-matrix printer and is usually referred to as character printer. The IBM 5256 can print at speeds of 40, 80 or 120 characters per second, depending on the model (1, 2, 3) respectively. The difference between the printers is the speed, but the only hardware change that is required is to move the jumper on the board, except in the case of the 40 cps machine the motor with small pulley and the shorter drive belt must be exchanged for the larger version used on the 80 and 120 cps machines. All three speeds are accommodated by the hardware and the programming on the adapter board. Another advantage of the base printer mechanism (code named Bahia) is the ability to print accurately in both directions (bi-directional printing). The line was queued to the printer and the characters produced appropriately in one direction while the next line was queued and was printed in the opposite direction. If the mechanism was interrupted, it could relocate the position and direction, and continue where it left off as long as the queued information was not lost. To achieve bold characters, the printer could print the bold area, backup, shift slightly and reprint the bold area. This ability did not produce a reliable nor suitable bold so the software did not implement it. |
Sandra Seaton | Seaton wrote the libretto for the solo opera From the Diary of Sally Hemings for the composer William Bolcom. The fictional work is a depiction of the innermost thoughts of Sarah "Sally" Hemings, an enslaved woman of mixed race who is believed to have had a sexual relationship with Thomas Jefferson. Bolcom asked Seaton to create "diary" entries that would provide the text for his song cycle From The Diary of Sally Hemings. Seaton spent more than a year doing research to create a "diary" that would be historically plausible. As David Lewman pointed out in an article on Seaton's libretto, "It was a challenge. Though there is voluminous material on Jefferson and his period, there are no surviving examples of writing by Sally Hemings." The work was commissioned by mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar, who sang the piece at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium, the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, and other similar venues. In 2010, soprano Alyson Cambridge performed From the Diary of Sally Hemings at Carnegie Hall. |
Bhullar v Bhullar | Bhullar Bros Ltd was owned by families of two brothers. Each side owned 50% of ordinary shares. The directors were Mr Mohan Bhullar, his son Tim, Mr Sohan Bhullar and his sons Inderjit and Jatinderjit. The company had a grocery store at 44 Springwood Street, Huddersfield. It also owned an investment property called Springbank Works, Leeds Road, which was leased to a bowling alley business called UK Superbowl Ltd. In 1998 the families began to fall out. Mohan and Tim told the board they wished for the company to buy no further investment properties. Negotiations began to split up the company, but they were unsuccessful. In 1999, Inderjit went bowling at the UK Superbowl Ltd alley. He noticed that the carpark next door (called White Hall Mill) was on sale. He set up a company called Silvercrest Ltd (owned by him and Jatinderjit) and bought, but did not tell Bhullar Bros Ltd. But Mohan and Tim found out and brought an unfair prejudice claim on the basis that Inderjit and Jatinderjit had breached their fiduciary duty of loyalty to the company. |
Bhullar v Bhullar | 41. Like the defendant in Industrial Development Consultants Ltd v Cooley, the appellants in the instant case had, at the material time, one capacity and one capacity only in which they were carrying on business, namely as directors of the Company. In that capacity, they were in a fiduciary relationship with the Company. At the material time, the Company was still trading, albeit that negotiations (ultimately unsuccessful) for a division of its assets and business were on foot. As Inderjit accepted in cross-examination, it would have been "worthwhile" for the company to have acquired the Property. Although the reasons why it would have been "worthwhile" were not explored in evidence, it seems obvious that the opportunity to acquire the Property would have been commercially attractive to the Company, given its proximity to Springbank Works. Whether the Company could or would have taken that opportunity, had it been made aware of it, is not to the point: the existence of the opportunity was information which it was relevant for the Company to know, and it follows that the appellants were under a duty to communicate it to the Company. The anxiety which the appellants plainly felt as to the propriety of purchasing the Property through Silvercrest without first disclosing their intentions to their co-directors – anxiety which led Inderjit to seek legal advice from the Company's solicitor – is, in my view, eloquent of the existence of a possible conflict of duty and interest. 42. I therefore agree with the judge when he said (in paragraph 272 of his judgment) that "reasonable men looking at the facts would think there was a real sensible possibility of conflict". |
