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The Sergio Leone Anthology Sergio Leone
Published Jun 25, 2007Western aficionados, Clint Eastwood devotees (remember, it was his work with Leone that first made him a star), cinephiles and anyone else waiting for the eventual reissuing of the first two parts of renowned director Sergio Leones Dollars series after the lavish 2004 edition of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly can finally exhale, as The Sergio Leone Anthology collects "the man with no name triolgy, along with Leones Duck, You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite, available for the first time on DVD. However, its clear that one of these things is not like the others (ahem, Duck), as missing is the film that belongs and complements Leones Dollars set, Once Upon A Time In The West. Obviously, rights issues are to blame for this omission (MGM/Fox owns these four, Paramount Once). However, theres no questioning the legendary status of the Dollars films. All three are classics, and while they werent the first "spaghetti westerns, they were the most successful, popularising and legitimising the genre while reinventing the western, as well as establishing themselves as great films and filmmaking. Leones first in the series, A Fistful of Dollars, takes its heavy Yojimbo influence (Leone would be sued and forced to compensate Kurosawa for the "remake) and "trades swords for guns and Japan for Mexico, where Eastwoods "man with no name (a purely American marketing convention, as he has a different name in each) plays both sides of a towns two feuding families against each other. For A Few Dollars More finds Eastwood as a bounty killer (he also, despite his identical look, played "different characters in each), teaming up with Lee Van Cleefs Col. Mortimer to hunt down an insane outlaw. Unquestionably Leones masterpiece, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly reunites Eastwood ("the good) with Van Cleef ("the bad), teaming them with Eli Wallachs frenetic Tuco ("the ugly) in search of a hidden fortune. Its fascinating to watch the three films and witness the emergence and progression of Leones style and signifiers as the director gains confidence and expands his vision, filmmaking and storytelling. Duck, You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite is also fascinating (as is its trials and tribulations) but in a different way, as the tale of two disparate characters (James Coburns explosives expert and Rod Steigers Tuco channelling Juan) set against the Mexican revolution sees Leone pushing his stylistic trademarks almost to absurd degrees (i.e., the extreme close-ups on the mouths of people eating). Still, its Leone and stunning, at times. The set also features generally excellent featurettes and ridiculously informative and interesting commentaries from the likes of film historians Richard Schickel and Sir Christopher Frayling. And, of course, who could ever forget the incredible scores by the equally legendary Ennio Morricone? Despite his relatively limited output, Leone was an incredible, visionary director whose influence is felt to this day. This set reaffirms that assessment and his greatness. (MGM / Fox)

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Report details how dangerous inmate escaped Iowa prison
A review has uncovered numerous "policy and procedural errors" that allowed a dangerous inmate to escape from an Iowa prison for hours without detection.
Iowa State Penitentiary warden Nick Ludwick released a summary Monday of his investigation into Justin Kestner's July 4 escape from the Fort Madison prison.
Kestner told investigators he removed screws on his shower to access a pipe chase adjacent to his cell.
He crawled up through that space and into the attic, and got onto the roof through a vent. He then climbed down along a downspout.
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This document describes how to setup an agency to participate in the TOPS program. The primary idea is to collect the contractor and contractor PO number, allowing contractors to view order status on the TOPS website.
Please make sure that you are on version 2.6.3 and W230 release of OASIS or higher.
Setting up Contractors
Like Distributors, SAP contractor numbers must be recorded in OASIS, allowing OASIS to automatically send the contractor number to SAP.
Due to agencies renaming the roles for Customers/Contractors in the system, you must first define what roles are your contractors. This is done by going to the Customer Section of OASIS, to the file menu, and click on configuration.
You should see a screen similar to the one below.
Click on the Roles Tab
Contractor Role should be checked as the Indirect Customer.
Distributor Role should be checked as the Direct Customer.
Notice: The previous step MUST be completed before sending Orders for TOPS.
If this step is not done the order WILL NOT be coded for TOPS
To setup contractor numbers, begin by adding or opening the contractor entry in OASIS:
After opening the Customer Editor, select the accounts tab. Add Hubbell to the accounts. In the account field, key the contractor number. Please note that Hubbell brands (SAP) codes will be a six-digit number.
Adding Contractor Contact
Adding contractor contacts to the order allows TOPS to email contractors updates to shipping information (e.g. establishing a scheduled ship date or notification that the order shipped).
To make this easier, add the contacts to the contractor "Contacts" tab. Pressing the "insert row" icon () adds contacts to the contractor:
Key the contact name and the email address:
Enabling the Contractor Prompt
To have OASIS warn users when creating project orders (what is called the soft prompt), open the Hubbell manufacturer entry:
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As mass shootings become more common, more fire departments are using body armor so crews can more quickly reach people in dangerous situations.
East Pierce Fire & Rescue is the latest local agency to order ballistic vests to better protect its firefighters and paramedics.
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Stantec is seeking a Climate Risk Assessment Leader to champion the continuous growth of our climate risks, adaptation and resilience markets. As a senior practitioner, you will be an integral part of our team and will actively participate as an advisor and mentor with multi-disciplinary regional and national teams, leading projects to assess the impacts of climate change on the built environment and the risks on infrastructure, public services and ultimately the community.
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Serve as a key member of the practice team to drive profitable growth of Stantec's climate change risks' services business across Canada, United States and globally.
Initiate, participate in and manage projects to identify the nature of risks and severity of impacts to the built environment in a life cycle process that is included in asset management plans.
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Recognized nationally with experience leading projects or making significant contributions to the assessment of climate risks to infrastructure using Engineers Canada's PIEVC Protocol.
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Professional engineering license
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Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather. Ability to lift and move items and equipment up to 50 lbs. Willingness to travel for project work and business development opportunities
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Valir Best Build, Tips, Trick, Combo and Tutorial Mobile Legends (Guide) – The first impression that appears when I play this hero is the same as Gord's gameplay, even though Valir / Phyrus is indeed a student of Gord. He uses magic power and magic damage area just like Gord.
The way to play Valir is also not too much different from Gord, both of them do not have the skill/mechanism of good movement, all the damage from the skills in the form of AOE / area, and how to use it is also very simple. Valir Best Build
According to me, this hero is one of the easy to play. Even in advance server, Valid is very often banned on the draft pick, most likely later when released on the original server this hero will become first ban hero in ranked mode. Valir Best Build
Valir advantages:
- Burst damage is a massive area. all three Valir skills have a very high damage area, it is perfect for cleaning wave minions quickly and also during a team fight. Unfortunately, these skills cannot be used to quickly kill jungle monsters so he cannot grow quickly like Harley and Gord.
- Push and tower defense. Valir skill 3 has a wide and continuous damage area, so that it will be very annoying to the enemy both when attacking and maintaining the turret, especially this skill also has crowd control effects in addition to giving a huge damage.
