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The new dynamic type in C# 4 was mainly added to offer simpler creation of objects using reflection and the ability to treat objects as they are no matter where they were created: COM interop, DLR, etc. It basically defers static typing until runtime. The object itself is statically typed, however the compiler bypasses compile-time static type checking until runtime.
One place where this kind of late bound typing is really useful is unit testing ASP.NET MVC action methods that return JSON via JsonResult. For example, given the following controller action method:
And the following unit test you'll quickly discover that while you can see the values as a watch in Visual Studio or while debugging, you cannot actual run an assert on any of the members (Assert.AreEqual(1, data.FeedId) will throw an exception:
It should be relatively obvious as to why this will not work, notably anonymous types are internal to the assembly that they were created in and results.Data returns a System.Object. Using the dynamic keyword, one might assume that the we should be able to run asserts on the properties of the JSON result, but unfortunately, it's not that simple:
The exception gives some subtle hints as to what the problem is:
'MyFantasyFootBallGuruTests.Controllers.AlertsControllerTests.GetCurrentPick2' failed: Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException : 'object' does not contain a definition for 'FeedId' at CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object ) at System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute1[T0,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0) Controllers\AlertsControllerTests.cs(47,0): at MyFantasyFootBallGuruTests.Controllers.AlertsControllerTests.GetCurrentPick2()
Well it's somewhat of a hint…the object does not contain a definition for 'FeedId' is caused by the fact that while we can see the values with the debugger, the reality is that the 'object' is really an anonymous type, which exists in the assembly containing the controller. Since anonymous types by definition are always internal to the assembly they are defined in, the runtime throws an exception. Fortunately, the fix is for this is easy.
When you create a new project (assembly) in Visual Studio, a "Properties" folder with a class called "AssemblyInfo.cs" is automatically created. This class contains attributes that define the metadata of the assembly: the name, description, title, whether or not the assembly is visible to COM components, the version, and other information related to the assembly. There is also another very important attribute to those wishing to test anonymous types in assemblies other than the assembly that the anonymous type is defined in: InternalsVisibleToAttribute.
The InternalsVisibleToAttribute makes types that are normally only visible in the defined assembly to other assemblies specified in the attribute. For instance:
Adding this attribute to the assembly that contains the controller classes, makes any anonymous types visible to the unit test assembly, MyFantasyFootballGuruTests. After adding this attribute, the unit tests will not only compile, but allow the properties of the anonymous type to be tested:
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If your parents have decided to divorce or separate, you'll probably be worried about what this means for you. Talking about it with other people will help and you'll also have say when it comes to deciding which parent you'll live with.
Why are they breaking up?
A couple can break up for a number of reasons and there's often a combination of complicated issues behind a decision to separate. You may feel sad, angry or shocked when you hear the news.
You may also feel guilty and think that you've somehow played a part in the break up. Whatever the reasons behind your parents breaking up, it's important to remember that it's not your fault.
If you feel relieved, don't worry. You may feel that it's a strange reaction to have to such a serious situation. However, if your parents have been arguing or hurting each other, it may be better for everyone if they lived apart from each other.
Living with one parent
You may be worried that you'll have to choose which of your parents you want to live with. Whether your parents sort out all their issues between them or they're disagreeing with each other, you should always be asked for your opinion.
During a divorce or separation, your parents may go through a process called mediation to sort out all the arrangements. As a part of this process, you're allowed to have your say about what you think would be best for you, and whether you're happy with the decisions that may affect you.
Mediation doesn't take place in a court room; it's an informal chat with a welfare or mediation officer. They will explain what your parents have decided and ask you how you feel about those decisions. If you disagree with anything, the welfare or mediation officer feed your thoughts back and the decisions may be changed.
Remember that the main consideration when it comes to deciding which parent you live with will be what's best for you. It won't be based on your parents' preferences.
Talk about it
Being involved in a divorce or separation is an upsetting experience for everyone involved. Although it can be difficult, it's important for you to talk to your parents about how you're feeling. As well as giving them an idea of how you're coping, it gives you a chance to have a better understanding of why they're separating.
If you have friends whose parents are separated or divorced, you may want to talk to them. They may be able to help you through the experience by talking about what happened to them.
Going to court
If your parents are disputing something, like how often you'll see the parent you're not living with, the matter may go to court. It's unlikely that you'll be asked to answer questions in front of your family. You will be asked about your feelings on the issue that's being decided.
You'll probably have a talk with a social worker. They'll explain the issue that's being discussed and ask you what you think would be the best outcome in your opinion. What you say in this interview will be given to the court in the form of a family report.
Domestic violence or abusive parents
Your parents may be separating because their relationship is an abusive or violent one, or one of them has problems with drugs or alcohol. If this is the case, then the matter is likely to skip the mediation step and go straight to court.
In these situations, the safety of you and your parent is the most important thing the courts will consider.
Coping with death
When someone close to you dies, it's an upsetting experience that can affect you for a long time. But it's important that you share your feelings with others to make sure you're not trying to cope alone.
The grieving process
Dealing with your emotions when someone close to you has died is really tough, and there's a number of feelings that you can go through. There isn't a right way to cope with someone dying – everyone reacts differently.
If someone has died unexpectedly, you may feel shocked and confused about why it has happened. You can also feel angry that someone has been taken from you.
If an elderly relative or someone who has had a long illness dies, your feelings may be just the same even if you have been preparing for it. You can also feel relieved that someone you loved is no longer suffering from their condition.
Grieving for a loved one can affect every aspect of your life. You may find it hard to sleep, eat or concentrate on your work. If you're struggling at school, college or at work, you may be able to get time off if you explain your situation to your boss or a teacher.
Talking it over
It's really important that you talk to people to help you deal with your grief – you don't have to try and get through the situation by yourself.
If a member of your family has died, your parents or other relatives may be having similar feelings. Sharing your thoughts with them may help you come to terms with the death.
Some of your friends may have gone through a similar experience themselves, so talking to them can also help you understand what you're going through.
Funeral ceremonies celebrate the life of the person who has passed away and give friends and family a chance to grieve together and share their memories. They're often held in a place of worship, but some ceremonies can be non-religious and they can take the form of a burial or a cremation.
Whether or not you decide to go to the ceremony is up to you, but some people find that it can make the grieving process easier. To help you make the decision, you may want to talk to your parents or friends about what happens at a funeral.
