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New York City was a drug dealers paradise in the 1970's – if you didn't mind the occasional killing. Before they were arrested on various charges, Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas were a big part of the Harlem drug scene, controlling most of the heroine traffic in New York's black neighborhoods. Now, thirty years later, both men are the subject of movies that chronicle their lives as drug kingpins. Nicky Barnes stars in the interview-oriented documentary, "Mr. Untouchable," directed by Marc Levin. Frank Lucas' life is sensationalized in the big-budget Hollywood movie, "American Gangster," starring Oscar winners Denzel Washington (as Frank Lucas) and Russell Crowe, directed by the Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott.
Barnes' movie was released a week before Lucas' account (based on a true story) and will precede "American Gangster" in DVD format as well, since "American Gangster" has seen its theatre stay lengthened by multiple award nominations (Ruby Dee won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the film has been nominated for two Academy Awards).
Although both films document the heyday of two of Harlem's most famous and ruthless "businessmen," Levin captures Barnes' arrogance and total lack of remorse for his role in flooding New York – through his Italian connections and suppliers – with heroine during the 1970's. Known for making the social pages during his reign, Barnes, "Mr. Untouchable," coldly recounts how he did business and how he turned state's evidence against most of his associates and entered the federal witness protection program. He even mentions his rival, Frank Lucas, mocking Lucas' lack of education and southern mannerisms.
"American Gangster" is a Ridley Scott tour-de-force, with Denzel Washington gliding from deal to deal, depicting Frank Lucas as an intelligent, creative, practical man (barely mentioning Lucas' lack of education) with a flare for the drug trade. More of a "boutique" heroine supplier, Lucas' product became legendary as pure grade heroine with Lucas' own trademark packaging and a testament to Lucas' entrepreneurial creativity – he bypassed the Italian suppliers by shipping the heroine straight from Vietnam by way of military casket, what would be referred to as the "cadaver connection." Seen by some as glamorizing the life of a drug dealer, "American Gangster" shows Lucas also as a seemingly remorseless man who turned state's evidence to get less prison time.
"Mr. Untouchable" and "American Gangster" are both great films in their respective genres. Both films also make the point of their respective subjects ultimate capture and incarceration by the authorities, albeit as storyline afterthoughts. In "Mr. Untouchable," Marc Levin has captured the coldness of man whose entire purpose is simply to turn a dollar. In "American Gangster," Ridley Scott gives us a more glitzy version of the same story, but from a man with a different, less flashy style of plying his product. And in the end, as they both told Mark Jacobson in an interview with New York Magazine, they were just two men doing business.
Perhaps one thing should be noted about both these accounts. "Mr. Untouchable" is told from the perspective of man known for his braggadocio. "American Gangster" is a film based on true story. The Federal Bureau of Investigation deny that a "cadaver connection" ever existed and Frank Lucas never made a solo deal with an Asian druglord.
A.O. Scott, "Mr. Untouchable," NYTimes.com
Mark Jacobson, "Lords of Dopetown," NYMag.com
Jake Coyle, "Fabrications plague 'American Gangster'", Associated Press


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Re-Legion is a futuristic cyberpunk RTS that takes place in a technocratic society where you have to convert ordinary citizens into cult members and take over the city with your religion. The game was developed by IC Code Games and published by 1C Entertainment on January 31st, 2019.
You have only your ideals, but your ideals can be turned into a religion that can take over the masses and turn them into a zealous army. Follow Elion as he goes on a journey as a lone prophet that slowly but surely becomes the most influential religious figure in the city that has incredible power over his followers. Your usual economic and resource management that you're familiar with from other RTS games isn't present here. In Re-Legion you get to convert normal citizens into units, which are the followers. These followers, or cultists, then expand your reach and the name of the cult by getting cyber-coins which let you obtain upgrades. They can also pray to increase their faith which in turn gives them special abilities, buildings can be hacked, as well as ad-boards that help you increase your territories, and so on.
You decide what your cult is going to be like by choosing certain dogmas. Want to be a peaceful religion that doesn't resort to violence? Or perhaps you want to be a warmongering conquerer that spreads his religion to everyone and crushes those that do not believe. Many options are presented to the player.
Re-Legion has a unique RTS mechanic that replaces your usual economic management, a visually mesmerizing art style which is presented in a captivating cyberpunk world that is dark and grim. The game tells a dark and harrowing tale where many moral choices have to be made. Spread your territory by hacking, and raise your cult from the ground to be a force to be reckoned with!