Ceramide-activated protein phosphatase | As a member of the PP2A family, CAPPs can consist of one to three PP2A subunits . The core enzyme consists of a conserved 34 kilodalton (kDa) catalytic subunit, C, and a conserved 65 kDa scaffold subunit, A, tightly bound to one another . The scaffold subunit contains 15 tandem HEAT repeats which arrange to form a horseshoe-like structure that confers remarkable conformational flexibility . Each repeat contains a pair of highly conserved antiparallel α-helices which form a contiguous ridge . The catalytic subunit recognizes and associates with the scaffold subunit through this ridge . Two other regulatory subunit families, the 55 kDa B family and the 61 kDa B' family, can both bind the core enzyme in a mutually exclusive manner . The B' subunit is similar in structure to the scaffold subunit and makes extensive interactions with the scaffold subunit, through a convex surface with eight HEAT repeats, and the catalytic subunit . A concave, acidic region of the B' subunit is tilted towards the active site of the catalytic subunit in the holoenzyme . The B subunit contains seven WD40 repeats, a β-hairpin handle and other secondary structures that form a β-propeller . The β-propeller and β-hairpin handle interact with HEAT repeats three to seven and one to two on the scaffold subunit, respectively . The B subunit has little interaction with the catalytic subunit but also contains an acidic substrate binding site positioned near the active site of the catalytic subunit . The B subunits share no sequence identity with B' subunits . CAPPs can be present as the core dimeric enzyme of AC or a trimeric holoenzyme of ABC or AB'C . Ceramide has also been shown to activate the C subunit alone . There are two isoforms, α and β, of the C and A subunits . There are four isoforms, α, β γ and δ, of the B subunit and five isoforms α, β, γ, δ, and ɛ of the B' subunit . The combinations of these isoforms give a possibility of 40 distinct CAPPs. |
Ceramide-activated protein phosphatase | Long-chain ceramides have also been shown to activate members of the PP1 family . The CAPPs in this family are composed of a catalytic subunit that can associate with one of over a dozen regulatory subunits . The regulatory subunits interact with the catalytic subunit through a conserved RVXF motif . When this binding site is deleted from regulatory proteins, they lose the ability to associate with the catalytic subunit . There is only one recognition site on the catalytic subunit, making the association of a regulatory subunit mutually exclusive . The catalytic subunit of ceramide-activated PP1 is a single-domain protein consisting of a central β-sandwich, of two mixed β-sheets, with seven α-helices surrounding the sandwich on one side and a sub-domain consisting of three α-helices and a β-sheet on the opposite side . Three loops that connect β-sheets with α-helices in the top β-sandwich strand form a β-α-β-α-β motif that interacts with loops form the opposite β-sandwich sheet to provide the catalytic residues . |
People Who Knock on the Door | Arthur Alderman is in his senior year of high school in Chalmerstown, a small city in the Midwest. He expects to attend Columbia University in New York City. His hectoring and distant father, Richard, sells insurance and retirement finance packages. Lois, his mother, keeps house and volunteers regularly at the local orphanage. Robbie, his younger brother and only sibling, recovers from a medical emergency, and this inspires a new religiosity in Richard, who insists on church attendance by the entire family. Religious literature soon fills their home. Arthur has his first sexual experience with Maggie Brewster and learns a few weeks later that she is pregnant. With the support of her family, she has an abortion, as Richard tries and fails to persuade Arthur to intervene to stop it. A visitor from the church, Eddie Howell, makes the first of several intrusive visits to pressure Arthur as well. Arthur resists, defending Maggie's right to decide for herself; he draws on his passion for science to reinforce his feelings of how inferior he feels the 'religious' people are. The confrontation further transforms his relationship with his father: "Eddie Howell was a sick prig, Arthur thought, and so was his father to be sitting there with a solemn face, concentrating on this twit–fifteen or twenty years younger than his father–as if he were God himself or some kind of divine messenger." |
People Who Knock on the Door | Arthur is now persona non grata in his own family, weakly supported by his mother and visiting grandmother. For support he leans on an elderly woman neighbor, his friend Gus, and his employer for the summer at a local shoe store. He bonds with Maggie's mother. Without his father's financial support, he arranges to attend the much less expensive local university instead of Columbia. Robbie seems to adopt his father's moral principles, though he is otherwise socially odd, spending his free time fishing or hunting with a group of older men in a strange community of misfits. He becomes an increasingly dark and sullen presence; Richard appears not to notice, Lois voices some concerns which go nowhere. Arthur's relationship with Maggie's survives several months of separation while she is away at Radcliffe. When she and Arthur bolt the doors to ensure themselves some privacy in the Aldermen house, for a few hours during Christmas vacation, Robbie raises alarms and Richard orders Arthur to move out of the family home. |