Other ways of dealing with a death
As well as talking to friends and family, you may want to speak to your doctor. There are also lots of organizations that can help you to understand your feelings. Some of them run helplines, and some have online message boards where you can ask questions or post your memories of the person who has died.
Abusive relationships
Relationship abuse can happen to anyone – it is never your fault and you never have to deal with it on your own. Find out what to do if you are being hurt or if you are worried about a friend.
What is relationship abuse?
Relationship abuse is when someone hurts or upsets someone else who they are in a relationship with. Relationship abuse can include:
- physical abuse – hitting, punching, pushing, biting, kicking or using weapons
- sexual abuse – forcing you to have sex or watch pornography, unwanted kissing or touching, pressure not to use contraception
- financial abuse – taking or controlling your money, forcing you to buy them things, forcing you to work or not to work
- emotional abuse – insults and name calling, isolation from friends and family, controlling what you wear or where you go, checking up on you all the time
Some people think abuse only happens in adult relationships, but it can happen at any age.
Usually, girls are the victims and boys are the abusers, but abuse can happen to boys as well. It can also happen in same sex relationships.
A recent case study found that:
- 25 per cent of girls and 18 per cent of boys had been physically abused
- 75 per cent of girls and 50 per cent of boys had experienced emotional abuse
- one in three girls and one in six boys had experienced sexual violence
There are a number of websites where you can get more information about unhealthy behaviour in relationships.
Warning signs of abuse
If you are in an abusive relationship, you may feel or experience a lot of different emotions. You might also notice the signs in a friend who may be in an abusive relationship.
Warning signs include:
- depression and anxiety
- isolation from family and friends
- not doing so well at school or college
- being argumentative
- being fearful
- concerns about making the boyfriend or girlfriend angry
- physical signs such as bruises
- use of drugs and alcohol
- frequent cancelling of plans
- changes in appearance
- risky sexual behaviour
If you are being hurt
If you are worried about your relationship:
- there is support to help you – it is not your fault
- talk to friends, family and trusted adults about what is happening to you
- think about safe places where you can go
- keep your mobile charged at all times so you can call the police or emergency services if you need to
- have a code word that will let your friends and family know if you need help
If you are being harassed by calls on your mobile, try to change your phone number.
If you are getting emails or instant messages that are abusive, you should save or print them. You can then give them to the police as evidence if you choose to report the abuse. You can also change your email address.
Check-ups, appointments and emergencies
If you are feeling under the weather, you can book an appointment to see a doctor or dentist. Making an appointment is simple, and there are telephone lines and other clinics around where you don't even need one.
Getting a check-up
If you're under 18, you should go for a dental check-up every 12 months to make sure that your teeth and gums are in good condition. If a dentist discovers that you have problems with your wisdom teeth, tooth decay or plaque, you may have to pay them a visit more regularly.
Some dentists will delete you from their list of registered patients if you don't make an appointment within a certain period of time. If this happens, you'll have to register again with a new one.
Unless you have a specific medical condition that needs monitoring, you don't need to make a regular appointment for a check-up at your doctor. However, if you're planning to exercise more regularly or you're going travelling, talk to your doctor about what this may mean for your health.
Making and keeping appointments
To make an appointment with a doctor or a dentist, you'll need to call the surgery.
If you make an appointment, make sure that you don't miss it. If you want to re-arrange an appointment, let the surgery know a couple of days before so they can give your slot to someone else.
Dentists will not charge you for missing an appointment. However, some dentists and GPs may remove you from their list of patients if you miss an appointment without letting them know beforehand.
If you're unable to get to a surgery because you're seriously ill, your doctor may be able to visit you at home. If you do phone up a surgery and ask for a home visit, you'll be asked questions to find out if the doctor needs to see you at home, or whether you should go to a hospital.
You may also want to visit the accident and emergency department of your nearest hospital if you're seriously ill or if you've had an accident. If there's no-one able to take you to hospital and it's an emergency, you can phone 082911 and ask for an ambulance.
Walk-in clinics
Even if you're registered with a GP, you may want to use a walk-in clinic. You can't make an appointment at a walk-in clinic and they work on a first-come, first-seen basis. This means that you may have to wait for a long time before you are seen by someone.
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Right now, around the world, hundreds of thousands of gamers are glued to their computers scratching an itch they haven't been able to scratch for more than a decade.
That is, as of today, the world can finally get its mitts on "StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty" — the long, long, long-awaited sequel to "StarCraft" and perhaps the most anticipated PC game of all time.
The thing is, "StarCraft" isn't just a game, it's a phenomenon.
The first incarnation of this sci-fi title for the PC launched back in 1998 and quickly became the real-time-strategy game that all others would be measured against. A chess-like game of resource management and galactic warfare, Blizzard Entertainment's "StarCraft" gave players the chance to not only play through a single-player campaign featuring a dramatic story of conquest, betrayal and sacrifice, but it also allowed players to pit their skills against each other, controlling one of three distinct races — the Protoss with their advanced technology, the swarming, insect-like Zerg and the human Terrans — in a battle for supremacy.
"The story just grabbed me and the multiplayer experience grabbed me," said Ryan Tower, who began playing the game when he was 11 years old and is now the lead administrator for the "StarCraft" fan site StarCraft: Legacy. "I mean, there was just so much life in that game."
Indeed, "StarCraft" was embraced the world over with a stunning zeal. Not only did the first game sell an absurd number of copies — more than 11 million worldwide — it became the foundation for an international spectator sport.
Part of what made the game such a hit was the fact that although "StarCraft" was relatively easy to pick up, it was so deep that after years of playing it, gamers were still discovering tricks and strategies.
Frank Pearce, Blizzard Entertainment co-founder and executive vice president, said he believes the game's stunning popularity came not only because "StarCraft" offered a compelling story, but because it used the company's then-new Battle.Net platform — an online gaming service that made it easy for players to find and connect with one another and then duke it out in multiplayer games of up to eight people.
But Tower said the thing that really launched the game into the stratosphere was the fact that "StarCraft" gained a reputation for being extremely well-balanced, which meant that players could play any one of the game's three races and feel like they had an equal shot of winning.
"It took a lot of skill to master the game but you couldn't dominate it," Tower said.
"StarCraft" quickly became the go-to game for professional gaming competitions. And it simply exploded in South Korea — a country where, at that time, both broadband Internet service and public gaming cafes were suddenly booming.There, professional "StarCraft" competitions began filling stadiums with thousands of spectators excited to cheer on their favorite "StarCraft" players — players paid big bucks to compete.
