Gary Numan's compositions have often been running ahead of the times, either in terms of the music, instrumentation, lyrics... or all of the above. After the dystopian visions of Savage, the new concept album Intruder is more about the here-and-now than some imagined future - however, the sound design, music, and production aspects of the album have that otherworldly and unmistakable Numan feel that one expects.
It is again an introspectice record, in many ways connects us with the world of one of his recent and highly personal albums, Splinter.
Each track seems to be perfectly integrated into the whole that Intruder constitutes as an album, nothing feels out of place - and remarkably, after more than four decades of creative output, at least this reviewer could not find a single track that noticeably differs from the overall feel of the album, in terms of its quality and level of engagement triggered in the listener.
We have many tracks of an eminently anthemic quality, some with genuine head bobbing potential... Now and Forever is a perfect example, so is I Am Screaming - we may find ourselves singing along at the top of our otherwise modest voices. Numan's melodic inventiveness is still at a sustained peak - many of the melodic phrases of the album have earworm potential, and many melodies, especially in the expansive choruses, have a not often heard beauty.
Tracks like The Gift or The End of Dragons have those Eastern touches we last heard on Savage, whilst Black Sun takes us into the world of intimate, gentle Numan compositions. If Intruder, the title track, is suitably dark and reaching for harsher metallic rock sonorities, compositions like the aforementioned I Am Screaming show that quintessential Numan characteristic: a track can go from subtle, almost whispering vocal phrases to a soaring, uplifting, and ceiling-lifting chorus in under one second. The emotional effect, the lift, such tracks give the listener are hard to put in words, but Numan fans will be very familiar with the effect.
This album, too is a collaboration with Ade Fenton, thus in terms of production values, technical wizardry and the overall Numan-esque soundscapes, Intruder excels. It unleashes on us an instantly recognisable soundworld, across the entire range - and the album certainly has a vast range, going from delicate ballad-like passages to Earth-shattering passages. The Chosen or Is This World Not Enough are good examples of how the vast forces at work are managed, tamed, or unleashed with full force.
The electronic percussion, too is highly characteristic, decayed metal parts of dismantled androids and remains of alien spaceships are scraped, banged together, hit with other things...
As some may hear on some M83 albums, Intruder achieves the rare mixing and mastering fete of having even the soft, subtle, even quasi-whispered vocals come across with perfecly intelligible words whilst immersed in thundering electronic textures.
The term "synth-pop" or "electro-pop", which was used for decades to label Gary Numan's music, is still in use today... But if his recent albums were not sufficient proof of the fact that the use of this label nowadays is just a lazy shorthand, then Intruder once again demonstrates this.
To paraphrase one of the lines from The End of Dragons, Gary Numan still holds the sky as a bona fide electronic music hero, with yet another fully-fledged concept album that dares to move lightyears outside current stereotypical electronica.
Amazônia is an immersive exhibition focusing on the Brazilian Amazon, based on more than 200 photographs and other media by legendary photographer and filmmaker Sebastião Salgado. He had spent six years in the region, capturing the natural elements and the local cultures.
Electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre has composed and recorded a musical score for the exhibition.
The first and rather central aspect is that this, after many years, marks a return to an ambiental, even musique concrète, soundworld that Jarre fans may know from only a few seminal works.
Apart from some of Jarre's early, pre-Oxygène, works, we have only heard this compositional approach in his sampling-based classic album Zoolook and in the mesmerising, final track of Waiting For Cousteau.
Amazônia will certainly "disappoint" Jarre fans who expect musical output that is either in the vein of unashamedly nostalgic re-visiting of classic albums like Equinoxe or in the quite heavily EDM-leaning mainstream electronic works we could hear in recent years.
It is not an album with driving sequences and rhythm patterns, certainly not one with sonic fireworks. There is something of the intimacy of the album Sessions 2000 in this, it feels and sounds like a highly personal project with great attention to detail.
An interesting aspect is that the album's many natural sounds are not actually field-recorded sounds, instead, they were created and/or assembled in Jarre's studio.
It is impossible to do a track-by-track 'usual' review of the album, as it is an overall sonic experience, with numbered tracks that seamlessly flow into each other. If we think of Tangerine Dream's Zeit or Atem, Vangelis's delicate and intricately minimalistic Soil Festivities, well, Amazônia firmly positions itself in that type of sonic Universe.
Perhaps the most charming aspect of the work is how the countless tiny details combine and how they change. We have occasional appearances of melodic motifs, very subtle sequences, pulsations, but the centre stage is occupied by the sonic elements that conjur the world of the Amazon rainforest.
It is a symphony of a very special and subdued kind, where the listener is trusted to pay attention to numerous tiny changes in the sounds and the musical elements. There are moments of 'tangible' electronic music, between ambiental soundscapes that seem to purely come into being and exist without any human intervention.
Admittedly, this blogger admires that particular quality in some seminal works by other EM greats like the aforementioned ones and certainly in works by Klaus Schulze - thus, in the case of Amazônia we are invited to an, overused word perhaps nowadays, immersive experience.
Amazônia simply seems to exist, filling the available space, floating in the air, with myriad infinitesimal sonic elements that arrange themselves into a veritable constellation of natural sounds.
It is music, it is a sound, for introspective times - whilst it can be as abstract as some works by Brian Eno, the evocation of the natural world works splendidly, and gives the album a highly organic feel.
This is not musique concrète that escaped from the labs of some electronic pioneers, not a sterile collage of natural and electronic sounds... It seems to breathe and have currents, undercurrents, pulsations of some greater organism - it has life.
As a landmark in the Jarre discography, Amazônia is a rare and unexpected change of direction after years of adventures in increasingly mainstream electronic music sub-genres. It is a surprise, and if the listener enjoyed Waiting For Cousteau or the sonic introspections of Ethnicolor from Zoolook, that listener will find Amazônia a mesmerising sonic journey.
On Wolfgang Palm's birthday, it is difficult to enlist just how revolutionary his synthesis method, and the resulting synthesizer, was in the late 1970s.
What the public later became acquainted with under the name PPG Wave was the result of sublime inventiveness and practical genius.
Palm invented the synthesis method based on rapid cycling through tables of waveforms, the resulting spectral richness and truly unique character of the sounds making it instantly recognisable.
The key distinction between what some call wavetable synths (which play back complex waveforms, even entire sounds from digital samples) and Palm's method was the use of single-cycle waveforms in tables that the digital circuitry was sweeping / cycling through. Controlling the tables of waveforms, the way in which the sweeps were done etc. one could create astonishing sounds.
Palm's practical engineering genius was not just in the construction of the early prototypes that were fully usable as musical instruments, but also in the creation of the wavetables. Most of the PPG Wave and Waveterm "factory" wavetables are to this day absolute classics, and many digital synths and samplers have imitations or recreations of these classic and unique sounds.