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi | In April 2004, Al-Saddiq recited his poetry at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. His poetry has been translated into English by the Poetry Translation Centre in translations by Sudanese poet Hafiz Kheir with English poets Sarah Maguire and Mark Ford. Al-Saddiq has recited his poetry in many British cities on tours organized by the Poetry Translation Centre, including venues such as SOAS and the Fitzwilliam Museum. He has also participated in many workshops for poetry translation in Britain and Sudan, including the congress of translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic held under the auspices of the British Council at the London Book Fair in 2006. In March 2006, Al-Saddiq was invited to recite at the Poetry Cafe in London. In 2010, he participated in the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam. In 2012 he was poet in residence at the Petrie Museum. In 2014, Al-Saddiq continues to tour and has given readings at venues such as the Southbank Centre in London and Ledbury Poetry Festival. |
Paul Hill (flight director) | Hill led an independent assessment of the Chandra X-ray Observatory's flight readiness for NASA Headquarters. In September 2002, Hill served as an aquanaut on the joint NASA-NOAA NEEMO 4 expedition (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), an exploration research mission held in Aquarius, the world's only undersea research laboratory, four miles off shore from Key Largo. Hill and his crewmates spent five days saturation diving from the Aquarius habitat as a space analogue for working and training under extreme environmental conditions. The mission was delayed due to Hurricane Isadore, forcing National Undersea Research Center managers to shorten it to an underwater duration of five days. Then, three days into their underwater mission, the crew members were told that Tropical Storm Lili was headed in their direction and to prepare for an early departure from Aquarius. Fortunately, Lili degenerated to the point where it was no longer a threat, so the crew was able to remain the full five days. |
Cecil R. King | King served as a member of the United States House Committee on Ways and Means, beginning a commitment that he would serve during twelve of his following thirteen terms in the House of Representatives, excluding only 1947-1948, during the 80th United States Congress. Two years later, King again served as one of California's delegates to the 1944 Democratic National Convention again held at Chicago Stadium from July 19 to July 21. In the House elections on November 7, 1944, King again ran unopposed for state's 17th district, and captured 147,217 votes, nearly 100 percent. In the 1946 House elections, King was again unopposed and captured 110,654 votes, or 99.4 percent. At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, King served as an alternate delegate from California. In continuance of the trend, he again ran unopposed in 1948 and 1950 and captured 99.9 percent of the vote in both elections. During the 1950s, King also served as the chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee investigating tax irregularities. |
1973–74 Leeds United A.F.C. season | Having lost in the finals of the Cup Winners Cup and the FA Cup in 1972–73, manager Don Revie considered a move to Everton, but remained with Leeds after the move broke down due to a new law that prevented wage rises to curb inflation. Continuing with what was largely the same squad as during the previous season, he told them his aim was to go unbeaten throughout the season. Leeds started the season well, winning their first 7 league games. This run ended on 22 September when Leeds were held to a 0–0 draw by Manchester United. On 8 October, Leeds were knocked out of the League cup in the Second Round by Ipswich Town. After finding success in the first two rounds of the UEFA Cup, he played weakened teams to allow an early exit from the UEFA Cup, in order to allow his team to focus on the league. Leeds were knocked out in the third round by Vitória FC. At the start of 1974, Leeds were 8 points clear of second placed Liverpool with 19 games remaining and still remaining unbeaten. On 23 February 1974, Leeds lost their first league game, losing 3–2 away to Stoke. Leeds would lose 3 more times in the 1973–74 season, but they won the 1973–74 title going 29 matches unbeaten. This was still a record unbeaten start to a league campaign in the 20th century, and not bettered until Arsenal's 2003–04 campaign. In total Leeds lost just 4 league games and remained in first place for almost the entire campaign. At the end of the season, manager Don Revie left to manage the England national team. |
Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney | On March 21, 2019, it was reported that Disney would shut down the Fox 2000 Pictures studio in 2020, following the release of The Woman in the Window. On the same day, it was reported that up to 4,000 people would lose their jobs as Disney commenced layoffs following the merger. The top executives given two to six months notice of being laid off included 20th Century Fox film president of domestic distribution Chris Aronson, president of worldwide marketing Pamela Levine, co-president of marketing Kevin Campbell, chief content officer Tony Sella, international distribution president Andrew Cripps, executive vice president of corporate communications Dan Berger, executive vice president of legal affairs and executive vice president of Fox Stage productions Bob Cohen and executive vice president of publicity Heather Phillips, 20th Television president Greg Meidel and Fox Consumer Products boss Jim Fielding. The layoffs from Fox's Film Division continued from March, May, June, July and more recently in August 2019. As of July 31, 2019, the layoffs totaled 250 with the layoffs of several dozen employees in the production and visual effects departments. Key Fox executives in this group were executive VP of feature production Fred Baron, executive VP of physical production Dana Belcastro, executive VP of post-production Fred Chandler and visual effects John Kilkenny. |
Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney | In July 2023, Disney began exploring strategic options, including a sale or formation of a joint venture, for their businesses in India. Between September and October 2023, the company held preliminary talks with Reliance Industries, billionaire Gautam Adani and Kalanithi Maran, owner of the Sun Group, for a potential sale of its streaming and linear television assets. In late October 2023, it was reported that Disney was nearing a cash and stock deal with Reliance Industries for the sale of its operations in India, including a controlling stake in Disney Star. The assets Reliance would acquire are reportedly valued at around $7-8 billion and a transaction was to be announced as early as November. Although Disney CEO Bob Iger refuted claims of a sale during a third quarter earnings call, it was announced in December 2023 that Disney and Reliance had signed a non-binding term sheet for a merger. According to its terms, Reliance would hold a 51% in the merged company in cash and stock, while Disney would own the remaining 49%. For purposes of the merger, a subsidiary of Viacom18 being created to absorb Disney Star through a stock swap with the deal being expected to be completed by February 2024, pending ratification and regulatory approval, with Reliance aiming to complete it by the end of January. |
Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney | One distribution studio executive denounced the deal, saying that "If I was an independent mom-and-pop theater, I would just close down; there's no way to survive. With a 40% market share, how do you negotiate against that?" John Roper, the general manager of the Phoenix Theatre in Fort Nelson, British Columbia, said that Disney/Fox had him worried about even stricter rules in the future, stating, "It's not good for any type of industry when a company grows that large. Disney holds all the cards, and we have to play by their rules. Smaller cinemas are just left in the dust." Roper decided not to screen Star Wars: The Last Jedi because of Disney's strict conditions of requiring the theater to run the film four weeks straight and play it four times a day (as opposed to other studios, who only require a minimum of two weeks for a film run and play it one time a day). Elkader Cinema in Elkader, Iowa, opted out the movie for the same reason, with owner Lee Akin stating that "I can't get the entire town in my auditorium in one week's time let alone four." |
Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney | f a company like Disney were to buy a major theater company—something the impending DOJ change would permit—it could have drastic consequences for Hollywood. Disney already controls an alarmingly large portion of ticket revenues and just bought its competitor 20th Century Fox; since doing that, the company has quietly restricted repertory showings of old Fox movies, a practice it has long enforced for Disney movies. A hypothetical Disney-owned theater chain that prioritized Disney films for its screens would squeeze an industry that's already struggling to offer a breadth of options to consumers, thanks to the overwhelming success of family-friendly brand-name blockbusters. Without strict antitrust rules, independently owned theaters could have trouble affording big studio movies. A crucial part of the old centralized system was that theater chains rented screens to their studio owners at a massive discount; were that model to return, it would be hard for indie theaters to compete. We live in a world where more than 30 percent of all ticket revenues are earned by —it's arguable that the movie system needs more market restriction, not less. |
Sweepstakes (schooner) | Sweepstakes's wreck is considered well preserved as the hull remains intact. Sweepstakes is located approximately 46 metres (50 yd) from the head of Big Tub Harbour and remains in the water at a depth of 6.1 metres (20 ft). The bow area of the boat contains the windlass and portions of the starboard railings remain undamaged. The stern name-board has been removed and currently is on display at the Bruce County Museum in Southampton. In the middle of the schooner is the center-board box, with the centerboard inside. This extends from keel to deck. The aft-deck of Sweepstakes has collapsed, causing the stern-post to fall, where it now lies on the bottom of Big Tub Harbour. The Fathom Five National Marine Park has made repairs to the slowly deteriorating schooner to keep the deck from collapsing. Although Sweepstakes deteriorates a little more each year, it is said to be one of the best preserved 19th century Great Lakes schooners that has been found and is considered one of the most popular shipwrecks in the Fathom Five National Marine Park. Nearby is another popular visited shipwreck, City of Grand Rapids. The schooner gives a good depiction of what a typical Great Lakes schooner looked like. Contrary to previous advisories when entering the shipwreck, this must be done with caution; entry of the schooner is no longer accessible to divers. Fathom Five National Marine Park officials have put up fencing to prevent entry into the schooner. This reduces any further damage to the schooner which could be caused by the exhaled bubbles of the divers. |