In South Korea today, there are two cable television stations dedicated to televising "E-Sports" competitions — and the original "StarCraft" remains a staple even after all these years.
"You can walk into a bar in Korea on any given night and very likely see them playing professional 'StarCraft' on TV," Pearce said.
Blizzard has supported its game with gusto, providing patches, fixes and upgrades to the first "StarCraft" for well over a decade. But for years now, fans have been waiting for a sequel.
Why the delay? Well, Blizzard has been a very, very busy company. Pearce said that the team behind "StarCraft" got busy working on another hit — "WarCraft 3." And then there was a little project called "World of Warcraft." You might have heard of it?
And, of course, when you're trying to follow up a hit like "StarCraft," you've got to make sure you do it right.
"'StarCraft II' is really something we've been building from the ground up," Pearce said. "It's an all-new game engine built on an all-new Battle.Net platform. The missions are all very unique and diverse. The story campaign is the most ambitious story campaign for a real-time-strategy game ever for us."
And he said: "Everyone on the development team knows how well-loved the original 'StarCraft' is and so they want to honor the legacy of that experience. We wanted to make sure we put the appropriate amount of polish into it to meet the standard of quality we have for ourselves and the standards of quality our fans expect of us. The time it took to get it into the fans' hands was what was necessary to hit those standards."
Of course, the question is — will "StarCraft II" be able to fill the shoes of its predecessor? Some expect it to not only fill those shoes, but over-fill them.
Analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Partners thinks the game could sell 7 million copies worldwide in 2010, generating sales of more than $350 million. Meanwhile, VGchartz expectsthe game to sell more like 10 to 12 million copies during this fiscal year alone. And that's something, especially when you consider that the first game sold more than 11 million copies over the course of 12 years.
But will all those hard-core "StarCraft I" gamers approve of "StarCraft II"?
"We want anyone who sits down to play 'StarCraft 2' — if they played the original 'StarCraft' — to immediately feel a sense of familiarity," Pearce said. "But at the same time we want them to feel like it's new and fresh and that there's more things to discover within the 'StarCraft' universe and within the multiplayer gaming experience."
Check out the review of "StarCraft II" by MSNBC.com's games editor Todd Kenreck here.
Meanwhile, Tower said that some enthusiasts — those given early access to the game and to its beta runthrough — have had some concerns about some of the changes designed to make the new game more accessible to a wider audience. But he expects Blizzard to do what it's done before — tweak and improve the game over time until it reaches something close to perfection.
Ultimately only time will tell whether the sequel lives up to the original. For his part, Tower said he hopes "StarCraft II" will introduce the gaming phenomenon he loves to a whole new generation of players.
"I just want to see the community grow and I want people to discover for thevemselves what 'StarCraft' is really about," he said.
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There's much to admire in Pivot's first major full-length release, yet the overall result doesn't always live up to the sum of its parts.
'In The Blood', the album's lead-off single, showcases the energy and restless creativity that the Australian three-piece have in abundance. There's plenty going on, with the purposeful live drums steering a typical everything-but-the-kitchen-sink mass of sounds through a lively instrumental workout. The album's title track, meanwhile, is a fine demonstration of the band's aptitude for mood changes, with ominous Add N To (X)-style synths building towards a metal-ish spell of guitar posturing, before the track finally settles into something of a groove. The problem is that, as impressive as the ideas and ambition are on tracks such as these, the end product is overbearingly dry, coming over more like a demonstration exercise in technique and range instead of being material destined to stir the heart and soul.
It's perhaps no surprise, then, that the record's highlights are found in its more inconspicuous corners, where the grandstanding is kept to a minimum. 'Fool In Rain' is such an instance, with its gentle melodies and electronic burbles playing off against a rudimentary drum machine. Yet the band is at their very best when form is set aside completely, when the tracks are allowed to breathe naturally. 'Love Like I' is great, somehow conjuring up the dread, panic and ice-cold terror of eavesdropping on an intruder pilfering your worldly possessions in the next room. Meanwhile, closing track 'My Heart Like Marching Band' is a thoroughly unsettling experience, its acute eeriness suggesting a nightmarish haunted house, the air thick with doom.
So, Pivot have plenty of good things to offer, though their energy and ideas are often let down by the form of the songs. It's a tricky album to judge, considering its best moments are easy to overlook, but there's enough to make this worth a listen and suggest that better days might lie ahead.
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Are Seahawks, second-youngest team in Super Bowl history, on verge of dynasty?
Pete Carroll (right) inherited the fifth-youngest Super Bowl team, and he's built the second-youngest. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
When it comes to team-building in the long term, football is for the young. Teams drafting well will find success year after year, while teams more interested in spackling their woebegone rosters with overpriced free agents will pay with implosion season after season. That's not exactly news to anyone in the game not named Dan Snyder ... but when looking at the youngest Super Bowl teams of all time, it's amazing how valuable it is to get things right, right from the start.
If you want to start an NFL dynasty, it's generally best to do it young. And in this regard, the 2013 Seattle Seahawks are in remarkably good shape -- they're the second-youngest team ever to reach the Super Bowl. According to data compiled by Chase Stuart of Pro Football Reference and Football Perspective, the Seahawks' roster had an average age of 26.4 years, putting them a few hundredths of an aggregate year younger than the 1971 Miami Dolphins, the youngest Super Bowl team ever. And in looking at all the great dynasties that have spanned the Super Bowl era, youth is the common characteristic. The 1992 Dallas Cowboys, who went on to win three Super Bowls in a four-year stretch, tied for sixth-youngest ever (27 years) with the 1999 St. Louis Rams, who made two Super Bowls in three years and featured one of the greatest offenses of all time.
The 2001 New England Patriots, who helped keep that Rams run from becoming more than a one-time thing, and also won three Super Bowls in four seasons, were one exception to the rule with an average age of 28.5 years, and this appears to be Bill Belichick's preference -- the 2011 Pats who lost to the New York Giants also had an average player age of 28.5.
One thing's for sure -- if you want to see your window close quickly, ignore the age rule. The three oldest Super Bowl teams -- the 2002 Oakland Raiders (30.7 average age), 1998 Denver Broncos (30.1 average age) and the 1972 Washington Redskins (29.8 average age) each went through hard times right after their appearances. The Raiders haven't been back (and aren't even close), the Redskins took a decade to get back and the Broncos haven't been back since the 38-year-old John Elway won his second Lombardi Trophy. Until now, of course.