Nobody sounded like Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream in the very late 1970s and in 1980, as they were the supremely "lucky" electronic musicians to get their hands on early incarnations of Palm's invention.
If we listen today to Froese's Stuntman solo album and Tangerine Dream albums like Tangram and Exit, we are still struck by the beauty and the timeless nature of the sounds emanating from the PPG Wave synths.
Later it permeated electronic music genres ranging from space ambient to synth-pop, the number and kind of artists using the PPG synths is staggering. One finds the characteristic sounds on everything from A-ha to Ultravox records.
A testament to the enduring value of the synthesis method is that Waldorf synths have brought us many immensely beefed-up variants (including plugins that recreate the classic PPG Wave versions' sounds).
Waldorf Wave, a hugely expensive monster, was one example - but much more affordable and powerful later incarnations of the technology are with us today.
Waldorf microWave and Blofeld are just two examples, and Behringer have also announced that they would create a PPG Wave clone. At which point one has to mention that the latter had analogue filters, which gave it extra character - and Blofeld for example models these filters digitally.
Happy Birthday Wolfgang Palm and huge gratitude for revolutionising the electronic sound landscape!
Borrowing the title of one of his very recent albums, one attempts to convey on this blog, too the sad news of David Darling's passing.
The Grammy Award-winning artist, who was fondly called "the maverick cellist", has passed away on 8 January.
His albums transcended any and all rigid classification boundaries between genres and styles - and his collaborations with other illustrious musicians are simply too numerous to even enumerate here.
From cello performances to composing, from highly praised and unconventional teaching methods to sublime musical collaborations, David Darling has extensively proven that boundaries are artificial.
He easily moved from collaborations with illustrious jazz musicians like Ralph Towner and Terje Rypdal on the legendary ECM label to spiritual and philosophical works like The Tao Of Cello, from film soundtracks for trailblazing directors like Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders to world music projects like Mudanin Kata (The Way Home).
His solo albums and collaborations are all the products of a kind and reflective soul - it simply was a perfect meeting between his personality and the phenomenally expressive capabilities of the cello.
He was heavily involved in music projects for children, with wide recognition from music educators and related organisations, too.
Instead of referring to and being confined by myriad artificial considerations on instrumental arrangements, genres, styles, and technology vs. traditional recording, David Darling has consistently embraced everything from the most ancient traditions to the newest technological achievements.
His music was released on labels like the legendary Hearts Of Space, as he imagined and conveyed sound worlds with instrumentations that ranged from some of the most ancient ethnic instruments to contemporary electronics.
Rest in peace... and amongst celestial harmonies that only he could hear and channel to us in his music.
After the magnificence and well deserved success of the box set In Search Of Hades, a new Tangerine Dream box set was a much coveted release.
Pilots Of Purple Twilight was to contain not just remastered classics from the Virgin Records era (1980-1983), but some previously unreleased material, too - including movie soundtracks that, by now, have an almost mythical aura.
And so it did... The ten CDs were an almost guaranteed success in terms of sales, especially as the mastering job plus the sublime (some previously unreleased) material on the preceding box set left fans in a state of awe.
There are some major positives in the POPT box set, too.
The Dominion Theatre concert in London is now finally enjoyable in its entirety. Previously some parts of it were available in the so-called "live" album Logos (which it wasn't).
Soundtrack of The Soldier is another previously unreleased gem, so are some tracks from TV series that TD fans have only come across on the bootleg circuit before, in variable quality of course.
And of course... the soundtrack to The Keep is the stuff of legends. After its decades of very troubled history, several bootleg and all kinds of versions of all kinds of soundtrack music snippets, it only had an official release in a limited run on the TDI label. This box set version was heralded as the definitive official release.
The remastered classics are by no means lesser players in this box set, especially as albums like Tangram or Exit are not just phenomenal, but they also have huge importance in the band's history & discography.
After all, Tangram marked a major shift in the band's style in 1980, and it is a spellbinding record even in 2020. Exit is an enduring and mesmerising demonstration of a then brand new technology. The use of the revolutionary PPG Wave synthesiser (the brainchild of Wolfgang Palm) is astonishing, and it stands up as a reference example even today.
However... in the wake of the ISOH box set, POPT has several firm signs of bandwagon thinking.
Sure, Tangerine Dream itself have enjoyed a well-deserved revival after the hugely regrettable passing of its visionary founder, Edgar Froese - and the band acquired many new fans who previously have not been exposed to their colossal discography.
The bandwagoning effect is detectable not in the attitudes toward POPT or the classic albums included in the box set... It is more glaring in how the box set was put together and advertised.
The Keep, as if it needed (or could possible acquire) an any more mythical aura than what it already had since the making of the movie, was heralded as a definitive version that would give us a first ever true experience of the movie's soundtrack.
Actually, contrary to the expectations whipped up to fluffy cumulonimbus heights & shapes, the released material is extremely close to the TDI release of yesteryear. This means that it is still lacks several key musical cues from the film... and some of those are quintessential Tangerine Dream in terms of their arrangement, style, and mood.
For example, what shows up on some bootleg versions as Glaeken Awakens is a stunningly beautiful, atmospheric, and (in its sound design) absolutely instantly recognisable Tangerine Dream track. This, together with other memorable musical moments (even the opening sequence) is missing from this version, too. But it is the version the band originally wanted to release, so... fair enough, but marketing hype vs. reality was quite an expectation management blunder.
The remastered versions of the classics are "OK", to use this highly technical word... Nothing that will strike one as a revelation. Once again, after the stellar mastering done on ISOH box set of sometimes very troubled original material, one could have expected something revelatory based on the hype.
Well... yes, there is some shine, some tinkering with stereo separation, and thankfully it does not compress the heck out of the records, as many new remastered versions of many big names in music almost always do. The dynamic range of the remastered versions is still fine, a big relief in the annoying loudness war that has been raging for a few decades.
The perhaps biggest and admittedly almost scandalous-looking element in the POPT box set is how decision was made to cram extra, well, "bonus" tracks onto CDs that contain remastered classics.
White Eagle is an experience. It is an album with its well put-together structure. It is a musical journey. One that ends with the truly sublime title track. It ends there, and leaves the room changed, the air is very different and we are different.
The POPT version is something that borders on the inexplicable, and betrays the approach taken by the publisher. Instead of adding another CD to the box set, for all the disjointed extras, the decision was to fill the space allowed by the physical medium with the bonus tracks - after White Eagle ends.
Sure, we can press the stop button quickly when, in our reverie, the title tracks fades out with the glistening sequencer notes... if we want to have that White Eagle experience without some other tarcks suddenly blasting the just settled air molecules in the room. But this is not the point.
Who in the right mind, unless just doing some rush job and/or maximising profit while cutting corners, decides to publish e.g. after Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles a bunch of other thrown-together stories just because there is some room left in the chosen binding for the book?