- Easy to use. The gameplay of this hero is very simple and includes easy to mastered, Even though it's easy but this hero is included in overpower, so it is very suitable to be used by players who are laymen and those who are already pro. It can be said that Valir is one of the heroes that is easy to play and very strong.
- Very good anti-chase skill and counter. skill 2 can push enemies to even stop enemies even using skill charge. Skill 2 can also count a number of skills such as the ultimate skills of Lolita and Odette, ultimate skill can also stop enemy skills to knock-up effects such as stopping, like Akai and Gord's ultimate skills.
Valir shortages:
- It does not have a single target damage burst. Cause of all the area attacks it cannot kill 1 particular target quickly. For example, when it crunches it will take a long time, besides that the ultimate skill also has a random damaged area so it will not always be 100% about target heroes.
- The movement is slow. Just like the teacher (Gord), Valir has a slow movement and does not have any movement mechanism on all three skills, so this hero will be very easily snatched and hit by a gank especially if no one is backing up.
- It is very easy to avoid, although the damaged area is quite sick. Unfortunately, skill 2 is easily avoided by the opponent, skill 1 is very fast and difficult to avoid, and Ultimate Skill is also very easy to avoid. So use these skills at the right moments and timing, especially when attacking towers and war teams.
- Dependent on the team. the biggest weakness of this hero is that he needs backups from friends, because if he is alone he will be very easily taken away, so don't push lane alone when using this hero, keep hiding behind the team and support them from behind throughout the game.
Valid tips for build items
- Prioritize to buy damage magic item so that the skill area gets high damage.
- The first line build is full burst magic damage, this build is suitable for various situations.
- The second line build item is more focused on playing safely, we need a cooldown to be able to spam skills more often both for attacking and defending and a little extra lifesteal (spell vamp) just in case you don't die easily.
- Valir build is flexible, the most important thing is to stay focused on magical damage as high as possible and try experimenting with various item combinations that match your style of play.
The most suitable battle spell for Valir is Flicker.
Use Flicker to play it safe because it doesn't have a good movement speed, so this spell is mandatory to use to anticipate the deficiencies, it is very useful to protect yourself from enemy gingers and run away in certain circumstances.
For emblems, we can use Magic emblems.
Valir is great for fighting the following heroes:
- All hero tanks ( Masha )
- All fighter heroes
Valir is very weak against the following heroes:
You could say Valir is a hero who is quite neutral, the strength of this hero depends on the composition of our team and the opposing team, whether the team can protect us well and how we position ourselves is the key to victory in playing this hero.
When is the right time to use the ultimate skill?
The best time to use skill 3 is when you are attacking, defending and team fight. You should use this skill when the area is a crowded hero (many enemies) and a clash it, so the battle can not be avoided.
Tips, trick and guide for Valir
- Focus on collecting exp and gold from minions, because he is long enough to farm in the jungle, then the fastest way to make him level up is to use damage to his area to finish off Minion, and the rest just to farm jungle monsters with the team.
- Remember skill 2 can counter, starting from enemy charge skills, and tackling some CC-susceptible skills. For example, we can stop Tigreal ultimate using skill 2, so try using this skill not just as a damager but also as crowd control and anti-skills of enemy heroes.
- Always support the team from behind, imagine like we are playing Gord, don't ever walk alone in the enemy lane, always make sure there are friends who are backing up and never push forward without the help of the team especially if we don't know where the enemy is.
- Use skill 3 at times that are inevitable, such as when you are push and def tower, then use it when teamfight is in a position that can deal with as many opponents as possible.
- Remember skill 3 also has crowd control effects and can control other hero skills such as ultimate Akai, Odette, and Gord, so if skill 2 is cooldown and our team is having difficulties due to enemy skills, we can use ultimate skills to help the team escape from the situation.


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I started my PhD in Organic Chemistry at the end of 2010 in Germany. One might ask: "why Chemistry?", to which my reply would simply be 'Why not?'. I don't know why, but people are usually so scared of it. Chemistry is like every other branch of science: you need to work very hard and constantly study, but at the same time it's really exciting. You put on your lab coat, safety gloves and glasses and the magic begins! It is somewhat akin to cooking; sometimes it works the way you expected but sometimes not. Then you change some 'spices' and try again. Very often at the end the result is much more interesting and 'delicious' than you ever thought it would be. And the satisfaction experienced after such hard work is indescribable – the "victory" is always sweeter when you suffer a bit.
I work in a very international research group. We have people from all around the world: China, India, Syria, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Thailand and Portugal. I am from Bulgaria. It is really great working in such a group. You get to know so many different cultures, habits and ways of thinking, even different foods. Our differences unite us. As in any other research group people are always leaving and new people arrive every year but the nice working atmosphere remains constant. And this is due to the fact that we are more than coworkers, we are friends and sometimes even more, we are like family. We work together and we have fun together. We go on holidays, we go dancing, we cook, and we drink together. One can say that we work hard but also party hard.
When you are part of such a big and international group you don't feel as a foreigner anymore. Everybody speaks the same language; everybody is trying to help each other because we're all in the same situation. This makes one's life and settling-down in a foreign country so much easier because you know that you are not alone. It is hard to describe it, but you feel like at home even when you are not. At the end, it is the people who matter and not the place. The best way to describe our group is: "One for all, and all for one".
Of course, as everyone else, we face difficulties every day and we go through changes. After 3 years in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany we moved to Vienna, Austria. We knew that a move to another country was inevitable (our boss had only a temporary contract for his first independent research position, in Germany) but "where" exactly was a mystery for some time.
Very often we would receive a mysterious e-mail from our boss saying that "we have to discuss important matters related to the group" (a bit serious and scary e-mail at first reading), but then it always turned out to be a spontaneous celebration with a lot of Prosecco and snacks for a published paper, or an award, or a big-money grant for the group. So during these meetings we always tried to get some information about where we would be going next but, alas, without success. We were even betting on the possible destinations, writing on the blackboard the countries we would like to go, dreaming of a lab close to the beach and sun :). Was it us or the Prosecco talking?, but our imagination went wild.
And then one day after the usual e-mail, we finally heard the big news: "We are moving to Vienna". Our boss was offered a full professor position at the University of Vienna and the whole group was invited to move with him. It is hard to explain what kind of thoughts go through your mind at this moment. It was a big surprise since we had started to think that the "moment of the truth" might actually never come. It took some time to realize that it was really happening and we were finally moving. You feel so many emotions – sadness because you are leaving friends and the workplace you grew familiar with, but also excitement for the new start and the unknown. Personally, it was easy to make the decision to come to Vienna. I saw a great opportunity not only in terms of work but also life experience. Vienna as a city is one-of-a-kind. It is beautiful, cosmopolitan, cultural, full of life. Every time when I walk on the streets I have the feeling that I live in a fairy tale. It is so beautiful that it seems unreal.
