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NYY have said there is no room on the major league roster for Bernie Williams. If he came back, it would be under a minor league contract, and he would have to win a spot in Spring Training. Teammate Jorge Posada says, Bernie wants to play one more year and not retire. That may have to be with another team.
Cardinals should find out this week, if Jeff Weaver will accept there 2-yr offer. The Cardinals came up some on the average per year salary, but are holding firm on the 2 years.
Minnesota interested in Bruce Chen.
Dodgers interested in P Joey Eischen.
NY Mets, one of about 6 teams interested in P Victor Zambrano.
1B Carlos Pena close to signing a minor league deal with Tampa Bay.
Mets 1B Carlos Delgado may miss a few games at the beginning of the season, due to the birth of his child. His wife is due within a few days of the April 1, start of the season.
CWS ready to sign OF Darin Erstad with the news that Scott Podsednik will be out 6 to 8 weeks, due to having groin surgery.
Oakland traded P Kirk Saarloos to the Reds, for P David Shafer.
Toronto signs P Tomo Ohka to a 1-yr, 1.5 mil contract.
Boston signs P Brendan Donnelly to a 1-yr, 1.4 mil contract.
Phillies sign P Antonio Alfonseca to a 1-yr, 380,000 contract.
Dodgers sign INF Fernando Tatis and P Rudy Seanez to minor league deals.
LAA 3B Dallas McPherson may be out all season due to surgery to remove a herniated disk in his lower back.
Bud Selig is ready to announce that the 2008 All-Star game will be played in Yankee Stadium. | {
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CHILL The Highest Chocolate puts two of the best things in the universe in one chocolate bar. The Cappuccino Crunch is a delicious mixture of finely crushed espresso beans and smoth milk chocolate. The pros at CHILL created this premium dessert with the best ethically sourced ingredients and 240 mg of CO2-extracted THC and less than five (5) mg of CBD. This Chill bar is set to raise the bar way high. | {
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NightFoods Ice Cream is a sleep-friendly new snack brand. (Courtesy of NightFoods).
This midnight snack brand wants eaters to have sweet dreams.
A new brand of low-sugar ice cream called NightFood is trying to cash in on the $28-billion sleep market by positioning itself as a healthier treat that helps eaters get a good night's sleep. But experts say it's just a better-for-you alternative to the good stuff.
The $4.99 pints contain a blend of magnesium, calcium and zinc, minerals that have been suggested to improve sleep. NightFood ice cream does not contain any sleep-aid supplements or medications intended to put people to bed. Instead, it leaves out the bad stuff that might make it harder to catch some Zs, like caffeine, sugar, fat and an excessive amount of calories. The company says the ice cream was formulated by nutrition and sleep experts.
NightFood is the latest food product to position itself as sleep-friendly rather than a supplement. Good Day Chocolate bills itself as a "sleep supplement" and contains 1 mg of melatonin per piece of chocolate. And tea brand Yogi has a Bedtime blend said to support a good night's sleep with herbs and flowers like camomile and lavender along with 20 mg of organic valerian root extract, commonly used to treat insomnia and reduce stress.
NightFood contains 280 to 360 calories per pint; up to 7 grams of protein and less than 2 grams of fat per half cup serving size. To compare, a half cup of Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream ($4.39 per pint) UNIL, +0.00% contains 240 calories; 13 grams of fat; and 23 grams of sugar. A similar version from Nightfood called Cherry Eclipse contains 100 calories per half cup; 2.5 grams of fat; and 9 grams of sugar.
Meanwhile, high-protein, diet ice cream favorite Halo Top ($5.99 per pint) contains just 70 calories in its Black Cherry variety per half cup; 2 grams of fat and 5 grams of sugar.
Sleep deprivation increases the body's cravings for carb-loaded snacks, but eating them could keep you up even longer.
"The one thing that may work for them is the fact that they're promoting this as a lower calorie, low sugar product. Calories in general are terrible for our sleep period," said Dr. Margarita Oks, a critical care and sleep medicine specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
Oks said that people looking to rest easy at night should avoid eating at least two hours before bed. If that's not an option, she advises cutting out meals that are high in sugar and fat, like a cheese burger, or stimulants like caffeine and chocolate.
Those who are craving a late-night snack should consider fruit like cherries — rich in the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin — milk or cheese, which contains the nutrient tryptophan, an amino acid that pays a role in creating serotonin and melatonin to help the body rest. | {
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1. Events - Tuesday, August 14, 2018
NAWBO Memphis meets Tuesday, Aug. 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave., suite 909. Jozelle Booker, president and CEO of the Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum, will present "Preparing For The Major League: Doing Business with Big Businesses." Tickets are $25 for NAWBO members and $35 for guests. Register at nawbomemphis.org.
2. Events - Monday, August 13, 2018
The Whitehaven Farmers Market, hosted by Methodist South Hospital, is open Monday, Aug. 13, from noon to 5 p.m. in front of Methodist South's Medical Office Complex, 1300 Wesley Drive. Shop locally grown fruits and vegetables, then visit the University of Tennessee Extension booth, Farmers' Market Fresh, for children's activities, food demonstrations, recipes and more. The market continues Mondays through Sept. 24, except for Sept. 3. For more information, call 901-516-3580.
3. Events - Saturday, August 11, 2018
Ballet Memphis hosts its free Ballet Memphis School Sampler Saturday, Aug. 11, from 9 a.m. to noon in its Imagine Studio, 2144 Madison Ave. Parents can learn about Ballet Memphis programs and children ages 3-18 can try a class for free. Schedule: Discover Dance (ages 3-5), 9:15 to 9:45 a.m.; beginner ballet (ages 6-10), 9:45 to 10:30 a.m.; beginner ballet (11 and older), 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.; and tap (any age), 11:15 to noon. No special clothes required. Visit balletmemphis.org/events for details.
4. Events - Friday, August 10, 2018
Playhouse on the Square presents the regional premiere of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" Friday, Aug. 10, through Sept. 2 at 66 S. Cooper St. Visit playhouseonthesquare.org for showtimes and tickets.
5. Events - Thursday, April 12, 2018
The 2018 Bartlett Business Expo is Thursday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bartlett Recreation Center, 7700 Flaherty Place. A variety of local businesses will showcase their goods and services. Admission is free. Visit bartlettchamber.org.
6. Events - Wednesday, April 11, 2018
7. Events - Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Orpheum Theatre presents "Something Rotten!" Tuesday through Sunday, April 10-15, at the theater, 203 S. Main St. This Broadway musical tells the story of two brothers who are desperate to write their own hit play while the "rock star" Shakespeare keeps getting all the hits. Buy tickets at orpheum-memphis.com.
8. Week Ahead: April 9-15 - Monday, April 9, 2018
Good morning, Memphis! We've seen in recent national elections how important every vote can be, much less on the local level where far fewer votes are cast than in a national presidential election, for example. It's one of your basic rights and a great opportunity for you to be an influence in the local community.
9. Events - Monday, April 9, 2018
Opera Memphis' sixth annual Midtown Opera Festival takes place Friday, April 6, through April 14 at Playhouse on the Square, 66 S. Cooper St. The festival is anchored by two operas, "The Triumph of Honor" and "The Opera 901 Showcase," plus other musical performances, family events, panel discussions and more. Visit operamemphis.org/mof18 for a schedule.
10. Events - Saturday, April 7, 2018
Art by Design, a designer showcase benefiting ArtsMemphis, is underway through Sunday, April 8, in the Pipkin Building at the Mid-South Fairgrounds. More than a dozen interior design team have created custom "vignettes" within a chic gallery showroom, with special presentations each day. Single-day tickets are $20. Visit artsmemphis.org for details and hours.
11. Events - Wednesday, March 21, 2018
12. Events - Tuesday, March 20, 2018
13. Events - Monday, March 19, 2018
14. Events - Saturday, March 17, 2018
15. Events - Friday, March 16, 2018
Circuit Playhouse will present "James and the Giant Peach" Friday, March 16, through April 8 at 51 S. Cooper St. Visit playhouseonthesquare.org for times and tickets.
16. Events - Wednesday, December 13, 2017
NAWBO Memphis will hold its annual holiday gathering Wednesday, Dec. 13, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave., suite 909. Celebrate the organization's 2017 accomplishments and look ahead to 2018. Tickets are $25 for members and a guest, and $35 for nonmembers and a guest. Visit nawbomemphis.org.
17. Events - Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Talk Shoppe will hold a citywide networking party Wednesday, Dec. 13, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in NovaCopy's conference room, 7251 Appling Farms Parkway. All Memphis-area networking organizations are invited. Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.com.
18. Events - Monday, December 11, 2017
Starry Nights at Shelby Farms Park hosts Walkin' + Woofin' Night Monday, Dec. 11, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the park, 6903 Great View Drive N. Starry Nights will be closed to cars; Hyde Lake Wheel House will be open for bike rentals. Admission is $5 per person. Visit shelbyfarmspark.org for a list of Mistletoe Village activities and other details.
19. Events - Saturday, December 9, 2017
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church will host "Noel! Noel!" Friday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at MBCC's Midtown campus, 70 N. Bellevue Blvd. The Christmas celebration will feature chart-topping soul singer Avery Sunshine and other local and national artists. Cost is free. Visit theblvd.org or call 901-729-6222.
20. Events - Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The UniverSoul Circus Big Top Christmas visits Memphis Tuesday through Sunday, Dec. 5-10, at Hickory Ridge Mall, 6075 Winchester Road. The Christmas-themed circus production features contortionists, motocross stunts, dancers, animal acts and more. Tickets start at $16. Visit universoulcircus.com for details and showtimes.
21. Events - Monday, December 4, 2017
Starry Nights at Shelby Farms Park hosts Run, Walk, Bike Night Monday, Dec. 4, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the park, 6903 Great View Drive N. Starry Nights will be closed to cars; Hyde Lake Wheel House will be open for bike rentals. Admission is $5. Visit shelbyfarmspark.org for a list of Mistletoe Village activities and other details.
The St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend races take place Saturday, Dec. 2, starting at Second Street and Monroe Avenue. Race registration is closed, but spectators are welcome to bring signs and cheer for runners. Some streets will be closed or have limited traffic access during the race. Visit stjudemarathon.org for a street closure list and other details.
23. Events - Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Project Management Institute Memphis Chapter will meet Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave., suite 909. Shea Flinn, senior vice president of the Greater Memphis Chamber's Chairman's Circle, will address how the business community is bringing transformational change to Memphis. Visit pmimemphis.org for details.
24. Events - Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Tennessee Shakespeare Company continues its Shakespeare Shout-Out Series with a "free, fun and fast" performance of "Shake, Rattle & Roll" Tuesday, Oct. 10, at noon at Madison Avenue Park, 151 Madison Ave. The 45-minute show creatively links Memphis music to the works of Shakespeare. Cost is free; no tickets needed. Shout-Out Series shows continue through Nov. 10. Visit tnshakespeare.org for a schedule.
25. Events - Monday, October 9, 2017
The Construction Specifications Institute-Memphis chapter will meet Thursday, Oct. 12, at 11:3 a.m. at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave. Tim Michael of designshop will discuss the Grand Carousel addition at the Children's Museum of Memphis. Reservations need to be made by contacting Jeffrey Parnell at [email protected] on or before Monday, Oct. 9.
26. Events - Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The Project Management Institute Memphis Chapter will meet Wednesday, Sept. 13, at 6 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave., suite 909. Luke Pruett, recruiting director for City Leadership, will present "Why Millennials Believe in Memphis." Visit pmimemphis.org.
27. Events - Tuesday, September 12, 2017
NAWBO Memphis will present "Leaping the Million Dollar Hurdle" Tuesday, Sept. 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave. Clarion Security founder and CEO Kim Heathcott will share how she grew her business, tackled her first million-dollar hurdle and kept going to become Memphis' largest female-owned business employer. Register at nawbomemphis.org.
28. Events - Monday, September 11, 2017
29. Events - Saturday, September 9, 2017
Rhodes College will host "The Book Thief" author Markus Zusak for an interactive conversation about the book and the larger questions it raises Thursday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m. in McNeill Concert Hall on Rhodes' West Campus, 613 University St. Zusak's presentation is part of the 2017 Memphis Reads program. Free and open to the public. Visit rhodes.edu for details.
30. Events - Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Indie Memphis' Indie Wednesday film series kicks off with a screening of the Slamdance Film Festival's 2017 "Anarchy" shorts program Wednesday, Aug. 2, at MicroCinema @ Crosstown Arts, 430 N. Cleveland St. The "Anarchy" program is described as "an anti-genre form of resistance to dominant cultural paradigms." Admission is pay-what-you-can. Visit indiememphis.com for details.
31. Events - Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, Aug. 2, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in NovaCopy's conference room, 7251 Appling Farms Parkway. Dell Self of Speak Through Me Communications will present "Clearing the Clutter From Your Message." Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.com.
32. Events - Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, July 12, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in NovaCopy's conference room, 7251 Appling Farms Parkway. Tim Marsh, special agent with the FBI Memphis Division, will present "Cyber Threats: Current and Emerging." Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.com.
33. Events - Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Twilight Tuesday, Beale Street Landing's free outdoor movie series, will feature "Captain America: Civil War" Tuesday, July 11, at 8:30 p.m. on the landing, 251 Riverside Drive. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and grab a spot on the landing's sloping rooftop, with movies projected on a 24-foot screen at the bottom. Visit downtownmemphis.com for details.
34. Events - Monday, July 10, 2017
The Bartlett Area Chamber will hold its monthly lunch meeting Tuesday, July 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Unique Catering & Event Center, 2751 Bartlett Blvd. Guest speaker Mark Yoshida, partner/production director at Memphis Record Pressing, will present "Pressing for Success: How a Bartlett company took an old process and created a new opportunity." Tickets are $20. RSVP at bartlettchamber.org by Monday, July 10.
The Memphis Juneteenth Jobs & Career Fair will be held Tuesday, June 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Andrew AME Church, 867 South Parkway E. Human resources directors and executives from more than 25 Memphis and Mid-South companies will be on hand to discuss opportunities; attendees are encouraged to bring resumes. For more information, contact Telisa Franklin at [email protected] or 901-281-6337.
37. Events - Saturday, June 10, 2017
The Memphis Area Transit Authority will participate in the 12th annual National Dump the Pump Day Thursday, June 15, by offering free rides in Memphis, Shelby County and West Memphis on its paratransit vehicles, fixed-route buses and rubber-tired trolley buses. For details and route maps, visit matatransit.com.
Project Management Institute Memphis Chapter will meet Wednesday, May 10, at 6 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave., suite 909. Guest speaker Tom Sampson, regional delivery director of Randstad Technologies' IT Solutions engagements in the Midwest/Chicagoland area, will address the topic of Agile Transformation. Visit pmimemphis.org for details.
39. Events - Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Chicago blues legend Corky Siegel will perform with musicians from IRIS Orchestra and the Memphis Blues Society Tuesday, May 9, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Lafayette's Music Room, 2119 Madison Ave. Enjoy dinner and drinks while taking in Siegel's full-length "Chamber Blues" show. Cover is $5. Visit irisorchestra.org.
40. Events - Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in NovaCopy's conference room, 7251 Appling Farms Parkway. Richard Hill of 901 Pest Control will present "Questions to Ask Your Pest Control Company." Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.com.
41. Events - Tuesday, April 11, 2017
A strategic management seminar presented by Fisher Phillips, Judy Bell Consulting and HR Professionals magazine will be held Tuesday, April 11, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave., suite 909. Supervisors, managers and HR professionals will learn about how to prevent sexual harassment lawsuits, hire A-players, handle LGBT issues, be an effective leader, and more. Visit hrprofessionalsmagazine.com to register.
42. Events - Monday, April 10, 2017
The fourth annual Bringing Out the Leaders Networking Event will be held Thursday, April 13, at 6 p.m. at the University of Memphis University Center, 499 University St. College students from across the Mid-South will have the opportunity to connect with top business, community and political leaders at this program sponsored by the nonprofit Setting the Standard Enterprise. Cost is free; registration required. Visit stsenterprise.org.
Rotary Club of Memphis will meet Tuesday, March 21, at noon at the University Club of Memphis, 1346 Central Ave. Dr. Keith G. Anderson, a cardiologist at Sutherland Cardiology Clinic and president of the Tennessee Medical Association, will discuss numerous health care topics, including how federal health care reform could impact Tennessee. Cost is $20 at the door. Email [email protected] to register.
Aspen Dental, in partnership with Alpha Omega Veterans Services, will provide free dental care for Memphis veterans via its MouthMobile mobile dental office Tuesday, March 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Civic Center Plaza, 170 N. Main St. Appointments are required and can be made by contacting AOVS at 901-729-2345.
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music will open its "A Century of Funk: Rufus Thomas at 100" exhibition with a reception Thursday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at the museum, 926 E. McLemore Ave. Join the Stax Music Academy Rhythm Section and Thomas' friends and family for a special concert and panel discussion. Cost is free. The exhibition will be on display through Aug. 31. Visit staxmuseum.com.
47. Events - Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in NovaCopy's conference room, 7251 Appling Farms Parkway. Leadership development coach Shelley Baur will present "Creating Honest Conversations to Build Better Relationships." Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.com.
48. Events - Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Shen Yun Performing Arts will perform in Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 7-8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 255 N. Main St. The performance explores traditional Chinese culture and legends through a blend of classical dance and orchestral music. Tickets start at $70. Visit shenyun.com or call 888-974-3698.
NAWBO Memphis will present "Lighting the Way," its 18th anniversary and holiday celebration, Tuesday, Dec. 13, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Crescent Club Founders Room, 6075 Poplar Ave. Guest speakers include Jozelle Booker, MLGW's Supplier Diversity Program administrator and procurement and contracts manager and Shelby County Commissioner Heidi Shafer. Tickets are $15. Register at nawbomemphis.org.
Snowy Nights in My Big Backyard will be held Friday, Dec. 16, through Dec. 23 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road. Bring the family to play in the "snow," sip hot cocoa or spiced tea, create a winter craft, and enjoy music, lights and more throughout My Big Backyard. Tickets are $8 for members and $10 for nonmembers. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com.
51. Events - Saturday, December 10, 2016
The Fourth Bluff Ice Rink will open Saturday, Dec. 10, at Mississippi River Park (Riverside Drive next to the Tennessee Welcome Center) and will remain open through January. Hours on Sundays are noon to 6 p.m.; Tuesdays-Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Fridays from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.; and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The rink is closed on Mondays. Admission is $10 and includes skate rental. For details, visit memphisriverfront.com.
52. Events - Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Downtown Memphis Commission will host the 2016 Downtown Memphis annual meeting Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Halloran Centre, 225 S. Main St. Enjoy a cocktail reception and entertainment the first hour. Then starting at 5:30 p.m., the DMC will unveil its strategic priorities and public space considerations for the Main Street Mall area, then present the Downtown Vision Awards. Tickets are $20; preregistration required. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com for details and registration.
53. Events - Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the University of Phoenix's Memphis campus, 65 Germantown Court, first floor. Bradley Harris and Dell Self will present "What's It Going to Take to Be an Author?" Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.biz or call Jo Garner at 901-482-0354.
54. Events - Monday, November 14, 2016
Memphis Jewish Community Center will host journalist Chanan Tigay, discussing his book "The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible," Monday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at MJCC, 6560 Poplar Ave. The talk is part of the Jewish Literary and Cultural Arts Festival. Visit jccmemphis.org/LitFest for tickets and a festival schedule.
55. Events - Saturday, November 12, 2016
Downtown Memphis Commission will host the 2016 Downtown Memphis annual meeting Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Halloran Centre, 225 S. Main St. Enjoy a cocktail reception and entertainment the first hour; at 5:30 p.m., the DMC will unveil its strategic priorities and public space considerations for the Main Street Mall area and will present the Downtown Vision Awards. Tickets are $20; preregistration required. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com to register.
56. Events - Wednesday, November 9, 2016
The Project Management Institute Memphis Chapter and Mid-South Health Care Executives will host a panel discussion on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave., suite 909. Three experts will discuss cybersecurity and information technology security alignment with a company's or industry's regulations, business goals and organizational risk. Visit pmimemphis.org for details.
57. Events - Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the University of Phoenix's Memphis campus, 65 Germantown Court, first floor. Erich Eurich of FocalPoint Business Coaching will present "2017 Starts Now: Hit the ground running through effective goal setting." Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.com.
58. Events - Monday, November 7, 2016
Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County will host a volunteer orientation on Monday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. at HSMSC, 935 Farm Road. The orientation is the first step to becoming a volunteer for the organization. Visit memphishumane.org or call 901-937-3900 for details.
The Booksellers at Laurelwood and Memphis Botanic Garden will host Dick Wall for a book discussion and signing of "Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening" Wednesday, Sept. 14, at 1 p.m. at MBG, 750 Cherry Road. The book was written by Wall's late wife, Carol Wall, about her friendship with Kenyan-born landscaper Giles Owita. Visit thebooksellersatlaurelwood.com.
The Orpheum Theatre will present "Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage" Tuesday through Sunday, Sept. 13-18, at 203 S. Main St. Visit orpheum-memphis.com for times and tickets.
The Orpheum Theatre will present "Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage" Tuesday through Sunday, Sept. 13-18, at 203 S. Main St. Visit orpheum-memphis.com for times and tick-ets.
62. Events - Friday, August 12, 2016
Playhouse on the Square opens its 2016-17 season with the regional premiere of "Mamma Mia!" Friday, Aug. 12, through Sept. 4 at 66 S. Cooper St. Visit playhouseonthesquare.org.
Creative Aging continues its Senior Arts Series on Wednesday, July 13, at 1 p.m. at Theatre Memphis, 630 Perkins Road Extended. This performance for seniors and their guests will feature Creative Aging storyteller Elaine Blanchard, along with vocalist Laurence Albert and pianist Jill Brookoff. Tickets are $5 cash or check at the door. Visit creativeagingmidsouth.org or call 901-272-3434.
Ghost River Brewing Co. and Wolf River Conservancy will host Drink a Beer, Save a River on Tuesday, July 12, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Miss Cordelia's, 737 Harbor Bend Road. A dollar from every Ghost River Beer sold will flow directly to the conservancy. Visit wolfriver.org.
West Tennessee Historical Society will meet Monday, July 11, in Memphis University School's Wunderlich Auditorium, 6191 Park Ave. Nora Tucker, manager and curator of the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame, is the guest speaker. Visit wths-tn.org for details.
66. Events - Saturday, July 9, 2016
BRIDGES president and CEO Cynthia Ham will host a lunch and learn discussion about the importance of youth-led social change in Memphis on Thursday, July 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bridges, 477 N. Fifth St. Free, secure parking at Fifth and A.W. Willis Avenue. RSVP to [email protected] or 901-260-3724 by Tuesday, July 12.
67. Events - Thursday, June 30, 2016
Shelby County Juvenile Court's Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative, in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, will hold a juvenile justice summit Thursday, June 30, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Gathering Place in Hickory Ridge Mall, 6075 Winchester Road. The summit aims to bring awareness to Shelby County juvenile reform efforts and encourage citizens to participate in them. James Bell, founder and executive director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equality, will present the keynote. Cost is free. For details, email [email protected] or call 901-222-0902.
68. Events - Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Talk Shoppe will meet Wednesday, June 29, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the University of Phoenix–Memphis Campus, 65 Germantown Court, first floor. The topic is The MasterMind Principle, based on the book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. Cost is free. Visit talkshoppe.biz.
Central Defense Staffing will host a job fair Wednesday, May 11, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Landers Center, 4560 Venture Drive in Southaven. CDS is seeking to fill hundreds of positions for all shifts at accounts in North Mississippi. Applicants should come prepared for an interview. For more information and details on available positions, call 901-473-6385.
The Orpheum Theatre will present Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" Tuesday through Sunday, May 10-15, at the theater, 203 S. Main St. Buy tickets at orpheum-memphis.com.
71. Events - Monday, May 9, 2016
Luna Nova will perform a Belvedere Chamber Music Festival preview concert on Monday, May 9, at 7 p.m. at the Beethoven Club, 263 S. McLean Blvd. Visit lunanova.org.
Our Fallen Heroes Foundation will hold its inaugural "A Toast to Our Heroes" fundraiser Wednesday, April 27, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Tower Center atop Clark Tower, 5100 Poplar Ave., 33rd floor. The event will feature a wine tasting, silent auction, wine pull and more. Tickets are $65. Visit ourfallenheroesfoundation.org.
73. MATA Changes Target Frayser and Southeast Memphis - Thursday, February 11, 2016
The public's first chance to comment Tuesday, Feb. 9, on a set of 35 interim changes to Memphis' bus schedule sounded like an auction.
There were questions that began with numbers – route numbers that would change directions and streets or the frequency of service. And there were a lot of numbers to consider.
74. Events - Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Central Defense Staffing will host a recruitment event Wednesday, Feb. 10, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 6084 Apple Tree Drive, suite 10. CDS is seeking to fill positions for all shifts at various accounts in Memphis and North Mississippi. Applicants must bring two forms of ID and be able to pass drug screening and background checks. Visit centraldefensestaffing.com or call 901-473-6385, ext. 400.
75. MATA Holds Public Hearings On Route Changes - Tuesday, February 9, 2016
The Memphis Area Transit Authority begins a series of public meetings Tuesday, Feb. 9, on a set of proposed route changes that would take effect May 1 if approved by the MATA board.
The fixed route changes include adding trips after 5 p.m. to Route 4 to the Castalia area; restoring the 4:06 p.m. westbound trip on Route 34; and increasing midday buses on the Route 50 Poplar Avenue service.
77. Events - Monday, February 8, 2016
The Orpheum Theatre will present 2014 Tony Award winner "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" Tuesday, Feb. 9, through Feb. 14 at the theater, 203 S. Main St. Buy tickets at orpheum-memphis.com.
78. Events - Saturday, February 6, 2016
University of Memphis Hooks Institute will host "Stokely: A Life" author Peniel E. Joseph for a lecture, lunch and book signing Thursday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m. in the University Center River Room, 499 University St. Joseph's biography of Stokely Carmichael won the 2014 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute National Book Award. Visit memphis.edu/benhooks for details.
The Town of Collierville will open the 110-acre Hinton Park with a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 2 p.m. at 10524 E. Holmes Road. The destination park features a five-acre fishing lake, two playgrounds, two disc golf courses and three miles of trails. Call 901-457-2210 for details.
The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. will meet Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 9 a.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
The Downtown Memphis Commission Design Review Board will meet Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
Crosstown Arts and The Booksellers at Laurelwood will celebrate the national release of "Memphis Noir" Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 6 p.m. at Crosstown Arts' Story Booth, 438 N. Cleveland St. The anthology's editors and several contributors will be in attendance. Visit thebooksellersatlaurelwood.com.
84. Events - Saturday, October 31, 2015
"Memphis Noir" release party, hosted by Crosstown Arts and The Booksellers at Laurelwood, will be held Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 6 p.m. at Crosstown Arts' Story Booth, 438 N. Cleveland St. The anthology's editors and several contributors will be in attendance. Visit thebooksellersatlaurelwood.com.
85. Events - Friday, October 9, 2015
43rd annual Pink Palace Crafts Fair will be held Friday through Sunday, Oct. 9-11, in Audubon Park. Shop for artisan crafts and enjoy live music, artists demonstrations, family activities and more. Visit memphismuseums.org for hours and ticket prices.
86. Events - Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Central Defense Staffing will host a job fair Wednesday, Aug. 12, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Marion Hale Community Center, 4791 Willow Road. CDS is hiring various positions for large accounts in Memphis and North Mississippi. Applicants should come prepared for an informational interview. For details on available positions, call 901-473-6385.
87. Events - Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Memphis Botanic Garden will host a Food Truck Garden Party Tuesday, Aug. 11, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the garden, 750 Cherry Road. The event will feature live music, cash bar, food trucks and Memphis Parent Play Zone for kids. Tickets include one drink and are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com.
88. Events - Monday, August 10, 2015
The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. will meet Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 9 a.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
89. Events - Thursday, August 6, 2015
JETS Memphis will host its quarterly luncheon Thursday, Aug. 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave. Guest speakers include Dr. Kenneth Gilbert, professor emeritus and program chairman at UT Knoxville, and Andreas Mayer, head of sales, aircraft conversions, EFW. Cost is free. Visit www.team.aero for details.
The Downtown Memphis Commission Design Review Board will meet Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 4 p.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
The Association of African American Museums' 37th annual conference, "Milestones in History: African American Museums and the Story of African American Progress," will be held Tuesday, Aug. 4, through Friday, Aug. 7, with most events at The Peabody, 149 Union Ave. The general public is invited to all events. Visit blackmuseums.org/2015conference for schedule and event prices.
92. Events - Monday, August 3, 2015
93. Events - Saturday, August 1, 2015
Cooper Young Festival kickoff party/poster unveiling will be held Thursday, Aug. 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at CoWork Memphis, 902 S. Cooper St. The event will feature 2015 poster artist Gino Barzizza, live music, refreshments and a visual history of past festival posters. Visit cooperyoungfestival.com.
Memphis Botanic Garden will continue the 2015 Vine to Wine tasting series with "Viva la Vino! Italian Wines" Tuesday, July 28, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at MBG, 750 Cherry Road. Each event features eight wines or cocktails in and light hors d'oeuvres. Tickets are $25 for members or $35 for nonmembers. Visit memphisbotanicgarden.com.
Central Defense Staffing will host a recruitment event Thursday, June 11, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 6084 Apple Tree Drive, suite 10. CDS is seeking to fill specific warehouse positions in Memphis and North Mississippi. Visit centraldefensestaffing.com or call 901-473-6385.
The Booksellers at Laurelwood will host the Boldly Bookish YA Tour Wednesday, June 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the bookstore, 387 Perkins Road Extended. Meet four of Bloomsbury Publishing's breakout YA authors Visit thebooksellersatlaurelwood.com.
The Project Management Institute Memphis Chapter will meet Wednesday, May 13, at 6 p.m. at the Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar Ave. Ashley Calvert will present "The Future of Software Quality Management." Visit pmimemphis.org for details and registration.
NAWBO Memphis, the local chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, will meet Tuesday, May 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Chickasaw Country Club, 3395 Galloway Ave. Denise Hodges, co-founder of the Business BreakThrough Institute, will discuss how to build your business by speaking. Cost is $40 at the door. Visit nawbomemphis.org.
Luna Nova Music will present a preview concert for the ninth Belvedere Chamber Music Festival Monday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Beethoven Club, 263 S. McLean Ave. The concert will preview some of the works for the June 17-20 festival. Admission is free. Visit lunanova.org.
100. Events - Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau will celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week with a "Party in the Park" Wednesday, May 6, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Court Square, at Main Street and Court Avenue. The event will include food trucks, booths, entertainment, giveaways and more. Visit ilovememphisblog.com. | {
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struct CameraDevice::Pimpl
{
#if defined (MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_15) && MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_15
#define JUCE_USE_NEW_APPLE_CAMERA_API 1
#else
#define JUCE_USE_NEW_APPLE_CAMERA_API 0
#endif
#if JUCE_USE_NEW_APPLE_CAMERA_API
class PostCatalinaPhotoOutput
{
public:
PostCatalinaPhotoOutput()
{
static PhotoOutputDelegateClass cls;
delegate.reset ([cls.createInstance() init]);
}
void addImageCapture (AVCaptureSession* s)
{
if (imageOutput != nil)
return;
imageOutput = [[AVCapturePhotoOutput alloc] init];
[s addOutput: imageOutput];
}
void removeImageCapture (AVCaptureSession* s)
{
if (imageOutput == nil)
return;
[s removeOutput: imageOutput];
[imageOutput release];
imageOutput = nil;
}
NSArray<AVCaptureConnection*>* getConnections() const
{
if (imageOutput != nil)
return imageOutput.connections;
return nil;
}
void triggerImageCapture (Pimpl& p)
{
if (imageOutput == nil)
return;
PhotoOutputDelegateClass::setOwner (delegate.get(), &p);
[imageOutput capturePhotoWithSettings: [AVCapturePhotoSettings photoSettings]
delegate: id<AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate> (delegate.get())];
}
static NSArray* getAvailableDevices()
{
auto* discovery = [AVCaptureDeviceDiscoverySession discoverySessionWithDeviceTypes: @[AVCaptureDeviceTypeBuiltInWideAngleCamera,
AVCaptureDeviceTypeExternalUnknown]
mediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo
position: AVCaptureDevicePositionUnspecified];
return [discovery devices];
}
private:
class PhotoOutputDelegateClass : public ObjCClass<NSObject>
{
public:
PhotoOutputDelegateClass() : ObjCClass<NSObject> ("PhotoOutputDelegateClass_")
{
addMethod (@selector (captureOutput:didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:), didFinishProcessingPhoto, "v@:@@@");
addIvar<Pimpl*> ("owner");
registerClass();
}
static void didFinishProcessingPhoto (id self, SEL, AVCapturePhotoOutput*, AVCapturePhoto* photo, NSError* error)
{
if (error != nil)
{
String errorString = error != nil ? nsStringToJuce (error.localizedDescription) : String();
ignoreUnused (errorString);
JUCE_CAMERA_LOG ("Still picture capture failed, error: " + errorString);
jassertfalse;
return;
}
auto* imageData = [photo fileDataRepresentation];
auto image = ImageFileFormat::loadFrom (imageData.bytes, (size_t) imageData.length);
getOwner (self).imageCaptureFinished (image);
}
static Pimpl& getOwner (id self) { return *getIvar<Pimpl*> (self, "owner"); }
static void setOwner (id self, Pimpl* t) { object_setInstanceVariable (self, "owner", t); }
};
AVCapturePhotoOutput* imageOutput = nil;
std::unique_ptr<NSObject, NSObjectDeleter> delegate;
};
#else
struct PreCatalinaStillImageOutput
{
public:
void addImageCapture (AVCaptureSession* s)
{
if (imageOutput != nil)
return;
const auto codecType =
#if defined (MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_13) && MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_13
AVVideoCodecTypeJPEG;
#else
AVVideoCodecJPEG;
#endif
imageOutput = [[AVCaptureStillImageOutput alloc] init];
auto imageSettings = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys: codecType, AVVideoCodecKey, nil];
[imageOutput setOutputSettings: imageSettings];
[imageSettings release];
[s addOutput: imageOutput];
}
void removeImageCapture (AVCaptureSession* s)
{
if (imageOutput == nil)
return;
[s removeOutput: imageOutput];
[imageOutput release];
imageOutput = nil;
}
NSArray<AVCaptureConnection*>* getConnections() const
{
if (imageOutput != nil)
return imageOutput.connections;
return nil;
}
void triggerImageCapture (Pimpl& p)
{
if (auto* videoConnection = p.getVideoConnection())
{
[imageOutput captureStillImageAsynchronouslyFromConnection: videoConnection
completionHandler: ^(CMSampleBufferRef sampleBuffer, NSError* error)
{
if (error != nil)
{
JUCE_CAMERA_LOG ("Still picture capture failed, error: " + nsStringToJuce (error.localizedDescription));
jassertfalse;
return;
}
auto* imageData = [AVCaptureStillImageOutput jpegStillImageNSDataRepresentation: sampleBuffer];
auto image = ImageFileFormat::loadFrom (imageData.bytes, (size_t) imageData.length);
p.imageCaptureFinished (image);
}];
}
}
static NSArray* getAvailableDevices()
{
return [AVCaptureDevice devicesWithMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo];
}
private:
AVCaptureStillImageOutput* imageOutput = nil;
};
#endif
Pimpl (CameraDevice& ownerToUse, const String& deviceNameToUse, int /*index*/,
int /*minWidth*/, int /*minHeight*/,
int /*maxWidth*/, int /*maxHeight*/,
bool useHighQuality)
: owner (ownerToUse),
deviceName (deviceNameToUse)
{
session = [[AVCaptureSession alloc] init];
session.sessionPreset = useHighQuality ? AVCaptureSessionPresetHigh
: AVCaptureSessionPresetMedium;
refreshConnections();
static DelegateClass cls;
callbackDelegate = (id<AVCaptureFileOutputRecordingDelegate>) [cls.createInstance() init];
DelegateClass::setOwner (callbackDelegate, this);
JUCE_BEGIN_IGNORE_WARNINGS_GCC_LIKE ("-Wundeclared-selector")
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver: callbackDelegate
selector: @selector (captureSessionRuntimeError:)
name: AVCaptureSessionRuntimeErrorNotification
object: session];
JUCE_END_IGNORE_WARNINGS_GCC_LIKE
}
~Pimpl()
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver: callbackDelegate];
[session stopRunning];
removeInput();
removeImageCapture();
removeMovieCapture();
[session release];
[callbackDelegate release];
}
//==============================================================================
bool openedOk() const noexcept { return openingError.isEmpty(); }
void startSession()
{
if (! [session isRunning])
[session startRunning];
}
void takeStillPicture (std::function<void (const Image&)> pictureTakenCallbackToUse)
{
if (pictureTakenCallbackToUse == nullptr)
{
jassertfalse;
return;
}
pictureTakenCallback = std::move (pictureTakenCallbackToUse);
triggerImageCapture();
}
void startRecordingToFile (const File& file, int /*quality*/)
{
stopRecording();
refreshIfNeeded();
firstPresentationTime = Time::getCurrentTime();
file.deleteFile();
startSession();
isRecording = true;
[fileOutput startRecordingToOutputFileURL: createNSURLFromFile (file)
recordingDelegate: callbackDelegate];
}
void stopRecording()
{
if (isRecording)
{
[fileOutput stopRecording];
isRecording = false;
}
}
Time getTimeOfFirstRecordedFrame() const
{
return firstPresentationTime;
}
void addListener (CameraDevice::Listener* listenerToAdd)
{
const ScopedLock sl (listenerLock);
listeners.add (listenerToAdd);
if (listeners.size() == 1)
triggerImageCapture();
}
void removeListener (CameraDevice::Listener* listenerToRemove)
{
const ScopedLock sl (listenerLock);
listeners.remove (listenerToRemove);
}
static StringArray getAvailableDevices()
{
auto* devices = decltype (imageOutput)::getAvailableDevices();
StringArray results;
for (AVCaptureDevice* device : devices)
results.add (nsStringToJuce ([device localizedName]));
return results;
}
AVCaptureSession* getCaptureSession()
{
return session;
}
NSView* createVideoCapturePreview()
{
// The video preview must be created before the capture session is
// started. Make sure you haven't called `addListener`,
// `startRecordingToFile`, or `takeStillPicture` before calling this
// function.