A rhetorical question. The approach is inconceivable at best, ridiculously amateurish-looking at worst.
Looking at the "bonus" material that was crowbarred onto that CD in particular, the whole exercise is just... puzzling, to put it politely.
The visual material is also puzzling, and again looks like a "who cares let's just sell this" exercise - even if it was not the real intention.
Some photos are woefully lacking the needed resolution to be reproduced in the size that they are printed at in the box set's mini-book. They look as if somebody did a shockingly amateurish job, taking some very obviously too small photos and badly upscaled them to printed sizes that were evidently beyond what anybody would define in graphic design stage.
Some may have had the misfortune of growing up in a society where one could only obtain music like that of Tangerine Dream via elusive "copy studios", who recorded onto cassettes some copies of legendary albums - as the originals were virtually unobtainable for common people.
If the enthusiastic kid gave them let's say a 60-minute cassette (which was cheapest and most easily obtainable in shops), then after the recording of the let's say 40-odd minutes of album material there was some extra music thrown in as a loving addition by the "studio". They may have been related to the album in some way, let's say in style or release timeline, or not related at all.
From risk-taking imagination to formulaic templates: an irreversible trend in Hollywood film scores?
There was a time, like the somewhat distant 1950s, when a film intended for mainstream market dared to wildly experiment with its soundtrack.
One enduring example is The Forbidden Planet (1956), which featured a truly ground-breaking experimental soundtrack. Nothing like that was heard before in a Hollywood film. Further examples from subsequent years abound, and perhaps the secret is that the directors in those cases had more control over the end product than in the case of current (wannabe or actual) blockbusters...
Omen was not exactly an elitist art house venture either, but the late Jerry Goldsmith was given the freedom to experiment... and he did. Who could forget the sheer genius of using a repetitive, whispering but utterly menacing choral motif as the sound of the demonic dogs' breath?
There was a time when John Carpenter was tinkering in rather superb way with his synths, we had William Friedkin resorting to progressive rock visionary Mike Oldfield or used the sonic imaginings of trailblazing electronic music giant Tangerine Dream.
When Terminator shook the movie theatres with its footsteps, it did that with a musical backdrop provided by Brad Fiedel. He relied on the very early incarnations of digital sampling technology to produce many of the movie's signature sounds, too. He even had the audacity of using an aggressively pitch-shifted cello sample for one otherworldly sound that now everyone recognises as the ominous cue for the appearance of the Terminator.
Michael Mann, firmly rooted in mainstream and popular genres, had a look at his music collection - and then used everything from Kitaro to Michael Brook to Moby in the soundtracks of his famous thrillers. Think of the music, and its effectiveness, as used in Manhunter and Heat, to name just two key examples...
And then... Hollywood, and not just, had a severe bout of selective amnesia.
They, and soon everybody who was attempting to replicate successful-looking movie recipes, forgot what film soundtracks could be like - and stuck to some admittedly charming and successful solutions. These recipes that were then endlessly repeated by endless series of imitators, even big names succumbing to the charm of the found and tested formulae.
To say that it is a sound "expected by audiences" is like saying, with similar disregard for the causality chain, that Alex DeLarge expected to be a good lad in Clockwork Orange. If not brainwashed, we have been auditory cortex-washed by the omnipresent 'norm' that certain compositional and instrumental arrangement recipes have become.
It may rattle many cages if one drops Hans Zimmer's name here. Not that he is the problem, but what happened to his highly successful compositional formulae remains a perfect example.
Many may not recall how experimental and cross-genres composer he used to be. Maybe it is worth revisiting his soundtracks for Rain Man, Thelma & Louise, or Crimson Tide... or even some parts of Gladiator. None of them were intended to be art house movies with experimental scores... They were squarely aimed at the mainstream market, but Zimmer had vastly experimented with exotic ranges of sounds and arrangements.
Apart from a few moments of absolute genius, e.g. S.T.A.Y from the soundtrack of Interstellar (a track that had flavours of Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi, seasoned by a pinch of Max Richter), there is a Zimmer recipe that has become a template for what we hear in movies. Using the orchestra for rock-like riffs, staccato minimalist patterns, punctuated with electronic and/or acoustic percussion layers... it is hard to find action scenes in blockbusters that do not follow the template.
Hollywood, a hollow shadow of its former adventurous and risk-taking self, has essentially stopped and even reversed what one could call the evolution of soundtrack composing and orchestration.
Sure, we have Clint Mansell, or Cliff Martinez, or the spellbinding maestro Thomas Newman as examples of stunning geniuses when it comes to thinking in sounds.
We have had Villeneuve taking risks in Arrival, using Johann Johannsson and Max Richter in memorable and mesmerising manner.
We may have had M83 scoring Oblivion, Daft Punk scoring the sequel to Tron, but then their not quite Earth-shattering success was perhaps a re-enforcement for the mainstream studios' perception of "let's just stick to minimalist ostinato orchestral riffs" à la Zimmer & Co.
It is as if huge majority of studios and soundtrack composers are copying the very same formulaic recipe, and then we have even Zimmer self-plagiarising in astonishing manner. Care to hear the shocking "similarities", to put it mildly, between Time from Inception and Journey To The Line from the superb The Thin Red Line?... Some even made videos directly comparing the two.
The fear of moving outside the small world of admittedly captivating but used-to-death compositional recipes we hear in almost every single successful action or thriller movie of recent years has basically killed mainstream movie soundtracks.
"Serious" soundtrack composing with completely cross-genre and cross-technology approach can be phenomenal, and yield mainstream success.
The significance and the highly representative details of the original's soundtrack are a matter of music, and specifically electronic music, history.
However, the sequel was a superb example of what happens even in such films.
The firing of the late and sublime Johannsson, the hiring of Zimmer to make an incredibly self-conscious, trying to avoid imitation and still ending up terribly derivative, soundtrack is a splendid example of the forces that decide what we hear in our movies nowadays.
Is it because directors are not really at the helm of the monster productions any more? Is it because vast budget blockbusters are made by committees, often pre-calculating (or so they hope) the audience reactions with (what they think is) minimising of risks?
James Cameron had quite a say in what and how he used in eminently blockbuster movies not so long ago. Famously, he decided to use for the Titanic drawing scene one of James Horner's early piano-based sketches of what became the main theme, a piece that Horner had not intended for actual use in the film. He himself was quite surprised that Cameron decided to use the piano piece in the very form that it was sent to him - and, as we know, it fitted astonishingly well for the scene in question.
If directors and those with, dare one say, artistic say in the making of mainstream movies do not regain that level of control, we shall see a further flattening of already desperately bland soundtrack compositions. Latter can sound fantastically enthralling and they shake the cinemas' walls with great effect, but they can be lethally bland musically.