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text: The clinical expression of mutations in genes proven to be associated with different dementias is variable. Some of these mutations may give rise to parkinsonian syndromes and thus these genes may be of potential importance in the development of PD-D. For example, mutations of PSEN1 and PSEN2 cause a familial form of young-onset AD. In PSEN1 the p.G217D mutation was found in a Japanese family affected by a disease characterized by dementia, parkinsonism, a stooped posture, and an antiflexion gait with an onset in the fourth decade of life. Neuropathologically, the disease was characterized by the presence of 'cotton wool' plaques, senile plaques, severe amyloid angiopathy, neurofibrillary tangles, neuronal rarefaction, and gliosis [62]. In PSEN2, the p.A85V mutation was found in an Italian family in which the proband was diagnosed with DLB. All the other affected members exhibited a clinical phenotype typical of AD. Neuropathologically, the proband presented with unusually abundant and widespread cortical Lewy bodies in addition to the hallmark lesions of AD [63]. To clarify the role of mutations in the major dementia (APP, PSEN1, PSEN2, MAPT, GRN, TARDBP) and PD (SNCA, LRRK2, PARK2, PINK1, PARK7, GBA) genes in DLB and PD-D, Meeus et al. [53] performed sequencing and dosage analyses in 99 DLB and 75 PD-D patients from Belgium. They identified 14 known or novel variants in these genes, but most were associated with a diagnosis of DLB, with only three variants (PSEN2 p.V191E, LRRK2 p.R1441C, and PARK2 p.P37L) being found in PD-D or probable PD-D cases. From these three, only the LRRK2 p.R1441C mutation was considered as definitely pathogenic. Interestingly, the sequencing of GBA revealed five rare and two common heterozygous variants in the studied cohort. The five rare mutations were found in seven patients, six of whom had a diagnosis of PD-D and only one of DLB. One of these mutations was a novel frameshift mutation (p.Q256SfX9), predicted to create a premature stop codon, in a familial early onset PD-D patient whose father also suffered from early onset PD. Even though this study analysed a small series of patients, the results suggest that rare variants in dementia genes have a more pronounced role in the genetics of DLB, while variants in PD genes seem to be more frequently associated with PD-D.


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Host header (actually Host Named) site collection in MOSS
Host header (actually Host Named) site collection in MOSS (some details)If you search on the web on how to create a host header (HH) site-collection you will get a lot of results as lot of community folks have written about it. Thanks to all of them for the great work. So following is the command used to create a HH site-collection is:
stsadm -o createsite -url http://THE-HOST-HEADER-FOR-THE-SITE-COLLECTION -ownerlogin DOMAIN\username -owneremail email@example.com -hhurl http://THE-URL-OF-THE-WEBAPPLICATION-THE-SITE-COLLECTION-IS-GOING-INTO
And in case if you want to create it in a new content database then following is something you can use, inspired and referred from http://sharepointhawaii.com/wenhe/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=dbcd4f5c%2D63e1%2D416c%2Db34a%2Ddd391d48beab&ID=9:
stsadm -o CreateSiteInNewDB -URL http://The URL for HH site collection -owneremail firstname.lastname@example.com
-ownerlogin domain\username -HHURL http://The webapp in which sitecollection needs to be provisioned -databaseserver DBServerName
-databasename NameOfTheNewDBForSiteCollection
I had some simple queries on some basics of the hostheader (host named) site collection and Troy Starr (from MOSS Product team) was a *BIG* help (as always) in answering my queries:
Q: how does Sharepoint handle the HH site urls (as there is no entry anywhere on the IIS) how does sharepoint know about the url to the HH site (when the url itself is different). basically I have a web-app with url: http://usctapMOSS now i create a HH site-collection with a url: http://msfturltest.abc.com and then I create a required DNS entry for that url now how does sharepoint know to redirect the "http://msfturltest.abc.com" to the correct site-collection in the http://usctapMOSS web-app.
A: When the IIS web site receives the request for _http://msfturltest.abc.com, it will pass it off to SharePoint. SharePoint will then look at the properties of the request, including its protocol scheme, host name, and port number, to determine the request URL. It will then look up that request URL in its internal table of AAM URLs and host-named site collection URLs to find a match. Once it has a match, it opens the site collection associated with that URL and goes from there. The internal table referred here is logical and by looking at the Path column in the configuration database's SiteMap table we can see the host headers assigned to individual site collections. Also note that this lookup information for the site will be cached on the WFE after the first browse.
Q: Can we restore a backup taken from a non-HH site-collection to a HH-kind of site-collection. (Both the source and target site-collection are in the same web-app and have their own Content database each).
A: In general, yes, you can back up a non-HH site collection and restore it as an HH site collection. Also, in case if this restore of a host-named site collection causes a content database corruption, we can try to fix that corruption by immediately running the stsadm -o renamesite operation after the restore and renaming the HH site URL to itself.
Thought of sharing this information in case if someone else had similar doubts.