By the way, the Broncos are also set up with youth -- their average age of 27.9 puts them in a bottleneck with six other teams (the 1977 Cowboys; the 2007 Giants; the 1990 Giants; the 2004 Philadelphia Eagles; the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers; the 1979 Rams; and the 1983 Washington Redskins). And that number obviously drops if you remove their 37-year-old starting quarterback. Which, of course, the Broncos would prefer that you didn't.
Here's the entire list of average ages, minus this year's teams. And here's a bit about how the five youngest teams were built.
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1971 Miami Dolphins (Average age: 26.4 years)
Just six seasons away from expansion in the American Football League, the Dolphins topped the AFC with a roster that was stacked with young talent at all the important positions. Quarterback Bob Griese was 26; running backs Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Mercury Morris were all 25 or younger; there was an offensive line with two absolute studs (Larry Little and Bob Kuechenberg) in their mid-20s; and the defense that became the first great one of the 1970s was packed with young, drafted talent.
The Dolphins were splattered by the Cowboys, 24-3 in Super Bowl VI, but everyone involved believed that it wouldn't be long before they were back -- and that was absolutely correct. In 1972, Miami became the first and only team to win every game in a season, including the Super Bowl. The Dolphins extended their streak by one game at the start of the next season, lost in Week 2 to Oakland, and went on to win their second straight Super Bowl at the end of that campaign. We'll never know what might have happened had the World Football League not poached Csonka and other key players, but the Dolphins of the early 1970s were one of the all-time great examples of team-building.
2013 Seattle Seahawks (Average age: 26.4 years)
When Pete Carroll became the Seahawks' head coach in 2010, he inherited a roster so bereft of talent that only four players would survive the subsequent roster purge. Carroll and new general manager John Schneider started hot -- their first four draft picks provided key players at left tackle (Russell Okung), safety (Earl Thomas), receiver (Golden Tate) and cornerback (Walter Thurmond). They also stole safety Kam Chancellor in the fifth round. Another great haul came in 2011, but only in the third day of the draft -- higher picks James Carpenter and John Moffitt have been unimpressive, but any draft in which you can get linebacker K.J. Wright in the fourth round, cornerback Richard Sherman in the fifth, cornerback Byron Maxwell in the sixth and linebacker Malcolm Smith in the seventh? That's a spicy meatball.
Of course, the real steal came with the 75th pick in the 2012 draft, when Schneider talked Carroll into taking Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson. That's worked out pretty well so far, despite Wilson's obvious lack of height. Linebacker Bobby Wagner was also taken in the second round. Carroll and Schneider have been hit-and-miss with their trades, but the 2010 trade with the Buffalo Bills for Marshawn Lynch cost them a couple of low picks and defined the franchise as much as anything has done in recent years.
1981 San Francisco 49ers (Average age: 26.5 years)
The 49ers had been a joke for years when head coach Bill Walsh was hired in 1979, and the man I consider to be the greatest football mind in the history of the game changed that with a quickness. In his first draft, Walsh decided that there was a quarterback from Notre Dame worth a third-round pick despite his troubling (to some teams) lack of arm strength. Joe Montana repaid his coach's faith a few times over. Walsh also got receiver Dwight Clark in the 10th round (back when there was one), setting the table for one of the NFL's all-time plays a few years later. The 1980 draft brought linebacker Keena Turner, but it was the 1981 draft in which Walsh and VP John McVay really cleaned up. With three of their first four picks, they got safety Ronnie Lott, safety Carlton Williamson and cornerback Eric Wright. That was three-fourths of the starting secondary in a Super Bowl XVI win over the Cincinnati Bengals, and the 1981 team was the genesis for a franchise that would come to dominate the decade.
1974 Pittsburgh Steelers (Average age: 26.6 years)
The Steelers had been nailing their drafts since Chuck Noll became the team's head coach in 1969 and took a little-known defensive tackle from North Texas named Joe Greene. But it was the 1974 draft -- unquestionably the greatest single-year selection process by any one team ever -- that put the Steelers on the map for a good, long time. In that draft alone, Pittsburgh grabbed four Hall of Famers -- receivers Lynn Swann and John Stallworth, linebacker Jack Lambert and center Mike Webster. The Steelers assembled their rosters hand-sewn and homegrown, and they were rewarded with a six-year span in which they won four Super Bowls.
1996 New England Patriots (Average age: 26.7 years)
And here's that Pete Carroll guy again -- but this time, on the wrong side of the curve. The 1996 Patriots lost to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXI, and after Bill Parcells had some serious questions about who was buying the groceries, owner Robert Kraft hired Carroll to replace the Big Tuna. It didn't work out well (the Patriots failed to reach the Super Bowl again under Carroll, who was fired in 1999), which was a shame, because Parcells had a team with a great deal of young and estimable talent -- 23-year-old quarterback Drew Bledsoe, 23-year-old running back Curtis Martin, 25-year-old receiver Troy Brown and a group of defenders in Lawyer Milloy, Ty Law, Willie McGinest and Tedy Bruschi who would be around for the Belichick triumphs of the early 2000s.
Has Carroll learned how to take a young team to a Super Bowl win? We'll find out soon enough.
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The focus of the comprehensive permanent exhibition in the new Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz is on the picture collection as well as on various sculptures and arts-and-crafts objects.
This new interactive exhibition depicts the many faces and features of the romantic Middle Rhine Valley .
The comprehensive collections of this art and cultural history museum in Heidelberg span a period of several millennia.
Located in the late-Baroque residence of the artist Johann Christian Wentzinger (1710-1797), this Freiburg museum displays treasures from 900 years of Freiburg history.
In addition to the Kulturspeicher Museum, this former harbour building on the edge of the old quarter houses the Bockshorn and tanzSpeicher theatres.
The documentation centre at the grounds where the Nazi party held its rallies between 1933 and 1938 provides an in-depth insight into the machinations of the Third Reich.
The Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany brings to life the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day.
A permanent exhibition about the fate of the Sinti and Roma, and the Nazi acts of genocide against this minority, has been on display at the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma since 1997.
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It all started with a tiny classified ad in a Portland, Ore., newspaper on Aug. 29, 1966, asking people with psoriasis to call Beverly Foster. Beverly's husband placed the ad on her 30th birthday, hoping to find people she could talk with about her severe psoriasis.