Sure, bits of Transformers or Marvel movies are stirring and effectivincredibly formulaic when it comes to compositional and creative thinking.
So Zimmer and his copyists by now are not really a cause or manifestation of a disease, they are the symptoms of a disease... and the direction in which the disease is evolving, in seemingly unstoppable manner, is clear.
Multiplicitas, the extra special double debut album by Magic Bullet, another artistic incarnation of the underground and independent music guru that is Mick Magic. This blog, too had the pleasure over the recent years of savouring and writing about Mick's long-standing travails in the underground music scene - and this is yet another epic creative venture unleashed on the rather surreal world of 2020...
The double album consists of Solidarietas and Curiositas - and they take us from something firmly rooted in experimental sound galaxies to head-bobbing high-octane progressive rock.en-seen misconceptions about the genre state.
In a many ways, the mindset that is required for an introspective work like Klaus Schulze's Sebastian im Traum is needed here. The overall effect, not the individual elements matter here as we are taken on a sonic journey. The processed 'raw materials' certainly seem to fuse time and space, evoking imagery from the Soviet era, moving through the cogs of some immense Pink Floydian machinery, then floating off to some alien corners of outer space...
Tus meditative journey.
As Christmas, its natural setting, and the whole sacred/secular juxtaposition of things around that time of the year got a thorough(ly) prog-rock treatment, why not look at (and dive into) Easter, too?
Thus, definitely not shortage in creativity and inspiration, which means that hopefully other concept albums from Magic Bullet await us in the future. In the current rather unusual, often well-and-truly mad, times it is certainly a very welcome escape from everyday surrealism.
Getting old: PhD and more than two decades of system design in signal processing field.


Breathtaking tale
Thrilling Plot and Fantastic style of writing
Gripping Plot, Great character development
Takes a little while to get moving
GMislNice change from the typical Harry book
Took a while for the actual story to come to light
Some chapters are boring
Favourite characters and locations return.
The ending is brilliant, but sad :(
fantastic and engrosing
6th installment of the potter series


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Singer/guitarist Ritzy Bryan, drummer Matt Thomas, and bassist Rhydian Dafydd told stories, joked around, and just had a good time up on the roof of the Hollywood Tower Hotel while my fellow contest winners and I enjoyed the intimate setting.
The songs translated exceptionally well acoustically, which was a nice treat. Enjoy the videos below.
Jumping right into A Heavy Abacus, the band was in fine form indeed. The song, a swaying, buoyant explosion of rhythmic aggression and gorgeous vocals by Bryan, was the perfect way to begin the short 9-song set. Non-album track Greyhounds in the Slips was energetic and thunderous, although barely anyone in the venue was familiar with the song. Austere and The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade allowed the band to really get into the groove, so to speak, culminating in the last 3 songs before the encore: Cradle, Buoy (which had a particularly earth-shaking intensity, the guitar and bass swelling and expanding with each roof-rattling drum smash by Thomas) and Whirring, which was turned into a nearly eight-minute wall of sound. Bryan trounced around the stage, assaulted her guitar with a frantic intensity, ran into Davydd, and smashed Thomas's cymbals with her fists during the song's final 3 minutes. Each time I've seen them this year, Whirring tends to be the most memorable moment, as it grows and grows and intensifies to quite an obscene level. Far more than just the band's "lead single", it's easily one of their most captivating songs when played live.
After a short break, they re-emerged for the 2-song encore of The Magnifying Glass and I Don't Want To See You Like This. By the time it was over, their agonizingly short 9-song performance made one thing abundantly clear: I can't wait until they have more music out so they can play longer sets.
In all, it was a great day, capped off by another stunning set by one of my new favorite bands. If you're unfamiliar with them, fix that. They're definitely a band to watch in 2012, as they seem on the cusp of very big things.
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Philosophers · List of lists Truth tables are a type of mathematical table used in logic to determine whether an expression is true or valid.

Truth tables were invented to work on the propositional calculus developed by Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and others. They were first invented in 1917, by Ludwig Wittgenstein, and later and independently, in 1921, by Emil Post. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus uses them to place truth functions in a series.
The wide influence of this work led to the spread of the use of truth tables. Truth tables are used to compute the values of truth-functional expressions (i.e., it is a decision procedure).
A truth-functional expression is either atomic (i.e., a propositional variable (or placeholder) or a propositional function — e.g. Px) or built up from atomic formulas from logical operators (i.e. ∧ (AND), ∨ (OR), ¬ (NOT) — e.g. Fx & Gx).
The column headings on a truth table show (i) the propositional functions and/or variables, and (ii) the truth-functional expression built up from those propositional functions or variables and operators.
The rows show each possible valuation of T or F assignments to (i) and (ii).
In other words, each row is a distinct interpretation of (i) and (ii).
For example, take two propositional variables, and , and the logical operator "AND" (∧), signifying the conjunction "A and B" or ∧ .
In common English, if both A and B are true, then the conjunction " ∧ " is true; under all other possible assignments of truth values to ∧ , the conjunction is false.
This relationship is defined as follows:
∧ F F F
∨ F F F
In a boolean logic system, all the operators can be explicitly defined this way.
For example, the NOT (¬) relationship is defined as follows:
¬ F T
Logical nandEdit
Compound expressions can be constructed, using parenthesis to denote precedence. The negation of conjunction ¬ ( ∧ ) ≡ ∧ , and the disjunction of negations ¬ ∨ ¬ are depicted as follows:
∧ ∧ ¬ ¬ ¬ ∨ ¬ F F F T T T T
Logical norEdit
Truth tables can be used to prove logical equivalence. <p>
The negation of disjunction ¬ ( ∨ ) ≡ ∨ , and the conjunction of negations ¬ ∧ ¬ are depicted as follows:
∨ ∨ ¬ ¬ ¬ ∧ ¬ F F F T T T T
Comparing the above two truth tables, since the enumeration of all possible truth-values for and yields the same truth-value under both ∧ and ¬ ∨ ¬ ; and both ∨ and ¬ ∧ ¬ , the two and two are logically equivalent correspondingly, and may be substituted for each other.
This equivalence is one of DeMorgan's Laws.


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When do we use 'if'?Generally we use 'if' to imagine, but in this lesson we are using 'if' for conditions, yes!Do you wanna learn how to use if for conditions?
Let's start with the first one, "If he takes vitamins every day he doesn't get sick." This is our first example. What action is being performed here?The action of taking vitamins every day. What do you think when you read the word every day?Something that happens regularly. Regularly. And what happens if he takes vitamins every day?He doesn't get sick. What's that?That's the result. Yes or maybe we can see that's the outcome. So what have you learnt?