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Sharepoint Content Deployment results in "Value cannot be null"
We were working on a publishing site and had couple of custom field types and controls also as part of our custom development. We were doing Content Deployment to publish our Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS) authoring site to the Publishing site. While doing so typically we were getting following errors:
2. Object reference not set to an instance of an object
After carefully looking at the custom developed features we found that some of the custom code was using SPCONTEXT and that code was getting executed during Content Deployment (How did we find this: We attached the owstimer.exe service on the server and ran our custom code in the debug mode).
The problem was with the code of the custom field type was relying on the usage of SPContext object and this object can only be used inside a http request to a sharepoint site. Hence it will always fail during the content deployment (as OWSTIMER.EXE will always have SPContext null) and where no SPContext object exists. We resolved this issue by checking for value of SPContext i.e. we introduced SPContext != null before executing the code and we got over that issue.
Make sure to restart the OWSTIMER service after you re-deploy the changed code. Always remember that HTTPContext will not exists while doing the Content deployment and if you have any custom code that directly relies on SPContext will tend to fail and hence the content deployment also.
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Fresh Air
Longtime NPR Fresh Air host Terry Gross is completely In The Tank for Al Franken. Back in the Dubya years, we contrasted her giggly, tickly Franken interview with a very hostile Bill O'Reilly interview, where he actually stormed out of the studio. Gross is also a big fan of New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, so it's completely predictable that she awarded 43 and a half minutes of national taxpayer-funded radio time to Jane Mayer, who is now insisting Al Franken never should have left the Senate for apparently harmless sexual harassment.
Sunday's Washington Post pushed the new liberal sensation on Broadway: a play called What The Constitution Means to Me, written by Heidi Schreck. Here's your spoiler on the plot: the Constitution has never been great. In March, NPR's Fresh Air promoted Scheck under the headline "How Women Have Been 'Profoundly' Left Out Of The U.S. Constitution." Post drama critic Peter Marks marked the play's success by channeling the thrills Harvard professor Laurence Tribe got up his leg over the whole thing.
We have noted many times how the media cannot manage to bring the word "socialism" into the dialogue as Venezuela crumbles into ruin. On NPR's Fresh Air on Tuesday, substitute host Dave Davies chatted for 37 minutes with Nicholas Casey, the "Andes bureau chief" of the New York Times. They talked about about 3,800 words of transcript before the S-word came out, and then it was just informational: "Maduro took over when the previous socialist leader, Hugo Chavez, died in 2013."
On NPR Monday, Fresh Air host Terry Gross spent 35 minutes with Washington Post reporter Greg Miller, promoting his book The Apprentice: Trump, Russia And The Subversion Of American Democracy. She wanted to know if they could accuse Sen. Mitch McConnell with treason for going soft on Russian meddling in the election. This is weird, since Gross has gone all soft on Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers and Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg.
National Public Radio wouldn't accept the word "abortionist" in a proposed underwriting announcement for a movie on Kermit Gosnell. They insisted on "doctor." The Gosnell movie-makers said "abortion doctor"? NPR said no....even though NPR has used the term "abortion doctor" routinely in stories.
Liberal National Public Radio expressed alarm on Tuesday that religious conservatives inside the Trump administration are pushing "discrimination" against women seeking abortions and people seeking "gender affirming" surgery. Roger Severino runs a new office at the Department of Health and Human Services defending the religious freedom of health care providers. Liberals don't see religious freedom as a civil right. They want to squash it as a license to deny the liberal sexual agenda.
On Wednesday, NPR's Fresh Air devoted more than 36 minutes to promoting transgender Democratic activist Sarah McBride and her new book Tomorrow Will Be Different. It turned harsh on the Republicans near the end: "We went from a presidency of progress to a presidency of prejudice...This has truly become in the last year the most explicitly anti-LGBTQ adminstration we've seen in history."
Two weeks since special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians for an alleged propaganda assault to interfere with the 2016 campaign, euphoria among liberals has given way to much more sober assessments.
Typical of the hot-take reaction on the left to Mueller's indictment was the response of National Public Radio journalists on the NPR Politics podcast on Feb. 16, the same day the indictments were announced.
On Tuesday's Fresh Air on NPR, host Terry Gross and her guest, liberal author Joshua Green, discussed how Trump and Trump-affiliated Republicans somehow created an "epidemic" of sexual assault. Green wrote a book on Trump adviser Steve Bannon unsubtly titled Devil's Bargain. Gross briefly mentioned NPR has its own sexual harassment problem ("epidemic"?).
In the midst of all the sexual harassment shockers emerging from the media, Hollywood, and politics, the Left is still hailing Anita Hill as the patron saint of sexual harassment. An especially egregious case unfolded on Thursday afternoon, as the NPR show Fresh Air with Terry Gross spent a half-hour re-litigating Clarence Thomas as a harasser with his old journalistic nemesis Jane Mayer (now with The New Yorker) and feminist author Rebecca Traister.The online summary was headlined "For Years, Anita Hill Was A 'Canary In The Coal Mine' For Women Speaking Out." Only after they'd exhausted two-thirds of the hour on Hill-Thomas, did they turn to the harassment controversies that are not 26 years old.
