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Tiny Tunes
By Stewart Mason
JULY 5, 1999:
The Apples in Stereo Her Wallpaper Reverie (SpinArt)
Not quite the Apples' third album, Her Wallpaper Reverie is a 27-minute EP featuring seven brilliant pop songs surrounded by eight peculiar bridges and sound collages, most of them featuring one of those little toy xylophones where you hit a key and a hammer strikes the bar from underneath. Like Stereolab's similarly brief The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music, Her Wallpaper Reverie is simultaneously the Apples' most and least experimental release in that it separates the two sides of their musical personality. There's the sunny '60s-inspired pop songs featuring the multi-tracked harmonies of Robert Schneider and Hilarie Sidney, and the more outside sonic experiments, which the band previously combined into one intoxicating whole. The result is that the proper songs sound more than ever like perfect '60s pop classics, and the experiments sound even stranger than before. So in some ways, Her Wallpaper Reverie is also the Apples' response to Olivia Tremor Control's Black Foliage. This EP is a delight, but as always, it gets docked half a cute li'l doggie for being under 30 minutes long.
Those Bastard Souls Debt and Departure (V2)
With The Grifters apparently falling onto the scrapheap of progress after a string of Sun Records-meets-Pavement albums -- which reminded listeners that maybe not everything in the "alternative" universe was an overhyped and undercooked '70s-rock ripoff -- head Grifter David Shouse has turned his one-man side project, Those Bastard Souls, into a kind of indie supergroup. Accompanied by ex-Dambuilders Joan Wasser (violin) and Kevin March (drums), former Jeff Buckley sideman Michael Tighe (guitar) and Red Red Meat's Matt Fields (bass), Shouse has moved away from the deliberate art-rock weirdness of TBS' 1996 debut, Twentieth Century Chemical. The four tracks from that album re-recorded here -- especially the vastly improved "Remembering Sophie Rhodes" -- are harder-edged, more straightforward and dynamic, with Wasser's violin a particularly satisfying new element.
The album's closer, a stunning deconstruction of the Grifters' "Spaced Out," strips the song down to its barest essentials, with Shouse and Tighe creating a spooky miasma of ambient guitar textures as backdrop for Wasser's gyroscopic violin. It's better than the Grifters' original to the extent that the Beatles are better than Oasis. Debt and Departure is a moody, beautiful, noisy album that bodes well for Shouse's post-Grifters' future.
The Negro Problem Joys and Concerns (Aerial Flipout)
The Negro Problem's second album, Joys and Concerns, comes after a major personnel shakeup, with keyboardist Jill Blair and bassist Gwynne Kahn replaced by ex-Wednesday Week bassist Heidi Rodewald. Happily, the damage is both minor and balanced by new strengths: Blair's accordion is sorely missed, but Rodewald is a much better singer than either Blair or Kahn, and so Joys and Concerns is at least the equal of TNP's phenomenal debut, 1997's Post-Minstrel Syndrome.
TNP's focal point remains the tension between singer/guitarist Mark "Stew" Stewart's provocative lyrics, delivered in his raspy, soul-influenced voice, and the baroque pop melodies and lush production favored by Stew, Rodewald and drummer Charles Pagano. Described by Stew as "a hidden concept album," Joys and Concerns even revives the old prog-pop trick of multi-part songs: "Comikbuchland" and "The Rain in Leimert Park Last Tuesday" are basically two halves of the same song, as are the quieter, more emotionally direct "Bleed" and "Come Down Now." Other songs concern the sexual preferences of toys ("Ken," in which Barbie's would-be beau announces his attraction to G.I. Joe and pleads for recognition that he needs "someone to love since I am not equipped to screw"); the appeal of degradation (the opening "Repulsion," possibly TNP's smartest and catchiest song yet); and Stew's usual favorite media targets ("Peter Jennings," "Mahnsanto"). Post-Minstrel Syndrome's Jimmy Webb, Arthur Lee and Stephen Sondheim influences are still here, but Joys and Concerns sounds like no one but The Negro Problem.
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The Sinton Hotel on Fourth and Vine was one of the flag-draped "skyscrapers" on Notification Day in 1908. Anna Sinton, one of Ohio's wealthiest heiresses, was married to Charlie Taft, the future president's half-brother. It was the Sinton money that propelled Taft to the presidency in November, giving William Jennings Bryan the worst defeat of his three presidential campaigns.
1. When the Beaux-arts Sinton Hotel was demolished in 1960s, some of the local Rookwood Pottery tile panels in the dining room were preserved at the Cincinnati Art Museum. This hotel is also remembered as the place where eight players of the visiting Chicago White Sox allegedly agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
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Home >Companies >News >ReNew Power raises $450 million through dollar bonds
ReNew Power, with about 5.4GW of operational capacity of wind (60%) and solar (40%) power projects, and a project pipeline of 2.6GW, is one of the leading independent renewable power producers in the country. (Photo: Bloomberg)
ReNew Power raises $450 million through dollar bonds
2 min read . Updated: 22 Jan 2020, 10:39 PM IST Ridhima Saxena
Firm plans to use the funds to refinance the existing borrowings
Attractive yields and liquidity have driven investor interest in Indian companies
Sustainable energy firm ReNew Power Pvt. Ltd has raised $450 million through a dollar bond issuance, said D. Muthukumaran, the company's chief financial officer.
"The firm's order book of 3x for such a long tenor paper and high participation from investors across the US and Europe are very encouraging and reflective of the company's prospects and its healthy leverage levels," he said.
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The bonds, according to a person directly aware of the matter, were priced at a coupon rate of 5.875% and will be issued in two tranches with an average maturity of five-and-a-half years. "However, most funds will be raised through bonds that have seven years to maturity," he said on the condition of anonymity.
On 12 January, rating agency Fitch Ratings had rated the US dollar senior secured notes to be issued by the firm at BB-/Stable. ReNew plans to use the proceeds from the dollar notes to refinance existing borrowings, including trade credit facilities of the holding company. Part of the proceeds of nearly $65 million will also be used to meet future capital expenditure requirements.
"The funds are being borrowed mainly to refinance debt maturing in the coming year. This will help the company extend its loan tenure by seven years. On the whole, this will be a debt-neutral transaction as the firm's overall leverage will not increase," said the person mentioned above.
The firm's leverage ratio, or its net adjusted debt-to-operating Ebitda (earnings before interest depreciation and amortization) ratio, stood at over 5.5 times on a sustained basis, according to Fitch.
The firm, with about 5.4 gigawatt (GW) of operational capacity of wind (60%) and solar (40%) power projects, and a project pipeline of 2.6GW, is one of the leading independent renewable power producers in the country.
"Investors are increasingly funding clean energy-backed bonds in line with their environmental, social and governance mandates," said Kailash Vaswani, president, corporate finance, ReNew Power.
Attractive yields and liquidity have also driven investor interest in Indian companies, which raised more than $20 billion of debt through offshore bonds in 2019, the highest both in value and volume terms in the last six years. In 2019, 47 Indian companies raised $21.32 billion through offshore bonds, compared to a muted 2018, which witnessed only 12 companies tapping the offshore debt markets to raise $5.2 billion, according to data from financial markets tracker Refinitiv.
In January, several Indian firms tapped the dollar bond market to raise funds. This includes Future Retail Ltd, which raised $500 million via dollar-denominated bonds, which witnessed almost six times demand of the issue size, Mint reported on 14 January. Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) raised $1 billion by issuing 10-year bonds and gold loan financier Manappuram Finance Ltd raised $300 million through three-year dollar bonds. | {
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Russian military shipbuilding: an update (part 1)
The cover article of the brand new issue of Moscow Defense Brief (subscription required) from the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, examines developments in Russian military shipbuilding in 2012, written by Dmitry Boltenkov. Since the article is not publicly available, I thought it might be useful to provide a brief summary. Part 1 covers submarines and surface ships. Part 2, coming soon, will cover auxiliary ships, export contracts, and provide some analysis.
Construction of Borei-class (project 955) submarines progressed significantly in 2012. The navy took delivery of the Yury Dolgoruky, the first sub of this class, at the end of 2012. After some training exercises, the sub is expected to enter regular service by the end of 2013. The second sub, the Alexander Nevsky, is expected to be commissioned in the fall. The third sub, whose construction started in 2006, was launched in January 2013, while construction of the fourth started in July 2012. Two more subs are to be laid down this year. Given the 7-8 year construction times on these submarines, it seems unlikely that all eight will be completed by the 2020 target date. 2023 seems to be a more realistic goal. Furthermore, the lack of new tests on the Bulava missile in 2012 is concerning, though additional tests are expected this autumn — most likely using a new automated missile launch control system.
The Yasen-class (project 885) nuclear attack submarines are being built far more slowly, with the first submarine in the class (the Severodvinsk, which was laid down back in 1993) currently undergoing tests and expected to enter the fleet later this year. The Kazan (the second submarine of this class) will be commissioned in 2015 at the earliest, with the third to be laid down in July. Again, the chances of all 8 contracted subs being completed by 2020 is virtually nonexistent.
Diesel submarines are also being built, including the recently restarted, but still troubled, Lada class. The first sub in this class, the St. Petersburg, entered sea trials in 2004. Problems with its propulsion systems have prevented its commissioning and led the project to be suspended indefinitely several years ago. The project was restarted in 2012, but the St. Petersburg still has not been commissioned. Construction on the two other subs in this class that were laid down before the suspension has resumed and they are expected to be ready for sea trials in 2015 and 2016, respectively. MDB reports that the second boat may be equipped with new lithium-ion batteries, while the third may have air-independent propulsion. It seems unlikely that any more subs of this class will be built, which means the navy will get three essentially different boats, each with its own maintenance needs. This is precisely the sort of the thing the Russian military has been trying to get away from. The hope is that a fifth-generation conventional sub currently being designed by Rubin Design Bureau will soon be ready for construction, obviating the need for the Lada class. In the meantime, the navy will have to depend on old and new Kilo-class submarines. The first of a set of six improved Kilos is expected to be launched later this year. Two more are under construction and another is to be laid down by the end of 2013. All six are expected to be in service by 2016.
Surface ships
The first of the two Mistral-class ships ordered from France is currently under construction, with the second to be laid down sometime in 2013. Both ships are to be completed and delivered to Russia by the end of 2015. Boltenkov reiterates that both will be assigned to the the Pacific Fleet. Furthermore, he notes that the Russian Navy has ordered four assault-landing boats from STX L'Orient in France. The fate of the third and fourth Mistral-class ships, which were to be built entirely in Russia starting in 2016, remains unresolved.
Two types of frigates are being built for the navy. The first of the Admiral Gorshkov class (project 22350) frigates is expected to enter sea trials in late 2013. Two others are under construction, with a fourth to be laid down later this year. Two more ships of this class have been ordered, with hopes of completion by 2020. MDB reports that the project is facing serious delays with its primary Poliment-Redut SAM weapon system, which is being developed by Almaz-Antey (a company that has had many problems successfully completing the development of new weapons systems in recent years). The second type of frigate (project 11356R) is essentially the Talwar class previously built for the Indian Navy. This is an updated version of the Soviet Krivak class. Russian defense industry is much better at building updated versions of tried and tested designs than at building something completely new. It's therefore not surprising that construction on these ships is proceeding quite quickly, with three ships already under construction and another to be laid down this year. The first ship of this class, the Admiral Grigorovich is expected to be launched this summer and to enter service in 2014.
The navy is also receiving some smaller combat ships. Construction on various versions of the Steregushchiy class (projects 20380 and 20385) of corvettes continues, with two in service, one in sea trials, one expected to begin sea trials later this year, three under construction and another to be laid down in July. Severnaya Verf is building these ships in about three years, while Amur shipyard is taking much longer. Various sources indicate that contracts have been signed to build another 10 of these corvettes, which would bring the total number in service to 18 by the time the program is complete.
Several types of ships are being built expressly for the Caspian Flotilla. The Dagestan missile ship, equipped with Kalibr-NK long-range cruise missiles, was commissioned into the Caspian Flotilla in November 2012. No further ships of this type are planned, however. Two Buyan-class (project 21630) small artillery ships were commissioned into the flotilla in 2012. An updated version of this class (project 21631), to be armed with Kalibr-NK cruise missiles, has been ordered. Five ships are now under construction with an estimated completion date of 2015. A contract for three more of these ships was signed in January 2013. The Caspian Flotilla is also expected to receive three Serna class (project 11770) high speed air-cavity landing craft this year, built according to an existing late Soviet design.
Finally, the navy is building a number of specialized surface ships, including the Admiral Gren (project 11711) large tank landing ship, which has been under construction since 2004 and was finally launched in May 2012. Completion will be no earlier than 2014 and initial plans to build another 4-5 of these ships have been shelved. Four Dyugon class (project 21820) high speed amphibious landing craft are also under construction, though Boltenkov reports that problems with the design mean that no more ships of this type will be built once these four are completed. The first ship of the Aleksandrit class of minesweepers (project 12700) is under construction as well, with three more expected to be built in the near future. Two Grachonok class (project 21980) anti-sabotage boats were commissioned in 2012, with two more expected to be completed by the end of 2013 and another four currently under construction. A total of about 20 are expected to built in the next few years.
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The Russian Military under Sergei Shoigu: Will the Reform Continue?
Here is a new policy memo, just published on the PONARS Eurasia website. It can be seen here in pdf format.
In the five years of Anatoly Serdyukov's tenure as defense minister, the Russian military underwent one of the most significant reforms of any period since the formation of the modern Soviet Army during and immediately after World War II. As part of this reform, the military shed most of its Soviet legacy in areas such as organizational structure and manpower. The transformation, however, alienated the officer corps, with most senior generals agitating for Serdyukov's dismissal throughout his tenure. Although his eventual removal in November 2012 had more to do with corruption scandals and the interests of senior government figures with defense industry ties, the dismissal led many critics to hope that new Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu would reverse the Serdyukov reform.
In this memo, I briefly examine the achievements of the Serdyukov reform and the challenges he bequeathed to Shoigu, before focusing on the decisions made by Shoigu in the first months of his tenure and their potential impact on the development of the Russian military over the next several years. Continue reading →
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Impressions from Moscow
At the end of May, I spent a week in Moscow doing some research on various topics. Although it wasn't the central focus of my interviews, I took the opportunity to discuss the state of the Russian military with several scholars and journalists. What follows is a brief summary of my impressions from these conversations.
Shoigu is not reversing Serdyukov's reform. With only one exception, all of my interlocutors agreed that Shoigu is maintaining the main thrust of Serdyukov's reform efforts. He has canceled the decisions that were most upsetting to the senior generals, but kept all the central aspects of the reform. One example: Restoring the Tamanskaia and Kantemirovskaia divisions pleased the traditionalists, but the newly rechristened divisions are unlikely to ever reach actual division staffing levels. Instead, levels are likely to reach 6-7,000 people, higher than the 3,800 assigned to brigades but nowhere near the 13-14,000 personnel assigned to a traditional Russian military division. It's possible that additional divisions will be introduced, but no more than 1-2 per military district, as there are simply not enough personnel in the military to staff all the brigades, let alone restore the old divisions. Similarly, Shoigu's decision to wear a military uniform was designed to make the old guard of the military more comfortable, as part of a campaign to repair relations between the country's civilian leadership and senior generals. He is reported to wear civilian clothing at all times except when he is meeting with the generals. For obvious reasons, Shoigu has been very keen to distance himself from anything related to Serdyukov and the criminal case that was the ostensible reason for Serdyukov's dismissal. But much of this is at the level of perceptions and symbolism, rather than actual policy change.
In fact, many of Shoigu's changes have to be described as largely positive for the Russian military. The introduction of sudden alert drills has demonstrated the lack of preparedness in some units, but is likely to lead to an increase in readiness in the long term. Restoring the position of warrant officer (praporshchik or michman) for technical positions is another needed course correction, though most of the staff in question did not actually leave the military when their positions were eliminated, instead continuing to serve as sergeants. Another important change that has largely gone unnoticed by most commentators has to do with promotions within the military. Serdyukov handled all promotions himself, and approvals came quite slowly. This caused resentment among the officer corps. Shoigu has decentralized and accelerated the process.
Clearly, there are many problems with the military. The rearmament plans incorporated in the current State Armament Program are a fiction and have no chance of being implemented at anywhere near the promised levels. Corruption remains endemic, both at the MOD and in defense industry. And perhaps most seriously, the military seems to have no solution for its manpower crisis. Demographic factors have sharply limited the pool of potential conscripts, while the military remains largely unable to make itself attractive enough to recruit a sizable pool of professional contract soldiers.
But these real concerns should not blind us to the progress that has been made under Serdyukov, nor to the possibility of continued progress under Shoigu. It may well happen that the pessimists turn out to be right and that Shoigu ends up dismantling the positive changes made under Serdyukov. But we should remember that everything Serdyukov did in transforming the military was done at Putin's behest. It's quite likely that priorities have changed and that shaking up the military has now taken a back seat to ensuring stability in a period where the regime is no longer nearly as popular as it once was. That can quite nicely explain the sacrifice of Serdyukov. But on the same count, the military can be satisfied by the combination of going after Serdyukov and the symbolic acts taken so far. Stability and a docile military does not require the dismantling of the entirety of Serdyukov's reform, especially since some aspects of it are now firmly entrenched. Their reversal would lead to greater instability within the military than leaving things alone.
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MIAMI, Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Along the cruise line's commitment to continuously elevate the vacation experience for guests, Royal Caribbean International today announced new enhancements to its Crown & Anchor Society guest loyalty program. The updated program better recognizes the cruise line's valued loyal guests and includes a migration from cruise credits to Cruise Points, creating a new way to earn membership status; two new member tiers, which include additional benefits; and a more personalized member section on the website. The enhancements to the Crown & Anchor Society take effect for sailings on or after January 21, 2011, and are the second part to the program's evolution, which first introduced additional benefits in June 2010.
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Tibetan, Uyghur and Chinese activists urge Google: 'Respect human rights, don't do China's dirty work'
Live online briefing concerning Google Dragonfly - the censored China search engine — and the company's complicity in China's human rights abuses, to be held days before shareholders' meeting.
[LONDON] On Monday 17 June 2019, two days before the Alphabet shareholders' meeting, [1] Tibetan, Uyghur and Chinese rights activists will join ethical consumer specialists to raise ongoing concerns about Google's development of a censored search engine for China, codenamed Project Dragonfly. They will also discuss the shareholder resolution [2] calling for the company to be broken up, due to concerns about human rights violations. The panel will explore the serious governance changes needed at Google to institutionalise a firm commitment to upholding and promoting human rights.
To date the coalition of activists, representing those directly affected by the implementation of Project Dragonfly, have delivered four letters to Google management raising their concerns. There has been no acknowledgement or response to these letters.
PANEL: (See Speaker Biographies below)
Shahrazad Ghayrat, Project Officer, World Uyghur Congress
Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director, Tibet Action Institute
Teng Biao, Chinese human rights lawyer and activist
Sondhya Gupta, Senior Campaigner, SumOfUs
WHAT: Online media briefing on the human rights implications of Google's Project Dragonfly, the Alphabet shareholder resolution and campaign actions taking place to coincide with Alphabet's AGM on Wednesday 19 June.
WHEN: Monday, 17 June 2019 at 7:00 AM PDT / 10:00 EST / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CET / 22:00 CST
WHERE: The live briefing will be held via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/834747159
Q&A: If you wish to ask a question to the panel please either join the live briefing - see link above - or email questions to [email protected]
For further information and media requests, please contact:
John Jones, Free Tibet | +44 (0)207 324 4605 | [email protected]
Mandie McKeown, International Tibet Network | +44 (0)7748 158 618 | [email protected]
Sondhya Gupta, SumOfUs | +44 (0)781 118 6937 | [email protected]
Speaker Biographies:
Dr. Teng Biao is a Chinese human rights lawyer and scholar. One of the earliest promoters of the Rights Defense Movement in China, he co-founded two human rights NGOs – the Open Constitution Initiative and China Against the Death Penalty. He is currently a visiting fellow at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University.
Lhadon Tethong is Director at Tibet Action Institute where she leads a team of technologists and rights advocates in developing and advancing open-source communication technologies, nonviolent strategies and training programs for Tibetans and others facing human rights abuses. www.tibetaction.net
Sondhya Gupta is campaigns manager at consumer group SumOfUs, a global community of millions dedicated to stopping big corporations behaving badly. We use our power as consumers, workers and investors to hold the biggest companies in the world to account. www.sumofus.org
Shahrezad Ghayrat is the project assistant of the World Uyghur Congress, an organization representing the collective interests of the Uyghur population living in East Turkistan and abroad. Shahrezad was born in East Turkistan but migrated to Australia with her family a decade ago and since then she has been an Uyghur human rights advocate.
Moderator: John Jones is the Campaigns and Advocacy Manager for Free Tibet. The organisation was established in 1987 with the vision of a Tibet where Tibetans are able to determine their own future and the human rights of all living there are respected. www.freetibet.org
1. Alphabet Inc. became the parent company of Google in 2015. Alphabet's AGM will take place on Wednesday 19 June in Sunnyvale, California.
2. SumOfUs shareholder resolution can be read at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000130817919000205/lgoog2019_def14a.htm#lgooga069 | {
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Can you find Glen Wilson's portraits in the desert?
This story is part of Image issue 8, "Deserted," a supercharged experience of becoming and spiritual renewal. Enjoy the trip! (Wink, wink.) See the full package here.
The desert I have experienced since moving to Southern California from Chicago nearly 30 years ago, as both a manifestation of space and an expression of time, belies expectations and never fails to reveal itself as an expanse of colliding dichotomies. Its terrain stretches out, boundaries prove flimsy, that which appears barren bears fruit. The moon rises equally underfoot as it does on the horizon, and here inevitably succumbs to there. Beyond any terrestrial prism through which one can observe a seemingly limitless place, the desert's consciousness, I suspect, remains more in the cosmos than with the fleeting perspectives of humans moving through it. When I do find myself in the desert, whether arriving there as a destination to the east or north, or returning from it toward a different vast ocean in the West, my most fundamental questions are given space to breathe. "Where am I?"
"Desert Totem (West Adams, California)" in front of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building designed in 1949 by Paul Williams. The building was the headquarters of the largest Black-owned business west of the Mississippi (as of 1945), offering whole life insurance policies to the Black community that had until then been excluded not only from fair housing, but from the wealth-building financial instruments such policies represented. The building also once housed the company's incredible collection of art by Black American artists, many from Los Angeles.
(Glen Wilson / For The Times)
The lobby of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building still prominently features murals, commissioned by the company, depicting the contributions of pioneering Black citizens in California.
If the desert reflects an endlessly evolving constellation of questions — a calling — my piece "Desert Totem" forms an ongoing response, a kind of personal, cosmic echolocation that plays in my creative work. It's composed of portraits I made at different moments — of a man named Elijah and of a great horned owl — that are woven into the mesh of chain-link gates I have salvaged over years from homes (now gone, in my own neighborhood, but reactivated in my work). Both portraits reflect outward and inward (on the reverse).
I met Elijah years ago. We were both fishing in the desert — him literally, me metaphorically as I whisked along the desert highway, with Parliament-Funkadelic's "Mothership Connection" blaring in my car. I had asked the cosmos a question about presence versus absence in the desert, and Elijah soon showed up, fishing along a roadside irrigation ditch, as if to say, "You are here!" At a different time, I was once compelled to give a burial to a great horned owl at the base of a saguaro where the Sonoran and the Mojave deserts blur together. Years later, I had an opportunity to meet one of the owl's living descendants up close. Both images travel with me, in my mind's eye, along with the work I do. And just as I continue to move "Desert Totem" from one context to another, questions around presence versus absence, arrival versus departure, settling versus migrating and erasure versus equity, will linger, provoke and hopefully weave connections.
"Desert Totem" placed at one of several freeway on-ramps where drivers and pedestrians might catch glimpses the work set amidst other signage. Artist Glen Wilson says, "Like the freeway signs, which are a ubiquitous part of Southern California's visual vernacular, I consider the gates part of the language of the urbanscape and fleeting collective memory. I wanted them to both blend with and disrupt the expectations of spaces characterized by the movement of departure and merger."
"Desert Totem (Lancaster, California)" sits where 25th Street East dead-ends into the Mojave Desert. The growth of communities like Lancaster and Palmdale, an hour and a half north of downtown Los Angeles, where the edges of L.A. County blend into the desert itself, are a part of the story about economic pressures, affordability, equity and the places where communities may reconstitute themselves.
These young bikers circled back to the spot where I was installing "Desert Totem (Lancaster, California)." We talked art, living in Lancaster, motorcycle maintenance and a missing gas cap. They blessed the totem with a pose and a gaze into the setting desert sun before tearing off after it.
Lost in translation, found in the desert … the sun wants its final word in the Mojave, until the moon rises to speak.
Glen Wilson's (born 1969, Columbus, Ohio, lives and works in Los Angeles) multidisciplinary practice is comprised of photography, sculpture, filmmaking, installation and assemblage. Provoking questions around voice, visibility and cartography, Wilson's works suggest fluid narratives of place, diaspora, cultural heritage and the intersections of individual and communal identity. Wilson has shown most recently at Frieze London and in group exhibitions at the Getty Center and the California African American Museum. Wilson received a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from the University of California San Diego and is represented by Various Small Fires gallery (Los Angeles/Seoul).
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What Is An Income Statement And What Is It Typically Used For?
Generating an income statement allows for you to get a clear and concise picture of your company's finances. A complete summary of all revenues, expenses, trends, and net profits allows for the most accurate approach for adjusting operations.
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Warner Bros. has announced that Justice League's new (and probably last) trailer will drop this Sunday, along with a slew of TV spots.
Warner Bros. has announced (via Collider) that a new trailer for their upcoming superhero blockbuster, Justice League, will arrive this Sunday. Up until this point, the news surrounding DC's upcoming superhero team-up movie hasn't been the most positive. Zack Snyder stepped down as the film's director when tragedy struck his family, which meant that Joss Whedon came in to oversee post-production. However, it resulted in reshoots and rewrites. Incidentally, Whedon now has a co-writing credit for Justice League.