Let's look at the second one, "If you pour all on water, it floats." Is that true?Does it float?Have you ever tried pouring oil on water?What happens?Does it sink?No, it floats. And what is this?Is this a scientific fact?Yes and is this always true?Yes, it is. So another way of using 'if' is to talk about a scientific fact which is always true and here also we have an outcome like the first example. I'll write it for you, "T." Like this one here, "If water evaporates, it turns into vapors." Isn't this also a scientific fact which is always true?
With that we move on to the third one, "If you get here before 8:00, we can catch the earlier train." Are we imagining here?Not really!It's a condition again and we have an outcome. What will happen if you get here before 8:00?We can catch the earlier train. But here, why are we seeing this?What is the reason, like these two?"I'll write it for you, "To talk about a possibility." Yes, a possibility in the near future. "A possibility in the near future."
And how do we really form these sentences, where we use 'if' for conditions?Let's find out, the 'form'. So as you can see in all of them, let's keep this one for now we'll come to it later. We have 'if', so we can use 'if' (+) what tense is this clause in?What do you think?This tense is in the clause, is in the 'present simple tense'. So 'if' (+) 'present simple'. And what do we have here?What's this?A little one, it's a comma. It's very important that you have a comma between, what is this?This is called an 'if clause' and this is called a 'result clause'. You can also call this a 'condition clause' and you can also call, call this a 'result clause'. So it's very important to have a comma between the first clause and the second clause. 'If' (+) 'present simple' comma and what is this?"He doesn't get sick," 'present simple' again. But we have no 'if' in the second clause because it's a 'result clause'. There is something you need to be very careful when you're using 'present simple tense', and what is that?Let's look at this sentence, 'if', this one here, "If water evaporates it turns into vapors." Okay, let's look at this word, evaporate but why do we have this is 'S'?Sorry why do we have this 'S' here?Because here we are talking about a third…
Let's look at the last sentence. Doesn't that seem a bit different?Isn't it?We were talking about 'if', where do we get a 'when' from actually 'when' has the same meaning as an 'if' when we talk about conditions. Yes, "When I miss the best bus, I'm late for work." Or, "If I miss the bus, I'm late for work." Does the meaning change?Not really!So you can actually replace an 'if' with 'when' or a 'when' with 'if'. Have you heard that song, "When you're alone, strangers are dangerous…" Have you heard that song?Or, "When you're down, the streets seem lonely…
So this brings us to the end of the lesson and what have we learned today?Do you know this is a very scary grammar topic?It's called 'zero conditionals' Yes, it's so scary, right?


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The Golden Raiders and Tigers will both try to advance to their respective sectional final games.
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Sheboygan North's Kiara Dallmann (42) looks to pass the ball during action with Waukesha West Feb. 24, 2017, at Norixth-seeded Sheboygan North next faces second-seeded De Pere in the Division 1 sectional semi-final, an opponent the Golden Raiders are very familiar with. They lost both regular season match ups against the Redbirds, but both contests were competitive.
De Pere plays a very different style of basketball than Sheboygan North prefers, so Spielman said slowing down the tempo is going to be key on Thursday.
"De Pere is a very quick team," he said. "They're a good ball handling team and a good shooting team. They're not particularly big, in terms of their length on the offensive and defensive end. It's kind of a contrast of styles to a certain extent. They want to fly up and down the court, throw up a lot of threes and pressure us. Last time we played them, we had 19 turnovers, opposed to their three. W on every possession. We have to take advantage of some of the size opportunities we have, and limit their shots from beyond the arc."
"We're preparing hard for Springs," she said. "Their 1-3-1 defense is something we don't see a lot of, at least in our conference, so we're really working on the offensive side of things. They also have a lot of size in their starting lineup, so we're focused on limiting their opportunities in the low post area. We're working on the day-to-day, fundamental defense."
Howards Grove and St. Mary's Springs will tip off at 7 p.m. at West Bend. S No. 1 Kenosha St. Joseph and No. 3 Racine Lutheran at 4 p.m. on Saturday at Brown Deer.
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20 accidents in Guernsey County alone Monday as Mother Nature dumped a layer of ice and several inches of snow on area roadways.
Multiple motorists were transported to Southeastern Med due to injuries suffered in the accidents. Neither the extent of the injuries nor the conditions of the injured motorists were available as of press time.
Althoughextensive property damage occurred in several accidents.
The highway patrol reported investigating one accident in Noble County and Cambridge police investigated a minor snow-related accident that occurred when a truck plowing snow from a parking lot backed into a trailer attached to a second vehicle.
A head-on collision on Old 21 Road just north of Cambridge sent one driver to the hospital while the other reported minor injuries including a sore chest after the air bag in his vehicle deployed.
The accident occurred just after 3 p.m. and involved a southbound pickup truck crossing the centerline after the driver lost control and striking a northbound Pontiac G6, whose driv.
No additional information regarding the drivers or the crash was available’s Cambridge post.
Cambridge firefighters assisted at the scene, as they and other firefighters from volunteer departments did at crash sites throughout the day.
Multiple accidents were reported on Interstate 70 and Interstate 77 including a jackknifed tractor-trailer that blocked one lane of travel just north of the I-70/I-77 interchange.
Accidents were also reported on Plainfield Road, Bliss Road, Skyline Drive, Country Club Road, Old 21 Road and Parker Road.
The Noble County Sheriff’s Office confirmed receiving just one report of an accident in that county.
Guernsey County sheriff’s deputies assisted at multiple accident scene including closing a portion of Country Club Road after multiple vehicles became stuck behind a vehicle that slid off the roadway into a guardrail. No injuries were reported.
Due to the large volume of calls, additional information was not available from the highway patrol.


This Month I shall again feature some
pictures of buildings I have photographed over the last
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In common with the other medieval castles in Sussex,
Hastings Castle is
again totally different in style, and completes the set nicely. It's
a type of castle known as a promontory or cliff-top castle, achieved
by constructing a wall and ditch across the neck of an inaccessible
part of the sandstone cliff top.
After William the Conqueror's landing at Pevensey in
1066, he sent his half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, to Hastings
where he erected one of the two prefabricated motte and bailey
castles the Normans had carried with them from Normandy. It is not
absolutely certain if the castle Odo built is where the present
castle ruins now stand, although there is a mound next to the ruins,
which is believed by many to be the site of the original.
After William's victory over King Harold at
he divided the county of Sussex into six 'Rapes', with Hastings being
the most eastern of these and, for a time, the most important. The
castle was granted first to Humphrey de Tilliol, brother-in-law of
Hugh de Grantmaisnil, but he returned to Normandy in 1070 and it was
then awarded to Robert, Count of Eu, together with the entire Rape of
The building of Hastings Castle in
Robert soon replaced the original wooden
fortification with stone, and he also established a collegiate church
within the castle, which remained in use until the reign of Henry
VIII, long after the castle ceased to be of importance. Thomas Becket
was at one time Dean of the Church, which although within the castle
precincts, managed to remain separate from it.