Perhaps it was an apology for giving Hillary Clinton a tough interview last week, but NPR decided to make it up to her this week, with a long-winded gushy, self-flagellating interview by Fresh Air's Terry Gross, that let Clinton lay all the blame for losing the election on every one of her dozens of excuses, including the media.
MSNBC host Katy Tur is granting interviews to promote her book Unbelievable on being a political correspondent on the Trump campaign, and that included an hour-long softball session on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Tur claimed she doesn't vote because "I don't have a horse in the race." Earth to Miss Tur: When you host a daily program on MSNBC and received adulatory hour-long interviews on NPR, the public can guess which side you're on.


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Yes it is OK to take them, ASAP before anyone else gets it. My doctor said it was ok when I called him over the weekend about one kid and had other kids left over drops. Just said call back if you run out for him to call in a prescription.
Hello all!
I am 33 weeks pregnant and woke up this morning with a nice red looking eye. My first guess is pink eye (since it felt a little crusty earlier). I can't call the OB until Monday. I have some leftover prescrpition drops from earlier this year (not expired) that I could use in the mean time. Does anyone know if it's safe to do so? I don't want to let it go untreated all weekend and I don't want my daughter or husband to get it either.
Thanks for all the feedback. It looks as though it was a false alarm! About 30 mins later, I noticed my eye was fine and not showing any sign of red/pinkness. I realize it could have been due to the fact I was wearing my contacts for a few hours the day before!!
Thanks again!
Yes it is OK to take them, ASAP before anyone else gets it. My doctor said it was ok when I called him over the weekend about one kid and had other kids left over drops. Just said call back if you run out for him to call in a prescription.
I got pinkeye a bit ago when I was nursing and most of the drops you couldn't use when nursing so I'm guessing pregnancy there would be limitations too. You could go to urgent care and see what they prescribe or see if you can avoid much contact with you kids. I had it and was nursing and my son never got it nor my husband.
Your OB should have an after hours number that you can call and ask if the meds are ok to use during pregnancy... Or call the hospital you are planning on delivering at and ask the maternity nurses about the meds...Or try your usual General Practitioner that you would use when NOT preggers... They should also have a dr on call that you can ask.
Its best to catch it early than to let it go on... If your dr can't see you soon then you may be able to go to the ER and get it diagnosed and meds for it.
Never use old scripts without the doctor's consent or unless they have seen it! Especially when you are pregnant! You have no idea if these are contraindicated or not.
I would make sure you are washing your hands - do not touch it, avoid as much contact with your husband and daughter as you can (don't let your daughter touch your face as this is how she can get it - or if she is on your pillow or whatever your face has touched...).
A warm wash cloth / cool cloth can help in the meantime. It's Sunday, you should be okay until tomorrow if you rest and see if Hubby can handle your daughter until then if you are really concerned. (Or if you have someone that can assist in the meantime - otherwise frequent hand washing should be fine as that is how it is spread.)
Hello A., I home remedy that works well is tea bags. Seep the bag in warm water, than lay on your back with the bag over the eye for about 10-15 minutes several times a day. The acid in black tea is what cures the problem. It wouldn't hurt to treat both eyes to prevent the other from becoming infected also. Good luck.
HI there. I do not know if the drops are safe or not but I do have a solution for you. brew a cup of Chamomile tea. When the tea bag is cool enough place it on your infected eye for 10-15 minutes. Save the cup of tea and if you still have drainage through out the day either put some drops of this in your eye or wipe you eye with a cotton ball soak in the tea. It should be gone by the following day. I hope you feel better soon.
You should call your Doctor (or go to an urgent care) I am sure they have someone on call. Hot/warm compresses help relive the symptoms a lot too and that is safe. Congratulations on your soon to be little one!
Most pink eye is viral and requires no prescription for it to resolve. Your safest bet is not to use the drops. Keep your hands out of your eyes, be careful to wash carefully, use a clean washcloth each time. If it doesn't get better in a couple days, see a doctor. Don't self-prescribe, especially when you're pregnant!
I really don't think it would hurt to use the drops you have as long as they aren't expired. There is an OTC now for pink eye anyway. Trust your gut. Keep in mind how very contagious pink eye is...keep your hands clean etc...you don't want your 5 year old to get it too. Congrats on your new sweetie! Whoops...the 5 year old is in the next post.
I'd use the drops and be super careful with towels, handwashing etc. Good luck!


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Australian of the Year Rosie Batty at Parliament House. Photo: Andrew Meares BOSS. True Leaders Feature. Attention Sam Bennett. Portrait of Rosie Batty Australian of the Year in 2014. Pic by Nic Walker at the Fairfax studio in Sydney. Date 3rd August 2015. Photo: Nic Walker
Huge self-doubt, total exhaustion; and grief, just so much grief.
