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Marine light armored vehicles sit aboard a Navy landing craft preparing to launch from the assault ship Essex during an amphibious exercise. Freed from years of garrison duty in Iraq, the Corps is refocusing on ampibious warfare. (Pfc. Brandon Rodriguez / U.S. Marine Corps)
Conducting an amphibious assault on an enemy-controlled beach has always been one of the most complex forms of warfare. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps together have successfully stormed more beaches than any team in history.
Yet, by its own admission, the team is rusty.
Not only that, the game is changing. More effective weapons fielded by potential adversaries, including long-range surface-to-surface missiles in the hands of nongovernment actors such as Hezbollah, and new developments in cyber and information war fighting are creating a more complex environment. The Navy/Marine Corps team, therefore, needs to be more flexible to successfully counter increasingly sophisticated enemies.
Many of the gaps were exposed when sea service officials held a synthetic war game dubbed Expeditionary Warrior this year. The war game was geared to threats and situations that might be expected in 2024. Set among several fictional nations in West Africa, the game highlighted a number of problems, particularly in the command-and-control area, that need to be addressed.
Gamers used several advanced concepts still under development, including Air-Sea Battle and the Joint Operational Access Concept from the Pentagon, and analysis from the Corps’ Amphibious Capabilities Working Group. The application of at least a dozen other concepts also was studied, all under the umbrella of the anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategy — the effort to penetrate a defended area and deny its use to an enemy.
However, an unclassified assessment of the war game by Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC) noted that “Expeditionary Warrior exposed numerous gaps and opportunities in doctrine, concepts, capabilities and capacity for joint force operations in an A2/AD environment.”
But while “potential solutions are as complex as the problems themselves,” according to the assessment, game results also reflect “a golden opportunity” for the Corps and its Navy partner to shape themselves into a “responsive, agile and lethal force.”
Better Command Setup
The war game was part of a larger series of exercises and events meant to reintroduce the Navy and Marine Corps after more than a decade of wars.
Exercise Bold Alligator, a large-scale series of maneuvers held last winter off the mid-Atlantic coast, was the first major effort by the services to simulate a major amphibious assault since the post-9/11 wars began. The effort focused on rebuilding expertise in today’s forces, which include thousands of Marines who have never been on board a ship.
Expeditionary Warrior followed. With 200 participants, the game’s “main event” took place in a Washington hotel in March and was preceded by 10 months of conferences, workshops and planning events, as well as a “classified excursion.” Gamers included members of all five U.S. armed service branches, the Joint Staff, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Special Operations Command and 14 partner nations.
The game exposed a need to reconcile Marine Corps and Navy operational doctrines, and the assessment noted “interoperability challenges” among Navy, Marine and special operations forces, including the need to clarify command relationships.
“The level where this really is working out is at Marine expeditionary brigade (MEB)-level operations,” Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, MCCDC commander, said in a Sept. 6 interview.
An MEB generally consists of more than 10,000 Marines and includes aircraft and vehicles.
“We are very comfortable with our command relationships and how you do Marine expeditionary unit (MEU)-size operations,” Mills said, referring to the standard 2,500-Marine unit that regularly deploys aboard amphibious ships.
“Now ... as you begin to make the distances much [farther] than they have been because of distributed operations — because of increasing threats — command-and-control relationships become very clear. Those are issues we have to work on with the Navy,” Mills said.
He noted that future operations could be much larger than the humanitarian relief or evacuation operations of recent years. “They’re going to be larger-scale operations in which we have to be sure that we integrate carrier strike groups and larger amphibious formations into one single naval fight.”
More large-scale exercises are planned to continue the evolution of war-fighting concepts, Mills said. A synthetic Bold Alligator will be held in 2013 — the exercise alternates every year between full-scale, live operations and simulated maneuvers — and Exercise Dawn Blitz in June along the southern California coast will execute many of the concepts outlined in Expeditionary Warrior.
And the large Rim of the Pacific exercise in summer 2014 will include a deployable MEB command unit.
“What we need to do now,” Mills said, “is use large exercises like that and work with the Navy to test out the changes and experiments and keep pushing forward.”


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The EU Regulation (1143/2014) on invasive alien (non-native) species first 37 species listed;
On 14 July 2016 the European Commission published Commission Implementing Regulation 2016/1141 which sets out an initial list of 37 species to which EU Invasive Alien Species Regulation 1143/2014 will apply. The associated restrictions and obligations will come into force on 3rd August 2016. All of these species have been accepted as meeting agreed criteria concerning their invasiveness and ability to establish in several Member States.
The aim of this new regime is to prevent or manage the introduction, or spread, of invasive non-native species across the European Union. In order to achieve this aim the EU Regulation requires Member States to put in place surveillance and rapid response mechanisms and to develop management action plans.
Listing imposes restrictions on the commercial keeping, sale, and transporting of the listed plants and animals, and their intentional breeding or release. A permit scheme will be in operation to allow derogations from some of these restrictions (other than their release) but only in very limited circumstances.
|American skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus)||Kudzu vine (Pueraria montana var. lobata)|
|Asiatic tearthumb (Persicaria perfoliata)||Parrot’s feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum)|
|Curly waterweed (Lagarosiphon major)||Persian Hogweed (Heracleum persicum)|
|Eastern baccharis (Baccharis halimifolia)||Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)|
|Floating pennywort (Hydrocotyle ranunculoides)||Water primrose (2 species) (Ludwigia grandiflora)|
|Floating primrose willow (Ludwigia peploides)||Whitetop weed (Parthenium hysterophorus)|
|Green cabomba, Carolina fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana)|
|Amur sleeper (Percottus glenii)||Marbled crayfish (Procambarus fallax)|
|Asian hornet (Vespa velutina)||Muntjac deer (Muntiacus reevesi)|
|Bryant’s fox squirrel (Sciurus niger)||North American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus)|
|Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis)||Palla’s squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)|
|Coypu (Myocaster coypus)||Raccoon (Procyon lotor)|
|Eastern/Spiny – cheek crayfish (Orconectes limosus)||Red eared slider (terrapin) (Trachemys scripta)|
|Small Indian mongoose (Herpestes javanaicus)||Red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)|
|Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)||Ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)|
|Indian house crow (Corvus splendens)||Sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)|
|Small Indian mongoose (Herpestes javanaicus)||Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus)|
|South American coati (Nasua nasua)||Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus)|
|Topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva)||Virile (northern crayfish) (Orconectes virilis)|

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Ahlam Hashim Mohsin, Anazida Zainal, Kamalrulnizam Abu Bakar. Optimized Reliable Hybrid Routing Protocol Based Link Stability for Mobile Wireless Networks. Wireless Personal Communications, 102(1):473-493, 2018. [doi]
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text: Vigorous exercise on land gives amphibious fish a brain boost, researchers have found. “It’s a fish out of water. It just seems so counterintuitive, but it’s really helpful for these fish,” biologist Giulia Rossi told CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald. Rossi put amphibious fish through a maze for 10 consecutive days, and found the fish that had been exercised, as well as the group that had been randomly exposed to air, performed significantly better than the group that had just been in water, learning the most efficient route through the maze and finding the food quicker. She then examined the fish brains, and found that in the areas responsible for spatial cognition, the animals from the air-and-water and exercise groups had more proliferating or dividing cells, a process called neurogenesis. “Fish have a huge capacity for neurogenesis, so lots of different regions in their brain can actually form new neurons. Fish are really good at it. Other vertebrates like humans (are) actually not that great at doing that,” said Rossi.