The moving was a big change for the group and the whole process took some time. The preparation started slowly at the beginning of the year and became progressively more intensive as the calendar pages turned inexorably forward. In September, we stopped working in the lab and started packing. Moving a whole lab is not an easy task to achieve! It is a lot of work but working all together made the process much faster and easier. We were packing but at the same time having coffee breaks, playing kicker, dancing in the lab. At the end it was not only work but also fun. Apart from packing the lab we had to take care of our own flats, start packing there and find a new accommodation in Vienna. The latter turned out to be quite challenging. Maybe the timing made it harder, because the new semester was starting a lot of students were looking for flats. It was hard but at the end everybody from the group found a flat. And now we were ready to leave Germany and start living in Austria.
I remember the day we arrived in Vienna. The group was travelling together except our boss who moved there a week earlier. We left Germany with a bit of sadness, some tears and again drinking Prosecco in the train, on our way to the airport. I just realized that it probably seems like we drink a lot! But believe me it is only on special occasions. Anyway, after 80 minutes direct flight from Düsseldorf airport we arrived in Vienna. Everybody was tired and quiet. I still could not realize what was happening. We picked up our luggage from the luggage belt and went to the exit. And then at the arrival gate we saw our boss and our new secretary waiting for us. It was such a great surprise. They were holding posters with the name of the group decorated with hearts and chemical molecules. Our boss looked so happy. It was great to see him there. It made me feel like at home. Everybody cheered up, started talking and laughing. I could not wish for a better welcome in Vienna.
As any new start, arriving in a foreign country is quite challenging, especially if you don't speak the language. Some of us also faced more serious problems related to visa, work permit, signing work contracts. The whole paperwork takes so much time, even simple things such as registration in the University. I should say that the beginning was not easy. We needed some time to organize the new labs and to adapt to the new conditions. In spite of all the difficulties, our life returned to "normality" quite fast. This is due again to the teamwork but also thanks to all the people from the University who were helping constantly. Everybody working there is so friendly and you really feel welcome.
In my opinion everybody from the group is already feeling very comfortable living and working in Vienna. The city is beautiful and we have a great working atmosphere.
As I mentioned before, our group is very strongly connected, not only professionally but also on a personal level. No matter what life offers us next, I am positive that we can handle everything because we work as a team and this is our biggest advantage and our biggest treasure. And of course we would not be the group we are without the big boss: Nuno. We call him by his first name because he is one of us. He is not the typical Professor in of Chemistry with gray hair and big glasses you see in cartoons. He is more or less our age, full of life, ideas and ambitions. He is not just torturing us with chemistry problems but he is also buying us ice-cream in the summer and leaving us cookies (chocolate chip!) on our desks. He is our biggest motivation and inspiration.
I feel so lucky and blessed to know and work with all these incredible people. I am almost finishing my PhD and soon I will leave but I am sure that this is not the end of me being part of this team: Because If you have once been a "Maulidian" (Maulide group member), you will always be one.
And since Christmas is approaching it is time for a Christmas wish. I have the greatest boss, the most amazing colleagues = friends, the best city to live in the world. I really cannot wish for more…
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Gruppenleiter Nuno Maulide sprach am 28. November2013 im Rahmen einer Pressekonferenz zum Thema "Universitäten sind die neuen Zuwanderungs- und Integrationsmotoren"


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The Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Armed Forces (ZMSBw) is a research institute of the Federal German Government.
In the 1960s the distinguished historian Sir Michael Howard had a vision for a new kind of history of war.
The Cold War was a global conflict and Cold War scholars are among the most international of academic communities - research on this time period is a collaborative effort of scholars from all over the world. This seven-part series is a cooperation of the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies and the Military History Portal. The interviews were conducted by Dr. Christoph Nübel (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Dr. Klaas Voß (Hamburg Institute for Social Research). This week: Prof. Dr. Bernd Greiner, Director of the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies and Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research – Berlin/Hamburg, Germany. (In German).
At the beginning of the Second World War, air war was an unknown matter. By the conflict's end, however, it was clear that air power had revolutionized future warfare.
In this joint public lecture series with the Humboldt University of Berlin, renowned international historians present their findings to an interested public. Fields and topics include military and diplomatic history, the history of emotions, social movements and "counter-experts", the history of knowledge and science, and cultures of memory. A number of these lectures are in English. Please refer to the more detailed program below for further information.


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There are a few likely reasons why there is a large number of cash advance lenders in Los Angeles County. Let's look at a few of the probable reasons why the industry is doing so well in this part of California.
- It's the Biggest County in the Country - According to the United States Census Bureau (USCB), the population of Los Angeles County in 2014 was over 10 million. The next biggest is Cook County, Illinois, at just over 5 million. With nearly twice as many people as the next biggest county, it really shouldn't be a surprise that Los Angeles County has the most cash advance lenders.
- The Poverty Rate is High - A higher poverty rate tends to coincide with a higher number of cash advance lenders. This is because many impoverished citizens cannot get loans through banks and instead turn to cash advance lenders for emergency funds. A Business Insider article showed that the six counties in California with the highest number of cash advance lenders had an average per capita income that's nearly half the statewide average. The USCB shows that the poverty rate for Los Angeles Country from 2009 to 2013 was 17.8-percent. That's almost 2-percent higher than the state rate, which was 15.9-percent.
- No City-Specific Cash Advance Laws for Los Angeles - There are no city-specific codes for Los Angeles cash advances. Instead, Los Angeles lenders are supposed to follow the state regulations, which we discuss right here. That means there are no cash advance ordinances in Los Angeles that could potentially reduce the number of loans taken out in the city. In other parts of the country, cities have passed cash advance ordinances on top of state defined laws. One popular ordinance prohibits cash advance locations from being open 24-hours a day. Los Angeles would probably have a weaker cash advance market if the city passed strict city ordinances. Of course, this only explains why Los Angeles County is thriving – it does not explain why it is doing comparatively better than other areas within the state. This in connection with its greater population size could be an explanation.
Remember, though, these are just our three best guesses as to why the number of cash advance lenders in Los Angeles County is so high.
False Assumptions About the Cash Advance Market in Los Angeles
There are a few false theories about why cash advances are so popular in Los Angeles. Let's debunk these assumptions and show why they are false.
- There aren't enough banks in Los Angeles County. One of the reasons people seek out a cash advance is because they cannot secure a loan at a bank where the interest would likely be less. This has led people to think that there aren't enough banks in Los Angeles. This isn't true. Just like Los Angeles County has more cash advance lenders than any other county in California, it also has more banks than any other county in California. This disproves the theory that there's a bad ratio of banks to cash advance lenders in Los Angeles County.