It all sounds a bit ominous, however, the last big blockbuster to go through extensive reshoots was Gareth Edwards' Rogue One, which turned out OK, at least, according to us it did. The current state of the DCEU has been elevated somewhat with the recent release of Wonder Woman, which was met with an overwhelmingly positive response. Many fans and critics have claimed that Warner Bros. and DC Comics should learn from Patty Jenkins' film, which is probably why Justice League has been reworked slightly.
Justice League will feature the return of Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, Ben Affleck's Batman, Henry Cavill's Superman (we all know he's coming back), Ezra Miller's Flash and Ray Fisher's Cyborg. We'll also get our first look at Jason Momoa's Aquaman in action, which is very exciting indeed. Fingers crossed that the film ends up being a success, both commercially and critically. It does seem as if DC and Warner Bros. are looking to turn things around, and Wonder Woman was a very good start. Let's hope that it's not just an outlier.
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The Seal Wife *7
He saw that she was alive and that she was not Frannie but a woman whom he knew but did not recognise. She smelt of running water and sweat and the smoke of the fire that he burned in his hearth. She crouched in the gloom in front of his bed and swept away his dark moustache with her fingers. She touched her lips against his. Her feral force flowed down his gullet and into his breast. He lay still on his bed of ribbon grass, bewildered and aroused. He did not move for fear of the chimera folding in on herself and disappearing. She was a star; turning his gaze straight upon her would have rendered her obscure.
What a strange rhapsody it was, when she mouthed his fingers, licked his eyelids with a fishy tongue and then slithered under his oilskin and kissed the curve of flesh where he would hold the fiddle against his body. She put soft, damp hands against his shoulders and impaled herself upon him. Her hair fell over her dark face and brushed his chest. He held her then, brushed her lean, aquiline torso with calloused fingers and gripped handfuls of her hair. Her hair.
When she rose up still fused at his loins, she laughed and he saw her canines but he couldn't think to who or what she was. Something lurked in his mind of the tales from the home country. Her warmth returned as they touched breasts, her hair splayed over the ribbon grass. He surged into her like the salty tide and then he lay still, afraid to move.
She took his hand and pulled him from his bed. Ashes smouldered in the fireplace. Outside a crescent moon dangled over the little harbour. With just enough light to make out the stones that lay scattered down to the water, she led him into the sea lying like dark paper between the hills. He knew the water was cold and she pulled him in anyway. Her strength was incredible. She swam him, holding his left arm and surfing across the skin of the water to the side of the inlet where he'd salvaged the wood from the wreck Erica. Then she dragged him down into the darkness of the inlet. His eyes adjusted slowly and the water didn't feel as cold. Empires of stone and kelp towered around him and still she descended. His lungs thudded in his chest.
"This is where they fell," she laid the words out in his mind like the sea rubs glyphs into sand and stone. "I called them down and this is where they fell. The woman ..."
A spectre appeared in front of him, a woman's face, badly beaten with a swollen brow and a gash on her cheek. She was a native but not from this area. She had close cropped hair and wore several strands of tiny shells around her neck. Part of her left ear was missing.
"She was bound below deck. I couldn't save her. She came from another place. I look after her now. I look after her things too." She showed him the bag made from human hair and the mortar and pestle that lay among the wreckage of the ship. The woman, that expressionless wraith, faded.
He remembered the filthy men on the jetty and the terrible cries coming from inside the whaler. "I sung them all down," she said. "But they survived. They went north looking for gold."
He shook his head. She glared at him with black eyes.
But when he began to panic in the airless depths of the inlet she fixed her mouth to his and breathed into him. She pulled away when he stopped struggling, little sacs of air escaping her lips and clinging to her face. She glanced at the dog shark that slept in the belly of the Erica, his pectoral fins undulating gently, levitating just above the coral encrusted wood. She lurched in the water and swam down to nip his dorsal fin with her sharp teeth, shocking the fish awake. Just because she could. Glee spread across her tawny face.
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They came mid morn, three men carrying spears shipped to their sticks. One man, taller than the others, wore a small iron axe in the twine of his belt and his chest and shoulders were marked with scars. Another man, shorter and straighter had knobbed his hair at the back of his head and emu feathers floating from a twine bracelet adorned each arm. The smallest man had two straight scars across his breast and to his possum twine belt was attached a long shard of gleaming green glass.
He put out his hands, palms facing upwards and waited. He wondered first if they would head to King George Sound with news of a wild white man hiding at the inlet. Then he wondered if they would kill him. He knew the natives didn't like sealers and for good reason too.
The shortest man also seemed to be the youngest and was cloaked in a wallaby skin worn with the fur close to the body. He stepped forward, his eyes sweeping the camp. "No more wadjela?"
"No. Me." He held up the herring he'd caught that morning. He handed it to him. Tithe. "Just me and the seal." He nodded over to the inlet.
The young man held the fish by its tail, smiled and spoke to the other two. They laughed, the tallest in hiccupping chuckles that belied his authority. They thumped the middle man with the feathered armbands on each shoulder and he muttered and toed the dirt with his thorny feet.
"He loved the seal too. His wives got angry and clouted him and he go back home," said the youngest. Maybe he was the only one to speak English. Maybe the others didn't want to. "You go home too."
"No, I can't."
"You go." The man's tone changed. He waved the herring in a floppy gesture towards the west.
"I can't." He shook his head again.
The youngest spoke to his brothers in Noongar. They stared at his clothes and the tallest man went to look around his hut. When he came out, he spoke to the others again.
"He says, why a stone house? Bark is much warmer."
He shrugged and smiled for the first time.
They talked again and then the young one said, "Our women come here fishing. You see them. You go away."
He understood. They would be watching him.
That seemed to be the end of talking. The short man shocked him by gripping his arm with big hands, the herring jammed between both their flesh. Then they left him, laughing, their spears held upright and against their bodies.
He wondered about the seal. He went upstream again and chopped more clay from his mine and continued packing the stone walls. Forcing the slimy, gritty mix between the cracks, he stopped and held his reddened hands in front of his face. He washed them in the inlet and sat to watch it breath for a while.
Three or four fires burned around him. It was difficult to tell how many, now that the afternoon wind was up. He sang one of his mother's songs, waiting for the seal.
A bull seal lolled on the rocks in the morning sun. They gazed at each other, the seal with a curious lack of fear. He turned back into the land, looking for firewood and breaking up dry kindling from the dying underneath of the shrubs. Later, he fished off the rocks near the channel. Occasionally he saw a bulge of water across the inlet or closer still but she did not show herself.
He went to his hut hungry that night and dreamt lucid of the quicksilver flash of fish and water that bulged with the living flesh of people. Frannie emerged from the water like a Venus borne across the sea, her blonde hair streaming behind her; a sight unseen to him but for few precious domestic moments when she let it down. Her skin glowed dusky, not pale and freckled Irish skin but brown and shining with brine and her eyes were black pools where he could gaze and see her and himself at once.
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At first she was nothing more than a bulge in the water and he thought, I've been waiting for you, creature who lives in this breathing pond, to reveal yourself to me. He was waiting for a grand monster but it was a seal who rose to the surface. Her whiskers twitched and she snorted away a mist of water and looked at him with black eyes. He put down the violin and she turned and rolled under the surface. He picked up the violin and she appeared again. It was the first time he'd laughed out loud in weeks. He played to her then, Basket of Turf and The Devil's Dream. She rolled and flipped and twitched her ears. He did not think of her meat or her skin that would warm him. He needed the company more.
After that he played every day, glad for an audience. She swam closer and closer until he could see the oil glaze that protected her eyes and the way she wrinkled her skin sometimes.
The nights were better with a fireplace and shelter to keep the dew off his body. There was plenty of wood to burn, strewn under the big hedges of the heart shaped leaf bush. But he was always hungry. The river mussels growing on the silty bed made him ill, loosening up his bowels. He ate bark, ground to a powder, to compensate and it clogged his stomach. The periwinkles were a staple but there were few left now around his camp. He went further every day. Once he chanced upon some limpets, abandoned by the tide near the entrance to the inlet. He prised two away and ate them raw, after pounding their bodies against rock to soften them. Down by the water, close to the reed beds a little green plant with yellow daisy flowers tasted to him almost like celery but bitter. Some days this was all he ate, grazing like a sheep and then wandering on with the sea celery acrid upon his tongue.
He sharpened a piece of wire, the piece he'd use to mend the hinges of the violin case. As he extracted the wire from the holes in the wood, he remembered fixing the case one evening at home. Frannie swelled heavy with their second child and sat watching him. Now he didn't know whether it was hunger hurting his stomach or the ache for his wife that left him for a moment almost paralysed with pain. He breathed heavily. He fashioned the wire into a fish hook and then sat, thinking about line. He'd seen what the blacks did with reeds, grasses and hair. He looked at the fiddle strings.
He found himself talking to the seal when he put down the fiddle. His voice needed warming. Sometimes she stayed to listen and sometimes she surfed away mid sentence. A flippered thrust was the last he would see of her until he spoke again. His voice covered for the silence of other creatures. He did not mind if she went. She always came back. Then he told her stories that his mother brought from the home country, stories she carried with her as she carried linen and copper pans. He took the fiddle from its case. He ran his nose along the horse hair, rosin dusting his nostrils. He plucked an open A and listened to it reverberate.
I am a man upon the land
I am a selkie upon the sea
And when I'm far from every strand
My home is Sule Skerry.
She hurled herself out of the water in one jubilant twist, landing on her broad, silky back. "Now, Selkie," he sighed and loosened the pegs of their strings. The instrument fell apart. The ornate bridge flopped uselessly against the body of the fiddle and he put the empty carcass back into its case. He tried to sing again, to keep her around but she tired of his lacerated voice and left.
As the sun tipped toward the mountain, he threaded wire and hook into the water near the channel and caught three skip jack on a gathering tide. She was nowhere to be seen but he knew she was watching. He wrapped the fish in paperbark and bound it with reeds, cooking it in the hot ashes of his fire. He peeled away the steaming bark that was soft as chamois and then the first sliver of silver skin. He eased a strip of white, juicy flesh between his lips.
He slept, warm and full by the fire, dreaming of the breathing inlet.
For two days in a row he fished at dawn and then made forays into the bush upstream. There lay strange little trails that he followed along the riverbank then out of the trees and into the open ridges that folded against the mountain. On the second day, in a secluded copse, he found the remains of a camp; sturdy beehive shaped huts lined with paperbark, each facing a cold fireplace. He wondered about these people and where they were, whether they watched him. They must like this place. He did. Sometimes the bush felt closed in, joined with these folk, muttering against him. He felt a desire to get out and head back down to the open water, where he could see everything. Never turn your back on the sea. He'd turned his back on the bush and he knew that was not wise either. Still, with food in his belly, he was an optimistic man again.
On the third day he woke to see the silky trails of smoke in the pale autumn sky. Fires burned at three points around him, one on the slopes of the mountain overlooking his hut. He waited.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Transportation Trades Department (TTD), AFL-CIO President Greg Regan emphasized that the resurgence of labor unions' power has been very apparent as he addressed the general session Aug. 9, the second day of the SMART Leadership Conference.
It began as the nation coped with the pandemic and then as the Biden administration set its sights toward accomplishing true action on infrastructure.
"The labor movement drove the response," Regan said. "We were the ones who delivered for working people every step of the way."
Among the examples: Investments in the transportation sector through the CARES Act, which put SMART-TD members furloughed by Amtrak back on the job after the pandemic froze the nation's transportation system, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which outlaid a historic level of funding for Amtrak and public transportation, among others.
"This is the type of legislation that every president since Richard Nixon has been trying to accomplish," Regan said. "And it happened last year. That doesn't happen without the strength of the labor movement pushing that legislation.
"This is a rebirth for this country. We have a massive amount of opportunity for infrastructure in this country right here and we cannot skip over that. We might want to go on and move on to the next fight, but we should take a moment to reflect on what a major accomplishment that was."
Regan mentioned specifically the work of the legislative departments of both SMART and the Transportation Division on Capitol Hill.
Now, as national rail contract negotiations near the end of the line set forth by the Railway Labor Act and comment has opened for a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the Federal Railroad Administration to make a minimum two-person rail crew nationwide, transportation labor has a chance to flex its muscles again.
Regan took part, along with many unionized workers from multiple industries July 30 in Galesburg, Ill., as they stood together to draw attention to carriers' treatment of rail workers.
"We are not going to buckle. They are not going to be able to split us," he said. "There is a level of strength and solidarity I see in freight rail right now that is unmatched."
As for getting the Rule of 2 finalized by the Federal Railroad Administration, Regan said he's confident that the public and regulators will recognize that it's a safety issue and non-negotiable, especially as the comment period progresses to its conclusion in late September. "We're not going to back down. We're going to stay together, we're going to fight like hell and we're going to deliver."
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FTA has not yet implemented worker safety provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
WASHINGTON – Today, 20 labor organizations representing transit drivers and other transportation workers urged Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Administrator Nuria Fernandez to immediately implement the safety provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to protect transit workers from assault.
Four months after the passage of the BIL, the FTA has yet to implement these safety provisions. Meanwhile, transit workers continue to face danger on the job.
Assaults against transit workers have long been a concern but dramatically increased during the last three years of the pandemic, as did assaults on other frontline transportation workers like airline and airport workers.
Labor unions representing frontline transit employees have responded to this crisis over the years through legislative and regulatory measures, most recently securing several provisions in the BIL to protect transit workers.
Because of the BIL, the FTA is now statutorily required to collect accurate data on transit workforce assaults, to reform its Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) process to include worker voices and incorporate measures to reduce the risk of assault in every transit system, and to update its national safety plan to address the risk of assault and public health concerns.
The unions wrote: "Our members include bus and rail transit operators, station agents, car cleaners, mechanics and other frontline workers, all of whom are at risk of assault and worse each day they arrive at work. President Biden committed to protecting these workers and that promise was enshrined into law as part of the BIL. Before, and particularly during the COVID19 pandemic, these workers have laid their lives on the line every day to ensure Americans have access to safe, reliable transportation, and we must not turn our backs on them another day."
Signers of the letter include the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO (TTD) and the nation's largest transit unions, including the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers–Transportation Division (SMART-TD), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), and Transportation Communications Union/IAM (TCU).
The letter was also signed by the following unions: Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA), Association of Flight Attendants–CWA (AFA), Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes–IBT (BMWED), Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS), International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB), International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots (IOMM&P), International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), National Conference of Firemen & Oilers, SEIU (NCFO), Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), and Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS).
Read the letter here.
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The AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department, of which the SMART Transportation Division is a proud member, released the following statement on March 1 after President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.
Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, president and secretary-treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issued the below statement in response to President Biden's first State of the Union (SOTU) address to the nation.
"From the passage of the American Rescue Plan to the biggest investment in infrastructure in our nation's history, the first year of the Biden Administration was a capstone year of legislative victories for transportation labor unions and working people.
"Chief among these legislative victories is the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), a once-in-a-generation investment across every sector of our transportation network — and an unprecedented investment in workers.
"We proudly represent 36 labor unions whose members will be put to work during the implementation of this historic legislation, ushering in a new era of manufacturing, construction, and transportation job creation. We applaud President Biden for putting union job creation and worker empowerment at the center of his governing agenda.
"We welcome the progress of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, which recently released a report outlining 70 recommendations to empower workers, including an initiative to increase worker awareness of their federally protected rights to organize and establish a resource center for information on unions and collective bargaining.
"We urge Congress to heed the President's call to pass the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would help workers collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
"We look forward to continuing to work with President Biden and the Administration to create good union jobs, invest in America's transportation infrastructure, and expand collective bargaining for every transportation worker in the nation."
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The SMART Transportation Division joins transportation labor leaders nationwide as we mourn the untimely death of AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department President Larry Willis.
"Brother Willis was a tremendous leader who provided determined guidance, measured action and stood undaunted by the multitude of challenges transportation labor in our country faces now and will continue to face going forward," SMART-TD President Jeremy R. Ferguson said. "Along with the other unions that comprise the TTD, we will miss his leadership, tremendous insight and experience. We are filled with sadness for his family and friends at his tragic loss and mourn along with them."
On Nov. 30, TTD Secretary-Treasurer Greg Regan issued this statement of mourning and remembrance:
"With his wife and daughter by his side, AFL-CIO TTD president Larry Willis, 53, succumbed on Nov. 29 to injuries sustained on November 22 in a tragic biking accident.
AFL-CIO TTD President Larry Willis passed away on Nov. 29.
"We mourn today the shocking loss of a brother and fierce advocate for working people.
"The transportation labor family and the entire workers' rights community lost a leader, activist, mentor, and friend when Larry Willis, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), passed away yesterday.
"For more than 20 years, Larry dedicated his life to the labor movement, working tirelessly to enhance the rights and livelihoods of those who work on the front lines of our transportation system. In addition to serving as president, a position he was elected to in 2017, Larry also served as secretary-treasurer, chief of staff, general counsel, and legislative counsel and representative at TTD. His mastery of complex legal and regulatory issues set the foundation for TTD's policy leadership, and raised the bar for demanding and enforcing worker protections throughout our nation's transportation system.
"During his tenure at TTD, Larry faced some of transportation labor's most daunting challenges. He met those and other crises head on, showing an unwavering dedication to working people and their unions, and a deep-seated desire to help those suffering from circumstances beyond their control. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Larry took on the insurmountable challenge of restoring our transportation industry and balancing the security needs of the country with the due process working people are entitled to, successfully securing protections in our laws that lie at the center of our homeland security regime. During the 2008 financial crisis, he played a pivotal role in shaping the largest economic stimulus package for transportation investments ever passed in the U.S. Even up until the week he left us, Larry continued to push for health care and economic assistance for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and acted as a steady reminder that recovery from this crisis is not possible without the essential functions performed by transportation workers.
"Larry's advocacy style was straightforward and effective: forge meaningful relationships with leaders at all levels of government and across the political spectrum, build power through unity and find ways to work together to lift up all transportation workers. This approach is perhaps best exemplified in the 2018 FAA Reauthorization bill. Under a Republican-controlled Congress and White House, Larry's leadership led transportation labor to endorse one of the most pro-labor FAA reauthorization bills in U.S. history.
"Millions of people have had their lives improved because of the work Larry did, yet most of those people will never know Larry's name. For Larry, that didn't matter. He was not motivated by fame or fortune – his end goal was always about doing the most good for the greatest number of people. Though his time with us has been cut short, Larry's legacy will live on in the legislation he helped shape, the policy makers he reached through thoughtful, sophisticated arguments, the colleagues and staff he influenced and mentored, and the working people he dedicated his life to.
"Larry graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Political Science and earned a J.D. from the John Marshall Law School. He was an active member of the D.C. Bar. He loved Camp Echo, biking, traveling with his wife, cheering on his daughter at swim competitions, and playing tennis with his father. Larry is survived by his loving wife, Amy, and beloved daughter, Samantha."
Click here for additional details about Larry's life in this story from the Washington Post.
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Amtrak's financial situation and the freight rail industry's continued use of Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) practices were the focus of a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing Oct. 21.
Amtrak President and CEO William Flynn repeated his plea for almost $5 billion in emergency funding to help the nation's passenger carrier weather the continued downturn in ridership caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The carrier has made drastic long-distance service cuts, going from daily to three trips per week on many routes. Furloughs for almost 2,000 Amtrak employees are scheduled to take effect in November.
"Virtually all of the CARES Act money has been spent," Flynn told the committee. "These workforce adjustments are essential with current financial funding."
A number of legislative actions, including the HEROES Act and the INVEST in America Act, while passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, have been stalled by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the GOP-controlled Senate. The emergency funding provided by such legislation would help the carrier rebound, Flynn said.
"Once the pandemic eases, Amtrak plans to grow," he said.
A second panel featured a discussion of PSR.
Rudy Gordon, CEO of the National Grain and Feed Association, expressed concerns from a shipper perspective about the redeployment of furloughed railroad workers, saying that he fears delays in service and shipments on the part of rail carriers when the economy rebounds.
PSR has caused "a tipping point" at the expense of customer service, Gordon said, and said that if rail service erodes further at the expense of the carriers obtaining lower operating ratios (ORs) that the Surface Transportation Board should intervene.
Larry Willis, president of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), of which the SMART Transportation Division is a member, offered written testimony concerning PSR.
"Across the sector, the pandemic continues to wreak havoc, threatening both the health and livelihoods of employees," Willis stated. "At the same time, freight railroads, at the insistence of Wall Street investors and hedge fund managers, have pursued operating practices that undermine basic tenets of rail safety, ask frontline workers to do more with less, and threaten the reliable and efficient customer service that should be the hallmark of this industry."
The lone labor representative invited to testify in person was Dennis Pierce, president of the Teamsters Rail Conference.
Other industry stakeholders appearing were:
Paul Tuss, executive director, Bear Paw Developing Corporation and Member, Montana Economic Developers Association
Frank Chirumbole, vice president global supply chain, Olin Corporation on behalf of American Chemistry Council
Kent Fountain, chairman, National Cotton Council
Ian Jefferies, president and chief executive officer, Association of American Railroads
Watch the hearing by following this link.
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Idaho transgender prisoner receives first presurgical treatment; case's future in limbo
By TOMMY SIMMONS Idaho Press
BOISE — A transgender Idaho inmate housed in a men's prison last week received her first treatment in preparation for gender confirmation surgery, as ordered by a federal court, even as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is still deciding whether to grant the case another hearing.
It's another step toward the actual surgery for Adree Edmo, 32, a male-to-female transgender woman previously from Bannock County whose prison term isn't up until 2021.
Edmo pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy in 2011, according to court records. Prison doctors in 2012 diagnosed her with gender dysphoria, a condition in which the dissonance between a person's gender at birth and the gender with which they identify is significant, distressing and hurtful.
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In court in 2018, Edmo testified she cuts herself when the dysphoria is especially bad and has tried to castrate herself twice in prison. She has attempted suicide more than once in her lifetime, according to court documents. Gender confirmation surgery is an accepted treatment for extreme cases of gender dysphoria, but Edmo's doctors in prison denied her request for surgery.
In 2017, she sued the Idaho Department of Correction and Corizon Health, its health care provider, as a result of their decision. In December, U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill ordered the two entities to provide the surgery within six months.
In response, those entities appealed the case to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which, in August, also ruled Edmo should receive the surgery. Since the 9th Circuit Court's decision, the case has largely been on hold as attorneys filed paperwork trying to work out specific details. In October, the 9th Circuit Court allowed Winmill to order Edmo must receive treatments in preparation for the surgery, even though the surgery itself is still legally in question. At a court hearing last month, Winmill ordered Edmo must receive the first presurgical procedure — a laser hair removal treatment — by Nov. 26. Deborah Ferguson, one of the attorneys representing Edmo in the case, confirmed to the Idaho Press that Edmo received the treatment that day.
After the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed down its decision in August, attorneys representing the Idaho Department of Correction and Corizon Health filed a motion for another hearing. They asked for an en banc hearing, Ferguson said — which means the case would be heard by a panel of 11 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges, instead of simply the three who made the original decision. Ferguson said she believed attorneys filed that request in early September.
The court has not yet made a decision on whether it will hear the case en banc. When the court decides to grant an en banc hearing, judges write an explanation of their decision to do so. While Ferguson said she did not know the reason for the delay in a decision, she said it might be caused by a judge working on a dissenting opinion to the court's opinion as a whole.
Meanwhile, there is also nothing stopping the department and Corizon from asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case as well, a move Gov. Brad Little previously said he would consider. Ferguson said parties may file for an en banc hearing and also ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case at the same time. However, she said, the department and Corizon have not yet filed the necessary writ of certiorari to take the case to the nation's highest court.
Meanwhile, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford recently said the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' August decision in Edmo's case means Nevada would also have to comply with orders to provide gender confirmation surgery to transgender inmates, the Associated Press reported Nov. 26. The court's decision technically applies to all states within the circuit, Ford said, which includes Nevada.
However, Ford also said he would be watching to see if Edmo's case does go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"We will take a look at the timing on this for statutory purposes to see if this is going to be a settled issue in our jurisdiction for an extended period of time, or potentially be overturned by June of next year," Ford said.
Circuit courts are split on the issue, National Public Radio reported in August, at the time of the decision from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Both the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled against people in prison who have filed lawsuits seeking gender confirmation surgery, according to NPR.
As a rule, the U.S. Supreme Court is more likely to hear cases involving issues about which circuit courts are divided.
For now, though, Ferguson said there is no time limit on when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has to decide whether to hear Edmo's case en banc. Attorneys are now waiting on that decision.
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Angi Aramburu (AFAA Group Fitness, Stroller Strides, Fit4Baby), the founder of Go Fetch Run, became step-mom to a little dog through marriage. As you may know, some dogs tend to be one-person dogs. Chiquita was not nice to Angi. However, Angi found herself feeling guilty every time she walked out the door to run or go to the gym without taking the little ankle-biter. So, as the human in the relationship, she felt it was her responsibility to mend fences and make friends. She began taking Chiquita on runs in the park and found that the dog's behavior improved. At the same time, Angi was also teaching a stroller-based workout in the park with moms and babies. Then it clicked! Why not work out with your dog? They're always willing, and let's face it, many city dogs don't get the amount of exercise they really need, which can lead to behavioral problems, obesity, and even depression.
