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Ceaseless Fun fosters empathetic and socially-engaged discourse through feverishly philosophical and playfully illicit live performances.
This is done by:
Collaboratively devising contemporary and relevant material with both performers and designers
Crafting and staging performances in unconventional spaces
Affording audiences agency and implicating them within the fiction
Drawing on and collaging a variety of literary, dramatic, poetic, and philosophical source-texts
Challenging the audience to draw their focus from the narrative to the expressionistic
Making the work as physically and monetarily accessible as possible
Artistic Director
Derek Spencer is a director, writer, sentimentalist, overeager curmudgeon, and over-emotional socialist. He started making theater when he realized he was better at it than he was at playing bass in punk bands. Now he makes theater because he believes that live, interactive moments of spectacle and intimacy have a unique power to empathetically affect and connect audiences. Derek's interests include mania, gender, socialized behavior, dreams, the silver lining of political dystopia, and the inner lives of characters in crisis. Outside of his performance practice, he enjoys telling people he cooks, rearranging his bookshelf, and being the last person left at your party.
Creative Producer
Meredith is a producer. She produces big things, she produces intimate things. She directs things sometimes.
Juliet Deem is an actor and writer. She is enthralled by learning, laughing, the tiny idiosyncrasies of day-to-day personal interactions, and instilling her work with the same ethos of childhood play. Past work includes pieces with Annie Saunders' Wilderness (Asics' Big Chase, Leaves of Grass at the 14th Factory), play collaborative arts, and Los Angeles Performance Practice. her favorite work was baking a quiche in Meredith Treinen's Grief. She also co-founded the charity live-read event series, Female Animal L.A., in 2016. Juliet lives with her tiny, ratty dog the color of caramel and cream, Oscar. She prides herself on her taste in gifts and wine.
Jordana Lilly is a California born and bred soft-core hippie with a deep and profound love of music, people, and the magic of storytelling. She dipped several toes into the vast ocean of immersive theatre without being fully aware of it when she began working at Disneyland 4 years ago doing immersive, site specific theatre and when she acted in several seemingly embarrassing events for Chapman University as a generic Victorian era lady and a cigar girl and of course took these remedial roles to the nth degree of specificity for the sheer purpose of passion and passion alone. Her first intentional immersive theatre show was They Who Saw the Deep with Ceaseless Fun, which was, directly quoting Jordana, "the coolest thing I've ever been a part of." She dove directly into more site specific art with Ceaseless Fun in their next production, The Stars, the following month. She worked with JFI Productions in Creep LA: Awake this past spooky season doing character comedy in a horror show. Unexpected? Fitting - favorite quote in the world is Debbie Reynolds in Halloween Town spitting truth: "Normal is vastly overrated." Her ultimate passion is communication through various art forms. When she is not on a literal or figurative stage, she is usually working on writing and performing music, comedy, and finding stray cats to lure into her home. She feels unbelievably lucky to have found a group of collaborators as brilliant as the minds behind Ceaseless Fun and cannot wait to stretch, bend, and contort the walls of conventional theatre with these socially aware, talented and dynamic artists.
Dakota Loesch is a Chicago-born character actor living and working in LA. He's been a touring musician with various rock-and-roll outfits for the last fifteen years. He's a published author of poetry, fiction, and movie reviews. Dakota also has the distinction of being the first person to get a Ceaseless Fun tattoo.
Allegra Masters is a New York born, bi-coastal actor who is currently LA based. Recent film and television works include Netflix produced sci-fi thriller, Circle and Strange Angel on CBS. Allegra began working with Ceaseless Fun through fellow graduates of UCLA's School of Theater Film and Television. She has had the pleasure of performing in multiple CF productions including Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan and most recently, The Stars which was featured as a part of the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Her recent national commercial for Volkswagen is considered by some conspiracy theorists to be a message from the Illuminati…so there's that. She is incredibly excited to be a company member of Ceaseless Fun, whose work has grounded her and brought her back to her true love of performance and storytelling through theater.
Scott received a BFA in Acting from Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia in 2011, then moved straight to LA. After a couple of years of continued study and work in LA he became an Artistic Director and the Venue Manager of play collaborative arts venue, working on Tiny Rhino, Renditions, Retrograde, Erotica, The Last Supper, and Futurerotica. His first CeaselessFun project was Grandpa Johnson is Dead, and since then their collaborations include, Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, Agnosia, and They Who Saw The Deep. He is drawn to dark and subversive work and enjoys finding the humanity in villains and unlikable characters, but using comedia, improv, and an unusual sense of humor he'll find a way to bring lightness into heavy material.
Liam Moore's work focuses on creating hyper-real worlds - bringing fantasy into reality through various media. After studying at the Chelsea College of Arts in London, he moved to LA and has been cultivating a multi-faceted career in entertainment since. Most recently he's done production design on music videos for artists such as Janelle Monae, Carly Rae Jepsen, Billie Eilish, Kim Petras, and Blackbear. Additionally, he has worked as art director on various events and theatrical productions. This includes being the art director at Disco Dining Club, and working with Secret Cinema and Punchdrunk while in London. With Ceaseless Fun, he has set designed They Who Saw The Deep, Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, and Agnosia, as well as Meredith Treinen's Grief. He is also the founder and creative director of an immersive club night called Bambii in Downtown Los Angeles.
Soren Royer-McHugh grew up in the Bay Area where he spent most of his time driving around suburbs and being a movie nerd. In 2005 he bonded with his father over acting together in various community theaters. After entering college at UCLA in 2010, he had a few life changing experiences/altercations with Grotowski and the 'physical theater.' They helped Soren feel good about acting. He thinks about generational gaps, psychedelic drugs, the occult, the cosmos, the desert, the tundra, nostalgia vs futurism as motivating societal forces, how the internet is changing his brain, music, Reese's Pieces, his family in Tennessee and how much he loves the South, his family in Michigan and how he doesn't understand the Midwest, the death drive, love, found footage, how to prepare for his death, Los Angeles as an amorphous city, how long it's been since he was in the woods, how the poor graphical capabilities of the video games that filled his youth excited his imagination more than HD 3D 1080p Virtual Reality, if his love of hip-hop and/or gay culture is a cultural appropriation, how great the United States is at recuperating radical ideas into easy digestibles.
Emily grew up doing summer Shakespeare and small time gigs in her hometown of Boston, MA. She attended UCLA's School of Theatre, Film and Television and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. Some of her favorite experiences on the stage include losing her wig while upside down 20 ft in the air as Tinker Bell in Theatre Threesixty's National Tour of Peter Pan, peeing on Brooke Shields' leg as Regan in Geffen Playhouse's The Exorcist, learning a pre-civil war Georgian accent for South Coast Repertory's World Premier of Little Black Shadows and playing the violin (badly) while walking backwards on a moving platform in Portland Center Stage's The Oregon Trail. On TV, you may have seen her in various National Commercials, on NBC's Grimm or Bad Hat Harry's Spooked. Emily was lucky enough to find Ceaseless Fun just in time for Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan and promptly fell for CF's creative process. Since then, she's performed in Agnosia and The Rose Theatre Presents.... Emily is excited to help all the poignant and daring ideas in Derek's head come to fruition. In addition to acting, she is an enthusiast of fitness, aerial arts, vegetarian delights and all things cute and fluffy, specifically her cats Dorothy and Mushu Pancake.