And a simple little shelf with a few mementoes.
Rosie Batty's term as Australian of the Year is nearly over. She's spoken at 250 conferences to more than 70,000 people; talked all day and all night. She's done some crying, but privately.
Crying in public focuses attention on her. She wants people to think about Luke and all those other victims of family violence, all the death and despair we could avoid if the system worked differently, if we thought differently.
On February 7 she flies to India to have a real holiday, far from the phone, the media and her little house in Victoria.
Far from a simple Ikea shelf in her son Luke's bedroom.
"Soon after the funeral, when my family left, within weeks a friend and I went through all of Luke's bedroom … I was so methodical and made myself do it.
"I chucked out anything that was Greg's; and all the things which were not sentimental.
"I gave things away … [Luke's] Lego, I donated it to the Lego library in Frankston. I thought through it to make the best of where it went, making sure it went somewhere that was of benefit.
"I've kept personal things, milestone things from his birth, but they have been in a cupboard and I've not looked at those. I haven't gone through those baby memories and I haven't looked at baby photos."
And what's on the shelf in his old bedroom?
"Pieces of Lego he made, his slippers, hats, toys, his favourite books. Things that were something which meant something to him and I can look at that.
"Whenever I move, that will always be there. It's not like a shrine."
Artist Jacqui Clark painted a portrait of Luke and that's in her living room.
"Everyone sees it who comes to the house. It's not creepy. It's beautiful, it's like him.
"He is here, but not here."
Rosie Batty became Australian of the Year after the murder of her son Luke by his father Greg on February 12, 2014.
Most of us grieve in private, but Batty decided against that. She was determined to talk about family violence every single day. And she has.
Batty is the first ever ordinary Australian to be appointed Australian of the Year. She wasn't famous before the murder of her son. She was a single mother on a small income whose son was the sun in her life.
Everything she did centred on Luke: where she lived, how she spent her money. It was Scouts and drama and cricket and football.
"I didn't have any family support, I didn't have people on hand to babysit. My life was Luke and me and I worked hard to build relations with people in this area which you can more easily do when you are a parent. I didn't have a lot of spare money and it was a struggle financially."
She had absolutely no experience of dealing with the demands of public life.
"She came to prominence through the most tragic of circumstances and she astounded everyone with the power of her message," says Jeremy Lasek, chief executive of the National Australia Day Council.
"She was a very different Australian of the Year and we may never see another one like her, I think because she hadn't had a career [with] a support base or had a management structure, publicists, a support team."
Batty had much to learn – and so did the Australia Day organisation.
"We had to adjust our thinking and what we do … Rosie being the person she is, we could have given her 10 full-time staff and it would not have been enough."
Batty credits Lasek with giving her astonishing support during the process. He says he does it for everyone but not too many Australians of the Year had to deal with the ruthless attacks of former Labor politician Mark Latham.
Says Lasek: "We had to remind each other that for every Mark Latham, there were several million people who felt she was a great choice and had given amazing service to Australia."
Now the year is over. "I don't know whether to be pleased or sad. I had no idea about the volume of contact, I had no idea and I wish I'd had a team in place to be ready to support me at the start. I didn't understand the impact it would have on my life. It places a lot of pressure on you.
"That kind of high-profile talking, anywhere from 200 to 2000, that's been new to me. I had nerves and self-doubt, huge self-doubt at the beginning, and then I became more confident when I could see people appreciated what I was saying."
A group formed around her, most of whom she didn't know before Luke died.
"What happened to me when I became Australian of the Year isolated me somewhat from some of my friends.
"But to be completely honest, my friends have got children and partners and I would have been relatively isolated anyway after Luke's death. What linked us together was Luke, but now I am doing different things.
"It helped me survive a lonely and difficult year after Luke's death. Of course, it doesn't get any easier, but it's a distraction.
"I am not in denial and I feel the loss of Luke, but it comes in waves and at a different times."
How do people respond?
"People know the quivering voice and see the tears well up and some people see me lose it and are very compassionate. I don't see pity in people's faces now and that's a relief. But some don't understand and don't expect grief to look like this and it triggers their own discomforts and insecurities. It can strain friendships and that can be within your own family as well.
"I've been disappointed. Whether its because they've upset me or I've upset them, I feel friendship is about being there through thick and thin when the worst thing in the world has happened to someone.
"We should be able to find the bigger part of ourselves."
On January 26, the Australian of the Year title moves on. Two governments have already been in talks with her about where she goes next, although she admits some frustration with politics and politicians who don't always take kindly to criticism.
"I'm obviously determined to be a strong public advocate and continue the momentum, to keep speaking out."
There are people in Batty's life who have come through with her and she now has a solid underpinning for the Luke Batty Foundation, where she will continue to be an advocate who can help Australia stop family violence.