jassert (! [session isRunning]);
startSession();
JUCE_AUTORELEASEPOOL
{
NSView* view = [[NSView alloc] init];
[view setLayer: [AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer layerWithSession: getCaptureSession()]];
return view;
}
}
private:
//==============================================================================
struct DelegateClass : public ObjCClass<NSObject>
{
DelegateClass() : ObjCClass<NSObject> ("JUCECameraDelegate_")
{
addIvar<Pimpl*> ("owner");
addProtocol (@protocol (AVCaptureFileOutputRecordingDelegate));
addMethod (@selector (captureOutput:didStartRecordingToOutputFileAtURL: fromConnections:), didStartRecordingToOutputFileAtURL, "v@:@@@");
addMethod (@selector (captureOutput:didPauseRecordingToOutputFileAtURL: fromConnections:), didPauseRecordingToOutputFileAtURL, "v@:@@@");
addMethod (@selector (captureOutput:didResumeRecordingToOutputFileAtURL: fromConnections:), didResumeRecordingToOutputFileAtURL, "v@:@@@");
addMethod (@selector (captureOutput:willFinishRecordingToOutputFileAtURL:fromConnections:error:), willFinishRecordingToOutputFileAtURL, "v@:@@@@");
JUCE_BEGIN_IGNORE_WARNINGS_GCC_LIKE ("-Wundeclared-selector")
addMethod (@selector (captureSessionRuntimeError:), sessionRuntimeError, "v@:@");
JUCE_END_IGNORE_WARNINGS_GCC_LIKE
registerClass();
}
static void setOwner (id self, Pimpl* owner) { object_setInstanceVariable (self, "owner", owner); }
static Pimpl& getOwner (id self) { return *getIvar<Pimpl*> (self, "owner"); }
private:
static void didStartRecordingToOutputFileAtURL (id, SEL, AVCaptureFileOutput*, NSURL*, NSArray*) {}
static void didPauseRecordingToOutputFileAtURL (id, SEL, AVCaptureFileOutput*, NSURL*, NSArray*) {}
static void didResumeRecordingToOutputFileAtURL (id, SEL, AVCaptureFileOutput*, NSURL*, NSArray*) {}
static void willFinishRecordingToOutputFileAtURL (id, SEL, AVCaptureFileOutput*, NSURL*, NSArray*, NSError*) {}
static void sessionRuntimeError (id self, SEL, NSNotification* notification)
{
JUCE_CAMERA_LOG (nsStringToJuce ([notification description]));
NSError* error = notification.userInfo[AVCaptureSessionErrorKey];
auto errorString = error != nil ? nsStringToJuce (error.localizedDescription) : String();
getOwner (self).cameraSessionRuntimeError (errorString);
}
};
//==============================================================================
void addImageCapture()
{
imageOutput.addImageCapture (session);
}
void addMovieCapture()
{
if (fileOutput == nil)
{
fileOutput = [[AVCaptureMovieFileOutput alloc] init];
[session addOutput: fileOutput];
}
}
void removeImageCapture()
{
imageOutput.removeImageCapture (session);
}
void removeMovieCapture()
{
if (fileOutput != nil)
{
[session removeOutput: fileOutput];
[fileOutput release];
fileOutput = nil;
}
}
void removeCurrentSessionVideoInputs()
{
if (session != nil)
{
NSArray<AVCaptureDeviceInput*>* inputs = session.inputs;
for (AVCaptureDeviceInput* input : inputs)
if ([input.device hasMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo])
[session removeInput:input];
}
}
void addInput()
{
if (currentInput == nil)
{
auto* availableDevices = decltype (imageOutput)::getAvailableDevices();
for (AVCaptureDevice* device : availableDevices)
{
if (deviceName == nsStringToJuce ([device localizedName]))
{
removeCurrentSessionVideoInputs();
NSError* err = nil;
AVCaptureDeviceInput* inputDevice = [[AVCaptureDeviceInput alloc] initWithDevice: device
error: &err];
jassert (err == nil);
if ([session canAddInput: inputDevice])
{
[session addInput: inputDevice];
currentInput = inputDevice;
}
else
{
jassertfalse;
[inputDevice release];
}
return;
}
}
}
}
void removeInput()
{
if (currentInput != nil)
{
[session removeInput: currentInput];
[currentInput release];
currentInput = nil;
}
}
void refreshConnections()
{
[session beginConfiguration];
removeInput();
removeImageCapture();
removeMovieCapture();
addInput();
addImageCapture();
addMovieCapture();
[session commitConfiguration];
}
void refreshIfNeeded()
{
if (getVideoConnection() == nullptr)
refreshConnections();
}
AVCaptureConnection* getVideoConnection() const
{
auto* connections = imageOutput.getConnections();
if (connections != nil)
for (AVCaptureConnection* connection in connections)
if ([connection isActive] && [connection isEnabled])
for (AVCaptureInputPort* port in [connection inputPorts])
if ([[port mediaType] isEqual: AVMediaTypeVideo])
return connection;
return nil;
}
void imageCaptureFinished (const Image& image)
{
handleImageCapture (image);
WeakReference<Pimpl> weakRef (this);
MessageManager::callAsync ([weakRef, image]() mutable
{
if (weakRef != nullptr && weakRef->pictureTakenCallback != nullptr)
weakRef->pictureTakenCallback (image);
});
}
void handleImageCapture (const Image& image)
{
const ScopedLock sl (listenerLock);
listeners.call ([=] (Listener& l) { l.imageReceived (image); });
if (! listeners.isEmpty())
triggerImageCapture();
}
void triggerImageCapture()
{
refreshIfNeeded();
startSession();
if (auto* videoConnection = getVideoConnection())
imageOutput.triggerImageCapture (*this);
}
void cameraSessionRuntimeError (const String& error)
{
JUCE_CAMERA_LOG ("cameraSessionRuntimeError(), error = " + error);
if (owner.onErrorOccurred != nullptr)
owner.onErrorOccurred (error);
}
//==============================================================================
CameraDevice& owner;
String deviceName;
AVCaptureSession* session = nil;
AVCaptureMovieFileOutput* fileOutput = nil;
#if JUCE_USE_NEW_APPLE_CAMERA_API
PostCatalinaPhotoOutput imageOutput;
#else
PreCatalinaStillImageOutput imageOutput;
#endif
AVCaptureDeviceInput* currentInput = nil;
id<AVCaptureFileOutputRecordingDelegate> callbackDelegate = nil;
String openingError;
Time firstPresentationTime;
bool isRecording = false;
CriticalSection listenerLock;
ListenerList<Listener> listeners;
std::function<void (const Image&)> pictureTakenCallback = nullptr;
//==============================================================================
JUCE_DECLARE_WEAK_REFERENCEABLE (Pimpl)
JUCE_DECLARE_NON_COPYABLE (Pimpl)
};
//==============================================================================
struct CameraDevice::ViewerComponent : public NSViewComponent
{
ViewerComponent (CameraDevice& device)
{
setView (device.pimpl->createVideoCapturePreview());
}
~ViewerComponent()
{
setView (nil);
}
JUCE_DECLARE_NON_COPYABLE (ViewerComponent)
};
String CameraDevice::getFileExtension()
{
return ".mov";
}
#undef JUCE_USE_NEW_APPLE_CAMERA_API
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Michelle Distler, Dan Pflumm, Jon Segale and Jeff Vaught participated in a debate hosted by the Johnson County League of Women Voters at the Johnson County Library in Shawnee on Thursday.
Shawnee — The four candidates for Shawnee mayor debated key issues in front of a crowd of about 100 Thursday evening in preparation for the March 3 primary.
All of the candidates agreed that roads and road maintenance will be a top priority, and each presented ways that they would ensure the new Parks, Pipes and Pavement tax would efficiently address the many miles of roads in the Shawnee that need repair. They also debated tax incentives and how they would use incentives like Tax Increment Financing districts to attract new retail and businesses to Shawnee.
Michelle Distler, Dan Pflumm, John Segale and Jeff Vaught are all campaigning to advance to the spring general election in April. Shawnee is the only city in Johnson County holding a mayoral primary election.
Here is a look at their views on several key issues that they say they will address as mayor of Shawnee.
With the recent approval by Shawnee voters of a three-eighth-cent sales tax in the city designated street maintenance and improvements, the city will have an additional annual funds to put toward road improvements in addition to curbs and gutters through the city's new Street Improvement Program.
Each of the candidates agreed that, as mayor, they would need to ensure that those funds would address the most needy roads across all areas of Shawnee first. Distler said the city is already on the right track with its grading system for roads and by creating a committee to determine the most efficient way to resurface, curb and gutter roads across Shawnee over the ten-year life of the tax.
Pflumm said the city also has to look harder at the money the city has designated to roads, in addition to the new sales tax revenue.
Vaught pointed out Thursday that his fellow council member Pflumm voted no to present the pavement sales tax question to voters last Fall. Pflumm responded, saying that he voted no on presenting the question to voters about a three-eighth-cent tax because a previous survey of citizens showed 75 percent of them would not favor a sales tax of that amount, but rather preferred a one-eighth-cent or two-eighth-cent sales tax.
Vaught also suggested a new community committee that would allow the community to have a voice in deciding which roads to address first.
Segale presented his ideas aggressively throughout the debate Thursday and said that if the other three candidates were elected, "Nothing is going to happen." He said the city didn't need the additional sales tax to address the roads problem in the city and that the city has been "negligent in its duties." He said he would organize the necessary funds then tackle the problem with large projects in "one or two big chunks," over a period of about 15 years.
The candidates varied the most on the responses to a question about tax incentives and how the Excise Tax Abatement program, TIFs and other incentives would play a role in them attracting new development and businesses to Shawnee.
Vaught called tax incentives a "necessary evil" and said that Shawnee needs to offer incentives as it is located between two highly incentivized developments in Village West to the north and City Center to the south. He said Shawnee lost an important business in Perceptive Software mostly because Lenexa offered an attractive incentive for the company to move a few miles across the city border.
"If we're going to build anything in Shawnee of scale, we need to offer incentives," Vaught said.
Distler said she, as a council member for the last eight years, has looked at each incentive the city has offered and has been able to justify some while denying others.
"Some incentives make sense, some don't," Distler said.
"I believe tax incentives should be used to redevelop areas of Shawnee that have fallen on hard times, not on brand new development," Segale said.
Segale said he is even against the city's $2 million budgeted for economic development activity in 2015 and said he would redirect that fund to the Shawnee Mission and De Soto public schools to help alleviate any state funding cuts to education.
Segale's opponents voiced their support of the economic development fund and the efforts the city has used to attract new businesses.
Vaught responded to Segale's claims that the city has been giving money to "special interests" by explaining that TIFs and other programs like the Excise Tax Abatement only allow developers to use future funds that the city would usually collect to help pay for the development, such as was used at The Legends at Village West.
"We're not giving money to developers, we're developing value here in Shawnee," Vaught said.
Distler said she would push to see more redevelopment of vacant, already established shopping centers such as Westbrook Village but said there are significant challenges in some cases when working with private owners. She said the city did everything it could last year to see a Menard's put in Westbrook Village, but negotiations between the owner and the developers broke down.
"Nobody likes to see empty store fronts," Distler said.
She said that Shawnee needs to continue to consider options, including incentives, to broaden the sales tax base in Shawnee, and her opponent Pflumm agreed.
Pflumm, who has served on the council since 2002, said that he would use his experience in sales to bring those new businesses to Shawnee.
"I think we need to do a better job of selling our city," Pflumm said.
In each candidate's closing statement, they presented each of their campaign platforms.
Segale described himself as a "clean break" from the current leadership in the city. He called the current leadership "cronyism" and said his opponents are all believe in the same thing, which drew some reaction from the audience.
"Shawnee needs new ideas to move forward," Segale said.
Vaught described himself as a proven leader and said the city has made great strides under its current leadership and efforts need to be continued in public safety, parks and recreation and economic growth to take Shawnee into the future.
"We have a great thing going and we need to maintain that," Vaught said.
Pflumm emphasized his ability to sell the city and continue to attract businesses not only to new developments, but to the older sections of town including the downtown area.
Distler said she would focus on development and redevelopment of businesses in Shawnee and said the city needs to do a better job of making government something the community wants to participate in. She said she would work to make city government more engaging with citizens to solicit more input from all areas of the city.
"It's not about thinking alike, it's about thinking together," Distler said. | {
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What not to do: 10 rules for game developers
Matthew Anfuso March 21, 2011 10:31 PM
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Top ten lists always devolve into nine losers and one winner (the "best" or "greatest" or whatever). But this list isn't so much about winning as it is about whining. So let's get right into it and see some rules that, if followed, might give us some (slightly) better games.
10. The combat rule.
Guns are better than swords. They're faster, deadlier, and they take less effort to use than a giant sword. I think The Last Samurai proved that if you bring a sword to a gun fight (and you're not Tom Cruise), you're dead.
Games don't like to adhere to this rule. They often have futuristic settings where armies have standard-issue submachine guns and giant robots that shoot lasers, but the protagonists fight with swords, fists, boomerangs, spears, and for some reason, a jacket.
If games did follow this rule, there would be no excuse for a person to not use his gunblade exclusively as a gun.
Don't worry, I'll distract the machine-gun-toting soldiers with the scarf stuffed down my pants, then I'll hit them with my jacket. That'll work, right?
9. The "Can I please have my body back?" rule.
Every first-person shooter starts out after some horrific event in which the main character loses his enitre body and has turned into two floating hands hell-bent on getting the rest of their body back.
Wait…they don't start like that? Then where the hell is the rest of my body? Last time I looked down, I could see my legs and my torso. If I look down in a first-person shooter, I see nothing. No legs, no torso. What are my incredibly-stiff-arms-that-always-hold-guns-up-to-my-face supposed to be connected to?
8. The affirmative-action rule.
Games are seriously lacking in racial diversity. Why won't they at least let me make a non-white character?
In Dragon Age: Origins, starting as a human noble, I was able to make a black-ish character. Then I met my very white parents and brother, meaning I was either adopted or a douche who liked to walk around in blackface.
It's not much different for the other origins in DA:O. You meet your family members in each of them (except for the mages), and they are all white. So I can make my character look like anything I want — so long as that character is white.
Bethesda had the right idea with Fallout 3 — your father's race changed with yours. Sure, it's kind of weird to hear Liam Neeson as a black guy…but then again, Kratos was voiced by a black guy.
7. The clothing rule.
Some game characters seem unable or unwilling to get dressed, and they just look ridiculous. Take Monkey from Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, or Nier from…Nier.
Remember, kids: Shirts are never a bad idea.
Put some pants on. You look stupid.
6. The Albedo rule.
Named after Albedo from the Xenosaga series, the rule is simple: If a game has to be censored, then the censorship has to make it more awesome. If a game is too bloody, replace blood with rainbows. When a guy gets his head shot off, have a unicorn pop out of it. It's not violent — it's a unicorn!
This rule specifically comes from one scene in Xenosaga wherein Albedo terrorized MOMO. In the Japanese version, he used a knife to cut off his arm and head. In the American version, he couldn't use a knife (because knives are violent), so he ripped his arm off and twisted his own head off. Sure, it's less bloody, but it amps up the crazy.
5. The genital rule.
Keep it in your pants, guys. Please, no more talking penises riding chariots or giant monsters with vagina faces. It's just weird. (Respectively, the offenders are: Mara [possibly NSFW] from Persona 3 and 4, and the Rakk Hive from Borderlands.)
Also, let's not take the term "cockpit" so literally, Zone of the Enders. It's distracting.
4. The patch rule.
If you encounter a major and very noticeable glitch within the first 30 seconds of playing, then the game is not finished and should be delayed.
Also, if a game is littered with glitches, like a giant worm emerging underneath my tank resulting in instant death (Mass Effect), or if I start with my main character in his underwear because a piece of free DLC didn't carry over (DA:O Awakening), don't ignore it. PATCH IT!
However, funny glitches, like the Cougar Man, can stay.
3. The title rule.
Square Enix recently revealed that Final Fantasy is going to fight 13 while also pondering Final Fantasy 13-2 (which is 11 if my math is correct). In addition, someone in Kingdom Hearts is going to give birth by going to sleep, and something is going to happen in 179 days.
While none of those titles make any sense (and two of them look like math problems), this problem isn't exclusive to Square Enix. Titles like Last Ranker, Monster Hunter Tri (because the number 3 was taken? or is the game about trying?), and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together also exhibit odd, ridiculous titles.
This also includes games with horrendously long titles that abuse colons, such as Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-King.
2. The star rule.
Whose game is this anyway? Stop changing protagonists halfway through games that feature a series star. It didn't work in Metal Gear Solid 2. It didn't work in Halo 2. It didn't work in Devil May Cry 4. Stop trying.
This also applies to games that ditch their series stars for a bland create-a-character. Tenchu Z was terrible, and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy effectively killed the series.
Good luck, X-Men: Destiny!
1. The rule of kings.
There must always be a king of genre, a shining beacon that everyone aspires to be. World of WarCraft rules of MMOs, and Dynasty Warriors is lord of…Dynasty Warrior-like games. But there is one king that shows that path that no one should take: the king of vaporware.
With the imminent release of Duke Nukem Forever, the king has abdicated the throne, and there must be a new one to show the masses how things should not be done. Thankfully, Valve has continuously failed to release Half-Life 2: Episode 3. I think we have a new ruler.
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Hi, my name is Brandi!
I am a 20-something wife, daughter, sister, dog mom, agvocate, and nurse.
My roots are planted on a farm in small town Iowa.
I blog about life, love, nursing, food, farming, and fun.
Lipstick and tractors collide in my world.
I am a lover of country music, adventure, and laughing.
I believe in God, good friends, and standing up for what you believe in.
I speak sarcasm as a second language and never take life too seriously.
You can find me binge watching Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, and Bones.
Coffee = Love. And I spend too much time shopping on Amazon.
I went to college in smalltown Iowa, and now live in smalltown Kansas! Welcome to farming…it's a wild ride!
I'm glad there are! I look forward to getting to know people better, and finding things to do when Kyle's off working!
Thanks for following my bog-I look forward to reading yours!
Merry Christmas! just stoping in from Christmas in the Country…You make smile–can't wait to read more of your posts.
Thanks so much! You made my night 🙂 Glad to hear I make you smile. What's your blog? I'll definitely follow along!
Just saw you were following my blog and came for a look-see. Love your page. I live right across the world – in India. 🙂 Farming's all new to me – my parents have just bought one, and we're still learning the ropes. I'm hoping it will turn out well. Lots of luck to you too!
Thanks for stopping by! I wish you the best of luck as well!
Thank you! I appreciate this. 🙂 I don't have any kids yet, but someday!
New to your blog because of the God Made a Farmer's post that someone posted to my Facebook wall. Farming is definitely the best way to live your life! Can't wait to catch up on all your posts!
Welcome to the farming way of life! You will meet the most competitive, but caring people in your life. You compete with them for corn yields, county fairs, and tractor pulls, but if something happens to one of our own, farmers from all over pull together to help each other. I am a farmers daughter, I lost my first farmer/husband to a terrible disease and now I have found another "salt of the earth" farmer to be my husband. I left the corporate world to be a farm wife full-time. Welcome and I look forward to your posts.
From one Iowa blogger to another, Hello! I saw your post on Sincerely Jenni this morning and had to stop by. I grew up in NE Iowa too, but now live near Cedar Rapids. My parents and sisters still live up there. I'm a Valley grad, but I am "tad" older than you! I look forward to reading more!
Our stories are similar. I have no direct ag background, but I met my farmer while finishing my nursing degree and he was in the crop sciences program!
Hey girl, happy I stumbled across your blog….I live in a NW town in Iowa…I'm from Ft Worth, TX. CULTURE SHOCK!!! I love it here though and wouldn't change it for the world. Being the wife of a farmer is amazing and I have so much respect for this lifestyle I've been a part of for 10 years now. Thank you for your amazing blog!!!
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Her work in oils, acrylic and watercolor are mostly landscapes which have found homes in Alaska, the length of California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Wisconsin. Winning awards and various color ribbons at the county fair keeps her competing and willing to show and share her work at various venues locally and San Diego, on periodic continuing bases. Otherwise her artworks can be viewed at her studio SOHOH, where orders may be placed for greeting and note cards, prints, and select originals. She has been known to barter even as she admits to gifting or purchases by family members. | {
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Offering direct job introductions as part of the course plus weekly guaranteed work placements, masterclasses with industry specialists, the chance of fully funded international study programmes for most students, opportunity for International Scholarships and the chance to move directly into a full time paid Apprenticeship, this unique course provides an opening into the fascinating and globally expanding football and wider sports industry.
Working in conjunction with our host schools and colleges, the vocational-style course also attracts significant UCAS points for those wishing to progress to University and can be taken alongside other qualifications including 'A' levels. Importantly the course is internally examined (unlike BTEC qualifications) so is particularly suited to those who find the pressure of external examinations more challenging. Devised by one of the leading specialists in World football who was awarded a UEFA Pro Licence (highest coaching award in world football), this industry recognised Level 3 qualification is offered across the North West of England.
Created by UEFA Pro Licence Coach and former World Cup Footballer David Campbell who is actively involved in the programme.
Specifically created for released and highly skilled Footballers age 16-19 who are looking for a realistic opportunity to sign with a professional club. This programme also ensures high quality education and direct introductions to jobs within the football industry should players not achieve full time professional club careers. Using the extensive contacts of David Campbell and his experience at every level of the professional game, this course combines excellence in football with education.
Importantly David Campbell is a well regarded registered Intermediary and currently manages Professional Footballers including those playing in the Premiership and Internationally. Elite Academy players are guaranteed to be offered management representation should they be signed by a professional or semi-professional club during the course.
Already attracting released players from Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers, Manchester United, Bolton, Everton, Liverpool and Blackpool Football Clubs, David Campbell Soccer won major honours in two National College Leagues in the first two years of operation and were winners of the Everton Shield. | {
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Purab Kohli (Actor) Height, Weight, Age, Affairs, Biography & More
Purab Kohli (Actor) Height, Weight, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Biography, Girlfriend, and More
Purab Kohli is an Indian television and film actor, model, and former video jockey. He is best known for portraying Akarsh in Hotstar web series Out of Love and its sequel Out of Love 2.He started his career in 1998 with the television show Hip Hip Hurray which got aired on Zee TV. Purab got the most recognition from the audience for video jockeying on Channel V.
Birth & Early Life
Purab Kohli was born on 23 February 1979 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh to a Hindu family. His father Harsh Kohli is a hotelier and a film producer while his mother is a corporate trainer. Purab completed his schooling at St. Stanislaus High School and The Bishop School, Pune. He switched his stream from science to commerce and did his graduation in Arts and Economics.
Real Name Purab Kohli
Date of Birth 23 February 1979
Birth Place Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Home Town Mumbai, Maharashtra
Father : Harsh Kohli
Wife : Yamini Namjoshi (m. 2007-2010)
Lucy Payton (m. 2018)
Daughter : Inaya
Address Mumbai, Maharashtra
Purab started his career in the year 1998 with the television show Hip Hip Hurray. He got immense popularity by being a VJ for Channel V. Later he hosted a travel show wherein he toured India on a budge. He was also the part of popular TV fantasy sitcom Shararat (2005). He also anchored the popular TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and Terra Quiz for the National Geographic Channel.
Purab made his Bollywood debut with the movie Bus Yuhin in the year 2003, where he starred opposite Nandita Das. He also appeared in popular movies such as Supari (2003), 13th Floor (2005), My Brother Nikil (2005) etc. He also starred in an antagonistic role in Mahesh Bhatt's films Woh Lambe (2006) and Awarapan (2007). Purab has also acted opposite Farhan Akhtar in the movie Rock On in 2008, where he got a special jury mention in the Filmfare awards.
Purab has appeared in web series such as the Voot's web series, It's Not That Simple (2018) starring alongside Swara Bhaskar. Later, he casted for Netflix series Typewriter, which was directed by Sujoy Ghosh, and Hotstar series Out of Love, where he appeared along with Soni Razdan and Rasika Dugal.
School St. Stanislaus High School
The Bishop School
Educational Qualification Grauduate
Debut Television : Hip Hip Hurray (1998)
Film : Bus Yuhin (2003)
Awards Filmfare Special Jury Awards (2009)
ITA Awards For Best Actor Drama (2017)
Height In Feet : 5'8″ ft
In Meter : 1.73 m
Weight In Pound : 168 lbs
In Kilogram : 76 Kg
Hobbies Swimming, Trekking & Dancing
Purab Kohli married the actress Yamini Namjoshi in the year 2007, but a few years into the marriage the couple got separated and parted their ways in the year 2010. Kohli married his long-time girlfriend Lucy Payton in an intimate ceremony in Goa on 15 February 2018. The duo is blessed with the daughter Inaya (b. 2015).
Girlfriends Lucy Payton
Marriage Date 15 February 2018
Net Worth INR 20-50 Crores
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Some Facts About Purab Kohli
Purab Kohli was born and raised in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh to a Hindu family.
His paternal uncle is Vishal Anand, who is an actor and producer in Bollywood films.
He has won awards like Filmfare Special Jury Awards (2009) and ITA Awards For Best Actor Drama (2017)
In 2022, Purab was seen in the Disney+ Hotstar series Criminal Justice 3 starring Pankaj Tripathi and Shweta Basu Prasad.
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Dibyendu Bhattacharya (Actor) Height, Weight, Age, Affairs, Biography & More
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Seeking a Pipeline Technical Director whose familiar working a fast paced production environment. The Pipeline TD is responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting software that enables the Client Art Studio to design and create without being hindered by technical restraints. Software tools generally involve Python development of automation scripts and user friendly custom extensions of tools like Maya, Photoshop, and Modo.
l Familiar with rendering techniques, including Path/RayTracing and Rasterizers. | {
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For this project I started out with McCormick taco seasoning and was tasked with re-packaging it. After researching customer complaints and other reviews I introduced a new McCormick product line. The new McCormick spice kit includes nine different jars filled with pre-blended spices.
The concept of this kit is that instead of having to mix all the spices for a recipe yourself they come pre-blended and ready for you. Also included are nine recipe cards that each have a recipe from a different region of the world. The purpose of this kit was to be the bridge between McCormick's spices and the recipes McCormick has on their site.
The design consists of a new logo and a flexible branding system for the bottles. The new logo was based off of the 1920's prohibition. Taking the top shelf alcohol idea and swapping in the shape of the already existing McCormick bottles. On the bottles themselves each blend is labeled with their region and their flags colors on the top banner.
The recipe cards are compact and meant to fit underneath the bottles in the box. The cards are accordion folded displaying the ingredients and directions on the front and the completed dish photographed on the back. Each McCormick spice kit makes the perfect holiday gift.
McCormick has a wide variety of spices, and an equally large variety of recipes on their website. This product combines both of those and allows the user to shave off prep time during the assembly of the dish and experience different cultures at the same time. | {
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Review of Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut
Review of Nightbreed: The Cabal…
What was released in 1990 was about a 100 minute horror/slasher movie that was truncated from about two and a half hours. That's a lot of lost footage.
I saw Clive Barker's Hellraiser back in college. I didn't know that much about Barker at the time, but I had heard of his Books of Blood. But I was a big horror movie fan and Hellraiser looked really unique and word had it that it was gory, so it was naturally something I had to see. After that I checked out the Books of Blood, and had bought The Damnation Game, but gave it to my mom for a birthday present. She liked horror novels. I figured I would read it after she did. So, since then, I've been reading his Abarat books, but not much in between. I guess that's terrible to say, because it's not like I don't enjoy reading, and surely the books are always better than the film adaptations, but there's just so much film to watch, it's hard to find time for both.
So, Cabal never made it into my reading schedule. But when Nightbreed came out in theaters, there was no way I was going to miss it. Another Clive Barker written and directed film? Yes! However, little did I know that what we saw in theaters at the time was not at all what Clive had intended for us to see. Clive Barker was already told by Producers to change the name from Cabal, to Nightbreed, because they thought it would be more accesible to audiences. Alreedy messing with things they shouldn't. Yet, a film about a lost city where monsters live? That was a premise upon which I could get on board.
Aaron Boone is a young man plagued by dark dreams of a place called Midian where all manner of monsters can live, safe from the outside world. But are these dreams simply that, or is there more meaning to them? Boone revisits his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Decker, at his behest. We find Dr. Decker has a dark side and convinces Boone he has murdered people, when in fact, it was Decker. Everything culminates in the residents of Midian having to defend their home – and their very existence – against those that would see them destroyed.
What was released in 1990 was about a 100 minute horror/slasher movie that was truncated from about two and a half hours. That's a lot of lost footage. As Clive Barker tells it, Morgan Creek, the production company that green lit Nightbreed, was co-owned by Joe Roth and James G. Robinson. Roth was the guy that supported the project, but during filming he couldn't take any more of Morgan Creek and left, leaving Barker with Robinson, a man that had no real understanding of what Clive was trying to do. He had the film cut to pieces, leaving a film to which Barker had little interest in attaching his name.
Years pass, and in 2009 Mark Miller, co-head of Barker's production comapny, Seraphim Films, went on a search for the missing footage, finding that either no one had any of the original missing footage, or that no one really cared enough to do anything about it. It's amazing sometimes that anything worthwhile ever gets done in the film industry. Preserve the creator's original vision? Bah! Where's the money in that?! Suits sitting at desks often don't have any clue about the creative process or anything of creative value. They don't understand that generally, if you let the creators actually do what they do best, you will likely have an end product that you can be proud of, AND make money. Yes, there are exceptions, but you know what I mean.
Turns out, after all this searching, the reels of film they were looking for were under a stack of porn in Clive Barker's closet the whole time. Those are Barker's words, not mine. And keep in mind, most of this is either VHS or old master reels – and all of it very grainy and degraded. Some of this footage was barely watchable. Russell Charrington, a senior lecturer of film and video production at University of Derby, reconstructed Nightbreed into a now 155 minute version dubbed The Cabal Cut. Mark Miller said those working on it amusingly referred to it as The Kitchen Sink Cut because every bit of found footage was put in. And it is indeed a much more interesting film with so much more depth. It's definitely more of a love story between Boone (Craig Scheffer) and his girlfriend Lori (Anne Bobby). And there is certainly more development of Dr. Decker and of the inhabitants of Midian. The great majority of this footage is a great improvement on the film. Is it a little too long? Yeah, at 155 minutes you can find some things that probably don't need to be in there. But that's normal (using that word to describe anything involving Clive Barker just seems wrong) for practically any film. There are always going to be SOME edits. Just not half of it. Of course, an example of the other side of that coin is Peter Jackson's King Kong. They could have chopped almost an hour off of that movie. But I digress.
So now it's about taking this new cut of Nightbreed and just making it the perfect cut; the Director's Cut. Will we see that? A glorious and resounding YES! Clive Barker and Mark Miller have said there will indeed be a director's cut slated to release next year on Bluray by Shout! Factory through their horror label Scream Factory. It will be great to see this footage get cleaned up for a Bluray. This is a major coup. Fuck you James Robinson for trying to crush the creative vision! Thankfully enough demand exists to make this a reality. Needless to say, I'll be picking that up when it comes out.
~ Neil T.Weakley, your average movie-goer, happy to finally see NIghtbreed for the film it really should be.
Author: Neil Weakley
http://www.comedyfilmnerds.com
Hi. I'm Neil. I didn't go to film school so I don't really have to justify any of my opinions about why I like a film or not. So there. But I worked in film for a number of years, so I have hands-on experience. That, and I've known Chris Mancini for, like, 25 years or so. It really is all who you know. :) I'm mostly, but not exclusively, a fan of sci-fi, comic book movies, horror, comedies, and weird independent films. If you're an average movie-goer and want to know what another average movie-goer thinks without all the "feelm school" gobbley-gook, hop on over to www.comedyfilmnerds.com and look for me, Neil T. Weakley. I won't steer you wrong. Or follow me on Twitter @FilmNerdNeil.
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Various/ Chris Woodward – Focus On: Buzzin' Fly review
Buzzin' Fly compilations always take on a retrospective feel, looking back at what the label has achieved with a proud (and wholly justified) sense of achievement. They are much like family Christmas cards that fondly round up the year's activities for friends and relatives. As part of their 50th single celebrations this spring, they deliver a compilation of Buzzin' Fly classics as the next instalment of the Focus On series. Penned by Chris Woodward, an integral part of the imprint's close knit family, this release features the likes of Ben Watt, Spencer Parker, Justin Martin, Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia.
Like Buzzin Fly: 5 Years in the Wilderness, (and all four Volumes in the Buzzin' Fly series) this compilation digs into the imprint's revered back catalogue. The former was applauding reaching five years whilst the latter celebrates reaching their 50th release. Over seventy-five minutes, Chris Woodward picks out some of Buzzin' Fly's flagship tracks such as label boss Ben Watt's "Guinea Pig," Spencer Parker's "The Beginning" and Justin Martin's "The Fugitive".
As Woodward hones into some deep, intricate, house action, he delves into Buzzin' Fly's trademark mix of deep house, melodic techno and electronic disco. We see cuts like Jay Shepheard's remix of Glimpse and Martin Eyrir's "Southern Soul" standing shoulder to shoulder with Darkmountaingroup's "Lose Control". Woodward also adheres to the Buzzin' Fly tradition of house that is both sonically ornate and driving in all the right places by including moments like Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia's beautiful "Dead Souls" and Âme's club fuelled remix of "Insomnia".
Buzzin' Fly's long standing resident has done an admirable job of paying homage to the label's sound, and in the process has proved what a force they have become. | {
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One of the solitary most important concepts in company is the sales funnel. Sales funnels can boost your earnings online by automating your business. They supply a path of least resistance to expanding and also scaling your business on autopilot. Yet after hanging around with several of the world's finest marketing professionals, I can tell you with near certainty, not only just how sales funnels will enable you to make even more cash online, however which particular funnels you should apply.
Now, if you're anything like me, you might be averse to particular funnels. For instance, I'm not an e-commerce individual, however I do recognize that free-plus-shipping funnels are definitely crushing it. As a matter of fact, simply this previous week, while attending the Closing Table Mastermind with Perry Belcher and Roland Frasier, I gained more understanding into the appealing "tripwire" funnel, supposedly created by Perry Belcher.