"The minds behind Ceaseless Fun are, first and foremost, philosophers and empaths of the highest order....Ceaseless Fun has proven itself as an immersive force of the highest caliber"
- Chris Wollman, Haunting
"Yetter and Loesch have a dynamic that feeds off each other, even when they can't directly acknowledge the other's presence. The way that the piece plays their words off each other reminded me of a mixmaster keeping two turntables in flow: the strophe/anti-strophe of a Greek chorus in miniature. There is great precision here, with the Ceaseless Fun team hitting their stride in the one-on-one dynamic."
- Noah Nelson, No Proscenium
"One of the most open pieces of immersive theater to emerge in L.A. in recent memory."
- Juliet Bennett Rylah
"this is the fractal mojo of immersive working in high gear. Anchored in cultural anxieties and iconography that have taken on new weight in 2017."
- Noah Nelson, No Proscenium


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Hailing Jin studies molecular mechanisms of plant-pathogen interactions, with an overall goal to develop effective and environmentally friendly strategies to control plant diseases and to ensure sufficient food production.
One of her research focuses is cross-kingdom RNA interference and small RNA trafficking between plant and fungal pathogens. She has demonstrated that some small RNAs from eukaryotic pathogens can be transported into host plant cells and suppress host immunity genes for successful infection. Jin has also discovered that such cross-kingdom genetic interference is bi-directional: plant hosts can send small RNAs into pathogens to silence fungal virulence genes as part of its immune response.
Ruth Allen Award, American Phytopathological Society, 2017
Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair, 2016 - present
Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2015
University of California President's Chair Professor, 2015
NSF Career Award 2007
Po Hu, Hongwei Zhao, Pei Zhu, Yongsheng Xiao, Weili Miao, Yinsheng Wang, and Hailing Jin*: Dual regulation of Arabidopsis AGO2 by arginine methylation. Nature Communications, 2019, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08787-w.
Qiang Cai, Lulu Qiao, Ming Wang, Baoye He, Feng-Mao Lin, Jared Palmquist, Hsien-Da Huang, and Hailing Jin*: Plants send small RNAs in extracellular vesicles to fungal pathogen to silence virulence genes. Science, 2018, 360(6393)1126-1129.
Ming Wang, Arne Weiberg, Feng-Mao Lin, Bart P. H. J. Thomma, Hsien-Da Huang and Hailing Jin*: Bidirectional cross-kingdom RNAi and fungal uptake of external RNAs confer plant protection. Nature Plants, 2016, 10.1038/nplants.2016.151.
Xiaoming Zhang, DongDong Niu, Alberto Carbonell, Airong Wang, Angel Lee, Vinnary Tun, Zonghua Wang, James C. Carrington, Chia-en A. Chang & Hailing Jin*: ARGONAUTE PIWI domain and microRNA duplex structure regulate small RNA sorting in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 2014, doi: 10.1038/ncomms6468.
Arne Weiberg, Ming Wang, Feng-Mao Lin, Hongwei Zhao, Zhihong Zhang, Isgouhi Kaloshian, Hsien-Da Huang, Hailing Jin*: Fungal small RNAs suppress plant immunity by hijacking host RNA interference pathways. Science, 2013, 342 (6154) 118-123.


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Workers at four car washes, including one in Elizabeth, got checks totaling $5 million Thursday for back wages they were owed by their employer, per a settlement, after a years-long legal fight.
The New Jersey workers were earning an average of $3.50 to $4 per hour, some for decades, while employed at Bayway Hand Car Wash on South Broad Street, the only one of the shops that the owner, Jose Vazquez, leased. (It is currently operating under new ownership).
The other three were located in Harlem, the Bronx and on Broadway in Manhattan.
It was from the Manhattan location that workers were transported daily to the Elizabeth shop, said Steven Arenson, an attorney who represented the workers.
"The New Jersey workers were the most exploited of all," he said, adding that they would show up at 7 a.m. at the Manhattan location, take a 45-minute ride to Elizabeth and work for 12 hours, earning $35 to $40 per day in cash with no lunch break.
If business was slow, the workers would only be paid $5 or $10 for the day, he said.
Attempts to reach Vazquez for comment were unsuccessful.
One nearly 70-year-old worker would wear three pairs of pants and two face masks in the winter, Arenson said, and the boss would point him out as a model employee because he kept crackers in pockets so he didn't have to stop working to eat.
The "mostly" documented workers emigrated from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nigeria and elsewhere, he said.
The civil case evolved over two phases. The first one involved 18 workers who won a $1.65 million settlement in June 2016. During the course of that proceeding the car wash owner filed for bankruptcy -- despite owning $20 million worth of real estate and having $1.2 million in cash in a safe at his house. Court-appointed trustees took control of the businesses and Vazquez's personal finances. Through that process, 88 more workers who were cheated of fair wages were discovered, Arenson said.
That group of plaintiffs agreed to a more than $5 million settlement in August. It was officially approved November 7 and they received the money Thursday, with veteran employees collecting about $90,000 and many others receiving more than $60,000 in back wages and overtime pay.
"This is life-changing money. It's a vindication of the rights of these workers. And it's a great example for other workers that they have rights," Arenson said.
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I just finished uploading this House for sale, 195 Lakeshore Drive West, Oro-Medonte, ON
Welcome to this beautiful waterfront home nestled on the shores of Lake Simcoe. Ideally located between Barrie and Orillia, with easy highway access, this year round home, or "cottage retreat" is close to all amenities and some of the best recreational facilities in the region including world class skiing, award winning golf courses, an extensive snowmobile, hiking and cross country trail system and some of the best boating in the province. This 1.5 storey home sits on an over 250' deep lot, with 50' of front-age, and water lot ownership. Enjoy all that waterfront living has to offer with swimming, fishing, boating and ice skating at your doorstep. An "L-shaped" dock and marine railway make it that much easier to enjoy the water. A spectacular wrap around porch offers several vantage points from which to enjoy your surroundings. Watch a sailboat glide across the lake or marvel at the sunset all from the privacy of your own home. This home offers an open concept floor plan that works well both for entertaining and everyday living. The huge Great Room features hardwood floors, that extend through to the kitchen area, and a cozy gas stove with brick accent wall. A wall of windows/sliders looks out over the lake and allows sunlight to drench the entire space. Multiple walkouts lead to the deck—great for outdoor entertaining—and provide easy access to the yard and the water's edge. The open concept design means the chef is never far from the fun. The functional kitchen boasts ample counter and cupboard space and a bright and cheery dining area, the perfect spot for family meals. Two generous family bedrooms are featured on the main floor. Both offer neutral broadloom and a pleasing décor and are served by a 3 pc bath with shower surround. Ceramics grace the bath and extend through to the main floor laundry room. The spacious master suite is located on the upper level, offering the utmost in privacy. Oversized, mullioned windows provide spectacular views of the lake and allow natural light to fill the room. Imagine waking up to this view? Gleaming hard-wood floors, a walk-in closet and a private, 4 pc ensuite complete the master suite. A full, unspoiled lower level, with separate entry, offers room to grow. Finish to suit your family's needs. Several closets throughout the home provide tons of storage space and a neutral colour palette throughout means this home is in move-in condition. Mature hedges provide privacy in the yard and well established plantings create lovely curb appeal. Updates include mostly new windows and newer shingles (2007). Mechanically this home offers an 8kw generator and two built-in air conditioners. The dishwasher, central vac and water softener are included for your convenience. This warm and inviting waterfront home is guaranteed to charm you—inside and out!