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Elizabeth Banks Anticipates ‘Migration’ Follow-Up, Suggests European Expedition
Elizabeth Banks Keen to Voice Pam Mallard in ‘Migration’ Sequel
Elizabeth Banks, the highly respected actress celebrated for her voicing of Pam Mallard in the recently showcased animated film ‘Migration’, recently made known her passion for reprising her role for prospective sequels. Directed by the eminent Benjamin Renner, ‘Migration’ spins a captivating tale centered around ducks who accidentally find themselves amidst the busy streets of New York City. In potential sequels, Banks anticipates these ducks venturing on a riveting European journey, possibly around the Mediterranean region.
The Charm of ‘Migration’: An Amalgamation of Humor and Adventure
‘Migration’ has had a remarkable launch in movie theatres, charming viewers with its unusual fusion of comedy and adventure. The storyline of the film primarily concerns the ducks’ hilarious mishaps and their encounters with an astute fox named Carl, introducing an aspect of mystery to the narrative. The myriad ensemble of characters, each marked by distinctive idiosyncrasies, add color and depth to the narration.
Big Names Lending Voice
The film takes pride in its starry voice cast, featuring acclaimed actors such as Kumail Nanjiani, Keegan-Michael Key, Awkwafina, David Mitchell, and Danny DeVito giving voice to the whimsical characters. Banks’s character – Pam Mallard, is adored for her sharp wit and charisma, qualities that have won over the audience. This fondness for a sequel shown by Banks parallels the positive reactions that the film has received so far.
Impending Sequel: A Concrete Possibility?
Although information regarding the production of a sequel remains undisclosed and the production house has thus far not confirmed any future plans, Banks’s disclosed interest points towards the possibility of the duck’s adventure being extended. The prospect of a sequel, set against the exhilarating backdrop of the Mediterranean, is an enticing promise for dedicated fans and suggests more spellbinding journeys for the ducks ahead.

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Mark Bucki takes the stand today in his own defense at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Merrill. He stands accused of killing his wife, Anita Bucki.
Jurors will resume deliberations early Wednesday after failing Tuesday to reach a verdict in the trial of a Lincoln County man accused of killing his wife.
Authorities say Mark Bucki strangled and then stabbed his estranged wife to death before dumping her body in a Taylor County swamp. Anita Bucki's body was discovered May 10.
The jury deliberated for about five hours Tuesday before breaking for the night. ...


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The blind auditions of "The Voice" USA 2014 is all set to enter its third week with judges, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton expected to expand their respective teams, though it is up to the contestants to pick them as their coach or not.
Adam and Blake have seven contestants each, while other coaches, User and Shakira have nine each in their teams. A total of 32 contestants have managed to make the coaches turn their chairs in the last four episodes through two weeks.
Day Five of the blind auditions will begin on Monday at 8:00 pm EST on NBC Television (6.30 am IST, Tuesday).
In the last episode, Blake added three contestants - Megan Ruger (who sang Pink's "Just Like a Pill,"), Lexi Luca (who sang "Wasting All These Tears" by Cassadee Pope) and Audra McLaughlin (who sang Bonnie Raitt's "Angel From Montgomery") - to his team.
Shakira added Emily B (who sang Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"), Dani Moz (who sang Calvin Harris' "I Need Your Love") and Music Box (Des'ree's "You Gotta Be") to her team, taking the total to nine. Usher got two more contestants - Morgan Wallen (who sang Howie Day's "Collide") and Stevie Jo (who sang Usher's "There Goes My Baby") on Tuesday.
Adam pushed his button only once last week and left empty-handed, but he is expected to turn around for some contestants and expand his team tonight.
Complete List of Contestants:
Team Usher: T.J. Wilkins, Biff Gore, Bria Kelly, Madilyn Paige, Brothers Walker, Tanner James, Melissa Jimenez, Morgan Wallen, Stevie Jo
Team Adam: Dawn & Hawkes, Christina Grimmie, Cary Laine, Delvin Choice, Sam Behymer, Joshua Howard, and Patrick Thomson
Team Shakira: Kristen Merlin, Jeremy Briggs, Deja Hall, DeShawn Washington, Clarissa Serna, Lindsay Pagano, Emily B, Dani Moz, Music Box
Team Blake: Jake Worthington, Noah Lis, Ryan Whyte Maloney, Sisaundra Lewis, Megan Ruger, Lexi Luca, Audra McLaughlin
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23 Teacup Pictures
Today I am sharing an elegant collection of Pretty Vintage Tea Cup Pictures. I’m always searching for colorful Vintage Teacup Images and they are getting harder and harder to find! We have several beautiful Victorian Scrap pieces.
Antique Scraps are among my favorites and it’s always exciting when I can find new ones! Also shown are some Advertising and Trade Cards with glorious patterns and designs. These would be so nice on a Handmade Card or Invite to a Tea Party, or maybe even used in a Mother’s Day Surprise!
Antique Teacup Pictures with Roses
I just love these French Teacup Graphics. I created two Images; the original and a text free version. The Teacup is truly special with the pastel Rose pattern on it, but the addition of the Moss Roses really puts this one over the top for me. So enchanting!!
Featured above is a set of pretty Tea Cup Images from my collection! This one has a lovely Pattern of Tiny Roses on it. The original is the bright Green one, but I’ve also included Turquoise and Lavender options. Sweet!
Teacup Images with Flowers
Here we have a tea (or coffee cup) trade card. This one has a pretty floral design with scroll accents. This one had a really cute back to it as well, but unfortunately it had some damage that I just wasn’t able to clean up
This Teacup scrap is a simple white and gold teacup that is embellished with splendid Blue Forget Me Knots and Pink Rosebuds. Lovely!
Vintage Tea Cups
Here are a couple more lavish Vintage Teacup Images! Included are of Blue and Gold set and a Pink and Gold set. They both display an interesting Greek Key design.
Here are three colorful Victorian Teacups! These are also antique Scrap Pieces. Included are a Red and Gold, Green and Gold, and Teal and Gold Cups with Saucers! Stunning!
Cute Tea Cups
Here we have a cute Teacup from an old Victorian Cookbook in my collection. This one is quite plain, but I actually think it’s even more useful than the others since you can decorate it anyway that you like!
Pictured above is another pretty little Antique Teacup image from the Victorian Cookbook! This one has a lovely floral pattern and a cute bamboo style handle. This is the sister graphic to the Bird Teacup above.
This is a fabulous Antique Teacup Image!! It is actually from an old Postcard, but the background was removed to offer you just the Teacup by itself. I think it is a much more useful graphic this way. I love that this one offers a blank canvas. There is a pretty blue swirly border on the saucer, edge of the cup, and handle. It is plain white on the outside.
Here is a charming Vintage Teacup Image! This one is a Victorian Scrap Die cut piece that was cut out in the shape you see above. The cup and saucer have an appealing Leaf Vine design on them in green, blue, and yellow.
Love this teacup! This is a wonderful antique trade card for a Tea Store. The card is die cut and shaped like a tea cup and saucer. I’m offering 2 versions. The original is at the top, and there is a second version with the wording removed so that you can add your own. It could also work well for your Alice in Wonderland themed projects.
Do you need an idea for what to make with this pieces?


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RCMS encourages everyone 6 months and older to get COVID and influenza (flu) vaccinated. We also recommend anyone over 60 years old to consider also getting vaccinated against RSV (respiratory syncytial virus).
We do not yet have COVID, influenza, or adult RSV vaccines at the RCMS clinic. Thus, we recommend anyone traveling out of the area to consider getting these vaccines at a commercial pharmacy while you are in an urban setting, where they may be more readily available.
RCMS anticipates getting flu vaccine supplies in early October. At that time, we will announce flu shot clinic details and in-clinic vaccination options. We will not carry the 'high dose' flu vaccine, which is another option for patients 65 and over. (Please note the CDC states it is acceptable for patients over the age of 65 to receive the standard dose flu shot).
We are currently unable to offer large community COVID shot clinics, but will inform the community if this becomes a possibility.
If you have questions about the RSV vaccine for persons over 60 years of age, speak to your medical provider or pharmacist to see whether you would benefit from this vaccine.
For more information about the recently released COVID vaccine, see the CDC website: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p0912-COVID-19-Vaccine.html.
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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope in Guizhou [Photo/Ou Dongqu (Xinhua)]
With the help of the world's largest radio telescope, Chinese scientists have made progress on the observation of interplanetary scintillation, a phenomenon that can be used to study space weather.
The radio signal from a distant compact radio source is scattered by the solar wind, and consequently, a random diffraction pattern is observed on Earth. This phenomenon is known as interplanetary scintillation (IPS) and ground-based IPS observations in turn can help infer the physical properties of the solar wind.
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made an analysis of the solar wind through IPS observations with China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST).
Thanks to the ultra-high sensitivity of the FAST, solar wind speed information was obtained in only 20 seconds, much less than the time required by conventional radio telescopes, the research team said Tuesday.
"FAST is promising to play a unique role in IPS study," said Peng Bo, the corresponding author of the study, which was published online in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
An anonymous referee commented that the study was "novel and of benefit to the wider astrophysical community."
As space explorations are increasingly frequent, solar activity monitoring and space weather forecast become more important. Scientists, therefore, have higher expectations of discovery on IPS observations.
According to the study, although the solar wind can be observed directly using a satellite or spacecraft with relatively high accuracy, ground-based IPS observations are a more economical method to obtain information on the solar wind such as velocity.
The IPS phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s and many countries, including Britain, the United States, Japan and India, have undertaken IPS studies since then. In China, IPS observations started in the 1990s.
FAST is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, with a reception area equal to 30 standard football fields. Located in a naturally deep and round karst depression in southwest China's Guizhou Province, it officially began operating on Jan. 11, 2020.