However, Belcher didn't develop the principle. He attracted that from an old Columbia House advertisement that sold 13 CDs or tapes for the big cost of $1.00. Remember it? However most of us understand that this irresistible offer (aka tripwire) had way extra to it than just the $1.00 price. In the background, there was a connection program at the office. In Columbia House's' model, this was called unfavorable alternative invoicing. That suggests, you immediately obtain regular monthly shipments (along with an expense) unless you expressly specify otherwise.
So why is this so effective as well as what does it concern sales funnels? As a matter of fact, what you'll notice is that Columbia House's sales funnel was quite basic. You simply chose the CDs or tapes you wanted for a dollar, after that received a routine monthly delivery each and every single month at a pre-defined price. They would continuously bill you for those CDs or tapes every single month. There were variations of this offer too where you could grab 11 CDs or tapes for one dime after that get the 12th cost-free.
In any case you consider it, these were all alluring offers. This was as well great to skip. Yet what Columbia House and also other companies understood was that, although they would lose loan out of the gate, they would, typically, over time, generate income hand over initially. Which is the power of the sales funnel. Before automation, this is exactly how sales funnels functioned. And also, if you called in, you would certainly get a live individual successfully walking you with the funnel.
The Columbia House example uses deep insight right into the psychology of a deal that's alluring. By initial identifying the life time worth of a customer and their retention rate, Columbia House determined that it could spend a particular amount of cash getting clients and still be extremely rewarding. That's essentially what's performed with sales funnels today. And what truly makes those sales funnels so powerful are tripwires.
Today, it's the tripwire that develops the alluring deal. Although Columbia House really did not fairly have significant up-sells or down-sells in their funnels, they developed a simple two action funnel that functioned. It worked since the tripwire was so attractive. It appealed deeply to the customer. Besides, just how can you stand up to an offer like that for 12 or 13 CDs or tapes for $1 or 1 cent when they were retailing at around $10 each at the time.
Another powerful example of this was through Sports Illustrated. In fact, Sports Illustrated was properly on the decrease at the time it presented its advanced tripwire. There's something concerning substantial items that individuals just get in touch with. Also when you're offering a digital details item on the backside, by sweetening the deal with a tangible great, you can quite actually send your conversions through the roof.
In the instance of Sports Illustrated, take on your own back to 1990 when publication subscription rates were beginning to leave. Because period, Sports Illustrated experienced a 7% decline in their flow in the first half of the year. Now, no matter what they did, they were unable to get the membership prices up. Even by supplying deep discount rates on subscriptions, consumers weren't ordering it. And also, if they discounted as well outstanding, it would influence their ability to obtain advertisers paying costs prices without showing that customers were paying close to the complete cover price of the publication.
Sports Illustrated, owned by Time, Inc., wasn't the only publication that was suffering under the business's umbrella. Individuals publication had likewise experienced an extreme decline of 5%. Time, Inc., knew that it needed to do something fast. So it started to offer a tripwire that included sports bloopers on VHS. Nonetheless, the price was outrageous as well as there were only many slips it can supply. So, they turned to the football phone as the brand-new tripwire.
Why the football phone? Initially, it interested the target market. And also, it was distinct as well as amazing. Far more amazing than a boring magazine registration. The football-shaped phone idea was conceived by Sports Illustrated's supervisor of circulation at the time, Michael Loeb. At that time, advertising on cord was also really economical. And also, the phone, which was sourced from China, just set you back a few bucks "landed". So it all made sense.
Loeb serviced the logistics of this offer for lots of months. Nonetheless, that wasn't the only deal. They likewise prepared a deal that included a tennis shoe phone. If you'll reflect to 1990-1991, it was both provides that were running practically concurrently. Discuss an early-on split-test, right?
So, what were the outcomes of all this? Over 1 million brand-new customers. That's right. And those offers only competed a limited time. However it successfully conserved the business. That's the power of a tripwire offer. It's a substantial product that obtains individuals delighted regarding whatever else the core offer is. In fact, some individuals will only buy what you're selling entirely for the uniqueness of the concrete tripwire offer.
Sales funnels are just one of the single most effective concepts in service today for a very certain reason. It's not simply the example of the tripwire that's effective. It's the entire kitty caboodle, in a manner of speaking. There are numerous components and also parts to what make a sales funnel work so well that I wanted to simplify as well as provide some more examples to provide a much deeper understanding to how you can use them to increase your income online.
Now, if you're not making use of a sales funnel now, or if you're just finding what a sales funnel is, then there are a few means you can rapidly take advantage of this effective principle in your service to develop eruptive results. Firstly, if you don't have a ClickFunnels account, go below and also sign up for the 14-day free trial. Once you've setup your account, get a custom-made domain as well as begin constructing your funnel. If you require assistance, see several of the on-boarding videos consisted of with ClickFunnels.
It does not matter if you have an existing organisation or you're working to configuration a new service, funnels are the key to expanding and also scaling regardless of where you're beginning with. Nonetheless, there are 5 particular methods you can make use of sales funnels to raise your revenue today. It does not matter what service you remain in or what you're marketing, you can leverage these today, right now, to create explosive results.
At the Inner Circle mastermind today, Russell Brunson studied the hook-story-offer technique that comes before building the funnel. Can you build a sales funnel prior to you have a hook as well as a tale? Yes. Yet you may have problem gaining traction, specifically if you're completing in a red ocean. Red seas are entrepreneur-infested waters contending for the very same swimming pool of consumers, whereas blue seas are a place where few entrepreneurs are swimming in.
What does that inform you? Invest the moment on the hook and also the story. Yes, the offer is also crucial. However it's the hook and also the tale that's going to reel leads in. As an example, Brunson utilized the narrative of fit-to-fat-to-fat founder, Drew Manning. Manning, that was in terrific form, went out there and also got a number of weight over a 6 month duration to much better recognize what it feels like to be fat. But then he headed out there as well as lost all the weight.
That right there is an amazing hook and also tale. It's special. As well as, as a result of that, Manning has experienced a meteoric increase, even though his deal isn't that great. However when the hook and the story is just so excellent, the offer is virtually worthless. Efficiently, you can market practically anything when the hook and the story just squash it. Another instance is the story of Robert Allen that would certainly always state he might be dropped in any type of city in the nation and acquire a house no loan down within 60 days. And that's precisely what he did. His brand name has done over a billion bucks in sales due to it.
Those are all wonderful hooks as well as stories. Without that, your deal will struggle. If you can create an one-of-a-kind method to produce your hook as well as tale, the rest will certainly fall into place. Since there is so much red ocean around, this is possibly among the most crucial indicate make before you introduce any kind of sales funnel.
Tripwires are fantastic low-barrier-of-entry items that make leads use their bank card. Typically, these are too-good-to-pass-up items that are used at an extraordinary price. Just consider the tripwire used by Columbia House or Sports Illustrated, for instance. Tripwires help make it easier to acquire new consumers, and after that to ascend them up your value ladder.
Anything that makes customer procurement harder, such as a costly service or product out of eviction, is going to make growing and also scaling your organisation harder. The fact is that it sets you back 5 times as a lot to attract a brand-new client as it does to retain an existing one. That's why tripwires are so effective. They reduced the barrier-of-entry into your organisation. And anything that can decrease the barrier of entrance is always excellent.
One more great means to launch a sales funnel as well as conveniently enhance your revenue regardless of what service you remain in is through a lead magnet. The lead magnet needs to include genuine value. But it can be in various formats such as a PDF book, checklist, cheat sheet and so forth. After the download, you can supply a single offer. This implies a three-step funnel. You could likewise produce an up-sell if they take the single deal and even a payment-plan down-sell if they decline it.
Why do a lead magnet with tons of worth? First, you're establishing yourself up as an expert. If that web content is genuinely workable, as well as it adds a substantial amount of value to the prospect's life, then they're mosting likely to regard you as the authority. However it does something far more than that. It refers micro-commitments. The theory? Obtain someone to agree to do 3 small points for you and the 4th one is promptly an indeed.
Among the most powerful sales funnels you can develop is based around the webinar. As a matter of fact, it was the webinar that conserved Brunson's organisation from bankruptcy a couple of times. It was a combination and also culmination of expertise that result in the excellent webinar manuscript, which creates the basis for the utmost sales funnel. A few of it originated from Jason Fladlien, while other pieces came from in other places in Brunson's trip.
However, all that details integrated right into the format of an ideal webinar and funnel, has literally changed business of countless entrepreneurs that have actually taken their expertise and also monetized it through the exponential pressure of webinars. Developing a webinar is one of the surest courses to success with a sales funnel. Actually, the webinar funnel is fairly perhaps one of the most transformative funnel you could release for any type of business, brand-new or old.
An additional means to boost your income with a sales funnel is to build a high-ticket training funnel that goes from application to phone call to close.
The application permits you to weed out those that aren't serious. And also, on the telephone call, you can close the deal. Currently, this type of sales funnel jobs if you've currently had outcomes with customers. Otherwise, help cost-free till you obtain results for people. Then, accumulate testimonials and also utilize those as component of the pitch for the mentoring.
Most likely one of the greatest and most prominent sales funnels nowadays is the free-plus-shipping deal funnel. It makes an excellent access point into any kind of funnel by producing an one-time offer or up-sell after the deal, similar to a tripwire funnel. However, the distinction right here is the power of the word cost-free. Yes, tripwires, which are really low-cost service or products, function well. However there is genuine power in words cost-free.
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Q: How to style multiple classes differently under one parent id in a stylesheet I want to style multiple classes differently under a same id, but dont want to mention the id everytime I style a class in it. I want to use something like the code below
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Although there are still flowers in the garden, most are playing hide – n'-seek beneath a thick carpet of leaves. I usually let them stay that way because I know it won't be long before the first snowfall blankets them over.
The pond, too, is covered in leaves, but that doesn't seem to bother the fish. They are more reluctant to come for their feedings though. Too often lately, they see the dreaded net fishing out the leaves and most likely sense that this soon will be their fate.
In preparation, I have the aquarium cleaned and filled and now I debate when I should bring the fish indoors. As you can tell, the pond plants emerged unscathed from the frosts we have had.
Your garden is looking very autumn-y. When are you expecting the first snow? Here we are never sure that winter will bring snow, most of the times we don't get it at all. Pity that.I've discussed with my under-gardener that you have to empty your pond every year in autumn and he greatly admires your dedication because he's not sure that he would go to such lengths, eventhough he loves ponds.
Beautiful autumn pics Kate! Our autumn has been very nice so far. The temperature has been around +15 and no frost. You had some perennials on your early post which are on my wish list: Mertensia maritima (I love that foliage) and Abyssinian Lily (love the blooming). So next year! I hope you still get some warm and sunny days there!
it's amazing to me that it's the end of September, but it looks much more like fall in your garden than here. the trees are just starting to turn colours here in the Valley, but over the next week or so I expect to see a lot more colour (and will post accordingly). don't know this song–I was thinking more of Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues…an equally melancholy song.
Your photos are beautiful! You're further into fall than we are here – but we have a few leaves on the ground and more turning color everyday. I think what I notice the most is the air – cooler nights make everything crisper. Your workshop sounds like fun!
Kate, you are much further into fall than we are here. My garden blossoms have faded, but we have not had a heavy frost. The watercolor workshop sounds fun. I am sure we will be seeing some of your artwork soon.
Kate, not too many leaves have fallen yet where I live. Your leaves look lovely though. I also love the crunch beneath my feet when I walk on them.
Hey Carmelita – pip here – beege arrived safely – hope you're having a good weekend – glad it's the weekend – we'll be raking leaves too unless tonight's snow/rain mix makes them all too icky and wet!!! Need to figure out mr. b's b-day prezzie – called you tonight for ideas! Please get fish out in time – I know they'd maybe look cool under a thin layer of ice but they'd probably enjoy the indoor environment slightly more!!! Love ya – pippi l.
Kate,"Autumn Leaves" is beautiful. You are very much into the season! I'm waiting… Our nights are cool and the days have been in the 90's until today. We had a high of 82! It won't be long.Our leaving are falling from the drought. Whenever I bring the net to the pond, the fish disappear, too :o) But when I call them in a familiar way, they respond and guzzle the food.You really produce some lovely posts.
Hi Kate. Lovely pics. I have just been admiring the new growth on the trees around here. It always amazes me. They look dead and then suddenly little green shoots appear. Its also fun reading about the differences in the hemispheres. When I was posting about Autumn, you were posting about Spring and now its reversed.
What a wonderful post Kate, I can almost smell your Canadian Autumn.
What gorgeous photos…….I don't like to sweep up leaves, they are far too beautiful.
The leaves haven't turned yet here. But it won't be long. Pretty soon it will be time for thee kids to rake a big pile up and jump in them. Wonderful post Kate!
How beautiful your garden is. I am so jealous of your gardening talents and your photography. But I am thankful I have the senses to enjoy them with so that is what counts. Oh, the words to that song just about brought me to tears. Another wonderful post, Kate!
Autumn is much more advanced where you are than either here in UK or in New Hampshire where I've just been. There is still a great deal of green in both places and definitely no sign of frost or snow at the moment.
Fall has certainly visited you, Kate! Lovely photos. And the fish problem–I used to take mine out and give them to my neighbor where they wintered over in his horse watering trough. One year I neglected to find one of them, by the time I did he was a fish-sicle. Poor thing!
I've just moved house and inherited a fish pond – luckily they should overwinter here in the milder climate but raking leaves out of a pond is a new dimension to my gardening! | {
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'This is what we can do in an encyclopaedic museum'
The Met Breuer building Photo: Ed Lederman
What does the opening of the Met Breuer mean for the display of the Met's modern and contemporary collections? How does it fit in with the brief you were given when you were appointed in 2012?
My recruitment by Tom Campbell [the director of the Met] was not to replace the existing position exactly, but to expand it, both geographically and historically. So that has to be brought to bear on the shaping of the collection and the installation.
I should perhaps correct an assumption that the collection will be transferred lock, stock and barrel into the Breuer Building. The Breuer was linked to our plans, already determined by the trustees, to build a new wing for modern and contemporary art at the main building at the Met. So these two projects were in tandem with one another.
How have you approached the programming? And how does the modern and contemporary department relate to the rest of the museum?
What I proposed after I arrived and I'd had some time to take stock, was to have a programme of temporary exhibitions that would allow us to do a number of things. Firstly, to do the kind of show that we are doing with 'Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible', which draws on the historic collection; secondly, a programme that would reflect the diversity of the collections at the Met. So through the programme and through the parallel collecting strategy that I established when I arrived, we would build up a collection of work that responded to, but took a very different pathway from the Asian department, the Islamic department, the African department, the Oceanic department – but all in conjunction with colleagues from those departments.
We are solidly based in the 20th and 21st century: my background and the expertise and experience of every single member of my team comes out of this period. But the richness of the programme we can present at the Breuer can be seen in shows like 'Unfinished', which brings all of our colleagues together round a table, where we can demonstrate what we can do in the context of an encyclopaedic museum.
Untitled (c. 1975), Nasreen Mohamedi. Sikander and Hydari Collection
You began your career in the Breuer building, when it housed the Whitney. What is it like to work there now?
I was on the Independent Study Programme, which is a postgraduate fellowship that the Whitney still runs, but in those days it had eight art historians and eight artists, who were selected from an international submission. We were able to come up with ideas for exhibitions – for the public – and bring in all sorts of works, if we could manage to borrow them.
It was a building where there were still offices on the top floor, the staff was much smaller, and where Tom Armstrong [then director] had a terrace outside his office where he would grow tomatoes. The Met is at an advantage in having its central services back at the main building, so we can really work with the galleries as they are – we've been buffing them up over the last couple of months.
Can you explain why you chose Nasreen Mohamedi as one of the two opening exhibitions?
'Unfinished' focuses on the Western tradition of painting and sculpture, because it reflects the collecting history of the Met in those media. It was important, nevertheless, to stage an exhibition of an artist who has made an enormous contribution to the history of modernism in its international context. I've known Nasreen Mohamedi's work for a long time – I love it. It involves the essence of art-making in that it's an exhibition about graphic work, but it has another narrative as a corollary – that of photography, which she didn't show in her lifetime as art.
The show is a counterpart to 'Unfinished' in many ways, but it is more specific in its relationship to the architecture of the building. Mohamedi starts in her mature period with the grid; the Breuer building is built on the grid. The exhibition installation uses as its cue the ceiling grid, although this won't be apparent to most visitors – but it's an important aspect for me to pay respect to the building with one of the opening shows. From the reproductions it is impossible to understand the texture [of the work] and there is a kind of sensuality about it. The Breuer building is rich with texture and colour, and you realise what an amazing sensualist [Marcel] Breuer was. And that's what the Mohamedi show reflects to some extent.
Untitled (c. 1972), Nasreen Mohamedi. Kiran Nadar, Museum of Art, New Delhi
What is the thinking behind the artists' commissions?
The point is that the artists deal […] with the real meaning of the encyclopaedic museum. We've asked Kerry James Marshall to make a selection on one of the floors of his show [in October], and that will be an artist's view of the Met. It goes from furniture to artefacts, from African and Oceanic to some pretty amazing 17th- and 18th-century European and American paintings.
And how are you going to add to the modern and contemporary collections?
We're working with artists on a different kind of programme, which I'm going to launch in September. That will be a much more light-footed programme, which will hopefully feed into our collection in terms of gifts, or some kind of long-term commitment to the Met. This will allow us to represent a number of artists across the world, without whom we cannot tell a history of art in the 20th century effectively.
We cannot cover an encyclopaedic story of the world – we're not in a position to do that. But we are in a position, through the expertise-collective that is the Met – I cannot emphasise enough how brilliant it is working with scholars of different periods – to decide who those great artists are and to work towards an appropriate and deep representation of their work. That's the way that I feel we should be going – and that is the way we are going.
The Met Breuer opens on 18 March.
'Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible' runs from 18 March–4 September;
'Nasreen Mohamedi' runs from 18 March–5 June.
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Q: how to implement a logger factory for jboss EAP 6.2 applications I am migrating a web app from weblogic portal application server to jboss EAP 6.2 server now My problem is whatever the logging framework we used in weblogic is not working in jboss so what are the best ways to implement logger for jboss web applications? Which is the best API to configure the loggerfactory either apache commons logging or log4j or java.util.logger?
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A: you can remove the logging subsystem from configuration/domain.xml file. It will disable your jboss eap's default logging and your configuration will work
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Ouch! Jimmy Fallon returned to the Tonight Show desk on Monday, July 13, and gave his New York City studio audience all of the gruesome details on his headline-making hand injury.
As Us Weekly previously reported, the comedian, 40, was hospitalized last month, and Fallon finally made his grand return to his late-night show with a glaring new accessory in the form of a bulbous hand cast wrapped around his ring finger.
"What a crazy break we had — a two week break," Fallon began. "So basically what happened is, I tripped and fell in my kitchen on a braided rug that my wife loves and I can't wait to burn it to the ground. I tripped and fell and I caught my fall… I'm getting up and my finger is sideways."
"So I go, 'Oh my god, did I just break my finger?'" the Saturday Night Live alum continued. "This is the lamest thing in the whole wide world. It completely looks fake. It looks like a cheap horror movie where you see a broken finger."
Fallon went on to explain that he got in a cab to the emergency room at one hospital before being told he needed to go to another hospital to see a specialist, as his finger was not broken, but rather injured by ring avulsion. "Basically what it is is that my ring got caught on the countertop when I was going down and stuck there and pulled my finger off," the star explained.
The Tonight Show host then found himself at New York City's Bellevue Hospital being treated by an "amazing" doctor wearing a bow tie and cowboy boots. The "awesome" doctor performed microsurgery on Fallon, which involved removing a vein from his foot in order to save his finger.
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The Children for Children Foundation website was designed by Renegade Marketing Group, Inc. Children for Children wishes to thank Drew Neisser, Lydia Snape, Fanny Krivoy, Stefanie Old, Chris Murphy, Apoorva Gupta, Alan Irikura, Oscar Izarra, Anne Rothschild, Donna Klimkiewicz, Robert Mitchell, Andrew Betlyon, Michael Halberstam for making this website possible.
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The following section is a basic introduction to RAS chemistry. It is an update of the originally leaflet – introduction to Recirculation Chemistry, written by Dr. Bent Urup back in 1997.
Back then and still today this compact document provides the essential " Need to know – Chemistry" for those who operate and take daily judgements and decisions within any RAS facility.
1) The basic principle of recirculation technology
2) Food and energy conversion in the fish.
3) The chemical parameters in the system.
4) Biofilter chemistry
A so called re-circulated fish farm can be many things, but in general the idea is to reuse the water a number of times.
The more treatment of the water the more times the water can be used. The optimal solution for an actual site, may depend on an economical evaluation, which will include elements as availability of water, pumping heights/costs, security of water, seaweed problems, management, optimal growth temperatures etc.
But in locations where the temperatures fluctuates a lot with low temperatures during winter and higher temperatures during summer, the benefit of obtaining a constant high constant growth rate at a constant temperature, optimal for the fish, will typically when dealing with any kind of land based farming, point towards a solution with a level of recirculation, meaning including efficient water treatment technology in enclosed indoor systems.
In the most simple systems, a certain amount of water is simply pumped back to the tanks after use with re-oxygenation as the only treatment.
More sophisticated re-circulation systems will normally include mechanical removing of particulate material (food waste and faeces from the fish), followed by removing of ammonia products, carbon-dioxide and re-oxygenation. Sometimes the systems can be supplied with bacteriological control as well, in form of UV treatment or Ozone to gain control of the dynamics of the bacteria's.
The principal return of investments from installing complex water treatment systems, may only really be released when controlling also the temperature within the farm, maintaining an optimal temperature throughout the year. Most often this will in addition to the water treatment technology also require the fish tank and water treatment technology to be installed inside an enclosed building. Such a facility is what we by now in 2021 consider as a RAS farms.
From a simple general point of view a re-circulated fish production system will consist of a system with fish tanks from where the water is passed through a water treatment plant, where particles will be removed, new oxygen added to the water and other waste products either removed or converted to a product which is less harmful to the fish, before the water is returned to the fish-tank eventually together with some new water.
The idea is first of all that the water quality which is returned back to the fish is of a composition which will facilitate optimal growth of the fish, and that this water quality is achieved at a minimum cost.
It is implicit in this, that it is not necessarily the purpose to get the very best water quality. The important thing is to get a water quality which is good enough to keep the fish healthy, and to support an optimal growth rate of the fish kept in the system.
When dealing with commercial production, the investments and the operation costs are obviously key factors.
Applying Recirculation for aquaculture is by end of the day all about mass balances. Securing a stable environment for the fish, by installing technology which can remove the waste products from the fish in equivalent quantities as they are produced by the fish.
2) Food and energy conversion in the fish
Fig. 2.1
The values are of a general character, as the actual values always will depend on a number of parameters in the actual production situation, including the fish specie which will be farmed.
A typical average feed will contain approx. 50% protein. As protein contain 16 % of nitrogen, it means that the feed will contain approx. 8% Nitrogen. The fish will contain approx. 3 % of Nitrogen compared to total wet weight.
The proportion of the feed which is not used to build new tissue in the body of the fish, will have to be released to the surrounding environment.
The same considerations is applicable in respect to phosphor. The content of phosphor in the feed will typical be in the range of 1 % while in the fish phosphor will be at a level of approx. 0.5 % of the wet weight. An exception is flatfish species, like turbot which have a higher content of phosphor – approx. 0.65%.
From figure 2.1 it can be seen that the major waste products are Phosphor, Nitrogen and carbon-dioxide.
Nitrogen will mainly be excreted by the fish as Ammonia. Approx. 80% of the ammonia excreted by the fish will be excreted above the gills, while the rest will be excreted in the faeces.
The ammonia excreted above the gills will be excreted as unionised ammonia - NH3, but due to the pH and the high pKa value of the NH3 – NH4+ buffer system, the majority will immediately be converted to NH4+ , which is not nearly as toxic to the fishes, as it do not pass well back to the fishes though the gill epithelia.
NH3 is quite toxic, and for the majority of fish-species, the level of NH3 should not be above 0.02 mg/litre under normal production conditions. Higher levels have though sometimes been seen in re-circulated system without drastically effects. There is though a high risk involved with higher levels. Further more higher levels will cause reduced growth of the fishes. Therefor the very max level of NH3(N) accepted in a RAS facility, should be 0,02 mg/l.
The problem with ammonia may call for attention not at least in seawater because of the high pH, see fig. 2.2 & fig . 2.3.
Any quick increase in pH within a production facility should be avoided.
The equilibrium is though not only depending on the pH, the salinity has some influence as well. Depending on source you will find small difference in measured amounts. See fig. 2.3,a, 2.3,b & 2.3,c below.
Fig. 2.3,a
Fig. 2.3,b
Fig. 2.3,c
Carbon-Dioxide
The second most important waste product is carbon dioxide. It is excreted above the gills.
The fish uses Oxygen to oxidise fat, sugar and proteins, the carbon chains are broken to free energy, the carbon atoms are then releases as CO2.
At a total breakdown of fat there will be produced approx. 0.71 mole of CO2 per each used mole of O2, when proteins are the energy source 0.8 moles of CO2 will be produced, and from glucose there will be produced 1 mole of carbon dioxide for each mole of oxygen.
In seawater and RAS farms in general, we have to pay special attention to the carbon dioxide because of the pH depending chemical equilibrium with HCO3- and CO32-.
In seawater the major part of CO2 will be transferred to HCO3-, which is not as big a problem to the fishes as CO2, it though still seems in some degree to influence the capacity of the blood in the fishes to transport the CO2 from the tissue to the gills.
The equilibrium between CO2 and HCO3- is not spontaneous, which gives some benefits but also some disadvantages in sea water..
In a pump through system including no or only a very limited reuse of the water, the carbon dioxide will be converted to HCO3- which is less harmful to the fishes. Basically the CO2 becomes diluted our of the system, without the CO2 reaching critical levels. This was in the early days of recirculation causing the misunderstanding, that CO2 was really not an issue in fish farming, and also not when dealing with recirculation.
The problem is though, that as the CO2 converts to bi-carbonate, it at higher levels of reciurculation and reuse of the water, then accumulates as bicarbonate, and then becomes more difficult to get out of the water again as only the CO2 fraction can be stripped out of the water by normal means.
That means if we don't have and effective system for removing of the carbon dioxide at the same rate as the CO2 will be excreted by the fish, then we will have a slow build up of carbon dioxide to unacceptable levels.
Optimal we in the recirculation system should keep the levels of CO2 below 10-20 mg/l.
Dealing with the CO2/bicarbonate equilibrium has clearly been one of the biggest challenges when dealing with RAS technology, especially for Seawater, as the build-up of bicarbonate will reduce the growth rate of the fish.
Discussing CO2 levels confusing can easily arise. We normally talk levels of free CO2, which may not be what we measure, depending on which technology we apy. Equipment can be bought like from Oxyguard, which can measure levels of free CO2, but otherwise total amount of CO2 included the amount bound as bicarbonate, by titration, then from the pH level calculate the fraction of CO2.
When measuring CO2 levels in the system, a measurement only mkakes any meaning i8n parallel with a pH measurement.
If measuring the free CO2 leve before and after a CO2 stripping, the free CO2 levels might well be almost similar, even if the process has removed nearly 100 % of the free CO2. But the pH will have increased, as bicarbonate have transformed back into free CO2. The actual amount of CO2 removed, then needs to be calculated from the sum of 1) The difference in from CO2 levels before and after the treatment and 2) The amount of CO2 regenerated from bicarbonate, calculated from the change in pH levels from before and after the treatment.
Some accumulation of phosphor doesn't seem to be a problem to the fish. And in recirculation systems where foam separators are applied, it can even have some benefits in supporting the foam creation.
Apart from this, we with our present knowledge in general do not pay much attention to the phosphor level in the production water.
Regarding the discharge water from the system, phosphor is often a key component in the environmental permit. Even when the recipient is marine.
There is normally very high natural levels of phosphor in marine environments, and there for a discharge of phosphor from a RAS facility, will make no real impact on the environment, where as the opposite is the case if the recipient is a lake or a river /freshwater environments where phosphor will typically be a limiting nutrient.
It is on the other side, relatively easy to reduce the phosphor content in discharge water.
BI5
The biological oxygen demand is a very important factor, and one of the reasons why it is important to effectively remove particulate matter in the mechanical filter. From figure 2.1 it can be seen, that we by removing particulate matter also will remove nitrogen and phosphor.
If we didn't removed the particulate matter it alternatively had to be broken down biological in the production water, causing consumption of oxygen and production of Carbondioxide, which we then had to add/remove. It is important to notice, that the level of BI5 in the biological filter have to be relative low before it starts working for converting ammonia products. The most effective way to make the biofilter work effective is by having an effective mechanical filtration.
The introduction of effective high capacity mechanical filter systems was one of the most important break throughs for the development of recirculation systems back in the late 1980ties.
It made a dramatical increase in performance of the biofilters, and it made it possible to avoid the problems which ecto parasites previously had caused in recirculated farms and fish farms in general.
The biofilter system in. A recirculation farm without efficient mechanical filtration, might have to be 3-4 times bigger, and would further generate a lot of sludge and consume high amounts of oxygen.
The total oxygen. Consumption in a facility without efficient mechanical filtration could potentially be up to twice as high as if a very efficient mechanical filtration had been implemented.
The fish uses the oxygen for oxidising the food see above under Carbon dioxide.
We can add oxygen to the fishes by adding new water with a natural oxygen content, or we can aerate the water either using air under pressure combined with diffusers at the tank bottom, or using cascades, and finally we can use pure oxygen.
The use of pure oxygen is an efficient useful source, which typically will be required in intensive fish farms. But it is a tool which requires to be managed with care , with focus on CO2 levels, as the addition of pure oxygen as an alternative to any form of aeration, will not remove any carbon dioxide, which may be as much a problem in the farm as a shortage of oxygen.
It seems that effective cascades at this stage of the art, is the most effective way to remove the carbon dioxide, and at the same time it gives an effective aeration.
Some recirculation system uses super-saturation of the production water. This should though be avoided, or applied with care, as even small levels of super-saturation (as 110% oxygen saturation), potentially will reduce the growth rate.
When it still some times can give better results with oxygen super-saturation, it is when the system is operated with to high carbon dioxide/bicarbonate levels, as these parameters interacts. It will still though give far better results if both parameters were under control.
3) The chemical parameters in the system
Recommended general levels of compounds/parameters:
Ammonia (NH3): < 0.02 mg/l**) (<0.05mg/l)
Nitrate(NO3-): < 60 mg/l (NO3- - N)
Nitrite (NO2-): <0.1-1 mg/l (NO2- - N)*)
Carbon-dioxide(CO2): < 15 mg/l (30 mg/l)
Oxygen (O2): 70-110 % saturation.
Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S): < 0.001 mg/l
Chlorine residuals: < 0.001 mg/l
pH: 6.9 -7.2
*) Not to critical in seawater, during start of biofilter, levels of more that 8 mg/l can be found.
**) Some marine species might be less sensitive, levels up to 0.1 mg might be acceptable, but more experiments on each specie are necessary.
Metals – recommended max levels
Aluminium (Al) < 0.06 mg/l
Cadmium (Cd) < 0.005 mg/l
Chromium (Cr) < 0.025 mg/l
Copper (Cu) < 0.005 mg/l
Iron (Fe) < 0.3 mg/l
Lead (Pb) < 0.01 mg/l
Manganese (Mn) < 0.025 mg/l
Mercury (Hg) < 0.0001mg/l
Nickel (Ni) < 0.005 mg/l
Zinc (Zn) < 0.025 mg/l
Water Chemistry parameters
i. Ammonia (NH3 – NH4+):
Waste product from the metabolism of the fishes. Even relative small amounts of the unionised form, makes it difficult for the fish to excrete ammonia through the gills, which thereby makes even small amounts of ammonia very toxic to them.
ii. Alkalinity:
Alkalinity is the sum of negative ions reacting to neutralise hydrogen ions when acid is added to the water. Carbonate ions (CO3-) and bicarbonate ions(HCO3-) are the most important. Alkalinity is measured in meq/l.
The alkalinity of seawater should be around 2-2.5 meq/l.
Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) can eventually be used to adjust the alkalinity.
iii. Carbon dioxide(CO2)
Carbon dioxide is produced by the metabolic activity from the fishes and bacterial breakdown of organic waste products in the system. It will influence the oxygen uptake in the fishes. Levels above 20 mg/l should be avoided in the fish tanks, as higher levels will reduce growth. Optimal levels should be below 10-15 mg/l.
iv. Nitrate (NO3-)
Nitrate is formed by the nitration from ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate. It is not directly toxic to the fish. Levels of less than 70 mg(N)/l does not seem to have negative effect on most fish-species, and some recirculation systems are operating with levels up to 250 mg(N)/l, which though is known to be lethal to some fish-species.
v. Nitrite (NO2-)
Nitrate is an intermediary product in the nitrification process of ammonia to nitrate. It is very toxic to fish, as it blocks haemoglobin in the blood for the uptake of oxygen. Levels of 0.15 mg/l have proven in cases to be total lethal in freshwater. In saltwater it is far less toxic, as it then seems to be enable then to penetrate the gills. It is recommended to keep the level below 0.1 mg/l, though variations maybe up to 1 mg/l have to be accepted. Any levels above 20 mg/l should be avoided if possible, even during up start of biofilters.
vi. Oxygen
To provide optimal and equal growth of the fishes, the oxygen level, should at any time, any place in the tank, be between 65 and 100 % saturation. It should never at any time be possible to find oxygen levels below 60 % saturation in the fish tank.
If pure oxygen is used, it is worth to notice, that any super-saturation should be avoided as even levels of 110 % saturation will cause reduced growth, and levels of 160% can be directly lethal to some fish-species.
The solubility of oxygen varies with temperature and salinity see figure 2.5.
In the biofilter there should be above 4 mg O2/l even in the outlet, to get the biofilter perform optimal. If the oxygen level drops below 2 mg there is a risk of production of toxic compounds as H2S . The nitrification will then be reduced considerable too, and the level of ammonia and nitrite will increase.
vii. pH:
pH has influence on the toxicity of other chemical compounds, beside it influences the uptake/release of carbondioxide/oxygen in the blood/tissue/gills of the fish.
From the nitrification process:
NH4+ + 1½ O2 → 2 H+ + NO2- + H2O
It can be seen that this process will reduce the pH by the production of H+ .
Also the production of carbon dioxide from metabolic activity from the fishes and bacterial breakdown of organic waste products in the system, will reduce the pH if similar amounts of CO2 as produced are not removed in the cascades. See fig. 2.4
CO2 + H2O à H2CO3 → H+ + HCO3- à2H+ + CO32-
In seawater because of the natural buffers, a sufficient water exchange will normally be enough to keep the pH within an acceptable range.
Different compounds can alternatively be used to buffer or increase the pH.
Though sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) is often used, we do not recommend to use that in seawater.
We prefer to use NaOH, when addition is required only for the purpose of pH adjustment, though of cause considerable care has to be taken then.
The purpose with the biofilter is to create an environment where a biological transformation of ammonia products into nitrate can take place. The process known as nitrification. As the necessary involved bacteria's will concentrate on surfaces, the biofilter consist of a tank with material having a high surface/ volume ratio. It is though not only the total area that counts, but also how efficient the water containing the ammonia products is distributed to the surface of the filter material.
In the first part of the filter, organic material which haven't been filtered away in the mechanical filter will be broken down, through bacterial activity. It will inhibit the nitrification process, as the bacteria's involved in the nitrification won't be carrying out the nitrification as long as the organic load is to high.
The breaking down of organically compounds will consume oxygen and produce carbon dioxide, and some aeration /oxygenation is therefore needed, also in the first part of the filter.
Heterotrophic activity in the filter may build up biofilm on the biofilter media, where as the nitrification is only effective when the biofilm is very thin, preferable below 50 micron.
A visible biofilm therefor indicates a misbalance in the biofilter, that the biofilter will not perform optimal.
Generally spoken, the nitrification process can be separated into two processes:
1) NH4+ + 1½ O2 à 2 H+ + NO2- + H2O
2) NO2- + ½ O2 à NO3-
The first process is mainly carried out by a group of bacteria which we for simplicity can consider as Nitrosomonas which was the general understanding during the early days of Recirculation, even it is now recognised that it is quite a bit more complex and the process may inclyd many other bacterias. In a similar way we simplified, in line with the early understanding of biofilter performance, we consider the second process in the biofilter controlled by a group of bacteria which we may consider dominated by Nitrobacter . Both groups are kemo-autotrophic, which means that they extract energy from the above chemical reactions, and mainly use the energy to build up carbohydrates from Carbon dioxide.