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An internship opportunity from John Romano (OWU 2010) who works for the Transparency, Accountability and Participation (TAP) Network at the United Nations.
Program Overview
The Transparency, Accountability & Participation (TAP) Network is a broad network of civil society organizations (CSOs) that works to ensure that open, inclusive, accountable and effective governance is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda, and that civil society are recognized and mobilized as indispensable partners in the design, implementation of and accountability for sustainable development policies, at all levels.
The TAP Network engages some of the foremost expert organizations on the issues of transparency, accountability and participatory governance. TAP benefits from the invaluable expertise, experiences and unique perspectives of its members, all of whom come together to collaborate on joint work and common positions under the TAP Network umbrella. This work is underpinned by recognition that we maximize reach and influence when many stakeholders speak with a unified voice.
The work of the TAP Network is funded by grants from a group of generous donors, including the Open Society Foundations, Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network.
You can find more about the work of the TAP Network at www.tapnetwork2030.org
TAP's vision for the 2030 Agenda is framed by notions of rule-of-law and the TAP principles of transparency, accountability, and citizen participation, as well as respect for human rights. Effective governance in a 2030 Agenda world requires transparent, participatory and inclusive institutions that are accountable to the very people that the 2030 Agenda intends to engage.
The TAP Network is united in the belief that open, inclusive, accountable and effective governance is both an outcome and an enabler of sustainable and equitable development. The 2030 Agenda framework must promote openness, accountability and effective public institutions, build trust between states and its citizens, and empower civil society to engage in the design, implementation and accountability of public policies, at all levels.
TAP's work also reflects the will and impetus of the millions of citizens from around the world who voted for 'an honest and responsive government' as one of their top priorities in the My World survey – a theme echoed in consultations with people around the world.
To ensure that the TAP principles and inclusive governance underpin the 2030 Agenda, the TAP Network works towards the following objectives:
- Provide a platform for collaboration between CSOs to mobilize around various TAP issues, working together to produce common positions and statements, and undertake joint advocacy efforts around the 2030 Agenda and related processes.
- Promote and support the development of transparent, accountable and citizen-inclusive implementation and monitoring mechanisms and processes for the 2030 Agenda framework at all levels.
- Promote and support active and meaningful civil society engagement in implementation and monitoring mechanisms and processes for the 2030 Agenda framework at all levels.
The World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) is the host organization for the TAP Network, which entails accepting and managing grant funds and hosting the project staff.
The World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) is a global non-profit organization working for a stronger and more effective United Nations. Established in 1946, we represent and coordinate a membership of over 100 United Nations Associations and their thousands of members. We work to build a better world by strengthening and improving the United Nations, through the engagement of people who share a global mindset and support international cooperation- global citizens. Our organization has offices at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, and hosts interns in both locations. www.wfuna.org
Position Description: TAP Network Intern
TAP is currently seeking an Intern who will support the TAP Network Coordinator in the administrative management of the Network, as well as in advocacy, communications and knowledge management for the issue of transparency and accountability in the 2030 Agenda. The intern contract will run for six months.
He/she also will have general WFUNA staff duties.
He/she reports to TAP's Coordinator
The position is based in WFUNA's New York office.
To apply the applicant must have a valid U.S. work permit
The main responsibilities of the position will include the following:
- Assist the TAP Network Coordinator in following all relevant UN processes related to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Lead TAP Network's communications and outreach activities, including website, social media and newsletter.
- Attend relevant meetings related to the 2030 Agenda and liaise with relevant civil society representatives, UN personnel and diplomats as needed;
- Coordinate relevant meetings, conference calls and events for the Network, and generate agendas, minutes and any other materials needed to advance TAP coordination and advocacy
- Support the TAP Coordinator and TAP Steering Committee in coordination of TAP Network activities and work
- Assist in administrative duties and overall grant management for the programme
- Access to UN Headquarters in New York: conferences, events and resources
Professional Development
- Networking opportunities and ability to liaise with UN staff, diplomats, civil society members from around the world
- Undergraduate degree or higher
- Applicant must be self-motivated, energetic, vigilant about staying on tasks and meeting deadlines, and willing to engage in such outreach tasks as cold calling
Strong communications (verbal and written), and solid organizational skills are necessary
- Experience with social media and website management (experience with WordPress is a plus)
- Interest in international affairs, sustainable development and good governance
- Fluency in English is required; knowledge of a foreign language is a plus
Preference will be given to candidates who possess prior experience/knowledge
- of the United Nations system and political processes


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When Shammah Hammideh gets married next weekend near Chicago, by her side will be both the ordinary — her groom, her family, her bridal party — and the extraordinary, the police officer who saved her life 21 years ago.
Hammideh, 20, and a recent nursing school graduate, was just two months old in December 1993 when she stopped breathing.
The first emergency worker to respond to her family's Yonkers, New York, home was Joe Barca, at the time a sergeant in the Yonkers Police Department.
Barca performed CPR on Hamideh as the pair traveled to a local hospital. By the time they reached the emergency room, according to Barca, she was breathing on her own.
"Her father said years ago that he gave her life the first time and I gave her life the second time," now-Capt. Barca told ABC News today. "That's the way they've been treating me ever since."
Just a few months after the rescue, the Hammideh family invited Barca and his family — his wife, Helen, and their three sons — to dinner at their home, Barca said. They kept in touch even when the Hammidehs moved nearly 400 miles away to Buffalo in 2003.
(Courtesy Yonkers Police Department)
"When we moved to Buffalo, we started talking through emails and cards, and every year they remember my birthday and at Christmas they send a card and check," Hammideh told ABC News. "They always look out for me and ask how I'm doing."
Last year, Barca received a phone call from Hammideh with the happy news that she was engaged to be married.
"I consider him a second father," said Hammideh, who invited Barca and his wife to attend both an engagement party and her actual wedding this Sunday.
Barca said he arranged his vacation schedule so he could travel to Chicago and watch the woman he gave a second life to start her own new life with her soon-to-be-husband, 24-year-old Mohammeed Salah.
"I'm looking forward more so than just being an invited guest," Barca said. "Even though we haven't seen each other much, we feel that attachment."
Barca will mark 45 years of service with the Yonkers police force in September. The year after the rescue, in 1994, he was awarded a commendation for his heroism in saving Hammideh's life.
"Anytime you have an impact like this on a family, saving a family member, especially an infant, that's always going to leave an impact," Barca said. "But the gratitude of this family, it's always there."
Now that Hammideh is pursuing a career of her own, in nursing, she says she is following in the footsteps of the man she calls her "hero."
"I hope that I can help other people like the way that he helped me," she said.


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Fantastic Farls and How to Make Them
It might be a bit of a stretch to relate potato farls to artisan bread but, I think they make a nice change – and I like them. It does show another use for your Welsh Baking Stone/Griddle though. My dad is from Belfast so I have memories of the occasional homemade farls being fried in butter and slathered in ketchup (I was a child!). They are a simple food that has a more complex flavour than the basic ingredients might suggest and are a good way to use any home grown spuds that you might have put a garden fork through.
|I remember visiting Ireland as a little girl and tasting my first farl. They so were beautifully buttery and delicious, I can still remember the way they tasted. This recipe is almost exactly the way I remember them. They are so good, and are usually part of the Full Irish Breakfast or the Ulster Fry.