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Q: Unhandled exception at 0x5DF9CCC8 when i run this code everything goes fine when writing , but when i press 2 to read it goes well and read everything just fine but when it it finishes reading the file (show function) it pops up a problem says " Unhandled exception at 0x5DF9CCC8 " with break , continue options .
from my searching i think the problem comes from a pointer points to Null , but i don't know how to resolve it .
here is the code
class person{
public :
string name;
int id ;
int age ;
void person :: show();
void person :: add_menue();
void person :: insert_data();
void person :: show_data();
};
person personobject;
void person :: add_menue()
{
cout << "Please Enter Name ID Age :" << endl;
cin >> name >> id >> age ;
}
ofstream file;
void person::show()
{
cout<<"Age => "<<age<<endl;
cout<<"Name => "<<name<<endl;
cout<<"ID => "<<id<<endl;
}
void person :: insert_data()
{
ofstream file;
file.open("binary.dat",ios::app| ios::binary);
personobject.add_menue();
file.write((char*)&personobject, sizeof(personobject));
file.close();
}
void person :: show_data()
{
ifstream file;
file.open("binary.dat",ios::in| ios::binary);
if(!file)
{
cout<<"File not Found";
}
else
{
file.read((char*)&personobject, sizeof(personobject));
while(!file.eof())
{
personobject.show();
cout<<"Press Any Key....For Next Record"<<endl;
getchar();
file.read((char*)&personobject, sizeof(personobject));
}
}
file.close();
}
void main ()
{
int choice;
cout << "1 - to write \n2 - to read" << endl;
cin >> choice;
if (choice==1)
{
person f;
f.insert_data();
}
if (choice==2)
{
person a;
a.show_data();
system ("pause");
}
}
A: Because you are using a string object instead of a plain character array, you can't just type cast the whole class to a char* and write it to the file (which in itself is a poor way of doing it. What if you changed around the order of the parameters and tried loading an older file?).
In your insert_data function, write each variable individually instead of casting the entire class. You could write the age and id first and you know that would take up 8 bytes, so whatever is remaining is the size of the name which can be loaded back into the string object in your read_data function.
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Q: Back and Rollback Script for a File Transfer I looking for a good solution to backup and rollback a folder using the Windows(XP/Vista/7) OS.
As an example, say, I have a folder, called "\SOMEOTHERPC\Destination" (that contains files and subfolders). I wish to take a back up of this folder to my local disk. Then, say I was to edit or delete some of the content of this "\SOMEOTHERPC\Destination" folder and the afterwards rollback the folder to its previous state.
What's the best way to go about this. I am thinking of writing a PowerShell script? Perhaps there is a better way. Any suggestions appreciated?
Thanks.
A: RoboCopy seems to do the trick requiring just a couple of lines of script.
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FOF Book Club: The Damar Series
For January's book club, we read The Damar series by Robin McKinley. Here's what I thought of each book!
The Hero and the Crown
pub Oct 1984
by Greenwillow Books
After reading The Hero and Crown, it's easy to see why Robin McKinley is one of those classic writers that every fantasy lover would appreciate. It's a timeless story filled with a single girl's determination to surpass the odds, adventure and surprisingly, laughter! Aerin has grown up with the knowledge that the kingdom believes her mother bewitched the king into marrying her with the hopes to having a son who would ruled Damar and died when she realized she had borne Aerin, a daughter, instead. Aerin has never felt like a true princess but instead of letting that hold her back, she fights to find her place and prove her worth. She does this in ways that made me admire her, root for her and laugh at her antics. Because even though she didn't know it, she did have a greater destiny than she could've imagined. And in case you were wondering, there is romance too! Even though it plays an important role and I totally shipped the guy, I loved that it never once felt like a primary part of Aerin's story. It was all about Aerin's journey to becoming a heroine. Overall, I was impressed by the writing, the characters and how quickly I felt invested in the book. It made me doubly excited for reading The Blue Sword.
The Blue Sword
Chalk it up to my reading mood or my really high expectations, but The Blue Sword fell very short for me. Don't get me wrong, I really liked the story itself! It's hard not to because like its predecessor, it follows the classic fantasy tale of a young woman's journey to becoming a heroine in her own right. Harry Crewe is at a standstill in her life. Her father has passed away and now she's living in Damar with her brother and family friends of theirs. She starts to make a life for herself but there's a clear restlessness about her. Her life changes when Corlath, the king of the magical and secretive Hillfolk kidnaps her so she can become a rider in his army. He has his reasons why (which are known to the reader and not Harry) but everything stems from his magic and what he senses in her. My main problem with the book was how the story was told overall. It was just really slow throughout, things kept happening (or new people introduced) with little to no context and I never felt as if I understood Harry. She seemed very unemotional to me at times. Like, she was kidnapped in the middle of the night and barely reacted. And there were important relationships in the book that I thought needed a little more TLC for me to feel invested (except the one she had with her mentor; loved that!). I really wanted to be swept away by The Blue Sword after reading The Hero and The Crown but unfortunately for me, that wasn't the case.
Book Club Questions
For every series we read, we'll be answering the same three questions at the end of our mini-reviews.
Favorite book | The Hero and the Crown
Favorite character | Definitely Aerin! She evoked so much emotion in me and I connected to her entire journey.
Would you read more from this author? | I would! She clearly has a talent for fantasy and writing female heroines so I'd love to read more from her.
For those of you who read the series with us,
what did you think?
Also, make sure to check out Alexa's thoughts on the series!
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Alexa S. February 8, 2016 at 10:03 AM
I really enjoyed both of these Robin McKinley novels! Her writing style is one that simply works for me, and I LOVE when fantasies feature kickass main characters (and romances that I can ship). I think I really connected to the fact that both stories are about females who are on a transitional journey, one that's shaped by their own choices and desires even as destiny also plays a part. It's so fascinating to read about that!
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Mets' Marcum says cortisone shot no big deal
By Mike Puma
PORT ST. LUCIE — Shaun Marcum's spring-training drill: Get in shape, pitch, receive cortisone shot.
The Mets right-hander said there is no cause for alarm concerning the cortisone shot he received in his right shoulder on Tuesday, because it's something he's done the last 2-3 spring trainings.
"I almost feel like it's part of my spring training routine," Marcum said Thursday. "But I would rather miss the time here than during the season."
Marcum, who isn't scheduled to pitch again until next week, indicated he's dealt with tightness in the shoulder – the Mets are calling it an "impingement" – and wasn't pleased with his drop in velocity during his last start. He then talked the Mets into letting him have the cortisone shot during the team's off day on Tuesday. Marcum also received an MRI exam, which he says revealed no structural damage.
"I was in New York looking for places to live, so it made sense to see Dr. [David] Altchek and get everything checked out," Marcum said. "It's precautionary."
Marcum missed three weeks of spring training last year with the Brewers because of shoulder tightness.
"Pretty much the same issue," Marcum said. "I don't know how many weeks I missed last year, but I would rather catch it now and get it done and not miss any time."
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Virginia Beach wetlands gain ground in Lynnhaven River restoration efforts
Wetlands of Thalia Creek in Virginia Beach, Virginia, are being sprayed and seeing construction as part of the Lynnhaven River Basin Ecosystem Restoration Project, April 20, 2021. The wetlands compose one of three distinct parts of the multiplex, multiphase and symbiotic project to restore this critical Chesapeake Bay tributary and is hosted by the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach City Public School and the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (U.S. Army video by Andria Allmond)
Phase II Oyster Reef Progress: Ecosystem Restoration
Civil Engineer Nick Ingold explains developments in the planning process of the proposed Phase II reef construction for the Broad Bay area in Virginia Beach, VA. This reef will comes as part of the Lynnhaven River Basin Ecosystem Restoration Project, which aims to improve the overall health of the Lynnhaven River and the Chesapeake Bay through natural habitat restoration. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Virginia Beach are working together to improve the wildlife diversity and water quality of our local tributaries in the help ensure that they remain safe for fishing and recreation in the many years to come.
Wildlife Returns to Thalia Creek: Progress
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and Thalia Creek is one of more than one-hundred thousand creeks and rivers that flow into it. In attempts to decrease the impact of urbanization and restore what is a natural habitat to an abundance of wildlife, the City of Virginia Beach and Va. Beach Public Schools Partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in what is known as the Lynnhaven River Basin Ecosystem Restoration Project. This video explains the goals of the project and how the return of certain species to the area after restoration indicates improved conditions for everyone that enjoys what this watershed has to offer.
Norfolk District, City of Virginia Beach, public schools partner for STEM lab, Lynnhaven River health
Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander Col. Brian Hallberg along with City of Virginia Beach and Virginia Beach City Public Schools officials celebrate the opening of Princess Anne High School's outdoor living laboratory near Thalia Creek, Virginia, Sept. 21, 2021. The event displayed Lynnhaven River Basin Ecosystem Restoration Project partnership, aimed at restoring the Lynnhaven River back to its historic levels of health by addressing reef, wetlands and submerged aquatic vegetation.
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Get Free Wings from Hooters on Valentine's Day!
Get Free Wings from Hooters on Valentine's Day!
If you have someone to spend Valentine's Day with, then February 14th is a day filled with smiles, love and laughter. If you don't have someone to spend it with, it could be just another day for you or a day that your stuck thinking about your ex. Boo! Hooters has a way for you to get over your ex and have some awesome food on Valentine's Day! It's called the "Shred 'Em & Forget 'Em" even and it's pretty easy to get involved.
Just head over to Hooters' website, and pick how you wanna shred your ex's picture. You have the chose of virtually shredding your ex's picture online, or bringing it into a Hooters location (by the way, there's one right in the Mercer Mall in Lawrenceville). So whichever way to choose to shred, afterwards you'll receive 10 boneless wings for free, but you do need to buy 10 regular wings first.
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Sorry, but free trade agreements are duds, no matter how 'nuanced'
Bilateral free trade agreements like the one negotiated with Japan deliver few benefits. The only worthwhile trade reform is unilateral tariff reductions. Don't hold your breath for that.
Remember the Australia-US free trade agreement? That FTA obsessed the political class in Canberra for much of 2004, with the Howard government and News Corporation outlets desperate to use it to wedge Labor leader Mark Latham, and considerable focus on how much benefit it delivered to Australian farmers.
Back in 2010, to the considerable dismay of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Productivity Commission looked at the value of bilateral FTAs, including the AUSFTA (we'll use the term "free trade agreement", however much it's a misnomer). Despite extensive work of its own, and consideration of the work of economists in Australia and internationally, the PC was unable to find anything beyond potential "small" benefits from FTAs, albeit offset by "material" negotiating costs to government. It concluded about trade in goods:
"Despite the potential for increased bilateral trade flows, once account is taken of the offsetting effects of trade creation and trade diversion and the resource allocation effects associated with changes in trade, the resulting changes in economic activity and income are likely to be small."
And there had been "limited success" in using opportunities for freer trade in services under AUSFTA, it found. Benefits from liberalisation of investment rules had been "modest". Other outcomes in areas like regulation had been "mixed" — indeed, the intellectual property components of the AUSFTA was a net cost to Australia. The PC found:
"The changes following the AUSFTA have make it less likely that an appropriate balance between supplier and user interests prevails in Australia's intellectual property system."
Of course, it was too early to tell if some benefits would accrue from the AUSFTA — we're still, 10 years in, another eight years away from the end of US tariffs for Australian beef. US negotiators ensured that, basically, half a generation of US beef farmers would die before they had to compete with Australian beef.
Still, the AUSFTA is a splendid example of the howling gulf between political journalists, who see FTAs, particularly those announced with elaborate theatre and plenty of colour and movement in foreign capitals, as significant events, and economists, who see little of interest in what at best are trade diversion agreements.
And ultimately the real issue about FTAs isn't whether Australia got a "good deal" or not, or how long the Japanese take to reduce their beef tariffs. As the PC patiently explained in its report, the best trade reform one can undertake is unilateral — dump your own tariffs regardless of what other countries do, because the benefits of reducing tariffs are mainly domestic, rather than flowing to foreign exporters …
It also dismisses what it calls the "bargaining coin" theory, that we should hold off on tariff reductions until we can negotiate their reduction in exchange for other countries reducing theirs, noting that simply delays giving ourselves the benefits of unilateral tariff reductions. "Free trade agreements" are basically a deal to stop punching yourself in the face so much if the other guy agrees to hit himself less.
At least the FTA with Japan will include removal of the remaining tariffs on new motor vehicles from Japan, although manufacturers are already hemming and hawing about passing on the cut to consumers. Seemingly left intact, however, is the absurd punitive tariff on imported second-hand cars, which continues to punish Australian consumers by depriving us of the sort of second-hand import market that New Zealand consumers enjoy.
And free trade agreements are often sold by both governments and the political media as a great example of the close relationship between the respective leaders. The AUSFTA was hailed at the time as a political masterstroke by John Howard and a demonstration of his close relationship with George W. Bush, forged in the heat of the "war on terror" and the invasion of Iraq. So, too, with this one: political journalists have overnight been regaling us with stories of how the two conservative prime ministers, Abbott and Abe, "nuanced" the final details over a "private dinner", although in the same breath they report the deal had been struck before the leaders sat down to their sushi.
These days the AUSFTA is barely remembered, except as an example of the need to avoid bowing to US demands on intellectual property. The Japan-Australia deal will go the same way. As the Productivity Commission shows, if we want to have a really good FTA, we should get busy negotiating one with ourselves.
Politics editor @BernardKeane
Bernard Keane is Crikey's political editor. Before that he was Crikey's Canberra press gallery correspondent, covering politics, national security and economics.
Australia Japan Free Trade Agreement
Sucking up to Trump brought in viewers but not share value for Murdoch's Fox
Glenn Dyer
klewso
Like a bunch of feathers tied to a piece of string, for a cat, aren't they? …. Or "Honours"?
Chris Hartwell
Sooo … I should have held off on my new mitsubishi for just a little longer? Bugger. #ThanksAbbott
One positive aspect of AUSFTA was that it became easier for Australian researchers to go and work in the US. Unfortunately, this has also worked out to be more to the US' advantage than Australia's …
MJPC
BK, please don't take away Citizen Abbott's moment of glory, when he comes back there still Arthur up in NSW doing the rounds of ICAC trials and PUP Senators about the spoil his hoped for dream run in the Senate come July.
I am excited to learn I will be able to buy a new Jap car for $1500 less, good for the economy and environment I am certain. Shame it will be as a result of the destruction of the Australian auto industry; the auto workers can extend their redundancies that much more now.
The Pav
The cargo cult mentality of the LNP led by dictator Abbott has resulted in a PUP,
Calling this a free trade agreement is the same as calling Richmond a football team.
Free Trade means Free Trade it isn't that complicated but in this case a budget in alleged crisis takes a further hit just in case that maybe some time in the future the sons of sons of sons of cattle farmers may get to shift a feww extra steaks.
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In the coming months, we will profile the ministries, journeys and hopes of some of the congregations which are part of the Scottish Anglican Network. We begin with the courageous congregation in Harris in the Western Isles.
We left the Scottish Episcopal Church in November 2017 and are enjoying our new freedom under Bishop Andy Lines, writes Rev Daniel Davies. We are proud to stand with the other churches of the Scottish Anglican Network, which we joined at its beginning in 2005 as a voice for the faithful. It's now a lifeboat for bereft Anglicans.
Rev Daniel Davies and the vestry of Christ Church, Harris, before leaving the Scottish Episcopal Church.
We are a small church on a small island with a population of two thousand. Being small it's been easy for us to move quickly, but it has meant sacrifices.
When I came twenty years ago it was a house church. We bought land, built a church with vestry, kitchen and toilet, equipped it with hand-made furniture and artifacts, much of it donated, including a superb silver chalice and paten. We also built up bank account of some £30,000. I am a self-supporting priest!
In November we had to walk away from it all. We are now starting again, but we have no regrets. The Church is not about money, possessions or security, it's about the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We can't serve two masters. There can be real joy and freedom in letting go.
A house on the High Street in the middle of Tarbert has been offered to us. It's the port, main settlement and tourist hub. We have set up the church in a large high-ceilinged room which was once a shop with its own front door, now blocked off. It seats twenty and is fully equipped. The side wall has double doors opening to another room that can seat more. The is also a double garage that could one day be converted into a purpose-built church seating thirty-five. It certainly seems that as one door closes another opens, moving to this new site from our previous rather remote location seems to have been a blessing.
We have enjoyed great support from our Presbyterian and Roman Catholic friends, and at Christmas we were joined by members of the Free Church. We were packed out. With Easter fast approaching we will see our holiday congregation as families with second homes return, along with tourists.
However, this brings the need to reach out to our communities and signal our presence. We need a logo and have devised one inspired by the Byzantine icon of the Resurrection in the ancient Chora church outside Constantinople. The logo (like the icon) carries the colours of the Scottish flag, yet also in the symbolism of the original speaks of Jesus Christ; risen, ascended, glorified. These two elements, united in one, proclaims this as a faith of and for Scotland. We offer it as a provisional emblem for use here, until a wider gathering of our churches, at a future date can choose its own. We in Harris are looking forward to that day.
• Holy Communion is held at 11 am on Sundays at Allan Cottage, 1 Main Street, Tarbert, Isle Of Harris HS3 3DJ. If you would like to support the ministry on Harris or get in touch with the congregation, please contact us. | {
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Q: PrioirtyBlockingQueue in Multithread application Java I have seen a very nice explanation by "thedarkpassenger" of how to implement PrioirtyQueue in multithread application however following only had one runnable class
What if we have to implement multiple Runnable classes ?
How to modify class MyFutureTask and main to accommodate multiple Runnable classes ?
Driver class : This class creates an executor which accepts tasks and later submits them for execution. Here we create two tasks one with LOW priority and the other with HIGH priority. Here we tell the executor to run a MAX of 1 threads and use the PriorityBlockingQueue.
public static void main(String[] args) {
/*
Minimum number of threads that must be running : 0
Maximium number of threads that can be created : 1
If a thread is idle, then the minimum time to keep it alive : 1000
Which queue to use : PriorityBlockingQueue
*/
PriorityBlockingQueue queue = new PriorityBlockingQueue();
ThreadPoolExecutor executor = new ThreadPoolExecutor(0,1,
1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS,queue);
MyTask task = new MyTask(Priority.LOW,"Low");
executor.execute(new MyFutureTask(task));
task = new MyTask(Priority.HIGH,"High");
executor.execute(new MyFutureTask(task));
}
MyTask class : MyTask implements Runnable and accepts priority as an argument in the constructor. When this task runs, it prints a message and then puts the thread to sleep for 1 second.
public class MyTask implements Runnable {
public int getPriority() {
return priority.getValue();
}
private Priority priority;
public String getName() {
return name;
}
private String name;
public MyTask(Priority priority,String name){
this.priority = priority;
this.name = name;
}
@Override
public void run() {
System.out.println("The following Runnable is getting executed "+getName());
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
MyFutureTask class : Since we are using PriorityBlocingQueue for holding our tasks, our tasks must be wrapped inside FutureTask and our implementation of FutureTask must implement Comparable interface. The Comparable interface compares the priority of 2 different tasks and submits the task with the highest priority for execution.
public class MyFutureTask extends FutureTask<MyFutureTask>
implements Comparable<MyFutureTask> {
private MyTask task = null;
public MyFutureTask(MyTask task){
super(task,null);
this.task = task;
}
@Override
public int compareTo(MyFutureTask another) {
return task.getPriority() - another.task.getPriority();
}
}
Priority class : Self explanatory Priority class.
public enum Priority {
HIGHEST(0),
HIGH(1),
MEDIUM(2),
LOW(3),
LOWEST(4);
int value;
Priority(int val) {
this.value = val;
}
public int getValue(){
return value;
}
}
Now when we run this example, we get the following output
The following Runnable is getting executed High
The following Runnable is getting executed Low
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Go ahead and let this passage from a wonderful piece on Galileo by Adam Gropnik in The New Yorker blow your mind.
What would Shakespeare's Galileo have been, one wonders, had he ever written him? Well, in a sense, he had written him, as Falstaff, the man of appetite and wit who sees through the game of honor and fidelity. Galileo's myth is not unlike the fat knight's, the story of a medieval ethic of courage and honor supplanted by the modern one of cunning, wit, and self-knowledge. Martyrdom is the test of faith, but the test of truth is truth. Once the book was published, who cared what transparent lies you had to tell to save your life? The best reason we have to believe in miracles is the miracle that people are prepared to die for them. But the best reason that we have to believe in the moons of Jupiter is that no one has to be prepared to die for them in order for them to be real.
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Singing the blues all night can't set you free.
Their own sad, dusty, difficult stories.
The one thing you need most: forgiving grace.
What is an Ottava Rima?
Into mire: to rise, fighting.
That slows and beckons with its clasp?
That speeds the feet alighting.
Something's as white as snow.
The glare off it can blind.
Clear and white as snow.
from people who know something.
who can keep a secret?
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Will the Third Palestinian Intifada Replicate the First?
Published by admin at 11:10 am under Articles,Palestinian politics
By Daoud Kuttab
Israeli security officials have been unable to clearly identify what is happening in the occupied state of Palestine, as the lack of a credible peace process leaves a big vacuum.
Early in January, Colonel Yaniv Alaluf told soldiers the third Intifada has already begun. His statement, which was reproduced in Arab and Israeli media, was intended to reflect the state of uneasiness and unrest the Palestinians are feeling as the window of hope and opportunity quickly shuts down for the young Palestinian population.
While Alaluf's statement might not be reflected in any major way in the level of violence in the occupied West Bank, it could be true in ways that the Israeli commander probably never realized.
As the level of Palestinian-Israeli security cooperation continues to produce a record number of relatively quiet days in occupied Palestine, a totally different form of Intifada is seeing the light of day. And the Israelis are clearly unequipped and totally unready for it.
There are more and more signs that a possible third Intifada will not look anything like the Al Aqsa Intifada, in 2000, but more like the initial 1987 protests that gave the world the name Intifada.
This week's creative and disciplined actions by young and unaffiliated Palestinian men and womenresemble very much the creativity and experimentation that had been the hallmark of the first Intifada.
Using a novel by Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, these young Palestinians put to shame the self-declared leaders of Palestine liberation and resistance.
Bab Al Shams, which has become the new name of a village, as well as a symbol of the new dawn, caught both Palestinian and Israeli leaders off guard.
While PLO leaders as well as the Palestinian prime minister rushed to embrace the new actions, the Israelis, as usual, used the same violent tactics to put down what is a totally nonviolent form of protest.
The difference is that the images were instantly circulated around the world, giving the hashtag Bab Al Shams the honor of being among the top 10 trending globally.
And just to prove that this is not a one-time aberration, the same young people were able to return to their newly created village of Bab Al Shams, passing the Israeli checkpoint by pretending to be part of a joyous Palestinian wedding celebration.
A real groom and bride were appropriately dressed, cameras were filming and the procession passed the checkpoint only to reveal their real purpose and declare, again, that Palestinians are setting up their own village on their own land, despite the Oslo classifications and Israeli army brutality.
Palestinians are naturally hoping that this newly exhibited courage will be contagious.
And, in fact, various groups, including classical actions like Fatah, declared that they plan to create tens, if not hundreds, of similar villages.
Israel will have a much harder time dealing with this new/old form of protest. While Palestinians were able to produce impressive results during their first Intifada because of its nonviolent nature, the opportunities to accelerate this visibility today with media communication so readily available are much wider.
Nonviolent actions require discipline and persistence. It needs local, regional and international coalitions, and it succeeds when an oppressor claims to be liberal and tolerant, and accepts peaceful protests.
Palestinians can check "yes" all these requirements, and can have much more powerful results as long as they refuse to be pulled into the Israeli political and security game.
By playing on their turf and according to their strengths, these Palestinian activists have shown that they can help change the rules of the game and, in the process, attract others to follow their leadership rather than the other way around.
Fateh and Hamas can talk as much as they want in fancy Cairo hotels, but as in all conflicts, the real game is played on the battleground and not at hotel-based press conferences.
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namespace {
void SimpleHostMessageHandler(
const std::string& target_message_type,
const std::string& target_message_data,
const base::Closure& done_closure,
bool* message_received,
const remoting::protocol::ExtensionMessage& message) {
if (message.type() == target_message_type &&
message.data() == target_message_data) {
*message_received = true;
done_closure.Run();
}
}
} // namespace
namespace remoting {
namespace test {
AppRemotingConnectedClientFixture::AppRemotingConnectedClientFixture()
: application_details_(
AppRemotingSharedData->GetDetailsFromAppName(GetParam())),
timer_(new base::Timer(true, false)) {
}
AppRemotingConnectedClientFixture::~AppRemotingConnectedClientFixture() {
}
void AppRemotingConnectedClientFixture::SetUp() {
connection_helper_.reset(
new AppRemotingConnectionHelper(application_details_));
connection_helper_->Initialize();
if (!connection_helper_->StartConnection()) {
LOG(ERROR) << "Remote host connection could not be established.";
FAIL();
}
}
void AppRemotingConnectedClientFixture::TearDown() {
connection_helper_.reset();
}
bool AppRemotingConnectedClientFixture::VerifyResponseForSimpleHostMessage(
const std::string& message_request_title,
const std::string& message_response_title,
const std::string& message_payload,
const base::TimeDelta& max_wait_time) {
DCHECK(thread_checker_.CalledOnValidThread());
bool message_received = false;
DCHECK(!run_loop_ || !run_loop_->running());
run_loop_.reset(new base::RunLoop());
HostMessageReceivedCallback host_message_received_callback_ =
base::Bind(&SimpleHostMessageHandler, message_response_title,
message_payload, run_loop_->QuitClosure(), &message_received);
connection_helper_->SetHostMessageReceivedCallback(
host_message_received_callback_);
protocol::ExtensionMessage message;
message.set_type(message_request_title);
message.set_data(message_payload);
connection_helper_->host_stub()->DeliverClientMessage(message);
DCHECK(!timer_->IsRunning());
timer_->Start(FROM_HERE, max_wait_time, run_loop_->QuitClosure());
run_loop_->Run();
timer_->Stop();
connection_helper_->ResetHostMessageReceivedCallback();
return message_received;
}
} // namespace test
} // namespace remoting
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Kurt Russell To Play Peter Quill's Father In Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2
By Gem Seddon @Gem_Seddon 4 years ago
Fresh off the snowy impasses of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell looks to be headed into another world – literally. The Wrap reports that Russell is being eyed to tackle the role of Peter Quill's father in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.