Both processes requires oxygen, and to for the biofilter to perform optimally, the oxygen saturation in the entire filter should be above 3-4 mg/l.
Levels below 2 mg/l will be risky as then anaerobic processes can take place, which could result in toxic compounds – this is the more dangerous in seawater compared to freshwater, mainly because of the higher level of Sulphur (creation of H2S).
It is due to the same reason, that we do not use de-nitrification in seawater, but have to dilute the system out of problems with high nitrate levels. Or apply denitrification only for the discharge outlet from the facility, without returning the flow back into the facility, which could cause fatal consequences.
Approx. 1 g of ammonia (NH4+) can be transformed into nitrate per m2 filter surface at 20 degrees. At 10 degrees the capacity will be reduced to approx. the half, which is reduced further to the half again at 5 degree.
It has to be taken into account that the first part of the filter may not take part in the nitrification process or have reduced capacity due to organic load. The heterotrophic activity may require in the range of approx. 30 % of the total filter, even with a mechanical filtration before the fbio ilter.
The doubling time at 20 degrees is approx. 20 hours for nitrobactor, and thirty hours for nitrosomonas. At 10 degrees the doubling time is approx. 40 and 80 hours respectively.
It will normally take approx. 3-5 weeks to get the filter operating acceptable from first upstart.
During upstart of filter, first high levels of ammonia will be seen, and then there will be a high level of nitrite, before both these levels drops to acceptable levels and a steady increase in nitrate can be seen . Se figure 4.1
The thinner the bacterial skin the more efficient it is. An old thick bacteria layer is inefficient and very little predictable. After first start-up of the filter, the filter will typically work most efficient approx. five weeks after the first up-start of the filter, when the filter is in routine operation, the filter will typical have its best performance approx. two weeks after each cleaning (considering a filter with a fixed filter bed).
Therefor the operation of the filter needs some working routines to maintain an efficient nitrification in the filter. The picture will vary from fish-specie to fish specie, temperatures, system set-up and other local conditions, so one will have to adjust the routines to the experience of the actual system. | {
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The Happy School (also known as Children for a Better Future) is a local nongovernmental organization (NGO) located in Phnom Penh which targets children of families in the poorest suburbs of the city who are vulnerable to unsafe labor, migration, exploitation, and other effects of poverty. World Education Cambodia partnered with World Education Australia (WEAL) and Australians for Cambodian Education (ACE) to assist the Happy School to integrate children into the formal education system or vocational training programs.
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Proposed Rule
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Montana; Regional Haze 5-Year Progress Report State Implementation Plan
A Proposed Rule by the Environmental Protection Agency on 07/09/2019
This document has a comment period that ends in 24 days. (08/08/2019) Submit a formal comment
Written comments must be received on or before August 8, 2019.
Comments Close:
40 CFR 52
EPA-R08-OAR-2019-0047
FRL-9996-02-Region 8
Public Comments:
II. EPA's Evaluation of Montana's Progress Report and Adequacy Determination
A. Regional Haze Progress Report
1. Status of Implementation of Control Measures
2. Summary of Emissions Reductions
3. Visibility Conditions and Changes
4. Emissions Tracking
5. Assessment of Changes Impeding Visibility Progress
6. Assessment of Current Implementation Plan Elements and Strategies
7. Review of Current Monitoring Strategy
B. Determination of Adequacy of the Existing Regional Haze Plan
III. Proposed Action
IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
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Proposed rule.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve Montana's regional haze progress report, submitted by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) as a revision to its State Implementation Plan (SIP). Montana's SIP revision addresses requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the EPA's rules that require states to submit periodic reports describing progress toward Reasonable Progress Goals (RPGs) established for regional haze and a determination of the adequacy of the state's existing plan addressing regional haze. Montana's progress report explains the measures that have been implemented in the regional haze plan due to be in place by the date of the progress report and that visibility in the majority mandatory federal Class I areas affected by emissions from Montana sources is improving, and that a revision of the plan is not needed at this time. The EPA is proposing approval of Montana's determination that the State's regional haze plan is adequate to meet RPGs for the first implementation period, which extended through 2018 and requires no substantive revision at this time.
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08-OAR-2019-0047, to the Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from www.regulations.gov. The EPA may publish any comment received to its Start Printed Page 32683public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission methods, the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Air and Radiation Division, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129. The EPA requests that if at all possible, you contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to view the hard copy of the docket. You may view the hard copy of the docket Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., excluding federal holidays.
Kate Gregory, Air and Radiation Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, Mailcode 8ARD-QP, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129, (303) 312-6175, or by email at [email protected].
Throughout this document wherever "we," "us," or "our" is used, we mean the EPA.
States are required to submit progress reports that evaluate progress towards the RPGs for each mandatory Class I Federal area [1] (Class I area) within the state and in each Class I area outside the state that may be affected by emissions from within the state. 40 CFR 51.308(g). In addition, the provisions of 40 CFR 51.308(h) require states to submit, at the same time as the 40 CFR 51.308(g) progress report, a determination of the adequacy of the state's existing regional haze plan. The first progress report must take the form of a SIP revision and is due five years after submittal of the initial regional haze SIP. Montana declined to submit a regional haze SIP covering all required elements in EPA's Regional Haze Rule, which resulted in the EPA administration of the majority of Regional Haze program in the State since the effective date of the Federal Implementation Program (FIP) of October 18, 2012.[2]
Twelve Class I areas are located in Montana; Anaconda-Pintlar Wilderness Area, Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area, Gates of the Mountain Wilderness Area, Glacier National Park, Medicine Lake Wilderness Area, Mission Mountain Wilderness Area, Red Rock Lakes Wilderness Area, Scapegoat Wilderness Area, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, U. L. Bend Wilderness Area and Yellowstone National Park.[3] Monitoring and data representing visibility conditions in Montana's twelve Class I areas is based on the ten Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) monitoring sites located across the State.[4]
On November 7, 2017, Montana submitted a progress report, which detailed the progress made in the first planning period toward implementation of the Long-Term Strategy (LTS) outlined in the 2012 regional haze FIP, the visibility improvement measured at Class I areas affected by emissions from Montana sources, and a determination of the adequacy of the existing regional haze plan for Montana. The State provided notice of the Progress Report and a 30-day comment period, which closed on September 22, 2017. The State received one comment of support from Montana-Dakota Utilities. The EPA is proposing to approve Montana's November 7, 2017 SIP submittal on the basis that it satisfies the requirements of 40 CFR 51.308.
This section describes the contents of Montana's progress report and the EPA's analysis of the report, as well as an evaluation of the determination of adequacy required by 40 CFR 51.308(h) and the requirement for state and Federal Land Manager coordination in 40 CFR 51.308(i).
In its Progress Report, Montana summarizes the emissions reduction measures that were relied upon by Montana in the regional haze plan for ensuring reasonable progress at the Class I areas within the State. EPA's regional haze FIP established RPGs for 2018 and established a LTS.[5 6] In its Progress Report, the State describes both state and federal emission reduction measures including applicable federal programs (e.g., mobile source rules, Mercury and Air Toxics Rule), various existing Montana air quality measures (the Montana Renewable Portfolio Standard, major source closure, cancellation, and derating) and a description of the State's Smoke Management Plan (SMP). Montana also reviewed the status of Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) requirements for the BART-eligible sources in the State. The Montana FIP includes emissions limits for the BART-eligible sources that were determined to contribute to visibility impairment.[7] The three units subject to BART are listed below in Table 1: Sources Subject to BART in Montana.
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Table 1—Sources Subject to BART in Montana 8
BART-eligible source
BART source category
Ash Grove Cement Company Portland Cement Plants.
Oldcastle Cement (formerly Holcim (US), Inc.) Portland Cement Plants.
Colstrip Steam Electric Station Units 1 & 2 (formerly PPL Montana, LLC) Fossil-Fuel Fired Steam Electric Plants of more than 250 BTUs per hour Heat Input.
In its Progress Report, Montana provides the status of these BART-eligible sources in the State.
Colstrip Units 1 and 2: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated the emissions limits from the FIP for Colstrip Units 1 and 2 on June 9, 2015.[9] The court determined the FIP emissions limits to be arbitrary and capricious and remanded the decision back to the EPA. The operator and part owner, Talen Energy, did install emission control technologies, including separated overfire air controls, prior to the vacatur of the original FIP BART limits.[10] In its Progress Report, the State explains that nitrogen oxide (NOX) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) show a downward trend at Colstrip Units 1 and 2.[11] Additionally, Talen Energy and the other owners of Colstrip Units 1 and 2 entered into an agreement with the Sierra Club in 2016, wherein it was agreed that the units will close by July 1, 2022.[12] The agreement also established NO2 and SO2 emissions limits. These emissions limits, listed below, will stay in effect until the units ceases operations as the Consent Decree is binding.[13]
Unit 1 NOX limit—0.45 lb/MMBtu (30-day rolling average)
Units 1 and 2 SO2 limit—0.40 lb/MMBtu (30-day rolling average)
Oldcastle Cement: In its Progress Report, Montana describes efforts by Oldcastle Cement to meet the BART emissions limits. While Oldcastle Cement is meeting both particulate matter (PM) and SO2 BART limits established by the FIP, a revision to the FIP establishing a new NOX limit became effective on October 12, 2017.[14] Additionally, the facility applied additional emission control technology (i.e., selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR)) in order to meet the new NOX emissions standards and it is meeting those limits.[15]
Ash Grove Cement: In its Progress Report, Montana states that Ash Grove Cement installed various emission control technologies, including SNCR modifications to kiln burners, and baghouse control technology to meet the emission limits established for the cement plant.[16] A revised SO2 limit for Ash Grove Cement was reached under a consent decree and the cement plant was required to meet the new SO2 limit of no more than 2.0 lb/ton of clinker (30-day rolling average) by April 8, 2015 and an initial NOx limit of no more than 8.0 lb/ton of clinker (30-day rolling average) 30 days after September 10, 2014.[17] Additionally, Montana states in its Progress Report that Ash Grove Cement is achieving all of its consent decree and FIP emission limits.[18]
Table 2—Current Status of Montana Sources Subject to BART
Particulate matter (PM)
Nitrogen oxides (NOX)
Sulfur dioxides (SO2)
Colstrip Units 1 & 2 0.10 lb/mmBtu In Compliance 0.15 lb/mmBtu See footnote 19 0.08 lb/mmBtu See footnote.20
Oldcastle Cement 0.77 lb/ton clinker In Compliance 6.5 lb/ton clinker See footnote 21 1.3 lb/ton clinker In Compliance.
Ash Grove Cement See footnote 22 In Compliance 8.0 lb/ton clinker In Compliance 11.5 lb/ton clinker In Compliance.
In its Progress Report, Montana provides an update on the State's Smoke Management Plan (SMP).[23] The State provides its open burning rules, as are written in the Administrative Rules of Montana and approved in the SIP, in its Progress Report, which "considers smoke management techniques and the visibility impacts of smoke when developing, issuing and conditioning permits, and when making dispersion forecast recommendations." [24] The SMP is currently the only part of the State's regional haze plan that is approved into the SIP. In its Progress Report, the State provides a description of coordination between Montana and the adjacent State of Idaho to coordinate burn activities of large open burners and federal land managers, including the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, through participation in the Montana/Idaho Airshed Group.[25] Additionally, Montana describes active Start Printed Page 32685involvement during the fall and winter burn seasons by the State's open burn coordinator and meteorologist to evaluate burn type, size and location, and provide close monitoring of the impacts of smoke in the state.[26] Finally, the State cites use of Best Available Control Technology (BACT) requirements for burners as a control measure to meet the requirements of the Regional Haze Rule (RHR).[27]
EPA proposes to find that Montana has adequately addressed the applicable provisions under 40 CFR 51.308(g) regarding the implementation status of control measures because the State's Progress Report provides documentation of the implementation of measures within Montana, including the BART-eligible sources in the State subject to BART.
In its Progress Report, Montana presents information on emissions reductions achieved across the State from the pollution control strategies discussed above. The Progress Report includes statewide SO2, NOX, and PM (fine (PM2.5) and course (PM10)) emissions data from Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) emissions inventories.[28] The Progress Report includes the 2002 WRAP emissions inventory (Plan02d) as baseline, the 2014 National Emissions Inventory (NEI) as updated data from the baseline, and 2018 WRAP data (Preliminary Reasonable Progress Inventory for 2018 (2nd Revision) (PRP18b)) as projected emissions.[29]
Table 3—Changes in Montana Total Emissions, Statewide
[Tons per year]
Pollutant (all sources)
2002 (Plan02d)
2014 NEI
SO2 51,922.70 25,320.91 30 −51%
NOX 243,141.75 165,673.41 31 −32%
PM2.5 77,239.46 113,655.55 32 47%
PM10 621.276.11 556,810.28 33 −10%
As can be seen in Table 3: Changes in Montana Total Emissions, Statewide above, the emissions data shows that there were decreases in emissions of SO2 and NOX over the time period (i.e., 2002 and 2014) of the two emissions inventories listed (Plan02d and 2014 NEI). As explained in Montana's Key Findings, "[a]nalysis shows that, in Montana, the haziest days are primarily caused by wildfire activity both in and outside the state," [34 35] (i.e., Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Canada).[36] The Report further explains that "the methodology for calculating fire emissions has been updated over the years to better reflect actual emissions; therefore," when compared to the methodology used for the 2002 baseline emission inventory, "the 2014 NEI data is likely more reflective of actual annual emissions." [37] The Progress Report explains that "impacts from updated emissions estimation methods are most apparent in particulate matter emissions from fire, particularly prescribed fire." [38] Based on 2002 (Plan02d) and 2014 (NEI) emissions data, total fine PM emissions have increased from the baseline year of 2002 to 2014 by 47 percent.[39] In its Progress Report, the State provides coarse PM emissions data from 2002 (Plan02d) and 2014 (NEI), which shows that while overall coarse PM emissions decreased 10% from 2002 to 2014, emissions from anthropogenic fire significantly increased between 2002 and 2014.
The EPA proposes to find that Montana has adequately addressed the applicable provisions of 40 CFR 51.308(g) regarding emissions reductions achieved because the State identifies emissions reductions for SO2 and NOX. Additionally, Montana presents sufficient emission inventory information and discussion regarding emissions trends for coarse and fine PM during the 2002 to 2014 time period.
In its Progress Report, Montana provides information on visibility conditions for the Class I areas within its borders. The Progress Report addressed current visibility conditions and the difference between current visibility conditions and baseline visibility conditions, expressed in terms of 5-year rolling averages of these annual values, with values for the most impaired (20 percent worst days), least impaired and/or clearest days (20 percent best days). The period for calculating current visibility conditions is the most recent 5-year period preceding the required date of the progress report for which data were available as of a date 6 months preceding the required date of the progress report.
Montana's Progress Report provides figures with visibility monitoring data for the twelve Class I areas within the State and two Class I areas outside of the state shown to be impacted by Montana sources.[40] Montana reported current visibility conditions for the 2011 to 2015 5-year time period and used the 2000 to 2004 baseline period for its examination of visibility conditions and changes in the State.[41] In its Progress Report, Montana presents visibility data, in deciviews, and representative IMPROVE monitors for Class I areas without an IMPROVE monitor, as there are not IMPROVE monitors in each of Start Printed Page 32686Montana's twelve Class I areas. Table 4: Montana's Class I Areas and IMPROVE Sites, below, shows the IMPROVE monitors used for each Class I area.[42]
Table 4—Montana's Class I Areas and IMPROVE Sites
Class I area
IMPROVE site
Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area Sula Peak (SULA1).
Bob Marshall Wilderness Area Monture, MT (MONT1).
Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area Cabinet Mountains (CABI1).
Gates of the Mtn Wilderness Area Gates of the Mtn (GAM01).
Glacier National Park Glacier (GLAC1).
Medicine Lake Wilderness Area Medicine Lake (MELA1).
Mission Mountain Wilderness Area Monture, MT (MONT1).
Red Rock Lakes Wilderness Area Yellowstone (YELL2).
Scapegoat Wilderness Area Monture, MT (MONT1).
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area Sula Peak (SULA1).
UL Bend Wilderness Area U.L. Bend (ULBE1).
Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone (YELL2).
Table 5: Visibility Progress in Montana's Class I Areas, below, shows the difference between the current visibility conditions (represented by 2011-2015 data), baseline visibility conditions (represented by 2000-2004 data), and the 2018 RPGs. In addition, EPA has supplemented the data provided by the State by including data for the baseline period, current period, and difference in deciviews using the revised visibility tracking metric described in EPA's December 2018 guidance document.[43] Although this revised visibility tracking metric is applicable to the second and future implementation periods for regional haze (and therefore not retroactively required for progress reports for the first regional haze planning period), the revised tracking metric's focus on the days with the highest daily anthropogenic impairment shifts focus away from days influenced by fire and dust events, and is therefore a better metric for showing visibility progress especially for Class I areas with strong impacts from fire, as was the case for the Class I areas within and affected by emissions from Montana during the first regional haze planning period. This supplemental data is shown in square brackets in Table 5.
Table 5—Visibility Progress in Montana's Class I Areas 44
Montana's class I area
Current period deciviews 2011-2015 (dv)
Baseline period deciviews 2000-2004 (dv)
Difference in deciviews (dv) current-baseline
MT 2018 RPG
20% Worst Days 45 [20% Most Anthropogenically Impaired Days]
Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area CABI1 14.5 [10.1] 14.1 [10.7] 0.4 [−0.6] 13.31
Gates of the Mtn Wilderness Area GAMO1 11.7 [7.6] 11.3 [9.0] 0.4 [−1.4] 10.82
Glacier National Park GLAC1 17.0 [13.8] 22.26 [16.2] −5.26 [−2.4] 21.48
Medicine Lake Wilderness Area MELA1 17.9 [15.8] 17.7 [16.6] 0.2 [−0.8] 17.36
Bob Marshall Wilderness Area MONT1 15.7 [9.7] 14.5 [10.8] 1.2 [−1.1] 13.83
Mission Mountain Wilderness Area MONT1 15.7 [9.7] 14.5 [10.8] 1.2 [−1.1] 13.83
Scapegoat Wilderness Area MONT1 15.7 [9.7] 14.5 [10.8] 1.2 [−1.1] 13.83
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area SULA1 16.3 [8.5] 13.4 [10.1] 2.8 [−1.6] 12.94
Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area SULA1 16.3 [8.5] 13.4 [10.1] 2.8 [−1.6] 12.94
UL Bend Wilderness Area ULBE1 14.5 [11.1] 15.1 [12.8] −0.7 [−1.7] 14.85
Yellowstone National Park YELL2 12.4 [7.7] 11.8 [8.3] 0.6 [−0.6] 11.23
Red Rock Lakes Wilderness Area YELL2 12.4 [7.7] 11.8 [8.3] 0.6 [−0.6] 11.23
20% Best Days 46
Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area CABI1 2.6 3.6 −1.0 3.27
Gates of the Mtn Wilderness Area GAMO1 0.6 1.7 −1.1 1.54
Glacier National Park GLAC1 5.4 7.2 −1.8 6.92
Medicine Lake Wilderness Area MELA1 6.5 7.3 −0.7 7.11
Bob Marshall Wilderness Area MONT1 2.6 3.9 −1.3 3.60
Mission Mountain Wilderness Area MONT1 2.6 3.9 −1.3 3.60
Scapegoat Wilderness Area MONT1 2.6 3.9 −1.3 3.60
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area SULA1 1.6 2.6 −0.9 2.48
Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area SULA1 1.6 2.6 −0.9 2.48
UL Bend Wilderness Area ULBE1 3.7 4.8 −1.1 4.57
Yellowstone National Park YELL2 1.5 2.6 −1.1 2.36
Red Rock Lakes Wilderness Area YELL2 1.5 2.6 −1.1 2.36
As shown in Table 5: Visibility Progress in Montana's Class I Areas, all of the IMPROVE monitoring sites use Class I Areas within the State show improvement in visibility conditions on the 20 percent best days and are meeting the 2018 RPGs.[47] However, while only two of the Class I Areas show improvement in visibility conditions on the 20 percent worst days,[48] all Class I areas show improvement in visibility conditions when looking at the 20 percent most anthropogenically impaired days (shown in square brackets). In its Progress Report, Montana shows that organic carbon is the pollutant that has contributed the most to light extinction at its Class I Areas and that organic carbon is associated with fire.[49] Montana provides an extensive analysis of the impacts from wildfire in its Progress Report and describes wildfire and its impacts as "the main impediment to visibility improvement on the 20% worst days." [50]
Additionally, in its Progress Report, Montana presents data to confirm that wildfire activity, as can be examined through monitored pollutants (organic and elemental carbon specifically) and satellite and webcam imagery, are present on the majority of days selected as the 20 percent worst days.[51] This means that webcam imagery and satellite data correlate to monitored pollutant data and further prove wildfire is a main impediment to visibility.
The EPA proposes to find that Montana has adequately addressed the applicable provisions under 40 CFR 51.308(g) regarding assessment of visibility conditions because the State provided baseline visibility conditions (2002-2004), more current conditions based on the most recently available visibility monitoring data available at the time of Progress Report development (2011-2015), the difference between these current sets of visibility conditions and baseline visibility conditions, and the change in visibility impairment from 2000 to 2015 at the Class I areas.
In its Progress Report, Montana presents data from the statewide emissions inventory for the 2014 NEI and compares this data to the baseline emissions inventory for 2002 (Plan02d). The pollutants inventoried include SO2, NOX and PM (fine and coarse). The emissions inventories include the following type of source or activity classifications: Point; area; on-road mobile; off-road mobile; point and WRAP area (including oil and gas); fugitive and road dust; anthropogenic fire; natural fire; biogenic; and wind-blown dust from both anthropogenic and natural sources. Table 6 presents the 2002 baseline, 2014 more current data and the 2018 projected statewide emission inventories. As can be seen in Table 3, statewide emissions of both SO2 and NOX are lower than the projected 2018 emissions. Statewide emissions for both coarse and fine PM are projected to exceed the 2018 emission projections. As is discussed above in section 2, Montana cites changes in methodologies used in the NEI and a larger than expected amount of emissions in anthropogenic and natural fire as reasons for an increase in fine and coarse PM over the time period analyzed in the Progress Report.[52]
Table 6—Emissions Progress in Montana 53
SO2 (tons/year)
NOX (tons/year)
PM coarse (tons/year)
PM fine (tons/year)
2002 Total Emissions (Plan02d) 51,922.70 243,141.75 621,276.11 77,239.46
2014 Total Emissions (NEI) 25,320.91 165,673.41 556,810.28 113,655.55
2018 Projected (PRP18b) 45,794.76 180,043.25 675,985.25 83,046.71
Change 2002—2018 (%) −12 −26 9 8
Change 2002—2014 (%) −51 −32 −10 47
The data for emissions from anthropogenic fire increased from 713 tons per year (Plan02d) to 26,684 tons per year (2014 NEI),[54] which shows a significant increase rather than the projected decrease. Montana cites changes in methodologies used in the NEI and a larger than expected amount of emissions in anthropogenic and natural fire as reasons for the increase in fine and coarse PM over the time period analyzed in the Progress Report.[55] Montana explains that because "the methodology for calculating fire emissions has been updated over the years to better reflect actual emissions" that "the 2014 NEI data is likely more reflective of actual emissions." [56] Montana further acknowledges that "it is very difficult to conduct trend analysis on fire (both prescribed and natural) because of the changes in methodology and the inherent variability of the activity." [57] Finally, the State explains that "[y]ear to year prescribed fire activity can change due to weather and available resources, which in turn greatly affects emissions." [58]
The EPA is proposing to find that Montana adequately addressed the applicable provisions of 40 CFR 51.308(g) regarding emissions tracking because the State compared the most recent updated emission inventory data available at the time of the Progress Report development with the baseline emissions inventory used in the modeling for the regional haze plan.
In its Progress Report, Montana provided an assessment of any significant changes in anthropogenic emissions within or outside the State that have occurred. The State cites incomplete implementation of BART controls, oil and gas development in Montana, and emissions from nearby states and international sources as impediments to progress in visibility conditions, each of which will be discussed below in turn.
At the time of the analysis done by the State for the Progress Report, not all BART controls had been installed, as compliance dates had not occurred for all facilities subject to BART at that time.[59] This means the impacts of the Start Printed Page 32688emissions reductions from BART controls have not been fully realized and are not evident in the State's Progress Report. However, Ash Grove Cement and Oldcastle Units 1 and 2 are currently in compliance with emissions limits.[60]
In its Progress Report, Montana discusses significant growth in the oil and gas sector in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming. Montana's oil and gas sector is described in the Progress Report.[61] The State explains that emission factors for these activities are not well documented, but are becoming larger issues as oil and gas production increases.[62] The State's report includes an analysis and comparison of production data from North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.[63] Additionally, Montana cites a Bureau of Land Management Study (BLM) study that projected emissions from the oil and gas sector will continue to impact visibility in the area from now into the future.[64] The State's report concluded that:
The modeling indicated that the close proximity of oil and gas wells to these and other Class I Areas will make it challenging for states to achieve significant visibility improvements. Montana and neighboring states will have to further study these impacts in the process of preparing SIP revisions for the 2018-2028 implementation period.[65]
In its Progress Report, Montana describes one of its Class I areas, Medicine Lake, as being an example of the impacts of emissions from international sources. Medicine Lake is very close to the Canadian border (less than 40 miles) and has "the worst visibility in the state on both the clearest and haziest days." [66] Montana analyzed weather patterns (wind direction, wind speed), satellite imagery, and regional WRAP data that showed emissions from Canada were higher than emissions from Montana and other surrounding states near Medicine Lake.[67] In its Progress Report, Montana states that emissions from Canada are not mentioned in the FIP and are outside of the State's control.[68] Additionally, the State explains that emissions from a large electric generating unit (EGU) located near Medicine Lake in Canada have remained consistent over the last decade and the State concluded that these emissions may continue to impact visibility at the Medicine Lake Class I area.[69]
The EPA proposes to find that Montana has adequately addressed the applicable provisions of 40 CFR 51.308(g) regarding an assessment of significant changes in anthropogenic emissions. The EPA proposes to agree with Montana's conclusion that there have been significant changes in non-anthropogenic emissions of visibility-impairing pollutants which have limited or impeded progress in reducing emissions and improving visibility in Class I areas impacted by the State's sources.
In its Progress Report, Montana acknowledges the requirements of 40 CFR 51.308(g) to assess whether the current implementation plan elements and strategies are sufficient to enable the State, or other states with Class I areas affected by emissions from the State, to meet all established reasonable progress goals. As seen in Table 5, visibility conditions have improved in the State at all IMPROVE monitoring sites and the State is meeting its RPGs in all Class I areas on the 20 percent best days. Additionally, the State discusses how anthropogenic components (light extinction from sulfates and nitrates) is decreasing across all monitored sites in the State.[70] Conversely, the State explains that visibility conditions have not improved at the majority of monitored sites on the 20 percent worst days. Even so, the State is not of the opinion that the FIP is not sufficient to address visibility impairment in its Class I areas. As discussed above, additional emission controls at sources subject to BART and changes in emissions inventories may contribute to increased visibility in Class I areas within the State. As discussed below, failure to meet all RPGs for the 20 percent worst days was due to emissions from wildfires, not anthropogenic emissions. Because the regional haze regulations define regional haze as "visibility impairment that is caused by the emission of air pollutants from numerous anthropogenic sources," [71] the inability to meet RPGs for the 20 percent worst days due to nonanthropogenic wildfire emissions does not render Montana's regional haze plan insufficient to enable Montana to meet RPGs.
In its Progress Report, Montana discusses the impacts on visibility from wildfire at length. The State presents emissions inventory data which shows that wildfire contributes significantly more to elemental and organic carbon emissions than anthropogenic fire and that the lack of visibility on the 20 percent worst days was due to natural fire and not controlling anthropogenic sources of these pollutants.[72] Additionally, the State describes anthropogenic emissions as decreasing over time. The State explains that "continued implementation of air pollution control measures . . . make it likely that anthropogenic emissions of visibility-impairing pollutants will continue to decrease with time" and that "Class I Areas affected by emissions from Montana sources will also continue to benefit from controls that have not yet taken full effect due to the timing of the Montana FIP (2012) and the compliance dates described therein (some as late as fall of 2017)." [73] International sources are also shown to impact visibility conditions in Montana at the Medicine Lake Class I Area and Montana acknowledges that the FIP may be insufficient due to international emissions.[74]
The EPA proposes to find that Montana has adequately addressed the applicable provisions of 40 CFR 51.308(g) and agrees with the State's determination that, other than the Medicine Lake Class I area, its regional haze plan is sufficient to meet the RPGs for its Class I areas.
For progress reports for the first implementation period, the provisions under 40 CFR 51.308(g) require a review of the State's visibility monitoring strategy and any modifications to the strategy as necessary. In its Progress Report, Montana summarizes the existing monitoring network in the State to monitor visibility at the twelve Class Start Printed Page 32689I areas within the State, which consists of Montana relying on the national IMPROVE network to meet monitoring and data collection goals.[75] There are currently IMPROVE sites located near seven of the twelve Class I areas within Montana, as well as representative surrogate monitors located near the remaining five Class I areas in Montana.[76] In the Progress Report, the State concludes that no modifications to the existing visibility monitoring strategy are necessary. The State will continue its reliance on the IMPROVE monitoring network. The IMPROVE monitoring network is the primary monitoring network for regional haze, both in Montana and nationwide.
The EPA proposes to find that Montana has adequately addressed the applicable provisions of 40 CFR 51.308(g) regarding the monitoring strategy because the State reviewed its visibility monitoring strategy and determined that no further modifications to the strategy are necessary.
The provisions under 40 CFR 51.308(h) require states to determine the adequacy of their existing implementation plan to meet established goals. Montana's Progress Report includes a negative declaration regarding the need for additional actions or emissions reductions in Montana beyond those already in place and those to be implemented by 2018 according to Montana's FIP.[77] In its Progress Report, Montana notifies the EPA that the FIP may be inadequate to address regional haze at the Medicine Lake Wilderness Area Class I area due to the influence of international emissions.[78] Discussion of this issue is addressed above.
The EPA proposes to conclude that Montana has adequately addressed 40 CFR 51.308(h) because (1) the visibility trends in the majority of Class I areas in the State indicate that the relevant RPGs will be met via emission reductions already in place (except as explained above that some RPGs will not be met due to nonanthropogenic wildfire emissions not subject to control pursuant to Montana's regional haze plan), and therefore the FIP does not require substantive revisions at this time to meet those RPGs, and (2) because Montana has notified EPA that the FIP may be inadequate to address regional haze at the Medicine Lake Wilderness Area Class I area due to international emissions.
The EPA is proposing to approve Montana's November 7, 2017, Regional Haze Progress Report as meeting the applicable regional haze requirements set forth in 40 CFR 51.308(g) and 51.308(h).
Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP submission that complies with the provisions of the Act and applicable Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, the EPA's role is to approve state choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. Accordingly, this action merely proposes to approve state law as meeting Federal requirements and does not impose additional requirements beyond those imposed by state law. For that reason, this action:
Is not a "significant regulatory action" subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Orders 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21, 2011);
Is not an Executive Order 13771 (82 FR 9339, February 2, 2017) regulatory action because SIP approvals are exempted under Executive Order 12866;
Does not impose an information collection burden under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
Is certified as not having a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
Does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
Does not have Federalism implications as specified in Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
Is not an economically significant regulatory action based on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997);
Is not a significant regulatory action subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
Is not subject to requirements of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent with the CAA; and
Does not provide EPA with the discretionary authority to address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or environmental effects, using practicable and legally permissible methods, under Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
In addition, the SIP is not approved to apply on any Indian reservation land or in any other area where EPA or an Indian tribe has demonstrated that a tribe has jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian country, the proposed rule does not have tribal implications and will not impose substantial direct costs on tribal governments or preempt tribal law as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000).
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Greenhouse gases, Lead, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic compounds.
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1. Areas designated as mandatory Class I Federal areas consist of national parks exceeding 6,000 acres, wilderness areas and national memorial parks exceeding 5,000 acres, and all international parks that were in existence on August 7, 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7472(a)). See 40 CFR part 81, subpart D for list of Class I Federal areas.
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2. 77 FR 57864 (September 18, 2012).
3. Montana Progress Report, Figure 1-1, p. 1-1.
5. 77 FR 23995, April 20, 2012, Table 1—Visibility Impact Reductions Needed Based on Best and Worst Days Baselines, Natural Conditions, and Uniform Rate of Progress Goals for Montana Class I Areas.
6. 77 FR 24047, April 20, 2012.
7. 82 FR 17951, April 14, 2017. BART emissions limits for NOX and SO2 were vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on June 9, 2015 for Colstrip Units 1 and 2 and remanded those portions of the FIP back to EPA for further proceedings. National Parks Conservation Association v. EPA, 788 F.3d 1134 (9th Cir. 2015).
8. 77 FR 23998, April 20, 2012, Table 8—List of BART-Eligible Sources in Montana.
9. National Parks Conservation Association v. EPA, 788 F.3d 1134 (9th Cir. 2015).
10. Montana Progress Report, 2-5.
11. Montana Progress Report, p.3-3.
12. Montana Progress Report, pp. 2-5. Sierra Club v. Talen Montana, LLC et al., No. 1:13-cv-00032-DLC-JCL, D. Mon. (2016), Doc. 316-1., p. 6.
13. Montana Progress Report, 2-5. Sierra Club v. Talen Montana, LLC et al., No. 1:13-cv-00032-DLC-JCL, D. Mon. (2016), Doc. 316-1., pp. 7-8.
14. 82 FR 42738.
15. Montana Progress Report, 2-6. See `Oldcastle Compliance Reporting' for additional information.
16. Montana Progress Report, 2-5 to 2-6.
17. United States v. Ash Grove Cement Company, No. 2:13-cv-02299-JTM-DJW, D. Kan. (2013), Doc. 27 as amended by Doc. 28.
19. As discussed above, these emissions limits were vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on June 9, 2015. However, the State describes emissions trending downward for NOX and SO2 in its Progress Report given the application of SOFA emission control technology. Montana Progress Report, p. 3-2.
20. Emissions limits vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on June 9, 2015.
21. A revision to the FIP NOX emission limit became effective October 12, 2017. In its Progress Report, Montana describes Oldcastle Cement's plans to install SCNR emission control, re-commissioning and optimization to meet the new NOX limit. Montana Progress Report, p. 2-6.
22. The process weight of the kiln is used to calculate the emission limit and varies. Montana Progress Report, p. 2-4.
23. Montana Progress Report, p. 2-12.
24. Ibid. At this time, the State's Smoke Management Plan is the only element of the regional haze program as set out in 40 CFR 51.308 that is approved in the SIP.
28. Montana Progress Report, Tables 3-2 to 3-5, pp. 3-6 to 3-9. The WRAP's inventories were developed using EPA's National Emissions Inventory (NEI) and other sources (https://www.wrapair2.org/emissions.aspx). The NEI is based primarily upon data provided by state, local, and tribal air agencies (including Montana) for sources in their jurisdiction and supplemented by data developed by the EPA.
29. For the first regional haze plans, "baseline" conditions were represented by the 2000-2004 time period. See 64 FR 35730 (July 1, 1999).
30. Montana Progress Report, p. 3-7.
34. Montana Progress Report, p. i.
38. Montana Progress Report, p. 3-8. Many changes in emissions inventory methodology occurred between 2002 (Plan02d) and the most current actual emissions inventory data presented by the State (2014NEI), which may have resulted in an increase in fine particulate matter in the above comparison rather than an increase in actual emissions of this pollutant.
39. Montana Progress Report, p. 3-9. The Report explains that the Montana FIP had anticipated a smaller growth in the emissions of fine particulates from 2002 to 2018, which it suggests could be partially explained by the different methodologies used in the NEI and a large percentage of emissions coming from both anthropogenic and natural fire.
41. For the first regional haze plans, "baseline" conditions were represented by the 2000 to 2004 time period. See 64 FR 35730 (July 1, 1999).
43. Technical Guidance on Tracking Visibility Progress for the Second Implementation Period of the Regional Haze Program (December 20, 2018), available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-12/documents/technical_guidance_tracking_visibility_progress.pdf.
45. 77 FR 24090 (April 20, 2012).