- Residents have lower credit scores than people in other parts of the state. A low credit score would make it harder to obtain a traditional loan. So some people think Los Angeles residents must have lower credit scores than people from other areas in California. NerdWallet recently looked at the average credit score for the 143 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. The Bakersfield and the Fresno-Visalia areas both had lower average credit scores than the Los Angeles area.
- Cash advance lenders in Los Angeles aren't regulated enough. As we mentioned earlier, lenders in Los Angeles follow the same rules and regulations as every other lender in the state. That means Los Angeles lenders aren't regulated any less than lenders from a different county. We do believe that the lack of city-specific cash advance laws has helped the industry thrive in LA County, but we don't think this has given Los Angeles any sort of advantage over other areas in California.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is currently drafting new federal cash advance rules. These will likely affect cash advance lending in Los Angeles. Until then, we expect the amount of loans to continue to grow in this area.
*OpenCashAdvance.com strives to present accurate information; however, we do not guarantee accuracy of data as presented.


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Liverpool is one of the top ranked team in English Premier League though they yet to touch the EPL title but still regarded as one of the Big Four team in the competition. They are in good position now in the ongoing season of Premier League, though they would not win EPL title this season as well. Last Liverpool Watford premier league match result 5-0
However, Liverpool are playing UEFA Champions League and passed the round of last sixteen. Now, in the quarter final of Champions league, they are going to face their league mate Manchester City. The match would be tough for them. Now, in their last Premier League games, they faced Watford and in the match, Liverpool beat Watford easily.
Their top player Mohamed Salah played brilliantly. This Egyptian forward scored four goals and so, Liverpool destroyed Watford at the Anfield.
In last Saturday at the home venue of Liverpool named Anfield, the Reds defeated Watford which team is standing on the 11th position on the Premier League point table. Excluding Mohamed Salah, the 5th goal was scored by Brazilian Roberto Firmino. Though, Salah assisted the goal also. So, through their goals Liverpool was won by 5 – 0 against Watford.
Mohamed Salah was in great form since the beginning of the match. Besides, in the ongoing season of Premier League, this Egyptian forward is playing amazingly and so, he is focused by many teams. However, the beginning of Liverpool against Watford was too great. just 4th minutes of the game, Sadio Mane passed the ball from the tough point and Salah led the team ahead by then. In 43rd minutes of the game, this Egyptian forward increased the difference once again.
In last June, 2017 this Egyptian international has come to the Anfield and by wearing the jersey of Liverpool, he has scored 34th goals so far. It is obviously a record for a new player in his inaugural season at Premier League.
So, first half finished with 2 – 0 goals. The 2nd half, Salah made a cross and the ball went to the box and with flick the goals difference were increased by Brazilian striker Roberto Firmino. Mean time 77th minutes of the game, the short pass of Sadio Mane, Salah got the ball and overtook some certain players and with his left leg shot, he fulfilled his hat trick with the jersey of Liverpool.
In 85th minutes of the game, the 25th years old player scored his 4th and team's 5th goal so far. In the ongoing season of Premier League, he has scored highest 28th goals so far.
By playing 31st match, with 18th victories and nine draws, the Reds have gathered 63 points and standing on the 3rd position on the point table.


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Sue Sue in the City, the upcoming ABC spin-off of The Middle has just added a few familiar faces to play some of the series regular positions on Season 1. Finesse Mitchell, Kimberley Crossman, and Chris Diamantopoulos will soon be seen alongside star Eden Sher as the titled-role Sue, and Brock Ciarlelli, who will continue his role from the original series as Sue's best friend.
Sue Sue in the City comes from the original ABC sitcom The Middle, which followed the slightly-strange yet hilarious Heck family through the adventures that came with raising their children and growing as a group. After eight successful seasons of the program, it came to an end this past May, much to a number of fans' sadness.
News of the spin-off, however, kept viewers feeling hopeful that they would soon see at least one member of the family again in all of their glory. With news released just last week revealing the official name of the series and one of the regular cast members, it has surely been an eventful few days for those anticipating the series. In addition, however, four more cast members were announced since we last reported on the series.
Portraying Hudson, a regularly-seen bartender who works at the same hotel as Sue in the series will be Finesse Mitchell. Mitchell was a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live for three seasons starting in 2012.
Kimberley Crossman will portray Remi in the series, a young woman who works as the chef in the same Chicago hotel as Sue and Hudson. Despite a bit of a rocky past, the character is set to begin her journey of finding herself through her work by the zany Heck member. Kimberley is most well-known for her work on the Showtime series SMILF.
Also gaining a role on the sitcom will be Chris Diamantopoulos, who is most recognizable from his role on the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley as the confident and cocky billionaire Russ Hanneman. On Sue Sue In the City, however, Diamantopoulos is set to portray Nick, who owns the hotel in which all of the previously mentioned characters work. Lastly, the rookie actor Aaron Branch has also been cast as the lovable bellhop of the building.


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At use-IP we often blog about new products from Axis Communications and include what at first seem to be the meaningless Axis product codes in the product names, such as "Q6032-E" "M1031-W" etc. Well, in fact, the product codes can give you a good overview of the specifications and possible applications of each model. Each character of the product code denotes a certain aspect of the product:
Take the M1031-W for example:
All of the above then gives you the series name, in this case the "Axis M10 Series"
There are many different possibilities for each character of the product name and Axis provide a breakdown of each of these on their website.
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The Mobotix Q24 is their latest 3 megapixel hemispheric network camera.
It supercedes the popular Mobotix Q22. The '4' is a new designation from Mobotix and represents their new faster processing engine, we will in due course see this appear in other models in the range e.g. Mobotix 'D' series dome cameras and the original 'M' series cameras.
The hemispheric operating principles are quite difficult to understand from a cold start and we are often quizzed about just what the Mobotix Q24 can actually do.
The classic application is to ceiling-mount this camera in the centre of a room and gain the ability to monitor and record everything that occurs anywhere in the room, with electronic pan/tilt/zoom capability to zoom into any area of interest (either in Live mode or in recorded footage) to see more detail. But, you can also wall-mount the Q24 and view a 180° wide field-of-view in front of the camera OR set the camera to deliver views of three preset selected sections of the overall scene covered.
Those good people at specialist Mobotix trainers The IP Academy have just released a new video introducing the Q24 and explaining a few of these features, it does a far better job than my words above seem to …
Mobotix Q24 explanation video from The IP Academy
Hard disc drives continue to get larger all the time, especially when you need them to record megapixel CCTV cameras 24hrs per day.
As unlikely as it seems, we are now headed towards 2 TeraBytes on an SD card!