Within a week, Beverly received more than 100 phone calls. She began organizing meetings, and in 1967 she led the formation of the Psoriasis Society of Oregon.
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Doolittle notches save, sets Oakland record for saves by a lefty
OAKLAND -- Through six innings at the Coliseum on Friday, Scott Kazmir seemed destined for his second career shutout, and the A's were sailing toward the finish line.
Things got thorny in the seventh when Kazmir unraveled, but the A's held on, 6-5, to take a 2-0 advantage in their four-game series against the Twins. With the Angels falling to Boston, the A's expanded their division lead to four games, the largest it has been in a month.
Oakland's offense broke out against Kyle Gibson, helping Kazmir notch his 13th victory despite his seventh-inning struggle. Coco Crisp's three-run triple in the fifth was the first and biggest blow, and Eric Sogard added a two-run double in the sixth as the A's scored more than three runs for the first time in six games.
"[Gibson] was dealing, and then really the hit by Coco sent him into a different direction," said manager Bob Melvin. "A lot of times there's one or two at-bats in the course of a game that have a little more oomph behind them than others, and that was huge."
Crisp was 5-for-43 when he came to bat with no outs and the bases loaded and, with two strikes, he roped a fastball into the right-center field gap for his second triple of 2014. Crisp later came home on a passed ball to cap a four-run fifth.
"Any given night it could be anybody," Crisp said. "Fortunately, I was able to find a gap and knock a few runs in."
Gibson, who walked five, was removed with two runners on in the sixth, but Sogard also found the right-center gap off Anthony Swarzak to put the A's ahead 6-0. Sogard improved to 13-for-39 since the All-Star break.
Kazmir was a strike-throwing machine from the outset, and he did not allow a baserunner until the fifth. He began the seventh at 61 pitches -- and then, suddenly, everything changed.
Five of seven hitters reached in the frame against Kazmir, whose night concluded on a two-run double by Chris Parmelee to bring Minnesota within two. Eduardo Nunez added a double off Ryan Cook to make it 6-5, and the Twins emerged from a 19-inning scoreless slumber.
"They put some good swings on the ball," said Kazmir, "but at the same time instead of making those quality pitches when I'm ahead in the count, I was just leaving it up and they were putting good swings to it."
"Maybe he just got some balls up in that inning, which is completely the opposite of the way he was pitching the whole game," Melvin said. "Up until that point, he was as good as we've seen him pitch all year."
It was the second straight underwhelming performance by Kazmir, who gave up five runs on five hits in 6 2/3 innings. The left-hander now has nine runs to his name in his last two starts, after allowing just five in his previous five.
But his offense and his bullpen bailed him out. Cook stranded a man on second to end the seventh, Luke Gregerson held down the eighth, and Sean Doolittle earned his 18th save, breaking the A's record for saves by a lefty set by Alan Embree in 2007.
Former A's outfielder Josh Willingham almost gave Minnesota the lead off Doolittle when he cranked one down the left field line, but for a second straight day, a near-Twins homer landed foul.
"So far this series, our grounds crew has done a great job of putting the foul pole in a good spot," Doolittle joked.
The A's bullpen set a record of its own: 28 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, the most ever by an Oakland relieving corps.
"That's good, right?" Melvin said. "Since we kind of figured out where the roles were, they can prepare a little better, they know when the phone rings who's coming in the game. It took us a little while to get there, but we've got a lot of quality down there, and depth -- the whole bit. It's quite a feat."
Oakland moved to a season-high 27 games over .500 and has taken 11 straight contests against the Twins.


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There are many companies that runs a fleet of Coaches in the Grand Theft Auto series. All of these companies so far only appears as signages on the sides of the Coaches and serve no practical purpose in the games.
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|Big Tours
|GTA San Andreas
|The company's slogan is Sit back & watch us go.
|Bikini Line Coach Company
|GTA San Andreas
|Bullet Bus & Coach Line
|GTA III, GTA Vice City, GTA Liberty City Stories
|Canny Bus Group
|GTA San Andreas
|Its name may be a reference to cannabis, the plant species marijuana is made from. This is reinforced by the plant appearing in the logo, which looks similar to cannabis.
|Felly Tours
|Name seen in a prerelease screenshot.[1]
|Freedom Bus Line
|GTA III, GTA Liberty City Stories
|The company's slogan is Giving you more Liberty.
|Vicefree Bus Line
|GTA Vice City
|The company slogan is Experience Vice in comfort.
|Whippet Express Coach
|GTA III, GTA Vice City, GTA Liberty City Stories
|The name could be a reference to Greyhound Buses, as a Whippet is a type of dog known for its speed, and new wave song Whip It.
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Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch into space. On Apr. 24, 1990, at 8:33 a.m., the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31) took off, carrying Hubble as its primary payload. Hubble is the result of a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the first of four space telescopes in NASA's Great Observatories program. The other three are the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (de-orbited in 2000), the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Hubble is the only Great Observatory that takes images in the visible light that we all see. Hubble, therefore, has captured the public's imagination like no other telescope.
In 1946, Lyman Spitzer wrote the paper "Astronomical advantages of an extraterrestrial observatory." In this paper, he discusses the two main reasons to put a telescope above the atmosphere. First of all, our atmosphere distorts images. Have you ever looked up while standing underwater? Did you notice how the water distorts images of thing above the surface? Our air has precisely this effect on the stars. Of course, the air's effect is less pronounced than the water's, but we see it when we observe point sources such as stars. A star's twinkling is in fact our attempt to rectify the position of a star, given that its precise position in the sky continues to change slightly due to the atmosphere. Astronomers quantify this distortion as the atmospheric seeing. The seeing limits the angular resolution of a telescope (the minimum distance between distinguishable objects in an image). A telescope in space can therefore see better than even a much larger telescope on the ground. Secondly, our atmosphere absorbs much of the infrared and ultraviolet light from space, including virtually all UV light less than 310 nm in wavelength. Above the air, Hubble can detect infrared, visible and ultraviolet light. We thus learn more about stars and galaxies by studying more of the light they emit.