51. Montana Progress Report, pp. 4-8 to 4-13.
53. Montana Progress Report, Tables 3-2 to 3-5, pp. 3-6 to 3-9.
63. Montana Progress Report pp. 5-4—5-8.
64. Ramboll Environ US Corporation and Kleinfelder, Inc., "Bureau of Land Management Montana/Dakotas State Office PGM Modeling Study Air Resource Impact Assessment," September 2016.
69. Montana Progress Report, p. 6-8. Regarding the Canadian EGU that the State notes is located near Medicine Lake, EPA explains that EPA became aware of information on the SaskPower website that suggests that emissions from this EGU may be decreasing in the next 11 years. "SaskPower 2017-2018 Annual Report" p. 59 (Canada has developed regulatory requirements regarding greenhouse gas emissions for coal-fired generation, which may also decrease emissions that impact visibility). https://www.saskpower.com/about-us/Our-Company/Current-Reports, and "Emission Goal Fact Sheet," https://www.saskpower.com/Our-Power-Future/Powering-2030/Emissions.
70. Montana Progress Report, 6-2 and 6-3.
71. 40 CFR 51.301 (emphasis added). | {
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require 'spec_helper'
describe Spree::Admin::StoresHelper, type: :helper do
describe '#selected_checkout_zone' do
let!(:store) { create(:store) }
let!(:country) { create(:country) }
let!(:country_zone) { create(:zone, name: 'CountryZone') }
context 'with set preference checkout_zone in spree config file' do
before do
country_zone.members.create(zoneable: country)
Spree::Config[:checkout_zone] = country_zone.name
end
it 'return countries' do
expect(selected_checkout_zone(store)).to eq Spree::Zone.find_by(name: Spree::Config[:checkout_zone])
end
end
context 'with checkout_zone_id set on store' do
before do
Spree::Config.preference_default(:checkout_zone)
country_zone.members.create(zoneable: country)
store.update(checkout_zone_id: country_zone.id)
end
it 'return countries' do
expect(selected_checkout_zone(store)).to eq country_zone
end
end
context 'checkout_zone is not set via preference or store' do
before do
Spree::Config.preference_default(:checkout_zone)
store.update(checkout_zone_id: nil)
end
it 'return nil' do
expect(selected_checkout_zone(store)).to eq nil
end
end
end
end
| {
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Home Emperor is Domination Chapter 581: Battling The Physique Tribulation
Chapter 581: Battling The Physique Tribulation
After receiving the decree, an elder of the Nether Crossing Swamp reluctantly said: "Messenger, it is not that we don't want to carry out the will of the decree, but right now, our previous sect master had abdicated his position and the new one escaped to be a monk. Our inner workings are in turmoil and the elders are chaotically arguing just for a new sect master. We are a snake without a head at the moment, and no one can take the lead. In this situation, how can we have the ability to carry out the Heavenly God Decree?"
Whether their excuse was real or not, or if the messenger believed them or otherwise, the swamp refused to follow the decree and bought time.
The messenger couldn't find the leader of the swamp since they didn't have a sect master. They couldn't force the issue since there was no one around.
Of course, only the Nether Crossing Swamp could use this excuse. Everyone knew that their descendant, Jian Xuan, ran away to be a monk instead of the sect master. This was not a secret in the northern Misty Field or the entire Sacred Nether World.
Outside of these two, all the other ghost lineages left the Prime Ominous Grave and headed for the cities around the Nether Border to gather up mortals.
All the mortals around this region didn't know a calamity was quickly approaching. Moreover, the decree was sent and carried out on the same day, so the great powers in the Distant Cloud didn't know anything yet.
Although most cultivators and mortals of the other races were normally at the Distant Cloud, the races had taken root in the Sacred Nether World for millions of years. Even in the Nether Border that was full of ghosts, there were still mortals and cultivators from the other races.
They normally gathered at huge cities in the Nether Border that contained hundreds of thousands of people. At this time, the mortals and cultivators of the other races in this region didn't know that there was an evil hand reaching out for them.
Within the pond that was deep into the path of death, Li Qiye's physique tribulation was pouring down. Li Qiye simply roared and didn't move as the Hell Suppressing Inner Physique rose up high. The dao foundation turned into a Primordial Kun Peng, and his True Fate placed the inner physique inside. In just a moment, the True Fate and the Hell Suppressing Inner Physique rode the Kun Peng to fight the tribulation up above.
"Rumble!" Up in the sky, the ensuing battle caused the world to collapse in a tyrannical and domineering manner.
Anyone would be scared out of their mind to see this scene since no one had ever undergone their tribulation like this. Using one's True Fate to fight the enemy was courting death because cultivators were most fearful of a Fate Calamity. The majority of cultivators didn't want to use their True Fate to fight, let alone face a Physique Tribulation.
At the Enlightened Being level, a destroyed body could be rebuilt, but if the True Fate was shattered, that would be a real death.
Because of this, no cultivator would do what Li Qiye was doing with his tribulation. However, Li Qiye didn't care and used an unstoppable momentum with his True Fate to crush the physique tribulation until the sky collapsed. Such an invincible style would win a lot of fans if there was anyone spectating.
Anyone would feel that he was being too crazy since if his True Fate was wounded, he could die and turn into ashes.
Meanwhile, Li Qiye's true body was still meditating in the pond. The young green branches continued to suck up the essence to strengthen Li Qiye's meridian. After absorbing a sufficient amount of essence, the entire location became full of divine spirits!
After opening the twelfth palace, his meridian was dried up — this was the norm since opening twelve palaces was its limit. The meridian drying up meant that it couldn't open another palace, lest the cultivator risks shattering the meridian along with all the other palaces.
Even the strongest cultivator couldn't handle such a devastating result. However, at this moment, Li Qiye's palace location was full of vigor and divinity like the realm of a god with endless life essences.
Outsiders would never believe such a thing since nothing could restore the withered Nigong meridian, not even True Immortal Medicine. However, after absorbing so much essence from the pond, he proved them wrong.
Nevertheless, this was far from enough for Li Qiye since the restoration of the meridian alone was not beneficial at all. In the end, all the divinity and endless life inside were meaningless.
Under the current circumstances, even if he could open the thirteenth palace, he still wouldn't be able to withstand the suppression from the heavens, so the restoration was merely his first step.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Hymns appeared as if a grand dao was forming into something like a new palace. Each time a hum resonated, Li Qiye's body would shake. The twelve palaces hovering above his head would turn dark then bright as they were greatly affected.
He had begun the construction of the thirteenth palace after absorbing enough essence. Of course, this was only the beginning. These rich essences alone were far from enough to create the next palace.
After an outline was formed, Li Qiye still needed the most important thing. Without it, the palace would collapse right after it formed!
In the sky, the battle lasted for some time before the True Fate finally destroyed the heavenly tribulation and collapsed the tribulation portal as well as slayed the physique devil. After the portal was destroyed, the tribulation dissipated.
The Soaring Immortal Inner Physique in front of Li Qiye's chest became even brighter. Waves of rings emanated like the spreading of wings.
"Buzz!" The moment these wings made of light spread out wide, time suddenly quivered as if the flap of these wings could affect time itself. In just a second, time began to slow down.
There was an illusion that everything became slower. Even the passing of light was as slow as a snail; nothing was excluded from this effect.
People would be able to see the passage of time at this moment. Nothing could feel better than sensing the slow passage of time.
Soaring Immortal Physique, minor completion! At this moment, Li Qiye had two minor completion Immortal Physiques. Outside of the Black Dragon King, Li Qiye was the only other one who successfully accomplished this.
It was the fastest physique in this world. Although it was only at minor completion, its speed was still at an awe-inspiring level. With this, no Heavenly King would ever be able to catch Li Qiye, not even the highest level of Heavenly King, a Heaven's Equal King that specialized in speed, unless this particular king also cultivated the Soaring Immortal Physique.
At grand completion, its speed would be at the limit of this world. When exerted to its maximum potential, one could jump outside of the temporal constraint and soar across eternity!
Li Qiye was only at minor completion and was far from reaching that level, but what kind of power would the combination of two minor completion Immortal Physiques have? Extreme speed and extreme weight — this combination would be the most terrifying weapon in this world. One strike could cause the destruction of the heaven and earth.
Other cultivators would be ecstatic at achieving minor completion, but Li Qiye was emotionless. He was still sitting in the pond, focusing all of his will into opening the thirteenth palace.
A minor completion Soaring Immortal Physique was not a cause for pride to Li Qiye, but opening the next palace was indeed a glorious thing.
There were several big cities back in the Nether Border, sites of congregation for the other races besides the ghosts. Outside of these huge cities, there were also other smaller cities all around. At this minute, all of them were suffering a calamity with screams that pierced the sky only to be answered by ominous black clouds. The apocalypse had come to these mortals and even the cultivators in these cities. They didn't know what was happening before being brought away.
Blackstone City was one of the biggest cities in the Nether Border. It was built on top of a rolling mountain range. This was the place where stone golems gathered in the Nether Border. This region was ruled by the ghosts and protected by a monster named the Myriad Bones Throne. Outside of the ghosts, other races had a very difficult time opening up new settlements.
Thus, Blackstone City was built in the wild and spanned hundreds of thousands of miles. 300,000 mortals and tens of thousands of cultivators could be found within.
The majority of the inhabitants were stone golems with some humans and members of the Blood Race here and there.
Today, it had also met a calamity. At early sunrise, there was a sudden deafening explosion.
"Rumble!" Its defense was being attacked by someone as explosions kept on detonating. Many pavilions and buildings were collapsing as if there was a gigantic hand lifting the entire city up.
In just a moment, shrill screams appeared everywhere. More than 300,000 mortals were suddenly sucked up into the sky along with some weaker cultivators. | {
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YOU have to hand it to Gympie: this town believes nothing is impossible.
From the days of the gold rush in the late 1800s when it was known as "The town that saved Queensland", through to the past decade of resurgence as a family tourism destination, the word "can't" is absent from Gympie's collective vocabulary.
Ask, "Can I keep two kids under five entertained for an entire weekend?" and you'll be told, "Sure can".
You guessed the answer: "Of course, it is".
We travelled up to enjoy the 2010 Heart of Gold International Film Festival – an annual event which has defied the critics.
It will celebrate its fifth year in 2011, running from March 17-20.
Our home away from home over the weekend was Eastwood Farm Bed & Breakfast where hosts Mike and Gina Otswald embraced our family as if their own. The lovely residence where they raised their own children sits atop some 16ha and comes complete with Bonnie the dog – an immediate hit with Miss Two and Miss Four.
The two bedrooms with ensuites are popular with couples who want to make a weekend of it and perhaps take advantage of Mike's internationally renowned bird-watching skills, or his encyclopedic knowledge of the area (the Otswalds go back to the gold-mining era, and Mike's great-grandmother was one of the first women here to own a block of land).
Gina plied us with afternoon tea on our arrival – fresh cakes galore as we sat and enjoyed the views from the spacious enclosed veranda towards Rainbow Beach.
Kicking into family time on Saturday morning, we bundled Miss Two and Miss Four into the historic Mary Valley Rattler steam train for a morning of glorious views and a delightful sense of nostalgia as we clickety-clacked through the countryside and towns of Dagan, Amamoor, Kandanga and Imbil.
More adventures are in store on July 22-24, when the second Gympie Ultimate Steam Festival – a collaboration between The Valley Rattler, The Gympie Mining Museum and The Gympie Woodworks Museum – hits town.
Featuring blacksmithing, wood- chopping, traditional hand tools and plenty of other historical demonstrations, the festival is yet another example of just what Gympie can do.
Close to town, we visited Banyanda Alpaca farm, where Dawn raises about 200 of the animals.
Miss Two and Miss Four thoroughly enjoyed hand-feeding the animals, especially the babies.
It did seem as though we'd caught the Gympie region wearing its dazzling best – torrential rainfall had rendered the scenic valleys and peaks a brilliant green and turned the air cool, yet warm sunshine made the weekend enjoyable.
Just 40 minutes down the road on Sunday morning, we lined up at Tin Can Bay to hand feed Mystique – a second-generation Wild Indo-Pacific dolphin which has chosen to grace this little town with his presence each morning.
Congratulations to Gympie. Can it impress a family of four and make them return for more? | {
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Cat is an intermediate language for program verification, optimization, and more!
Christopher is a freelance programmer and consultant, with a particular interest in the design and implementation of programming languages. He can be contacted at [email protected].
I've always been fascinated by stack-oriented languages because of their simplicity and elegance. Instructions take input off of the stack, do something with it, and push the output back onto the stack. Thus, there are no named variables or arguments, and the order of execution is left-to-right without any need for parentheses to denote precedence. As a result, it doesn't take long for people to learn the basics of programming in a stack language.
Another appeal of stack languages is that it is relatively easy to create reasonably efficient implementations for them, especially where memory considerations are at a premium. Because of this, we find stack languages in multicore processors (SeaForth, www.dspdesignline.com/188701424), virtual machines (Java Virtual Machine language), and embedded devices.
In general, when we think of stack languages, we often think of imperative languages: Each instruction does something to a shared stack. An alternative and equally accurate view of stack languages is that each instruction is a function that takes a stack as input and returns a stack as output. This is the principle upon which Manfred von Thun based the Joy language (www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html).
The language that Joy most closely resembles is PostScript in that explicit control structures (branches, gotos, jumps) are replaced with higher order instructions (instructions that execute other instructions). Joy, however, introduced explicit function literals (PostScript uses a delayed execution operator) and eliminated the concept of the definition dictionary; in other words, you can't dynamically define or redefine new operations. This yielded a new breed of stack language that shares the advantages of pure functional languages (for example, it is expressive and easy to reason about and manipulate formally). It is interesting to note that despite its similarities to other stack-based languages, Joy evolved independently from Schoenfinkel and Curry's combinatory logic and the FP language by John Backus (www.vector.org.uk/archive/v203/vonthun203.htm).
My interest in Joy was primarily motivated by my search for an intermediate language that could be easily targeted by imperative and functional languages, could be easily optimized, and could be statically verified. Joy relies heavily on dynamic checking, so I created a more restricted, statically typed language based on Joy and called it "Cat."
In the Cat specification, instructions are referred to as "functions," regardless of whether they have side effects. New functions are defined using the define keyword, and have global scope. Functions cannot be redefined, and are only visible after they are defined. Example 1 presents some simple examples.
Example 1: Sample Cat functions.
Mathematical operations: add, mul, sub, div, mod, rem, inc, dec.
Logical operations: and, or, not, xor.
Function construction: compose, papply, quote.
Executing functions: apply, dip, if, while.
Manipulating the stack: swap, dup, pop.
Dealing with lists: list, cons, uncons, head, tail, count, nth.
Comparing values: eq, lt, gt, lteq, gteq, neq.
In Cat, a literal (for example, 42, 'q', "Hello Christopher\n", 3.14) pushes a value onto the stack. Additionally, you can also write literal functions, by enclosing an expression in square braces ([1 +]). This has the effect of pushing a function onto the stack without executing it. In Joy parlance, this is called a "quotation," but I think of it as an anonymous function. Anonymous functions are first class values: They can be constructed dynamically and treated like any other primitive value (you can dup them, swap them, pop them, and so on). You can execute anonymous functions using higher order functions such as apply, if, and while.
Closures (functions bound to values in the local environment) can be constructed in Cat using the papply primitive instruction. This has the effect of binding the top value on the stack to the function, a process known as "partial application" (partial application is frequently mislabeled as "currying"). An example of partial application is that if you wrote 1 [<=] papply, it has the same effect as if you wrote [1 <=].
The quicksort algorithm in Example 2 is a more sophisticated example of Cat. The algorithm relies on a binary recursion instruction (bin_rec) that provides a general implementation of a binary recursive process (also called "tree recursion"). Example 3 is a possible definition of bin_rec.
This is a simple implementation of a quick-sort algorithm.
// Does list have 0 or 1 elements?
// then concatenate the two lists.
Example 2: A simple quick-sort algorithm.
Example 3: Example implementation of the bin_rec function.
The bin_rec function is an example of a hylomorphism (see citeseer.ist.psu.edu/meijer91functional.html)—the composition of an anamorphism (an unfolding function) and a catamorphism (a folding function). Hylomorphisms are interesting because they can be used to eliminate the construction of intermediate data structures (citeseer.ist.psu.edu/launchbury95warm.html).
The quicksort algorithm in Example 2 also demonstrates an extended feature of Cat called "metadata"—a form of structured comment that can associate additional data with a Cat function that can be used by tools. For example, metadata can be used to document functions and perform automatic unit tests. The format is based on YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) and uses significant whitespace to denote hierarchical structure.
To demonstrate how compact Cat can be, Example 4 includes an implementation of the Google MapReduce algorithm (labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html). The general idea of the Google MapReduce algorithm is to define a task in terms of subtasks that can be executed (in this example, counting instances of words), and a function to combine the results of the subtasks (called the "reduce function"). While my implementations of Cat do not execute MapReduce concurrently, you can easily develop an implementation of Cat that automatically executes map and self_join to take advantage of available parallelism in the executing environment. This leads to an important point about Cat: As an implementor, you decide how to implement the primitive instructions and whether to implement standard library functions as library functions or built-in functions. This opens lots of opportunities for high-performance implementations.
Example 4: An implementation of the Google MapReduce algorithm. | {
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This 19 page bundle bundle includes three grade levels of animals, grades 2, 3 and 5. Grades 2 and 3 include some spiraled vocabulary, and some new. There is also a PPT available that coincides with the grade 2 animals on feelings and animals. This bundle includes three sets of student flashcards that students can cut with scissors and put into plastice bags for reference or to use to practice listening skills for word recognition or for a card game. Included are three vocabulary writing activities with a word bank, one for each vocabulary set. There are three writing / presentational projects, grade 2 or 3 a project with sentence frames, grade 3 a habitat writing activity, and writing activity for sorting by adjective identification. Included are two cloze reading activities which are fill in the blank with word banks. There is a grade 5 grammar activity for making singular sentences plural, and plural sentences singular. The grade 5 project includes a student research graphic organizer, and guiding questions sheet for the student research writing project. A sample project is included. | {
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295 Theresia este un asteroid din centura principală, descoperit pe 17 august 1890, de Johann Palisa.
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295 Theresia în JPL Small-Body Database
295 Theresia în baza de date a Minor Planet Center
Diagrama orbitei asteroidului 295 Theresia (JPL)
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New 'Detective Pikachu' Still Shows Tim & Pikachu On The Defensive
by Cole Albinder on January 19, 2019
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released a new still from the upcoming Detective Pikachu, film showing the titular talking Pokemon (voiced and facially motion-captured by Ryan Reynolds) and his new human partner Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) looking prepared to deal with a threat coming in their direction. You can check it out below.
A new still from 'DETECTIVE PIKACHU' has been officially released. (Source: @wbpictures) pic.twitter.com/5uBOPqG8nA
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 19, 2019
New 'Detective Pikachu' Posters Focus On Titular Pokémon
You'll probably recognize this scene from the first trailer for the film that was released, and from the looks of what was shown it's assumed that this is just before a group of Greninja storm the facility they're investigating. It's unknown if these Greninja are associated with anyone in particular though. Mewtwo is said to be the film's villain, but there's no saying that outside forces are involved in the mystery of Tim's father's disappearance, right?
Perhaps Team Rocket? It wouldn't be against them to have agile Pokemon like Greninja to help them carry out their plans. Fingers crossed, though.
What do you think of this still? Do you think these are Team Rocket's Greninja? Let us know down below!!
'Detective Pikachu' BTS Image Shows Ryan Reynolds Doing Motion Capture
Here is a synopsis for the upcoming film:
A young man joins forces with Detective Pikachu to unravel the mystery behind his father's disappearance. Chasing clues through the streets of Ryme City, the dynamic duo soon discover a devious plot that poses a threat to the Pokémon universe.
Directed by Rob Letterman, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu stars Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Paul Kitson, Kathryn Newton, Ken Watanabe, Karan Soni, Bill Nighy, Suki Waterhouse, Chris Geere, Rita Ora, and Omar Chaparro.
Be sure to catch 'em all when the Detective Pikachu hits theaters on May 10, 2019. Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest news on Detective Pikachu and the future of the Pokemon franchise as we learn it.
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In 1970, the move of the Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee happened too late for the card company, leaving Topps with a whole year of Pilots cards and no Brewers. Determined not to let that happen again, Topps was ready for the Padres' reported move away from San Diego in 1974. So even though Ray Kroc came along and saved them, the first couple of series came out with cards that listed Willie McCovey and company as "Washington Nat'l League."
They also put out corrected versions once it was confirmed the team was going to remain in San Diego.
Though they found it necessary to change the team designation, apparently Topps was satisfied with the airbrush art on McCovey's cap.
The thing that always puzzled me about the 1974 Topps set was that it was supposedly issued all at once (unlike the Topps sets from 1952-'73, which were issued in six or seven series throughout the season).
However, the San Diego players erroneously listed as "Washington Nat'l L." were all found on cards #387 and below. Willie McCovey -- as seen above -- is found with both variations, as are Cito Gaston, Randy Jones and Glenn Beckert (still shown in his Cubs threads on the card), as well as the team card. However, all the Padres cards after #387 are shown only as Padres...including Dave Winfield on his rookie card. If the cards were all printed and issued at one time, the Padres should have all had Washington variations.
Speaking of Rookie cards, the only card that breaks the rule about no Padres variations after #387 will be found on #599. It was a card featuring four rookie pitchers, including Padre Dave Freisleben. That card ended up with three variations...Washington and two different fonts for San Diego. Unlike the other "Washington" cards, #599 is most commonly found with the "Washington" designation.
Also, the Padres were one of four teams in the 1974 Topps set with no manager/coaches card. That's probably because Don Zimmer had been dismissed and Topps was unable to get a new photo of new skipper John McNamara in time for the set. All three of the other teams missing manager cards had also dismissed their field generals before the '74 season: Detroit, Oakland and the New York Yankees.
Labels: 1974 Topps, San Diego Padres, Willie McCovey
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Does your AirPort Extreme Base Station work but is unreachable via AirPort Utility?
We're tracking a problem and would love to hear your experience.
The other day, my wife texts me (from upstairs; I work in a home office in the basement): the printer had stopped working, and could I take a look? Our printer is connected via USB to an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (5th generation), which shares it over the network. The base station is an extension of a network, so it's in bridging mode.
Power cycling didn't help me out, though several colleagues who had the same problem when I polled on Twitter said a power cycle would fix this issue for a while, as long as several months.
The factory reset put the base station back in business for about 20 to 30 minutes, during which time the printer re-appeared and I was able to print. But then it reverted to its previous "Device Not Found" status. A couple days after I witnessed this, a reader wrote in with a nearly identical experience. Querying on Twitter, half a dozen people said they'd had the same thing, but a power cycle or form of reset helped.
One colleague on Twitter suggested that removing all Apple IDs from the Back to My Mac configuration section would fix the problem. (Click a base station in AirPort Utility, click Edit, and then make changes in the Base Station tab. Click Update to apply changes.) I did another factory reset, removed the Apple ID, and the base station (and its printer) have remained working for a few days so far. This does prevent remote access to attached drives and Time Capsule volumes as well as remote configuration.
I've reached out to Apple for any insight they may have about other fixes. It may need to be replaced due to hardware failure—but it's fascinating to me that the networking part can work independently of the other subsystems.
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Although the importance of synaptic connectivity for neuronal network function has long been recognized in theoretical and applied neuroscience, it was only recently that the critical role of neuronal geometry in the patterns of synaptic connections started attracting general attention. While activity dynamics in the brain essentially depends on neuronal interconnectivity, the latter is intrinsically related to the geometrical and spatial features of the constituting neurons. At the same time, the history of neuronal activations has influenced, through activity-dependent mechanisms, neuronal shape and synaptic efficacy, and thus overall connectivity in the network. In brief, it has become clear that the three key factors: i) activity dynamics; ii) synaptic connectivity; and iii) neuronal geometry, are intricately related to each other and are to be studied in mutual relation to understand neuronal network structure and function. For instance, the position and shape properties of the neuronal cells determine - to a great extent -the respective interconnectivity, and therefore dynamics. The current issue is dedicated to addressing the fundamental interplay between activity dynamics, synaptic connectivity, and neuronal and network geometry. Submissions are sought which either provide a particularly comprehensive and updated contribution in any of these three areas, or which report on their relationships. | {
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Q: How do I change the default EOL settings/encoding of new files in Notepad++? I'm trying to change the encoding of new files in Notepad++ to always be Unix/OSX, but even after setting this in the preferences, new files always default to Dos/Windows.
The way I create new files is this: I'm connected to a remote server via FTP, and I am right clicking a directory, and then choosing "Create new file". I enter its name, which usually is "something.tpl". Then I will double click that newly created file from the directory browser to edit it. It will open up, and its encoding is "Dos/Windows ANSI". I want it to be "Unix/OSX". Why is the setting I applied from the preferences section for new document encoding not affecting this new file?
When I create a new file by going File -> New... then it will have a Unix encoding. Why does my setting apply to new files created via this method but not the previous method I described via being connected to a remote server and right clicking a directory and selecting "Create new file"? It seems both methods fall under the category of creating a new file.
A: Looks like you found a NppFTP defect. You can report it in Npp FTP bugtracker. (Before, you can check if someone didn't report it already.)
It also looks you have found a workaround, too, by creating a file without Npp FTP and then uploading it to FTP server. I recommend you stick with a workaround until the Npp FTP defect is fixed.
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The United States Patent Association was a non-governmental organization active in the United States in the late 19th century. Their purpose was to promote the benefits of patents for society. Association membership comprised US patent examiners, patent agents and attorneys and inventors. Their activities included having meetings, giving public presentations and publishing essays.
Essays
Perry, John, S., "A Defence of our Patent System", United States Patent Association, J.R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, Mass., 1875
Howson, H., "Our Country's Debt to Patents", United States Patent Association, J.R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, Mass., 1875
Howson, Henry, Sr. "What we owe to patents", U.S. Patent Association, M'Calla & Stavely, 1874.
Former officers and directors
Norman C. Stiles inventor and founder of Stiles & Parker Press Company of Middletown, Connecticut
Modern stock scams using the name of the United States Patent Association
Certain promoters of stocks claim that their companies have "patents registered with the States Patent Association". This is a meaningless designation because:
The United States Patent Association does not exist anymore, and
There is no such thing as "holding patents with an association". Patents are issued by governments only.
See also
Intellectual property organization
Patent
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References
Defunct organizations based in the United States
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Key policy actions for sustainable land and water use to serve people
To achieve food security for all, new resource policies for sustainable land and water use are needed. Land, water, and energy need to be considered jointly in policies, not in isolation. G20 countries'
Center for Development Research
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Integrating climate change in agriculture and food security policies and strategies: experiences and lessons from East Africa
Several African countries are proactively putting in place policies and strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture at national and local levels. In order for policy makers to
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change
Enabling private sector adaptation in developing countries and their semi-arid regions: case studies of Senegal and Kenya
Climate change poses increasing risks to economic growth and development efforts across the world. Semi-arid regions (SARs) are one of the hotpots that have been identified by the Intergovernmental Panel
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Moving towards a green productive agriculture in Africa: the role of ICTs
Agriculture remains an important source of livelihood for the majority of Africans but the sector is still very unproductive, resulting in food insecurity and large imports of staple foods, putting additional
Land Reforms
State of ICT in Asia and the Pacific 2016: uncovering the widening broadband divide
Despite the widely reported phenomenal growth in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Asia-Pacific region, a new study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
UNESCAP
The Global Information Technology Report 2016: innovating in the digital economy
Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States are leading the world when it comes to generating economic impact from investments in information and communications
Success stories of integrated pest management in India
<p>This is a compilation of Success Stories of Integrated Pest Management with detailed insights into the strategies developed by ICAR–National Research Centre for Integrated Pest Management (NCIPM) for different crops suited to varied agro-climatic locations</p>
ICAR-National Research Centre for Integrated Pest Management
Networked Society City Index 2016
Ericsson has named Stockholm as the top-ranking city in the Networked Society City Index 2016, followed by London, Copenhagen, Singapore and Paris. The index measures the performance of 41 cities from
World Development Report 2016: digital dividends
<p>Appreciating India's Aadhaar digital ID, this World Bank report ssays that the initiative is estimated to be saving the government about $1 billion annually by curbing corruption as it underlined that digital technologies can promote inclusion, efficiency and innovation.</p>
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Book suggestions for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
More Happy Than Not
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004 Winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . . Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us. *Please note that the end of p39 and p40 are intentionally blank*
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.
Evan Mandery
Shortly before his wedding, the unnamed hero of this book is visited by a man who claims to be his future self and who tells the hero he must not marry the love of his life, Q. At first the protagonist doubts the stranger, but then becomes convinced of the authenticity of the warning and leaves his financée. More appearances by future selves give other warnings until the only constants in the protagonist's life is his love for his New York City home and his former fiancée Q.
After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in the sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart
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Sport › Football
Published on 25.01.2023 at 11h43 by Nana Kamsu Kom
Niger wins Cameroon
The amateur Lions of Cameroon were beaten by Niger (0-1) on Tuesday January 24th and are already eliminated from the 2023 African Nations Championship.
The local Lions wanted to do better than the fourth place obtained during the previous African Nations Championship. Not so. Cameroon's senior team was eliminated in the first round of the 2023 edition in Algeria. All credit to Niger, winner of the Lions in the final of Group E (1-0) on Tuesday in Oran.
Big disillusionment for the men of Alioum Saidou. The Cameroonians were announced as favourites after their victory against Congo, but they needed a draw to advance to the quarter-finals. The Cameroonians were quick off the mark, but they also lacked movement and struggled to find the back of the net despite numerous chances.
The Nigerians took advantage, against the run of play. The Nigerians took advantage of the situation against the run of play and Badamassi was helped by Etta Bawak who scored an own goal from a free kick on the edge of the area (1-0, 69th). Niger finished the group phase with 4 points, ahead of Cameroon (3 points). The winner of the day will face Ghana in the quarter-finals.
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Take to the Sky Concert
Violin soloist for this concert is Dmitri Berlinsky.
The theme of this concert, entitled "Take to the Sky", centers around the portrayals of bird calls in classical music.
Vaughan Williams' "Lark Ascending" features a silvery solo violin line fluttering, reaching up ever higher above the orchestra's hushed, held chord creating an instant atmosphere depicting a lark as 'he rises and begins to round'.
Completed in 1914, the British composer's pastoral romance for violin and orchestra is an evocation of the 'seraphically free' song of the skylark, inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name:
"He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake,
All intervolv'd and spreading wide,
Like water-dimples down a tide
Where ripple ripple overcurls …"
Ondras said "Lark Ascending" will feature internationally-known violinist Dmitri Berlinsky performing with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra as a soloist. Berlinsky, professor of violin and artist teacher at the Michigan State University College of Music, has performed in major venues such as Carnegie and Avery Fisher halls in New York, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Tokyo's Suntory Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Mariinsky Concert Hall.
Other featured music in "Take to the Sky" includes:
Ottorino Respighi – "Gli Uccelli" (The Birds)
According to Ondras, this five-movement work features a dove (La colomba) with a heartfelt oboe melody; the familiar call of the Cuckoo (Il Cucù); the chirpy Hen movement (La gallina), based on the same Rameau harpsichord work (The Hen, or La poule) that inspired St. Saens for his 'Hens and cockerels' movement in Carnival of Animals.
Rautavaara – "Cantus Arcticus"
Why imitate birds in music when you can use the real thing?
Rautavaara's "concerto for birds and orchestra", as it's subtitled, uses taped birdsong throughout, taking Respighi's idea one step further, Ondras explained. The Finnish composer headed off on a field trip to near the Arctic Circle (hence the title) and to the marshlands of Liminka in Northern Finland to record the calls of a whole host of birds. Listening to it is like stepping into an avian paradise, with the melancholy song of the shore larks as unforgettable as the migrating whooper swans. The bird calls are juxtaposed with a lush orchestral score.
Beethoven's 6th Symphony, 2nd Movement
Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra
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The first anniversary free apde and the Steam version will be released on September 27 in the action ADV KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS released in 2021.
The American Indie Belopper EMBER LAB will release the Steam version of the action adventure KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS released in September 2021 on September 27 and add new elements. Anniversary Update will be announced for free. The announcement trailer has also been released.
STEAM version ban and various new elements are added for free!
This game is a single play work that controls characters from a third-person perspective. As a young spirit guide, Kena, the player purifies the mysterious curse on the forest on the way, gaining the help of a small spirit Rot, and purifying the mysterious curse on the road on the way. I will aim.
This time, on September 27, 2022, the first anniversary of the release of this work, it was announced that the Steam version will be released and a free anniversary update will be implemented at the same time. The following new elements added in this update are revealed.
In addition, you can also see that there are additional elements in the scenario as well as the videos published.
The free anniversary update of KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS, which can be enjoyed again by those who have already cleared it, will be distributed on September 27, 2022 overseas time. The Steam version will also be released on the same day.
The domestic PS4/PS5 version is distributed for 4,180 yen for Standard Edition on the PS Store, 4,730 yen for Deluxe Edition, and 1,100 yen for 1,100 yen, Digital Deluxe Upgrade, which adds Deluxe elements to Standard Edition. In Epic Games Store, Standard Edition is distributed for 4,180 yen and Deluxe Edition is 5,180 yen.
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Q: how to restrict action in grails shiro security .please guide me that i have 2 methods in my Controller one is login and second is logout. and 1 role 'user' defined in my DB and i have a user with that role. now what i want to do is that person can login but could not access the logout button. how can i add permission/restrictions that would allow that user not to Logout.
A: Take a look at your other question (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5815401/how-to-implement-shiro-security-of-grails-in-my-project) and use roleUser.addToPermissions('auth:login,signIn') as permission. This adds the permissions as described in your question: only login is allowed, logout is not in the list and thus not allowed. We have to state not only login which will show the login screen, but also signIn which is the action of the actual sign in.
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The Hubris of Social Science
I'd like a dollop of ketchup on that paradigm.
Jim Russell
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In the 19th century, the world birthed social science. In the 19th century, the world birthed the nation state. How social science could help the nation state was debatable. How the nation state could help social science was beyond reproach.
Theodore Porter navigates this Scylla and Charybdis. The expert displaces the dilettante. But the dilettante doesn't exit the bureaucratic stage. The dilettante insists that the social science can't account for all the quirks of human behavior. The expert insists that good social science will solve all the world's ills.
Thus the pendulum swings, to this day, between dilettante and expert. Social science will re-make the city and eradicate poverty. Social science will re-make the city and exacerbate poverty. Command the markets. Let the markets command.
In the 19th century, Pittsburgh birthed the perfect ketchup:
Harvey Washington Wiley, the chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture from 1883 to 1912, came to believe that benzoates were not safe, and the result was an argument that split the ketchup world in half. On one side was the ketchup establishment, which believed that it was impossible to make ketchup without benzoate and that benzoate was not harmful in the amounts used. On the other side was a renegade band of ketchup manufacturers, who believed that the preservative puzzle could be solved with the application of culinary science. The dominant nineteenth-century ketchups were thin and watery, in part because they were made from unripe tomatoes, which are low in the complex carbohydrates known as pectin, which add body to a sauce. But what if you made ketchup from ripe tomatoes, giving it the density it needed to resist degradation? Nineteenth-century ketchups had a strong tomato taste, with just a light vinegar touch. The renegades argued that by greatly increasing the amount of vinegar, in effect protecting the tomatoes by pickling them, they were making a superior ketchup: safer, purer, and better tasting. They offered a money-back guarantee in the event of spoilage. They charged more for their product, convinced that the public would pay more for a better ketchup, and they were right. The benzoate ketchups disappeared. The leader of the renegade band was an entrepreneur out of Pittsburgh named Henry J. Heinz.
The author scripting this food science battle is none other than Malcolm Gladwell. Henry J. Heinz perfected ketchup long before the world perfected social science. Gladwell sells the efficacy of social science with the success story of Heinz ketchup.
Theodore Porter sells the efficacy of Malcolm Gladwell with the success story of the nation state. Does that make social science a ruse, an instrument of government power? I say nay. Each time the pendulum swings between hubris and laissez faire, social science gets smarter.
Jim Russell, a geographer studying the relationship between migration and economic development, writes regularly for Pacific Standard.