We've covered this topic of MegaBytes, GigaBytes, TeraBytes and PetaBytes before, but we realise that it still confuses people, so we just thought it might be worthwhile mentioning Google's inbuilt converter and calculation functions for those that aren't already aware of them.
If you want to know exactly how MegaBytes compares to GigaBytes (or whatever), just type your query into Google's search box in the following format:
500MB in GB
Google's first 'search result' will be:
500 megabytes = 0.48828125 gigabytes
You can use this for any conversion using:
KB = KiloBytes
MB = MegaBytes
GB = GigaBytes
TB = TeraBytes
PB = PetaBytes
It also works for other conversions:
4 pounds in kilos
4 pounds = 1.81436948 kilograms
2 feet in cm
2 feet = 60.96 centimeters
Google will also tell you the current time in most World Cities:
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When officials from the New York City Marathon decided against inviting elite Russian runners to compete in the race last fall, they didn't explicitly say that the cloud of doping over Russia and its athletes was the reason.
They didn't have to. It was obvious.
Accusations of Russian doping and reported claims of systematic distribution of performance-enhancing drugs and of bribes paid to cover up positive tests would be enough to scare off officials of any event worried about safeguarding its credibility.
So you have to wonder what officials from the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee are thinking now, in light of the article published Thursday by The Times that detailed a stunningly complex Russian doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
A phantom lab created to process the urine of athletes who had doped. Antidoping scientists who passed samples through a hole in the laboratory's wall so they could be replaced with drug-free urine. Years of planning for a surreptitious operation that made at least 100 dirty samples disappear, according to the former lab director, and allowed at least 15 Olympic medalists to get away with cheating.
If that isn't enough reason to deem Russian athletes a risk to the credibility of the Olympics, and reason enough to bar them from competing in this summer's Rio Games, I don't know what is. In fact, there are enough red flags that Olympic officials should consider barring the Russians from the 2018 Winter Games, too.
A harsh punishment? Yes. Embarrassing? Surely. But that punishment is proper, and overdue, considering that Russia and some of its athletes have benefited from a state-sponsored doping system that rivals — perhaps even surpasses — those run by Eastern Bloc nations in the 1970s.
It will take time to clean up Russian sports, and that can't happen in weeks. Or months. Or maybe even years. In the meantime, clean athletes — and, yes, I still believe they exist — shouldn't have to line up against Russians and wonder, Is this a fair fight?
Steven Holcomb, an American bobsledder, won two bronze medals in Sochi, including the first Olympic medal for the United States in the two-man event in 62 years. But when he heard the news about the Russians who had beaten him, he told me it made him feel terrible and angry and upset, all at the same time.
After all, if the report is true, it would mean that he was cheated out of two silver medals in Sochi, and perhaps countless others in previous competitions.
"I don't feel comfortable going to my next Olympic Games knowing that the Russians will be there because they've cheated like this," he said. "I say, ban them from the sport and the Olympics completely until they can prove that they've cleaned up their act and prove that they can be on a level playing field."
To be clear: Thursday's revelations didn't emerge from nowhere. Holcomb, who has dedicated 18 of his 36 years to his bobsledding career, said some Russian athletes had told him that doping should be permissible except on competition days.
Indeed, Russia's doping problem has been an open secret for years.
Last fall, an independent investigation run by the former WADA president Richard W. Pound revealed that Russia's track and field program was rife with corruption and doping cover-ups. It was enough for that program to be suspended from international competition until it proves that it can follow the rules. A new scandal early this year involving the widespread use of a banned drug, meldonium, by Russian athletes made it seem as if Russia had no interest in fixing things.
Unfortunately, WADA and the I.O.C. have a record of going soft when dealing with Russia.
While the secret lab was expunging dirty samples in Sochi, WADA's president, Craig Reedie, was praising Russia's antidoping effort. In the wake of yet another round of Russian athletes testing positive, Reedie said it looked as if Russia had improved its antidoping controls, that perhaps it had learned its lesson.
"I always tried to be a glass-half-full man," Reedie said.
Half-full, even when athletes wrote to him in recent months demanding — begging for — a deeper investigation of Russian sports beyond track and field. Beckie Scott, an Olympic gold medalist in cross-country skiing and the chairwoman of WADA's athletes' advisory council, said Thursday that she and other athletes were frustrated by the continuing inaction of the bodies empowered to do something to stop Russian doping.
"Nothing happened as a result of that report in November — well, anything significant in the opinion of the athletes," Scott said. "If there was a collective effort of engagement by the I.O.C. and WADA, and really serious intention by both organizations, things would be different now."
Like Holcomb, Scott favors barring Russia from the Olympics because, she said, "without actual action like that, how can you be taken seriously?
"You can talk about zero tolerance all you want," she added, "but the punishment has to fit the crime."
She's right. Russia has gone rogue. No more proof is needed. It's gone to incredible lengths to support (and to hide) its doping program, and there's no telling what it will do — or, given the unexpected deaths of two high-ranking Russian antidoping officials within two weeks of each other, what it won't do — to make this all go away.
But the time for WADA and the I.O.C. to play nice with Russia is over, too.
There has to be a price to pay for a country that doesn't follow the rules. Kenya is in danger of being barred from the Rio Olympics because of the sorry state of its antidoping program, and its seeming unwillingness to improve it. But what Russia has done in falsifying test results is surely more devious than not testing at all.
Olympic organizers can't look the other way anymore. The Rio Games already have enough problems — the Zika virus, political instability, construction delays — that may not be fixed.
The very least the I.O.C.'s members can do is address the one right in front of its face, taunting them.


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11.1.2020 – small update with lots of lovely trees
I don't know why, but I find these cute low-poly thingies quite irresistible.
This year went by so fast, started with some DMP work on the feature film "Suicide Tourist" at Automatik FX, Berlin, where I helped with the environment painting of the ice lake scene, including the design of the ice surface. The ice lake was done in a mix of CG and real footage shot in a swimming pool. I will write something more on the magic of cold showers later in another post (yeah! Wim Hof!)
For the "Suicide Tourist" project I will update the portfolio over here.
What else?
New feature!
Some of my artworks have been featured in "LeewiART 500 – Female Character Illustration" – published in China this year (2019 that is). Lots of pages filled with great inspiration – love it!


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In the classic western, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, several conversations of the good Clint Eastwood character with the ugly Eli Wallach character begin with "there are two kinds of people, my friend". That's is the theme of this article.
We begin with a simple test question. You see two innocent people getting beaten, made homeless and even getting killed. Would you feel equally outraged about both? Most probably, yes. Now assume that the two people belong to different religions, say religion A & religion B. Would you still feel equally outraged? Again, probably yes.