So I've been playing about with mashed potatoes to make farls at home. They are of Gaelic origin so are also in Scotland known as Tattie Scones. The word farl means "fourths" as each farl is a quarter of the circular shape made to form them. Pick some great potatoes like Maris Piper or a potato variety that you know have a good taste and floury texture.
The stone we use to bake these has a wonderful gentle but solid heat that bakes them through very nicely and the heat from the oven hitting the exposed surface makes for a good bake.
You can play a little with the amount of flour and baking powder you use. Decreasing the flour and baking powder will yield a denser farl: increasing them will give a much lighter texture.
I've included Wenslydale, a sharp and salty cheese and chives in the recipe to give more complexity to the flavours. You could vary the cheese to another that you like and the traditional ingredient is scallions (spring onions) rather than chives – use what you have available. I've gone for a stoneground flour which is of a creamy colour with a good wheaty flavour. Always use the best ingredients you have available when baking, you will notice the difference if you run out and have to use a poorer alternative. The baking powder from BakeryBits is German and like most countries outside the UK, they package it in sachets rather than pots to keep it fresh: baking powder loses its potency over time when exposed to the air. Like old yeast, it's always disappointing when you bake only to find your baking powder is old and not giving the results you are looking for - so I really do recommend using the fresh sachets.
Recipe: Potato Farls with Chives and Wensleydale Cheese made with Goats Milk
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Centre shortlisted for 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize
The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre at Worcester College, Oxford, is on the shortlist for this year's Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize, the UK's top accolade for architecture. It is one of six 2018 RIBA National Award winners to have made the final shortlist.
Commenting on the shortlist, RIBA President Ben Derbyshire said: 'It doesn't go unnoticed that half of the buildings were commissioned by UK universities, suggesting that parts of the higher education sector value the importance of improving the quality of their buildings and estates to reward and attract students, staff and visitors, and to make a positive contribution to their local area. It's encouraging to see clients who recognise the broad range of benefits that can be achieved by working with skilled and resourceful architects, and I hope more public-sector organisations will follow their lead.'
Níall McLaughlin Architects designed the £9m Centre, which includes a 150-seat single-storey theatre and conference centre, and an e-hub and social space overlooking Worcester's sports field and lake.
The Provost of Worcester College, Sir Jonathan Bate, said: 'We are thrilled that our building has been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, the UK's most prestigious award for architecture. Thanks to the vision of Níall McLaughlin Architects and the immense skill of our contractors, we have a breathtakingly beautiful venue for lectures and conferences that benefits our students and visitors alike. We are delighted that RIBA regards it as one of the best modern buildings in Britain today.'
Níall McLaughlin said: 'This Stirling Prize shortlisting is testament to the success of a wonderful team. Worcester College has been a very supportive client with a consistent ambition to create good architecture. The builders, carpenters, masons and gardeners have worked harmoniously with the design team to realise the work to the highest standard. The skill and dedication of everyone involved has given us the confidence to produce ambitious work.'
The Centre was officially opened on 18 October 2017 by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall who was joined by the benefactor of the building, His Royal Highness Sultan Nazrin Shah of Perak. Since then, it has hosted high-profile events, such as lectures for the Oxford Literary Festival, as well as being very popular with students who use the lecture theatre and e-hub on a daily basis.
The main contractors involved in the award-winning project were Níall McLaughlin Architects, Beard Construction, Benchmark and the project management team Bidwells. Worcester College will find out whether the Centre has won the overall RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture at a ceremony on 10 October 2018. The Nazrin Shah Centre has received an award from the Oxford Preservation Trust in its New Buildings category. It has also been shortlisted for a British Construction Industry Award (BCIA) for Social Infrastructure Projects of the Year.
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The Team involved in the project
Contractor: Beard Construction
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
M&E Engineer: King Shaw Associates
Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner and Theobald
Project Management: Bidwells
Acoustic Engineer: Gillieron Scott Acoustic Design
Landscape Architects: Simon Bagnall
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The 2020 models are rolling into Garber Nissan serving the Saginaw and Bay City areas. The newest arrival is the 2020 Nissan Rogue, and we have all the details and pricing on this family-friendly crossover. Here's what to expect.
The 2020 Nissan Rogue hits showrooms as a carryover model, so it will look and feel the same as the 2019 Rogue models in our Sarasota area showroom. As a carryover model, the 2020 Nissan Rogue also has plenty of standard features, including LED taillights, power mirrors, a rear spoiler, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, a 7-inch touchscreen, a tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, cloth seating, a cour-speaker audio system, SiriusXM, and tons more.
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Clean Bandit have released their latest single, "Out At Night." On this newest release, they've grabbed features from hip-hop's greatest across generations, from both KYLE and Big Boi.
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- So you want to design your own effects?
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Assembly Programming
"Give me a lever and I will move the contents of the accumulator to memory." -- Archimedes, 225 B.C.
If you bought the kit under the impression that C programming was possible you're probably a little mad right now. It is possible with a non-free compiler (the Tasking toolchain). But forget about that, we're going to do it all in assembly because we're real men and that's what real men program in when nobody gives them a compiler. We'll also end up learning a lot more about how the DSP works by coding for it in assembly.
The assembly language used is Motorola 56k assembly. The Freescale 563xx line is a spinoff of the Motorola 563xx line and uses the same tools. The good news is the 563xx processors are very simple and are easy to program for.
Most of the syntax can be summed up by this example:
my_loop ; some instructions to populate some registers move #>0.5,x0 move #>0.2,x1 mpy x0,x1,a ; x0*x1 -> a jmp my_loopThis shows a few things. Labels ("my_loop") are anything that starts in the first column. The assembler converts these to addresses, so you can jump/branch to them. Instructions must be one or more spaces/tabs in. Operands to the instructions are comma separated (no spaces!). Comments are anything following a semicolon. Easy enough, right?
The below table lists some of the instructions you'll be using most frequently. Freescale's DSP56300 family manual contains full documentation for all instructions.
|Move between registers or between a register and a memory location. Equivalent to store/load instructions on some other processors.
move #>$0a0b0c,x0 ; x0 gets 0x0a0b0c move x0,a ; a gets x0
|Jumps to a particular place in memory. Typically used to jump to a label.
jmp SomeLabel
|Jumps to a sub routine. Similar to jmp except you can use rts to get back.
jsr SomeSubRoutine
|Comparison. Use with conditional branches (beq, bne, blt, ble, bgt, bge, etc) to achieve program control.
move x0,a cmp x1,a ; do comparison blt SomeLabel ; branch if a < x1
|add, sub
|Addition and subtraction.
; add x0 + x1 move x1,a add x0,a ; result in a ; subtract x0 - x1 move x1,a sub x0,a ; result in a ; increment x0 by 5 move x0,a add #5,a move a,x0
|mpy, div
|Multiply and divide. Note that these are fixed-point operations and won't do exactly what you expect with plain integers.
mpy x0, x1, a ; a gets x0*x1
One last thing about the DSP code. The DSP processor can execute certain things in parallel. I don't have a good handle on this yet. It appears that moves involving different data busses can be parallelized. You'll see instructions that have more than one set of operands in the EQ example code; these are parallel operations. This detail can be ignored for the most part until you are hurting for cycles.
Program Flow
Starting with the example code (the EQ example from Line6) is the best thing to do. Read it over and then read Getting Started for an explanation of the major sections. The even RX ISR (esai_rxeven_isr) is where the samples are received from the ADC and sent out to the DAC.