In an interview with Manager Magazin, Michael Ensser, Managing Partner for Germany, talks about what companies should look for in candidates in the era of digitalization.
Veteran executive recruiter Karl Alleman, managing partner of Egon Zehnder’s U.S. practice, has a particularly good vantage point on this.
How to keep the family business vibrant across generations.
Eugene Kim, Egon Zehnder's office leader in Seoul, is a regular contributor to The Korea Herald’s Management in Korea column. The following articles were originally published in The Korea Herald’s Management in Korea and are presented here with its permission.
“A Framework for Leadership” was the topic of Gizem Weggemans’ presentation at The Indie Summit at the Royal College of Physicians on 14th June in London. The Indie Summit is the only large-scale global conference and networking event exclusively for Owners, CEOs and Senior Directors of the world’s leading independent marketing and communications agencies.
For the Harvard Business Review IdeaCast, Egon Zehnder Senior Advisor Claudio Fernández-Aráoz sat down with Senior Editor Sarah Green Carmichael to discuss how more companies can make good decisions by developing and hiring insiders. According to Fernández-Aráoz, there is emerging research that shows that organizations, particularly at the very high levels, are hiring from the outside excessively, perhaps five times two often.
The Chief of Staff role is perhaps the trickiest hire for a chief executive to make.
Big businesses are often slow to adapt and innovate, while start-ups struggle to build teams and systems to scale up their businesses. How can firms break this mould? By learning from one another, writes Egon Zehnder’s Catherine Zhu in the Career Doctors section of the South China Morning Post.
In 2013, Carol SingletonSlade, Steve Goodman, Trent Aulbaugh and Roger Aguirre of Egon Zehnder’s Global Energy Practice warned of the dire need for identifying and training a new generation of qualified and prepared executives who are ready and willing to lead oil and gas companies. Four years later, as Chevron’s chief executive John Watson is set to step down, his likely replacement is a representation of this “new leadership for a changing oil world.”
Before a company acquires an expensive new piece of capital equipment, the board will vigorously scrutinize assumptions, payback times and contribution to enterprise value – assigning a net present value. What if this expensive new piece of equipment is the CEO?
GE’s announcement on June 12 that John Flannery would be the next CEO of the massive Boston-based conglomerate was a decision 20 years in the making.
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Partner cities around the world have the power to convince their Polish twins to respect LGBT+ citizens. Ask them to send a message of love to Poland.
Around 100 Polish municipalities have declared themselves “LGBT-free zones”. This means a third of Poland is affected by policies that have one goal: to exclude Polish LGBT+ people from society and to declare them enemies of the state.
Powerful, ultra-conservative groups have inspired and backed this deluge of hate.
We believe we can convince Polish towns to turn away from hate by sending them a message of love that comes from their partner cities in Europe and other parts of the world.
Partner cities around the world have long-running relationships with their Polish counterparts. They constantly engage in cultural exchange, visits, and mutual support. If they ask their partners to respect the rights of their LGBT+ citizens, their messages will be heard.
All Out and Pulse of Europe have teamed up with Polish LGBT+ activists and developed a set of recommendations on how the partner cities can help.
Sign the petition today and help us convince them to join us.
This campaign is being run in conjunction with Pulse of Europe and is kindly supported by ILGA-Europe, EPOA, LGBTI Liberals of Europe, Atlas of Hate, LSVD, Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti, GayNet, Il Grande Colibrì ODV, Voices4London and Queer Matters.


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The striking transformation of a caterpillar into a colourful, winged butterfly is one that has captivated scientists for years. The metamorphosis involves the breakdown of most of the caterpillar’s tissues before reassembling to form a butterfly. It therefore seems unlikely that butterflies or moths would remember experiences from their caterpillar days. However, scientists have now established that not only can a moth retain memories formed while it was a caterpillar, but that experiences gained during these early stages can have drastic impacts on adult life.
Memories live long
Moths and butterflies undergo drastic changes throughout their life-cycle, not just in their outward appearance, but also in their diet and overall lifestyle. Metamorphosis occurs within the pupal case. During this period, the larval brain stimulates the release of enzymes which dissolve most of its tissues into their constituent proteins through a process called histolysis. Then a group of specialised cells called histoblasts proceed to reconstruct the broken-down caterpillar body into that of a butterfly or a moth.
A few years ago, Martha Weiss and her group at Georgetown University discovered that aversive memories formed in the tobacco hornworm caterpillar (Manduca sexta) persisted throughout metamorphosis and were retained in adult moths.
Weiss trained caterpillars to avoid the odour of ethyl acetate, a chemical commonly used in nail polish removers. Caterpillars and moths are usually indifferent to the smell of ethyl acetate, but by pairing exposure to the odour with mild electric shocks, the scientists successfully taught these caterpillars to avoid the odour.
When given a choice of air or ethyl acetate, 78% of the caterpillars carefully avoided the odour in favour of air. Then, when adult moths developed from the pupae of trained caterpillars a month later, they continued to show a strong aversion to the smell, with 77% of the moths choosing air over ethyl acetate. Notably, the majority of moths choosing air as adults had also made the same choice as caterpillars, suggesting that individual preferences survived metamorphosis.
This study has shed some light on the intricacies of metamorphosis. Scientists have now set aside the notion that a caterpillar is completely disintegrated into a blended soup while in its cocoon. Instead, they now agree that it is more likely that certain parts of the brain may remain intact during the transition. The retention of memory in adulthood could be due to the carryover of intact neural connections formed during larval stages.
If caterpillar memories can continue into adulthood, then what about all of the other experiences that the larva has had? A few recent investigations have attempted to answer this question by manipulating the feeding habits of caterpillars.
Caterpillar diets decide butterfly colours
Caterpillars are essentially “eating machines”, gathering and storing up vital nutrients so that their adult forms can develop strong wings, flight muscles and other functional structures. Thus changes in the quality or quantity of food consumed during the larval stage can directly affect the size or strength of the mature butterfly.
However, it seems caterpillar diets can control far more than just the size of the adult. They can also affect wing colours, which in turn can influence flight durations, mating patterns and warning signals.
Most studies elucidating these connections have been done on the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) that has spectacular orange and black wings – the shade of which varies subtly between individuals. Scientists are still trying to uncover the exact reasons for these slight differences in wing colour, and aside from genetics, environmental factors like caterpillar experiences are at the top of their list.
In a study published in April 2014, butterfly expert Andy Davis at the University of Georgia showed that caterpillars deprived of food for just one day develop into monarch butterflies with stunted, pale, and more yellow wings, while those who are allowed free access to food retain darker orange colours and larger wings.
While these subtle variations in wing colour may not be visible to the naked eye, they can have biologically meaningful outcomes. In fact, Davis has previously found that monarch butterflies with darker orange wings fly longer distances than those with lighter hues, and that migratory monarchs have darker orange (almost red) wings relative to non-migratory butterflies, suggesting a potential link between wing colour and flight propensity.
He has also reported that male monarchs with deeper shades of orange mate significantly more often than those with paler wings. While we don’t know the underlying cause for this just yet, there are speculations that the colour of a butterfly’s wings may relate to its scent, which could likely influence its mating success.
For instance, butterflies that are potentially toxic to predators usually have a warning signal, often in the form of brightly coloured spots, to ward off attacks that would ultimately harm both them and the predator. The lustrous blue and orange spots on the swallowtail butterfly (which are well-known warning signals) are also known to change in intensity with food deprivation, but the effect of this variation on the efficacy of the warning signal remains to be explored.
However, not all findings are suggestive of a link between diet and wing colour. In Davis’s most recent study, in which caterpillars were deprived of food for two days instead of one, the resultant butterflies did not lose colour in their wings – this unexpected outcome is something that requires further investigation.
The complexities of metamorphosis continue to befuddle scientists to date, but one thing is clear: when you think back to the radical changes that a caterpillar undergoes inside its cocoon, it seems incredible that their early experiences can have such profound effects on their adult life.