Now raise the dimension of the question to two separate religious communities getting beaten up, made homeless and a few of them getting killed by other religious communities. Would you still feel equally outraged? Depends on whether you are Good within or Ugly.
There are two kinds of people, dear readers.
- The Good, meaning those who feel equally outraged or at least think they should feel outraged and,
- The Ugly, the others who don't.
This article is a window into a an entire class of people, an entire class of institutions who fall in the second class.
1. A New York Times Editorial
The trigger for this article is yesterday's editorial in the New York Times titled Attacks on Muslims in Myanmar. We agree with this editorial and offer kudos to the NYT editorial board for writing it. We also include a couple of key excerpts from it:
- "Terrifying anti-Muslim violence surged this week in Myanmar, exposing deep ethnic and religious tensions that are undermining efforts to stabilize the country and move forward with political and economic reforms. Myanmar's democratic aspirations can never be fully realized if Muslims, who make up about 5 percent of the population, continue to be attacked and marginalized by Buddhists, the majority of the population. At least 44 people have died since March in sectarian mob violence. ….. Across Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Muslims, have been displaced."
- It will not be easy for President Thein Sein to achieve the multiethnic, multireligious vision for Myanmar that he outlined in a speech earlier this month, but that must be the goal. He has to make clear that extremism will not be tolerated and that those responsible for the violence, including security officials who refuse to protect minorities, will be brought to justice.
These are moral, ethical, sensible, and rational sentiments and we support them completely.
2. Another New York Times Article
Fortunately, the New York Times does not restrict its outrage only to attacks against Muslims. Look at the NYT article on March 9, 2013 by Declan Walsh titled Attack on Christians Follows Claim of Blasphemy in Pakistan. The article describes one such attack in detail:
- "An enraged Muslim crowd attacked a Christian neighborhood in Lahore on Saturday, setting fire to more than 150 houses and 2 churches, in a new display of religious intolerance as Pakistan reels from violent persecution against other minorities."
- ""They vandalized Christians' houses, desecrated churches and opened fire on the police," according to a police spokesman, Multan Khan. Several policemen were hurt as they tried to intervene."
- "By evening, about 178 houses, 18 shops and 2 churches had been damaged by fire, said Ahmad Raza, who was leading the rescue operation."
Kudos again to NYT & Declan Walsh for protesting so eloquently about this attack against a religious minority in that self-proclaimed land-of-the-spiritually-pure.
3. A BBC article on the same day
Ours is an American blog. Our belief is that America, thanks to the visionary wisdom of its founding fathers, is generally far ahead of Europe in its freedoms, its broader outlook and its commitment to religious freedom. We generally read American newspapers, most regularly the New York Times followed by the Washington Post, Reuters blogs, occasionally the Wall Street Journal and very occasionally BBC.com.
After reading the above Declan Walsh article on March 9, 2013, we checked BBC.com as we recall. There we found something we had not seen in the New York Times or in any other American newspaper. It was an article from a BBC correspondent from the notorious Noakhali district of Bangladesh titled Bangladesh minorities 'terrorised' after mob violence .
It was a rational article that described its story methodically & calmly, even more calmly than the Declan Walsh article above about attacks on minority Christians. So we looked for similar articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post etc. We could not find a single article in American newspapers about the attacks described by the BBC.
So what attacks did the BBC article describe?
- "Saraswati Rani Das ran for her life with her two young children when a Muslim mob rampaged through her village in the southern Noakhali district of Bangladesh. … Mrs Das broke down repeatedly as she tried to explain how their tiny tin-roof house was destroyed and set on fire… . "We heard the mob was coming towards our house. So, we just ran away. Our house was completely burnt. They looted all our belongings, including our savings. We have lost everything," Mrs Das says."
- "Minority Hindu and Buddhist communities bore the brunt of the attacks as their houses and temples were vandalised and burnt down. … The village of Aladin Nagar, about 120km (75 miles) south of the capital Dhaka, was strewn with torn tin sheets, broken glass, food grain, damaged books and burnt bicycles. … Its residents have been living in fear since the attack and are afraid that they may be targeted again."
- "Hindu community leaders allege that the attacks were co-ordinated and widespread. So far, they say, more than 50 temples have been damaged and more than 1,500 houses destroyed in the attacks, which took place in nearly 20 districts over the last few weeks."
- "Buddhist villages in Cox's Bazar district also came under attack by Muslim mobs last year, when an image allegedly insulting the Koran was posted on Facebook by a Buddhist youth. Many Buddhist temples were vandalised in the subsequent violence.".
Declan Walsh wrote an o
utraged article when 178 Christian houses were destroyed & 2 churches were burnt under the Islamabad regime. But neither he nor any of his NYT colleagues cared to write about 1,500 Hindus house being destroyed & 50 temples damaged in Bangladesh.
(Aladin Nagarhave – 75 km from Bangladesh capital) (Mrs. Das and her children – src BBC.com)
4. From March 9 to May 31
Declan Walsh is not alone in his journalistic negligence. In fact, we cannot recall a single article in an American newspaper about these attacks on Buddhists & Hindu communities in Bangladesh, not in the New York Times, not in the Washington Post, not in Reuters, not in the Wall Street Journal. It is as if these attacks are irrelevant or not worth attention of the American media.
And it is not as if Bangladesh was not on the radar screen of the American media. In fact, their attention had zeroed in on Bangladesh after the devastating human tragedy in which over 1,000 people died in the collapse of a factory. But that was a business story that created a human tragedy.
Just because American media covered that business story doesn't mean they should cover attacks on Buddhist & Hindu minorities in the same country. After all, their attention span is limited and business comes first. So why should American newspapers care about Buddhists & Hindus?
But wait, why isn't business important when it comes to Myanmar? Read what the New York Times editorial wrote:
- "The United
States and other countries supporting Myanmar's transition, as well as
international companies eager to do business there, must impress on Mr.
Sein and his government that Myanmar's promise could evaporate if they
cannot control the deadly sectarianism gaining strength there."
But this same principle does not apply to Bangladesh and the attacks there on Buddhists & Hindus, not for the New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal. These newspapers, though totally silent about attacks against Buddhists & Hindus in Bangladesh, have been on a sustained campaign against the attacks on Muslim Rohingyas in neighboring Myanmar.
If you want to see the contrast in coverage, simply search for Myanmar & Bangladesh in nytimes.com. Then search for Myanmar & Bangladesh on Reuters.com. Or just click on the four links we have provided. You will see what we mean.
This doesn't mean that NYT, Reuters and their American media colleagues are pro-Muslim in any serious way. Just hark back to the NYT article by Declan Walsh about attacks by Muslims on the Christian minority in what the NYT calls the land-of-the-spiritually-pure. Declan Walsh was so against that regime and its religious intolerance that he was literally banished by the Islamabad regime.