Delay Pedal Example
Delay is an easy effect to implement and it will famliarize you with the external memory interface and DMA engine. Below is a diagram of a simple delay effect. Input samples are saved into the circular buffer and summed with a previous sample from N samples in the past. Usually the past sample is attenuated. Both the attenuation and the delay length (N) are typically controlled by the user (knobs).
More complicated delay effects may have many delayed copies (N, 2N, 3N, etc) and may do some amount of processing on the delayed copies to emulate a particular analog delay effect.
TODO show how to modify the EQ example to be a delay pedal.


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D.W. Ulsterman's man in the White House has some warnings about the immigration bill. He is urging Republicans to nix it. He has some sound advice. Pardon the language, but that's who he is:
WHI: Going to keep it real short and real simple. Not going to say anything about Holder or the IRS or whatever right now. This is just about the immigration bill. Found out what all that is really about. Chuck and them are playing your Republicans for fools on this. Dumb bastards are letting it happen and they're just taking the rope and wrapping it around their stupid f*cking necks and grinning and grinning while they're doing it.
Now I get the Republicans wanting to remove the immigration issue off the table. It hurts them. I've gone back and forth myself on how to…the best way to handle it. Obama used it big time in '12. Thing is (-unintelligible-) …that's the issue they want right now. 2014. They've decided it makes Obama look like the brown savior. And that is a role he loves to play. If it's got the f*cking savior tag on it, Obama is right there and willing. Crank up the teleprompter, give him the cheering crowds, and let him do his thing.
Here's the real problem for Republicans though. They are trapped by 2014 and 2016. There's those 2016 Republicans who want to be president trying to push this issue now and what is happening is that it's gonna bump up against 2014 and could cost them in Congress. And if Republicans get a president who has no play in Congress, what good is 2016? So think about this scenario here. Couple months out, later part of…of summer 2013. Senate Democrats pass the immigration bill and the media makes a big to do about all that. Lots of talk show stuff, speeches, the whole nine yards. They want to roll that sh*t out and Obama will be out there doing the big speech thing that he loves to do. He'll just keep repeating how the evil Republicans in Congress hate immigrants, people of color, all that bullsh*t that we've been using against Republicans for-for… decades. Line up some old Mexicans, and single mother Mexicans, and little kid Mexicans…a real 21st Century Trail of f*cking Tears parade… to really put an emotional face on the issue. And it will be those evil f*cking Republicans 24/7 man. That's the (-unintelligible-)…of the point. Just hammer it home over and over and f*cking over again. A massive get out the vote on that one single issue. They want to remove every single conservative from Congress and they think this immigration thing might just be the ticket.
Thing is, and I'm telling you the God's honest truth here…heard enough of on this thing in private from some of them still in Congress…thing is, Democrats could give a sh*t about Mexicans. This whole thing, this whole issue has always been about votes first. Period. Always. And this time around it's all about 2014. They think they can corner your Republicans on this issue and just kick their teeth in when 2014 rolls around. Protest parades, human interest stories…it'll be a whole big roll out. They might be right. People like Rubio keeps it up, they might just do it. He's got no (-unintelligible-)…overtime on it. He's too naive right now. Too eager to please.
So right now, we got the Democrats out there laying the groundwork for this immigration 2014 thing, and Republicans humping around on all these Obama scandals. Now if it were me in charge, God help us all…if it were me in charge of the Republicans here would be my play. I would call in every one of those f*cking Senate Republicans into my office, take the goddamn phone off the line, and jump down their faces so far I'd re-arrange their f*cking DNA. No way I let them help run the ball up the field on this. Rubio? If he can't figure this sh*t out then he don't deserve to be considered in 2016. Maybe that pisses off some of your readers, I know you like him enough, but f*ck no. Hell no, man. No-No-NO.
We got this White House on the ropes. Don't let them deflect all of this with the immigration thing. They thought they'd have it with the gun issue but that just pissed off just about everyone. So then the Senate boys turned on a dime and went all in on the immigration issue. They need an issue to rally around for 2014 and that is it. Rubio thinks he can take credit for some kind of deal. Really? It won't help him one damn bit in the end. Not one bit. All those immigrant votes…sh*t. The Democrats already have most of them on the government payroll for f*ck's sake. They ain't changing their votes. Never happen. And the stupid liberal White people…the Democrats will just roll em up with some other bullsh*t issue. Climate change. War on women. Starving fat kids. Save the f*cking whales, pay for my college, head lice, shoes that don't fit right…bad breath. Whatever man. None of them Republicans will pick up one f*cking vote by going along to get along with this crop of Democrats. Not one. Democrat voters…you round them up easy. Democrat voters are dumb. About the dumbest group of people you'll ever know. They ain't going Republican, so stop thinking they will….thinking that makes you dumber than they are, right?
If Republicans want to win this thing…2014. Stop thinking 2016 right now because 2016 won't mean nothin' if it breaks bad in 2014. That means…like I said…that means somebody whose got the…the influence…get those dumb mother f*ckers in the Senate, your Republicans…get that immigration bill OUT. Kill it on the damn vine. Get that thing as far away from 2014 as they can. Make it go away. Then they can…the Democrats control the Senate so Republicans can just say they tried but they couldn't come to terms, whatever. That part doesn't really matter. Whatever. But then come right back and push the border security thing, uh…the national security stuff. The issues Republicans uses to be so good at before they got soft and squishy and tried to sound more like Democrats. And see…that makes a big point I tried to get across last year…but they didn't listen. Didn't believe me or whatever it was. Didn't trust me. If Republicans go out there and try that kinder gentler thing…with the way the country is right now…that just don't work. It pisses off the conservative base. It frustrates Republican voters, right? I can't be the only one seeing that. And Democrats are wise to it. Crafty little f*ckers…they really are. And so with the immigration thing, that's all that is. It's about getting out the vote on the liberal side, and suppressing the vote on the conservative side. Hell, I ain't even talking all the Election Day vote counting bullsh*t that goes on here.
There's one big f*cking catch here though that has the Dems real worried. If we got an administrative crisis, I'm talking an all out sh*t hitting the fan kind of moment this summer, then this immigration plan of theirs won't matter much at all. There's some there-there with all these scandals. The White House knows that. They also know they've gotten away with things before so they might just do that again. Their plan is simple. Have a few people take the fall, get these scandals off the front page, and hammer home the immigration fake bullsh*t thing and roll with that right up to the election. And I got to admit it that…it's a good plan. As far as (-unintelligible-)…it goes, it's pretty solid. See, if the Republicans don't pass some immigration compromise, then the Democrats and the media will go at them hard saying they are radicals who don't get anything done…obstructionists…whatever it (-unintelligible-)…so that will be that. If the Republicans do go along to get along, then the Democrats roll out their vote suppression machine. The conservative base will be all pissed off, lots of talk about a third party…which a whole bunch of that talk will actually be coming from folks on the Democratic Party payroll in an indirect uh… they'll never prove it way. We had that set up back in…since about '98. Don't doubt me on that. I done it. Many times. And it works. And people won't vote in 2014. A whole lot of the won't. Not like they need to if Republicans have a shot at taking the Senate and keeping the House.