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Open Call: AIR_Frankfurt 2018: Antwerp
Antwerp is the partner-city of AIR_Frankfurt 2018. Young artists who predominantly live and work in Frankfurt can apply from now on. The residency at AIR Antwerpen takes place in April, May and June 2018.
Application Deadline: October 1st, 2017
Who can apply?
- AIR_Frankfurt is aimed exclusively at artists who live and work in Frankfurt.
- The artists should be highly qualified and be successful graduates of an art college. To be fluent in English is a further requirement.
What is provided?
- 1000 € of monthly financial support by the city of Frankfurt
- travel costs
- accomodation in a studio-apartment
- realization of a final project
- integration into an artist network
- curatorial support from the hosting organization
How to apply?
A complete application in english should consist of:
- an application for a specific city
- a letter of motivation with date and signature
- artistic CV
- filled out application form and a letter of motivation (Why did you select this specific Partner City/ insitution? What are you planning to work on while the three months? Are you planning a site-specific project?)
- work samples
- Applications need to be handed in by postal service in hard copy as well as digitally via e-mail. Your application is classed as complete only when all accompanying documentation has also arrived
production and exhibition platform
60329 Frankfurt am Main
The Application period for Antwerp ends October 1st, 2017
who is selecting?
The selection of resident artists follows the same rules in Frankfurt as it does in the guest countries: An independent jury selects up to five candidates and suggests these to an independent jury of the partner organization abroad. Of these candidates, they select a scholar who they believe is at a stage in their artistic development at which they will be likely to benefit artistically from a three month stay and who fits with the exchange program of the individual institutions the best.


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In a 5-4 vote on the case Department of Commerce v. New York, the Supreme Court ruled on June 27 that President Donald Trump’s administration had not cleared the appropriate procedural hurdles to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. The court also found, however, that the Enumeration Clause of the Constitution, which empowers Congress to provide for a census in order to apportion representatives, does not bar the executive branch from adding a citizenship question to the census. This ruling eliminates the census citizenship question for now, but it could be re-added later.
The Libertarian Party holds that the federal government’s current census procedures are unconstitutional, unnecessary, and too expensive. The census is constitutionally limited to collecting only one piece of information about each residence: the number of people living there. Libertarians would therefore omit the citizenship question from the census, but for more fundamental reasons than the court offered.
The Constitution does not empower Congress to collect additional information, such as name, race, age, sex, or home ownership status. Unfortunately, the federal government wants to use that additional information to further expand its control over the lives and money of the American people.
The 2010 Census cost $13 billion. The 2020 Census is expected to cost an eye-popping $15.6 billion. A proper census, limited to just a head count, would be far less expensive.
Many Americans fear that the Census Bureau will not keep their information confidential, and might turn personal details over to other government agencies. This fear is especially pronounced among immigrant communities who may fear for their immigration status, and could have led to a severe undercounting of the population and an incorrect apportionment of congressional representatives.
The Census Bureau promises that it will keep respondent details confidential, but it has broken that promise in the past. As David Kopel of the Cato Institute has pointed out, [ https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/census-confidentiality-checks-is-mail ] during World War I the Census Bureau handed over lists of names and addresses so the federal government could search for draft resisters. Shockingly, during World War II, the Census Bureau identified which neighborhoods had high concentrations of Japanese Americans and told the Justice Department, which used that information to imprison Japanese Americans in concentration camps.
Rep. Ron Paul, the 1988 Libertarian Party candidate for president, once said, “If the federal government really wants to increase compliance with the census, it should abide by the Constitution and limit its inquiry to one simple question: How many people live here?”