The site's sources state that Marvel has yet to offer him a deal, which isn't a surprise considering that Russell has yet to read a script. However, meetings are due to take place soon and should everything play out, it's likely that Marvel will issue an official press release. Apparently, he's director James Gunn's first choice for the part: another strong indicator that Peter Quill's papa has at last been located.
Russell is the second A-lister connected to the part, after Matthew McConaughey was offered the role and turned it down earlier this year. This led Gunn and co. to rethink their casting strategies. Amid all of that, several rumors hit the web revealing the true identity of Quill's father which Gunn himself later denied. We know that it won't be the same character from the Marvel comics continuity, and is instead a new figure.
As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to attract a wealth of prestige talent, Russell would surely be a fantastic addition to the madcap world of the Guardians. As always, we'll keep you posted with any confirmations from the studio when they land.
Starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel and newcomer Pom Klementieff, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 opens on May 5, 2017.
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Jahar Dasgupta, (born 31 May 1942) is a contemporary painter from India. He was born in Jamshedpur, India.
Early life and education
Jahar Dasgupta's childhood spent in Jamshedpur where at the small age he used to draw elephants, dogs, trees on the floor. Later their family moved to Dhanbad due to his father Mr. Narendranath Dasgupta who worked in TISCO in an executive post left the job and joined Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research institute as a scientist. At the age of 9 he draw Stalin face and Ma Sarada Devi on the wall. This took the attention of his parents and they decided to send him in some art school. In 1960 he was admitted to Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, the place of Rabindranath Tagore. That was a turning point in his life. In Kala Bhavana, he took his primary lessons under mentors like Nand Lal Bose, Ramkinkar Baiz and Benode Behari Mukherjee. In 1964, he obtained diploma from Kala Bhavana.
His first job was an art teacher in a non Bengali school in North Calcutta where he served for many years. In his struggling time, he also took many art tuitions to run his family. Simultaneously he continued to participate art shows regularly.
Career
Dasgupta had developed his individual style in paintings and drawings. Previously he has painted in oil medium and now he mainly works in ink, pastel and acrylic colour.
His first solo exhibition organised in Birla Academy. His others solo exhibitions took place in Laxmana Art Gallery, Lalit Kala Academy, Chitrakoot, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. He exhibited his first solo in abroad in 2004 at Gallery Hansmania (Norway) and later at Club Bangladesh (Sweden). Dasgupta also participated many group exhibitions throughout in India and abroad. Group shows like Aakriti Art Gallery, Birla Academy, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, Jehangir Art Gallery, AIFACS, Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Nehru Centre, Lokayata Art Gallery, Chemould Art Gallery, Mulk Raj Anand Centre and many other places. His paintings exhibited in South Korea, London, Paris and Canada. He was invited at NABC in 2010 hosted by Kallol a non-profit socio-cultural organization of Bengalis, New Jersey. After that his last solo exhibition was organised by Tagore Society at 60,000 square metres (6.0 ha) performing arts center located in Marina Bay popularly known Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay Singapore in the year 2011.
1969–1971
In 1969, a few kind souls, total seven ex-students of Santiniketan like Jahar and Baroda Art College students came together to form a group named Painters' Orchestra, now one of the oldest artist groups in India. Since that time Jahar Dasgupta is regular participant in the group shows of this organisation and also went for few solos as well. His first solo exhibition was organised in Birla Art and Culture Kolkata, West Bengal. He developed his own style of expression since the beginning of 1970-s after passing through a period of apprenticeship during 1960-s. In this sense he may be categorised as an artist of 1970-s.
1971–1980
End of 1960s and beginning of 1970s was a period of political turmoil. The left movement in the fold of CPI(ML) rose to its peak ushering in deaths and murders in a devastating measure. The Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 also created great commotion. All creative persons were somehow or other affected by these incidents. All these social upheavals had great impact on his creative self. In early phase his paintings often revealed reality in its crudest form. An acrylic canvas of 1994 titled 'Scrap' shows clusters of dilapidated human bodies tied together are being pulled up from a crate by a crane.
1981–1999
Jahar never tried being repetitive with one fixed subject. He explored with various subjects and style in different forms in respective times. In one side 'End of an Era', 'Genocide', 'Waiting for Godo', 'Dark side of Civilization', Series of 'Confrontation', 'Shelter' are the reflection of anger and crude rebellion. On the other side through 'Mermaid' series, 'Fall of Radhika' series, 'Eternal Love' series, he touch the chord of beauty ingrained in life. His paintings at that time swing between the two aspects of this duality, ideal and the real, good and evil, light and darkness.
Rotary Club of Madhyamgram recognised by(Rotary International) facilitated him with Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts in the year 2000.
2000–2009
In this era, Jahar mainly concentrated on nature, animal and woman in his canvases. The drawings have been mostly done in dry pastel both in monochrome of black and white. The canvases in acrylic open up various aspects of ideal beauty. The widespread nature of rural Bengal reveals its colourful faces. The nature is transformed into supernatural. These paintings narrates full of life, love, spirit, joy and fantasy.
Sandip Ray, young film director from Bengal who filmed Himghar in 1996, met Dasgupta and showed interest for a documentary on artist. Later, in 2001, he completed the documentary named 'Bornomoy Jahar' and screened at Nandan.
2010–present
While attending a talk entitled 'Nadir Bhabna' (Musings of the river) by Shri Alokeranjan Dasgupta, the artist Shri Jahar Dasgupta encountered a mind blowing experience. Acknowledged gratefully by the painter, the inter-face opened for him the doors to the world of Bergson and his revolutionary thinking.
This was his very first acquaintance with the philosophy of the French thinker and evolutionist Henri Bergson (1894–1941). The uplifting spiritual content of Bergson enkindled the thought process of the artist. All the present series and solos is a living tale of the journey. In fact he is the first artist to apply the theory of Bergson into fine art. This is a very rare and unconventional thinking by Jahar where he blends the science and art beautifully into his canvas.
Shri Dasgupta's creative impulse is enthused by this Aristollean 'entelechy' – the endowment that gives rise to the potential of the vital force. This by itself becomes the prime moves of the artist's imagination. In his depiction of the teeming world of the humans, the birds and beasts and the minutest of insects, he does not change the outward form. The artist in him understands that every moment is changing and leaving the imprint of its transience on the inner mechanism of the body. There by it creates an abstract form within which in its turn is represented with a candid intensity of the artist.
Dasgupta's recent work on Jesus Christ series and a huge mural on MADHABI daughter of yayati from Mahabharata is also a notable work from recent times.
Politics
In the 70s, like many people from art and cultural field in West Bengal, Jahar was among those who attracted to left ideologies and immediately attached to Gananatya Sangha. He twice stood on Panchayet vote under left wing parties at Madhyamgram North 24 Parganas in 1974 and 1984.
Jahar Dasgupta was the former President at Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata where he lives and works. He is also working as a principal of an art academy Swarsangam- Birla Institute of Visual and Performing Arts.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20120315035954/http://www.paintersorchestra.com/index.php
http://www.indianmasterpainters.com/jahardasgupta/jhdhome.htm
https://archive.today/20150422010959/https://www.canvaskart.com/jahar-dasgupta-paintings
https://archive.today/20150422010944/http://www.gingergiraffegallery.com/artist-work.php?id=30
https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225205/http://www.gaeindia.com/artist.php?fc=J
20th-century Indian painters
1942 births
Living people
People from Jamshedpur
Indian contemporary painters
Indian male painters
Painters from Jharkhand
20th-century Indian male artists
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\section{Introduction}
Many properties of growing self-organizing processes arise from an interaction between growth and activity. These include antibiotic resistance in bacterial biofilms \cite{Frost2018}, chromatophore patterning in cephalopods \cite{Reiter2018}, mammalian pigmentation patterning \cite{Mort2016}, polymer assembly \cite{Ortiz2020}, and a plethora of phenomena associated with social and technological networks \cite{Dorogovtsev2013}. To better understand how the interaction of growth and activity influences the development of such processes, we examine how the expected number of state-changes in two versions of the voter model on a one-dimensional lattice are influenced by how growth is implemented.
As motivation for our study we imagine a collection of cells that are self-organizing via local communication to achieve a desired `consensus' state.
We imagine further that this collection of cells is growing to some finite size, so that its self-organization is being repeatedly disrupted by the arrival of cells whose state must also be taken into account. It is clear that one problem, among many, this growing self-organizing system is faced by is the following: is it more `efficient' to organize while growing, or to finish growing before self-organizing? In many instances the constraints of time and increasing combinatorial complexity suggest most complex systems would be wise to self-organize to some extent as they proceed. Indeed, in multicellular biological systems we typically see extensive self-organization during growth. However, if \emph{how} a system grows is disruptive, that is, it undoes the previous efforts of self-organization (i.e. such as forming a pattern), may it be more efficient for the system to self-organize after it has finished growing?
To study the effects of growth on self-organizing processes we think of these effects as belonging to two broad categories, which we refer to as `disruptive' and `conservative'. The first category contains network growth that spatially rearranges processes situated on a network. This implementation of growth is often associated with regular networks (lattices), whereby the nodes constituting the network are constrained to a certain degree. For example, $k = 4$ in the case of a two-dimensional lattice with periodic boundaries. This means when nodes are added to the network edges are `rewired' so the network remains regular. This form of growth can have a striking effect on processes, for instance, the manipulation of spatial correlations by growth can control the outcome of population models on growing lattices \cite{Ross2016b,Ross2017b}. The second category consists of network growth algorithms that do not rearrange processes situated on the network. This implementation of growth is often associated with complex networks, in which nodes are typically not constrained to any particular degree, and so the new node is simply `wired' to the pre-existing network. In this instance, no pre-existing edges in the network are rewired for a growth event, and so the pre-configuration of the process remains unaltered.
This type of network growth is also associated with complex behaviors, often caused by more or less conspicuous `boundary effects', and has been studied in the context of the spread of disease \cite{Pastor2015}, game theory \cite{Poncela2008}, and the generation of traveling waves on growing networks \cite{Ross2018c}. A similar categorisation can be employed for the growth of continuous domains, however, we do not address those here.
\section{Model and results}
\subsection{Model}
Our initial lattice contains $N_{s}$ sites.
The integer $N_{f}$ denotes the predetermined size the lattice grows to before growth is terminated.
We denote the functional form of the growth by $N(t)$.
Each site in the lattice is labelled by its position, and so the left-hand-side (LHS) boundary site is labelled $i = 1$, the site immediately next to it is labelled $i = 2$, and so on. Each site when added to the lattice is initially either in state `0' or `1', with probability $\rho_{0}$ and $(1-\rho_{0})$, respectively.
We study two variants of the voter model \cite{Liggett}, which we refer to as $\mathcal{C}$ (consensus) or $\mathcal{A}$ (anti-consensus). In the voter model, decision events occur at rate $P_{d}$ per site, and so the \emph{total} decision rate is $NP_{d}$. Throughout this work we set $P_{d} = 1$\footnote{As will become apparent we could have fixed our growth rate, $P_{g}$, and manipulated $P_{d}$ instead. The meaningful parameter is in fact the ratio of the total decision rate and the total growth rate.}.
Upon a decision event a site in the lattice is chosen uniformly at random, and this site evaluates the states of its nearest neighbours before updating its own state. For a site in $\mathcal{C}$ the update probabilities are
\begin{align}
p^{\mathcal{C}}_{0\rightarrow 1} = \frac{n_{1}}{n}, \quad p^{\mathcal{C}}_{1\rightarrow 0} = \frac{n_{0}}{n},
\label{eq:c_alg}
\end{align}
where $n_{1}$ and $n_{0}$ are the number of nearest neighbors that are in state `1' or `0', respectively, and $n$ is the number of nearest neighbors (2 or 1 depending on whether the site in question is an internal site or boundary site). For a site in $\mathcal{A}$ the update probabilities are
\begin{align}
p^{\mathcal{A}}_{0\rightarrow 1} = \frac{n_{0}}{n}, \quad p^{\mathcal{A}}_{1\rightarrow 0} = \frac{n_{1}}{n}.
\label{eq:a_alg}
\end{align}
$\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ will always (eventually) reach an absorbing state\footnote{Also referred to as a nonequilibrium steady-state.} for any $N_{f}$ on the one-dimensional lattice we study. In the case of $\mathcal{C}$ the absorbing states are when all sites are in state `0', or when all sites are in state `1'. For $\mathcal{A}$ the absorbing states are when every site in state `1' only has nearest neighbours in state `0', and vice versa.
Throughout this work we implement exponential domain growth and generalize to other functional forms of growth in section \ref{sect:PgNt}. For exponential domain growth the total domain growth rate is $NP_{g}$. We implement growth in the following manner: a vector, $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{N}(i)$, specifies the probability that given a growth event in a lattice of size $N$ the new site is at location $i$ in the lattice of size $N+1$. For instance, a new lattice site is placed with probability $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{N}(1)$ at the LHS `end' of the lattice, and so becomes site $i = 1$ on the lattice of size $N+1$, or with probability $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{N}(2)$ the new site is placed in between sites 1 and 2, and so becomes site $i = 2$ on the lattice of size $N+1$, and so on. The probability of a new lattice site being placed at the right-hand-side (RHS) boundary is zero, and so $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{N}$ is of length $N$. In Fig. \ref{fig:figure1} we present an example of two different growth events. The general form of $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{N}$ can be written as
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{N} = (\alpha_{1,N},\alpha_{2,N},\alpha_{3,N}, ... ,\alpha_{N,N}),
\label{eq:g_vector}
\end{align}
where $\sum_{i=1}^{N}\alpha_{i, N} = 1.$
The first $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{N}$ we study is:
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{N}(\beta) = (1-\beta,\beta/(N-1),\beta/(N-1), ... ,\beta/(N-1)).
\label{eq:g_vector1}
\end{align}
In $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{N}$ the scalar $\beta$ indicates how `disruptive' growth is, with $\beta = 0$ being the most conservative form of the growth vector $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{N}$, and $\beta = 1$ being the most disruptive form of growth\footnote{The `most' disruptive form of growth is not well-defined here.}. Values of $\beta$ between 0 and 1 are a mixture of disruptive and conservative growth.
As an example, to grow from a lattice of size 2 to a lattice of size 3, $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{N}$ is:
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{2} = (1-\beta,\beta),
\label{eq:g_vector_example1}
\end{align}
and similarly, to grow from a lattice of size 4 to a lattice of size 5, $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{N}$ is
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{4} = (1-\beta,\beta/3,\beta/3,\beta/3).
\label{eq:g_vector_example2}
\end{align}
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\vspace{-0.6cm}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figure1.pdf}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{Growth can be either conservative or disruptive. (a) This growth event, whereby a new lattice site (red) was placed on the end of the lattice, occurred with probability $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{4}(1)$. As no preexisting edges changed, this growth is conservative. (b) In this growth event a new lattice site was placed between sites 3 and 4, and occurred with probability $\boldsymbol{\hat g}_{4}(4)$. This growth is disruptive as two sites that previously shared an edge do not anymore.}
\label{fig:figure1}
\end{figure}
Throughout this work we focus on the number of state-changes in models $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$:
\begin{align}
\langle F^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f},\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0}} \rangle_{P_{g}} = \lim_{R\rightarrow \infty}\frac{1}{R}\sum_{r=1}^{R}F^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f},\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0}}_{P_{g},r},
\label{eq:flips}
\end{align}
where $F^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f},\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta), \rho_{0}}_{P_{g},r}$ is the number of times any site changed (flipped) from $0 \rightarrow 1$ or $1 \rightarrow 0$ on a lattice that grew from size $N_{s}$ to size $N_{f}$ in simulation replicate $r$, with growth described by $\boldsymbol{\hat g}$ for the specified values of $\beta$, $\rho_{0}$ and $P_{g}$. The expected number of state-changes in the model is $\langle F^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}, \boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta), \rho_{0}} \rangle_{P_{g}} + N_{f} - N_{s}$, as a growth event also results in a state-change. However, as we only compare networks grown from the same initial size, $N_{s}$, to the same size final size, $N_{f}$, we simply count `flips' instead. Our interest in counting state-changes was in part motivated by its natural association with the energetic costs of self-organization, a topic we will return to in the discussion.
Henceforth, we shall abbreviate $\langle F^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}, \boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta), \rho_{0}} \rangle_{P_{g}}$ to $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g}}$, and will emphasize $N_{s}$, $N_{f}$ and $\rho_{0}$ when necessary. At times we will write $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)}_{\mathcal{C}} \rangle_{P_{g}}$ or $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)}_{\mathcal{A}} \rangle_{P_{g}}$ if a result is specific to either $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$.
\subsection{Results and analysis}
Although we have presented $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ as discrete models to help build intuition, quantity \eqref{eq:flips} can be calculated exactly by imagining $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ as absorbing random walks on a directed network. The details of how to do this are standard Markov chain theory and so we describe them only briefly \cite{Howard1984}. The transition matrix $P$ that describes our growing voter model has $x$ transient states and 2 absorbing states for both $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$:
\begin{equation}
P =
\begin{pmatrix}
Q & R \\
\boldsymbol{0} & I_{2} \\
\end{pmatrix}
\end{equation}
where $Q$ is a $x$-by-$x$ matrix, $R$ is a nonzero $x$-by-2 matrix, $\boldsymbol{0}$ is an 2-by-$x$ zero matrix, and $I_{2}$ is the 2-by-2 identity matrix. By `state' we mean a string configuration in the voter model for a given lattice size. $Q$ describes the probability of transitioning from one transient state to another, which includes all transitions when the lattice size is below $N_{f}$, and all transitions when the lattice size is $N_{f}$ that are not into absorbing states. As such, transitions are due to either a site completing a flip or the lattice growing. $R$ describes the probabilities of transitioning from some transient state into an absorbing state at $N_{f}$, of which there are two.
From $Q$ we can obtain
\begin{align}
K = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}Q^{k} = (I - Q)^{-1},
\label{eq:K}
\end{align}
where $K$ is referred to as the fundamental matrix. $K(p,q)$ describes the expected number of times state $q$ is visited, given the voter model started in state $p$.
To obtain the expected number of flips we multiply the matrix $K$ by the column vector $w$ and sum over the initial states with the appropriate frequencies
\begin{align}
\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g}} = \sum^{2^{N_{s}}}_{i=1} \gamma(i)Kw,
\label{eq:F}
\end{align}
where $\gamma$ describes the initial frequencies of each state, which depend on $\rho_{0}$, and $w$ describes the probability that given the voter model is in state $p$ the next transition is due to a site in that state successfully completing a flip, as opposed to a growth event or a decision event that does not result in a flip. For example, for state $p = (1,0,1)$ in $\mathcal{C}$
$$w_{p} = \frac{P_{d}}{P_{d} + P_{g}},$$
as all sites if selected would flip. Alternatively, for state $p = (1,1,0)$ in $\mathcal{C}$
$$w_{p} = \frac{P_{d}}{2(P_{d} + P_{g})}.$$
For completeness, the second moment for the number of flips is calculated via
\begin{align}
\langle (F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)})^{2} \rangle_{P_{g}} = \sum^{2^{N_{s}}}_{i=1} \gamma(i)(2K_{w} - I)Kw,
\label{eq:F2}
\end{align}
where $K_{w}$ is
\begin{align}
K_{w} = KI_{w},
\label{eq:Kw}
\end{align}
and $I_{w}$ is the diagonal matrix with $w$ on its diagonal, however, we will not make further use of Eq. \eqref{eq:F2} here.
\subsubsection{Examining different implementations of growth}
In Fig. \ref{fig:figure2} (a) and (b) we display $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g}}$ for different values of $\beta$ and $P_{g}$ for $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$, respectively. When $\beta = 0$ the minimum value of $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g}}$ appears to be as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit for both $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$.
Conversely, when $\beta = 1$ the maximum value of $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g}}$ appears to be as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit for both $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$.
As $P_{g}$ increases the data points associated with different values of $\beta$ `coalesce'.
The limit $P_{g} \rightarrow \infty$ is to be thought of as approaching $N_{s} = N_{f}$, and in this instance the value of $\beta$ becomes irrelevant. In the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow \infty$ it is the case that
$$\lim_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty}\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta), \rho_{0} = 0.5}_{\mathcal{C}} \rangle_{P_{g}} = \lim_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty}\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta), \rho_{0} = 0.5}_{\mathcal{A}} \rangle_{P_{g}}, \ \forall \ N_{f}.$$
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Fig2aEXP}
\subcaption{}
\end{subfigure}
~
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Fig2bEXP}
\subcaption{}
\end{subfigure}
~
\begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Fig2c}
\subcaption{}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{The expected number of flips in a one-dimensional lattice voter model with exponential growth from $N_{s} = 2$ to $N_{f} = 8$, with $P_{d} = 1$ and $\rho_{0} = 0.5$. (a) $\mathcal{C}$: $\beta = 1$ (blue diamonds), $\beta = 0.75$ (red circles), $\beta = 0.67$ (yellow stars), $\beta = 0.5$ (purple squares), $\beta = 0$ (green triangles). (b) $\mathcal{A}$: $\beta = 1$ (blue diamonds), $\beta = 0.5$ (red circles), $\beta = 0.25$ (yellow stars), $\beta = 0.1$ (purple squares), $\beta = 0$ (green triangles). (c) The value of $\beta_{c}$ in a one-dimensional lattice voter model grown from $N_{s} = 2$ to $N_{f}$ with $P_{d} = 1$, $\mathcal{C}$ (blue diamonds), $\mathcal{A}$ (red circles). All data points were generated using Eq. \eqref{eq:F}.}
\label{fig:figure2}
\end{figure}
From Fig. \ref{fig:figure2} (a) and (b) it can be seen that for both $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ there exists a value of $\beta$, which we refer to as $\beta_{c}$, whereby
\begin{align}
\lim_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0}\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta_{c})} \rangle_{P_{g}} = \lim_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty}\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g}},
\label{eq:a1}
\end{align}
which from now on we write as
\begin{align}
\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta_{c})} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} = \langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty}.
\label{eq:a2}
\end{align}
Equation \eqref{eq:a2} describes that when $\beta = \beta_{c}$, the expected number of flips in $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$ before the absorbing state is found at $N_{f}$ is the same whether the growth rate tends to zero or infinity in the limit. This is because when $\beta = \beta_{c}$ the disruptive and conservative forces of growth are balanced in the necessary way as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit.
We now concern ourselves with the following two questions:
i) What is the relation between $\beta_{c}$ and $\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)$ in $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ as $N_{f} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit?
ii) What is the behaviour of quantity \eqref{eq:F} at $\beta_{c}$ in $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ for intermediate (non-limiting) values of $P_{g}$ as $N_{f} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit?
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To calculate the value of $\beta_{c}$ for $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}$ we proceed as follows. For both $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ when $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit, following any growth event an absorbing state will always be reached before the next growth event occurs. This means $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0}$ can considered as a series of individual absorption events:
\begin{align}
\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} = \sum_{N=N_{s}-1}^{N_{f}-1}\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{N}\boldsymbol{\hat f}_{N},
\label{eq:contproof2}
\end{align}
where $\boldsymbol{\hat f}_{N}$ is a column vector and $\boldsymbol{\hat f}_{N}(k)$ is the expected number of flips before an absorbing state is reached given the new site is site $k$. We have included the term $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{N_{s}-1}\boldsymbol{\hat f}_{N_{s}-1}$ to represent the expected number of flips before the absorption state is reached from the initial distribution of states, and define $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{N_{s}-1} \equiv 1$. Expanding the RHS of Eq. \eqref{eq:contproof2} in the following manner
\begin{align}
\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} = & \ \beta\left(\boldsymbol{\hat f}_{N_{S}-1} + \sum_{N = N_{s}}^{N_{f}-1}\left(\sum_{k=2}^{N} \left(\frac{\boldsymbol{\hat f}_{N}(k)}{N-1}\right)\right) \right) \nonumber \\ &+ (1-\beta)\left(\boldsymbol{\hat f}_{N_{S}-1} + \sum_{N=N_{s}}^{N_{f}-1} \boldsymbol{\hat f}_{N}(1)\right),
\label{eq:contproof3}
\end{align}
and rewriting Eq. \eqref{eq:contproof3} as
\begin{align}
\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} = \beta\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 1)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} + (1-\beta)\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta=0)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0},
\label{eq:contproof}
\end{align}
we then impose Eq. \eqref{eq:a2} to obtain
\begin{align}
\beta_{c} = \frac{\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty} - \langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 0)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0}}{\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 1)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} - \langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 0)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0}}.
\label{eq:betac}
\end{align}
In deriving Eq. \eqref{eq:betac} we have assumed that
\begin{align}
\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 1)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} \geq \langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty} \geq \langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 0)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0}, \ \forall \ N_{f},
\label{eq:betac_assum}
\end{align}
for both $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$.
Using Eq. \eqref{eq:betac} we plot $\beta_{c}$ as a function of $N_{f}$ for both $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ in Fig. \ref{fig:figure2} (c). In the (thermodynamic) limit, $N_{f} \rightarrow \infty$, it appears $\beta_{c} \rightarrow 1$ for $\mathcal{C}$ and $\beta_{c} \rightarrow 0$ for $\mathcal{A}$. The value $\beta_{c}$ takes is independent of the functional form of the growth, $N(t)$, so long as $N(t)$ is monotonically increasing.