But wait. Declan Walsh, as far as we can recall, never wrote against persecution of Buddhists & Hindus under that regime in Islamabad. And the entire Af-Pak region has systematically attacked Buddhists and Hindus minorities. Stories about young Hindu girls have been kidnapped and forcibly converted to Muslims have surfaced and documented by Hindu organizations. But the New York Times has steadfastly deemed these attacks as "unfit to print".
So what is the pattern here?
5. A hierarchy of religions, perhaps?
What you see above and what we have felt & experienced for a long time, is a classic pattern of coverage in the New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post and other American newspapers. It is as if there is a defined and accepted hierarchy of religions in the American media:
- Religions practiced by Europeans – Christians & Jews,
- Religions practiced in the Middle East – Muslims,
- Religions practiced in Asia – Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs…
When a lower ranked religious community attacks a higher ranked religious community, that is very big news and American media covers it aggressively. But when a higher ranked religious community attacks a lower ranked religious community, that's just par for the sociological course and not worth the ink or web-space in an American newspaper.
Notice something interesting in the above rankings? They also fit the European-American hierarchy of color. Europeans are fairer than Middle Eastern people who are also generally fairer than Asians. And religions ranked 1 & 2 are collectively people of the book, to quote that great religious thinker, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. And religions ranked 3 are outside the collective people of the book.
Think about this and you will see that this hierarchical model is a great fit to the historical practices & conceptual framework of American media. This is important because it takes the morality of Declan Walsh, morality of New York Times, morality of Reuters out of the discussion.
So when Declan Walsh writes about attacks on Christians by Af-Pak Muslims and when he studiously ignores the attacks on Af-Pak Buddhists & Hindus by Af-Pak Muslims, he is not being morally decrepit. No, he is just following the religion-hierarchy model of the American media.
Similarly, when the NYT Editorial Board writes against attacks by Buddhists against Muslims in Myanmar, we should not expect them to write against attacks by Muslims against Buddhists & Hindus in neighboring Bangladesh. Because that would be against the above religion-hierarchy model of American media, which they lead.
But hierarchy of religions is too much of a mouthful. What is a simpler, more familiar word for this concept of hierarchy? A Religious Caste System, perhaps?
That would be our vote.
6. What about American NGOs, Human Rights NGO?
Perhaps we should use the singular because the only one we know of is New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW). We have tried to approach them via Ken Roth, their head honcho, and via a couple of their Directors. The response is deafening silence just like the response from our friendly editors at the venerable New York Times.
On April 22, 2013, HRW declared attacks by Buddhists against Muslims in Myanmar as "Ethnic Cleansing". According to Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of HRW,
- "The Burmese government engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya that continues today through the denial of aid and restrictions on movement,".
We do not object to this characterization. But we do point out that HRW has never accused the NonPakistani regime or the Bangladeshi government of ethnic religious cleansing against Buddhists & Hindus. We don't have specific figures about how many Buddhists have been "cleansed" out of Bangladesh, a neighbor of Myanmar.
But thanks to the BBC article, we do have a figure of the number of Hindus "cleansed" out of Bangladesh, their ancestral home for 25 centuries:.
- "In 1947, Hindus constituted around 30% of the population," says Subroto Chowdhury, a Hindu community leader in Dhaka.
- "Now it is less than 10%. Hindus are being warned to leave so that locals can take over their land and houses.
- "This is our motherland and we have been living here for 25 generations. We cannot imagine of leaving this land. This is our country."
10% of today's roughly 150 million = 15 million and 30% of 1947 popula
tion of roughly 70 million = 21 million. So 21-15 = 6 million Hindus have been "cleansed" out of Bangladesh in the past 65 years.
Six million is the rough number used for Jewish victims of the Nazi Germany holocaust and six million is the rough number of Hindus attacked, beaten& driven out of Bangladesh. Yet, HRW refuses to call this a "religious cleansing"!
Look, HRW and their sister NGOs are honorable institutions. Their refusal to touch human rights crimes and "religious cleansing" of Buddhists & Hindus in Bangladesh & Af-Pak is not because they lack morals or basic human values.
It's just that they seem to follow the religious caste system model. And according to that model, Buddhists and Hindus are the lowest or the untouchable caste of that religious caste system. So who among the highest religious caste care about what happens to religious untouchables?
Certainly not HRW, New York Times, Reuters or any of their media, NGO cohorts. At least, not in our experience.
Editor's Note: The above opinions have been based on articles published by the various news organizations and on the tweets of NGO executives. We seek and welcome feedback or response from NYT, Reuters, HRW and any organization referenced above. We will publish all responses verbatim.
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NEW YORK, July 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Forescout Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSCT) between February 6, 2020 and May 15, 2020, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 10, 2020 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action. The lawsuit seeks to recover damages for Forescout investors under the federal securities laws.To join the Forescout class action, go to http://www.rosenlegal.com/cases-register-1875.html or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com for information on the class action.NO CLASS HAS YET BEEN CERTIFIED IN THE ABOVE ACTION. UNTIL A CLASS IS CERTIFIED, YOU ARE NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL UNLESS YOU RETAIN ONE. YOU MAY RETAIN COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. YOU MAY ALSO REMAIN AN ABSENT CLASS MEMBER AND DO NOTHING AT THIS POINT. AN INVESTOR'S ABILITY TO SHARE IN ANY POTENTIAL FUTURE RECOVERY IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON SERVING AS LEAD PLAINTIFF.According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Forescout was experiencing a significant and disproportionate decline in its financial performance; (2) the foregoing was reasonably likely to have a material negative impact on Forescout's planned acquisition by Advent International Corp.; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about its business and operations were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 10, 2020. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. If you wish to join the litigation, go to http://www.rosenlegal.com/cases-register-1875.html or to discuss your rights or interests regarding this class action, please contact Phillip Kim, Esq. of Rosen Law Firm toll free at 866-767-3653 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
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Under selective (funding) pressure, outsourcing the annotation of biological data seems to be an inevitable necessity, not only for economic reasons. The existing pipelines for high-quality annotation just cannot keep up with the amount of papers, let alone raw data, that is produced. Something that started with Rfam has now spread to other databases (well described in "A Warning Sign for Biomedical Databases" by Manuel Corpas). Similarly, crowd-sourced "secondary" databases started to add value to established primary databases like the Protein Data Bank (PDB) – PDBWiki and Proteopedia for example. So how is this concept going to work in future, and what are the pitfalls?
Institutes like the NIH/NCBI, EMBL-EBI or SIB have done a great job at coping with the ever increasing amounts and varieties of biological data. Here's a quote from the agenda of the NIH that is already 10 years old:
"The principal obstacle impeding effective health care is lack of new knowledge, and the principal mission of the NIH is to overcome this obstacle. At this point the impact of computer technology is so extensive it is no longer possible to think about that mission without computers."