Hubble orbits 347 miles above the Earth, a little over twice the distance from Houston to San Antonio. That orbital height places Hubble in the exosphere, the thinnest, outermost layer of the Earth atmosphere which is in fact a transition between Earth's atmosphere and interplanetary space. It also leaves Hubble close enough to Earth that Earth's disk blocks much of the potential field of view. Low Earth orbit was required however, so that Space Shuttle crews could reach Hubble and service it. This turned out to be critical as the primary mirror installed and launched in 1990 had an error. Instead of being perfectly hyperbolic, the mirror was too flat at the edges by 2.2 microns (.0022 mm). This was enough to introduce severe spherical aberration into all images. The crew of STS-61, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor, installed corrective optics in 1993.
Here are some interesting facts about the Hubble Telescope:
- Hubble travels at 5 miles per second, completing one orbit every 97 minutes. The diameter of the telescope (constrained by the size of the Space Shuttle in which it was launched), is 94.5 inches.
- The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers at this institute allocate telescope time and schedule Hubble observations. They also receive, archive, and distribute data taken with Hubble.
- Optically, Hubble is a reflecting telescope with a Cassegrain design. In this design, light entering the telescope first encounters a primary mirror and is then focused onto a secondary mirror which in turn focuses the light through a small hole in the primary mirror to an array of instruments on board.
There are several instruments and sensors on Hubble that allow it to take different images and readings. These include:
- The Wide Field Camera, which takes images in visible light and thus produces most of the beautiful photos associated with Hubble. Earlier versions of this instrument were called 'Wide Field and Planetary Camera" (WFPC). WFPC 2 snapped a photo of the famous Hubble Deep Field (1994), imaging some of the most distant galaxies known.
- The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, a spectrometer sensitive to ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light.
- The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), a spectrometer sensitive to infrared light.
- The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which became the primary imaging instrument on board HST upon its installation in 2002, replaced the Faint Object Camera (FOC). ACS imaged the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 2003 and 2004.
- The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), installed this past May, replaced Hubble's original corrective optics (the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, or COSTAR). COS takes spectra in the ultraviolet range.
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hours after R's impact). The black
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In 1993, as Hubble's optics were restored to their full power, it was discovered that Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was on a collision course with Jupiter. That collision occurred in July 1994. With Hubble, astronomers could get much clearer and more detailed images of a space collision. Hubble has provided us with unprecedented telescopic views of all the planets except Mercury, which is too close to the sun in our sky.
Hubble has contributed to the discovery of exoplanets (planets around stars other than our Sun). In 2008, NASA released a composite of two photographs taken by the ACS in 2004 and 2006. These photos showed that the bright star Fomalhaut has a companion planet, designated Fomalhaut b.
Astronomers have used Hubble to measure the distances to Cepheid variables (stars whose variation in brightness depends on their luminosity) more accurately. By comparing this luminosity to the apparent brightness of the star, astronomers could determine the distance to the star and thus to distant galaxies containing them. This helps astronomers constrain the value of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding.
Perhaps the most striking results from Hubble are the Hubble Deep Field and Hubble Ultra Deep Field. In these images, Hubble's sensitive optics produced images of galaxies billions of light years away. HUDF includes galaxies up to 13 billion light years away (the accepted age of the universe is 13.7 billion years.
The foregoing is just a sample of the science done with Hubble. Over 8,000 scientific papers based on Hubble data have been published in peer-reviewed journals.
Unfortunately, Hubble cannot last forever. Even in the exosphere, there is a slight drag on Hubble than causes it to lose energy and slowly fall towards Earth. Further, Hubble's instruments, like any machines, degrade and become inoperable if not serviced.
After the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded on re-entry on February 1, 2003, the NASA Administrator at the time, Sean O'Keefe, decided that all future Space Shuttle flights must have the option of docking at the International Space Station in the event of an emergency. Since no shuttle flight can reach both the Hubble Space Telescope and the ISS on the same orbit, this rule canceled a servicing mission to Hubble planned for 2005. An outcry from astronomers, the public, and elected officials prompted O'Keefe's successor, Michael Griffin, to reconsider and reverse that decision. Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on May 11, 2009, marking the fifth and final mission to service Hubble. Atlantis astronauts installed a new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and a third Wide Field Camera to replace the second. They also replaced two batteries, a Fine Guidance Sensor and six gyroscopes which help orient the telescope. With the refurbishments, Hubble should function at least until 2014.
One of Hubble successors, slated for launch in June 2014, is the James Webb Space Telescope. This telescope will orbit the Sun (not the Earth) at the second Lagrangian point of the Earth-sun system. An object at this point remains in line with the Earth and Sun, on the far side of the Earth. This telescope will look for light from the earliest stars and galaxies in the universe, at infrared wavelengths. Because it images light only in the infrared, James Webb will not be a full successor to Hubble, however.
A fuller successor, should it be approved, built, and launched, would be the Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST). This telescope, like Hubble, would form images in infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. However, its mirror would be much larger, between 320 and 660 inches in size. Such a telescope is far in the future, however. If Hubble is gone after 2014, there will be some years without anything quite like it.
Hubble may be in its final years, but we can still experience its fantastic discoveries. An IMAX film crew and camera accompanied Space Shuttle Atlantis astronauts of STS-125 on their May 2009 mission to service Hubble. We are thus proud and excited to present to you Hubble 3D, a new IMAX film opening today in IMAX. Blast off with Hubble 3D and travel across space and time on this amazing adventure.
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CORAL GABLES -- One of the best things about this spring has been the amount of access coach Randy Shannon has given us -- the media. Each day I've been out there, I've had a chance to catch up with a group I like to refer to as the U's Veteran Watch Committee, a group of about four or five older gentlemen who have probably seen just about every Canes' football practice for the last gazillion years.
I don't want to shed any light on their identities because it might endanger their safety. But take my word for it, there might not be better sources when it comes to the development and comparison of Canes players beyond the coaching staff than these guys. After all, they've been there just about every day for every practice. How special are they? Coach Randy Shannon usually walks off the field with them, sharing laughs and whatever thoughts might cross their minds.
I have to admit, I've thoroughly enjoyed my time with UVWC this spring. Not only are they die-hard green and orange bleeders who wear their colors proudly to every practice, but they're realistic too. They don't jump on the bandwagon with one-hit wonders. To impress the UVWC you not only have to show it every day in practice, but you got to do it when there are zebras on the field.