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|Publication number||US6625571 B1|
|Application number||US 09/868,452|
|Publication date||Sep 23, 2003|
|Filing date||Dec 9, 1999|
|Priority date||Dec 18, 1998|
|Also published as||DE19858536A1, EP1145017A1, WO2000037946A1|
|Publication number||09868452, 868452, PCT/1999/3932, PCT/DE/1999/003932, PCT/DE/1999/03932, PCT/DE/99/003932, PCT/DE/99/03932, PCT/DE1999/003932, PCT/DE1999/03932, PCT/DE1999003932, PCT/DE199903932, PCT/DE99/003932, PCT/DE99/03932, PCT/DE99003932, PCT/DE9903932, US 6625571 B1, US 6625571B1, US-B1-6625571, US6625571 B1, US6625571B1|
|Inventors||Harald Michi, Bernd Lichtenberg, Michael Rink, Werner Uhler|
|Original Assignee||Robert Bosch Gmbh|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (25), Referenced by (2), Classifications (10), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The invention relates to a method for signal evaluation, in particular for measuring the distances between predeterminable signal edges in the evaluation of speed sensor signals.
In the evaluation of speed sensor signals, it is known that there are limits beneath which a reliable evaluation is no longer possible.
For different applications, for example in antilock control systems (ABS), traction control systems (ASR), and vehicle dynamics control (VDC), it is necessary to know the wheel speeds which are determined with the aid of speed sensors. These speed sensors have pulse wheels which have a predeterminable number of teeth, for example 48, and are connected to the wheel or wheels and/or the associated axles, and rotate along with them. The distance from tooth to tooth of such pulse wheels in terms of the wheel circumference is usually approximately 4 cm. When the pulse wheels are scanned, a pick-up, for example an inductive pick-up, generates an output signal which mirrors the surface of the relevant pulse wheel. After a signal processing, a square-wave signal is produced, which is processed in an associated evaluation device. Usually, the evaluation device includes a microcontroller in which each tooth edge of the pulse wheel and/or each signal edge of the signal triggers an interrupt. By measuring the signal intervals, time intervals are produced in the microcontroller, which are in turn proportional to the speed of the wheel.
A method for determining wheel speeds which operates in accordance with the above-described method has been disclosed, for example, by DE-OS 44 444 08 in connection with an antilock system. In the known method, however, no indication is given as to how it is possible to reduce the lower limit value of the wheel speed which can still be evaluated. Usually, wheel speeds that are lower than 2.75 km/h can no longer be evaluated since at that point, the time intervals between the signal edges become so great (116.5 milliseconds) that they can no longer be evaluated using a conventional 16 bit timer, which can only detect a value range from 0 to 65535. These interrelated factors apply to the normally used sensors with pulse wheels that have 48 teeth and a tooth spacing of 4 cm in terms of the wheel circumference.
The method according to the invention has the advantage over the prior art that in a signal evaluation, particularly in the evaluation of square-wave signals with the aid of an n-bit timer, a timer can be used which has fewer bits than were originally required. This advantage is achieved by virtue of the fact that a timer, which is limited to a design-contingent number of n bits, is expanded in its function so that it can operate in a manner which would have originally required a greater number of bits.
For example, in the evaluation of the output signal of a speed or velocity sensor, a 16 bit timer can advantageously be used and despite this fact, a limit speed can be achieved for which an 18 bit timer would originally have been required. Advantageously, the missing two bits are retained by means of increased effort in the calculation process of the software of the microcontroller. In this connection, it is advantageous that only a small amount of RAM storage space is required. Through the use of drum stores, only 4 bits per drum store are advantageously required; a check bit and 3 bits as an overflow counter are required.
The advantage to evaluating wheel sensor signals using the method according to the invention is that the lower limit value of the evaluatable wheel speed can be significantly reduced in comparison to conventional systems so that signal evaluations can advantageously be carried out almost down to the point at which the wheel stops. At least in connection with the determination of wheel speeds, it is possible to.reliably execute the speed measurement down to 0.5 km/h.
This advantage is achieved by virtue of the fact that a method for signal evaluation is executed with which the distance between predeterminable signal edges of the signal to be evaluated is determined by virtue of the fact that with the occurrence of signal edges, timer values are stored and the difference between predeterminable timer values is calculated. The method is executed in a microcontroller which has at least one CPU, one n bit timer, a counting mechanism, and a storage mechanism, in particular at least one drum store. The numerical values obtained when there is a timer overflow are likewise determined and are also taken into account in the determination of the distances between the signal edges.
Advantageously, the method for signal evaluation according to the invention is used in conjunction with the determination of wheel speeds in antilock control systems, traction control systems, and/or vehicle dynamics control systems, as a result of which a reduction of the minimal evaluatable speed is achieved in these systems as well. This applies to both the wheel speeds and the vehicle speed determined based on them. In future vehicles which are equipped with longitudinal control systems, e.g. ACC (adaptive cruise control), it is therefore possible to comfortably brake to a stop.
The methods according to the invention can naturally also be used in other systems; their use is particularly advantageous if signals are to be evaluated in which the interval between a first and second event (e.g. between two signal edges) to be evaluated can be greater and if the capacity (bit number) of the timer used should be or is limited.
An exemplary embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawings and will be explained in detail in the description that follows.
FIG. 1 shows the hardware components in a speed detection unit that are required for comprehension of the invention and
FIG. 2 shows a structured chart of the timer value difference monitoring according to the invention.
FIG. 1 schematically depicts the essential components of a device in which the method for signal evaluation according to the invention can be executed. A pick-up, for example an inductive sensor, is provided with the reference numeral 10. This pick-up 10 is stationary-and scans a pulse wheel 11 which is affixed to a shaft 11 a and has a number of angle markings 12 on its surface. In the exemplary embodiment, these angle markings 12, which are also referred to as teeth, are all the same and have the same distance from one another. When the shaft 11 a and therefore the pulse wheel 11 as well, rotates at the speed n, a signal S1 is produced in the pick-up 10, which reflects the surface of the pulse wheel 11 and, particularly after a suitable processing, exists in the form of a square-wave signal.
The signal S1 is evaluated in an evaluation device 13, for example, a microcontroller, wherein time intervals between predeterminable signal edges are used to produce time values which are proportional to the speed n and are used to calculate the speed.
The microcontroller 13 includes at least one central processor unit CPU 14 and at least one timer 15 for measuring the time intervals between predeterminable signal edges, for example a 16 bit timer, as well as a suitable number of counters 17 and memories 16; for example, at least one memory 16 is a drum store. The connection of these elements in the microcontroller 13 is not shown in detail. The required calculation, storage, and counting events take place in the CPU 14. The signal referred to as signal S2 represents the determined speed or the wheel speed which is either processed by the microcontroller itself or is optionally sent to other evaluation devices or control units which require the speed or wheel speed values.
In vehicles with ABS, ASR, and/or VDC, the wheel speeds and/or the wheel velocities and based on them, also the vehicle speed are usually determined with a system of the kind depicted in FIG. 1. The pulse wheels used usually have 48 angle markings or teeth. The distance from angle marking to angle marking in terms of the wheel circumference is approximately 4 cm in conventional systems. Each signal edge triggered by an angle marking edge of the pulse wheel triggers an interrupt in the microcontroller 13, with which the existing associated timer value present in the timer 15 can be input into the memory 16, e.g. a drum store. The size of the drum store is usually 6 bytes so that as a result, three timer values can be stored in the drum store. In order to determine the unfiltered wheel speed, the difference between the last timer value and the third-to-last timer value is usually calculated; i.e. evaluations are always made of signal edges facing the same direction. The speed is inversely proportional to the time interval between the signal edges. The greater the difference between the timer values, the lower the speed and therefore also the lower the wheel speed.
If a 16 bit timer is used, then a value range from 0 to 65535 can be evaluated; these numbers can be represented with a 16 bit timer of this kind. The maximal possible measurement duration in this value range is therefore 116.5 milliseconds (depending on the frequency used); i.e. evaluations can still be made of signals in which the distance between two edges to be evaluated is 116.5 milliseconds. If the time interval between two signal edges to be evaluated becomes greater than 116.5 milliseconds even at lower speeds, then the 16 bit timer given as an example can still be used only if the method according to the invention is used. In current ABS, ASR, and vehicle dynamics control systems, however, the speed processing is interrupted if the difference between two signal edges to be evaluated approaches the vicinity of 65535 (corresponding to 116.5 milliseconds). As a result, the pulse wheels usually present establish a lower limit speed of 2.75 km/h. In order to reduce this lower limit speed, an 18 bit timer would have to be used; this would lead to an increased hardware cost, which can be avoided through the use of the current invention or with a signal evaluation method according to the invention.
The basic-concept of the invention is comprised of the fact that the two bits required for representing longer times are realized by means of an increased effort in the software. To that end, a method for signal evaluation according to the invention is executed. If the speed is to be determined from the difference between the last timer value and the third-to-last timer value, then it is necessary that all three overflows of the timer value differences be precisely determined and taken into account in the determination of the wheel speeds. It is then possible to measure the wheel speed down to 0.5 km/h without having to replace the 16 bit timer with an 18 bit timer. In addition, a much smaller RAM memory is required. Only four bits per drum store value are required, namely a check bit and 3 bits as an overflow counter. Because of the cycle time of two milliseconds, the overflow could be “missed” since the old counter value does not have to be temporarily, stored; therefore it is necessary to insert a check bit. A possible evaluation method is depicted in FIG. 2 as a structured chart of the timer value difference monitoring. The meanings of the individual timer values are as follows:
T1=timer value of the third-to-last edge of the signal S1
T2=timer value of the penultimate edge of the signal S1
T3=timer value of the last edge of the signal S1
In step SCH1 of the method according to FIG. 2, a check is carried out as to whether a signal edge is detected. If this is the case, the data consistency is assured in step SCH2. All overflows are re-stored and a re-storage of all overflow check bits takes place.
If an edge is not detected in step SCH1, then the overflows for the timer values T2 and T3 are set in step SCH3. In addition, a suspicion of an overflow is tested and a check is carried out as to whether this suspicion has been confirmed. If this is the case, then the overflow counter is increased and the remaining check bits are deleted.
In step SCH4, the overflows for the timer values T1 and T2 are set. Furthermore, the suspicion of an overflow is tested and if it is confirmed, the overflow counter is increased and the check bits are deleted.
Steps SCH3,and SCH4 are followed by step SCH5, in which a prediction, i.e. a forecast, of the overflows for the timer values T2 and T3 is made. A test is carried out as to whether overflows of the timer value differences are to be expected in the next two milliseconds. If this is the case, then check bits are set; if this is not the case, then check bits are deleted (step SCH6).
In principle, the proposal is independent of the limiting of the timer to 16 bits, which is given by way of example. The method described can be used to expand the function of all limited timers (16 bit timers, 18 bit timers, n bit timers). This also applies correspondingly to the number of overflow bits. Depending on the desired design, a larger or smaller number of overflow bits are used.
All of the numbers or values given as examples:
16 bit timer
3 bit overflow counter for a corresponding 18 bit timer
counter value of 65 535 corresponds to 116.5 milliseconds depend on a particular implementation. The method according to the invention can also be applied to other values.
For example, the drum store used is a magnetic layer memory with a cylindrical surface which has various tracks on its surface. Each track is associated with a magnetic head for writing and reading. With a drum store of this kind, for example six bytes can be represented and therefore three timer values can be stored.
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Rochester Sports Hall of Fame: Flynn tried to maximize his talent
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story on Michael Flynn is the fourth in a series of six on the Class of 2013 who will be inducted into the Rochester Sports Hall of Fame being held this Saturday at the Rochester Elks Lodge. Also being inducted are Kelly Donohue, Dan Wensley, Dave Keller, Kristen Zeimetz and Curt Connelly.
By Al Pike
ROCHESTER — Mike Flynn was a two-time, all-conference golfer in college and played the sport professionally for more than a decade.
The Rochester native was a five-time winner on the mini-tour circuit and qualified for one event on the PGA Tour.
Despite those lofty accomplishments, Flynn’s early success at the local level remains some of his most cherished moments from a career that will be recognized Saturday night when he’s inducted into the Rochester Sports Hall of Fame.
From 1988 to 1994, he won four prestigious tournaments, including two New Hampshire State Amateur championships (1992 and 1994) in a span of three years.
He also captured the NHIAA individual title and the state junior championship, claiming both in 1988.
“There’s something about winning state functions at their respective level that makes it a pretty proud moment,” said Flynn, who attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School. “It’s just a little bit different. I regard those state championships as my (biggest) highlights.”
Saturday night’s ceremony will join that list of highlights when he becomes one of six inductees who make up the latest class, which includes four athletes and two contributors.
After making a name for himself locally, Flynn played collegiately at Texas Christian University where he was the Horned Frogs’ No. 1 player his junior and senior seasons.
He also won both of his State Ams while he was still in college where the coaches twice made him an All-Southwest Conference selection by a unanimous vote.
As the competition improved, so did Flynn’s game.
“I thought is was important to go to a different school and get out of the area and see how I stacked up nationwide,” he said. “As a junior (golfer) I tried to do that. I always believed you had to play the best. The only way you get better is to play against people who are better than you and push you. I needed to get outside the local area and test myself against some of the best in the nation. That’s when you find out if you can play.”
Although he played well on several mini tours, Flynn’s “aha” moment came at the 2003 Byron Nelson Championship when he Monday qualified with a 64, which made him the medalist and was then a course record.
He put together three solid rounds (68-71-68) in his only PGA Tour event before fading on Sunday with a 74 and finishing in a tie for 56th.
“That’s when it really hit me,” Flynn said. “I wasn’t doing anything spectacular. I was playing my game. I was just playing good, solid golf. That’s when it hit me I could play with the best in the world.
“It just gave me more confidence,” he added. “It solidified what I thought. But until you actually do it, it’s hard to say ‘I can do it.’”
That turned out to be the pinnacle of Flynn’s pro career. Despite numerous attempts to make it through Qualifying School, where the pressure can be immense, he was never able to earn his PGA Tour card.
He did, however, win the first stage of Q-School in 1998.
“Anytime you don’t achieve your goal it’s disappointing,” he said. “My goal was to be a PGA player, and I didn’t do that. It was hard. I believe I had the ability to do that, but for some particular reason I couldn’t get up there.”
However, that failure shouldn’t detract from a career that saw him win five mini-tour events. Flynn quickly learned what life is like when you give up your amateur status and the game becomes a job.
“You’re playing for your livelihood now,” he said. “It’s completely different. Tiger Woods plays to win championships, but when you’re on the mini-tours you’re playing to put food on the table. Money is the most important thing to you at that level, and you have to get used to that mindset.”
Flynn credits his work ethic for taking him as far as he went.
“Every year I got a little bit better,” he said. “That’s one of the things I’m most proud of. I succeeded at every level. I got a little bit better every year, and that’s all I was trying to do.”
Flynn, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, retired from pro golf in 2005 and is currently working for Calloway Golf.
He’s on the road for much of the year in search of the next phenom and compares his job to that of a big-league scout.
“I’m in charge of the next generation of players,” Flynn said. “I find new talent and sign them to contracts. I’m trying to find the next Phil Mickelson, the next Rickie Fowler, the next Tiger Woods, and try to get them on our staff.”
Flynn was honored when he got the call to join the Rochester Sports Hall of Fame.
“I was absolutely thrilled,” he said. “I couldn’t have been more excited. I was very much taken back. You don’t ever play for that kind of stuff. It will take care of itself if you do what you set out to do. It isn’t what makes me tick. I just wanted to be the best I could be.”