"We are in a strong place for the future."


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Like many Americans, I was glued to the television viewing the funeral ceremony of former President George HW Bush. I never got to know him personally but I knew from meeting him a few times that he was a very good man. He was the antitheses of our current President Trump.
We could use a few of Bush's sayings such as "a thousand points of light" and "a kinder gentler nation". This is in sharp contrast to our current President.
This time of year also calls to mind the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre that occurred on October 27 in which 11 people were killed and 7 were wounded.
I am not saying that Trump is anti Semitic and hates Jews, but the hatred expressed in his rhetoric makes incidents more common.
At this time of year I think of my wife's and my dear friends the Hirsch's. The patriarch of the family was Brigadier General Edward Hirsch. He was the only person I ever met who served the nation in three major wars — World War ll, the Korean War, and the War in Vietnam. We always had Thanksgiving dinner together and I would propose a toast to him as my hero. He would demur and say "I didn't do anything that anybody else wouldn't have done. Even then he continued to serve his country by teaching at the Army War college.
My son Chris and the General's grandson Andrew were the same age and were like brothers. Chris was only jealous that he did not get a Bar Mitzvah like Andrew did.
In my long career in the futures industry I got to know Leo Melamed, the Jewish founder of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. When I visited Chicago in February 2016 to race up the John Hancock Building I had a very good visit with him. He was surprised that I remembered the details of his book "Escape to The Futures" so well.
When Leo was a small child his parents fled Poland as the Nazi army of Hitler was taking over. They took the Trans Siberian railway to Japan . Then they took a ship to the United States.
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- These WIKA industrial series gauges feature all Stainless Steel construction and are engineered to provide long service life in the most demanding petro-chem, process and industrial applications
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Energy is a muted blue jelly which in certain lights has strong green undertones. I found this formula to be very similar to Calm and Clear as it glided on very smoothly but was very sheer and took 3 medium thick coats to create this solid block of delicate colour on my nails.
Transcend is an off white shade with many ultra fine gold shimmers that while subtle, was still very much visible when the polish was applied to my nails. This was the first polish in the collection that I found to apply quite patchy and required two thin coats followed by a final thick coat to get full coverage. Again the polish levelled off nicely to create an even, flawless finish.
Peace and Harmony is a pure white shade laced with iridescent shimmers that add depth to the colour and separating it from any other white in my collection. The formula was very much similar to Transcend and didn't apply as easy as the first four polishes. After three semi thick coats, I achieved a stunning matte shimmery finish.
With an even mix of creme, jelly and matte finishes, these muted pastels connote the idea of peace and tranquility. The shimmer added to some of the colours created a nice twist on the traditional pastels and in turn creating delicate and unique shades ideal for the Spring season.
REVIEW: SpaRitual Meditate Spring 2013 Collection
Application - 80%
Pigmentation - 80%
Performance - 90%
Packaging - 95%
Total Score
With an even mix of creme, jelly and matte finishes, these muted pastels connote the idea of peace and tranquility. The shimmer added to some of the colours created a nice twist on the traditional pastels and in turn creating delicate and unique shades ideal for the Spring season.
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Wed- evening run cancelled! 18/12/19It's still a bit slippy out and about around the village so we have taken the decision to stay safe and cancel this evening's run. See you on Monday!
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Come and join us tonight as Sheila finishes her 60km run! Sheila is running 60K today to celebrate her recent birthday. She plans to run throughout the day finishing her last 10k with the evening group. Come and join her on the last leg of her journey! Look forward to seeing you! See Sheila's post … More Celebrate with Sheila!
Please remember that there will be no normal evening session on Monday 22nd July due to the gala 5k Fun Run taking place.
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A common motif found in world literature is the transformation of a human being into a tree. While at first one may write off this occurrence as a bizarre twist to a story, its prevalence in innumerable literary narratives forces readers to consider the meaning and significance behind these transformations. Through the works of Metamorphoses by Ovid, Inferno by Dante, and the tale of Leila and Majnun, it becomes clear that tree transformation is not simply an arbitrary device, but rather is full of implications. I believe this specific change of state, from tree to man, can vary in meaning according to the story in which it is told, coming to symbolize escape, permanence, punishment, and constancy. However, there are also some overarching ideals that lead to the widespread employment of this device, namely the physical similarities of man and tree, societal perceptions of life and death, and cultural and religious beliefs in terms of souls and immortality.