With that in mind and with the spring game on tap this Saturday at Fort Lauderdale's Lockhart Stadium, I went to the UVWC earlier this week to gauge their thoughts on The Top 5 newcomers/new position guys who have really stood out this spring and created real buzz and hope about their future. We shared notes (NOTE: When you talk with the UVWC, you don't refer to players by name. You refer to their jersey numbers) and these are the players the UVWC feels most excited about. This should certainly help you if you will be attending the team's final scrimmage on Saturday.
1. (No. 22) Mike James, running back: He's not only become the media's favorite, but left tackle Jason Fox's as well. Mr. Fox provided the most glowing quotes about James to date this spring after Wednesday's practice.
"I honestly think he's a really special guy," Fox said. "He's probably my favorite incoming freshman so far. What I like most about him is he's a hard worker and he studies a lot. We were going through some stuff the other day and he was coaching the other guys out there in blitzes and protections. He's a smart guy. Every time I see him before practice I see him in his playbook. Before practice today he was just looking through his playbook. He's just a dedicated guy. When you can get a few guys like that, that's what it takes to win.
"He's a hard runner too. I'm not going to compare him to Baby J and Coop. But he'll make a tough run, bang out 10 yards or something and he'll be the first one back in the huddle. He's just an explosive guy, runs tough, runs with his pads low. It's hard to believe he's just a freshman. He's a very coachable guy. Whenever you talk to him all he wants to do is get better. Whether its an older player or coach, he's always there wanting to be coached and wanting to get better."
The UVWC agrees. Although they aren't ready to dub the 215-pound, 5-11-inch inch freshman (he's shorter than 5-11) the next great one, they say few Hurricanes backs have possessed his abilities to run between the tackles and power over guys the way he does. To be honest, James doesn't remind me of any Canes before him at all. He actually reminds me of a Gator who wore the same number (22) and did some amazing things with the Dallas Cowboys.
2. (No. 7) Vaughn Telemaque, safety: Truth be told, there probably isn't going to be a newcomer who makes a bigger impact than VT, who among the players in this group will likely be the only one who starts against Florida State on Sept. 7. Telemaque has natural ballhawk abilities which have drawn comparisons from coach Randy Shannon to former Canes great Ed Reed. The UVWC expects him to make an immediate impact because not only does VT not shy away from making big hits on running backs, but he's very good at getting a hand in to bat balls away from receivers at the last second. According to the UVWC, he's kind of a hybrid of Sean Taylor and Ed Reed.
3. (No. 86) Tommy Streeter, receiver: The UVWC loves Streeter's size (6-5, 200). But what they love even more are those long legs and speed (4.4), which he uses to jet past shorter corners and safeties with ease. What Streeter adds to an already loaded receiving corps is the ability to go deep and have a player who catch the ball at its highest point so often he makes it look easy. Like I told the UVWC, expect Streeter to become the great deep threat Lance Leggett never did.
4. (No. 83) Kendall Thompkins, receiver: Another receiver who was redshirted last year, but one who has certainly caught the eye of the UVWC. Thompkins, I've been told by his former offensive coaches at Miami Northwestern, was the clear-cut best route runner on his team (one that included Aldarius Johnson and Streeter). Earlier this week, cornerback Demarcus Van Dyke said the 5-11, 170-pound redshirt freshman is kind of like a Roscoe Parrish. The UVWC and I disagree. Think more of a Sinorice Moss.
5. (No. 35) Olivier Vernon, defensive end: There's probably a good chance Vernon doesn't play much this coming season because of the amount of depth at the position. But they like what they see in the 6-2, 250-pound true freshman in terms of work ethic and pass rushing ability. If Vernon stays healthy, I think he could end up becoming what Eric Moncur was supposed to be.


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Me and Lily are planning our trip to Detroit in April to see the first high school production of my musical, The Color Purple, at her high school, Cass, and my conducting the glee club and marching band at my high school, Mumford. We're also going to be taking a lot of meetings to figure out something to do in Detroit together permanently.
Then out for stupendous fried chicken, yams, greens, mac & cheese, peach cobbler and brownie gooey cake at MP's Soul Food in North Hollywood with RuPaul, Tom Star and Ben Bove:
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San Antonio Gaelic Athletic Club
San Antonio Gaelic Athletic Club were founded in 2011 with a mission to spread the Irish culture in Texas through the playing of Gaelic Games. During its inaugural year the club grew in both skills and numbers. With a dedicated Board of Directors and a goal for sharing the Irish culture with South Texas, the future is bright for San Antonio's "San Patricios" Gaelic Athletic Club. In September 2012, San Antonio traveled to Philadelphia for the National Championships and came away with the Divisional Shield Championships. A stunning achievement for a Nationals debutant, San Antonio defied the odds to win through in Sunday's final and take home its first ever piece of silverware.


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Indirection Operator: *
* cast-expression
The unary indirection operator (*) dereferences a pointer; that is, it converts a pointer value to an l-value. The operand of the indirection operator must be a pointer to a type. The result of the indirection expression is the type from which the pointer type is derived. The use of the * operator in this context is different from its meaning as a binary operator, which is multiplication.
If the operand points to a function, the result is a function designator. If it points to a storage location, the result is an l-value designating the storage location.
The indirection operator may be used cumulatively to dereference pointers to pointers. For example:
// expre_Indirection_Operator.cpp
// compile with: /EHsc
// Demonstrate indirection operator
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int n = 5;
int *pn = &n;
int **ppn = &pn;
cout << "Value of n:\n"
<< "direct value: " << n << endl
<< "indirect value: " << *pn << endl
<< "doubly indirect value: " << **ppn << endl
<< "address of n: " << pn << endl
<< "address of n via indirection: " << *ppn << endl;
If the pointer value is invalid, the result is undefined. The following list includes some of the most common conditions that invalidate a pointer value.
The pointer is a null pointer.
The pointer specifies the address of a local item that is not visible at the time of the reference.
The pointer specifies an address that is inappropriately aligned for the type of the object pointed to.
The pointer specifies an address not used by the executing program.
See also
Expressions with Unary Operators
C++ Built-in Operators, Precedence and Associativity
Address-of Operator: &
Indirection and Address-of Operators
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I wish General Motors made horns that honked faster than the speed of sound. Maybe then drivers would be satisfied when the light turns green and the driver in front of them doesn't immediately move. I'm perpetually gobsmacked by the amazing reflexes of the average Washington driver. I wish there was a way to put this superpower to good use. Is there some kind of socially useful purpose to which we can deploy the talents of those few who can quickly identify the color green? Frog catcher? Endangered turtle rescuer? Person in a colorblind bull costume in some sort of pseudo-bullfight performance art project?