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Looking at the gridlock in Congress, and the failing leadership of our president, I have been reflecting on the relationship between decisions and results. Is it hard to think about the wisdom of the hive when we see Congress’ ineffectiveness. Their group process also has aspects of dysfunction groupthink, indiscriminate blaming and avoiding of responsibility. It is a case study of what not to do, but a model that we are saddled with. It leads me to recall my experience of other groups where people talk endlessly, but find it hard to actually get something done. Saying something in a group seems to be therapeutic, and people have a sense that if they say something moral or right, then they have acted, and they relax. That is what Congress seems like this week.
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“You have to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at the time. No one has ever looked at Matisse’s painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.”
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) are the acknowledged twin giants of modern art, between them having originated many of the most significant innovations of twentieth-century painting and sculpture. This film is an encounter with the two pioneers, two adventurers in painting, who opened new frontiers.
In spite of their initial rivalry and their very different temperaments, each came to acknowledge the other as his only true equal. They developed a close and complex relationship. Françoise Gilot, Picasso’s companion from 1945-53 and the mother of his children Claude and Paloma, was party to their meetings and their friendship after the Second World War when they became increasingly important to one another both personally and artistically. She has written of them: “They were as complementary as red and green and as opposite as black and white… intense mutual curiosity opened the door to their friendship. Each of them wanted to know the whys and hows of the creative force of the other.”
Gilot is one of the contributors to this film, together with Claude Picasso, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier, Matisse’s biographer Hilary Spurling and art historian Pierre Daix. Intimately connected with the artists, their eyewitness accounts provide fascinating insights.
With archive footage and photos and a wealth of examples of their work, the documentary traces the separate paths Matisse and Picasso followed, looks at their points of contact, and sheds light on how the genius of each artist nourished that of the other. Their unique characters and approaches to creativity are discovered in the details of their lives, their loves and the testimony of their art. Matisse said, “I want an art of balance, of purity, that neither harasses nor worries. I have chosen to keep torment and worries inside me and only to paint the beauty of the world,” while Picasso declared, “The viewer must be wrenched from his torpor, shaken by the throat, made to recognise the world he lives in and for that you first have to take him out of it.”
From the time they first met in Paris, in 1906, in the studio of Gertrude and Leo Stein, to the ends of their lives in Provence, Matisse and Picasso directly and indirectly fed off each other’s artistic sensibility and found solace in the knowledge that they held their obsession with painting and the isolation of their genius in common with another.
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The 1997 film "Rosewood" tells the true story of the 1923 racial violence and massacre that occurred in the town of Rosewood, Florida. The film, directed by John Singleton, stars Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, and Jon Voight, and tells the story of the attacks on the predominantly African American town and the efforts of a few brave individuals to fight back and bring justice for the victims.
The real-life events of the Rosewood massacre were sparked by a false accusation made by a white woman, Fannie Taylor, who claimed that she had been attacked by a black man. This led to a violent mob of white men, many of whom were Ku Klux Klan members, attacking the town of Rosewood and killing several of its residents. The violence lasted for several days, and many of the town's African American residents were forced to flee for their lives.
In the film, Ving Rhames plays the role of Mann, a black man who becomes a leader in the fight to defend the town and protect its residents. Don Cheadle plays the role of Sylvester Carrier, a black man who witnessed the violence and testified about it in court. Jon Voight plays the role of John Wright, a white man who helps Mann and Carrier in their efforts to bring the perpetrators of the violence to justice.
The film "Rosewood" was released to critical acclaim and was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for Best Original Score. It serves as a powerful reminder of the terrible racism and violence that occurred in the United States in the past, and the importance of standing up against injustice and fighting for what is right.
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You care about them by the time all hell breaks loose. A reporter was finding out why there was a lack of black citizens in that area of Florida, but when this reporter found out about everything, it was more than one could expect to find. I saw this movie in my African American Experience class in 12th grade. Singleton's "Higher Learning" tells the same story, but is set in a fictional Columbus University. The hero of sorts is Leo Kanner, a Johns Hopkins expert in child psychiatry — well, you should just go read the whole story here.
This is an intriguing telling of the true story. But the Voight character could have served as someone for the audience to identify with. In this racial war, we see human nature at its best and worst. This infuriated the white populace into going on a murderous rampage leading to the deaths of many innocent people and the near total destruction of the black section of town. We see the county sheriff try, clumsily, to do his job, but things spin out of control. In the US, racial policy became a means of combating worker unity by fostering conflicts and divisions between groups along racial, national, sexual or religious lines. The acting was rather good, Allie Gallerani and Scott Haze, were both excellent I thought.
Anyway, the white mob quickly gets out of control and starts harassing and killing any blacks they can find. Furthermore, author Michael D'Orso wrote a 370 book on the subject "Like Judgement Day" which is available through Amazon complete with accompanying essay from John Singleton. A young woman in Union, South Carolina, murders her own children, blames an anonymous black man, and the hunt is on. Bunch of racists kill innocent black people. There is an unusually broad amount of talent here and a plethora of characters and situations to document, and Poirier is careful never to spend too much time on one specific situation, but takes the time to balance the events out evenly. One character, played by Jon Voight, is our token "nuanced white". John" or "Miss Ellen".
People just didn't go see it. We learn that he is brave and has a good heart. The weaker of the two, "Rosewood" takes place during the 1923 race riots of Rosewood, Florida. Rosewood was a town owned primarily by its black residents. I've actually enjoyed some of the non-mainstream films that James Franco has put out these past few years but as I keep watching these 'experimental' films of his, I keep thinking that he just likes to hear himself talk.
No one likes to relive such travesties, not the victims or the perpetrators, but it's a story that should be told. Or, to the very least, perhaps even a film based on an institute where society basically throws people away and dumps them in a very poor environment; and in Maryland and other places in the US , they did it to children. Michael Rooker plays the sheriff who never really believed the victim's story to begin with, and who tries to mitigate the tsunami of hate and the enormity of damage it extols. I'd like to see Cheadle and Rooker in more leads, though, they're too good to always play supporting roles. That is the lesson I hope other nations will gain from this movie: If you are honest about your past, you no longer have to be ashamed of it. The Florida legislature investigated the claims in a 1993 report.
See, it starts in 1893 when the actual asylum had just children in it boys and girls, separated but ends with it stating it happened in the 1930s. A white sheriff Michael Rooker has an understanding of the events that occurred with Fanny Taylor, begins to piece together that the story of the evil black man beating the white woman is a myth, but is unfortunately silent about the event until violence overwhelms the once humble town. It has its moments and that finale was quite inspired but entertaining? He does an excellent job in this film as well, although I do wish there were a couple of less scenes where he wasn't struggling so with his chewing tobacco. His father forbids him to "pal around with that little nigger boy. Fanny, who has a history of cheating her husband, has a rendezvous with her lover while her husband is at work. In 1969 when I was in kindergarten, I remember being sent home due to race riots in the high school.
But Rosewood remained a secret until 1982, when newspaper reports were published in the St. When whites in the area get jealous of the accomplishments of the black Americans they look for any reason for an uprising. Director John Singleton BOYZ N THE HOOD , who was the youngest individual and first African-American nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director, is certain to initiate discussions about race relations with this latest movie. These numbers do not account for the countless lynchings that went unreported. That would have been a film to watch.