The incredible work of human annotators reading and understanding the scientific literature to enter the content into central databases is mindboggling, but it doesn't scale. Would the outsourcing in a wikipedia-way have a negative impact on the quality of the data? This feels like restating the question if a project like wikipedia would ever be able to compete with the Encyclopædia Britannica. I guess the case is closed: it can, and it can do so much more! When releasing biological data, the annotators would be spend more time on supervising the development, arbitrating conflicts and offering support to contributors. The most important aspect is to keep the biological community on board by developing methods that help data to be stored in the most productive way. Productive rather than re-productive in the sense that they don't have to replicate the data that has already been produced before. The current guidelines, i.e. such that sequences, structures and interaction data have to be deposited in a public database prior to journal publication were good and necessary steps in that direction already. While looking into disputed issues and safeguarding the integrity of the data such a system would have a multiplying effect of the curators expertise using the wisdom of the (scientific) crowd. At the same time, the role of developers would be to enable seamless submission and analysis tools for the data.
The only principle is to engage the research community: according to my experience, most scientists take an active, long term interest in their results and data. Even years after they did the research and experiments, developed algorithms and programs, set up websites and databases – whatever – they want it to be read, useful and updated. And all they usually want in return is to get some due credit for it.
Now that is a crucial point, and there is no use in pretending there is an easy solution to it all. If funding bodys would stop dancing madly around the holy golden cow of "impact factor" and start to acknowledge other equally significant contributions to the scientific enterprise it might have a much more positive impact on science as a whole than a dozen officially certified world-class geniusses put together. Nevertheless researchers all over the world happily donate their time and expertise to contribute data to the subjects they care for.
I don't know if something like proteopedia's a point-awarding system or a flattr – style is the answer to the "credit" question, let alone sustainable sources of funding. But it can't be worse than the currently dominating impact-factor cargo-cult.
As a thought experiment, try to imagine the aforementioned institutions as something like a GooglePlex of Bioinformatics. Rather than storing or producing the primary content, the goal is to enable access to the vast network of biomolecular information.
Although in I agree with the principle, I am not sure if exactly wikimedia-based crowd-sourced annotation is THE answer, simply because I can't quite see how complex relationships between different datasets would be handled in an efficient way. But with these concepts in mind, listening to Tim "TimBL" Berners-Lee call "RAW DATA NOW!" a second time starts to make some more sense. In his TED-talk "The next Web of open, linked data" the father of the web describes a vision where we should be taking this, and biomolecular data I think is a prime area to put these ideas to practice. So lets stop "hugging our databases" and take some inspiration from the guy "who invented the internet" –


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WWF, MSC owe explanation, apology to Alaska fishermen – Senator Mark Begich
As chairman of the U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries, I have the chance to brag about Alaska's fisheries. That's why I was offended by the recent "We don't farm like this" video produced by World Wide Fund for Nature Canada (WWF) in support of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The short animated video grossly misrepresents the harvesting methods of longline, purse seine, and trawl fisheries and smears them as unsustainable. [email protected] 11:19
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US troops will be eating Alaska salmon after all. Sodexo, the France-based food contractor did an about face after getting blasted by Senator Mark Begich. Sodexo, which has an eight year contract to provide food services to the US military, said it would only serve seafood meriting one particular eco-label that Alaska salmon doesn't have. Senator Mark Begich – "They want to get an understanding of the chain of control or handling of seafood products and they have offered to work with our folks. And I think that's a great sign that they recognize the value – and we pointed out some things they just didn't understand." [email protected]


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Partners. It's time we had a little talk. Did you pick up the dry cleaning this week? This is not a rhetorical question.
But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let me tell you a story.
I used to have a secretary who was friendly and totally unreliable. I'd give her a basic task – "Hey, we're almost out of hormone testing kits, can you call the lab and have them send us 10 more?" "Sure thing," she'd say. A week later I'd open the cabinet during an appointment and find an empty shelf. "Ummm, I thought I asked you to call the lab?" I'd ask. "Oh, uh, yeah, I'm so sorry, I totally forgot. I'll do it this week, I promise." This kind of thing happened all the time.
It got to the point where I'd assign a task to her but never really trust that it would get completed. So in a day or two, I'd check back in to see if she was on it. This meant that after delegating a task I couldn't actually take it off of my to-do list. It would continue to occupy space in my brain and stress me out, entirely defeating the purpose of, say, hiring a secretary.
Eager to knock tasks off of the to-do list, I'd find myself muttering, "Screw it, I'll just do it myself," and then essentially do my secretary's job for her while still paying her salary. After a couple weeks of this, however, it dawned on me: I needed a new secretary!
…So back to the dry cleaning. Do you get why I'm asking about it?
Did you pick it up? Did you say you would? When you say you're going to pick up the dry cleaning and then days go by and you haven't, the issue has little to do with the actual dry cleaning. Your partner has other blouses and doesn't really need the one at the dry cleaner's. (Yes, women are complicated. But they're not that complicated. Stay with me.)
It's not about the dry cleaning; it's about your integrity. The deeper issue is that you said you would do something and you didn't do it. You didn't follow through. You gave her your word – sure, it wasn't a vow, but it was at the very least a commitment – and you dropped the ball. You've shown her that she can't trust you.
Even if you make lots of money, even if you hold her secrets in confidence, even if you are trustworthy when it "really matters," the mama in your life needs to know that she can lean on you not only during the hard times, but also day-to-day.
She needs to know that if she delegates a task to you, that you've got it and that she can let it go. She needs to know that once she hands it over to you that she can take the task off of her plate, that she can free up that psychic energy and apply it to other tasks like, say, folding your laundry. Or taking your kids to the dentist. Or having sex with you.
If she's nagging, it's because she delegated a task and then couldn't actually take it off of her conscience. She can't trust your integrity, and so she has to continue to hold the weight of the task she doesn't trust you to complete.
I found a new secretary, but the mama in your life can't so easily replace you. She needs you. She needs you to pick up the dry cleaning. She needs to know that she can rely on you and that you're on it.
Couples don't often get down to the dry-cleaning level stuff until couples therapy. All of these seemingly inconsequential moments where she experienced a lack of support can collect over time and chip away at her precious reserves. And a lack of honor in a partner can create a chasm in the best of relationships over time. Many partners don't initially see how their dry cleaning relates to honor and trust, but they do know that these things are necessary for a healthy relationship.
So share this article with your partner. Help them connect the dots, and remind them how sexy honor is. They truly want to help you and give you their best, so show them how. Ask them what system they will use to remember the dry cleaning so that you can fully release the tasks you delegate.
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