The castles ownership stayed with the Counts of Eu
for five generations, except for brief interludes when it was under
the control of the King. William Rufus seized it on one occasion, as
did Henry II and his son, King John, who also ordered its destruction
in 1216 for fear of it falling into the hands of the French.
Hastings Castle was never attacked by a military
force, although it was the target of many uprisings by the local
population. By 1330 it had fallen into a state of disrepair, and the
Dean of the Church asked the king for money to repair some of the
walls, reported to have fallen into the sea. It's ownership was then
given to the church, as it's use as a military stronghold ceased to
exist, although it did return to the Crown for a brief spell after
the town of Hastings and the castle church were plundered by the
French in 1339.
Over the years the castle was granted to various
overlords until it was purchased by Lord Hastings in the 15th
century. The Pelham family took it over in 1591, and it remained with
the Pelham's until 1951, when it was bought by Hastings Corporation
and opened as a public park.
Leeds Castle in Kent was
once described by Lord Conway as "the loveliest castle in the world."
Whilst that claim could be open to debate, it is certainly a lovely
building and well worth a visit. Originally a Saxon royal manor built
in AD. 857, the first castle built here after the Norman conquest was
an earthwork enclosure with a wooden palisade. It was converted to
stone around 1119 by Robert Crevecoeur, with two towers along the
perimeter wall being added. This building work has now completely
vanished and the only traces are some Norman arches in the vaulting,
which were rediscovered in the early 1900's. In 1139 the Empress Matilda invaded England to claim
the throne from King Stephen. She was aided by Robert, Earl of
Gloucester, who held Leeds Castle, but the county of Kent was mostly
loyal to Stephen, and following a minor siege, Stephen took control
of the castle. The Castle remained with the Crown through much of
the next century, and in 1278 it came into the possession of Edward
I. He rebuilt much of the castle and enlarged it considerably, adding
an outer,
with flanking towers and a water-gate at the south-east. The
gatehouse was also strengthened, with its barbican and drawbridge,
it's the most fortress-like feature of the castle, as much of the
rest is more like a comfortable fortified residence.
Leeds soon became known as a 'Ladies Castle', its
royal residents included Eleanor and Margaret, the wives of Edward I,
Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III, Catherine de Valois, wife
of Henry V, Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I,
who was imprisoned here for a while. The castle is best known today
as a residence for Henry VIII, who spent vast sums of money on an
extensive rebuilding programme. It was from Leeds that Henry set off
for his momentous meeting at the Fields of the Cloth of Gold with
Francis I of France in 1520 - an event recalled today in the
e
then. Most of the castle today is the result of nineteenth-century
reconstruction with many additions. In 1926 Leeds was bought by
thShe immediately
began a restoration programme that took her over 30 years to
complete, leaving it as it stands today. Wymondham Abbey in Norfolk
was founded in 1107 by William D'Albini, a close friend of Henry I,
who married Henry's wife, Adeliza of Louvain, after Henry's death.
D'Albini was a great builder and his other credits include
Rising Castle and the magnificent keep
and curtain wall of
Castle, both also featured on this
Soon after it was built, Wymondham was placed under
the care of St. Alban's Abbey as a Priory, and only became an Abbey
in its own right in 1448, less than a century before it was dissolved
by King Henry VIII. At the Dissolution, the monastic buildings were
demolished, together with the Quire of the church. Today only the
Nave, Aisles, and the West and Central Towers remain, which means it
is now only about half of its original size.
- Although a great deal of the Abbey has disappeared,
there is still much to see inside. The twelfth-century Nave is a
scaled-down version of the Nave of Norwich cathedral, and like
Norwich was built of stone imported from Normandy over 800 years ago.
Impressive too is the fifteenth century Nave roof, which has over
seventy carved angels set seventy feet above the floor. Wymondham
today is a family church, and it's dedicated congregation do a
marvelous job in maintaining its beauty.
Henry VI was only 19 when he laid the first stone of
Cambridge in 1441,
although then it was called the 'College roial of Oure Lady and Seynt
Nicholas'. Henry made detailed instructions for Eton and King's
College, although at both sites his main concern was the chapel. He
went to great lengths to ensure that King's would be without equal in
size and beauty and no other college had a chapel built on such a
scale. The foundation stone was laid on 25 July 1446, by the King;
and was the first building of his plan for a great court at
Cambridge. The Chapel was to form the north side of the court,
although it was the only part of the plan completed.
In 1455, the Wars of the Roses started when Edward,
Duke of York, challenged Henry's right to the throne. For the first
11 years of this great unrest, building continued under Henry's
patronage, but in 1461, Henry was captured and taken prisoner. On
hearing the news of the king's imprisonment, the workmen packed up
tools and left the site, leaving an incomplete building, with some
parts open to the elements. Work began again through the patronage of Richard
III, who gave instructions that;
'the building should go on
with all possible dispatch' and to 'press workmen and all possible
d or
delayed'.
By the end of Richard's reign, the first six bays
of the Chapel had reached their full height and the first five bays
were roofed with oak and lead, although after his death at Bosworth,
building work again virtually ceased.
Work began again in 1508 on a much grander
scale than before, and although Henry VII died in 1509, the terms of
his will ensured that money was provided to
'perfourme and end al the
warkes that is not yet doon in the said
chirche', by 1512 the shell was finished and
roofed. Henry VII's executors gave a further £5000 to pay for
vaulting, and by 1515 the main structure was complete. This work, and
most of the glazing of the windows, was done during the reign of his
son, Henry VIII, who was responsible for the screen and the Chapel's
woodwork. In 1547, when Henry VIII died, just over a hundred years
after the laying of the foundation stone, King's College Chapel was
complete and recognised as one of Europe's finest, late medieval
The rest of the Chapel's history is fairly
uneventful, it escaped the ravages of the Civil War and plans were
again drawn up in the 18th century for another Grand Court to
surround the chapel. Again, only one building was completed, the
Fellows' building, designed by James Gibbs, but in the next hundred
years the court was finally finished by the building of the William
Wilkin's Gothic pinnacled gatehouse and stone screen in
- Spofforth Castle in North
YorkshirePercy
shortly after the conquest, although nothing remains of the original
structure Percy built on this site. What you see of Spofforth today
is not really a castle, but a fortified manor, and the earliest parts
olthough
the Percy family had continually built on this site. In the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the building was enlarged
considerably, and gothic tracery can still be seen at the top of the
windows in the great hall.