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The experts can help you with any kind of damage in the commercial HVAC system. Moreover, they can offer guidance to the business when your HVAC would need full replacement, repair and light maintenance. Such are the essential things that you must know in choosing that experienced company in HVAC repair.
The initial thing that you must do is that you should do that thorough research on the internet. Before you would take the HVAC service of a company that you have considered, then it is necessary that you would do a background check first on such relative company and look at their licenses, service pricing, certification, the time to finish the work and also other essential matters which would help you make your decision.
Take the time to go through the customer reviews as well. So that you can know the HVAC service provider in a lot better way, it is needed that you would check out the testimonials as well as referrals given by their past customers. You may read more regarding this online. You may have a few suggestions from friends, relatives or family before you would take such HVAC service of the provider that you have found.
It would also help a lot when you take the time to compare the different HVAC companies out there. Business owners may come up with a list of companies after they have done their research online. It is also a great thing that they would ask for suggestions from their friends and family. This would also help them to know about the background of the company, their working style and also their relation with the customers, the time taken as well as a lot other things. One may even reach out to their customer care departments in order to know regarding their responsiveness as well as get some knowledge about various HVAC equipment that is being used in their offices. This can help the business owner find a good company to work with.
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Homeless vs. Refugees: This Iconography project aims to focus and provide spiritual significance to the people who call home to the streets. Each has a unique story, and their story is sometimes forgotten. Each of these wanderers with some being Veterans, has a unique story and set of circumstances. This book project plans on honoring each and providing them with some personal dignity. As most of us forget that each is somebody's child.

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Q. I am 52 years old and on FERS Disability Retirement. If I move to Israel and live there for a few years, would such a move affect my status? And would my annuity be reduced? I acknowledge that I must show up to the required medical examinations as stated in my retirement plan. Would Israeli doctors suffice or must I be at a specific medical facility in the United States?
A. Moving to Israel would not affect the amount of your annuity nor would you be required to go to a medical facility in the U.S. All you need to provide OPM is proof of your continuing disability. That can be supplied by any doctor who is qualified to evaluate your condition, plus the official records of recent tests or examinations.