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\indent To better characterise the dependence of $\beta_{c}$ on $N_{f}$ in $\mathcal{C}$ we study how the expected number of flips evolves in the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$. We begin with a lattice of size $N_{s} = 2$ and $\rho_{0} = 0.5$, and so the four initial states are
$$(0,0), (1,0), (0,1), (1,1),$$
which all occur with equal frequency. States $(0,0)$ and $(1,1)$ are already in an absorbing state for $\mathcal{C}$ and hence no flips occur. States $(1,0)$ and $(0,1)$ each only require 1 flip to reach an absorbing state. Therefore, from these four states the expected number of flips before an absorbing state is reached is 0.5. Following a growth event, using $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{2}$, the possible states are
$$(\bar{0},0,0), (\bar{1},0,0), (0,\bar{0},0), (0,\bar{1},0),
(\bar{0},1,1), (\bar{1},1,1), (1,\bar{0},1), (1,\bar{1},1),$$
where the bar indicates the location of the new site.
With some probability dependent on $\rho_{0}$, the new state will already be in an absorbing state. If not, it will be in a state of the form
$$(\bar{1},0,...), (0,\bar{1},0,...), (0,0,\bar{1},0,...),(0,0,0,\bar{1},0,...), ... \ ,$$
or
$$(\bar{0},1,...), (1,\bar{0},1,...), (1,1,\bar{0},1,...),(1,1,1,\bar{0},1,...), ... \ .$$
To calculate the expected number of flips till an absorbing state in reached we sum the expected number of flips associated with these states multiplied by their probability of occurrence, which depends on the values of $\beta$ and $\rho_{0}$. For example, when $\beta = 0$, $N_{s} = 2$ and $\rho_{0} = 0.5$ we begin with $(0,0)$, $(0,1)$, $(1,0)$, $(1,1)$, from which we can grow to
$$(\bar{0},0,0), (\bar{1},0,0),
(\bar{0},1,1), (\bar{1},1,1),$$
and from the following growth event we can grow into
$$(\bar{0},0,0,0), (\bar{1},0,0,0),
(\bar{0},1,1,1), (\bar{1},1,1,1),$$
and so on. In this instance the expected number of flips from $N_{s} = 2$ to $N_{f}$ has the simple form
\begin{align}
\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 0), \rho_{0}} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} = \rho_{0}(1-\rho_{0})\left(\frac{(N_{f}(N_{f}+1))}{2} - 1 \right).
\label{eq:rho05}
\end{align}
In Eq. \eqref{eq:rho05} the value of $\rho_{0}$ only affects the prefactor of the leading order term, $O(N_{f}^{2})$, and not the order of the leading order term.
Equation \eqref{eq:rho05} is also the case for $\mathcal{A}$ when $\rho_{0} = 0.5$.
The expected number of flips from $N_{s} = 2$ to $N_{f}$ when $\beta = 1$ in $\mathcal{C}$ in the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ is
\begin{align}
\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 1), \rho_{0}} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} = 4\rho_{0}(1-\rho_{0})\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta = 1), \rho_{0}=0.5} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0},
\end{align}
and so again changing $\rho_{0}$ only affects the prefactor of the leading order term.
More generally for $\mathcal{C}$ as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit the leading terms evolve as
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{c}_{N} = \left(\frac{N}{2}, N, N, N,...\right),
\label{eq:c_vector1}
\end{align}
where $\boldsymbol{c}_{N}(1)$ is the leading order term of the expected number of flips till an absorbing state is reached from state $(\bar 1,0,0,0,0,...)$ or $(\bar{0},1,1,1,1,...)$ on a lattice of size $N$, $\boldsymbol{c}_{N}(2)$ is the leading order term of the expected number of flips till an absorbing state is reached from state $(0,\bar{1},0,0,0,...)$ or $(1,\bar{0},1,1,1,...)$ on a lattice of size $N$, and so on.
We now sum the terms in Eq. \eqref{eq:c_vector1} to $N_{f}$
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\tilde c}_{N_{f}} = \left(\frac{N_{f}^2}{4}, \frac{N_{f}^2}{2}, \frac{N_{f}^2}{2},\frac{N_{f}^2}{2},...\right),
\label{eq:c_vector2}
\end{align}
where $\boldsymbol{\tilde c}_{N_{f}}(1)$ is the leading order term in the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ when the new site is always site 1, $\boldsymbol{\tilde c}_{N_{f}}(2)$ is the leading order term in the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ when the new site is always site 2, and so on. From Eq. \eqref{eq:c_vector2} it is evident that any combination of internal growth events in the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ evolves equivalently in its leading order term.
Setting $\rho_{0} = 0.5$ gives us
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\tilde c}_{N_{f}} = \left(\frac{N_{f}^2}{8}, \frac{N_{f}^2}{4}, \frac{N_{f}^2}{4},\frac{N_{f}^2}{4},...\right).
\label{eq:c_vector3}
\end{align}
To obtain $\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0} = 0.5}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty}$ we use the following numerically observed identity:
\begin{align}
\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0} = 0.5}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty} = \left(\frac{1}{4\binom{N_{f}-2}{j-1}}\right)\sum_{q=1}^{\binom{N_{f}}{j}}\boldsymbol{k}(q), \ j < N_{f}/2, \ N_{f} > 2,
\label{eq:all_two}
\end{align}
where $j$ indicates how many sites are in state `1', $q$ indexes the states containing $j$ `1s' on a lattice of size $N_{f}$, and $\boldsymbol{k}(q)$ is the expected number of flips till an absorbing state is reached from state $q$. For instance, if $N_{f} = 5$ and $j = 1$, $\boldsymbol{k}(1)$ is the exact number of flips to an absorbing state starting from state $(1,0,0,0,0)$, $\boldsymbol{k}(2)$ is the exact number of flips to an absorbing state starting from state $(0,1,0,0,0)$, and so on.
In the case of $j = 1$ this is simply:
\begin{align}
\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0}=0.5}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty} = \left(\frac{1}{4}\right)\sum_{i=1}^{N_{f}}\boldsymbol{k}(i) \sim \left(\frac{1}{4}\right)\sum_{i=1}^{N_{f}}\boldsymbol{c}_{N_{f}}(i) \sim \left(\frac{1}{4} \right)N_{f}^{2},
\label{eq:inf}
\end{align}
where we have used Eq. \eqref{eq:c_vector1}. The effect of $\rho_{0}$ on $\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0}}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty}$ is
$$\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0}}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty} = 4\rho_{0}(1-\rho_{0})\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0} = 0.5}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty}.$$
Whereas the effect of $\rho_{0}$ on $\langle F_{\mathcal{A}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0}}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty}$ is
$$\langle F_{\mathcal{A}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0}}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty} = \langle F_{\mathcal{A}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta),\rho_{0}=0.5}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow \infty} + \left(\frac{1 - 4\rho(1-\rho)}{4}\right)N_{f}.$$
We now analyze $\mathcal{A}$ as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit. As before we begin with a lattice of size $N_{s} = 2$ and with $\rho_{0} = 0.5$, and so this means the four possible initial states
$$(0,0), (1,0), (0,1), (1,1),$$
occur in equal frequency. States $(1,0)$ and $(0,1)$ are already in an absorbing state hence no flips occur. States $(0,0)$ and $(1,1)$ each only require 1 flip to reach an absorbing state. Therefore, starting from these four states in equal frequency the expected number of flips before an absorbing state is reached is 0.5. Following a growth event, using $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{2}$, the possible states for $\mathcal{A}$ are
$$(\bar{0},1,0), (\bar{1},1,0), (1,\bar{0},0), (1,\bar{1},0),
(\bar{0},0,1), (\bar{1},0,1), (0,\bar{0},1), (0,\bar{1},1).$$
In $\mathcal{A}$ only a growth event in which the new site is site $i = 1$ can result in an absorbing state, and no internal growth event can result in an absorbing state. Furthermore, for an internal growth event the amount of sites that have to flip before an absorbing state is reached is at least the shortest distance of the new site from one of the two boundaries of the lattice. This demonstrates a key difference between $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$, which can be considered as a type of boundary effect, and is a recurrent theme in the physics of growing active matter that we return to in the discussion.
Following an internal growth event, in the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$, $\mathcal{A}$ will either be in the state
$$(1,\bar{1},0,1,0,...), (0,\bar{1},1,0,1,...),(1,0,\bar{1},1,0,...),(0,1,\bar{1},0,1,...), ... ,$$
or
$$(1,\bar{0},0,1,0,...), (0,\bar{0},1,0,1,...), (1,0,\bar{0},1,0,...),(0,1,\bar{0},0,1,...), ...$$
and so in $\mathcal{A}$ growth events at the same position can result in two different non-absorbing states. This means the expected number of flips for growth events at a single position has to be averaged over both possibilities at the correct frequencies.
In $\mathcal{A}$ as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit the leading terms evolve as
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{a}_{N} = \left(\frac{N}{2}, N, 2N, 3N, 4N, 5N, 6N,...\right).
\label{eq:a_vector1}
\end{align}
If we set $\rho_{0} = 0.5$ and sum Eq. \eqref{eq:a_vector1} to $N_{f}$ we obtain
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\tilde a}_{N_{f}} = \left(\frac{N_{f}^2}{8},\frac{N_{f}^2}{2},N^2,\frac{3N_{f}^2}{2}, 2N_{f}^2, \frac{5N_{f}^2}{2}, 3N_{f}^2,...\right).
\label{eq:a_vector3}
\end{align}
Equation \eqref{eq:a_vector3} demonstrates that for $\mathcal{A}$ with $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}_{N}$ and $\beta = 1$ the leading order terms are $O(N_{f}^3)$. The exact value for $\mathcal{A}$ when $\rho_{0} = 0.5$ and $\beta = 1$ for $\hat{g}^{1}$ is
\begin{align}
\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{N_{s}\rightarrow N_{f},\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta=1),\rho_{0}=0.5}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow 0} = \frac{1}{18}\left(N_{f}^3 + 8N_{f} - 15\right),
\label{eq:a_vector_rho05}
\end{align}
and more generally
$$\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{N_{s}\rightarrow N_{f},\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}(\beta=1),\rho_{0}}\rangle_{P_{g}\rightarrow 0} = O(N_{f}^3), \ \forall \ \rho_{0}.$$
We now return to Eq. \eqref{eq:betac}. Using Eqs. \eqref{eq:rho05}, \eqref{eq:c_vector3} and \eqref{eq:inf} in the case of $\mathcal{C}$ for $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}$ we have
\begin{align}
\lim_{N_{f}\rightarrow \infty}\beta_{c} \sim \lim_{N_{f}\rightarrow \infty}\left(\frac{\frac{1}{4}N_{f}^2 - \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^2}{\frac{1}{4}N_{f}^2 - \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^2}\right) \rightarrow 1,
\label{eq:g_vector1_solC}
\end{align}
and using Eqs. \eqref{eq:rho05}, \eqref{eq:inf} and \eqref{eq:a_vector_rho05} in the case of $\mathcal{A}$ for $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}$ we have
\begin{align}
\lim_{N_{f}\rightarrow \infty}\beta_{c} \sim \lim_{N_{f}\rightarrow \infty}\left(\frac{\frac{1}{4}N_{f}^2 - \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^2}{\frac{1}{18}N_{f}^3 - \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^2}\right) \rightarrow 0.
\label{eq:g_vector1_solA}
\end{align}
To corroborate expressions \eqref{eq:g_vector1_solC} and \eqref{eq:g_vector1_solA}, which have not been formally proven, we examine the following two growth vectors:
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{2}_{N} = (1-\beta,\beta, 0, ...,0),
\label{eq:g_vector2}
\end{align}
and
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{3}_{N} = (1-\beta,\beta/2, \beta/2, 0, ...,0).
\label{eq:g_vector3}
\end{align}
In $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{2}$ and $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{3}$ the interpretation of $\beta$ is as before, whereby $\beta = 0$ represents the most conservative implementation of growth, and $\beta = 1$ is the most disruptive implementation of growth. When $N = 2$, $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{3}$ is not well-defined, and so we use $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{2}$.
We also examine
\begin{align}
\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{4}_{N} = (1-\beta, \beta^{2}, \beta^{3}, ...,\beta^{N})/\sum_{i}\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{4}_{N}(i),
\label{eq:g_vector4}
\end{align}
and $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{4}$ is equivalent to $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}$ when $\beta = 0$ or $\beta = 1$.
In Fig. \ref{fig:figure3} (a) we plot the evolution of $\beta_{c}$ in $\mathcal{C}$ for $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{2}$, $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{3}$ and $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{4}$. For $\mathcal{C}$ $\beta_{c} \rightarrow 1$ for all $\boldsymbol{\hat g}$. This is because all internal growth events evolve $(1/4)N_{f}^{2}$, which is the same as $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty}$.
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{.4\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Fig3a}
\subcaption{}
\end{subfigure}
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\begin{subfigure}{.4\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Fig3b}
\subcaption{}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{The value of $\beta_{c}$ in systems grown from $N_{s} = 2$ to $N_{f}$, with $P_{d} = 1$ and $\rho_{0} = 0.5$. (a) $\mathcal{C}$, (b) $\mathcal{A}$, and $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{2}_{N}$ (blue diamonds), $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{3}_{N}$ (red circle), and $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{4}_{N}$ (yellow stars). Data points were generated using Eq. \eqref{eq:F}.}
\label{fig:figure3}
\end{figure}
For $\mathcal{A}$ this is not the case. In $\mathcal{A}$ with $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{2}$ for $\beta_{c}$ we have
\begin{align}
\lim_{N_{f}\rightarrow \infty}\beta_{c} \sim \lim_{N_{f}\rightarrow \infty}\left(\frac{\frac{1}{4}N_{f}^2 - \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^2}{\frac{1}{2}N_{f}^2 - \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^2}\right) \rightarrow \frac{1}{3},
\label{eq:g_vector2_sol}
\end{align}
and $\beta_{c}$ for $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{3}$ is
\begin{align}
\lim_{N_{f}\rightarrow \infty}\beta_{c} \sim \lim_{N_{f}\rightarrow \infty}\left(\frac{\frac{1}{4}N_{f}^2 - \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^2}{\frac{3}{4}N_{f}^2 - \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^2}\right) \rightarrow \frac{1}{5}.
\label{eq:g_vector3_sol}
\end{align}
In the case of $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{4}$ isolating $\beta_{c}$ as in Eq. \eqref{eq:betac} is not possible. However, asymptotically the following must hold when $\beta$ is $\beta_{c}$
\begin{align}
\lim_{N_{f} \rightarrow \infty}\left(\frac{1}{4}N_{f}^{2} \sim \hat\beta^{-1}\sum^{\infty}_{j=2}\beta^{j}\left(\frac{j-1}{2}\right)N_{f}^{2} + \hat\beta^{-1}(1 - \beta)\frac{1}{8}N_{f}^{2}\right),
\label{eq:g_vector4_asym1}
\end{align}
where $\hat\beta$ is the asymptotic normalization factor
\begin{align}
\hat\beta = (1 - \beta_{c}) + \sum^{\infty}_{j=2}\beta_{c}^{j}.
\label{eq:g_vector4_asym2}
\end{align}
Expression \eqref{eq:g_vector4_asym1} holds when $\beta_{c} = 1/3$. The data points in Fig. \ref{fig:figure3} (b), calculated numerically using Eq. \eqref{eq:F}, validate expressions \eqref{eq:g_vector2_sol}-\eqref{eq:g_vector4_asym1} and corroborate expressions \eqref{eq:g_vector1_solC} and \eqref{eq:g_vector1_solA}, which were derived analytically using assumption based on numerical observations.
\subsubsection{Intermediate values of $P_{g}$ and the role of $N(t)$}
\label{sect:PgNt}
In the previous section we used Eq. \eqref{eq:all_two} to relate the expected number of flips as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit to the expected number of flips as $P_{g} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit. The limit $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ can be thought of as a quasistatic transition, whereby $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$ are always allowed to find an absorbing state before the next growth event occurs, whereas the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow \infty$ can be thought of as initializing $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$ at $N_{f}$. This means that in both of these limiting regimes the more complex interactions between growth and self-organization in determining the expected number of flips in $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$ are not present, and we could also ignore the nature of $N(t)$. For $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$ grown with intermediate values of $P_{g}$, which we indicate by $\bar P_{g}$, this is not the case.
To better characterize the interaction between $\bar P_{g}$ and $N(t)$ in the evolution of $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ we decompose $\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta_{c})} \rangle_{\tilde P_{g}}$ in the following manner:
\begin{align}
\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta_{c})} \rangle_{\tilde P_{g}} = f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}} + f^{N_{f}},
\label{eq:pginvar_weak2}
\end{align}
where $f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}}$ is the expected number of flips as the lattice grows from $N_{s}$ to $N_{f}$, but not including flips when the lattice is at size $N_{f}$, and $f^{N_{f}}$ is the expected number of flips while the lattice is size $N_{f}$ until an absorbing state is reached. It is clear that when $P_{g} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit
$$f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}} = 0,$$
and
$$f^{N_{f}} = \langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty}.$$
Similarly, when $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit
$$f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}} = \langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta_{c})} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} - f^{N_{f}}.$$
The first possibility we consider is
\begin{align}
\lim_{N_{f} \rightarrow \infty}\frac{f^{N_{s}\rightarrow N_{f}}}{f^{N_{f}}} \rightarrow 0,
\label{eq:pginvar_weak3}
\end{align}
whereby if $O(f^{N_{f}}) \rightarrow O(\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta)} \rangle_{P_{g \rightarrow \infty}})$ as $N_{f} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit this combination of $\bar P_{g}$ and $N(t)$ asymptotically behave like $P_{g} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit. Intuitively, this can be understood as the lattice is growing faster than the voter model can self-organize.
As an example let us consider the exponential growth we have examined in this work, in which
\begin{align}
O(f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}}) \sim \sum_{N = N_{s}}^{N_{f}-1}\epsilon N.
\label{eq:pginvar_weak7}
\end{align}
In exponential growth the ratio of the expected number of growth events with the expected number of attempted decision events in a given interval is constant for both $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$, i.e. $P_{d}/P_{g}$, and so at most, $\epsilon \sim O(\frac{1}{N})$. This means for exponential growth we have
\begin{align}
O(\langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta_{c})} \rangle_{\tilde P_{g}}) \sim & \ O(N_{f}) + O(f^{N_{f}}), \nonumber \\
\sim & \ O(f^{N_{f}}),
\label{eq:pginvar_weak8}
\end{align}
as $O(f^{N_{f}}) \sim N_{f}^{2}$, and $\bar P_{g}$ and exponential growth interact to behave like $P_{g} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit so long as $O(f^{N_{f}}) \rightarrow \frac{1}{4}N_{f}^{2}$ as $N_{f} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit\footnote{An argument of this nature holds for any functional form of the growth greater than linear, so that $\epsilon < O(1)$.}.
For $\mathcal{C}$ numerical results suggest
\begin{align}
\langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta = 1)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} \geq f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}} + f^{N_{f}} \geq \langle F_{\mathcal{C}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta_{c})} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow \infty}, \ \forall \ N_{f},
\label{eq:betac_assum2}
\end{align}
and so in the case of exponential growth $O(f^{N_{f}}) \rightarrow \frac{1}{4}N_{f}^{2}$ for all $\boldsymbol{\hat g}$ and $P_{g}$. We refer to this behavior as $P_{g}$-invariance for some $N(t)$. $P_{g}$-invariance can be thought of as a process becoming \emph{conservative}: by which we mean at $\beta_{c}$ the leading order term in the expected number of flips in $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$ becomes independent of re-scalings of the path $N(t)$, that is, changing the value of $P_{g}$. More generally, expression \eqref{eq:betac_assum2} appears to hold for all $N(t)$ in the case of $\mathcal{C}$, for instance with linear growth. This more general property we refer to as $N(t)$-invariance, whereby at $\beta_{c}$ for a given $\boldsymbol{\hat g}$, the leading order term for the expected number of flips in $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$ becomes independent of any path taken from $N_{s}$ to $N_{f}$, so long as $N(t)$ is monotonically increasing.
A similar assumption as expression \eqref{eq:betac_assum2} cannot be employed for $\mathcal{A}$ with $\boldsymbol{\hat g}^{1}$ however, one reason being that $\langle F_{\mathcal{A}}^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta = 0)} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} \sim \frac{1}{8}N_{f}^{2}$.
Conversely, can also imagine a functional form of growth whereby
\begin{align}
\lim_{N_{f} \rightarrow \infty}\frac{f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}}}{f^{N_{f}}} \rightarrow \infty,
\label{eq:pginvar_weak4}
\end{align}
such that $f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}} \rightarrow \langle F^{\boldsymbol{\hat g}(\beta_{c})} \rangle_{P_{g} \rightarrow 0} - f^{N_{f}}$. In this instance this combination of $\bar P_{g}$ and $N(t)$ would asymptotically behave like $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit. Expressions \eqref{eq:pginvar_weak3} and \eqref{eq:pginvar_weak4} can be envisaged as postulating `basins of attraction' for models $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$, whereby irrespective of the value of $\bar P_{g}$ the expected number of flips asymptotically approaches the value associated with either $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ or $P_{g} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit. Behavior such as this would be reminiscent of renormalization group methods \cite{Goldenfeld2018}.
The final possibility to account for is
\begin{align}
\lim_{N_{f} \rightarrow \infty}\frac{f^{N_{s} \rightarrow N_{f}}}{f^{N_{f}}} \rightarrow \kappa,
\end{align}
where $\kappa$ is a constant greater than zero. In this instance the growth rate, $\mathrm{d}N(t)/\mathrm{d}t$, is decreasing in proportion to the increasing complexity of finding an absorbing state as $N_{f} \rightarrow \infty$ in the limit.
\section{Discussion}
As suggested in the main text, the evolution of $\beta_{c}$ in models $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$ is perhaps best understood as a boundary effect. In the case of $\mathcal{C}$ as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit all internal growth events result in the same leading order behaviour for the expected number of flips before an absorbing state is achieved, and only the leading order term at the boundary site evolves differently. Conversely, in $\mathcal{A}$ as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit the leading order behaviour for each site is determined by its distance from the nearest boundary. It is these boundary-related effects that are being balanced when $\beta_{c}$ is being calculated for a given $\boldsymbol{\hat{g}}$ in $\mathcal{C}$ or $\mathcal{A}$. The role of boundary effects in determining the behavior of growing active matter has been reported in other modeling approaches. For instance, it has been shown in population models on growing lattices that the implementation of growth can determine the competition outcome by manipulating the evolution of spatial correlations \cite{Ross2016b,Ross2017b}. In this study, one of the two growth implementations studied requires an `origin of growth', i.e. a boundary, to be specified. This origin of growth breaks both translational and spatial invariances present in the other growth implementation studied, and so explains the different competition outcomes for these two growth implementations.
A boundary effect has also been shown to be responsible for the generation of a traveling wave in a network growth model \cite{Ross2018c}. In this model network growth is coupled to the dynamics of a random walker situated on the network, and the boundary effect can be envisaged as the boundary of the network `chasing' the walker, making it appear as if the walker is traveling like a wave in the age-space of the network.
Another useful framework for understanding the physics of growing active matter is as the manipulation of relaxation times. For example, in the work presented here as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit the relaxation time to find the next absorbing state following a growth event is a function of the distance from the boundary in the case of $\mathcal{A}$. For $\mathcal{C}$ this is not the case, as all internal growth events result in the same leading order behavior before the next absorbing state is found. This difference in relaxation times following a growth event in the limit $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ is what underpins the differences between $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{A}$. Returning to the network growth model previously mentioned, the traveling wave is generated by repeatedly sampling the position of random walker as it forever tries (and fails) to equilibrate on an ever-growing network \cite{Ross2018b,Ross2018c}. These examples demonstrate how phenomena observed in the physics of growing active matter are often due to the growth of a space interacting with a process whose equilibration/relaxation/information propagation `rate' is held constant in some way.
Finally, it is interesting to consider what other macroscopic properties beyond the expected number of flips could be controlled by the implementation of growth. For instance, different energetic costs could be associated with different state transitions, and in this way the implementation of growth could be used to control the energetic cost of self-organisation. However, in this case we may want to associate an energetic cost with decision events whether they result in a flip or not, the expected number of which tend to infinity as $P_{g} \rightarrow 0$ in the limit.
\section*{Conflict of interest}
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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StreamYard For Mobile
April 6, 2022 by test
A Review of Streamyard
Streamyard is a web-based media studio that allows you to broadcast live video online. This web-based media studio allows you to broadcast live videos to multiple social media platforms, record them for later access, and use a green screen for your broadcasts. Read on to learn more! We've put together a review of Streamyard that covers all the bases. You can try it today to see the ease of livestreaming and recording video.
Streamyard, a web-based multimedia studio is available
Streamyard is a web-based video broadcasting platform. This application works on any browser and allows users to personalize their broadcasts. The free version allows you to stream to all platforms and to add branding banners and logos. Streamyard premium users can also change the appearance of their live videos with call-to-actions and questions displayed on-screen. Streamyard is an excellent choice for those looking to make their online video streaming experiences more customized.
With Streamyard, you can record videos and broadcast them directly to various platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. Multi-streaming is possible to expand your reach and engage your audience. You can also create custom broadcast video layouts in this studio and broadcast them to as many channels you wish. You can even hold meetings and invite up to 10 viewers to interact with your live broadcast. Although the free version allows for 20 hours of streaming, it is limited to full-HD (1080P).
Streamyard provides a free lifetime subscription. The basic package doesn't require any expensive video processing hardware such as high-performance PCs or graphics cards. All you need is a microphone and camera connected to your PC. The service can be used to livestream events, educational classes, and more. Streamyard's user interface is clean and well-labeled, which makes it easy for users to get started quickly.
You can live stream on multiple social media platforms.
Streamyard allows you to broadcast your stream live on a number of social media sites. Streamyard lets you share your entire screen, an application window, a Chrome tab, or a website, among other settings. It allows guests to share their screens with you. The tool also offers multiple layout options including split screen and full screen. If you'd like to share your screen with more than one social media platform, this tool is a great choice.