It's a damned if they do damned if they don't. That's why it needs to get buried in the Senate. Rubio has got to be wise to that, but right now he don't seem to be pulling that off. I got no inroads to his people. None. But maybe one of them will read this and get wise, because that's what they need to do. Get wise like yesterday. Bury this immigration sh*t and then take these scandals that a lot of good people have done some very hard work to get them to see what little daylight they have…take these scandals and break them over the f*cking heads of this White House and its support system.
I see (-name deleted-) says June 14 huh? Not what I'm hearing right now. No. Not what…not what I'm hearing. (-Unintelligible-)…at least a month out. Maybe more. That comes from the campaign. You know who and I would think they'd know. She's getting her ass beat on all this and frankly, she deserves to. Can't play big ball with a short bat.
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Every town carnival needs a royal family, and every royal family needs a chaperone.
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CAMP Hale at Colorado in the US is long way from Tibet. But what joins them together is the training of some 2,000 Tibetan warriors who were taught the art of guerilla warfare from 1957 to 1972 to fight China's Peoples' Liberation Army.
The warriors were late because China attacked Tibet in 1947 and annexed the Buddhist kingdom within two years.
Yet the warriors have not given up and continue to put up resistance, if not at Lhasa, Tibet's capital, but the places around.
Beijing sees the hands of New Delhi in the independence war the Tibetans have waged against China. Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna told China this week that Tibet was like Kashmir, "our core problem".
In fact, the Tibetans have a grievance against India which accepted China's suzerainty over their country after the British left the region in 1947.
Their complaint is that New Delhi bends backward to assure China that India has no locus standi in Tibet.
This is also the complaint of the Dalai Lama who took refuge in India in 1954 when he could not tolerate communist shoes trampling upon the spiritual and traditional ways of his people.
India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru could see that the Dalai Lama was not safe in Tibet and sent officials to receive him on the border of India.
This was a great gesture, applauded throughout the world. The Dalai Lama and the Tibetan leaders accompanying him saw in India a country which gave shelter to the persecuted in the world.
But even during the 1962 war with China, initiated by Beijing, Nehru did not utter a word about Tibet.
Nor did he draw the world's attention to the ethnic cleansing going on in Tibet. And that has been the policy of all successor governments to Nehru's.
At times, the Dalai Lama has felt "suffocating" and complained to New Delhi. But there has been no change in India's policy even when Beijing is taking thousands of Chinese to Tibet to settle them there.
A lonely Dalai Lama has pointed out that the centuries-old Buddhist culture in Tibet was being destroyed with a new complexion of population.
But except for odd protests here and there, nothing concerted or concrete has come out. And the Chinese are squeezing out even the semblance of lofty religious practices the Tibetans have defiantly followed.
Essentially, it is India which has to come out of the make-believe world and realise that good relations with China do not depend upon the curbs on the Dalai Lama or the silence over what is happening in Tibet.
Beijing would probably respect New Delhi more if it were to find the latter saying openly what it feels about Tibet.
Eighty per cent of India's population, the Hindus, have always considered Tibet part of Kailash - the mountains where lord Shiva rests. They have religious ties with Buddhism and see in the Dalai Lama a religious head.
No doubt, India accepted China's suzerainty over Tibet in the wake of departure by the British because that is how they dealt with Lhasa.
After more than five decades, New Delhi cannot question the suzerainty but can at least raise a voice against the atrocities committed in Tibet and the recurring violation of human rights.
A suzerain is a ruler or government that exercises political control. There is no challenging of that because Beijing has Lhasa under its authority.
But a suzerain cannot go beyond political control. When China is changing the very complexion of population in Tibet and when the ethnic population is being annihilated, it is not suzerainty but a position of being lord and master.
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Chinese authorities in Tibetan Prefecture in Qinghai to drastically cut Tibetan language education
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Second Point of Entry - Presidents Leadership Class (PLC)
The Second Point of Entry into The Presidents Leadership Class (PLC) program is for rising sophomores, both continuing at CU and transfer students, with a strong academic record, leadership initiative, depth of commitment to their interests, and a desire to better their community. PLC is a prestigious leadership development program for students from any college or major. PLC prepares students for the challenges of our rapidly changing world by cultivating academic and professional excellence, critical thinking, creative problem solving, ethical reasoning, thoughtful implementation, and community involvement. Upon acceptance, scholars earn the one-year, $1000 scholarship. After their first year in the program, other scholarships available to PLC students only, become available to scholars for financial assistance.
- Award
- $0.00
- Scopes
- Presidents Leadership Class
- Deadline
- 02/01/2020
- Supplemental Questions
- Please provide one current instructor, teacher, professor, coach, supervisor, mentor, director, etc. recommendation by entering their *full name and email address* - double check the exact spelling of the email you enter. Make sure this person has seen your demonstrated leadership and knows your potential. Please ask this person to give you their EXACT email address for the recommendation.
- What big question drives you? Why? [e.g. What is the meaning of life? (do not use this example)] (350 word limit)
- "An average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day—mostly just to keep a conversation going, avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone" - Pamela Meyer (Described by Readers Digest as "the nation's best-known expert on lying") If we can be conveniently honest to benefit ourselves or another, what other virtues might we take more lightly and why? (350 word limit)
- Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. Please watch her Ted Talk: The Danger of a Single Story and respond to the following questions. Is there a single story that surrounds you? How have you, or would you, prove it wrong? (500 word limit)
- We would like you to share a particular accomplishment of which you are very proud. Examples of this may be a dance performance, an instrumental recital, a debate, a speech, a piece of artwork you created, photography, etc. This DOES NOT include written papers (research, thesis, etc.). Your upload can be a video, a porfolio, a pdf file, etc. Please provide the online link to showcase your chosen example. (If you do not have an online platform you are currently using, please use the free issuu.com platform and provide the link.)


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1. Jesus would never kick you out of his rally.
2. TrusTED? No Trust Jesus.
3. The only top secret message I want to send to you on my e-mail server is that Jesus loves you.
4. You will "feel the burn" if you die without Christ.
5. The hands of Jesus are big enough to hold you forever.
6. What does GOP stand for? To me it means "God Our Provider!"
7. What does DNC stand for? To me it means "Don't Neglect Christ!"
8. Ben Carson may be done but Jesus is just getting started.
9. Bet everything on Jesus like Rubio's betting everything on Florida!
10. Don't punch a protester. Punch the devil.
What other horrible political segues could you use to bring Jesus up? (and please, don't actually use them!)


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Why Awesome Air
We Put The Customer First
There's A Reason We Are Awesome
Why Awesome Air?
Why Choose Awesome Air
Central Florida being one of the best places to live, residents do face challenges. Central Florida tops the nation in terms of the dangerous risk of humidity and heat, we are exposed to daily. Not to mention temperatures continue to rise every year. At Awesome Air And Heating, our priorities are to provide fast, affordable, reliable, and efficient COMFORT to our customers to protect them from the heat- especially during those scorching summer months in Central Florida.
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In this tutorial, you learn how to create and use content types, how to create a content app based on a content type, how to adapt the app defaults and how to localize it. All the features developed within the tutorial will be part of a Magnolia light module.
The tutorial is suitable for beginners. However, if you are completely new to Magnolia, we recommend you try the Hello Magnolia tutorial first.
What is a content type?
A Magnolia content type is a formal definition for a type of content in Magnolia including the properties the type may contain and its relationships to other types of content. A content type is configured in a content type definition that includes the data source definition and the model definition.