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Preview: Bobby Robson Saved My Life
Bobby Robson Saved My Life: Cast Announcement
Bobby Robson Saved My Life
Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 July @ South Shields Customs House
Friday 2 – Sunday 4 August 2019 @ Newcastle Tyne Theatre & Opera House
The cast of Bobby Robson Saved My Life have spoken of their pride in paying tribute to the former Newcastle United and England manager. Charlie Richmond, Donald McBride and Sam Neale have been cast in Tom Kelly's new play, which premieres at The Customs House in South Shields in July before shows in Newcastle and Ipswich.
Tom Kelly and Jamie Brown
Directed by Jamie Brown (Geordie The Musical, The Butcher's Bill), it focuses on the late Sir Bobby's legacy and explores the ability of one person to have a dramatic effect on the life of another, without ever knowing it.
Focusing on three very different individuals and the ups and downs life throws at them, it promises to be a heart-warming, inspirational and uplifting piece that celebrates not only Sir Bobby's life, but the impact he had on so many.
Sir Bobby, who was born in Sacriston, County Durham, and played for Fulham, West Bromwich Albion and England before going into management, died in July 2009, aged 76, after a long battle with cancer. A portion of each ticket sale will be donated to The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, which was launched in 2008 to help find more effective ways to detect and treat cancer and has since gone on to raise more than £13m.
Charlie Richmond, whose company, Quayside Productions, is co-producing the play with The Customs House and Ion Productions, said: "As an actor often known for my comedy roles, I'm excited to explore my more serious side as the character Mark in Bobby Robson Saved My Life." Charlie Richmond, who hails from Newcastle, started his professional acting career in 1999, making his film debut in Purely Belter. Over the years, he has performed a variety of roles on both stage and screen. He is a panto regular at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House in Newcastle and has previously appeared at The Customs House in The Machine Gunners, My Uncle Freddie and When the Boat Comes In. Other credits include The Last Ship tour of the UK and Ireland.
Donald McBride
Donald McBride, from County Durham, will play Tommy, having spent 40 years treading the boards in the north east and appearing in iconic north east TV dramas like Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Our Friends in the North and Spender. He said: "I'm so pleased to be working with Tom again. We go back 20 years, from Tom & Catherine through to Talking Tom, Nothing Like The Wooden Horse and Geordie The Musical. Also, having lost many family members and friends to cancer, I'm glad to help raise awareness of The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. I'm also looking forward to playing an elderly gentleman from County Durham – typecast again!"
Sam Neale
Sam Neale, who will play Clair, is from Gateshead and has performed at Newcastle's Live Theatre and Alphabetti, as well as on TV in Vera and the films Frank and No Place. She said: "I'm really pleased to be involved in this project. Bobby Robson is a beloved icon in this region and Tom's play is a moving and touching tribute with real human stories. People should come and see the show to remember Bobby, to laugh and maybe cry and revel in the joy and pain of being a Newcastle supporter!"
Bobby Robson Saved My Life runs from Tuesday, July 16, to Saturday, July 20, at The Customs House, before moving on to the Regent Theatre in Ipswich, where Sir Bobby enjoyed great success with Ipswich Town, and Newcastle's Tyne Theatre and Opera House.
The Customs House performances start at 7.30pm, with a 2.30pm Wednesday and Saturday matinee. Tickets, priced from £20, are available from the box office on (0191) 454 1234 or online at www.customshouse.co.uk.
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This Act may be cited as the Attestation of Instruments (Facilities) Act.
Notwithstanding the definition of "a Justice" or "a Justice of the Peace" contained in the provisions of section 3 of the Interpretation Act, or anything contained in the provisions of any other enactment of this Island to the contrary, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or other person by law authorised to administer oaths, affidavits, declarations or affirmations, to administer, take and receive the oath, affidavit, declaration or solemn affirmation of any person touching any deed, instrument, writing, matter or thing required to be sworn to, declared to, affirmed or attested under the provisions of any enactment, regulations or instrument whatsoever, at any place in the Island, whether or not the subject matter of the said deed, instrument, writing, matter or thing requiring the cognizance of a Justice or person authorised as aforesaid arises within the parish for which such Justice is appointed or other person by law authorised is for the time being.
(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) every Member of the House of Representatives shall, so long as he is a Member of the House of Representatives, have the same authority as a Justice of the Peace to administer, take and receive the oath, affidavit, declaration or affirmation of any person touching any deed, instrument, right, matter or thing required to be sworn to, declared to, affirmed or attested under the provisions of any enactment or regulation and to give certificates required to be given under the provisions of any enactment or regulation.
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Why the name "Abrie James"?
The name of our company comes from a mashup of my kids' names. This business is about helping people accomplish goals and become successful so it was important to me that it involve my entire family in some way. BTW – Abrie is pronounced with a long A and a long E. The "A" in "Made". Then brie like the cheese. "A" "Bree".
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I love Christmas, I do. I love almost everything about it.
Whether that's during the build-up to the big day itself, through my snow-delayed train to work and work's night out, putting up decorations, the tree and even the shopping (well, as long as it's not too busy) – to Christmas eve and day itself; from doing my last-minute wrapping the night before, to sitting down to our meal. I love it all and more. And this year my wee man, who isn't two until April, will be a little older and really able to better understand more about what all the fuss is about.
I don't expect it to be an extravagant day but it will be warm, very tasty, really comfortable and relaxing.
On Christmas Eve I'll probably sip on a warming drink, reflecting on family passed away over the last year, all of whom have left a huge gap in my life; probably a few tears (my eyes welling even as I type); a few photos; and definitely a few smiles. I'll raise a wee toast and wonder where the time has gone and ponder. Then, I'll look to the future and more immediately, with excitement to the the big day. You may have a similar experience, maybe not – but chances are you like me will have some lovely plans.
Not everyone however is so lucky to be able to reflect so favourably on life, and to do so in such a warm and safe environment. That is why once I'd read Ross McCulloch's blog post 'Oi Twitter – Lets all be a #SocialMediaSanta' I knew I needed to act. It just seemed so simple I couldn't find a reason not to.
Go visit, have a read and come back and all will become clear. You might not even want or need to come back! It certainly made me think and act: so much so that I've just bought a kid's toy Medical Carrycase from Amazon, pictured, that will I hope be offered to a child to help their Christmas be that little bit more special than it otherwise might have been.
It is just a small contribution and maybe not an obvious toy to buy a kid but I'm a bloke doing some 'unsupervised' shopping. Dangerous. Oh, and I also had logic: firstly, as an NHS Communications Manager, maybe this could plant a seed for an inspired child to one day go on to a career in healthcare; or perhaps for a hospital visit it might help to become more accustomed to and familiar with some of the clinicians' medical equipment. Or maybe it will just be a fun set of toys to play with.
Whichever, what is certain is that even such a seemingly small gesture can make a big difference to a child's life, especially to those who are vulnerable or face challenging circumstances, which can be acutely felt especially at this time of year.
That isn't the only story here. What is pretty awesome is how my small contribution came about.
I read Ross's blog post challenge, an old one at that from last month, on my daily commute back from Edinburgh to Dundee today as a result of Shelter Scotland tweeting it. If the blog post didn't exist would I have discovered this local Lanarkshire initiative at all from deepest Dundee? If I hadn't been following Shelter Scotland on Twitter would I have even read Ross's blog post?
Even if I had been made aware of the initiative I'm not sure it would have been so straight-forward to contribute as it ultimately was: I simply added the tweet as a favourite, logged on to Amazon when home (ha – believe it or not also a first, I kid you not) and within minutes had bought my present and arranged for it to be dispatched to Blantyre. It is also my first Christmas present that I've purchased for this year.
Radical I know, but is it just me who finds that an incredible series of events? I hope not. That is AWESOME. And if you think so too then do visit www.rossmcculloch.com/oi-twitter-lets-all-be-a-socialmediasanta to find out how.
I'm many things to many people. A son, brother, nephew, grandson; a neighbour, a buddy, a commuter companion; some say a pain others say a great guy; a colleague, friend, professional; a pedant, an expert; and a Daddy. Maybe even a mistletoe kisser.
And now, for sure, a Social Media Santa.
Brilliant gift Kenny! Fingers crossed even more people read about #socialmediasanta now you've taken the time to blog and the Blantyre project get even more toys.
What an amazing gift Kenny! Thank you for the blog post, your gift and for your support! We're just amazed at how generous our followers are. #socialmediasanta ftw!
Thank you both for your comments and great to observe so much interest in this topic: I've posted a blog alert through LinkedIn a couple of times, tweeted a few times and had a few RTs so hopefully there will be more to come.
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- It appears former President George W. Bush was prepared to greet former First Lady Michelle Obama Wednesday at his father's funeral -- with another piece of candy.
As Bush walked down the aisle to shake the hands of other attending presidents and first ladies, he reached into his pocket.
He shook the hands of President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and former President Barack Obama. When he got to Michelle, he slipped her the candy, and she gave him a huge smile.
At that time, she said in an interview on Today, "He's my partner in crime at every major thing where all the 'formers' gather. So we're together all the time. I love him to death. He's a wonderful man, he's a funny man." | {
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Luís Augusto Pimentel Pinto (Chaves, 6 de Março de 1843 — Lisboa, 7 de Junho de 1913) foi um oficial general do Exército Português e político ligado ao Partido Regenerador. Entre outras funções de relevo, foi conselheiro do rei e de Estado, par do reino, deputado, ajudante de campo honorário do rei, ministro de Estado honorário, comandante da Escola do Exército, Ministro da Guerra, vogal da Secção do Exército do Supremo Conselho de Defesa Nacional e vogal da Junta do Crédito Público. Foi uma das figuras mais influentes do Partido Regenerador na década final da Monarquia Constitucional Portuguesa e autor das mais relevantes reformas da estrutura militar portuguesa levadas a cabo nesse período.
Biografia
Nasceu em Chaves, filho do coronel João Soares Pinto, originário do Porto, e de sua esposa Maria José de Almeida Pimentel, natural de Lisboa. Destinado a seguir a carreira paterna, concluiu os estudos preparatórios como aluno do Colégio Militar, assentando praça a 15 de Agosto de 1859 na 4.ª Companhia do Regimento de Cavalaria n.º 2 (Lanceiros). Matriculou-se seguidamente na Escola do Exército, onde concluiu o curso da arma de Cavalaria.
Iniciou uma carreira militar como oficial de Cavalaria que o levaria sucessivamente a alferes a 27 de Junho de 1860, a tenente a 10 de Outubro de 1866, a capitão a 4 de Março de 1874, a major a 31 de Outubro de 1884, a tenente-coronel em 4 de Janeiro de 1888, a coronel a 13 de Agosto de 1890, a general de brigada a 23 de Dezembro de 1898, terminando a sua carreira como general de divisão, posto a que foi promovido a 15 de Junho de 1906.
A carreira militar de Pimentel Pinto desenvolveu-se essencialmente nas áreas da administração militar e da justiça militar, tendo exercido um conjunto de destacadas funções na administração central do Exército, entre as quais as de ajudante de campo de vários generais, de promotor de justiça nas 4.ª e 1.ª Divisões Militares e as de director da Administração Militar.
A sua entrada para a vida política ocorreu comparativamente tarde, por volta de 1890, quando se aproximava dos 50 anos de idade e já ocupava o posto de tenente-coronel. Em boa parte esta entrada resultou da exposição pública que obteve como promotor de justiça do 2.º Conselho de Guerra da 1.ª Divisão Militar durante o julgamento do caso Marinho da Cruz, um alferes que no dia 22 de Abril de 1886 abateu outro militar a tiro e alegou insanidade. O julgamento do caso, que se prolongou até 1888, apaixonou a opinião pública e foi alvo de uma intensa cobertura da imprensa, tornando o então major Luís Pimentel Pinto uma figura conhecida do grande público e abrindo-lhe o caminho para ser convidado a integrar a comissão encarregada de preparar a reforma do Código de Justiça Militar. A esta exposição mediática acresce a sólida amizade que entretanto estabelecera com o político açoriano Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, um dos líderes do Partido Regenerador, personalidade que apadrinhou a sua entrada na actividade política e com a qual manteria uma relação de colaboração e de fidelidade que durou até à morte deste em 1907.
A primeira eleição de Pimentel Pinto como deputado ocorreu nas eleições gerais de 30 de Março de 1890 (28.ª legislatura da Monarquia Constitucional), quando foi o candidato do Partido Regenerador pelo círculo eleitoral de Angra do Heroísmo (Açores). A eleição por um círculo onde era virtualmente desconhecido e com o qual não tinha qualquer ligação pessoal foi o resultado da influência de José Maria Sieuve de Meneses, o 1.º conde de Sieuve de Meneses, par do reino vitalício e líder incontestado do Partido Regenerador no Distrito de Angra do Heroísmo. Outro apoiante de peso foi Jacinto Cândido da Silva, deputado regenerador angrense, que o apoiou também a pedido de Hintze Ribeiro.
Na Câmara dos Deputados, onde prestou juramento a 9 de maio de 1890, apesar de pouco conhecido e da sua importância política derivar quase em exclusivo da sua amizade com Hintze Ribeiro, impressionava pelo seu ar de belo homem, o que lhe mereceria a alcunha de Pavão. Embora não sendo dotado de brilhantismos de palavras, revelou-se um orador eficaz, com frequência caloroso e veemente na réplica, que falava apenas quando era preciso. Dedicou-se essencialmente a assuntos militares, integrando a Comissão Parlamentar da Guerra e discutindo assuntos que interessavam ao Exército e à defesa nacional. No entretanto, em Janeiro de 1891 foi nomeado director da Administração Militar.
Nas eleições gerais de 23 de Outubro de 1892 (29.ª legislatura) voltou a ser eleito pelo círculo eleitoral de Angra do Heroísmo, prestando juramento a 16 de Janeiro de 1893 para uma legislatura efémera, já que a legislatura teve uma única sessão legislativa, terminando a 15 de Julho daquele mesmo ano de 1893. Quando Hintze Ribeiro formou o 47.º governo da Monarquia Constitucional, nomeado a 22 de Fevereiro de 1893, convidou o então coronel Pimentel Pinto para a pasta de Ministro e Secretário de Estado dos
Negócios da Guerra. Permaneceria no governo, com aquela pasta, até 7 de Abril de 1896, altura em que foi substituído por José Estêvão de Morais Sarmento. Durante este período introduziu importantes reformas na estrutura militar, com destaque para as relativas ao recrutamento militar, promoções, nas quais introduziu um sistema de limite de idade, para a reorganização da instrução e dos serviços de saúde militares e para a reforma do Regulamento Disciplinar do Exército e do Código de Justiça Militar. Também promoveu a criação duma grande cooperativa militar com a sede em Lisboa e melhoria da defesa da capital, desenvolvendo trabalhos de fortificação e de melhoria das posições de artilharia costeira. Empreendeu uma reforma dos regulamentos da Ordem Militar de São Bento de Avis. A introdução de limites de idade obrigatórios levou ao afastamento por aposentação de muitos oficiais mais idosos, abrindo caminho à promoção de militares mais novos, o que lhe granjeou popularidade no Exército.
Outro aspecto relevante da sua passagem pelo 47.º governo foi a organização de expedições militares ao Ultramar, com destaque para a força expedicionária enviada para Lourenço Marques em 1895 sob o comando do então coronel Eduardo Galhardo, que se distinguiu contra os vátuas e landins, considerada ao tempo de «glorioso renome para Portugal». Desta campanha de pacificação resultou o aprisionamento e deportação para Angra do Heroísmo do líder nguni Gungunhana.
Entretanto foi eleito novamente deputado nas eleições legislativas de 1894 e de 1895, desta feita pelo círculo eleitoral de Évora, mantendo-se na Câmara dos Deputados até ser nomeado par do reino por carta régia, tomando posse na Câmara dos Pares a 9 de Maio de 1896. Também em 1896 foi nomeado vogal da Junta de Crédito Público, cargo que manteria até 1902.
Durante o governo do Partido Progressista que se seguiu, foi a principal voz oposicionista às reformas do Exército intentadas pelo general Sebastião Teles, o Ministro da Guerra do 49.º governo da Monarquia Constitucional presidido por José Luciano de Castro. A sua insistência na «questão militar» granjeou-lhe inimizades no Parlamento, tendo travado alguns duros debates parlamentares.
Quando o Partido Regenerador voltou ao poder e Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro foi de novo convidado a formar governo, o 50.º governo da Monarquia Constitucional, Pimentel Pinto voltou ao cargo de Ministro da Guerra, cargo que exerceu de 25 de Junho de 1900 a 28 de Fevereiro de 1903. Transitou no mesmo cargo para o 51.º governo da Monarquia Constitucional, também presidido por Hintze Ribeiro, em funções de 28 de Fevereiro de 1903 até ser exonerado a 20 de Outubro de 1904. Durante estes quatro anos de governo, voltou a empreender um importante conjunto de reformas, avultando entre as que respeitam ao armamento da infantaria e da artilharia de campanha, incluindo a reforma do Arsenal do Exército, que foi equipado para fabricar o municionamento das diferentes armas utilizadas pelo Exército e para o fabrico de peças de campanha. Também promoveu obras de fortificação do Porto de Lisboa e o seu artilhamento e o estabelecimento de um campo de tiro em Alcochete. Também se notabilizou pela realização de manobras militares, com destaque para as realizadas em Outubro de 1901 nos terrenos compreendidos entre a encosta sul da Serra de Sintra, o rio Tejo e as ribeiras da Lage e da Seda. Também em Setembro de 1904 se realizaram manobras militares de Outono, a que assistiram as pessoas reais, sendo escolhida a região da Serra do Buçaco. Voltaria ao governo, embora efemeramente, novamente como Ministro da Guerra do 54.º governo da Monarquia Constitucional, também presidido por Hintze Ribeiro, em funções de 20 de Março a 19 de maio de 1906.
Em 1901 foi escolhido por Hintze Ribeiro para integrar o Conselho de Estado, passando a aconselhar directamente o rei. Numa manifestação de confiança política, assegurou interinamente a pasta de Ministro do Reino no período de 4 de Julho a a 7 de Setembro de 1903, em substituição de Hintze Ribeiro.
Em Agosto de 1907, na sequência da morte súbita de Hintze Ribeiro, passou a presidir à comissão executiva do Partido Regenerador, tendo contactado Júlio de Vilhena para presidir ao Partido. Foi entretanto nomeado membro do conselho fiscal do Crédito Predial Português. Manteve participação activa na Câmara dos Pares e uma posição liderante no interior do Partido Regenerador.
No entanto sua situação política fica fragilizada, em Abril de 1910, quando foi implicado no escândalo que rodeou a gestão do Crédito Predial Português.
Mesmo assim, ao tomar conhecimento da implantação da República Portuguesa, no dia 5 de Outubro de 1910, segue imediatamente para o Porto apresentando-se no Quartel General da Divisão para defender a causa monárquica, mas, é preso por elementos civis republicanos.
Regressa em 7 de outubro a Lisboa, pede imediatamente a reforma, retira-se á vida privada, ocupando-se somente da direcão do Instituto Infante D. Afonso.
Faleceu a 7 de Junho de 1913 "pobríssimo".
Ao longo da sua carreira foi condecorado com os graus de cavaleiro, grande-oficial e grã-cruz da Ordem de São Bento de Avis, por serviços distintos, e feito cavaleiro da Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa. Recebeu também as grã-cruzes da Ordem da Águia Vermelha do Reino da Prússia, da Ordem de São Maurício e São Lázaro de Itália, da Ordem do Mérito Militar de Espanha e da Ordem de Santa Ana da Rússia. Está presente na toponímia da cidade de Chaves, onde a Rua General Luís Pimentel Pinto o homenageia.
Militares de Portugal
Naturais de Chaves (Portugal)
Políticos de Portugal
Políticos do Partido Regenerador
Pares do Reino de Portugal
Monárquicos de Portugal
Alunos do Colégio Militar (Portugal)
Cavaleiros da Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa
Grã-Cruzes da Ordem Militar de Avis
Grandes-Oficiais da Ordem Militar de Avis
Grã-Cruzes da Ordem dos Santos Maurício e Lázaro | {
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<?php
/**
* (c) 2011 - ∞ Vespolina Project http://www.vespolina-project.org
*
* This source file is subject to the MIT license that is bundled
* with this source code in the file LICENSE.
*/
namespace Vespolina\Billing\Process;
use Vespolina\Billing\Event\BillingEvents;
use Vespolina\Entity\Billing\BillingAgreementInterface;
use Vespolina\Entity\Billing\BillingRequestInterface;
use Vespolina\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcherInterface;
use Vespolina\Billing\Manager\BillingManagerInterface;
use Vespolina\Billing\Process\BillingProcessInterface;
class DefaultBillingProcess implements BillingProcessInterface
{
protected $billingManager;
protected $billingRequestGenerator;
protected $classMapping;
protected $eventDispatcher;
protected $entityHandler;
protected $processes;
public function __construct(BillingManagerInterface $billingManager, EventDispatcherInterface $eventDispatcher, $config = array())
{
$this->classMapping = array('billingRequestGenerator' => 'Vespolina\Billing\Generator\DefaultBillingRequestGenerator',
'entityHandler' => 'Vespolina\Billing\Handler\OrderHandler',
'paymentProcess' => 'Vespolina\Billing\Process\DefaultJMSPaymentProcess');
$defaultConfig = array('generate_first_billing_request' => true,
'execute_first_billing_request' => true);
$this->billingManager = $billingManager;
$this->config = array_merge($defaultConfig, $config);
$this->eventDispatcher = $eventDispatcher;
$this->processes = array();
}
/**
* @inheritdoc
*/
public function prepareBilling($entity)
{
$billingAgreements = array();
$billingRequests = array();
$entityHandler = $this->getEntityHandler($entity);
if (null == $entityHandler) {
throw new \InvalidConfigurationException("Could not find a handler for ", get_class($entity));
}
if (!$entityHandler->isBillable($entity)) {
throw new \Exception("Entity is not billable");
}
try {
$billingAgreements = $entityHandler->createBillingAgreements($entity);
//Persist generated billing agreements
foreach ($billingAgreements as $billingAgreement) {
$this->billingManager->updateBillingAgreement($billingAgreement);
}
//Optionally create the first billing requests
if (count($billingAgreements) > 0 && $this->config['generate_first_billing_request']) {
//Use the default billing request generator
$billingRequests = $this->getBillingRequestGenerator()->generateNext($billingAgreements);
foreach ($billingRequests as $billingRequest) {
$this->billingManager->updateBillingRequest($billingRequest);
}
}
} catch (\Exception $e) {
}
return array($billingAgreements, $billingRequests);
}
public function executeBilling(array $billingAgreements)
{
foreach ($billingAgreements as $billingAgreement) {
$billingRequests = null;
//1. Check if the billing agreement is still billable (eg. there is no billing block )
if (true) { //$billingAgreement->isBillable()) {
//2. Check if we have already a billing request ready to bill
//$billingRequests = $this->billingManager->findBillableBillingRequestsByBillingAgreement($billingAgreement);
//3. If not generate a new billing requests
if (null == $billingRequests) {
$billingRequests = $this->getBillingRequestGenerator()->generate(array($billingAgreement));
}
if (null != $billingRequests) {
//4. Create and fire payment request event
foreach ($billingRequests as $billingRequest) {
$event = $this->eventDispatcher->createEvent($billingRequest);
$this->eventDispatcher->dispatch(BillingEvents::BILLING_REQUEST_OFFER_FOR_PAYMENT, $event);
}
//5. Handle payment outcome and raise events
}
}
}
}
public function executePendingBillingRequests()
{
$billingRequests = $this->billingManager->findPendingBillingRequests(); //Todo: add iterator
$paymentProcess = $this->getProcess('payment');
foreach ($billingRequests as $billingRequest) {
$paymentProcess->executePayment($billingRequest);
}
}
public function isCompleted($entity)
{
}
protected function getBillingRequestGenerator()
{
if (null == $this->billingRequestGenerator) {
$this->billingRequestGenerator = new $this->classMapping['billingRequestGenerator']($this->billingManager);
}
return $this->billingRequestGenerator;
}
protected function getEntityHandler($entity)
{
if (null == $this->entityHandler) {
$this->entityHandler = new $this->classMapping['entityHandler']($this->billingManager);
}
return $this->entityHandler;
}
} | {
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Robert Cholmondeley, vicomte Cholmondeley (décédé le ) est un pair anglais.
Biographie
Il est le fils de Hugh Cholmondeley et Mary Bodvile. Sir Hugh Cholmondeley de Cholmondeley est son grand-père et Robert Cholmondeley, comte de Leinster, son oncle. Il hérite de son oncle Lord Leinster en 1659 et deux ans plus tard, il est élevé à la Pairie d'Irlande en tant que vicomte Cholmondeley de Kells dans le comté de Meath. Il épouse Elizabeth Cradock, fille de George Cradock de Caverswall Castle. Il meurt en . Son fils aîné Hugh, qui est nommé comte de Cholmondeley en 1706, lui succède à la vicomté. Son deuxième fils, George, devient un soldat de premier plan.
Références
..
www.thepeerage.com
Date de naissance non renseignée (XVIIe siècle)
Vicomte de la pairie d'Irlande au XVIIe siècle
Décès en mai 1681
Vicomte Cholmondeley | {
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www.pianolessonscoventry.com is a site operated by MGR Music Tuition Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 08646304 and have our registered office at Calyx House, South Road, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3DU. Our main trading address is Calyx House, South Road, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3DU.
If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us on (www.pianolessonscoventry.com/Contact-Me/). | {
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Minister for women speaks out against t-shirts depicting violence against women
Posted by Collective Shout 917sc on October 29, 2010
T-shirt depicts bound, gagged woman splattered with blood and the words 'Relax, it's Just Sex'
Collective Shout Toowoomba member Mark McErvale recently posted an article on Collective Shout's Facebook page about these shirts - the product of US pornographic magazine 'Hustler' - being sold by a retailer in a Kmart Plaza in Mt Isa.
Residents complained which resulted in the shirt being removed from the front window, but not removed from sale. Mt Isa resident Ruth Poultney took her complaint further by contacting the member for Mt Isa Betty Kiernan. Betty Kiernan then forwarded her complaint along with a photograph of the shirt to the Minister for women Karen Struthers who has today called on retailers to stop selling them. As reported in the Brisbane Times:
Minister for Women Karen Struthers today called on retailers to immediately remove the item, saying it suggested "sexual assaults on women are acceptable''.
"The shirts, which show a woman blood-soaked, bound and gagged, are extremely disturbing,'' she said. "I understand that people are free to express themselves as they chose, but these images cross the line in my view.''
''I'm concerned it's happening in other stores in the state,'' Ms Struthers said. "No one should be making a profit out of promoting violence against women. These images send the wrong message that violence against women is acceptable.''
Ms Struthers said it was imperative that all members of the community condemned violence against women.
"If we all act as one in supporting victims and declaring our intolerance for domestic and family violence, we can put a stop to it,'' she said.
There were were 5500 sexual offences reported in Queensland last year, while 23,000 applications were made for domestic violence protection orders across the state.
Victims of sexual violence can contact the statewide Sexual Assault Helpline on 1800 010 120 for help and advice.
Collective Shout applauds the strong stance the Minister for Women has shown, highlighting the seriousness of violence against women and the importance of the community standing firm against it. You might like to send Karen Struthers a message of support here.
Collective Shout has previously spoken out against the depiction of violence against women, pornographic and sexist images on t-shirts. You might like to remind Roger David in particular of their responsibility to the community in light of Ms. Struthers comments today. You can do so here.
Betty Kiernan Hustler Karen Struthers Kmart Plaza Minister for women relax it's just sex Roger David Violence Against Women objectification sexualisation Clothing porn t-shirts say no to porn t shirts | {
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/* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package org.flowable.editor.language.xml;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.util.List;
import org.flowable.bpmn.converter.BpmnXMLConverter;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.BpmnModel;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.ExtensionElement;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.FlowElement;
import org.junit.Test;
/**
* @author Joram Barrez
*/
public class ExtensionsConverterTest extends AbstractConverterTest {
@Override
protected String getResource() {
return "extensions.bpmn20.xml";
}
@Test
public void convertXMLToModel() throws Exception {
// Check that reconverting doesn't duplicate extension elements
BpmnModel bpmnModel = readXMLFile();
FlowElement flowElement = bpmnModel.getMainProcess().getFlowElement("theTask");
List<ExtensionElement> extensionElements = flowElement.getExtensionElements().get("test");
assertThat(extensionElements).hasSize(1);
// Reconvert to xml and back to bpmn model
BpmnXMLConverter bpmnXMLConverter = new BpmnXMLConverter();
byte[] xmlBytes = bpmnXMLConverter.convertToXML(bpmnModel);
bpmnModel = readXMLFile(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlBytes));
extensionElements = bpmnModel.getMainProcess().getFlowElement("theTask").getExtensionElements().get("test");
assertThat(extensionElements).hasSize(1);
}
}
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Bisetocreagris nuratiensis est une espèce de pseudoscorpions de la famille des Neobisiidae.
Distribution
Cette espèce se rencontre en Ouzbékistan et au Kazakhstan.
Description
Le mâle holotype mesure .
Étymologie
Son nom d'espèce, composé de nurat[au] et du suffixe latin , « qui vit dans, qui habite », lui a été donné en référence au lieu de sa découverte, le Nourataou.
Publication originale
Dashdamirov & Schawaller, 1992 : Pseudoscorpions from Middle Asia, Part 1 (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones). Stuttgarter Beitraege zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie), , (texte intégral).
Liens externes
Notes et références
Neobisiidae
Espèce de pseudoscorpions (nom scientifique) | {
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Jennie Laws is a Toronto-born singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. Her passion for original songwriting reflects on a lifetime of music
Jennie Laws – "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
JonFromJersey, 1 year ago
Singles Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Jennie Laws, Toronto
Jennie Laws is a Toronto-born singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Her passion for original songwriting reflects on a lifetime of music making and has created many opportunities. She has opened up for Bruno Mars and sang background vocals for INXS and Michael Buble. She releases a Christmas song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".
Check it out courtesy of Spotify.
JonFromJersey
'Human-Re-Sources' Is An Independent Company Changing The Rules of Distribution
JT Roach - "Shivers"
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Rising artist Cassidy King breaks onto the NewSickMusic pages with " Polaroid", a follow up to her smash hit " Professional Smiler" which racked up over 400K views since its release in September. "'Polaroid' . . .
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Just in time for Halloween, rising artist Charlie Noiir makes his way onto the NewSickMusic pages with some stunning visuals for his new single "Very Scary". While I was writing this . . .
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bülow – "You & Jennifer (the other side)" Ft. Rich The Kid
Ariza – "Patience"
Chris Jobe – "If You Knew How Loved You Are"
Doje – "Thraa" (Video)
Cassidy King – "Polaroid"
Charlie Noiir – "Very Scary" (Video) | {
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I had to trim my beard shorter this morning; it was starting to remind me too much of my father when I looked in the mirror.
We discovered an error in the figure I made for the IPCC report today. Turns out, I had accidentally overplotted summer data on top of winter data for two different methods instead of winter on winter. I know exactly what must have happened, too: I have to change a value in two different files to switch from summer to winter (stupid, but necessary because of the code structure), and I changed it in both places but didn't save both files. I almost did it again today, and I immediately knew that's what the problem was.
Lots of interesting philosophizing going on over in dpolicar's journal today. Only some of it is my blather.
Oh, if only it were so easy to shave off the bits that remind me of my mother!
An article about a scientist trying to make a non-smelly durian that I heard on the radio this morning made me think of you. | {
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[לעיברית, ראו למטה] By Dr. Gil Dekel. Rabbi Efraim was born circa 1780 in the city of Tykocin (Tiktin), not far from the county Bialystok, to his father Rabbi Zeev Yehuda[1] and his mother, Gitel. From an early age he was known as a great scholar.[2] He served as a...
דוקטור גיל דקל. אפריים נולד בטריאספו , ביום 27 לחודש יוני 1858, טו' תמוז תרי"ח (נפטר בשנת 1949). הוריו היו יוסף שלמה חרל"פ ושיינה אלקה. בשנת 1870 מתה שיינה ואפריים חלה בטיפוס. הוא הבריא רק לאחר שלוש שנים. לאחר החלמתו עבר למזריץ ולמד אצל הרב ישראל...
A closed Facebook group for the family descendants of Charlap/Ibn Yahya: https://www.facebook.com/groups/120671549807795 More on this topic: The Book of Destiny – Toledot Charlap – Chapter XXV The Book of Destiny – Toledot Charlap – Chapter XXVI Rabbi Abraham Ibn Daud...
Origins of the Yahya family name (with short biographies of a few members)
By Doctor Gil Dekel. The Yahya (יחייא) family can be traced some 1000 years back to the 11th century Portugal, and before that to the Hebrew Exilarchs of ancient Babylonia[1]. This article looks at the origin and meanings of the name 'Yahya' and 'Ibn Yahya', sharing...
Shalshelet HaKabbalah – Gedaliah ibn Yahya
PDF file size about 180 MB – may take a few minutes to load… Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (גדליה אבן יחייא בן יוסף), born in Imola, Italy, 1515 or 1526, was a Talmudist and Biblical chronologist. He studied in the Yeshiva at Ferrara under Jacob Finzi and...
Origins of Yahya, Charlap, and subsequent family branches
By Gil Dekel, PhD. This article[1] traces the origins of the Yahya family, and their descendants: the Charlap family and subsequent branches (Budowla, Danowitz, Kiejsmacher, Grapa, Kopyto, Kur, Kuropatwa, Lapin, Lew, Lewin, Mankuta, Pakciarz, Pasternak, Parczewski,...
The Book of Destiny – Toledot Charlap – Chapter XXIX
By Arthur F. Menton and Dr. Gil Dekel for additional notes {in brackets}, corrections, and images. Chapter XXIX – The Family of Ze'ev Ben Avraham of Tykocin Page 483 Rabbi Ze'ev Ben Avraham Charlap and his wife Gittel established their home in...
אזכורי אנשים ממשפחת חרל"פ בפנקס קהל טיקטין, כרך א', עם תאריכים ומספרי עמודים
מאת גיל דקל. חול המועד פסח, שנת תקי"ב, 1752.ר' ישכר חר"י חרל"פ.(עמוד 19 בפנקס) חול המועד פסח, שנת תק"ח, 1748.מר נחמן חר"ר חרל"פ.(עמוד 22) The minutes book of the Jewish community council of Tykocin 1621-1806. (Photo: Gil...
The Historian R. Gedalya Ibn Yahya
By Dr. Abraham David. Edited by Dr. Gil Dekel. The closing period of the Middle Ages, from the Spanish Expulsion until the late sixteenth century, saw the appearance of Jewish historiographical compositions of varied length and quality. The majority were written by...
The Origin of the Surname Charlap – מקור השם חרל"פ
By Dr. Gil Dekel [לעיברית, ראו למטה] The Surname Charlap is acronym (such as the example of Rambam, which stands for Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon). There are several suggestions to the meaning of the acronym of Charlap. There are also two roles the name served: at first the...
In praise of women – the article of Rabbi Gedaliah Ibn Yahya (1526-1587)
By Gil Dekel, PhD Quite a few people in the Middle Ages believed that women are inferior to men, and that they possess a limited intellectual capacity. The article below is unique. Written in those Mediaeval times, it stands by women, describing their virtues and...
Charlap-Yahya family: lists of surnames adopted, and towns the family come from.
By Dr. Gil Dekel. Charlap family descend from the famous Portuguese Yahya family.[1] Many surnames were adopted over the years. We have ample information, researched by historian Arthur F. Menton who has "…taken on the massive task of being the family historian".[2]...
The Kuzari book and the ibn Yahya family
By Dr. Gil Dekel When Yehuda Halevi's philosophical book ha-Kuzari was completed circa 1140, the moveable-type printing press was not invented as yet. And so, the book was copied by hand for over 350 years. Then, in the year 1506, the book was finally printed for the...
King David Dynasty: the Charlap family ascension.
The ancestry lineage from King David down to the Exilarchs, Ibn Yahya (בן חיים) family, and Charlap (חרל"פ) family. — David, 2nd king of lsrael and Judah. b. ca 1040 B.C.E. Reigned ca 1004-968 {or 970, the year he died} B.C.E. {Reigned over the United Kingdom of Israel. Buried at King David's Tomb on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel. דוד המלך. דָּוִד בֶּן יִשַׁי}.
The personal driver of the first President of Israel.
By Tikva Vineshtock, 2021. (Based on my column in 'MaAriv' newspaper, 17 November 1952.)Translated from Hebrew by Dr. Gil Dekel. [גרסא עיברית למטה] On 9 November 1952 (תשי"ג), Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel, passed away. Immediately I have...