In Dante's Inferno, the tree situation is very different from that in Ovid's narratives. In the second round of the seventh circle of hell, those who committed suicide reside in trees. In this case, tree transformation is a form of eternal punishment. As Pier della Vigna explains to Dante, their souls will never be reunited with their bodies because "it is not just to have what one has stripped" (Alighieri 135). In the act of suicide, these people willingly forfeited their bodies and therefore do not deserve them any longer. On a level, this is similar to the previous situation of Daphne, as in both stories the humans are looking for a way to escape. The difference lies in the fact that Daphne was escaping unwanted love and sexual advances of another, while the suicides were trying to escape themselves, their depression, and their lives. The tree form in this case is used to highlight the complete lack of control the suicides now have over themselves, as the roots render them completely immobile. The physical form of the tree is again important in its similarity to the human form. Yet in this case, when Dante snaps a twig from the tree, "from the splintered limb came forth at once both blood and speech" (Alighieri 131). Whereas in the comparison of tree to man, one can equate tar with blood, it is interesting that these trees still bleed human blood. This emphasizes how human they still truly are, as does the fact that they can hold conversations. As opposed to the story of Daphne, there is no question that the human souls reside in these trees, and that, though physically transformed, they are still very human. As Vanacker says about Daphne, "Metamorphosis, in her case, means salvation: it is a way to avoid the choice between life and death. By becoming a laurel, in other words, Daphne only puts an end to her life as a human being" (435). With the suicides, transformation into tree is the exact opposite of salvation. This is the most significant difference between the two situations: Daphne transforms in order to survive; the suicides transform because they cannot will themselves to survive any longer.
The last representation to consider is in the story of "Leila and Majnun." In this tale, Leila and Majnun love each other deeply, but are prevented from being together by their families. At the end of the story, Majnun waits for Leila in the Sahara desert for years, sitting propped up against a tree. After a time, "the hands that were holding the branches became branches themselves; his body became part of the tree" (Khan 155). When Leila finally returns to him, she sees that "flesh and blood had already wasted, and the skin and bone that remained, by contact with the tree, had become like its branches" (Khan 156). Again, we see the physical similarity of humans and trees, specifically with the arms and branches. However, in this tale, transformation is not a means of escape, but rather a means of remaining in the world. Similarly to Daphne, Majnun becomes a tree in order to survive. A human could not live in the desert for that long, but by becoming part of the tree, part of Majnun can remain in the physical world, at least until he is able to see Leila once more. This whole ordeal magnifies the depth of his love, as the roots signify how long he has been waiting for her. A tree can remain unchanged for hundreds of years, which demonstrates his constancy and faithfulness. When she finally comes, he says "I am Leila" (Khan 156). There is a parallel seen here in the physical transformation of Majnun into a tree and his belief that he has become Leila. His love has made him see no separation between himself and the one he loves and soon there is no separation between his human body and the tree.
All of these tales share similar elements in tree transformation, while also differing in some ways in terms of meaning. Yet overall, one must ask why this metamorphosis is so prevalent in literature. The physical likeness of humans and trees is important. However, on a more metaphorical level, the tradition can likely be attributed to the association of trees and life. As noted by Garry and El-Shamy, "a source of food, fuel, and shelter, trees are also symbolic of eternal life (the evergreen) or cyclical rebirth as they lose their leaves and sprout new one every year (deciduous trees)" (464). The practically unlimited uses for trees have given them a lasting level of importance in our world. But more importantly, there is an idea of permanence associated with trees. They can thrive for hundreds of years, already far outlasting humans, and after they eventually perish, they simply become part of nature again, and a new tree will likely grow in the same location in due time. The tree is an unobtrusive and constant component of our world. There is also the simply idea that a tree is living. While it is not a human being or an animal, it is still alive, and therefore it is infinitely more appealing than an inanimate object with no semblance of life. Metamorphosis into a tree allows the individual to still be alive in a sense. In other words, a degree of immortality is gained. We can also see the idea of returning to the Earth, from where we came in the first place. As said in the Bible, "For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" (The Holy Bible: King James Version, Genesis 3:19). Even if one is not religious, many see the appeal in returning to nature upon the end of life.
In today's world, it has become a more popular trend for people to request their ashes to be buried and a tree planted in that spot upon death. This is a modern way of partaking in a certain type of tree transformation. While we may not be able to physically transform ourselves into trees when our time comes, we are able to essentially grow a tree out of one's ashes. This hope is again related to a desire to return to the natural world upon death, as well as the perceived permanence of trees. We want to leave something lasting and living in this world and leave a part of ourselves. A tree is the perfect vessel for this human quest of immortality.
Works Cited
Alighieri, Dante. Inferno. Trans. Anthony Esolen. New York: Modern Library, 2005. Print.
Ardam, Jacquelyn. "Releasing Daphne: Alice Fulton, Ovid, Trees." Contemporary Women's Writing 8.1 (2014): 89-107. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 17 May 2015.
Garry, Jane, and Hasan El-Shamy, eds. Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. Print.
Khan, Hazrat Inayat. Tales. New Lebanon, N.Y.: Sufi Order Publications, 1980. Print.