Content type items can be managed by a content app. The content can be embedded into web pages or served via REST in a headless approach.
Use case
Magnolia Travels is a travel agency that employs many tour guides. The marketing department of Magnolia Travels wants to promote their popular tour guides on their website as well as on other channels. They decide to record the following information for each tour guide:
- Name
- Birthdate
- Gender
- Short biography
Your tasks
To begin, you need a Magnolia bundle where you will create a new light module to contain your code.
You will then configure a content type definition to map the given use case. Then you will create a content app, referring to the content type definition, to manage data for the tour guides.
Getting Magnolia
For development and testing you need a running instance of Magnolia. In this tutorial, we suppose that it is installed in a directory called
Creating a light module
The light module serves as a container to which you will add the definitions for content types and for the apps based on those content types.
- Use the shell and change into the
light-modulesdirectory of your Magnolia installation.
There, create the following folder structure:
content-type-examples/ ├── apps/ ├── contentTypes/ └── i18n/
All the files you create in the following sections will go into these folders.
You could use the Magnolia CLI
create-light-modulecommand to create the
content-type-exampleslight module. However, in this tutorial we only use a reduced set of the subfolders which would be created by the CLI.
Defining a content type for a tour guide
In this step, you create the content type definition.
Create the file
/content-type-examples/contentTypes/tourGuide.yaml. The file must be in the light module subfolder
contentTypes. Magnolia scans this directory for content type definitions. If the file is syntactically correct, Magnolia registers the defined items.
A content type definition requires a
model and a
Defining the model
Start with the model definition. In the model, you define the properties of a content item.
Following our use case, add this snippet to the
tourGuide.yaml file:
model: nodeType: mt:tourGuide properties: - name: birthday type: Date - name: gender options: - value: female label: Female - value: male label: Male - value: other label: Other - name: shortBio type: richText
- Add one entry to the
propertieslist for each characteristic of a tour guide. Each entry should start with a
name. The
genderproperty will be rendered as a select field.
- Specify property types. Possible types are:
richText, or another content type or submodel.
- Note that we have not defined a property named
nameeven though our use case states that we should store the names of the tour guides. We capitalize on a feature that automatically creates a
nameproperty for the app to manage the content type.
- Ignore the
nodeTypeon the second line for the time being.
Defining the data source
The data source definition defines how content type items are persisted.
The Magnolia content type framework is data source agnostic, but Magnolia's default implementation uses JCR to persist the data. That's why you should be aware of a few basics concerning JCR.
Understanding JCR basics: node type, namespace, and workspace
Storing data in JCR requires: a registered workspace; a defined and registered node type; and the node type may use a namespace that must be registered too.
- Workspace. The workspace is a container which stores JCR nodes in a tree-like structure. A workspace has a name. See Workspaces for a list of some predefined Magnolia workspaces.
- Node type. A node stores an item of a certain type. Nodes contain properties. A node type defines the nature of a node, it has a name, which typically starts with
namespace:. See Node types for a list of some predefined Magnolia node types.
- Namespace. The namespace indicates a certain domain. Node types that belong to the same domain share the same namespace. The namespace
ntis used for node types provided by the JCR implementation,
mgnlis the namespace for most of the Magnolia-specific node types.
Defining a namespace, node type and workspace for the tour guide content items
Define a distinct namespace, node type definition and workspace for the use case.
Note that you can define and register namespaces, node types and workspaces in different ways.
In this tutorial, we will define them in a single YAML file: the content type definition file. This approach is fast and suitable for many use cases.
|Stands for Magnolia Travels. Use this namespace for all items related to the domain of Magnolia Travels.
|Node type name
|The name of a node to store the data for a tour guide.
|Workspace name
|The workspace to store the
mt:tourGuide nodes.
Now we define the data source:
datasource: workspace: tourguides namespaces: mt: https://www.magnolia-travel.com/jcr/1.0/mt autoCreate: true
workspace– The name of the JCR workspace to store the content items.
namespaces– A list of JCR namespace names.
autocreate– If set to
true, both the workspace and the namespaces will be registered by the system, if they have not been registered yet.
The complete content type definition
This is the complete content type definition with both the
model and the
datasource: workspace: tourguides namespaces: mt: https://www.magnolia-travel.com/jcr/1.0/mt autoCreate: true model: nodeType: mt:tourGuide properties: - name: birthday type: Date - name: gender options: - value: female label: Female - value: male label: Male - value: other label: Other - name: shortBio type: richText
- Line 8,
nodeType: The name of the JCR node type for storing an item of the given content type. If
nodeTypeis not provided,
mgnl:contentis used by default.
Checking the content type definition in the Definitions app and the workspace in the JCR app
If your Magnolia instance is still running and if you have added the content type definition file in the correct location in a light module known to Magnolia, you can check the content type in the Definitions app.
If you open the JCR Browser app, you can see that the workspace pulldown lists also the
tourguides workspace.
Editing content type definitions
You can edit content type definitions while Magnolia is running. The system detects the changes and updates the definition.
Be careful when editing:
- Develop and refine content type definitions in a development environment. Avoid editing content type definitions in a production environment.
- Changing the JCR-related parameters of a content type definition may have extensive consequences:
- Changing the name of a workspace will unregister the old workspace and register the new one. However, the old workspace will not be completely deleted. (See How to delete a JCR workspace).
- Changing a node type unregisters the old node type and registers a new one. Data created with the old node type then becomes difficult to edit. You may have to migrate it if you rely on it.
Creating a content app based on the content type
With just a content type definition, you cannot manage content items of the defined type. In this section, you create a Magnolia content app to create, edit, and delete tour guide items.
What is a content app?
A Content app is a specialized app type for managing structured content. The content app user interface consists of a browser subapp and one or more detail subapps. Content apps make it easy to enter items such as products or events. Many native Magnolia apps such as Tours and Contacts are content apps. Because this app style is used often, the framework provides convenience classes to make building a content app faster.
Referencing a content type from an app descriptor
A content app is configured with an app descriptor, sometimes also referred to as the app definition.
- Switch to the
- There, create a file called
tourGuides-app.yaml– the app descriptor.
Edit the descriptor to contain the following two lines:/content-type-examples/apps/tourGuides-app.yaml
!content-type:tourGuide name: tourGuides-app
When you reference a content type definition by name, the Magnolia UI framework generates a virtual app descriptor and registers the app with the app name. In the above case, the app is registered with the name
There is no way to see the generated app descriptor in a file but you can analyze the structure of the generated app in the Definitions app.
Starting the app
Magnolia adds a tile for your new app to the App launcher automatically when registering the app. However, to make the tile appear in the App launcher, you must first restart your Magnolia session once by logging out and logging in again. For further details see App launcher layout.
To see the list of the app tiles, click the app launcher iconto the right of the Find Bar.
To start the app, click the app tile in the App launcher:
Adding translations
The app does not have any user interface labels yet. To fix this, add a messages file to the i18n folder.
Create the file
# # app "tourGuides-app" # tourGuides-app = Tour guides tourGuides-app.default.label = tourGuides-app.default.name.label = Name tourGuides-app.default.birthday.label = Birthday tourGuides-app.default.gender.label = Gender tourGuides-app.default.shortBio.label = About tourGuides-app.browser.label = Tour guide # actionbar tourGuides-app.browser.actionbar.sections.root.label=Guides tourGuides-app.browser.actionbar.sections.folder.label=Folder tourGuides-app.browser.actionbar.sections.item.label=Guide # actions tourGuides-app.browser.actions.addItem.label=Add guide tourGuides-app.browser.actions.editItem.label=Edit guide
Overriding the auto-generated app descriptor parts
The generated app structure provides a standard starting point that you can adapt.