It soon becomes clear to the visitor that part of the
building has been built into the rock face which backs onto the site,
making it quite unique, with the undercroft being several feet below
the surface of the ground outside. On what is now the ground floor,
the evidence of the vaulted roof remains at the bottom of the
surviving pillars, and the stone frames of some of the vast windows
can still clearly be seen, which would have illuminated the Great
Hall which stood above. The castle was last inhabited around 1604 and
was reduced to ruins during the Civil War. Today it stands tucked away in the corner of the
village green, giving it a lovely peaceful setting. It is now under
the management of English
Heritage, has no custodian and is free to
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Overview In this episode of OJ Playz, I’m back in my own Minecraft world exploring. Had a bit of trouble with Minecraft glitching. It caused problems when I was trying to break some blocks, but I survived. I found some horses, but had to kill them since I couldn’t make a saddle. I also spent…
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Extractions: MAY 7-8, 1996 CALL TO ORDERMay 7, 1996, in the Board Room, Room #473, 244 Washington Street S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334. The Chairman, Regent Juanita P. Baranco, called the meeting to order at 11:30 A.M. Present, in addition to Chairman Baranco, were Regents: Thomas F. Allgood, Sr. (Vice Chair), John H. Anderson, Jr., Kenneth W. Cannestra, S. William Clark, Jr., J. Tom Coleman, Jr., A. W. "Bill" Dahlberg, Suzanne G. Elson, Elsie P. Hand,., Elridge W. McMillan, Edgar L. Rhodes, and William B. Turner. Absent on Tuesday, May 7, and on Wednesday, May 8, was Regent John H. Clark. By motion of Regent S. William Clark, Jr., seconded by Regent Leebern, and with unanimous approval by a show of hands, the meeting went immediately into Executive Session The regular session of the Board of Regents meeting reconvened at 1:00 P.M., and again on Wednesday, May 8, 1996, at 9:00 A.M. Chairman BarancoExtractions: Oct 21, 2000 Paralympic Games As you may have heard, the Paralympics are in town - just a mere two weeks after the Olympics. This weekend is the first full fledge weekend that the games are underway. Myself, a co-worker and two of his friends decided to meet at 8:30am at a train station. From there, we would take the train to the Olympic Park, and attend the games. The ticketing is different than the Olympics. The Paralympics sell "Day Passes" for $15 each. They allow you to enter the park for one day, and attend all events on a first come first seat available basis. Promo Material The Games will be held from 18 - 29 October, 17 daysThere will be 4000 athletes from 125 countries competing at the event in the 18 sports on the competition program, 14 of which are also on the Olympic sports program. Unique to the Paralympic Games are . A Paralympic sports festival atmosphere will be created at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush Bay, which is home to 14 of the 18 sports. Cycling, equestrian, sailing and shooting will be held at satellite venues within 30 minutes drive of Sydney Olympic Park. What is the background to the Paralympic Games?
Extractions: UNITED STATES PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE (USOC/USPC) In October of 1995, the USOC took on the role and responsibilities as the United States Paralympic Committee. As such, the USOC is committed to a long-term investment in elite disabled athletics. With minor exceptions, services provided disabled athletes are comparable to that which are provided able-bodied Olympic athletes. The USOC is dedicated to the integration and advancement of elite disabled athletes into open competition whenever possible. The USOC/USPC is committed to working with both the NGB's and the DSOs to provide top-level support services to elite disabled athletes in training and competing in the Paralympics and other quadrennial disabled games. The USOC Disabled Sports Services Department manages the internal activities necessary to facilitate this progress. Disabled Sports Services also serves as the contact representative for all issues relative to National Paralympic Committee concerns. The Paralympic Games are open only to those elite athletes who meet the rigid qualifying standards of their sport. The term "Paralympic" actually means "next to" or "parallel" to the regular Olympics, as the Paralympics provide elite competition opportunity to athletes with a functional physical disability that precludes their involvement in open competition at the regular Olympics.
Learn more about the paralympics and the role they play in a special focus on athleteswith disabilities, to participate in sports. olympic Curriculum Guide.
Extractions: "We're very, very proud of her," said her mother. Shauna's parents, Ron and Muriel Whyte, live here in Hinton, and are excited to see their daughter competing at the ultimate athletic level for any athlete. They will be down in Salt Lake this weekend to watch her compete, and wouldn't miss it for anything. Shauna's parents encouraged her snow dreams from early on. Her dad bought her first pair of cross-country skis when she was seven, and by age eight, Shauna was competing in her first race, on Pyramid Lake in Jasper National Park.
SUMMER paralympics. Manager Disabled sports Services United States olympic CommitteeOne olympic Plaza Colorado Springs, CO 80909 |||PHONE_NUMBER||| .
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Extractions: Home New at ThePlanet InternetChallengeTM LessonPlanLinks ... Download With the Winter Olympics approaching, lets take a cyberspace journey to an award-winning Web site created by six students and their two coaches at George Washington Elementary School located in a suburb north of New York City.
Extractions: Welcome everybody!! Today we are running a pilot for our Online Forum Project. The topic is sport - and we are using the expertise of David Flegg - our very own AFL umpire (who also works in Vision) and Sasha Orive, Sports Librarian, and the fabulous State Library Sports Collections. Looking forward to hearing from you all!
What other struggles do you see for the paralympics? At the Barcelona olympic OpeningCeremonies in 1992 nondisabled by and large, representing 20 medal sports.
The Official Sydney 2000 paralympics site. Paralympic Committee is the internationalorganisation of elite sports for athletes with olympic backgrounde Kete Ipurangi Webguiydney 2000 is almost upon us The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games run from September 15 to October 1. Other Olympic-related resources can be found at Te Kete Ipurangis Health and Physical Education Community ( http://www.tki.org.nz/teaching/health/index.php3 Sydney 2000 The Sydney Morning Herald Onlines  Sydney Games  section contains comprehensive, archived coverage of the games build up, with news, interactive maps of the venues, an interactive map of the Olympic torchs route and other special features. Infoplease.coms comprehensive Olympic historical section includes summaries of each Summer Games from 1896-1996, lists past gold medal winners in every major sport, all-time leading Summer Games medal winners and medal standings for all participating countries.
Extractions: B ay Area O R ecreation P rogram that provides challenging and innovative sports and recreation programs to Bay Area residee offer a variety of free and low-cost activities to people of all ages. We also have a resource library on recreation and other disability issues, and provide consultation and training on integrating recreation programs. BORP News outh Outings Calendar ... Referral Consultation Tennis Quad R ugby Roadracing ... Goalball 830 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 947w To Contact Us PARALYMPIC REPORT by Jennifer Howitt From October 18-29, 2000, Sydney, Australia hosted the world's largest ever disabled sporting event, the 2000 Paralympic Games. The Games brought together more than 4,000 athletes from 125 countries competing in 18 sports. Being chosen to represent your country is supposedly a great distinction, a huge accomplishment, but I didn't feel honored by what I had achieved until I saw how highly Australians esteemed the Paralympics. I live in the most powerful nation in the world, I'm proud to call myself an American, but sadly,like an elite athlete. Over the next ten days, this amazing response from the Australian public never waned. The streets were constantly filled with spectators. People waited in lines for two to three hours hoping to get in to see their favorite Australian athletes. The front page of the newspaper was filled with stories about the Paralympics. The television station broadcasting the games increased their nightly coverage by 30 minutes because the public was demanding more. In the last minute of our game against Australia, the sold out crowd started singing Waltzing Matilda. They were so loud that I could barely hear my teammates on the court. I had to struggle not to smile. Sure, I was upset that we were losing, but I was thrilled that so many people actually cared about the outcome of the game.