Streamyard's dashboard allows you to change between Facebook pages. The platform allows you to broadcast to multiple profiles simultaneously, but you have to reconnect with the new profile each time. If you fail to broadcast, the platform will not allow you to go live. In such cases, you can post an alternative post as the profile that failed to go live. If all else fails, you can try again by using the same login code on all your social media profiles.
Streamyard lets you broadcast your live stream to up to 8 different destinations at once. It also offers powerful call-to-action buttons, which viewers can click on while watching your stream. The call-to-action buttons can be a great way to boost conversions and increase sales. Streamyard offers customizable options that allow you to add audio and visuals. Upload your videos and images. The platform allows you to add call-to-action buttons and customize your stream as needed.
It records your broadcasts for later access
Streamyard is a web service that records your broadcasts for later access. Record yourself or others and select different broadcast settings. The recording feature lets you add additional people to the scene, change the layout, and more. You can also choose to record any activity that doesn't require live streaming. When you're ready to start broadcasting, click on the "Create Broadcast" button.
If you are a subscriber to Streamyard, you can record live broadcasts immediately. You can also create "Record Only", broadcasts if you prefer not to go live. Just select "Skip, record only" and then choose to download the recording. You'll be able to view the recording and download it in MP4 or MP3 format. After the broadcast is finished, you can edit or delete it.
You can record videos to six social media sites using Streamyard You can record videos to Facebook and YouTube. When you live stream to Facebook, you can select the right profile or group. You can also use a combination of profile and page. Streamyard is also compatible with Real-stream. Streamyard also allows you to download audio files from your broadcasts.
Streamyard has a number of features that make it worth considering. Premium users have the option to live stream to more than one destination channel. Premium users can also relay videos in Full HD (which is 1080p) resolution. It is important to note, however, that the final output depends on your viewers' connection speeds. While you can live stream using Streamyard, it does not offer video captions or analytics.
The screen is a green one
If you've ever wondered how to make videos more exciting, you can use a green screen in StreamYard. This allows you to add pictures or video loops to your stream. The green screen function is available without the need for you to install anything, unlike other live streaming apps. If you want to add additional features, you can download the Ecamm app, which will give you many more options.
It has a free account
StreamYard offers a free account, however there are additional features that you might want to look into if you plan on streaming live video. This service lets you broadcast on multiple platforms including Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube channels, Periscope, Twitch, as well as YouTube. You can also add your profile, group or page for streaming. StreamYard allows you to customize live video with a call-to-action or question.
You can create a broadcast by using Streamyard's free account, though it only lets you record five hours of video per month. In addition, you're limited to twenty hours of streaming time per month. The premium account allows you to record up to 50 hours of video per month, while the free account limits you to five hours. Streamyard offers a Business Plan, with more features. It also includes an extra five hours of cloud storage.
Streamyard also has an alternative login method. You can switch between your Facebook accounts. Switching profiles is as easy as disconnecting from the Facebook group. Then, reconnect to your new profile. Your broadcasts that were scheduled will no longer go live. You can however fix this problem manually by going live at the failing destination. Alternatively, you can schedule a post as the profile that will go live. The free account also has other features, including sharing content.
It charges a monthly fee
Streamyard charges a monthly fee for its basic and premium versions. The basic version removes the Streamyard branding and gives you up to 4 hours of HD recording. The pro version has a paid upgrade path with features like multi-streaming and full HD video quality. If you do not want your stream to be posted on the internet, or don't wish to record live, it is possible to also record. The basic plan is free, while the premium version costs $49 per month.
StreamYard provides a limited number of pre-set options that cover most streaming sites. For example, most digital broadcasters use YouTube, Facebook and Twitter for distribution. Twitch and LinkedIn are also popular among gamers and businesses. In addition, StreamYard provides a Custom RTMP option, which allows you to integrate your own destination platforms and broadcast content directly from your website. If you wish to broadcast content on multiple social networks, the business plan will be a great option.
Streamyard comes with several drawbacks. First, it limits its users to 10 per stream, which limits the ability to host large events. The transitions could be smoother. They're also abrupt. It would be helpful to have a physical switcher implemented. Lastly, Streamyard could do with more options for branding. This is the best option for those who don't want to pay a monthly subscription.
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This was inspired by the recent file making its rounds on the Net describing how to shoot yourself in the foot in a variety of programming languages. Now, the madness is extended to operating systems.
You keep running up against the one-bullet barrier.
The gun blows up in your hand.
The gun is so huge and unwieldy that you have to keep swapping it from one hand to the other.
The gun and the bullet aren't speaking to each other any more.
It's easy to shoot yourself in the foot--just point and shoot.
You can shoot yourself in the foot with either a .38 or a .45.
The Terminator shoots you in the foot. A T-Rex bites your other foot.
The gun isn't compatible with your foot.
You learn how to shoot yourself in the foot with a Saturday Night Special.
Generous programmers from around the world all join forces to help you shoot yourself in the foot for free.
You'll be able to shoot yourself in the foot Real Soon Now.
IBM shoots you in the foot.
\FOOT\ ambiguous: supply more toes.
The gun works pretty well, except that few people use one and it's impossible to find bullets.
The bullets work pretty well, but they don't make guns for it any more.
You shoot yourself in the foot with an Uzi.
You shoot all of your friends' feet simultaneously. | {
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In this simple example I would like to show you how to build an application using a few technologies like Spring Boot with FreeMarker Java Template engine for rendering the view, Java Persistence API for storing our objects into the database and simple REST API for application's data manipulation. We will add some Groovy integration tests using Spock testing and specification framework. Our application functionality will be very simple. We will be able to add users using both rendered HTML page and REST API and store them into in-memory Java SQL database called H2. The list of users will be displayed on the main page. | {
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Here are a few frugal suggestions for dining out.
Global economic crisis got you freaked? Have you unwound all your deals and cashed out of the hedge fund yet? Yeah, us neither. We're doing just fine, thank you. But still. In deference to those who really are hurting, it seems bad form to order the dry-aged Kobe tenderloin topped with foamed foie gras. Now's not the time for ostentation. So here are a few frugal suggestions for dining out. You know, for appearances' sake.
The owners of Blue Mesa Grill, Jim and Liz Baron, seek out local farms and producers. Their effort produces a fresh, all-you-can-eat buffet ($10.95) every Wednesday from 11 AM to 2 PM where you can fill your belly with enchiladas made with local chicken (fed on organically grown grains) and goat cheese from Deep Ellum's Mozzarella Company, all rolled in tortillas from Rudy's and La Mexicana in Dallas.
Chef Graham Dodds of Bolsa built his kitchen without a freezer or a fryer. He describes his menu as "fresh, local, and thoughtful." The flatbread made with Italian sausage from Jimmy's Food Store across town ($11) is enough for two. Wash it down with a Lone Star long neck for $2.50.
The Garden Cafe, run by chef-manager Bill Dietrich, has become an East Dallas institution.
Order the Garden Plate ($6.95). The corn, green beans, carrots, potatoes, and herbs all come from the restaurant's backyard garden. Oh, that comes with a slice of hot cornbread, too.
The Kozy Kitchen serves breakfast and lunch, as well as a rotating dinner menu. When was the last time you had a lunch that cost less than $15 and was prepared by not one, but two chefs who earned their tall toques at Le Cordon Bleu in Austin? A breakfast prepared by chef-owners Nicholas Pavageaux and Tiffiany Darnell is the real bargain. Go for homemade challah French toast ($6) and a vanilla latte ($3).
Most of the entrees at Cafe Amore hover around $6. You can splurge on steak and seafood options ($13 or less). But the best order is the bubbly hot cannelloni, stuffed with ricotta, ground beef, and spinach, for $5.95. Sweet tooth? House-made spumoni ice cream is a treat at $2.95.
Roma's is tucked into an unassuming strip center on Greenville, just south of Walnut Hill, and is surrounded by trees that shade the spacious outdoor patio. Complimentary baskets of glistening garlic rolls and a side of marinara prime your palate for homemade pasta. Order the sampler with lasagna, manicotti, and ravioli ($7.99).
So much love for Italian-style seafood, so little cash? Head to Sweet Basil, where you can feast in white-tablecloth style on a plate of linguini filled with clams, mussels, shrimp, and squid topped with marinara sauce for $16.99. A side salad will set you back a whole buck.
Tony's is a family-run restaurant beloved by Lake Highlands locals. Mom and Dad can enjoy a rich fettuccine Alfredo or tortellini Bolognese (both $6.95) while kids 12 and under eat for $3.50 (and get a wodge of uncooked dough to play with while they wait for their food). You can bring your own wine and stuff yourself with free garlic rolls.
Villa-O is a fashionable, upscale eatery, but you can bask in the spotlight without paying Highland Park prices. Every Sunday they offer a special three-course dinner for $15.95. Go for handmade organic pasta, Wagyu beef Bolognese, and almond biscotti cheesecake with chantilly cream. All kids under 15 eat for free.
There are many reasons to go to Dunston's. One is the boldface names that frequent the back room at the Lovers Lane location. Another is the bacon-wrapped 6-ounce Prime tenderloin served with a choice of two sides for $16.95. This is hands down the best deal in town. Perhaps that's why they've been in business for more than 50 years.
If you want a dose of kitsch with your cut, go to Charco Broiler Steak House in Oak Cliff. Its red-eyed rooftop bull, Sonny the Steer, has presided over Jefferson Boulevard for 44 years and is a fitting greeter to guests looking for a 14-ounce T-bone served with a baked potato, iceberg lettuce salad, and buttered Texas toast for $11.95.
chicken parmigiana, scallops, twin tenderloin filets Oscar, or veal piccata) along with a soup or salad and a side dish go for $18.95. And you will need a doggy bag.
One regular calls Villa's Grill "Texas de Brazil or Fogo de Chao on a government-bailout budget," which, roughly translated, means a churrascaria-style restaurant with strolling waiters proffering tender slices of beef, pork, sausage, and chicken—but on a budget. While the cost of a meat feast at the swankier Texas de Brazil and Fogo de Chao hovers at around $40, here an all-you-can-eat meat parade is $16.90 (for dinner). And you can bring your own wine.
Caravelle Chinese and Vietnamese is popular with the surrounding Asian community not just because it has pink tablecloths and chandeliers. The food here is ultra fresh, inexpensive, and the real deal. Charcoal-broiled pork with vermicelli (curls of green leaf lettuce, shredded carrot, and daikon radish mixed with the skinny noodles) tasted the same in Richardson as the dish we recently sampled in Saigon. Maybe it was even better. And the portion was large enough for two to share ($6.95).
One celebrity Dallas chef loves to eat cheap at Chaat Cafe. He doesn't want us to tell you his name because he's a noted tightwad, but he takes his family here because all items on the menu are under $10. He recommends the huge sheet of freshly baked naan bread wrapped around a mixture of spicy chicken, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, and green chiles ($5.95).
Speaking of chefs in the know, First Chinese BBQ, a Richardson outpost for authentic Chinese barbecue, draws several high-profile chefs on their nights off. It won't win any awards for atmosphere, and the service can be brusque. But the crispy-skinned duck served atop steamed rice is delicious and, at $5.95, less than one glass of wine in their restaurants. Here, you bring your own booze.
In addition to build-your-own pho ($5.95 for a hearty bowl), La Me is known for its fantastic banh mi sandwiches. Our favorite, of course, is also the most expensive: the Buu Dien, with ham, pork roll slices, and soft liver sausage on French bread ($2.75). Egg rolls are four for $1, and there's free wi-fi if you care to surf the Web while munching.
High-end, kosher-certified ingredients are expensive. That's why the vegetarian-friendly Madras Pavilion luncheon buffet ($9.99) is a steal of a deal. What you'll find: northern and southern Indian specialties such as exotic curries (some with vegetables, others with lentils); mulligatawny soup; vegetable samosas; and dosai, rice, and lentil crepes wrapped around potatoes, onions, and chutney. If you ordered these items a la carte, your tab would easily top $30.
Don't let the bars on the windows dissuade you. Mai's is a safe haven for those of us who love Thai. The delicious clay pot—shrimp, chicken, tofu, veggies, rice—will set you back a little less than $10. But our favorite is the steaming bowl of spicy chicken soup stocked with bean sprouts, mint, cilantro, and hot jalapeño ($6.50). It is big enough that it's tough for one person to finish.
Take $7 to Thai-Rrific and find a lunch buffet that includes spicy hot lemon grass soup, salad, spring rolls, egg rolls, pad thai, barbecue chicken, chicken with vegetables and cashews, curry dishes, and more. Go a few times, and the attentive staff will greet you by name.
There are three reasons to go to Toy's Cafe. One is the deep-fried corn patties (four for $6.95). Another is the Tom-Kha soup ($4.95 with chicken). But you'll want the lunch specials accompanied by a salad with peanut dressing, a crispy Thai spring roll, and steamed brown rice ($7.95).
Dallas Fish Market was recently recognized as one of the top seafood restaurants in the country, but they keep their prices customer-friendly. The $30 sunset menu pairs three courses with a glass of their house wine, white or red. Savor the lobster corn chowder and grilled salmon, and see for yourself what all the fuss is about. Dessert is warm beignets to share.
Chamberlain's Fish Market Grill offers a three-course lobster menu for $39. Okay, one man's cheap is another man's denied credit card. Instead think value: a creamy bowl of lobster bisque, the cool crunch of a lobster lettuce wrap, and an impressive finale of shrimp and crab stuffed Maine lobster.
Whether it's Aw Shucks on Greenville or the two Big Shucks locations (on Mockingbird and in Richardson), these sibling neighborhood restaurants serve a different lunch special daily, like shrimp and fries or fish tacos (both $4.95). On Tuesdays, you can add a cup of gumbo for $1.50. There's also something wonderfully appealing about their billing policy: you tell the cashier what you ate. On your honor.
The only problem at Fishmonger's Seafood is that you might have to fight for a seat. This joint is always packed with locals taking advantage of the all-you-can-eat tilapia (Tuesdays after 4 pm) and fried catfish (all day Sundays and after 4 pm Wednesdays) for $11.99. That will also get you french fries, red beans and rice, and a choice of salad or coleslaw.
If you like your fish funky side up, head to Flying Fish and make friends with one of the many Billy Bass trophies on the walls while you wait for a basket of catfish fillet, hush puppies, and fries ($4.99). Dieting? Order a grilled, hand-sized slab of tilapia served on a mountain of fresh greens ($8.99). Want to know a real secret deal? An 18-ounce margarita is only $8.
Pad thai is popular at the original location of Asian Mint, but $1 sushi nights on Mondays and Tuesdays draw the crowds. Graze through nine types of fresh nigiri, including yellowtail, salmon, and red snapper, or throw down a sawbuck on 10 pieces of yellowtail that would normally cost you $22.50.
Oishii sits in an off-the-radar spot on Wycliff. Go on Tuesday nights, when, from 5 to 10 PM, nigiri sushi—tuna, octopus, red snapper, and salmon—is only $1 a pop. We like to sit at the sushi bar and watch the chefs. And not just for their knife skills.
Everyone thinks tiny Seabose in Carrollton is his own undiscovered secret. If so, that's not true anymore. Spicy tuna rolls are $4.50 ($7.50 at Nobu), and tuna nigiri is a bargain at $2. Vegetarians can order avocado cucumber rolls for $2.99 and tamago (omelet) nigiri for $1.50.
Tables at Steel are always filled with Uptowners and businesspeople, but on Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7, the place really gets hopping for its famous "free" sushi night (which actually costs two drinks). The buffet table offers California rolls, spicy tuna rolls, shrimp tempura, and Cajun rolls. For the price of two domestic beers ($3 each), martinis ($5 each), or glasses of Cadaretta S.B.S. white wine (a splurge at $13 each), "free" almost doesn't need the quotation marks. | {
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Home News Microsoft announces Minecraft Earth, an AR game set in the real world
Microsoft announces Minecraft Earth, an AR game set in the real world
Minecraft Earth is a new AR game coming to Android and iOS this summer – from Microsoft. Yes, you read that right, Microsoft is going head to head with Pokemon GO, Wizards Unite and JWA this summer with persistent AR Minecraft holograms. No loot boxes, no pay to win, only raw Minecraft. Closed beta is coming this summer.
Announced at the Microsoft's campus by Alex Kipman, Minecraft Earth is the next installment in the booming block building franchise. Earth is special, as it takes place in a very special world – our world – and aims to invoke the same exploration fantasy as the original PC game. Minecraft already has 91 million active players, a number which is likely to grow as Earth goes live.
The game is one of the most ambitious attempts at planet scale AR we've seen to date, as every system in the game seems to work seamlessly in real time. This is a bit hard to explain in words, but keep in mind that everything written here can be seen by other players and they can interact with it.
Before we continue, we strongly recommend you watch the cheeky reveal trailer below:
Next generation of AR
The game is an adaptation, not a direct clone of Minecraft, but it is build on the existing Bedrock engine, which means all Minecraft behaviours and features will be present: from Redstone machines to spider spawners.
Just like Pokemon GO, Minecraft Earth forces you to venture out into the real world and collect resources. Unlike GO, these "tapables" are placed randomly around you and there should always be at least two nearby. Tapables are the key to building stuff, as they reward resources and items needed for the building mode.
In order to build structures, players will have to use build plates. Build plates come in a variety of sizes, from table top to 200 x 200 feet gargantuans. Building seems to be real time and collaborative, everything that other players do is also visible to you. All you have to do is to raise your phone and you will see what's going on.
Wait, what? You read it right.
Microsoft is going the extra mile and enabling something Niantic has been blabbering about for years now: shared multiplayer AR experiences. Microsoft is using its new Azure Spatial Anchors technology, combined with machine vision, to enable anchoring AR content on top of real-world objects.
The objects you create in Minecraft Earth will always stay in the same place – regardless of who's looking at them.
Another adventurous win for OpenStreetMap
As reported by The Verge, "We have covered the entire planet in Minecraft," explains Torfi Olafsson (game director). "Every lake is a place you can fish, every park is a place you can chop down trees. We've actually taken maps of the entire world and converted them to Minecraft.".
These maps are based on OpenStreetMap, an open source repository of user provided map data, also used by Pokemon GO. The maps are also used as places for Minecraft adventures – dungeons that range from easy loot grabs to challenging encounters where you can lose your items if you die.
Adventures are designed for multiple players and are played in real time, while seeing other players, shared mobs and resources in real time! The idea is that you essentially become your phone in Minecraft Earth, and your camera is a lens into this virtual world.
Adventures are not "announced" anywhere, they simply randomly appear on the world map. Microsoft is relying on people going out and seeing them, rather than having an in-game map to inform players on their existence. There's a deep layer of intricate social behaviour at work here, as players will need off screen communication support to report Adventures with fellow players.
Jason Cahill, an engineering architect for Minecraft, said that adventures will be heavily based on data coming in from Microsoft's Azure Spatial Anchors. The data will be anonymized and used only to detect object features and create "safe spots" for adventure spawns. Cahill emphasized that adventures will start off conservatively, based on places where players often collect tapables. If the system determines the area as "safe", the adventure will be permanently placed on the map and new players will simply need to walk up and start interacting with it.
Microsoft now plans to let Minecraft players access Minecraft Earth for a closed beta this summer. It's not clear how many will be able to access the beta, or whether it will be restricted to the US initially. It's early days for Minecraft Earth, and Microsoft doesn't have all of the answers to many questions figured out just yet.
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CloudBees raises $62M for its DevOps platform
CloudBees, the Jenkins-based DevOps platform that recently acquired Codeship, today announced that it has raised a $62 million funding round. The round consists of a traditional $37 million equity round led by Delta-v Capital and $25 million of growth financing from Golub Capital's Late Stage Lending. Existing investors, including Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Ventures, Unusual Ventures and Verizon Ventures, also participated.
With this round, CloudBees has now raised a total of more than $100 million since it was founded back in 2010. In a fast-growing and competitive business like DevOps, that's the kind of funding you need to be able to buy up smaller players and expand quickly to gain the kind of market share you need to compete with the other large players in this business.
Today, virtually every company is using software to continuously improve its products and business," said Matt Parson, CloudBees' chief financial officer. "The DevOps market is exploding as the transformation to a global continuous economy emerges. We have seen significant growth in our business over the last several years, but we now see an even bigger opportunity just in front of us as continuous software delivery becomes a strategic imperative for every business."
CloudBees' customers currently include 46 of the Fortune 100 enterprises and three of the Fortune 10.
The open-source Jenkins automation server forms the core of CloudBees' product lineup (and it also offers training and certification for Jenkins). Like similar open-source companies, CloudBees then extends Jenkins with additional enterprise features and bundles them into its various offerings. With the recently acquired Codeship, it now also offers an additional continuous integration and delivery platform that it can offer as a hosted service that isn't so closely tied to Jenkins.
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Magnetic structure and properties of the S=5 2 triangular antiferromagnet α-NaFe O2
T. McQueen, Q. Huang, J. W. Lynn, R. F. Berger, T. Klimczuk, B. G. Ueland, P. Schiffer, R. J. Cava
The magnetic properties of α-NaFe O2 are studied by neutron-diffraction and magnetization measurements. An ordered phase with spins aligned along the b hex axis exists at low temperatures (T<4 K). At intermediate temperatures (4 K<T<11 K), the system passes through an incommensurate ordered phase before transforming into a short-range-ordered state at higher temperatures that persists up to at least 50 K. Although the short-range ordering does not persist to room temperature according to neutron diffraction, the magnetic susceptibility does not follow the Curie-Weiss behavior, even up to 320 K. This rich magnetic behavior can be understood qualitatively as a competition between different magnetic exchange interactions that are similar in magnitude. The delicate balance between these interactions makes α-NaFe O2 a candidate for more detailed theoretical work to understand magnetic behavior in frustrated magnetic systems.
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McQueen, T., Huang, Q., Lynn, J. W., Berger, R. F., Klimczuk, T., Ueland, B. G., Schiffer, P., & Cava, R. J. (2007). Magnetic structure and properties of the S=5 2 triangular antiferromagnet α-NaFe O2. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 76(2), [024420]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.024420
McQueen, T. ; Huang, Q. ; Lynn, J. W. et al. / Magnetic structure and properties of the S=5 2 triangular antiferromagnet α-NaFe O2. In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2007 ; Vol. 76, No. 2.
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Who knew that the best way to help ward off arthritis winter blues is to make like a Scandinavian?
Do you have arthritis? Are you struggling with the cold? Follow these tips from our Scandinavian friends and you'll be winter-ready in no time.
Our Scandinavian friends make dealing with the cold months look so effortless and pain-free. There's no slipping over in the snow or arriving at the pub with blue lips, rigid hands and a broken ankle. They glow in the snow, like a Ready Brek advert with better clothes. Scandi Chic rocks, and it's a great lifestyle if you're struggling with arthritis in the winter months too.
The Norwegians, Danes, Swedish and Fins love knitwear the way that Santa loves red velvet. No Scandinavian wardrobe is complete without at least seven patterned jumpers – one for each day – a jolly array of hats, gloves, scarves, knitted underwear and socks.
The key to great knitwear is great yarns – cheap acrylic knits can be cold, cotton knits not much better. For proper warmth you need wool, wool mixes, mohairs, angoras, cashmere, alpaca, silk. Basically, if an animal made it, it's warm and it will breathe.
It was probably a Scandinavian who coined the term 'base layer'. Base layers – the really warm garments that go underneath your actual clothes – are brilliant. They do for warmth what Spanx do for curves.
Invest in the right under-garments – you'll want them close fitting, made from natural fibres (merino and silk are amazing), with as few seams as possible – and you can pretty much wear any top layer and stay comfy and warm. Give your hands and feet base layers too – with socks under tights (or over), and gloves under mittens.
Think about getting dressed in terms of base layers, mid layers and outer layers and you'll be the smug one in the pub, laughing and singing Christmas carols while your mates are crying in the loos, huddled around the hand-dryers.
We're talking rugs, throws, blankets, bedspreads (no we don't know the difference between a throw and a blanket either). Go in a Nordic home and there won't be one throw hanging about on the sofa when ten can do – that's one for knees, shoulders, sitting on, sharing with the dog, throwing at visitors, etc.
By the way, don't save throws for sofas – use them on knees at the dinner table too, or while sitting at a desk. The Nordic House does lovely throws, including this quite pricey alpaca throw. Ikea and Dunelm Mill have a good range of cheaper alternatives, too.
It doesn't stop at throws, though. Rugs will be layered over other rugs, over wooden floorboards, to stop heat escaping. Doors will have curtains at them, and curtains will have linings. And the patterns are so vibrant you can't help but feel warm and happy. Endorphins are great natural painkillers.
You don't have to be a woman to wear warm tights, chaps, and these 300 denier tights from Asda have rave reviews from proper Scandinavian-type blokes who chop down trees and fight bears for a living. At £4 per pair, you can afford one for every day of the week.
Of course, if you want to make it all a bit more 'sporty' you can pay anything up to about £80 for running tights that do the same job of keeping sore knees, hips and ankles warm on freezing days.
Ladies – do we need to tell you that tights are a good idea in winter? Thought not.
As important as warmth, and ease of getting on and off, is a good solid grip on a pair of shoes or boots. Falling over on already sore joints is no laughing matter.
Granted you won't want to wear this style every day, but as soon as it gets remotely snowy, icy, or cold and wet, it's worth putting your work / party shoes in a bag and donning a pair of super-gripped boots like these North Face snow boots for the journey.
Functional footwear for getting from A to B is as likely to be seen on the most stylish folk in cities as well as the country nowadays, so much so that you'll lose cool points for struggling in to work or out to the pub in totally inappropriate shoes, no matter how pretty they are.
Scandinavians literally point and laugh at twits in bad footwear, even little children. Probably. Ditto bad coats, by the way.
A warm tummy equals a warm body, says vascular surgeon Eddie Chaloner in the Daily Mail (so it must be true), and Scandinavians live and breathe by the rule.
The theory is that when arms and legs get cold blood vessels constrict and direct blood to the torso. If you keep your torso warm it maintains body heat overall.
Gilets are great for the job, and there are loads of styles for both men and women.