Eliakim Carmoly – Sefer Divre Hayamim L'Bnei Yahya — אליקים כרמולי – ספר דברי הימים לבני יחייא
Introduction (translated from Hebrew): To delight my beloved ones and colleagues, I provide them today with the book about the lives of the Yahya family. In the following article (book) we will cover the lives of the people of this family, who was a respected family in the times of the Rambam (Moses ben Maimon).
Rabbi Abraham Ibn Daud – Sefer Hakabbalah — ספר הקבלה – רב אברהם בן-דוד
Rabbi Abraham Ibn-Daud – Sefer Hakabbalah. Sefer ha-Qabbalah. ספר הקבלה לרב אברהם בן דוד (ראב"ד) Rabbi Abraham Ibn-Daud (ben David) Halevi, known as Rabad (born circa 1110; died 1180). A prominent scholar and translator, arguably he "…introduced Arabic numerals...
The Book of Destiny – Toledot Charlap – Chapter XXVI
The four centuries that our ancestors spent in Spain roughly coincide with what has been called the Golden Age. It was the age of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Yehuda Halevi, and Maimonides.
The Book of Destiny – Toledot Charlap – Chapter XXV
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Palin Undefeated: It's the crony capitalism, stupid!
This weekend Steve Bannon's Palin documentary 'The Undefeated' will be available On Demand and Pay-Per-View from a major cable or satellite company near you. We wrote about the movie — sight unseen — last June in "Palin Undefeated: 'A story of empowerment for modern women and their daughters.'" Now we can put our money where our mouth was, in the comfort of our own home. Above, sugar-and-spice Sarah (center) with her siblings.
Funny how incurious the "intellectually curious" hive mind of the left can be when it comes to all things Sarah Palin. The latest is a classic blinders-on, Journolist-talking-points-in-hand "review" of Steve Bannon's Palin Documentery "The Undefeated." (h/t Tim Graham of News Busters). Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday is the mouthpiece of this particular outpouring of Palin envy. A few excerpts and then our take:
Based on her modest demeanor and record of budget, energy and ethics reform in Alaska, it's easy to see her appeal to McCain, who called Palin while she was at the Alaska State Fair to ask her to run for veep. What "The Undefeated" doesn't explain — in addition to the title "Undefeated" when Palin was, actually, defeated in 2008 — is how a woman whose early career had been dedicated to transcending partisan politics became such a ferocious political warrior while on the stump. Instead, Bannon sets Palin up as a victim — of liberals, of establishment conservatives and of the "lamestream media" that his subject has become so skilled at manipulating (a talent the filmmaker strangely neglects to mention).
About that title, "The Undefeated." Ever heard of wordplay, Ms. Hornaday? Sarah Palin may have lost an election, but she fights like a girl! Disintermediating the powers that be, she picked herself up and got back in the race. The words of Sun Tzu come to mind:
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Then there's Hornaday's fixation with "trascending partisan politics." You see a lot of that from the left, presumably hoping to catch the eye — and poll-tested votes — of the mushy middle. How could a "non-partisan" Palin who rooted out corruption in her OWN PARTY become "such a ferocious political warrior while on the stump"? It's the crony capitalism, stupid. Real Clear Politics has the scoop:
In her speech at the bucolic National Balloon Classic field in Indianola [tomorrow], Palin will lean on loaded phrases like "crony capitalism" and "permanent political class" in laying out her view of the U.S. political system's deep-rooted ills, according to a source close to Palin and familiar with the content of the speech.
And this from National Review:
"She will also talk, more broadly, about how she is not enamored of the political class, both Republicans and Democrats, who do not deserve to be elected if they only continue the status quo," the source continues. "She will discuss corporate lobbyists, White House operatives, and others who enable the vested interests." Many of the themes from her recent Facebook post, "Conquering the Storm," will be mentioned.
Will she or won't she? Dan Riehl says "yes" on Twitter:
Overseas trip had to be Palin's last check box. She's getting in.
Disintermediate at will:
The former Alaska Governor is scheduled to attend the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, where she will speak alongside global economic leaders like Larry Summers and former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The conference begins Oct. 11, the same day as the GOP primary debate hosted by Bloomberg in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Update: Doug Ross Larwyn's Lynx link.
Crossposted at Riehl World View and Cloven Not Crested.
Posted by Sissy Willis on September 02, 2011 at 10:28 AM in Democrats Implode, Hearts and minds, journolist, Media Bias, New Media, Sarah get your gun, Tea Parties | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: bannon, conquering the storm, crony capitalism, disintermediating, fight like a girl, indianola, journolist, sarah palin, sun tzu, the undefeated, world knowledge forum
It's the MediScare, stupid
"Mr. Gingrich has done great harm to his party and the cause of reform with his reckless criticism of Mr. Ryan, forfeiting any serious claim to be the GOP nominee," the WSJ editorialized earlier this week. "But equally as culpable are the self-styled conservative pundits who derided Republicans for dropping the reform mantle during the Bush years but now tremble that Mr. Ryan has gone too far." Above, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (AP Photo). Update: New Ryan video "The Path to Prosperity (Episode 2): Saving Medicare, Visualized."
The narrative's in. Democrat Kathy Hochul beat Republican Jane Corwin 47 to 43 percent — with 9 percent lost to faux "tea party candidate" Jack Davis — in New York's 26th District Congressional special election yesterday, and here's the spin, courtesy of The Associated Press:
The Democrat rode a wave of voter discontent over the national GOP's plan to change Medicare and overcame decades of GOP dominance here …
The special election that became a referendum on the health care plan for the nation's seniors may serve as a warning shot to further GOP efforts to cut popular entitlement programs.
"The three reasons a Democrat was elected to Congress in the district were Medicare, Medicare and Medicare," DCCC Chairman Steve Isarael, D-N.Y., said.
As we twittered in disgust this morning:
Gloating Dem cites Newt's air-headed "right-wing social engineering" meme as Democrat takes NY-26 special election.
It's the MediScare, stupid:
Many observers see the NY-26 race as a precursor for election 2012. As such, it looks as if Democrats may be poised for victory in 2012, while House Republicans try to get distance from a politically toxic GOP agenda.
Among those "many observers," a salivating E.J. Dionne appears to have his JournoList talking points in order at the Washington Post:
Of course, all the usual caveats apply: It's a long time to November 2012; this is just one special election; special elections offer voters relatively cost-free opportunities to cast protest ballots; and such elections aren't always a good guide to the future. But some of them are. Scott Brown's victory in January 2010 in Massachusetts was a harbinger of the big Republican gains that came in November. Brown ran against the Democratic health-care plan. Hochul ran against the Republican Medicare plan. Brown mobilized angry conservatives and restive moderates. Hochul mobilized angry progressives and restive moderates.
"Both national parties and several independent fundraising groups spent more than $2 million to influence the election," according to that AP report:
They included a new Democratic group, House Majority PAC, and American Crossroads, a Republican-leaning group founded by GOP strategist Karl Rove …
Crossroads spokesman Jonathan Collegio said Hochul's victory was a sign of a tough time for Republicans to come.
"What is clear is that this election is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks that 2012 will be just like 2010," he said. "It's going to be a tougher environment, Democrats will be more competitive, and we need to play at the top of our game."
Nobody said anything worthwhile was going to be easy. Blind paleontologist Geerat Vermeij's fundamental insight applies:
It's nasty, and things get nastier and nastier. Everyone is affected mostly by their enemies.
This is no time to go wobbly. Glad to see Paul Ryan out there front and center on Fox and Friends this very minute countering the spin:
We need truth. We need leadership. If we allow the demagoguery to work, America will have another recession, and the people who benefit from these programs are going to get hurt the worst … Once they understand the facts, they want this solution.
Update: It just occurred to us. Paul Ryan is following Sarah Palin's advice to Fight Like A Girl!
Update II: Professor Jacobson is on the same wavelength in "The Lessons of NY-26":
In the face of the Democratic scare-grandma machine, nice guys and gals will finish last.
Update III: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!
Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.
Posted by Sissy Willis on May 25, 2011 at 08:52 AM in journolist, Media Bias | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: american crossroads, fight like a girl, jane corwin, karl rove, kathy hochul, medicare, mediscare, newt, paul ryan, right-wing social engineering, sarah palin, scott brown
John Nolte: Twitter is the most powerful political force in the world right now
"My views on women's rights have always been quite radical (in defense of women)," asserts doghouse-confined "left-wing journalist" Nir Rosen (above) on assignment in Dubai, protesting perhaps a bit too much in an apologia for having made light on Twitter of fellow journalist Lara Logan's barbarous sexual assault by a gang of Egyptian revelers last week. "Working in the Middle East, parts of Africa and Asia (like Afghanistan) and in Mexico only further outraged me, because I have seen first hand how brutally women are treated there. And we are only a little bit better in the West. The status of women in the United States is also deplorable." Uh huh.
Twitter isn't just for earth-shaking revolutions overseas any more. It can turn a case of individual online boorishness into a spontaneous teachable moment that trumps the faux outrage and calls for "a new civility" foisted upon us by the Journolist crowd a few weeks back in the aftermath of the Tucson massacre. In case you missed the individual boorishness story, a few words from The Daily Caller to get up to speed:
Left-wing journalist Nir Rosen joked today about the sexual assault of CBS News' chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. Logan was assaulted on Friday during celebrations in Cairo that followed Hosni Mubarak's resignation.
The initial tweet by Rosen stated, "Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson. Where was her buddy McCrystal." From this tweet he went further, writing that he would have been amused if Anderson Cooper had also been sexually assaulted.
Retweeting breaking news of Nir Rosen's resignation from NYU this morning, "Now to MSNBC?" quipped bon mot meister John Nolte, with reference to the Network of Nasty as a suitable place of employment for the disgraced opinionator.
"It's the modrin-day version of the village folk whispering behind their shutters" we twittered Big Hollywood Editor-in-Chief John Nolte this morning as news was breaking of Nir Rosen's fall from grace, virtually pilloried for offending common standards of civilized behavior. Who knew we still had those? Thank you, Twitter.
"Mission accomplished, Twitter!" Rick Wilson had twittered earlier, retweeting CuffyP's earlier tweet: "Done: Nir Rosen quits Twitter (above image) after #LaraLogan backlash."
"Twitter is [the] most powerful political force in [the] world right now," Nolte twittered back:
We the People personified. No MSM filter. Truth & Ideas=power.
Update: Important insights from Dan Collins:
The Clash of Values: Lara Logans Sexual Assault
Update II: And from the titillatingly trenchant Jim Treacher:
Teabaggers spew vitriol at women and black people. Wait, did I say teabaggers? I meant liberals.
Update IV: Lie down with superblogs, get up with delusions of grandeur:
"Now Playing" at Big Hollywood and Big Journalism!
Update V: Featured blog on Pundit & Pundette!
Crossposted at Riehl World View, Cloven Not Crested and Liberty Pundits.
Posted by Sissy Willis on February 16, 2011 at 02:50 PM in journolist, Media Bias, Twittering | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: cairo, john nolte, journolist, lara logan, nir rosen, twitter
Robert Reich to the twittersphere: "Put Fox out of biz"
"People are moving away from Obamanomics, they're moving away from Reichonomics and they're moving towards Kudlow/Moore-onomics, and that's really shown by those population shifts" from north to south, free marketer Steve Moore (right) told tax-the-rich class warrior Robert Reich (left) on The Kudlow Report last night. "If you look at the new Rust Belt, it's not the Midwest. [It's] those New England and northeastern states … the kind of epicenter of liberalism."
"FCC: Stop tinkering with Internet and return to the 'fairness doctrine' requiring broadcasters to provide equal time. Put Fox out of biz," twittered President Clinton's Labor Secretary Robert Reich this morning. Horrified, we twittered back:
Is that you, Big Bro? How is it the business of a govt that works for me to put my fave TV station out of business?
"Astonishing how shameless our homegrown totalitarians are in tweeting their desire to repress free speech," we twittered Reuters Money and Politics columnist James Pethokoukis, who replied:
Agree ... I am actually surprised though I probably shouldnt be.
Indeed. The tormented Berkeley savant and class warrior sounds like he's coordinating his talking points with the latest iteration of Journolist/Cabalist. Random recent post from Professor Reich's blog:
And the vitriol emanating at all hours from rage radio, yell television, and Fox News – against immigrants, intellectuals, "coastal elites," gays, and the President.
We're better than this. This is not respectful disagreement. It's thuggery. It has no legitimate role in a democracy. And most Americans are fed up with it.
A tired litany, but here's a suggestion for the man whose Wikepedia entry names him "one of America's foremost political economists." If you can't take the more flamboyant promulgators of constitutional conservatism who amuse us unthinking Dittoheads "juiced up with emotion, fear, guilt and racism," sir, then how about tuning in to the reasoned arguments of the above-mentioned James Pethokoukis? Yes, he's appeared from time to time on Fox, but like you he's been a welcome guest on CNBC and PBS as well. How's that for fair and balanced? His latest, "Net neutrality rules a blow to free markets," would be a good place to start. Or how about this from a month back, "Paul Ryan and the conservative economic mind":,
What's fascinating about Ryan is that he keeps saying things that should get him into political trouble, but they don't. He wants to rework Social Security. He wants to restructure Medicare. He thinks a cheaper dollar is a bad idea. And he won reelection with 68 percent of the vote in a district that Obama carried by four points. Good ideas expressed well and with conviction are powerful things.
Update: Doug Ross's Larwyn's Linx links.
Posted by Sissy Willis on December 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM in Current Affairs, journolist | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: big brother, class warfare, cnbc, fairness doctrine, fcc, fox news, james pethokoukis, journolist, kudlow report, net neutrality, pbs, robert reich, steve moore
Palin Envy, a freudian diagnosis for our cojones-challenged GOP establishment?
"I'm interested in the gratuitous disparagement of men whose looks and personal style fail to track the masculine stereotype," Ann Althouse (above) took Rush Limbaugh to task this morning over his sissy-laced rant about Wikileaker Julian Assange: "I like Rush Limbaugh and have defended him many times, in front of people who tend to hate you if you say anything good about him, so I think my opinion on the subject has special weight … And let me invite Rush to … diavlog with me about the so-called chickification problems that plague our world today." Video here.
"Loved this that you told the Big Guy," we wrote in the comments of Althouse's incandescent, must-experience video-post "Here I am listening — for the first time — to Rush Limbaugh talking about me":
To say men are like women when they're being cowardly and weak. I don't like it ... Also, some chickification is a good thing. Women have a lot to offer. Think about it.
Exactly. As we wrote a few months back about the so-called feminization of our culture:
It isn't "feminization" at all, but, rather, postmodern, identity-politics "feminism" — one of a cascade of unfortunate byproducts of the Gramscian march through the institutions — that has given us an increasingly impotent chattering class of credulous Chris Matthewses of both sexes.
Twittering this morning about the latest effluence from that impotent chattering class — MSNBC's "house conservative" Joe Scarborough's Journolist/Cabalist temper tantrum about Sarah Palin's "anti-intellectual" and "dopey dream" of being president, and how come nobody's paying attention to me!? (h/t Dan Riehl) — we stumbled upon this seductive metaphor from Lisa B:
Now we have a new psychological disorder in addition to Palin Derangement Syndrome. Palin Envy is rampant! Paging Dr. Sigmund Freud! :)
As we said in response:
Your Freudian "PALIN ENVY" is brilliant, by the way, given the cojones-challenged state of our GOP establishment. :)
Update: Scarborough tantrum top story on Memeorandum.
Update III: Larwyn's Linx links.
Update IV: Althouse talks back in "Sissy on 'sissy'":
Yesterday, I had a problem with Rush Limbaugh using the word "sissy" over and over again to express his feelings about Julian Assange. That, understandably, caught the attention of Sissy Willis. Because she's a Sissy but not a sissy, she did not react with I Feel Bad About My Name: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman. She wrote to riff on something I said in my listening-to-Rush-Limbaugh video.
Be sure to check out the comments, a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly:
You've got to admire Sissy Willis's ovaries.
Posted by Sissy Willis on November 30, 2010 at 08:13 PM in Girls just wanna have fun, journolist, Sarah get your gun, Twittering | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: althouse, chattering class, chickification, chris matthews, feminization, freud, gramscian march, joe scarborough, journolist, julian assange, palin envy, PDS, rush limbaugh, sissy, wikileaks
Alan Simpson suffers a "Barbara Bush Moment"
"Parents are asking 'what do I get my kid, 'cause I don't even know their language,'" says one of those weekend pinch-hitting Fox and Friends hosts whose name we can never remember, introducing a segment on high-tech toys for tots and teens. The same could be said of Alan Simpson with regard to the "kids" today. He doesn't even know the language of the GOPs tech-savvy offspring, the Tea Party. More below. (Above: Talking turkey in the Thanksgiving Kitchen Down East.)
"You don't want to listen to Keith Olbermann and Rush Babe and Rachel Minnow or whatever that is, and Glenn Beck. They're entertainers," counsels Alan Simpson, co-chair of President Obama's debt commission, in an unwittingly self-revelatory Barbara Bush Moment of noblesse oblige cluelessness. As with Bar's outspoken authenticity, we used to love Simpson's eye-twinkling manner of politically incorrect straight shooting, but now the old boy is talking straight past us:
They couldn't govern their way out of a paper sack — from the right or the left. But they get paid a lot of money from you and advertisers thirty, fifty million a year — to work you over and get you juiced up with emotion, fear, guilt and racism. Emotion, fear, guilt, and racism.
"Time to go for facts. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion, but nobody's entitled to their own facts," Simpson said, paraphrasing former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Time to "go for facts" yourself, Mr. Simpson. It's understandable the longtime Senator's upset with the self-described "Titular Head of the Remains of the Republican Party," given "Rush Babe's" take-no-prisoners dismissal of the debt commission's work (h/t The Giant Wakes*):
This debt commission report, Irksome Bowles, Alan Simpson, forget it. It's worthless. The premise is totally corrupt. Don't get caught up in debating any of the minutia or the aspects of this thing. It's a setup; it is a trap. All it does is cement the notion of expanded government spending ad infinitum.
But Simpson's gratuitous casting of the ratings-challenged MSNBC attack dogs with talk radio's top talker as somehow morally equivalent is straight out of the same dog-eared Journolist/Cabalist handbook the President himself used when he "stiff-armed Limbaugh and Beck" last spring. As Althouse explained at the time:
Obama understands why you feel those negative emotions. The actual ideas you express don't really matter. They are to be disregarded — they're the things you say when you get mad or depressed, because of all the problems — problems that he aims to solve, in his way, for your sake, because he knows better. Now, if you would please, quiet down, and let him get on with the work of giving you what you need.
It's the ideas, stupid. You need to get out more, beyond the Northeast Corridor Conservative echo chamber, Mr. Simpson.
*NOTE. Thanks to twitter colleague The Editor at The Giant Wakes for debt commission analysis (in 140-or-fewer-character bits) and links:
The Debt Commission report was just economic sleight of hand, meant to preserve both the Entitlement Economy and Big Government.
Just went back thru a few links I had bookmarked, and sent them to you. Main source was my own opinion, having read the draft.
Big issues are no constitutional protections against future debt, little change to entitlements, and no real reform of tax code.
From The Dakota Beacon: "The document reveals the Debt Commission's bias toward "establishment politicians … it does not factor in the current mood of our country toward real fiscal reform." As we were saying, they don't even know our language.
Posted by Sissy Willis on November 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM in journolist, Media Bias, Tea Parties | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: alan simpson rush, althouse, barbara bush, beck, debt commission, journolist, maddow, northeast corridor conservative, obama, olbermann, tea party
Tea Party Power: "The question is which is to be master"
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less … The question is which is to be master … that's all." The Obama Administration's Orwellian/Emanuelian "rebranding" of the discredited "global warming" as "global climate disruption" comes to mind. (Life Magazine cover of Humpty Dumpty by Maxfield Parrish, March 17, 1921)
"Lotsa Tea Party energy in the air," we twittered Sistah Grizzly Angela Lash this morning, attempting a quick analysis — with "had a great fall" syntax — of the political landscape in "140 characters or less":
All the GOP's fuddy duddies and all the Journolista's men couldn't put the establishment together again!
On a mission to retake the hill and reignite the lights of the Shining City, the "almost chosen people" of our Army of Davids have been gaining ground, disintermediating the powers that be using every medium, old and new, to make our voices heard. The "Krauthammer-Rove Axis of Disdain" was stunned this week to find themselves blinking in the headlights of the onrushing narrative of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express. Cubachi has the animation and a nice twist to the irony of "reporters" halfway around the world getting the scoop on Christine O'Donnell and the Delaware upset:
Taiwanese animators have another funny video about the Delaware elections, the main players, and the establishment's reaction. If only American news [could] be this humorous. Actually, we have MSNBC for that. Although they seem to be unintentionally facetious in their reportage.
A prescient bit of "commentary" from that Taiwanese animation:
The Democrats are happy about the infighting.
But could the Tea Party take them by surprise as well?
Are you listening, MSM? Probably not. The legacy media continue to hear what they want to hear and spin what the Son of Journolist wants them to spin. CNN Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger's "analysis" last night [h/t News Busters] was typically tendentiously clueless:
The main Republican contenders [Borger's term for the establishment candidates who've been falling under the Tea Party train of late] have got to figure out a way to capture the enthusiasm of the Tea Party voters, without, in a general election, looking like they're captives of the Tea Party voters, and it's going to be a very difficult thing for someone to do because the Tea Party demands you to be ideologically pure, to a certain degree.
"Ideogically pure" is an old-think concept, Ms. Borger. As we twittered Mary Katharine Ham last evening in response to her latest Weekly Standard column, subheaded "Can't all us grizzlies get along?":
I agree sexism is not at issue. My objections in wild twitter nights have been [assertions of] litmus-test straw men.
As I blogged awhile back, those litmus tests or wedge issues are SO yesterday in the clarifying light of The Brown Revolution. [We trust the Values Voter Summiteers now meeting in DC will agree.]
Tea Partiers are focusing on larger issues: Limited government, fiscal responsibility, free markets. Big tent includes Indies & some Dems, BUT …
The powers that be — Rove & Co — don't like being disintermediated by new combos of old & new media.
This just in from Cubachi as we're about to go to "press":
Surprise! Mark Halperin gets it right about the tea parties, Palin.
Can they hear us now?
Update: Dan links in a robust, must-read declaration of our independence:
The message should be, in my opinion, this great growing influence in American politics, often best put in terms of a Tea Party movement, does not demand purity. It does not demand perfection. It demands a healthy respect for our Constitution and a willingness to have and support common sense values and policies which will pull America back from what has been a long, slow slide toward European socialism since the end of the Reagan era …
And we should continue to fight on no matter what the outcome, or challenges that lie ahead. Now, only we can put America back together, again. And we must do just that, not only for ourselves, but for generations of Americans still to come.
Update II: Cubachi links!
Posted by Sissy Willis on September 18, 2010 at 01:30 PM in journolist, Media Bias, New Media, November 2010, Sarah get your gun, The Brown Revolution, Twittering | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Journolist and the loneliness of the long-distance conservative blogger
Shirley Sherrod was not only an initiator of the Pigford Farms case, she received a chunk of change for her company, New Communities, Inc. To be accurate, she received the largest chunk of change for New Communities — $13 million. New Communities was a bankrupt commune-type land trust held by Sherrod and her husband. She and her husband personally received $150,000 each to compensate them for "pain and suffering."
"'Throwing up as many shorter posts as we can' has got to be the best double entendre ever was," we just wrote in the comments to Little Miss Attila's take on Journolist and the difference between liberal and conservative bloggers, the wolf pack vs the solitary grizzly of our previous post. Delicious food for thought, and it sticks to the ribs. A few nibbles, and then some thoughts of our own on the loneliness of the long-distance conservative/libertarian blogger. Over to you, Little Miss:
Bloggers do send each other links. We send them one-on-one, and as group emails to our own customized link-pimp mailing lists (almost all of us small-time bloggers act as our own publicists, and send out emails every day, or week, or month — demanding that Glenn Reynolds, Rush Limbaugh and whomever else look at what we're writing). And Elizabeth Scalia, Jim Hoft, Ed Morrissey, Allahpundit and Ace all get mail from me, to which they occasionally respond when time permits. But these writers are all too big to have to send out "look at me" emails. And although there are sub-groups of Southern Californians, chick-bloggers, warmongers, Jesus freaks, libertarians, and energy bloggers that I consult with and link to from time to time, most of us really are too busy to coordinate actual "media strategies," because we generally also have day jobs and/or home obligations, along with the writing of at least one essay a day and throwing up as many shorter posts as we can.
Her anecdotal analysis nicely reinforces our own wolf pack vs. grizzly comparison of wordsmiths of the left and right. As we twittered:
Little Miss Attila really should be twittering.
We've known about the loose cabal of like-minded proselytizers of the left who pass for a truth-seeking Fourth Estate for at least 20 years, witness our "Soylent Green revisited."
NEWS FLASH: This just in from our dauntless Faux Journolista of the right Matt Lewis, "Five Minutes With Andrew Breitbart," an absolute must read from start to finish:
Believe it or not, one of my primary motives on this planet is to stop this racism, and to stop the Democratic Party's use of race that divides us intentionally. Google me and Clarence Thomas. I went from left to right because I watched this tactic happen to him and I aligned myself with black conservatives. Free thinkers recognize the Democratic Party will do or say anything to instill fear into black Democratic voters … Shirley Sherrod in that video said those who disagree with Obamacare are coming from a racist point of view. That is a troubling racist sentiment.
Update: MichelleMalkin "Buzzworthy" link!
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Vancouver's affordability saga continues unimpeded as the city's single-family homes are now priced considerably above the median household income, according to a recent study by the National Bank.
The analysis uncovered that the average monthly mortgage payment for a median-price single-detached residence in the Vancouver CMA was around 101.5% of the region's average household income.
National Bank stated that this was an unprecedented high, representing increases of 2.7% quarterly and 6.4% annually, Business in Vancouver reported.
Falling salary growth combined with recent increases in interest rates were cited by the study as the main contributors to the trend, despite the fact that the median price of Vancouver's single-family homes during Q4 2018 went down by 0.7% quarter-over-quarter, and had only a modest 1.8% year-over-year uptick.
Condos experienced a similar cooling, with the mortgage for an average-priced unit in the Vancouver CMA accounting for 49.2% of household income during the fourth quarter, increasing by 1.3% from Q3 2018 and 6.3% year-over-year.
A January report from Altus Group warned that there seems to be no relief in sight for would-be home buyers in Vancouver, as the market is "exhibiting the most potential for downside risk," Altus stated.
Aside from pricing issues, growing construction and borrowing costs will likely stagger sales levels in 2019.
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Project Team Memories of Working on Shenmue | Famitsu Article Translation
This is a translation of an article published online by Famitsu.com in November 2018 to commemorate the release of Shenmue I & II. Comments about working on the original Shenmue project were gathered from:
Masaya Matsukaze (Ryo Hazuki)
Takahiro Sakurai (Lan Di, Goro, Yuan)
Megumi Yasu (Nozomi)
Ikue Otani (Fangmei)
Rio Natsuki (Joy)
Tow Ubukata
Toshihiro Nagoshi
Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
Yasuhiro Takagi
Kenji Miyawaki
The translation begins below.
In commemoration of the release of Shenmue I & II for the PS4 on 22nd November 2018, we gathered comments from some of the staff members and performers who were involved with the creation of the original games. Enjoy hearing them speak about their remembrances and hardships of the time. (See our separate article to read comments from Fujioka Hiroshi).
Masaya Matsukaze
Role: Ryo Hazuki
"Ryo Hazuki is my other self"
Back when amusement arcades were booming, arcade game hit-maker Yu Suzuki turned his talent to creating a home console game. There was a large-scale audition that attracted actors in the motion picture industry, and as I was a Mega Ranger at the time that is when I first met Yu-san.
The game started as "Virtua Fighter RPG", and its genre was the world's first of its kind, designated as "FREE" (an acronym for Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment") but these days called open-world. What Yu-san ideally wanted was "freedom in everything, where things you would expect to happen would naturally happen," and together with a staff of hundreds, he took on the challenge of creating a world that had never before been seen.
I was in charge of the motion capture and spoken lines for the protagonist, Ryo Hazuki. The actions ranged from basic movement like sitting and walking, through to those for QTE events where Ryo would punch or alternatively get punched. When he falls from a high place, that is me falling. Falling down from a height of 15 meters (!) would be fatal, so for this motion capture data for falling from a low height would be extended, along with motion capture for hanging in mid-air and dropping down, The spoken lines for striking up conversations with people had slight variations each time, so I recorded all the lines needed for talking to the same person multiple times, even if they would probably never be heard by the player. It was really a huge volume of recording.
Some of Yu Suzuki's works are on display in the Smithsonian Museum, and this legendary work set a new record in gaming history. Furthermore, this long journey continues on with Shenmue III. There is rarely such an opportunity to obtain a truly legendary work yourself at such an affordable price. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy!
Roles: Lan Di, Goro, Yuan & others
"I'm feeling a renewed excitement."
At the time, several voice actors had been cast for providing test voices to support the development. That's how I came to have a go at voicing the characters of Lan Di, Goro, Yuan and various others. Being a newbie, it was an valuable experience opportunity for me. SEGA's #3 studio is somewhere I'll never forget. After all this time, Shenmue is back again... it's like a miracle. I'm excited about this HD remaster.
Megumi Yasu
Role: Nozomi Harasaki
"I could do a better job now!"
I voiced heroine Nozomi Harasaki in Shenmue Chapter One: Yokosuka. I was in my teens and it was my first try at voice acting, so I remember being gripped with nerves during the recording. I'm sure I could do a slightly better job now...! Please get in touch if there is ever the chance [laughs]. I will continue to support Shenmue!
Ikue Otani
Role: Fangmei
"Recording lines as a dialogue left a strong impression"
Shenmue II! I remember that, unusually for voice recording in a game, the microphones were placed so we could see each other's faces, and the lines were recorded as a dialogue. Of course, this was while watching a video of Fangmei with her super-realistic cute expressions. My memory is a bit hazy on the small details, but I remember that the graphics were beautiful, and I had the illusion that I was acting in a drama. It was a game that left a strong impression on me. However, I don't remember ever getting to see it inside the finished game... [smiles wryly].
Rio Natsuki
Role: Joy
"It was a valuable experience"
I have heaps of memories about Shenmue II! There was a lot of script, so I traveled in to the studio a lot [laughs]. There was a waiting room where I became friends with other voice actors while waiting for my turn, and they shared all sorts of stories. The most memorable part about the role of Joy has to be the Chinese language. I was provided with a pronunciation tutor, but there were several different pronunciations of the sound "maa" alone... I managed to get a thumbs up for my test readings, but once I put emotion into it he tilted his head to one side [laughs]. It was a game that truly gave me many memories.
Novelist & scriptwriter (at the time, in charge of scenarios)
"The Vietnam War of the Game Industry"
One word that holds many memories for me is "Dobuita". It makes me remember all over again the tens of people... or should I say hundreds of people if you include all those I didn't know by sight, who were involved with creating a tale that would have the protagonist setting off on a journey from that place. A software system that was ahead of its time, the ability to traverse the map with 360 degrees of freedom, and a goal that seemed unreachable with the technology of the time... A work environment that was so harsh it was called "the Vietnam War of the game industry", is now something that lies in the distant past. When I think that the evolution of technology has allowed this tale, which couldn't be completed back then, to move forward, I'm filled with emotion. I can't wait for Shenmue III!
Director & CPO* (Chief Product Officer) at Sega Games
* as of November 2018
It was a project that is packed with a lot of memories for me. Frankly speaking, it reminds me only of all the hard times. However, it was a project with the ambitious objective of "creating an RPG unlike any seen before" that took on that goal head-on, and was an unfinished masterpiece born at the end of a generation created around the Sega hardware business. In that sense, it was indeed a symbol of Sega's willingness to take on new challenges. It is a project from which I learned a lot personally, and even now I utilize that learning in various situations.
Sound Section Chief Creator / Vocalist at Sega Interactive
Inspiration from On-the-ground Research
I'm Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and I was the sound director for Shenmue Chapter One: Yokosuka. One unforgettable memory from the game's development would have to be going on a team research trip to China, following the actual route Ryo would take. Back then, I wasn't used to traveling overseas and fell sick from contaminated water. Despite suffering from my illness as we traveled, when I looked down at the view from the plane a tune formed in my head; and as I gazed at the Forbidden City from the Temple of Heaven tears filled my eyes. The music that was created from these kind of situations has a unique sound with emotions of all kinds mixed into it.
Section Manager of the Sound Section at Sega Interactive
Watch for the way music is assigned to the scenes!
I joined the development of Shenmue Chapter One: Yokosuka towards the end, and went on to be in charge of the sound direction for Shenmue II. I had already become familiar with the issues affecting sound development; we had built up a huge number of musical pieces; and I was able to put things in the hands of our superb sound team staff of around 10 people. Considering all this, despite it being considerably hard work, looking back on it now I feel that I was lucky to have worked in that environment. The pieces of music that were produced during development were without exception great pieces, so I was very particular about matching them to the scenes. I hope you enjoy aspects like this.
Shenmue I & II Character Design
Drawing Characters that are Unique
It is 20 years ago now, but I still clearly remember my time on the project, being in charge of character design. Yu Suzuki wanted memorable characters with distinctive personalities, so that is exactly what I worked on. These unique characters were then converted to models one after another, and before I knew it a world had been created that brimmed with distinctive characters to an extent that you would never find in other games. I think this uniqueness is one of the reasons Shenmue continues to be loved even today.
Source: Famitsu.com (30 Nov, 2018)
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Shortly after Eugene Weekly began running the satirical advice column, "¡Ask a Mexican!" in the Nov. 8 issue, letters to the editor began pouring in, nearly all demanding that EW stop printing the weekly syndicated column. Letters this week are more varied.
Is Eugene ready for this ethnic and political satire? Local Latino leaders fear Eugeneans lack the context to learn from the humor, especially as the immigration debate heats up. For instance, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski recently signed an order that makes it dramatically more difficult for illegal immigrants to get a driver's license (for more, see page 19).
On Nov. 28, EW Editor Ted Taylor and paper co-owner and board member Anita Johnson met with approximately 18 concerned community leaders, including City Councilors Andrea Ortiz and Mike Clark, UO Vice Provost Charles Martinez (who is also chair of the 4J School Board) and heads of local social service agencies, many of which focus on Eugene's Latino community.
Urbina also pointed to Arellano's use of the phrase "un nopal en la frente," which roughly translates to "a cactus growing from the forehead." This phrase is used by U.S. Mexicans to describe other Mexicans "fresh from the border," according to Arellano.
"Reading this column, seeing those words, do you know what this means?" asked Urbina. "It hits to the core of demeaning stereotypes," she said.
"This is giving this community permission to use this language in the context of snark and comedy," Urbina said. "Our children can't deal with this. I have to explain hate," she said.
Urbina works with Mujeres Latinas, a group of 135 Latina women, some of whom she says were driven to tears when shown the column.
"This column doesn't have a place in this community," said Guadalupe Quinn, CAUSA Lane County regional coordinator.
"We don't have the luxury that California does — they have the previous knowledge of the language and the culture," said Juan Carlos Valle, one of CLA's board members. "Keep in mind, we're in Oregon," he added.
Johnson, who is also a contributing editor to EW, said the paper's editorial board decided to run the column because they saw it "as a way of combating racism and stereotyping." Arellano himself has stated in numerous interviews that the goal of the column, including the caricature of a gold-toothed sombrero-wearing Mexican with a mustache, "is to debunk the stereotypes that people do have about Mexicans, to aggressively go after racists" (EW 11/29).
"There is no balance" to running the column, commented Ortiz, who cited concerns that EW and other media do not feature enough reporting on Latino issues. Some community members also asked about the lack of local Latino voices in the paper. Taylor and Johnson extended an invitation to the Latino community to write regular columns for EW.
Taylor reminded the gathering of EW's subsidizing the printing and inserting of the Spanish-language paper El Norte in EW for about nine months in 2005. EW was unable to continue El Norte due to a lack of advertising support. Only one letter to the editor supported the effort, and none noted the cessation of El Norte in EW, Taylor said.