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It's stories like these that make us at ITC beaming with pride on the journey of Ofir Chakon and DataGen Technologies. Ofir is an alum of ITC's Cyber Security & Data Science Fellows track, but he is so much more than that.
Ofir began his programming journey at the mere age of fourteen. He studied at the Technion and graduated Cum Laude with a B.Sc and M.Sc Mechanical Engineering which lead him to start dealing with Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He then joined The Startup Leadership Program (SLP), a highly selective world-class program that brings outstanding entrepreneurs from around the world together, to focus on entrepreneurial education. It was at this point that Ofir established his first company ClickFrauds, which provided a fraud detection and prevention solution for PPC online marketing campaigns. Equipped with his academic credentials and experience from SLP, Ofir joined ITC's Cyber Security & Data Science Fellows track in October 2016.
For Ofir, the ITC Fellows program was exactly at the intersection between Data Science and Cyber Security, he shares – "this matched amazingly to the areas of my company at the time (ClickFrauds). Top lecturers from industry experts along with massive in-depth projects lead me into a deep understanding of both ecosystems".
Not long after that he was hired by ITC as a Tech Mentor and Enrollment Specialist for the Fellows programs. He provided mentorship and evaluations, and guided the students throughout the course while working closely with the ITC program staff and faculty. He was also the professional authority for screening new candidates for the program. Thanks to his vast knowledge and experience as a Fellow, he was able to give valuable recommendations for screening new candidates. He shares that "As a mentor I was honored to move the needle and make a meaningful impact on many people. I had to opportunity to see talented individuals' full of potential leveraging themselves with no limits and ending up in key positions at top companies in the industry." But the close connection Ofir had with ITC didn't stop here. These days, Ofir is still a regular instructor for both Data Science tracks (NLP and Computer Vision), running workshops and acting as a mentor to the students.
Ofir is now the CEO and co-founder of his second company (with co-founder and CTO Gil Elbaz) of DataGen Technologies, a Data as a Service (DaaS) platform that is a human-centered synthetic data generation platform for AI. What this means is that their customers can request specific visual data from them (photos/videos of humans doing specific actions), DataGen produces it and they can then use this data to train their AI algorithms to reach unprecedented performance. In essence, they produce this data synthetically and make it photorealistic using a mix of graphic engines and algorithms. DataGen recently raised a substantial seed round investment from top VCs (Israeli + American) that allows it to grow and expand. The team currently consists of 12 extremely talented individuals. Pictured below is the computer vision and machine learning that creates photo-realistic visual data to train their algorithms.
ITC is proud to be partnering with DataGen: DataGen is one of the companies that delivers workshops to our Data Science Fellows, recently hosted 2 Fellows during their 6-week project phase, and further offered Nathan Cavaglione a long-term position in the company. Nathan's project when he first joined DataGen was to create a pipeline for hand pose synthetic data benchmarking. The goal of the project was to evaluate the quality of hand pose synthetic data on training 3D pose estimation algorithms, a pipeline is set up in order to launch efficiently experiments on newly generated data. You can view his one-page report of his project here. Nathan accepted his long-term contract, making this a success on both sides.
We sat with Nathan to interview him and find out more about his project phase and experience working at DataGen with Ofir.
Tell us a bit about your experience of doing the project phase at DataGen.
"It was really fun, I built a piece of software/AI infrastructure of the data generation platform. I built a part called the benchmarking pipeline that is responsible for instantly testing the performance of newly created data on training mainstream AI algorithms. I had quite a lot of freedom and the support I needed during those 5 weeks. I have great memories of it."
Now that you've been hired full-time, what are you working on?
"It is really awesome working there. It feels like a small family with many brothers and sisters. We are always laughing at any time of the day. Everyone knows each other quite well and is close to each other. In addition, there are high expectations and pressure from each other and from yourself to achieve goals/deadlines that we set every two weeks. As Ofir likes to say it, everyone was hand-picked to be here. Everyone here has been chosen to be able to be both a great person to work with and highly productive in his own work. Ofir also supports very much the sense of ownership: the ability to care personally about the work you produce and that others will use, so that you will achieve it with the highest quality possible and maintain it over time, even if it takes you extra hours. I think we were selected to fit with this culture and with the personality of the people on the team and this is why our team works so well.
I am a researcher/developer here so half the time I do research on algorithms and processes that could improve our data generation, half the time I actually build the platform like a regular software engineer would, or integrate new algorithms inside it."
What is it like working with Ofir?
"Working with Ofir is great. As a person, he is very calm, doesn't speak more than he needs to, trusts you, helps you when you need, sets clear/realistic deadlines, is flexible with your needs, listens to what you have to say, answers it. As a computer scientist, he is very efficient, he knows a lot and thus has a lot to teach us, has a hacker mentality (great to build a startup!) and is able to have the bigger vision of the whole system we are building (he is the engineering leader!)."
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