Sheepskin insoles, Celtic Wool Co.
Okay, we know they love knitwear but Scandinavians love anything sheepskin too. Sheepskin rugs, gloves, hats – real sheepskin has a warming effect in winter and cooling in summer, and has natural antibacterial properties.
Give your feet a fighting chance by popping some sheepskin insoles inside your winter boots and shoes. These ones from Celtic & Co (£12) look like walking on clouds – warm ones!
We are talking proper survivalist stuff, like tin foil behind the radiators, secondary glazing on old windows (if double glazing is out of the question) and chimney balloons up open chimneys. Sort out draughts and you will save yourself money as well as aches and pains.
If all of that sounds like too much effort at least get yourself some draught excluders. Stuff an old pair of tights with unwanted chopped up fabrics (old towels, socks, etc) to make your own or buy yourself a jolly nice foxy one like these, made by MidCentury Boutique UK and sold on Etsy.
The Scandis look so ruddy faced and healthy literally all of the time! They don't take winter lightly, and that's especially true when it comes to stocking up on nutritious food through the year to get them through the snowy months. The native style is to to pickle stuff, because it keeps longer.
Unless you're partial to pickled herrings, you might be better making sure you get your flu jab (ask your GP) and keeping a hand sanitiser in your bag to help fight off winter bugs.
Scandinavians enjoy a very active outdoorsy lifestyle – competency at winter sports is practically in the genes – and it helps to keep them fit and strong in the winter. They even have an annual Wife Carrying Competition – a tradition you might wish to try very carefully or, better still, avoid completely!
In some parts of Scandinavia it can literally stay dark for weeks on end, and this can have a natural depressant effect and sap energy.
As a consequence Scandinavians don't take chances with their mental health and have built into their lifestyles and culture things that lift the spirits, such as a focus on eating together and celebrating festivals (they love a national holiday), as well as having a generally accepting approach to using aids such as daylight lamps to help combat Seasonal Affective Disorder and anti-depressants when needed.
Give your emotional health as much TLC as your physical health in the winter by doing more of what makes you happy. If you feel you need help with your mood, do talk to a friend, your Rheumatology nurse or GP. Help is at hand.
If you feel even more drained of energy and fatigued in winter visit our dedicated section Tackle Tiredness Today.
Is there anything more comforting than a hot bath on a cold day? Well, yes there is, in my opinion… hitting an outdoor hot tub with a handful (and eyeful!) of hunky Swedish dudes.
If you're short on Swedes, pop some bubble bath with warming ingredients in the tub instead to soothe aching joints. Ginger is thought to be warming.
Avoid cheap bath oils which can leave surfaces slippy and don't bathe too close to going out as dilated blood capillaries lose heat more quickly.
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HOW CAN WE BUILD A COLLABORATIVE SOCIETY?
by Collaborate CIC
Thu, 13 June 2019, 18:00 – 20:30 BST
25 Canada Square,
Citigroup Centre
E14 5LQ
Collaborate CIC's Summer Event 2019:
I am delighted to invite you to Collaborate CIC's Summer Event: How can we build a Collaborative Society?
Now more than ever we need to consider what the future of society could look like. We think this future is collaborative: this is about the way we approach some of our greatest challenges – from climate change to inequality – but also about how we relate to each other, how we organise, lead, share power and mobilise for change.
At this event we will take the theme of the Collaborative Society as a starting point for exploring provocative ideas and inspiring examples and rich discussion. The event will begin with contributions from a fantastic line up of leading thinkers and practitioners from different fields:
The acclaimed and 'renegade' economist and author who is exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century's social and ecological challenges. Kate's internationally acclaimed idea of Doughnut Economics has been widely influential amongst sustainable development thinkers, progressive businesses and political activists. Kate is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute and a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Rebekah Sutcliffe
The Strategic Director of Reform at Oldham, a place that is leading the field in place-based public service reform, alongside investment in thriving communities and inclusive approaches to growth.
Immy Kaur
The Co-Founder and Director of Birmingham Impact Hub, a system change activist focused on creating large scale systemic change with citizens at its heart, bridging the space between complex systems science and bold experimental practice in Birmingham. Immy is the creator of projects and spaces that bring together diverse, passionate and talented people and create unlikely collaborations for local change.
Duncan Green
The Strategic Adviser to Oxfam GB, author of 'How Change Happens' and the From Poverty to Power blog. Duncan is a Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics. Duncan's work on how to create change in complex and uncertain environments addresses questions of power, complexity and system change, drawing on academia and learning from examples across the world.
Isabelle Kocher (invited)
The Chief Executive Officer of ENGIE, Isabelle's ambition is to make ENGIE – the world's largest non-state-owned energy company - the leader of the energy revolution. In her first move as CEO, Kocher instituted a three-year plan to shirt the company's portfolio from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. A 'born reformer', Isabelle is the only female CEO of a CAC40 company.
The event will be chaired by Collaborate's Chair, Lord Victor Adebowale, and we are grateful to Engie UK for hosting at their offices. There will be a drinks reception afterwards.
I do hope you will be able to join us for this exciting and timely discussion.
Anna Randle
Chief Executive of Collaborate CIC
Registration will be open from 18:00pm for a prompt start at 18:30pm
*Please bring a form of ID with you for security purposes
Address: 25 Canada Square (also known as the Citigroup Centre), Canary Wharf, E14 5LQ
The Engie entrance (there is more than one to the building) is on Upper Bank Street.
Tube / DLR: Canary Wharf - Upper Bank Street exit is signposted in the tube station.
As you'll see from the map below, 25 Canada Square is also known as the Citigroup Centre.
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Le championnat du monde de squash 2007 est l'édition 2007 du championnat du monde qui se déroule du 25 novembre au décembre 2007 aux Bermudes.
Amr Shabana gagne son troisième titre de champion du monde en battant Grégory Gaultier en finale.
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For several years American Music Festivals has been exploring Chinese music and collaborating with the Chinese-American community in Chicago. On February 10, our Artist in Residence and Director of Outreach to China and the Far East Gong Qian Yang was honored by an invitation to a reception hosted by the Chinese Consul General at Chicago Symphony Center in celebration of the Chinese New Year. There he met with His Excellency Cui Tiankai, Chinese Ambassador to the USA, Deputy Consul General Liu Jun, and Mr. Jeff Alexander, President, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Yang's music been performed by the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra in concerts in Chicago's Chinatown and on the 2017-18 International Cultural Exchange Festival in Chicago. The composer's music is a unique blend of Impressionism, the Chinese folk tradition, and modern Western techniques. He is equally comfortable writing for orchestra and electronic media.
Mr. Yang is well respected for his understanding of introducing Chinese music to the Western world and was featured in a recent article on Xinhuanet. For more information about the composer please visit his website, www.yanggongqian.com.
American Music Festivals has been collaborating with organizations around the world for 20 years!
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Q: JQuery-Django If Statement is Not Working I'm trying to add a simple popup window to my Django app. How it works is when I press the Yes button, it sends a request to my Django views. However, I want it to automatically close after I press Yes. Unfortunately, the problem with putting it directly in my "click" function is that it closes the window altogether without sending a request to my Django views.
That is why I wanted to add a variable "clicked". After the button is clicked, I want it to change the variable value to "true" so that I can run an if statement ultimately to close the window. For some reason, the popup window automatically closes when I try to open it. My guess is that the if statement is not working properly? Thank you for your help!
$(document).ready(function(){
var clicked=false;
var deleteid;
$('#yes').click(function(){
deleteid = $(this).attr("data-deleteid");
$.get ('../../delete_function/', {delete_id:deleteid}, function(data){});
clicked = true;
});
if (clicked = true){
window.close();
}
});
A: Close the window in the callback function of $.get.
$.get ('../../delete_function/', {delete_id:deleteid}, function(){
window.close();
});
Your if (clicked == true) is only running when the page is loaded, because it's not inside any event handler. At that point, the button obviously hasn't been clicked yet, so it doesn't do anything.
If you call window.close() directly from the click handler, it will close the window before the AJAX call has a chance to run. When you close a window, all script it was running, including any AJAX operations that were queued, are killed.
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Barcelona will be indebted in order to sign Erling Haaland
When he agreed on a loan worth almost 600,000,000 euros in the Goldman Sachs bank this summer, Joan Laporta claimed that he was doing it to repair the damage done during the disastrous presidential term of his predecessor, Josep Maria Bartomeu.
As time passes, Barcelona is increasingly threatening to become a slave to banks and investment funds, that is, money injections for which it is not known whether they will be able to return. The news that Joan Laporta and Mino Raiola met in Turin to discuss the possible transfer of Erling Haaland to the summer has been continued.
The Iberian Peninsula echoes the details of Laporta's plan to get a big signature that would start a new era of a club whose debts are accumulating every day. Namely, the president of Barcelona is willing to take a new loan, this time for the amount needed to complete Haaland's transfer.
That is roughly around 170,000,000 euros, with all the compensation, signature bonuses and commissions to Raiola and Haaland's father. Catalan Sport writes that several investment funds, mostly American, have shown great interest in entering into a deal with Barcelona, under the pretext of "helping the club's financial recovery", which in practice can be a double-edged sword.
Let us remind you, That money was planned to be used during Bartomeu's tenure for his megalomaniac project Espai Barça, which was to renovate the entire Camp Nou stadium and turn it into one of the most modern football facilities in the world, plus to make the whole complex a sports city with Barcelona stamp.
Laporta soon changed his purpose after the March elections, as Barcelona's debts have long exceeded one billion euros.
American CVC
One of the investment funds with which Barcelona could agree on a new financial injection is the American CVC, who raised a lot of dust in Spain and the football world this summer after the decision to buy 8.2 percent of shares in La Liga's commercial rights for over two billion euros.
That guarantees part of the earnings for the next 50 years. Interestingly, Barcelona is one of the clubs that has been against this agreement from the beginning, but that does not seem to stop club leaders from thinking about another type of business with CVC.
As for Haaland's eventual arrival, he allegedly set one condition for Barcelona's transfer to the summer, and that is for the team to be a participant in the Champions League. The strong Norwegian is Real Madrid's first target together with Kylian Mbappe and it is no secret that his desire is to borrow Blancos' jersey, but in his close circle there is a belief that Haaland could be the bearer of a new wave that would return the club to the top of Europe and the world football. Especially since the contact between Raiola and Laporte was positive. | {
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/*
* srm_env.c - Access to SRM environment
* variables through linux' procfs
*
* (C) 2001,2002,2006 by Jan-Benedict Glaw <[email protected]>
*
* This driver is at all a modified version of Erik Mouw's
* Documentation/DocBook/procfs_example.c, so: thank
* you, Erik! He can be reached via email at
* <[email protected]>. It is based on an idea
* provided by DEC^WCompaq^WIntel's "Jumpstart" CD. They
* included a patch like this as well. Thanks for idea!
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute
* it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
* Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software
* Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
* useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
* warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
* PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
* details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
* License along with this program; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
* Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <asm/console.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/machvec.h>
#define BASE_DIR "srm_environment" /* Subdir in /proc/ */
#define NAMED_DIR "named_variables" /* Subdir for known variables */
#define NUMBERED_DIR "numbered_variables" /* Subdir for all variables */
#define VERSION "0.0.6" /* Module version */
#define NAME "srm_env" /* Module name */
MODULE_AUTHOR("Jan-Benedict Glaw <[email protected]>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Accessing Alpha SRM environment through procfs interface");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
typedef struct _srm_env {
char *name;
unsigned long id;
struct proc_dir_entry *proc_entry;
} srm_env_t;
static struct proc_dir_entry *base_dir;
static struct proc_dir_entry *named_dir;
static struct proc_dir_entry *numbered_dir;
static char number[256][4];
static srm_env_t srm_named_entries[] = {
{ "auto_action", ENV_AUTO_ACTION },
{ "boot_dev", ENV_BOOT_DEV },
{ "bootdef_dev", ENV_BOOTDEF_DEV },
{ "booted_dev", ENV_BOOTED_DEV },
{ "boot_file", ENV_BOOT_FILE },
{ "booted_file", ENV_BOOTED_FILE },
{ "boot_osflags", ENV_BOOT_OSFLAGS },
{ "booted_osflags", ENV_BOOTED_OSFLAGS },
{ "boot_reset", ENV_BOOT_RESET },
{ "dump_dev", ENV_DUMP_DEV },
{ "enable_audit", ENV_ENABLE_AUDIT },
{ "license", ENV_LICENSE },
{ "char_set", ENV_CHAR_SET },
{ "language", ENV_LANGUAGE },
{ "tty_dev", ENV_TTY_DEV },
{ NULL, 0 },
};
static srm_env_t srm_numbered_entries[256];
static int
srm_env_read(char *page, char **start, off_t off, int count, int *eof,
void *data)
{
int nbytes;
unsigned long ret;
srm_env_t *entry;
if (off != 0) {
*eof = 1;
return 0;
}
entry = (srm_env_t *) data;
ret = callback_getenv(entry->id, page, count);
if ((ret >> 61) == 0) {
nbytes = (int) ret;
*eof = 1;
} else
nbytes = -EFAULT;
return nbytes;
}
static int
srm_env_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, unsigned long count,
void *data)
{
int res;
srm_env_t *entry;
char *buf = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_USER);
unsigned long ret1, ret2;
entry = (srm_env_t *) data;
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
res = -EINVAL;
if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
goto out;
res = -EFAULT;
if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, count))
goto out;
buf[count] = '\0';
ret1 = callback_setenv(entry->id, buf, count);
if ((ret1 >> 61) == 0) {
do
ret2 = callback_save_env();
while((ret2 >> 61) == 1);
res = (int) ret1;
}
out:
free_page((unsigned long)buf);
return res;
}
static void
srm_env_cleanup(void)
{
srm_env_t *entry;
unsigned long var_num;
if (base_dir) {
/*
* Remove named entries
*/
if (named_dir) {
entry = srm_named_entries;
while (entry->name != NULL && entry->id != 0) {
if (entry->proc_entry) {
remove_proc_entry(entry->name,
named_dir);
entry->proc_entry = NULL;
}
entry++;
}
remove_proc_entry(NAMED_DIR, base_dir);
}
/*
* Remove numbered entries
*/
if (numbered_dir) {
for (var_num = 0; var_num <= 255; var_num++) {
entry = &srm_numbered_entries[var_num];
if (entry->proc_entry) {
remove_proc_entry(entry->name,
numbered_dir);
entry->proc_entry = NULL;
entry->name = NULL;
}
}
remove_proc_entry(NUMBERED_DIR, base_dir);
}
remove_proc_entry(BASE_DIR, NULL);
}
return;
}
static int __init
srm_env_init(void)
{
srm_env_t *entry;
unsigned long var_num;
/*
* Check system
*/
if (!alpha_using_srm) {
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: This Alpha system doesn't "
"know about SRM (or you've booted "
"SRM->MILO->Linux, which gets "
"misdetected)...\n", __FUNCTION__);
return -ENODEV;
}
/*
* Init numbers
*/
for (var_num = 0; var_num <= 255; var_num++)
sprintf(number[var_num], "%ld", var_num);
/*
* Create base directory
*/
base_dir = proc_mkdir(BASE_DIR, NULL);
if (!base_dir) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't create base dir /proc/%s\n",
BASE_DIR);
goto cleanup;
}
base_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE;
/*
* Create per-name subdirectory
*/
named_dir = proc_mkdir(NAMED_DIR, base_dir);
if (!named_dir) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't create dir /proc/%s/%s\n",
BASE_DIR, NAMED_DIR);
goto cleanup;
}
named_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE;
/*
* Create per-number subdirectory
*/
numbered_dir = proc_mkdir(NUMBERED_DIR, base_dir);
if (!numbered_dir) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't create dir /proc/%s/%s\n",
BASE_DIR, NUMBERED_DIR);
goto cleanup;
}
numbered_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE;
/*
* Create all named nodes
*/
entry = srm_named_entries;
while (entry->name && entry->id) {
entry->proc_entry = create_proc_entry(entry->name,
0644, named_dir);
if (!entry->proc_entry)
goto cleanup;
entry->proc_entry->data = (void *) entry;
entry->proc_entry->owner = THIS_MODULE;
entry->proc_entry->read_proc = srm_env_read;
entry->proc_entry->write_proc = srm_env_write;
entry++;
}
/*
* Create all numbered nodes
*/
for (var_num = 0; var_num <= 255; var_num++) {
entry = &srm_numbered_entries[var_num];
entry->name = number[var_num];
entry->proc_entry = create_proc_entry(entry->name,
0644, numbered_dir);
if (!entry->proc_entry)
goto cleanup;
entry->id = var_num;
entry->proc_entry->data = (void *) entry;
entry->proc_entry->owner = THIS_MODULE;
entry->proc_entry->read_proc = srm_env_read;
entry->proc_entry->write_proc = srm_env_write;
}
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: version %s loaded successfully\n", NAME,
VERSION);
return 0;
cleanup:
srm_env_cleanup();
return -ENOMEM;
}
static void __exit
srm_env_exit(void)
{
srm_env_cleanup();
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: unloaded successfully\n", NAME);
return;
}
module_init(srm_env_init);
module_exit(srm_env_exit);
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Home » Uncategorized » A salty story
A salty story
by gandaily November 29, 2007 April 20, 2021
These days, students are on a first-name basis with their favorite campus bar – whether it's Mitch's, Ashley's, Rick's or Charlie's. But it wasn't always this way.
For more than 50 years, a bar known simply as "P-Bell" topped the list.
The Pretzel Bell, which opened in 1934 after Prohibition was repealed, was an extremely popular student hot spot on the southwest corner Liberty and Fourth Ave. up until it closed in the summer of 1985.
The bar was also a favorite gathering place for several campus groups, including members of The Michigan Daily and the Men's Glee Club.
On weekend nights, the Pretzel Bell hosted live music. For many years, a local blue grass band, the RFD Boys, played on most Saturday nights, usually to a full house.
Now the Champion House, a Chinese and Japanese local restaurant, occupies the building. Although the Pretzel Bell has been closed for more then 20 years, alumni still regularly ask for directions to their one-time favorite watering hole, according to Champion House employees.
While many locals and alumni remember the Pretzel Bell fondly, the campus icon also had its share of legal troubles over the years.
The early 1980s marked the beginning of the Pretzel Bell's legal issues.
Late in 1983 and again in mid 1984, the Pretzel Bell was closed by the Washtenaw County Health Department because of health violations.
The bar closed for good when the IRS seized its assets in the summer of 1985 after owner Clint Castor Jr. failed to pay more than $110,000 in employees' withholding taxes, dating back to 1982, The Detroit News reported.
On April 16, 1985, the IRS auctioned off most of the fixtures and memorabilia of the bar, including the bar's lamps and namesake bell. The items grossed $208,000, according to The Ann Arbor News.
Years earlier the Castor family was also the victim of kidnapping. In 1973, two men forced themselves into the Castor home and tied up Clint Castor Sr. and his wife, demanding money.
When Castor told men all the money he had was at the restaurant, the men drove him there at gunpoint where they stole $1,500 in cash.
During the ride back, Castor overheard the two men discussing whether or not to kill him. While the car was moving, he jumped out. Then he called police. The men were all eventually caught and charged.
– ALEX KAZICKAS
An ode to college caffeination
Campus Culture reviews: Dining hall edition
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Can Tide use its Tide Coldwater to help P&G to achieve its 2020 sustainability goals? Specifically, its goal to make sure 70% of all laundry washes are washed in cold water? This secondary data research report covers the various stages of the marketing planning process including situation analysis, target marketing, and the marketing mix. In the first stage, Tide Coldwater has a great opportunity in pursuing the Millennial market, but they are threatened by the mind of the consumer as well as fossil fuel depletion. Migration of other cultures is also an important cultural issue identified in situation analysis. Tide Coldwater has the benefit of the Tide brand name, but it has weak promotion to back it up, especially with regards to its "sustainability" goals. Using the outcomes of the situation analysis, a set of specific target marketing recommendations was made. Namely, targeting U.S Millennials, an increasingly diverse target market that is being affected by values brought in by immigrants from Mexico, Brazil, China, and India was recommended. Furthermore, Millennials are heavily involved in social media, care about environmental causes, and have high values of family. The proposed value proposition, "Smart savings for your family, and the environment", seeks to provide U.S. Millennials with values that speak to them and help to position Tide in ways consistent with P&G's goals. Subsequent marketing mix recommendations were then designed to communicate this value proposition in a cost-efficient way. The report was reviewed by the client, Petra Stovickova (Associate Director, Communications, Procter & Gamble, Fabric Care, Americas) and can be accessed at http://www.bluezzoon.com/Bluezzoon/Home/Entries/2013/9/16_Wash_in_cold_water_and_end_malnutri tion.html. | {
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3. Click the "Save and display" button at the bottom of the page to complete the initial setup. Now that you've created the Forum, you need to add topics to which your students will respond.
3. You also have options to include a file attachment to your posting. After at least adding a "Subject" and "Message", be sure to click the "Post to forum" button. | {
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A person jumping down a hill on his snowboard in the winter
A snowboarder glides down a stair rail .
A snowboarder goes down a short hill next to stairs .
A snowboarder is going down a snowy hill next to a staircase behind a building .
Person snowboarding on hill near snow covered stairs with buildings nearby .
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Q: How can I fix the footer to dynamically change with height of the grid sections as they increase? So I'm trying to make this page footer go to the bottom always. But see the image and look whats happening.
How can I fix that? I know the yellow thing is weird but that's where actually the links would go when the website is done. so consider this like "testing".
I just want the footer to stop becoming "less" than the body contents (divs)
I want it to always be at the bottom
Here is image: click here for image. Edit doc is the footer section basically
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title></title>
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="images/logo.ico">
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
<link href="css/homepageStyle.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="css/viewDocsStyle.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="javascript/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="javascript/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <!-- Bootstrap JavaScript -->
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div class="container">
<a href=""><img class="logoImage" border="0" alt="logo" src="images/logo.gif"></a>
</div>
</header>
<div class="ContentSection1" id="blueStretched">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-2" id="left">
Team Created Docs
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6" id="center">
Doc View
</div>
<div class="col-sm-2" id="right">
Team Chat
</div>
</div>
</div>
<footer>
<div class="container">
<div class="col-lg-12">
<ul class="list-inline">
<li>
<button class="btn" type="button" onclick="location.href='';">Edit Document</button>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
#left {
background-color: yellow;
left: 7.75%;
padding-bottom: 60%;
}
#center {
background-color: Lightblue;
left: 8%;
text-align: center;
}
#right {
background-color: gray;
left: 8.25%;
}
footer{
position: absolute;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
padding: 1rem;
}
#blueStretched{
background-color: AliceBlue ;
height: 75%;
}
header {
padding: 20px 0;
background: url(../images/HPbg.jpg) no-repeat 100% 0%;
text-align: center;
}
footer {
padding: 25px 0;
background-color: #99CCCC;
text-align: center;
}
.logoImage {
position: absolute;
left: 47%;
top: 3.5%;
z-index: 1;
}
.ContentSection1 {
padding: 50px 0;
background-color: AliceBlue ;
}
body, html {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
A: Your code seems to be correct. I believe it is because of a margin overlap. Try giving overflow: hidden to the footer:
footer {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
padding: 1rem;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0;
}
A: Create a new css stylesheet then insert the code below.
#footer {
height: 60px;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
margin-top:50px;
padding-top:20px;
padding-bottom:20px;
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Then insert your new stylesheet/custom below the bootstrap css. Then create a div and put an id of "footer".
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A: footer{padding:1rem;}
#blueStretched{background-color: AliceBlue ;}
You have to edit your footer and remove everything except the padding.
And you have to remove the height of your #blueStretched
A: A small change in your code. Try this...
footer{
position: relative;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
padding: 1rem;
}
A: set up your footer and main content like this:
#footer {position: relative;
margin-top: -20%;
height: -20%;
clear:both;}
#blueStretched {
background-color: AliceBlue;
overflow:hidden;
padding-bottom: 0%;
}
See fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ajoLgL4o/24/
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National Geographic : 1987 Aug
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Yes, definitely! Squad training is suitable for all P.U.M.A. students (except Little PUMAs) over 7. The sessions are a great opportunity to get some extra training in and work with some of P.U.M.A.s international competitors and under the instruction of our national coaches. We regularly have students from yellow belt to 4th degree black belt; and 7 year olds through to those in their 50's and beyond attending the sessions.
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Here's a case of a finely made film about characters you may not want to follow. Directed by brothers Benny Safdie and Joshua Safdie, "Heaven Knows What," shown at the 2014 New York Film Festival, is about the degradation of drug addiction and the sad toll it takes on those hooked.
Ronald Bronstein's screenplay follows fate of Arielle Holmes as teenaged Harley, a fictional character based on Holmes herself. Arielle leads a sad life on the streets of New York, going from bad to worse in her quest for drugs. She has a bad-for-her boyfriend, Ilya, played by Caleb Landry Jones, who mistreats her even though he has a certain amount of affection for her.
Getting heroin is a constant quest, involving begging and maneuvering, and there is always the possibility of violence, given the nature of dealing in drugs. Mainly the film explores the lower depths of life under such circumstances, and the rampant self-destruction attendant to the problem, especially as it affects Arielle.
The filmmakers impressively capture this world and make it look almost like a documentary. But the better the filming, the more difficult it becomes to watch its relentless downside. One can admire the achievement, and yet find the experience off-putting. Reviewed October 21, 2014. | {
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JP Lawrence works at the intersection of law and technology as an intellectual property engineer at RapidSOS. We sat down with JP and he spoke to us about the role the Intellectual Property Team plays in protecting our life-saving technology.
Perry Sy, a Frontend Engineer at RapidSOS, is our Employee Spotlight of the Week! He speaks about his passion, his love for the work he does here, and about some of the projects he's working on now. | {
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Andrew Akindele (born January 11, 2000) is an American soccer player who plays as a forward for South Georgia Tormenta in the USL League One.