Toward the end of the more than one-hour meeting, several members of the group demanded an immediate decision on whether or not to stop publishing "¡Ask a Mexican!" Johnson said she alone could not make that decision and promised to report to the board about the meeting. | {
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New Legal Guide Released for LGBTQ Families in Pennsylvania
Developed by Family Equality Council in Partnership with Equality Pennsylvania, Legal Resource Helps LGBTQ Community Protect Their Families.
November 8, 2017 — For Immediate Release
NEW YORK, N.Y. and Philadelphia, Pa. — Family Equality Council and Equality Pennsylvania are pleased to release a new legal guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) families living in Pennsylvania. This resource provides LGBTQ-headed families and LGBTQ adults considering forming families with detailed and accessible explanations of the current status of federal and state law, including recognition of same-sex marriages, parental rights, adoption, applying for documentation for children, nondiscrimination protections, school policies, healthcare, parental leave, and more. The guide also includes a list of legal documents it is recommended that all LGBTQ families secure in order to ensure their rights and wishes are respected.
"Legal protections for LGBTQ families vary dramatically from state to state, and Pennsylvania has very few laws in place to protect LGBTQ families from discrimination in education, employment, housing, healthcare, and public accommodations," says Denise Brogan-Kator, Chief Policy Officer for Family Equality Council. "This new resource will help families in Pennsylvania understand the steps they can take to protect their families."
The result of a partnership between Family Equality Council and Equality Pennsylvania, the family law guide reflects both organizations' commitment to defending LGBTQ families from discriminatory legislation, and advancing legal and lived equality for LGBTQ individuals and their families in Pennsylvania.
"Equality Pennsylvania continues to advocate on behalf of LGBTQ families' rights in both legislative advocacy and administrative policy," according to John Dawe, Interim Executive Director for Equality Pennsylvania. "We are grateful to our community partners, especially the Family Equality Council, our regional community centers, and legal services providers."
Family Equality Council and Equality Pennsylvania will continue to work tirelessly to support LGBTQ families and to educate elected officials.
Download a PDF copy of this free resource here: https://form.familyequality.org/pa-lgbtq-family-law-guide/
About Family Equality Council
Family Equality Council advances legal and lived equality for LGBTQ families, and for those who wish to form them, through building community, changing hearts and minds, and driving policy change. Family Equality Council believes every LGBTQ person should have the right and opportunity to form and sustain a loving family, regardless of who they are or where they live. Learn more at familyequality.org.
About Equality Pennsylvania
With 60,000 members across the state, Equality Pennsylvania is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's largest organization advocating for and advancing equality and opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Pennsylvanians. Learn more at equalitypa.org.
Ed Harris, Chief Communications Officer, Family Equality Council
646.880.3005 x117, [email protected]
John Dawe, CNP, CFRE, Managing Director, Equality Pennsylvania
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Think a minute…Remember when you were in school? You know who's best at doing tests, but you don't know who will succeed at the tests of life.
By the time we've finished 10-12 years of school, we've learned some accounting with debits and credits, but we've still not learned how to truly forgive our debtors and people who have wronged and hurt us.
We know what direction Japan is, but we're not sure which way we should go in life. In school, we learn how to do everything except how to live!
It's after we finish school that we must start learning how to live in the classroom of real life. So who is the right teacher for us? Who can best teach us how to live well? Isn't it logical that whoever invented life is the One Who knows how life best works?
This is on of the reasons Jesus Christ became a human being—as the Teacher of real living. He explains and shows us the way God designed life to be lived. That's why Jesus is the only person in history who could ever come back to life after dying and being buried for 3 days. He's still teaching today! So we would be smart to listen and do everything He tells us are the principles for living a successful and satisfying life.
If you put your life in Jesus' hands, He will work everything together for good in your life. Jesus will show you what to do about your boss who is unfair to you.
He'll teach you how to pay back your debts and manage your money problems. Jesus will show you what you can do so your child won't feel so angry and rebel against you. He'll show you how to change and improve your marriage relationship. And Jesus will help you do your best in school. | {
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book reviews: september 2012 recap
My September Read of the Month
My slacker blogger days continue, which is pretty obvious when you figure I'm just NOW compiling my top reads of September... on Oct. 6. Better late than never, no use crying over spilled milk and any myriad of cliches could fit the bill.
But that's hardly the point.
I left my old job the first week of September and started a new one the second week. My life has been more than a little chaotic, but I am happy. And a little mentally unstable. Just now when I went to look back at my recent book reviews, I had a moment of panic where I thought, "How could I have only reviewed one book the whole month?" only to realize I was looking at October instead of September. I'm going crazy, my friends, but I suppose it was inevitable.
The good news from all of this: I re-configured my list to look at September, and I realized I managed to throw down a few books and write reviews last month if nothing else. It's probably, because I was too tired to do anything but read. And crochet. And listen to audio books, which I renewed my interest in, but that's a post for another day.
Without further adieu, and to stop making a long post even longer, here's a recap of my September book reviews, including my read of the month.
Rescue Me by Rachel Gibson
A bad boy gets reformed and a prodigal daughter returns to her roots in Rachel Gibson's Rescue Me.
Back in Lovett, Texas, the story revolves around Sadie Hollowell, the daughter of a widowed rancher, and Vince Haven, ex-Navy Seal and big brother to the heroine of Any Man of Mine. (Read my review of Any Man of Mine here.)
Sadie is back in the town she left behind after high school to play the role of thirty-something bridesmaid to her twenty-something cousin. Dreading the questions of why she is unmarried and why she does not come home to visit her daddy more, Sadie asks Vince to be her date to the wedding. In town to visit his aunt, Vince is not looking for any strings, but finds himself tagging along as repayment for an earlier favor.
Read the rest of the review here.
Rating 4 of 5
Sign of Seven trilogy by Nora Roberts
Ancestry, blood and love create a bond strong enough to go up against an ancient evil force in Nora Roberts Signs of Seven trilogy: Blood Brothers, The Hollow and The Pagan Stone.
Caleb, Fox and Gage have been linked before their birth on the same day, July 7. In honor of their mutual tenth birthday, the boys hike to the Pagan Stone, a legendary marker in the woods near their hometown, which is rumored to have mystical powers. The boys holds a makeshift ceremony to make themselves blood brothers. Instead of giving them the link they hoped, they unlock an evil power, which has been dormant more than 300 years.
As a result, every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, the dark demon takes over the town of Hawkins Hollow for seven days, causing the locals to inexplicably turn on each other -- arson, murder, rape and more during an event dubbed the Seven. In the months preceding the Seven of their 31st birthday, the three men sense this year will be even worse and stronger than in years past. This year, the fight will be over, win or lose.
Rating 4.5 of 5
Finding Out by Sheryn MacMunn
A thirty-something woman's life is thrown into personal and financial upheaval when her prince charming turns out to be a toad in Sheryn MacMunn's Finding Out.
After seven years together, Sheila Davenport comes home from a business trip to find her boyfriend, Joe, has moved out, left her for another woman and cleared the bulk of their joint account. While her friends encourage her to move on and find someone else, Sheila is left to deal with the aftermath, which includes the need to find new bedroom furniture and pay months of unpaid bills left by her ex-creep. Throw in job drama and her life looks pretty bleak.
Then, Sheila befriends her next door neighbor, and 86-year-old woman with a full past. Through their friendship, Sheila develops the perspective and backbone necessary to tackle her issues.
Free Gift With Purchase by Jackie Pilossoph
Two sisters give finding love a second chance in Jackie Pilossoph's Free Gift With Purchase.
Emma was widowed and left to raise her daughter alone, while her older sister, Laura, recently split from her husband of more than 20 years after he left her for one of the women he was sleeping with. Both sisters are completely different. Emma is more fun-loving while Laura is responsible. Both rely on each other as they enter the dating world for a second time, now in their 40s.
While each copes with issues from their past, each enjoys relationships with varying types: womanizers, stalkers, liars and a string of Matts. Some of serious, some care-free, but all of them help each woman come out of her shell to make the change necessary to develop their lives.
Breaking the Rules by Cat Lavoie
Complicated hardly covers it when describing Roxy Rule's life in Cat Lavoie's debut novel, Breaking the Rules. (Read an excerpt here.)
Between clashing with her fiance over table linens and guests lists and working as an assistant for one of the most obnoxious bosses ever, Roxy's world is already chaotic when she sneaks a passionate kiss with her lifelong best friend, Ollie, as he departs for London. After the act stirs up some previously undetected emotions, she tries to settle them while dealing with everything else on her plate, which now includes having her two sisters move into her apartment. And one of them is pregnant and the father is a big surprise no one expected.
Will Roxy follow the rules and take the easiest path for her life or take a chance on the unknown?
Finding Lucas by Samantha Stroh Bailey
Samantha Stroh Bailey's Finding Lucas offers a dose of humor and emotion for anyone who has ever wondered what could have been.
Jamie Ross has been with Derek for five years. Until recently, she has seen him as everything she wanted. She wakes up and realizes that not only is he not what she thought, but he has also done a number on her confidence.
Determined to find the Jamie she used to be, she decides to take a trip down memory lane and find her old boyfriend Lucas, the man who used to make her feel like she could do or be anything. At the same time, she becomes close to her boss, who is also going through relationship pains. Finding Lucas is the story of using the past to move on from the present to have a future.
Last Minute Love by Romi Moondi
Romi Moondi's hilarious story-telling is back with Last Minute Love, the sequel to her equally entertaining Year of the Chick.
When we last saw Romi Narinda, she had just met the man she's been chatting up for a whirlwind day in New York City. Though she thinks she may have found Mr. Right, she still has to deal with those pesky parents who have big plans for her.
The Other Way by Diane Strong
Diane Strong offers an intriguing and fast read with her novella The Other Way.
The Other Way tells the story of Isaac Fisher, an Amish man who felt compelled to leave his community and identity behind after he impregnates a woman during his teenage rumspringa. Unhappy in his new life, and longing for the life -- and love -- he left behind.
True Love Way by Nancy Scrofano
Nancy Scrofano offers a fun and entertaining read about a quirky heroine who is determined to rekindle the sparks with an old flame in True Love Way.
I am a fan of Nancy's work as a blogger and reviewer, so I was especially delighted to find myself a fan of her fiction as well.
The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard by Robert Bryndza
A middle-aged woman's life undergoes significant transformation, and she logs it all with emails, in Robert Bryndza's The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard.
Coco's story made for a quick and entertaining one to read. Using emails to tell the story was a fun and modern way for a character to keep a diary of sorts. Using emails kept the story moving through a significant period of time quite quickly in a natural way. I found some of the emails a little too long and literary to be believable, but they were still written well, which more than made up for it.
In Need of Therapy by Tracie Banister *** READ OF THE MONTH ***
Tracie Banister continues to be one of my favorite new authors with her latest offering, In Need of Therapy.
In Need of Therapy is a laugh out loud story about a fun and somewhat unconventional leading lady. She is sassy and independent, and I loved her from the get go.
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The Watermelon Festival is offering Got To Be NC members a discounted rate. All vendors who register before July 1, 2019 will receive a 50% discount and will pay only $50.00 Vendors who register after that will receive a 25% discount and pay only $75.00. Each vendor will receive advertising prior to and throughout the festival. To receive the discounted vendor booth space in the Got To Be NC pavilion you must be a Got To Be NC member. Membership will be verified before approval.
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Yep, in Mount Olive, it's a pretty Big Dill. Got To Be NC has partnered once again with the NC Pickle Festival to offer Free vendor booth space to Got To Be NC members at the 2019 North Carolina Pickle Festival in Mount Olive, which will be held Saturday April 13. Space is limited to 12 vendors on a first-come, first-served basis. Pavilion participants will also receive two free passes to the festival's hospitality suite and reserved parking. Hurry! The deadline is April 1. To participate in the GTBNC Pavilion, you must be a GTBNC member.
The annual Got To Be NC Festival takes place May 17-19 at the N.C. State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. Got To Be NC members are invited to show, sample and sell your products in the Homegrown Marketplace located inside the 50,000 square foot Exposition Center. This is your chance to join over 100 other North Carolina food and beverage companies to promote your products to thousands of consumers!
This show is a unique opportunity to sample and sell your products. Get more information and register here.
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Shufti Pro Nominated for Yalla Fintech 2020 Award
Shufti Pro, an identity verification service provider offering KYC verification and AML screening has been nominated for Yalla Fintech 2020 award hosted by Fitech Galaxy. Shufti Pro has been nominated for simplifying the customer onboarding procedure through their solutions.
Yalla Fintech 2020 Hackathon is an event hosted by Fintech Galaxy to amplify the innovative solution and to make a difference in the financial sector of Arabian region. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has been set back many years. There has been an unwanted strain on businesses and governments. Governments are looking for digital means to cater to them in these tough times. Financial sector is one of the key industries that require digital technology for boosting their businesses.
Yalla Fintech 2020 Hackathon is an inspiration for innovators and regulators from the Arab region to come up with the best solution for the major issues in financial institutions, especially during the pandemic. Customer onboarding has been one such issue. During the COVID-19 pandemic, performing the KYC on each and every customer became a demanding task for the businesses as they struggled to manage their remote operation. Shufti Pro offered their AI-powered KYC solution that helped many businesses to meet their regulatory requirements and fight fraud. For this, Shufti Pro has become one of the finalists for the Digital KYC award in the Yalla Fintech 2020 Hackathon. The winner will be announced on 15th December 2020.
Shufti Pro is one of the leading companies in the identity verification service industry. Their KYC verification and AML screening solutions are powered by both artificial and human intelligence to give it an unmatchable accuracy rate of 98.67%. Shufti Pro offers their solution in 150+ languages in around 232 countries and territories, making it the first one of its kind to expand on such a global level.
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every affair on earth its appropriate time.
and we are like shadows passing through them.
in this world after we are gone?
no knowledge, and no wisdom.
they share the same fate.
the one breath of life is the same for them all.
Humans have no advantage over the animals.
For nothing they do has any lasting significance.
and the animals' breath of life descends downward to the earth?
than to be happy in their work, because that is their appointed lot.
Translation by Lloyd Geering, Such Is Life! A Close Encounter with Ecclesiastes (Santa Rosa: Polebridge, 2010), p. 171-192. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; 6:12; 9:10; 3:19-21; 3:22.
In the novel, My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, is this scene about mortality. The character, Asher, is an artist and his art brings him in conflict with his father and his faith. It also becomes a vehicle for his faith. One of the themes of the novel is the tension between one's tradition and one's individuality.
The novel is written in the first person. Asher recounts a time when he was about six years old and he is sitting with his father. He is telling this story to show the reader what inspires him to draw.
And I drew, too, the way my father once looked at a bird lying on its side against the curbs near our house. It was Shabbos (Sabbath) and we were on our way back from the synagogue.
"Is it dead, Papa?" I was six and could not bring myself to look at it.
"Yes," I heard him say in a sad and distant way.
I couldn't grasp it. I forced myself to look at the bird. Everything alive would one day be as still as that bird?
I need to be reminded of that every day. Even more often than that.
How often I fail to notice the fragility and the impermanence of life.
How often I fail to see in life its sacred beauty.
How often I fail to see in myself and in others the divine gift that we all are.
How often I fail to realize how amazing it is to be alive at all.
How often I fail to notice that I will die one day.
I know it, of course, intellectually. Everyone knows it. But I don't always know it enough to live and love life as much as I might.
I am not suggesting that becoming aware of my mortality should put me in a panic of creating a "bucket list" of things I must do before I kick the bucket. It doesn't mean I need to sign up tomorrow for skydiving lessons. The preciousness of life requires neither panic nor fear nor conquest. Just presence. The preciousness of life invites us to notice.
"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
Religious language, ritual, and art invite us to experience the holy in the world. It exists to wake us and shake us. But it isn't easy to embrace life with the awareness of our mortality. That is why we need to be wakened and shakened. Sometimes the very language that is supposed to make us more aware of life serves to put us further in denial.
I notice this particularly at funerals. At many of them, we are supposed to be comforted by supernaturalism. In the hardline form of religious literalism we are supposed to jump through systems of belief so our souls or our resurrected bodies or what have you will land in the right place after death.
Apparently, our loved one has just traveled somewhere. Chicago perhaps.
That is what I want to say. But I let it go. We all need to do what we need to do.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
"Who knows," Qoheleth goes on to say, "Whether mankind's breath of life rises upward to the heavens and the animals' breath of life descends downward to the earth?"
Is death the end of us? For Qoheleth the answer is yes. His view made it into the Bible.
"I like to think so, son. If'n they is a Heaven, she's Up There, I know thet," he said softly. Then he laughed… "Ain't but one way to find out if she is or ain't though. And I'm not thet curious." He sighed, spat, and said, "Havin' faith means it's all right either way, son. 'The Lord is my shepherd means I trust Him. Whatever happens in this life or the next, and even if they ain't alife after this'n, God planned it. So why wouldn't it be all right?" p. 188-9.
That to me is some of the most profound theological writing that I have read.
If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
One of the great theologians of the 20th century, next to Grandpa and Kurt Vonnegut, is Paul Tillich. One of his most famous sermons is entitled, "You Are Accepted." His sermon is a good one for me to read especially when I feel anxious about life or feel anxious about whether I am good enough, or when I worry about the future or feel guilt or shame about my past.
The sermon is about an old-fashioned religious word, grace.
Even though my sermon this morning is about the reflections of Qoheleth on mortality, it comes back to grace, to the preciousness of life, of my life and your life, to the feeling of being embraced, accepted, and comfortable in our own skin. Whether we are religious or not, it is what we long for.
"We cannot transform our lives, unless we allow them to be transformed by that stroke of grace. It happens; or it does not happen. And certainly it does not happen if we try to force it upon ourselves, just as it shall not happen so long as we think, in our self-complacency, that we have no need of it.
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.
• It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life.
• It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual, because we have violated another life, a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged.
• It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us.
• It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage.
You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later.
Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!"
If that happens to us, we experience grace. After such an experience we may not be better than before, and we may not believe more than before. But everything is transformed. In that moment, grace conquers sin, and reconciliation bridges the gulf of estrangement. And nothing is demanded of this experience, no religious or moral or intellectual presupposition, nothing but acceptance….
I don't know about you, but I have experienced those moments.
Every now and then I am reminded that I am accepted and that life is precious.
It really is pretty amazing that we are alive and here.
"The preciousness of life requires neither panic nor fear nor conquest. Just presence. The preciousness of life invites us to notice."
A link to this is on its way to my atheist UU friends, as well as the UU Christians, and my CPE class.
This is especially useful for the CPE class, which works with Hospice patients, dying and death, in a very conservative, fundamentalist, rural scene.
Thank you again. I needed this.
Thank you! I so appreciate your kind comments!
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Home > Feature reviews & previews > Clash of the Titans
Tuesday 20 July 2010, by Kelu13
My expectations weren't particularly high when I went to see the Clash of the Titans. And I must say I was looking forward to it, perhaps moved by some masochistic feeling that compels me to go see films that are going to provoke my inner academic (knowing a few things about Greek mythology). And yet I'm always up for a laugh.
The movie in all its blockbuster glory fulfils what it sets out to do: it has drama, romance, fights and big scorpions. My concern is that it promises to tell a story and tells another one, underlying the point that many scriptwriters, unable to come up with new ideas, are happy to plunder the treasures of the ancient myths that almost everybody has heard of but few are familiar with the gory details.
As a person planning more or less to make a livelihood out of classical studies, shouldn't I be delighted to see these ancient stories freed from the dusty libraries where they were held like mystic scripture reserved for an elite cabal of classics students and intellectual spinsters, glad to look upon those less fortunate (?), yet unfamiliar with the Iliad and the Odyssey? Fair enough, it's a film but my question is why do they have to include, say, the actual names and a couple of original storylines and jumble them up in an incoherent story, greatly diminishing the legend's potential appeal to the younger generations.
Let's start with the obvious.
The legend of Perseus is known mostly because of his conception. Zeus visited Danae in the guise of golden rain, provoking outrage and despair from the young virgin's father, Acrisios. In fact, he was aware of a prediction that his grandson would one day kill him. Which he did by accident. The problem is that in Perseus's legend, there is in fact no actual baddie and to make a good blockbuster you need at least one or two of those.
But I wouldn't mind these changes, if the scenario hadn't included some pretty useless incoherencies. The movie is based on the succession of improbable creatures that spring up randomly along the way, catching the elite squad unawares, as it clambers along a landscape that defies even basic geographical understanding.
There is the Kraken, plucked straight from Scandinavian mythology, with no relation whatsoever with ancient Greece, replacing what in the original legend was an aquatic creature Perseus killed with rocks, on his way home, Medusa's head in a bag, a trophy collected after a pointless bet he had made.
There are the Djinns, creatures from the Arabian Nights, (well, vague relations at best, for some reason decidedly alienish and dressed in blue). Once again, I'm still looking for any relation to ancient Greece. There are massive scorpions, emerging from… not sure where exactly; I think the congealed blood of another random character but I think I might have actually dreamt that. Perhaps they were leftover props from the Mummy 2 the studios gave a last moment of glory to before chucking them out.
But I think I laughed most when I first caught sight of Pegasus. It was obvious they couldn't leave a winged horse out of the film, and that's ok, considering he is directly related to the legend of the Medusa. So what was the problem? Maybe that he was born from the blood that ran from the Gorgons' head when it was cut by Perseus and could not exist before her death, ah, just to be pedantic, Perseus wasn't the one to ride him, it was in fact Bellerophon when he went to kill the Chimera. But let's overlook this; a winged horse is always cool.
Then we have the gods. Blatantly restricted in their movements by their Power Rangers suits in a palace copied and pasted from computer game Civilization, the gods even carry light sabres. Fair enough, but about the 'Greeks' gods? The ones no human actually ever took on?
Spectacular special effects, entertaining action scenes, and, ok, let's admit it, decent actors for the most part, the film could have been a pretty good one, had the team bothered to equate the various characters with the actual deeds they undertook and not pick other ones at random, as was the case with Perseus or Andromeda. I must say I'm sad for their eight children that according to the movie, will never be born, the hero preferring to shack up with ghost Io, a character from a different myth : an ex lover that had been changed into a cow by Zeus. But, eh, why not.
Lots of "why nots" tend to kill a movie's credibility.
But, if you liked it, rejoice, because a number two is in the making. At least this time, they wont have to pretend to follow an original legend.
Dir: Louis Leterrier, 2010
Cheezy Monsters
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We need to get our politicians talking about the stuff that really matters - like this! It reminds me of the speech Pedro Sanchez gave when he was running for class president in the movie Napoleon Dynamite: "If you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true. Thank you."
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Sky scenario
Could society achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement?
Could our homes and cities be highly efficient and carbon neutral?
The Paris Agreement has sent a signal, but could society do enough to achieve the goals of this landmark climate agreement?
Shell's latest energy scenario, Sky, shows a technically possible pathway for society to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. It would require a complete re-wiring the world's economy in just 50 years.
A critical feature of Sky is the need for much greater efficiency in how society uses energy. This is not new. In fact, this has always been a feature of the energy system, simply to meet growing demand. For example, lighting the world with Edison Electric power stations and lightbulbs from 1910 would not be possible, but very efficient modern versions of the same or similar technologies have achieved this. In Sky, efficiency allows continued demand for energy services to be met and limits overall demand growth for energy. This means that sources of energy like solar have a chance to catch up and surpass more traditional energy sources like oil and natural gas.
An area where energy efficiency gains need to happen quickly and where efficiency tends to lag is in our cities, homes, offices and factories; the built environment.
According to Sky, achieving greater efficiency in the built environment would not need a swathe of new technologies. Rather it is about applying best practice when homes are built and encouraging retrofits in older, less efficient dwellings. This is mainly about insulation, windows, doors, and heating and cooling systems. The obstacles to change are related to ownership and the initial cost of the improvements. This could be solved with relatively simple policy implementation, including mandated efficiency standards for home appliances and lights.
Further, cities can set the direction towards net zero emissions and some are already doing just that. At the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September 2018, city mayors and officials gathered to showcase the progress they are making. In a report issued in parallel with the event, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) identified seven game changers such as zero-emission building codes and the addition of ubiquitous electric-vehicle charging infrastructure.
Ultimately, carbon neutral cities must be part of a broader thrust by society to achieve net-zero emissions and deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Cities can contribute to net-zero emissions but cannot deliver it on their own. Cities are the destinations for a vast array of goods and services that rely completely on fossil fuels today. Aviation, cement, glass, steel and ships are but a few examples. While cities can set standards for many of the supply chains in which they are involved, more pervasive policy instruments such as carbon pricing would likely be more effective and cost efficient over the long term. Such policy development typically sits with national and regional governments, rather than city mayors.
Nevertheless, as the CNCA notes in its report conclusion,
'Changing the game in cities is how we're going to get the future we want. . . . We can get there, but only if more cities step up, other levels of government help them, funders provide support, and the public asks for it.'
Read the Sky publication to see how the goals of the Paris Agreement could be met through a combination of technology, government policy and societal actions.
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Shell and the energy transition
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For over two decades Shell scenario thinking has incorporated the issue of climate change. The Sky scenario joins two previous Shell scenarios, Mountains and Oceans that saw rapid decarbonization but fell short of the goals of the Paris Agreement. To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, the Sky scenario relies on a complex combination of mutually reinforcing actions by society, markets and governments. It adopts an approach grounded in current economic and policy development mechanisms, but then progressively becomes 'goal-driven' to achieve society's ambition for net-zero emissions by 2070. At Shell, we hope it's a helpful contribution to one of the world's toughest challenges. You can explore all three scenarios at www.shell.com/Scenarios
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Emirates Is Planning a Bigger, Better First-Class Cabin
Deena Kamel Yousef, Bloomberg
We're getting a little tired of the gulf carrier first-class arms race.
— Jason Clampet
Emirates, the world's biggest airline on international routes, said it'll introduce a first-class cabin that allows more privacy at "commercially viable" rates, following the success of premium suites on its super jumbos.
The product will initially be rolled out on the airline's Airbus Group NV A380 planes followed by the Boeing Co. 777s, Sheikh Majid Al Mualla, Emirates' divisional senior vice president of commercial operations for the region, told reporters in Dubai.
Emirates' President Tim Clark last year said the airline is developing a more exclusive first-class product centered around the bedroom concept. His comments came after regional No. 3, Etihad Airways PJSC in Abu Dhabi, last May unveiled the Residence cabin on its first A380s, complete with a dedicated butler and three rooms.
"In the last two or three months, it has been in the final stage," Al Mualla said, adding that the new cabin will be unveiled "hopefully" this year and at "almost the same pricing" as current cabins. "It should be more commercially viable for passengers."
Premium Suites
A small percentage of luxury travelers are willing to pay top dollar for premium suites in the sky. Etihad's Residence, which costs $20,000 for a one-way trip between Abu Dhabi and London permitting dual occupancy, had sold out the first 10 flights a month before it debuted in December.
Emirates' product will be "more like if you're in a railway and have a private cabin," Al Mualla said, adding it will be installed on routes that have a high load factor in first class.
Qatar Airways said it is working on a double-bed cabin with business-class catering to compete with its rivals' costlier first-class products.
"Emirates has been a trendsetter in first class, it has a first-comer's advantage," said Mark Martin, founder and CEO of Dubai-based Martin Consulting. "I don't think Etihad will create a dent in the first-class segment because Emirates has a bigger fleet. It's going to help Emirates with jam-and-jelly revenue where their bread and butter has been economy."
A retrofit and refurbishment will be costly, he added.
This article was written by Deena Kamel Yousef from Bloomberg and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.
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Photo Credit: Existing first class on an Emirates A-380. Emirates
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Jacopo Dal Bello was born in 1995 in northern Italy, near Venice. After several years of piano, he discovered electronic music and began to buy his first records at 15. Immediately fascinated by techno, acid and dark sounds, he began composing his collection of vinyls. When he was 18, he started his career in some clubs in the nearby area; with his "warm up" sets he began to make himself known to the public and to promoters. His commitment and efforts, together with his unique technique and music led him to become dj resident for many relevant labels such as Re-Fresh. At 17 he started his career in music production. His rst incredible escalation began in 2016, when Richie Hawtin played some of his tracks in the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix Live Podcast. From that moment, he releases many tracks with Black Swan Recordings, Maintain Replay Records,Typ3 Records, Egothermia Records. Thanks to his commitment in the recording studio, he contributed to the birth of a new music genre. Starting from the arrangement, he then adds minimal, ambient and acid sounds. His unstoppable passion for the pursue of innovative sounds leads him to create various dj sets, yet maintaining his unique identity. | {
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Q: RelaxNG (rnc) schema to extend XHTML I would like to edit XHTML files using Emacs' nxml-mode which can use rnc schemas for on the fly validation. This is all built in to newer Emacs versions.
However, my XHTML files contain elements from another schema. So <foo:foo> tags are valid, but only within the <xhtml:head> of the document.
Currently, nxml complains because the XHTML schema it is using does not describe the foo tag. How do I create a new schema which describes the foo tag in relation to the existing XHTML schema, and how do I apply that schema automatically using schema locating rules in the schemas.xml file?
ie: I would like to validate a document using two schemas simultaneously: the built-in XHTML rules, and some custom rules which add certain namespaced tags.
A: Validator.nu has a preset schema that is modified from the the XHTML schema set originally developed by James Clark and one of the additions is rdf:RDF in head, so the schema might be useful to study.
(I have no experience with nxml-mode schema location issues.)
A: Problem 1: I believe that you don't want two schemas here, but rather one schema that "include"s another, combined with the overriding/combination rules described in section 9.2 of the RelaxNG tutorial. I'm wrestling with this myself.
Problem 2: I can give you a better answer to the second problem; nxml-mode looks in one of a number of locations for a "schemas.xml" file that performs pattern-matching to associate files with schemas. For the simplest possible mapping, I have this file in the same dir as the xml file:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<locatingRules xmlns="http://thaiopensource.com/ns/locating-rules/1.0">
<uri resource="auto.xml" uri="lab.rnc"/>
</locatingRules>
This file associates the "auto.xml" file with the "lab.rnc" specification.
A: The W3C has just the thing. For example, here is the rng for XHTML+RDFa:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!-- XHTML+RDFa 1.0 -->
<grammar ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"
datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
<include href="xhtml-datatypes-1.rng"/>
<include href="xhtml-attribs-1.rng"/>
<include href="xhtml-text-1.rng"/>
<include href="xhtml-list-1.rng"/>
<include href="xhtml-object-1.rng"/>
<include href="xhtml-pres-1.rng"/>
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<include href="xhtml-inlstyle-1.rng"/>
<include href="xhtml-base-1.rng"/>
<include href="xhtml-ruby-1.rng"/>
<include href="xhtml-metaAttributes-1.rng"/>
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<ref name="xhtml.id.attrib"/>
<ref name="xhtml.Metainformation.attrib"/>
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<ref name="xhtml.ContentType.datatype"/>
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<define name="xhtml.title.attlist">
<ref name="xhtml.Common.attrib"/>
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<define name="xhtml.head.attlist">
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<ref name="xhtml.profile.attlist"/>
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*XHTML Modularization for RelaxNG:Techniques for using RelaxNG to define and extend XHTML
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Kitesurfing or Kiteboarding is a sport that can be enjoyed all year round, in many locations around the world and in many ways. By simply choosing adapted equipment, you can kitesurf in waves or flat water, with light or stronger wind provided you have the essential skills level and knowledge.Kitesurfing in Cyprus is ideal because it has ideal winds and many spots to be discovered. The following kitesurfing courses will help you select which one is best adapted to your goals. Remember that all courses are supplied with an IKO kiteboarding card.To find out what you will be covered during the lessons check out the student's standards below. We supply all the gear required for the kitesurfing or SUP lesson.This year we use Wainman Hawaii RSE dedicated school kites and Naish Ride kites together with Nobile NBL boards and Prolimit Harness. There is no doubt that these brands have been leading the market and will make your learning experience much easier.
What to bring for your kitesurfing or SUP lesson: You just bring your Board Shorts or swim suit.
Note: To be able to become an intermediate kitesurfer you must complete both IKO level 1 & 2. This will take 8-10 hours and it's usually accomplished in 3 days having lessons 2-3 hours per day.Special offers assume that you will pre-buy a minimum of 2 courses.
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Azerbaijani rectors lead political purge
Azerbaijani universities are using their new autonomous status to carry out a political purge of lecturers, according to the Yeni Musavat Azeri newspaper, regarded as the organ of the opposition Musavat party.
The change in status means that contracts with university staff have to be negotiated. The paper claims that the administrations of Baku State University and the Pedagogic University are using this as a pretext to force lecturers to resign their membership of opposition parties. In some cases, lecturers have been ordered to join the ruling New Azerbaijan Party and to write articles praising Heydar Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan.
The rationale was that the lecturers - mainly from the history, literature and journalism faculties - were "carrying out a policy that runs counter to Azerbaijani statehood and the policy course of Heydar Aliyev's government". These negotiations were timed to coincide with the mid-sessional examinations - presumably in the hope that lecturers would be too busy to take concerted action.
Having issued their ultimatum, resign membership or leave, the rectors then proved elusive. Eventually, the BSU lecturers concerned did manage to have a face-to-face meeting with the rector, Abel Maharramov. They were reluctant, however, to tell the media what was said. Zeynal Mammadli, a lecturer in the faculty of journalism, did reveal that he had told the rector that he was "struggling not against statehood, but against the government. These are different things".
Dr Maharramov said he was not implementing the reforms of his own free will; the order, he said, came from the top. Nevertheless, he is a member of the NAP and serves on its political council.
The newspaper drew a comparison with the Soviet era, when Communist Party membership was a prerequisite of holding any senior or influential post. However, it noted, even the Soviets did not require party membership at the level of junior lecturers.
Committees to protect lecturers' rights are being set up. The lecturers affected are, where possible, employing delaying tactics. Nevertheless, at the Pedagogic University, a number of those holding junior posts have been obliged to submit their application for membership to the NAP.
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Gone Focusing: Day 7
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In which our hero discusses avocado toast, the merits of the Unabomber Manifesto, and the effects of Facebook.
Day 7 of 40 day Facebook Fast…
I'm making some good headway on establishing a pattern for my time. Definitely reducing the delays in getting to the keyboard, and… quite frankly… absent the incessant flow of news tidbits and gleaming objects, my "boredom hormones" are converting steadily into nervous creative energy.
But first, Avocado Toast. You Hipsters think you invented something, but I've been eating this fruit of Nirvana (No! Not the band.) since Grandma Strange first slathered a piece of white toast then added just the right amount of salt, back in 1970. We'd get them maybe 5 times a year, "back in the day" when we had to rely on the California crop, in season, instead of having every imaginable fruit year-round courtesy of globalization and excessive carbon-footprint shipping. So, yeah, you've got it pretty good. (Chef's Note: Haas Avocados only. Jerusalem Avocados are too watery. Blecch.)
I'm also reading more. Catching up on bedstand queues, I finished "The Electric Edge of Academe," a 400 page combined biography of L.L. Nunn, and history of Deep Springs College. The author is a friend's father: a really nice man and a solid academic. Met him nearly 30 years ago at his daughter's wedding. The book is good stuff, if you're into iconoclastic, Utopian educational theories aimed at creating people dedicated to serving the common good.
I bet L.L. would approve of my 40 days away from Facebook:
The desert has a deep personality; it has a voice. Great leaders in all ages have sought the desert and heard its voice. You can hear it if you listen, but you cannot hear it while in the midst of uproar and strife for material things.
— L.L. Nunn, 1923
It's a great read, about a man barely remembered, but who played a major role in the electrification of America, the advancement of the industrial age of progress!
Which brings me to the Unabomber Manifesto. I watched the Netflix dramatization, "Manhunt," a very well done retelling of the true story of Ted Kaczynski, Montana mathematician (and convicted serial killer/bomber) with his own iconoclastic ideas about what makes a Utopian society. Got me thinking, "I haven't read the Unabomber Manifesto. It's sharp in places, astoundingly prescient in others (for a doc written in 1993). Like this excerpt. How did he know we'd have a President Trump and EPA Administrator Ryan Zinke?
I bet L.L. Nunn and Ted Kaczynski could have some great conversations. I fear Ted would not resolve disagreements with the same equanimity, and reverence for democratic self-governance as Nunn.
Finally, I continued yesterday's Googling, and started looking at auto-complete Google and Siri suggestions for things like, "Facebook effects…", "Facebook ruins…" and "Facebook reduces…"
Judging by the results, this Facebook thing is bad. Mmmkay?
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