Bastian Obermayer | Obermayer was contacted at an uncertain time by an anonymous whistleblower who called themself John Doe and who thenceforth leaked more than 11.5 million internal documents created by Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca to Obermayer and his colleague Frederik Obermaier. "My life is in danger", John Doe told Obermayer. In a 6 May 2016 statement, John Doe cited income inequality, and said he leaked the documents "simply because I understood enough about their contents to realise the scale of the injustices they described". He added that he has never worked for any government or intelligence agency and expressed willingness to help prosecutors. The two journalists shared the documents with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Journalists from 107 media organizations in 80 countries analyzed documents detailing the operations of the law firm. After more than a year of analysis, the first news stories were published on 3 April 2016. Only days later, Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier published their book, titled Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money, first in German and later in more than 15 languages. The US investigative journalist Bob Woodward called the Panama Papers investigation a "triumph of journalism", the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden "the biggest leak in the history of journalism". Later on Netflix announced to turn the investigation into a movie based on the book of Obermayer and Obermaier. |
Nonsectarian | Examples of North American universities that identify themselves as being nonsectarian include Adelphi University, Berea College, Boston University, Bradley University, Brandeis University, Columbia College in Missouri, Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, Cornell University, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Denison University, Duke University, Elon University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Franklin & Marshall College, George Washington University, Hawaii Pacific University, Hillsdale College, Hofstra University, Howard University, Ithaca College, Long Island University, National University, New York University, Northwestern University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Pratt Institute, Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, Reed College in Oregon, Whitman College in Washington, Rice University, the University of Richmond, Syracuse University, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, the University of Denver, the University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, the Washington University in St. Louis, and Woodbury University in California. |
Dipesh Chakrabarty | Chakrabarty has had an extensive program of visiting lectureships: visiting fellow, Humanities Institute, Princeton, USA ; Hitesranjan Sanyal Visiting professor of history, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, University of Calcutta ; visitor, Humanities Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook ; visiting fellow, Max Planck Institute for Historical Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany ; Faculty, Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine ; visiting research professor, University of Technology, Sydney ; visitor, Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi ; scholar-in-residence, Pratt Institute, New York ; visiting professor, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania ; Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting professor, University of Iowa ; distinguished visitor, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Minnesota ; Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin : Katz Professor in the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle ; Hallsworth Visiting professor, University of Manchester, England ; Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria ; Lansdowne Lecturer, Victoria University, Canada ; Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign . In 2014, Chakrabarty delivered the IWM Lectures in Human Sciences in Vienna; a public lecture at Cankaya Municipality (Ankara, Turkey); Principal's Distinguished Visitor, Queen's University, Canada; distinguished visitor, Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, New York; visitor, University of Barcelona, Spain; visiting fellow, Humanities Research Centre, College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University ; GLASS scholar, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) – Humanities University of Leiden, . |