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Extractions: Structure: The softball venue comprises one competition field and two training fields. General public seating will comprise both fixed seats and grassed bank terraces. Agreement with ISF: The ISF has approved the Olympic Sports Center Softball Field as suitable for the 2008 Olympic Games softball competitions. After the Olympic Games, the Olympic Sports Center Softball Field will continue to be fully used for future softball matches and training.


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What is echolocation? How do animals make use of this phenomenon? - Physics
What is echolocation? How do animals make use of this phenomenon?
Echolocation is defined as sending out sounds to judge the location, size, and motion of objects from the returning echoes. The animals use this phenomenon to locate the obstacles in their path and avoid them so it helps them in navigation and to locate their prey.


Editor's Note: On March 28, Joel Embiid suffered an orbital bone fracture in a game against the New York Knicks. He returned to play on April 19 for the NBA Playoffs wearing a protective face mask. Below, we explain his injury.
76ers star Joel Embiid suffered a fracture to the bones that support and protect his left eye during a collision with teammate Markelle Fultz Wednesday night. Now that his recovery may collide with the NBA playoffs, which start April 14, many sports fans may have a newfound interest in orbital bone repair.
We talked with Donald Mazur, te; Sonul Mehta,, and Michael Rabinowitz, ital. None of them has treated Embiid. The exact nature of his injury has not been reported, but the Sixers have said that his orbital bone was fractured. He also has a concussion.
The orbit is a fancy medical word for the eye socket. The orbital rim, Rabinowitz said, runs above the cheekbone and encircles the outer edge of the socket. Eyes are also supported deeper in the skull by bone walls that surround them. A common type of orbital injury known as a blowout involves fracture to the orbital floor, which separates the eye from the maxillary sinus below it. These bones are often fractured together, he said.
Are basketball players more at risk than other athletes?
"This is a person who uses his eyes and his depth perception as his livelihood," Rabinowitz said.
Mehta said that if muscle is entrapped, people need surgery right away. If surgery is clearly needed for other reasons, she said, it's better to intervene fairly quickly to minimize muscle scarring.
Once the rim is fixed, the surgeon can fix the floor. This involves placing a thin, porous, biocompatible implant above the broken bone. As the bone heals, it will grow into the implant. The kind Rabinowitz uses is made of polyethylene. "Under the microscope, it looks like coral," he said.
Rabinowitz said the procedure is common for surgeons like him. If only the floor is fractured, it takes 45 minutes to an hour. If the rim is involved, it takes an hour and a half. If other facial bones are involved, the time would double.
Most people come through this surgery without problems, Rabinowitz said. About 20 percent have double vision at first. Usually, that's because of swelling. "The chance of persistent double vision is very, very rare," he said.
"Most people don't have any further issues with it," Mehta said. "They end up doing really well."
Will Embiid look the same?
Yes. "He'll still be handsome," Mazur said.
The doctors said that bones in the face heal faster than bones in other parts of the body because of the rich blood supply.
Rabinowitz tells most weeks and then stay away from contact sports for a couple months. An athlete like Embiid, who will have access to high-quality protective masks, could likely go back quicker, he said.
Mehta tells patients who aren't playing sports to expect two to four weeks for recovery. In the beginning, they'll feel congested because the eye socket is so close to the sinus. She tells them not to blow their noses hard and, if possible, to avoid hard coughing and sneezing.
Mazur estimated three to five weeks for Embiid to be back on the court.


WEST HAVEN -- Police say a 27-year-old man whose body was discovered Friday evening in a wooded area adjacent to a city park likely died of "an apparent self inflicted drug overdose."
Police are continuing the investigation. The body found was that of of Edward Gulyban, 89 Richards Plac 937 -3900.


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The Government of India announced today that all 193 lighthouses in India will become 100 percent solarized in the next three months. The decision comes less than a week after the world's third largest carbon emitter India signed the Paris pact to tackle the growing menace of climate change on October 2. While ratifying the […


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if you are asking for more technical ways to develop such curves and the such with the actual software, then i guess i havent helped you out at all, but you werent very specific about what you needed advice for...


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Like many people, one of my first two cookbooks–a gift from my grandmother, inscribed to me, so personally meaningful to me–was Joy of Cooking. This was back in the mid-70s, so it was the last version pre-major-revision, and it still has instructions on dealing with small game like squirrels and raccoons, as well as a significant section on freezing and canning. I don’t use it as much as I once did, but it still provides a lot of basic information about specific foods and specific techniques. (For years, I read the description about how to make croissants, and didn’t quite believe it. Is that really how you do it, I wondered?


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Feel familiar with the error message shown in the image above? This message means you failed to run CHKDSK on your drive due to a problem with the file system of your device.
The RAW file system is a file system that your computer can't recognize. The following are the reasons your hard drive or storage device like a USB flash drive or memory card’s file system goes RAW:
- The file system is missing or damaged
- The computer can't recognize the current file system of the drive
- Recover data from the RAW drive
- Format the drive
Procedure 1. Recover Data from the RAW Drive
Although you can't access the existing files on a RAW drive, a hard drive recovery software tool like EaseUS Data Recovery Software can. Not only does this software help recover deleted data, formatted data, lost partitions, but it also helps recover files from the drives that have gone RAW and have thus become inaccessible.
To recover data from your drive or storage device that reports RAW:_1<<_2<<
Step 3. Restore and Save Data Out of the RAW Drive
Procedure 2. Convert RAW to NTFS/FAT32 by Formatting
After retrieving all the files saved on the RAW drive, you may now format the drive using one of the three ways below:
Step 1. Open This PC, right-click the RAW partition, and select Format.
Step 2. Select a file system (NTFS, FAT32, or exFAT) for your drive and click Start.
Method 2. Repair RAW to NTFS/FAT32 Using Diskpart
Diskpart is a command-line utility that you can use to create, delete, and modify a computer's disk partitions, including formatting the partition.
format fs=ntfs quick (or format fs=fat32 quick)
If you prefer to keep it simple, use free partition software - EaseUS Partition Master to format your drive. In addition to what formats the Windows OS supports, this tool supports EXT2 and EXT3 as well. The other tool features include the ability to merge, check, and delete partitions.
To learn how to format a hard drive using EaseUS Partition Master, you may refer to the article about how to format a hard drive in Windows 10.
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