Before Dupont, I saw a building with the 19XX (I don't remember the actual numbers) Que Street in metallic letters over a doorway. Presumably this means "Q" Street. I imagine this causing consternation for any lost Spanish tourists. "¿Qué Street?" "No, that's six blocks south, Señor." Wikipedia suggests that Q Street is often written Que, Queue or Cue Street, but fails to elucidate why. Perhaps it was due to Benjamin Banneker's deep enjoyment of waiting in line to play billards. Your guess is
I watched a guy riding down the sidewalk, ducking tree branches as he sang some song and kept his hands off the handlebars. He passed me again at the bottom of the hill as I waited patiently in queue behind a bunch of cars and at least one bus. Which side are buses on in the "war on cars"? I can never remember.
Do cities have a "pulse"? Sometimes when I'm riding I think I feel one, but that might just be trash trucks passing by a block over. Sometimes it feels like there's a kind of distinguishable prevailing collective mentality that washes over and embraces its inhabitants and its passers-through, but maybe I've just inhaled too many bus fumes. I think in the 19th century people thought that cities had pulses and suspected that troubles were afoot, perhaps revolution, but that just might be my hazy recollection of Les Miserables. I love the nineteenth century. People just did more back then, like inventing nationalism and the telephone and such. Probably because they didn't have twitter.
Q Street to Florida and then to First NE (cannot wait until the cycle track), which I followed to L. L to 4th, 4th to I and I to 10th NE to H to locking my bike up outside of a bike shop, to walking to a sandwich stop to ordering a sandwich, to getting that sandwich, to riding across H at 11th to riding in the streetcar tracks (I did not fret) to 14th and down the 14th street bike lane to East Capitol. That got me home-ish. I stopped outside my corner store and left my bike unlocked outside while I went in for a quick purchase (slim jims and cigarillos). There's no good place to lock up out front. I'm also very trusting. And foolish.


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Two Die Skydiving: Tragic Accident in Florida as 2 Skydivers Die In Jump
Two people have died skydiving in Florida on Saturday, according to local media sources.
It is believed that the two skydivers were from Iceland and that one was an instructor, and the other was a skydiving student.
The two men were taking part in a skydive as part of a group of 22 divers, who jumped from a plane in Zephryhills, which is about 30 miles northeast of Tampa, according to the Tampa Tribune newspaper.
However, even though 22 skydivers jumped from the plane, only 20 were accounted for when they landed.
An emergency search was immediately launched to find the two missing skydivers and they were eventually found hours later. They had died from the fall.
Although early reports have not confirmed the reason the two men's skydive went wrong, authorities have stated that they believe the two men were from Iceland.
Skydive City, which operated the jump for the 22 skydivers also confirmed that the men were from Iceland, but it did not release the identities of the two deceased men.
Parachuting, or skydiving, is the action sport of exiting an aircraft and returning to earth with the aid of gravity while using a parachute to slow down during the terminal part of the descent. It may or may not involve a certain amount of free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity. The history of skydiving starts with Andre-Jacques Garnerin who made successful descents using a canvas canopy and small basket, tethered beneath a hot-air balloon. The first intentional freefall jump with a ripcord-operated deployment is credited to Leslie Irvin in 1919


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Season 29 Episode 3 | 1h 53m 11s
Rachel Carson is an intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. When Silent Spring was published in September 1962 it became an instant bestseller and would go on to spark dramatic changes in the way the government regulated pesticides.
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about a decade ago, i set up a yahoo email account as a spam catcher, and have used it for all sorts of registrations over the years. the time had come to finally ditch that account, between the pathetic spam filtering and the annoying user interface, but how to get all the emails i still cared about out without having to pay ransom? freepops to the rescue.
i find it remarkable that yahoo is so insecure about their product that they feel the need to lock-in users. in contrast, the superior gmail offers free pop access, so there is no lock-in. it is about time the industry holds yahoo to task over this nonsense.


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Nate Berg is a freelance reporter and a former staff writer for CityLab. He lives in Los Angeles.
Hopefully you've been following TheAtlantic.com's ongoing special report, "Start-Up Nation: The Search for the Next Silicon Valley." The premise is that, despite the success of Silicon Valley, it needn't be and isn't the only place where start-up companies can flourish and where technological innovations can arise. This map looks at other innovation hubs in the U.S., based on various rankings of patents, start-ups, entrepreneurs and people with college degrees. Our own Richard Florida writes that "the geography of start-up America is spreading, slowly and gradually, but inexorably" – and many of those hotbeds of innovation are popping up in the South. And beginning October 23, Senior Editor Alexis Madrigal will be road-tripping through the South, with stops in Richmond, Raleigh-Durham, Savannah, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Shreveport, and New Orleans, to see some of these innovation hubs and the companies they've spawned firsthand.
Halfway across the world, another "savannah" could one day soon be the subject of a similar journey. At least, the government of Kenya is hoping so, as they perpare to build a city from scratch that will be the continent's "Silicon Savannah." Konza Technology City aims to become a new hub for business and innovation, with technology and financial services as the primary drivers. The city will have office space for a variety of industries, with a goal of creating 200,000 jobs. There will also be 35,000 residences built on site. As of right now it's dirt.
The empty 2,000 hectare site – about 8 square miles – is 37 miles from the capital city of Nairobi, and 31 miles to Jomo Kenyatta international airport. The idea is to phase development in over the next 20 years, which is also part of the country's Vision 2030, a plan to create a "globally competitive and prosperous Kenya." The government intends to create a Special Economic Zone to encompass this new city, which is planned for development through a public-private partnership. In total, it's expected to be a $7 billion project.
Development is no doubt needed in Kenya, where nearly half the population is in poverty and the gross national income per capita is $790, according to the World Bank. But this new city approach seems to run counter to the trend explored in the Start-Up Nation series. Place is without a doubt crucial to the development of new businesses, but the spread of innovation hubs throughout the U.S. seems to indicate that having one single Silicon Valley, or Silicon Savannah, might not be the right view. The Konza Technology City plan may end up working for Kenya, who knows. But it's also tempting to think that the project's $7 billion investment might be better used to incentivize the sort of tech businesses the government wants to create, rather than creating a purpose-built city where they may potentially emerge.
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