Neural circuit | Early treatments of neural networks can be found in Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psychology, 3rd edition , Theodor Meynert's Psychiatry , William James' Principles of Psychology , and Sigmund Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology . The first rule of neuronal learning was described by Hebb in 1949, in the Hebbian theory. Thus, Hebbian pairing of pre-synaptic and post-synaptic activity can substantially alter the dynamic characteristics of the synaptic connection and therefore either facilitate or inhibit signal transmission. In 1959, the neuroscientists, Warren Sturgis McCulloch and Walter Pitts published the first works on the processing of neural networks. They showed theoretically that networks of artificial neurons could implement logical, arithmetic, and symbolic functions. Simplified models of biological neurons were set up, now usually called perceptrons or artificial neurons. These simple models accounted for neural summation (i.e., potentials at the post-synaptic membrane will summate in the cell body). Later models also provided for excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission. |
2016 New York drought | Although May saw decent rainfall, the preceding and following months saw great deficits. Streams and ponds dried or saw near record low flow rates, and the water table lowered significantly in some areas. Many large rivers, including the Genesee River, were running at about 20% of normal, many below the fifth percentile. Historical remains were briefly visible in the Genesee riverbed including a defunct fountain and a cofferdam where trains ran during early 20th century riverbed deepening to reduce flooding, as well as historic building foundations. Some crops began to fail by July, including crops that did not germinate in the dry soil, and production and nutrition was low in crops that did mature. Perennial crops including fruit trees, Christmas trees, and strawberries were also affected, with deeper root crops such as corn about half the normal height by early August. Significant shortfalls in pasture and hay production compounded very low milk prices to put an existential strain on local dairy farms. Due to extensive watering, the 2016 Garden Walk Buffalo was not significantly impacted. In mid July, the state issued a drought watch for the first time since 2002. |
2016 New York drought | On August 8, a tropical system featuring high humidity and moisture was forecast to bring several inches of rain to Upstate New York over several days from Wednesday through the weekend, including enough moisture to produce up to two inches on the first day. The August 11 drought monitor report (valid up to Tuesday August 9) showed the area of severe drought increasing to 29.5%, covering nearly all of the state from Syracuse west and again setting a weekly report record, though it did not account for widespread rainfall of one half to two inches that took place on Wednesday August 10. Nonetheless, the drought continued as many locations were at a nearly 10 inch deficit for the year. The August 16 drought monitor report showed that while the severe drought area declined slightly, six percent of the state was upgraded to D3 (Extreme Drought), a first for the state during the summer The area was a long narrow strip from Lake Erie to the northern half of Seneca County, roughly along the I-90 corridor, as well as a spot in the southern Finger Lakes. The Extreme Drought area remained the same for the next two weeks, other than the removal of the western fringe in Erie County. Keuka Lake neared it record low summer level of 713.25 ft (217.4 meters). |
2016 New York drought | The drought continued through the middle of October, with about 5% of the state in the Finger Lakes still under D-3 Extreme Drought as of October 18. However, a several day pattern of rainy weather later that week dropped up to 6 inches (150 mm) of rain in some areas, and several inches over much of the affected central New York area. The record rainfall effectively quelled the severe drought at least at surface level; however, the vast majority of the state remained "abnormally dry" or "moderate drought", with the Finger Lakes region and Western New York, as well as downstate, still in a substantial drought. The drought at this point was expected to last through January. After the first week of November, about 80% of the state was considered to be in a moderate drought, and about 23% in a D-2 Severe Drought, mainly in the southeastern Finger Lakes and downstate and central Long Island areas. By the mid November report, parts of the Hudson Valley were back into D-3 Extreme Drought category, as part of an ongoing drought in the tri-state (New York-New Jersey-Connecticut) New York metropolitan area that was also expected to last through winter. |
Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry | On the way to Antarctica, Steed's vehicle sinks, causing his elimination before he falls for a mermaid on an island, who proceeds to feed him to her offspring. The first contestant to reach Antarctica is Gorthan, also eliminated after hosts Biff Buzzard and Buzz Blister goad him into licking a metal pole. He is left adrift with his vehicle on an iceberg while struggling to free his tongue. As Tom, Jerry, and Grammy arrive, Grammy is eliminated when a whale accidentally swallows her and Squirty, thanks to Tom's machinations. J.W. then notifies the hosts that the racers will have to modify their vehicles again for underwater travel to Australia. While racing underwater, Tom faces problems. Seals take over his car, and his fish juice spray attracts sharks, ultimately eliminating him when he crashes into a concrete block and an anchor crushes him. Upon arriving in Australia, Jerry continues racing across Australia to Borneo, where the finish line got reassigned. Grammy and Squirty return to the race when the whale spits them out. Tom also returns after J.W.'s assistant Irving rescues him under J.W.'s orders and saws Australia in half to get in the lead. |
Wanda Nero Butler | Her music recording career commenced in 1988, with the album, Reach for His Love, and it was released by Sog (Sound of Gospel) Secret, and it was her breakthrough album upon the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart at No. 34. The subsequent album, New Born Soul, was released by Sog Secret on January 11, 1990, and it placed upon the aforementioned chart at No. 11. She released, Wanda, with Light Records on July 1, 1991, yet this was her only album that failed to chart. Her fourth album, Live in Atlanta, was released by Light Records on August 29, 1991, and this peaked at No. 22 on the Gospel Albums chart. The album, Chike-Anyabwille, was released by Sound of Gospel on November 29, 1994, and it placed on the aforementioned chart at No. 11. She released, All to the Glory of God, on July 23, 1996 by Sound of Gospel, and this peaked at No. 12 on the Top Gospel Albums chart. The latest release, Family Prayer, released from Sound of Gospel on June 26, 1999 by Sound of Gospel, and this placed at No. 11 on the aforementioned chart. |
Emmanuel Goffi | In 2007, after he completed his master's degree at Sciences Po and finished his scholarship at the University of Queensland in Australia, he is posted as a professor of international relations at the French Air Force Academy. He will then be Deputy Head and later Head, of the Department of Human Sciences. During his tenure, he also teaches the Law of Armed Conflict, Ethics and Communication. While at the French Air Force Academy, he notably set up the Law of Armed Conflict Module in the framework of the Initiative européenne pour les échanges de jeunes officiers, inspirée d'Erasmus (European initiative for the exchange of young officers inspired by Erasmus), that was finally adopted as the model for all European military academies by the Collège européen de sécurité et de défense (European College for Security and Defence) in Brussels. Emmanuel was also the first professor to give a course in English (a part of English language courses) at the French Air Force Academy. Besides, this module gave birth to an annual international seminar and an edited book issued in 2011. |
A Monster's Expedition | The progression of the game drew mixed responses from reviewers. Edge found the game's introduction of its mechanics subtle, teaching the player to use advanced techniques without them realizing it. PC Gamer's Phil Savage opined that A Monster's Expedition's biggest strength was making players feel they had discovered mechanics themselves. Others found the puzzles' nonlinearity a major strength: Nadia Oxford of USgamer described the game as "free and open", and multiple critics cited its branching paths as helping to avoid player frustration by allowing them to solve different puzzles when stuck. Conversely, Angharad Yeo of Good Game: Spawn Point felt this contributed to a lack of direction, which she found frustrating, and Oxford criticized the game feeling aimless due to its lack of any journal or achievements. Some believed the difficulty was arbitrary: Tailby felt there were some puzzles with large spikes in difficulty, Edge commented that players could inadvertently encounter puzzles earlier than they would be prepared to solve them, and Delgado felt that the game did not progress in difficulty, but only became more overwhelming. |
2014 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final | Tipperary manager Eamon O'Shea was focusing on the positives after the draw saying ""I feel I was a participant in a brilliant game," "Of course you feel drained, you try to win the game right until the end, but I just felt the occasion in terms of the game was just one of those was games..."I don't know what it looked like when you're dispassionate...but I just felt it was one of those games, like in 2009 (All-Ireland Final which Kilkenny won), it was just one of those games where you felt it was just good to be there." O'Shea also thought that John O'Dwyer's late free had gone over the bar saying " "I felt he had a chance," I thought it was over but obviously HawkEye said no. He got a great strike on it and he was unlucky." "I'm looking forward to the next day," "When you're involved in a game like that, from my perspective, you just try and win the game right until the end. You don't get a chance to get too emotional about it so I'm just looking forward to the next day, "I thought they (Tipperary) did really well today. They worked really hard, they believed in what they were doing. We could have won it, we might have lost it because we were playing against a fantastic team." |