You can override the definitions in the app descriptor. If you make a typo or another error, the Definitions app Problems tab indicates the error.
If you have to fix an error:
- Fix it and save the app descriptor file.
- You may also have to touch the content definition file to trigger the app generation process again.
In the second part of the tutorial, an example of overriding is the
vehicleType property in the
tourVehicles-app. The property is a select field, which could be tentatively defined directly in the model using the
options property, but for illustration purposes, it is configured (overridden) as a select field in the app descriptor using the
fieldType property.
Default app creation patterns
With the minimal app definition shown above, the generated app has a default set of features. The precise generated structure can be seen in the Definitions app.
Here is an overview of what is generated:
- Two subapps:
- The
editorof the browser subapp has a single form with one tab named
The editor displays a field for each property in the content type model. Depending on the attributes of a model property, the form renders different fields:
Model property attribute Editor displays
type: String(default)
Text field
type: Date
Date field
type: Boolean
Checkbox field
type: richText
Rich text field
type: reference:<content-type name>
Link field
type: <submodel name>
Composite field
multiple: true
Multivalue field
<content-type-definition>/model/properties/ does not contain a property with
name: name, the app generator automatically adds this property.
The value given to the name property is also used to deduce a feasible JCR node name.
- Value of the name property: John Miller
- Deduced JCR node name: John-Miller
You have just created your first content type and built a customized app to manage the content type items.
Create a few tour guides before you proceed with Part II - Complex content types and security set up.


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You Can't Go Home Again
It's been almost two weeks since I returned from my quick visit back to my hometown. It was great to bring my kids to the quiet little town that I grew up in and to watch them interact with and get spoiled by my family. I left my hometown going on 12 years ago and ever since I have left, I have longed to return home to that beautiful place. However, I had the realization during this trip that the dream of moving back home disappeared like an old memory from my childhood and replaced with the reality that regardless of my the family and friends, and my love for the outdoors- that place is not for me anymore.
The thing about Alaska is that it is arguably the most breathtakingly beautiful place in America. The fresh air, the mountains standing so tall and proud that you can't help but stand in awe of their magnificence. What you don't see, is that those breathtaking mountains cast a dark shadow on the Mat- Su Valley that sits behind them. Unfortunately, I was exposed to what lurks in those shadows at an early age. To say that I had a traumatic childhood is putting it lightly. I witnessed first hand the horrors that drug abuse and criminal activity can inflict on not only a family, but an entire town.
Don't get me wrong- I love the outdoors. I love riding dirt bikes, four wheelers, snow-machining, fishing, snowboarding- you name it. Alaska is truly the outdoorsman's paradise. But looking past the fun outdoor activities, my memories of that place are filled with pain, trauma, and an emptiness so deep it could swallow me whole if I allow it. Growing up I can vividly remember envying the seemingly 'normal' kids. The kid's who didn't have to seek safety in other people because they had a normal home. The kids whose parents provided a safe place for kids to grow emotionally, mentally, and physically. The kids who got to enjoy being a kid instead of being an adult and being exposed to situations that no child should ever witness.
Part of growing up in the manner in which I did, was that up until recently, I thought moving back and creating new, happy memories in a place that caused me so much pain would fill that void for me and in a way, make peace with the past. The truth is, it is impossible to go back to the past; or even to relive it. I recognize now what it was inside me that was aching to return home, and it was to fill that void of childhood trauma. I could never go back to that town and heal all the wounds that I received there. Since moving out and starting my divorce process, this trip home was so entirely different for me. I realized that part of that desire to go home, was also because I was so miserable in the situation I was in that moving home seemed almost romantic in a sense.
With that being said, there has always been a huge part of me that has longed to return home. I used to always say that it was because of the outdoor lifestyle. As mentioned above, I truly love the outdoors and the freedom that comes with it. The truth is, that I have been so unhappy for the better part of a decade, that the thought of returning back to my hometown and creating happy and healthy 'new' memories would in turn, heal the deep wounds that I received there. There is something so deceiving about nostalgia. The way that it plays tricks on your mind, your memories, and your heart. An illusion so deceptive that it makes you feel as that for a brief moment, you can feel, smell, hear, and taste that moment of the past, but just long enough to have that moment ripped away from your grips and replaced with the empty realization that that moment will never happen again. I will never get to hear my dad's voice again. I will never get to lounge on the couch in the home I grew up in and see the photos on the walls that have been there my entire life. I will never get to feel the excitement of packing our boat full of supplies to head out to the cabin for our week-long fishing trips. Instead, the one place I did call home has now been filled with a new family since his death. The business that he owned is now an empty building. The sadness that overcame me seeing those places that were once booming with life, love, and laughter are now empty and dark.
Now that I have arrived at the conclusion that I can never return 'home' again, I am ready to face my future here in San Diego head on. I am fully aware that I am alone here. My close friends and family are thousands of miles away. I work full time, share custody of my kids with my ex, and just do my best to not let the loneliness get to me too much. I do have an amazing boyfriend that is in a similar situation and the future is looking amazing with him. Hopefully one day we can create a life and future together. I miss having a house filled with laughter, laundry, and dishes in the sink. My apartment has to be one of the loneliest places when my kids are with their father.
To say that it is going to be easy as a single mom in San Diego, away from my mom and sisters, would be a lie. But I know returning to the place that caused me so much pain would only counteract all the work I have done on myself to heal from those traumas. The future looks great from here, albeit lonely. All I can do is be strong for my kids and create a home for my children to thrive in. So for those of you who don't have a 'home' like me, stay strong and rooted in the fact that home is where you make it and not always the place where you grew up.


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The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and BASF recently signs three agreements to pave the way for wider dissemination and adoption of direct-seeded rice (DSR) tools and technologies. Through this partnership, the two organisations will establish a multi-stakeholder DSR Consortium and further research on the use of non-genetically modifies, herbicide-tolerant rice.
Under optimal conditions, direct seeding is considered a more efficient and cheaper method of growing rice, compared to manual rice transplantation. It requires less resources and emits less greenhouse gases as well.
Although direct seeding is widely practiced in the United States and South America, challenges such as high yield losses due to weed infestation have limited its wide-scale adoption in Asia.
The new research consortium aims to develop robust mechanised dry and wet DSR systems, investigate solutions to manage weeds and formulate agronomic practices suited for DSR farms in Asia.
Furthermore, the consortium will enable IRRI to develop DSR technologies and test rice varieties suitable to Asian environmental conditions. "Feeding the world is a problem that need everyone's contribution, including the private sector. With this partnership, we're enabling organizations like IRRI to work closely with companies like BASF toward a common goal, which is sustainable development," said Jacqueline Hughes, IRRI's Deputy Director General for Research.
The partnership will also advance research on non-genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant rice to safely control weed infestation in DSR systems. Once these varieties are introduced to the market, a third-party organization will assess their impact on rice productivity, profitability, and ecological sustainability.
In other news, BASF has increased the prices of a majority of products in its additives portfolio for plastic applications. These include for product classes of antioxidants, light stabilisers, flame retardants and other plastic additives. The prices were said to be increased up to 15% globally.