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not planed. TV Show was canceled.
Set in 1960s New York, the sexy, stylized and provocative AMC drama Mad Men follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising, an ego-driven world where key players make an art of the sell.
AMC’s award-winning drama Mad Men made history as the first basic cable series ever to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in four consecutive years. Created by Emmy and Golden Globe-winning executive producer Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate, Mad Men has riveted audiences with the seductive and intriguing world of Sterling Cooper & Partners. This season, the series’ breakout ensemble cast continues to captivate as they grapple with an uncertain new reality.
Created by Emmy and Golden Globe winning executive producer Matthew Weiner, Mad Men is anchored by an award-winning ensemble cast, including Jon Hamm, January Jones, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Jessica Paré, Rich Sommer, Aaron Staton, Robert Morse, Kiernan Shipka, Jay Ferguson, and Christopher Stanley. (source: www.amctv.com)
At an advertising agency in 1960s Manhattan, the creative director has problems coming up with ideas for a tobacco account and crosses swords with the female head of a large department store that she wants to take in a new retail direction.
Betty sees a specialist about her ongoing physical problems; a managing partner leans on Don to get involved in the Richard Nixon presidential campaign; Peggy gets some unwanted attention from a copy writer.
Pete's return from his honeymoon stirs up conflicted emotions about his bachelor-party dalliance with Peggy; Don and Rachel's business relationship shifts; Betty sets tongues wagging when she invites the neighborhood divorcée to her daughter's birthday party.
Pete oversteps his bounds in dealing with a valuable client, puts his foot in his mouth and gets a lesson from Don in toeing the company line. At home, he gets pressure from his newlywed bride to buy their own apartment unit.
Don wins a prestigious award and gets his face splashed on a prominent industry periodical, which triggers some fallout from his past; Ken gets a short story published in a national monthly magazine, inspiring jealousy among his colleagues.
Peggy offers superb suggestions during a focus-group session, and her ideas are so well received that her future at the agency looks much brighter; Don asks Rachel's advice about an ad campaign for Israeli tourism.
A boys' night out for Roger and Don ends badly as Roger's erratic behavior damages their relationship; Pete encounters problems on the home front as he and his bride continue to adjust to being married.
Don's mysterious past comes back to haunt him; Peggy celebrates her new work success, but not all of her colleagues and co-workers are pleased or impressed; Salvatore's relationship with a client is questioned.
A rival ad agency tries to poach Don from Sterling Cooper, and they involve Betty in their campaign to land him; romantic rivals vie for Peggy's affections. Also, the agency steps up its Nixon presidential campaign in an attempt to counter successful Kennedy promos.
Don is distraught about losing an important account, so Roger, stuck in the city on Labor Day, tries to cheer him up; Joan and her roommate paint the town.
Peggy is assigned a difficult project; Don seizes the opportunity provided by Roger's latest work woes; a frustrated Pete develops more problems at home and in the office; Betty seeks new relief for her mounting frustrations.
The Sterling Cooper staff pulls an all-nighter watching Nixon-Kennedy election returns; an ambitious Pete directly challenges Don.
Peggy's colleagues are irked when she's given a new job opportunity; Don's work responsibilities get in the way of his home life; Betty uncovers a surprising secret.
Robert Morse(Bertram Cooper)
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Jared Harris(Lane Pryce)
Rich Sommer(Harry Crane)
Kiernan Shipka(Sally Draper)
Christina Hendricks(Joan Holloway)
Elisabeth Moss(Peggy Olson)
Jon Hamm(Don Draper)
John Slattery(Roger Sterling)
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Installing the 32DMX-L Card in the Cisco ONS 15454 SONET/SDH
Product Name: 15454-32-DMX-L
This document provides a card description, specifications, and installation procedure for the dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM) 32DMX-L card. The 32DMX-L card is compatible with the ONS 15454 SONET (ANSI) and the Cisco ONS 15454 SDH (ETSI) shelf assemblies. Use this document in conjunction with the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Procedure Guide.
This document contains the following sections:
32DMX-L Card Description
The 32-Channel Demultiplexer L-Band card (32DMX-L) is a single-slot optical demultiplexer. The card receives an aggregate optical signal on its COM RX port and demultiplexes it into 32 100-GHz-spaced channels. The 32DMX-L card is well suited for use in networks that employ DS fiber or SMF-28 single-mode fiber. The 32DMX-L card can be installed in Slots 1 to 6 and Slots 12 to 17.
The 32DMX-L includes these high-level features:
•COM RX port: COM RX is the input port for the aggregate optical signal being demultiplexed. This port is supported by a VOA for optical power regulation and a photodiode for optical power monitoring.
•DROP ports (1 to 32): On its output, the 32DMX-L card provides 32 drop ports that are typically used for dropping channels within the reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) node. Each drop port has a photodiode for optical power monitoring. Unlike the two-slot 32DMX-O demultiplexer, the drop ports on the 32DMX-L card do not have a VOA per channel for optical power regulation.
•A terminal site can be configured using only a 32WSS-L card and a 32DMX-L card plugged into the east or west side of the shelf.
•Fiber connection: The 32DMX-L front panel has connectors for 32 DROP TX ports. These ports are connected using four 8-fiber MPO ribbon connectors. The COM RX port receives the incoming optical signal and is connected using a single LC duplex optical connector.
Figure 1 shows the 32DMX-L card front panel and the basic traffic flow through the ports.
Figure 1 32DMX-L Faceplate
Figure 2 provides a block diagram of the 32DMX-L card.
Figure 2 32DMX-L Block Diagram
Figure 3 shows the 32DMX-L optical module functional block diagram.
Figure 3 32DMX-L Optical Module Functional Block Diagram
The 32DMX-L card works in conjunction with the 32WSS-L card to create a software-controlled NE with ROADM functionality. ROADM functionality requires two 32DMX-L single-slot cards and two 32WSS-L double-slot cards (six slots total in the ONS 15454 chassis).
Equipped with ROADM functionality, ONS 15454 DWDM nodes can be configured at the optical channel level using Cisco Transport Controller (CTC), Cisco MetroPlanner, and Cisco Transport Manager (CTM). Both the 32DMX-L card and 32WSS-L cards use PLC technology to perform wavelength-level processing.
Physical photodiodes P1 through P3 monitor the power for the 32DMX-L card. The returned power level values are calibrated to the ports as shown in Table 1.
Table 1 32DMX-L Port Calibration
Photodiode CTC "Type" Name Calibrated to Port
P1 - P32
DROP TX Channel
32DMX-L Card Level Indicators
Table 2 describes the three card-level LED indicators on the 32DMX-L card.
32DMX-L Port-Level Indicators
You can find the status of the 32DMX-L ports using the LCD screen on the ONS 15454 SONET fan-tray assembly. Use the LCD to view the status of any port or card slot; the screen displays the number and severity of alarms for a given port or slot.
The 32DMX-L card has five ports located on the faceplate. The port labeled COM RX is the line input (it typically receives DROP TX from the 32WSS-L module). The TX ports are 32 drop ports. The connectors provide four groups of eight channels ranging from the xx.x wavelength to the yy.y wavelength according to the channel plan.
32DMX-L Card Specifications
The 32DMX-L card optical specifications are listed in Table 3.
Note For power specifications, see the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Reference Manual.
The 32DMX-L channel plan is shown in Table 4. All 32DMX-L client interfaces must comply with this plan.
The 32 DMX-L card has the following additional specifications:
C-Temp: -5 to +55 degrees Celsius (+23 to +131 degrees Fahrenheit)
–Operating humidity: 5 to 95% RH
–Height: 12.65 in. (321.3 mm)
–Width: 0.92 in. (23.4 mm)
–Depth: 9.00 in. (228.6 mm)
Install the 32DMX-L Card
Warning During this procedure, wear grounding wrist straps to avoid ESD damage to the card. Do not directly touch the backplane with your hand or any metal tool, or you could shock yourself. Statement 94
Warning Class 1M laser radiation when open. Do not view directly with optical instruments. Statement 1053
Caution Always use the supplied ESD wristband when working with a powered ONS 15454. Plug the wristband cable into the ESD jack located on the lower-right outside edge of the shelf assembly.
Note If protective clips are installed on the back connectors of the cards, remove the clips before installing the cards.
Note If you install a card incorrectly, the FAIL LED flashes continuously.
Figure 4 shows general card installation.
Figure 4 Installing a Card in an ONS 15454 (ANSI) Shelf Assembly
Step 1 Display the card installation plan for the node using one of the following sources:
•The Cisco MetroPlanner Site Dialog window for the node you are provisioning.
•CTC node view with slots preprovisioned based on the Cisco MetroPlanner Site Dialog window.
•Written slot plan. The plan must be based on the Cisco MetroPlanner Site Dialog window for your installation.
Step 2 Remove the 32DMX-L card from its packaging, then remove the protective caps from the card's rear connectors.
Step 3 Open the card latches/ejectors.
Step 4 Use the latches/ejectors to firmly slide the card along the slot guide rails until the card plugs into the receptacle at the back of the slot.
Step 5 Verify that the card is inserted correctly and close the latches/ejectors on the card.
Note It is possible to close the latches/ejectors when the card is not completely plugged into the backplane. Ensure that you cannot insert the card any further.
Step 6 Verify the LED activity:
•The FAIL LED turns on for approximately 35 seconds.
•The FAIL LED blinks for approximately 40 seconds.
•All LEDs turn on and then turn off within 5 seconds.
•If new software is being downloaded to the card, the ACT and SF LEDs blink for 20 seconds to 3.5 minutes, depending on the card type.
•The ACT LED turns on.
•The SF LED stays on until all card ports connect to their far-end counterparts and a signal is present.
Step 7 If the card does not boot up properly, or the LED activity does not mimic Step 6, check the following:
•When a physical card type does not match the type of card provisioned for that slot in CTC, the card might not boot. If a 32DMX-L card does not boot, open CTC and ensure that the slot is not provisioned for a different card type before assuming that the card is faulty.
•If the red FAIL LED does not turn on, check the power.
•If you insert a card into a slot provisioned for a different card, all LEDs turn off.
•If the red FAIL LED is on continuously or the LEDs behave erratically, the card is not installed. Remove the card and repeat Steps 3 to 6. If the card does not boot up properly the second time, it may be defective. Contact your next level of support.
Note The DWDM node type is determined by the cards that are installed. For example, if two 32DMX-O and two 32MUX-O cards are installed, but no AD-xC or AD-xB cards are installed, CTC considers the node a hub node. However, if one 32DMX-O and one 32MUX-O card are installed with no AD-xC or AD-xB cards, CTC considers the node a terminal node. For more information, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Reference Manual.
•Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Reference Manual
•Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Procedure Guide
•Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Troubleshooting Guide
•Cisco MetroPlanner DWDM Operations Guide
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