Career
Youth and college
Akindele attended Jones College Prep High School and played in the USSDA from 2011 through 2018 with the Chicago Fire Academy.
in 2018, Akindele attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison to play college soccer. In four seasons with the Badgers, Akindele made 56 appearances, scoring ten goals and tallying eight assists. In 2018, he earned All-Big Ten freshman team honors.
Whilst at college, Akindele also appeared in the USL League Two, making eight appearances for Chicago FC United in their 2021 season.
Professional
Ahead of the inaugural MLS Next Pro season, Akindele signed with FC Cincinnati 2 on March 11, 2022. He scored three goals in 15 appearances for Cincinnati.
On March 15, 2023, Akindele signed with USL League One side South Georgia Tormenta. He made his debut for Tormenta on March 17, 2023, starting in a 1–0 win over North Carolina FC.
References
External links
2000 births
Living people
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Association football forwards
FC Cincinnati 2 players
Chicago FC United players
MLS Next Pro players
Soccer players from Illinois
Sportspeople from Chicago
Tormenta FC players
USL League One players
USL League Two players
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Submitted by Tricia McCormack Photography. Originally published on September 30th, 2016.
A word from the photographer: Writing about Sarah and Dan feels like writing about two friends. I've had the wonderful opportunity to get to know both of them over the last 3 years. They have both been part of the bridal party of other weddings, guests of a wedding, Sarah has taken my fitness class and I've even done a family photo shoot for Sarah's family. Dan and I have bonded over our loyalty and affection for our alum, Siena College (FREE NARDO!!).
Everything about their August 20th wedding was beautiful. The day was a hot summer day, and the blue sky was bright in order to show the Berkshire Mountains that line the golf course at the Country Club of Pittsfield.
My second shooter, Lisa, was with Dan getting pictures of the guys at Hotel on North and I stayed with the girls as they got ready with Maureen Garner and the talented team from Seven Salon. I loved Sarah's bridal party, I had met many of them before and they are such a blast to be around.
Sarah and Dan had the chance to see each other before the ceremony and you can just tell how much they love one another. I love how they check in with one another and I find them so adorable.
Their outdoor ceremony was personal and sweetly officiated by Grace Ceremonies. Rev Hannah Grace did such an amazing job about sharing their love story with everyone there. Next the reception kicked off and Sarah and Dan's big family and huge group of friends were ready to party. The dance floor was packed all night long and so was their booth from Berkshire Photo Booth. I knew when I said goodbye to them at the end of the night that we most definitely would stay in touch, no way, I won't let them get rid of me.
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The Catholic Parishes of Most Precious Blood, St. Anne, and St. Pius X
20 Como Road, Hyde Park MA 02136 | 857.342.9500
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Inspired by Gospel values, the St. Vincent de Paul Society leads women and men to join together to grow spiritually by offering person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering. The Blue Hills Collaborative St. Vincent de Paul Society serves the needs of the Greater Hyde Park community. Vincentians are united in an international society of charity by their spirit of poverty, humility and sharing, which is nourished by prayer and reflection, mutually supportive gatherings and adherence to a basic rule: Vincentians witness God's love by embracing all works of charity and justice.
For more information on receiving help, please call 857.342.9500 x37.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Boston
In order to serve more of those in need, we are in significant need of new members.
"The poor you will always have with you." (Matthew 26:11 (NAB)). Jesus taught that love for God joyfully impels us to love His greatest creation, humankind, and even more so the poor, needy, sick, lost and hurt among them. Our Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is looking for new members, parishioners driven to love and help the People of God who are in need. Inspired by Gospel values, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic lay organization, leads women and men to join together to grow spiritually by offering person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering. Members witness God's love by embracing all works of charity and justice. The Society collaborates with other people of good will in relieving need and addressing its causes, making no distinction in those served because, in them, we see the face of Christ. To learn more about what being a Vincentian means, please contact parishioner John McCormack.
Our meeting will consist of prayer, reflections on scripture passages, reports of visits, discussion of pending cases. This meeting will be the continuation of our formal meetings in order to grow in Vincentian Spirituality and to better and more frequently discuss strategies to assist the needy within the Collaborative's territory.
"Many hands make light work," the immortal Vince Lombardi said. "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Please consider collaborating with us in whatever ways you can to help our Conference and our Society provide a good experience to its members and to better assist those in need. As Cub Scouts say and do, let's each of us: "Do Your Best."
If you know of a practicing Catholic who might be a good addition for our Society, please invite them to the meeting to come and explore whether the Society would be a good fit for their spiritual needs and interest in serving those in need. No Commitment Is Required to Attend! Please pray on how you can best assist our Society.
Helpful articles:
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Freewill Offering
We have a wonderful St Vincent de Paul Society conference at Most Precious Blood Parish which works with the families of St. Pius X, St Anne and Most Precious Blood who are struggling financially. Our conference consists of parishioners from the three parishes all working together to serve the needs of those who are not so fortunate as others. At Christmas and Thanksgiving their work is very evident but they are responding to families in our 3 parish communities 12 months a year. We are appreciative of those who donate in our St Vincent de Paul boxes at church and others who send in generous donations periodically. The needs are so great today that we decided to take up a freewill offering on the weekend of March 3-4 at every Mass at all 3 parishes to benefit our St Vincent de Paul Society. Members of our conference will be at the entrances of the church at the conclusion of each Mass. We guarantee that any donation you make will go to help support those among us with the least opportunities. If you make out a check, please make it out to MPB St Vincent de Paul Society.
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Fox News host apologizes for inviting alleged fake CIA analyst
By Bradford Richardson - 10/17/15 05:09 PM EDT
Fox News's Neil Cavuto is apologizing for inviting a man who is accused of falsely presenting himself as an ex-CIA agent on his show.
Wayne Simmons, who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly committing major fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government, was a guest expert on "Your World with Neil Cavuto."
Cavuto said if the charges are true, "that's big, and that's on me, and only me."
"You have the right to expect that guests who appear here to be who they say they are," Cavuto said on his show on Friday. "Now it's a very rare slip-up, but it's a very big slip-up and I will make doubly sure something like this never, ever happens again. I value your trust, and I promise to work very hard to regain it."
He said he may not have been the only one apparently fooled, pointing to a report that places Simmons in a Pentagon program that gave military analysts direct access to top-ranking officials in President George W. Bush's administration.
"You as viewers have little reason to be comforted by the excuse that Mr. Simmons might, and I stress might, have fooled many others, including no less than former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld," Cavuto added.
A Fox News spokesman told the Huffington Post on Thursday that Simmons was a guest, but not a paid contributor.
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Down the Rabbit Hole With Justin Bieber's Glitzy New Megachurch
Once called City Church, it has a glitzy new board of directors.
Joan Summers
Image: Poersch (Backgrid)
Sleek West Coast ministry Churchome is, by all accounts, poised to become the next big name in mega-church circles, now that Hillsong's once illustrious reputation has fallen into disrepair. Once called City Church, it has a glitzy new board of directors, effective January 1; Among them are venture capitalists, Hollywood power players, and sports superstar Russell Wilson. Its website peddles the sort of all-serif aesthetic most commonly utilized by Instagram-popular brands, and its flagship couple, Pastors Judah and Chelsea Smith, are airbrushed beautifully, with a softened black and white vignette. But most importantly, its mission statement boasts of a home for all people, the lost and astray among them. "Welcome home."
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It's no wonder that Justin Bieber has found his way into Churchome's loving embrace. In November, Bieber's once confidante and personal on-call pastor, Hillsong leader Carl Lentz, was outed as a philanderer; Page Six reported that the woman with whom he had cheated on his wife, 34-year-old fashion designer Ranin Karim, said Lentz "needed to do something that would excite him." In the months since, Lentz has checked himself into treatment for "pastoral burnout," anxiety, and depression. By December, Page Six further reported that Hillsong had, for many years, been stuffed with "inappropriate sexual relationships."
Back to Bieber. On Monday, the singer blasted another report in Page Six that he had studied to be a pastor at Hillsong. He called it "fake news," and wrote, on Instagram Stories: "AND BTW HILLSONG IS NOT MY CHURCH.. FOR CLARITY I AM A PART OF CHURCHOME." It wasn't the first time Bieber distanced himself from Lentz; rumors of a schism between the once inseparable duo date back to 2018. So with Hillsong set adrift and left to ruin, it's obvious why Bieber has moved onto Churchome: its front page is almost indistinguishable from Hillsong's own website, or that of sister ministry Zoe Church. For example, Hillsong and Churchome both feature the statement "Welcome Home" in their respective mission statements and on the front page of their sites.
Hillsong and Churchome side by side
Screenshot: Hillsong/Churchome
Churchome's About page reads:
Why would God want to hang out with people like us? There's only one answer: love. Extravagant love. Love that is on a level beyond time and space. Divine love. And this is the kind of love that is toward us today. The big idea behind our community is that every woman, man, girl and boy—every age, every race—would find a home in God. A home where they belong. God has made us a family, and we want to be a community that operates as a family.
Its mission statement also explains that "whether prodigals or prodigies, artists or intellectuals, rebels or rejects, God's arms are open to all." I couldn't paint a larger bullseye for a famous person if I tried.
Elsewhere, the website is primed with messages of racial justice. "Churchome recognizes the killing of Black people as a national crisis. As a collective community, we grieve, as God grieves, by the continued targeting, torturing and killing of Black men, women, boys and girls." It continues: "We recognize the ongoing issue of racism in America and around the world, and the fatal consequences that results." On the same page, Churchome claims that "we are committed to instituting ongoing training around anti-racism and unconscious bias for our staff."
Bieber is also not the church's only brush with celebrity. While Wilson currently sits on the board of directors, Selena Gomez, Maria Shriver, the Kardashians, and Tim Tebow, among others, have all been spotted at its Los Angeles location. During this initial spate of popularity, back in 2016, reporter Rachel Handler asked lead pastor Judah Smith to clarify the City Church's stance on homosexuality. Lentz, who Smith described as "connected relationally" to his own ministry, had just come under scrutiny after Hillsong pastor Joel Houston claimed that LGBTQ+ churchgoers would not be allowed to participate in leadership, and asserted that Hillsong was "not a church that affirms a gay lifestyle." To answer Handler's question, here's what Smith had to say:
"I think that when you start talking about sexual preferences, here's what I truly believe, across the board, talking sexual preferences. That's a very personal, intimate thing that I have chosen to establish friendships and relationships with people before I ... I do not like blanket statements. Blanket statements can be very misleading and misunderstanding, so I have chosen, and will continue, and asking even our team, that we are going to take these very personal pains and journeys, particularly sexual preference ... I am very deliberate in doing that personally with people."
When pressed, he confirmed to MTV News that City Church had no "written policy" on gay leadership. In an interview with Marie Claire in November 2019, Smith and wife Chelsea were similarly reticent to answer the question. "Our hearts are for the people, and that is where we land, absolutely," she told a reporter for the magazine.
Elsewhere, Churchome offers a direct-to-pastor chatroom, which a cheery message on its front page: "Get in touch with us. We're here for you!" I asked: "I am a little hesitant that so many celebrities go to this church, that I have heard a lot about. I was wondering how the church handles that level of press attention for the average member?" After a brief survey taken in the chat, eventually, someone got back to me: "Hi Joan! That's a great question. Our top priority is that everyone feels welcome at Churchome, no matter someone's level of fame and to respect their privacy. We treat everyone the same and do our best to ensure that everyone is able to worship without being bothered." I asked if paparazzi or press attention had ever been a distraction to services, and the helpful representative told me no, "not in my experience."
But with Bieber now publicly pledged to the church, having disavowed his once mentor and holy ground at Hillsong, Churchome is undoubtedly on the up and up. And by the looks of their sleek website and quick customer service, that same glitzy leadership seems poised to welcome any and all expatriates that might come their way.
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Ecology or profit? What's behind the decision to not include a charger in the iPhone
Starting next week, iPhones will be sold without a power adapter or headphones in the box. It is not just about the new iPhone 12, which can already be reserved (sa
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Starting next week, iPhones will be sold without a power adapter or headphones in the box.
It is not just about the new iPhone 12, which can now be reserved (except for the iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max models, which will be marketed in mid-November);
Apple will not include them in the rest of the iPhone from previous years that are still on sale, such as the iPhone SE or the iPhone 11. It does not come as a surprise.
Rumors about this change began circulating in June, although few expected it to affect the old models as well.
The only exception appears to be France, where the law requires phones to include headsets to protect those under 14 from possible overexposure to radiation.
IPhones will come with a charging cable for the Lightning port your devices use, with a USB-C connection on the other end.
To save the planet
Apple justifies the new policy by the environmental impact of including a charger and headphones when many of us already have several at home from previous models, or even from third-party devices.
The vast majority of users who buy a new iPhone will be able to charge it using any charger that includes a USB-C port for the new cable (or a computer with a USB-C connection), a wireless charger or simply a charger and Lightning cable. of an older model that you already have at home.
Just counting those that Apple has included in the iPhone boxes since 2007, there are more than
2 billion of these chargers in homes around the world
Some will be lost or broken over time, but the vast majority still work, even if they are notoriously slow.
More than half of these chargers should be accompanied by a USB-A to Lightning cable, which Apple included with all phones since the iPhone 5 and with many accessories and products from its catalog.
Cables tend to break and get lost more easily, but we're still talking about hundreds of millions, if not billions, of cables.
In the case of headphones, and since the company no longer includes a standard headphone port on its phones, only those that Apple has included in the boxes since the iPhone 7 should be counted. Given the iPhone sales figures in the In recent years, there are about 700 million Lightning-connected headphones scattered around homes.
By removing these accessories from the iPhone case from now on, Apple estimates that it will save the emission of
2 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere
, the equivalent of taking 450,000 cars off the road.
The numbers seem huge but they are understood when you consider the scale at which the company operates.
Last year it sold more than 185 million iPhones.
And the environmental benefits are not produced solely by not making these chargers or headphones.
By not including them, Apple can use a smaller box and transport 70% more phones on a traditional pallet.
Fewer shipments by plane and ship also contribute to lower CO2 emissions.
As expected, the measure has not sat well with many consumers, who suspect that behind the decision there is
a purely economic motive
and that what Apple is doing is simply
, that is, disguising a decision as environmental policy that, although benefit the environment, actually take self-interested to save money.
An estimate can be made of what Apple saves on each phone by not including a charger and headphones.
According to the consultancy IHS Markit, Apple paid about
for the additional content of the box and packaging of its phones.
That includes the instruction manuals, charging cable, charger, and headphones, plus the box itself.
If we consider that the charger and the headphones are some of the most expensive products in this set, it is possible that with the new measure the company will save about 7 dollars per phone sold.
by 185 million
and the amount is not negligible.
Since you can now ship more phones in each shipment, you also save significant money on distribution and warehousing.
But that's only part of the equation.
The new phones include 5G support and therefore more antennas, more base memory in some models, a more complex camera lens and better sensors, OLED screens instead of LCD in cheaper models, a new magnetic coupling system and several others. features that are likely to eat away at that apparent benefit.
When Apple presents its quarterly accounts and the margin of the iPhone division is known, it will be easier to get an idea of whether the measure really represents a significant savings, but it is most likely that the margins of the iPhone will remain very stable compared to the from previous years.
Apple is the manufacturer
with the highest profit margin in the world of telephony
Virtually no other brand makes significant amounts of money selling phones (hopefully they don't lose) but the big jumps in these margins often come from the introduction of new, more expensive models or policies that incentivize jumping to a model with more memory or features.
Confusing politics
The problem with this new policy, in reality, is not so much that the iPhone has a charger or not.
For the vast majority of users it will not be a problem and those who have to buy a new one will find many third-party alternatives on the market for less than 10 euros, which they will also take advantage of in all kinds of products in the future.
The problem is that Apple doesn't seem to have
a coherent idea of its own strategy around accessories
Each family of devices seems to follow arbitrary rules.
IPhones no longer include a charger, but iPads do.
The phones now come with a charging cable with a USB-C termination, but the Apple Watch introduced a few weeks ago still includes a charger with a USB-A termination.
Some accessories, like the AirPods or the company's keyboards and trackpads, include a Lightning cable, but also with a USB-A termination, even though Macs have already abandoned that connection.
The company has integrated a new MagSafe wireless charging system into the new phones, and sells a new wireless charger compatible with this system.
But the charger, like phones, does not include the power adapter, which is confusing as a "MagSafe Charger" (in this Apple is alone, third-party wireless chargers do not always include the power adapter).
The new HomePod Mini?
It also has a built-in cable with USB-C termination, just like the MagSafe charger, but it does include a USB-C connected power adapter in the box.
Those responsible for the different divisions of the company may have an answer to these apparent contradictions.
The HomePod is a standalone product that must be functional right out of the box, for example, or iPads have to come with a charger because they cannot be charged with the 5-watt adapters that iPhones used and of those there are fewer in the homes.
But for consumers it's all
incredibly confusing
, especially coming from a company that boasts attention to detail.
And it does not help that you decide to eliminate things that until now were offered for free, considering that it is the largest company in the world by market capitalization.
It is true that we have too many chargers at home and perhaps all manufacturers should stop including them with phones.
And it is true that Apple usually makes drastic decisions regarding port and connection transitions, thinking about what the needs will be in the future and not the current ones.
It is good, for example, that the new iPhones come with a charging cable with a USB-C termination, although it is less common to see power adapters with this connection.
In a year or two it will be much more useful than having included another USB-A.
But this transition from a world of cables to a wireless one, from USB-A to USB-C with the Lightning connection in between, is proving too confusing and frustrating.
And sometimes something as simple as packing a charger into a box, even when unused, helps alleviate some of that frustration.
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Beyond scattered tear-downs, it is rare to find a new house in the midst of older neighborhoods in Queens. But in Whitestone, 44 single-family homes are being built on the six-acre site of a long defunct country club in northern Queens.
The Bridges at Whitestone is the first detached home development "of its size in 20 years" in the area, said Tim O'Sullivan, the developer.
The 2,000- to 4,500-square-foot houses (most are about 3,000 square feet) on 4,000- to 9,000-square-foot lots are priced from $1.6 to $2.2 million. Ten are in contract and three are already sold.
Views from the back and front porches of these two-story brick and precast stone houses sweep from the Whitestone to the Throgs Neck bridges, framing the East River as it curves between the spans.
"We are hoping to do something really special and in keeping with the neighborhood," eliminating the 'eyesore' the abandoned site had become," Mr. O'Sullivan said. The 10 models have varying traditional facades.
Buyers can select the color of the brick, mortar and windows as well as the rooflines and railings they prefer. The houses have double front doors, some arched with wrought-iron detail, and attached one-car garages.
Neighboring homes cannot be identical, said Patricia Moroney, a saleswoman with Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, which has the listing. "It's an unwritten rule," Mr. O'Sullivan said. "It's not so hard to persuade people to do some things that will make their house original." To the rear, however, the houses all have covered porches with ceiling fans and bluestone decks.
The houses have two-story entry halls with marble flooring. Decorative soffits enhance the 10-foot ceilings in the living and dining rooms; oak floors have walnut inlays. Kitchens are outfitted with Viking appliances and marble backsplashes. A quartz-topped center island opens to a family room with a coffered ceiling and raised panels. An electronic lift makes dining room chandeliers easier to clean.
Upstairs, the master bedroom comes with Juliette balconies, outfitted closets and marble master baths with free-standing tubs and separate showers.
"It's what people are looking for," Ms. Moroney said. "It is classic. It is beautiful, clean lines." Finished basements with full baths have 9-foot ceilings.
The first 11 of the 44 mostly four-bedroom houses are nearly complete. Four are being framed and ground is expected to be broken on 10 more in the next few months. A new private road, Sullivan Lane, will cut through the enclave, which runs along 6th Avenue, Powells Cove Boulevard and 150th Street.
Later this month, George and Tricia Tsamutalis and their three children are moving from a 60-year-old house a mile and a half away in Flushing, to a substantially larger four-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath, Pickford model with a brandywine brick facade. Thrilled to "start from scratch," they picked their 50-by-100-lot and "put our own brush stroke on it from the get go," Mr. Tsamutalis said, including $50,000 in upgrades to the $1.88 million house.
While he was growing up in Whitestone, the developer, Mr. O'Sullivan, 48, played tennis and frequented the pool at the former Cresthaven Country Club, which closed in 1989. Much of the club's property was sold and developed in the 1990s, but in subsequent years several plans to develop the remaining six acres failed. Mr. O'Sullivan bought the property out of foreclosure in 2015 for $13.6 million from another developer. | {
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HomeNewsChris Wallace To Join CNN+, Bid Adieu To Fox News
Chris Wallace To Join CNN+, Bid Adieu To Fox News
Veteran TV anchor and respected journalist at Fox News, Chris Wallace has announced his departure at the end of the Fox News Sunday show yesterday on 12th Dec.
He joined Fox news 18 years ago in 2003 and his resignation is effective immediately. Wallace, who is 74, will be joining rival media company CNN.
CNN made an announcement yesterday post completion of his show that Wallace will be onboarded as an anchor in its streaming service CNN+. CNN is planning to launch the service in 2022.
Chris Wallace announced to join CNN+ by leaving Fox News
Wallace said on Fox on Sunday morning, "It is the last time, and I say this with real sadness, we will meet like this. Eighteen years ago, the bosses here at Fox promised me they would never interfere with a guest I booked or a question I asked. And they kept that promise. I have been free to report to the best of my ability, to cover the stories I think are important, to hold our country's leaders to account."
Jeff Zucker, CNN Worldwide president issued a statement regarding Wallace's appointment saying, "speaks volumes about our commitment to journalism and CNN+, and we are thrilled to have Chris on the ground floor of helping us build the next generation of CNN and news."
We're thrilled to welcome Chris Wallace to CNN as an anchor for @CNNPlus. His new weekday show will feature interviews with newsmakers across politics, business, sports and culture & will contribute to CNN+'s slate of live programming available at launch. https://t.co/6dgFzBd2QT pic.twitter.com/h8djkxClsB
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) December 12, 2021
Wallace is another high-profile journalist exit from Fox news in recent times. Conservative commentators Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg have left Fox News in the month of November 2021.
Below is a tweet shared by CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter on his official Twitter handle revealing the news of Wallace leaving Fox News and joining CNN+.
Sunday morning's big surprise in the TV news world, Chris Wallace signing off from Fox, was followed by a second surprise a few minutes later: Wallace is joining CNN+. Both parts of the story speak volumes about the respective networks… https://t.co/0GwsdTl7sh
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 13, 2021
He was a veteran broadcast network newsman who worked at both ABC and NBC News prior to joining Fox news.
He joined Fox as late Roger Ailes assured him about his own Sunday show. Wallace is famous for his methodical preparation and the way he asks really tough questions to all guests on his show.
Fox News has praised his work in his long tenure with the company and assured viewers, other stakeholders, that in the interim they will rotate hosts on "Fox News Sunday" till the time they find a permanent moderator.
Fox News in its statement said: "We are extremely proud of our journalism and the stellar team that Chris Wallace was a part of for 18 years. The legacy of 'Fox News Sunday' will continue with our star journalists, many of whom will rotate in the position until a permanent host is named."
In the year 2016, Wallace became the first-ever Fox News journalist to moderate a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. He was criticized in the 2020 presidential debate when Trump broke debate protocols in trying to steamroller Joe Biden.
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by: Spiro Arkoudis
in : Music & Technology
Music - one of the top#5 data-driven mobile services for a competitive advantage in the telco industry
In major developed countries, the mobile data market, including both 3G and 4G, is close to saturation. Mobile data consumption has steadily increased in the last few years, and consumers have found new ways to avoid paying for services they neither need nor use. The strong competition between mobile companies has allowed consumers to switch from fixed data plans to unlimited plans and pay less. Operators are increasingly turning to targeted and data-driven services to encourage data usage and find new monetisation strategies. Parks Associates released the Mobile Data Services industry report in 2018: Business Model Assessment, which includes an analysis of the top five data services in the US market.
What are the main data services used by mobile carrier and smartphone users?
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in : Music consumption habits
Music streaming, the conquest of Africa has just started
A very young population, a smartphone rate which is exploding, and an undeniable musical wealth: Africa has never been so courted, even in small French-speaking countries where major labels are coming, to invest in streaming.
The time when pirate tapes and CDs were sold in the street under photocopied packaging is gone! Listening to online music and the arrival of the 3G connection in capital cities is changing everything.
"Everyone knows that the market will explode. There is talk of $80 million for the streaming market in 2020 in Nigeria", says Jean-Noel Tronc, from SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music) in France.
by: Con Raso
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When you decide to create your own music streaming service, you have two options: develop it yourself (internally) or outsource your creation.
Each of the two options has its advantages and disadvantages. But here we will explain why using a service provider specialising in the development of music streaming services or platforms is an excellent alternative including costs, time, quality, security and expertise.
in : Mobile Marketing
How telco companies master music streaming to boost mobile marketing
In today's digital and tech-focused world, more and more companies are realizing that marketing is no longer about simply placing ads in print magazines or between television episodes. Instead, businesses have discovered the promotional power of an age-old art form: music. And they have begun to incorporate entertainment as an important piece of their mobile marketing efforts.
Companies have approached using music for marketing in a variety of ways. Some have collaborated with famous artists (such as Verizon, which paired up with superstar Jamie Foxx to create and release exclusive tracks and videos), while others have sponsored live events and festivals (such as T-Mobile, which sponsored Coachella) in order to capture their target audience.
in : Customer Engagement
How music streaming creates a "moment of truth" for millennials
In today's on-demand world where everyone has access to information 24/7 through their smartphones, driving customer engagement means having the ability to quickly respond to consumers' needs and wants through their mobiles. Throughout the years, I have seen how music plays a significant role in creating a long-lasting spark between consumers and brands. Traditional marketing models have flipped to focus on creating a memorable experience that puts customers in control as music is now streamed and users expect it to be free.
Why new lower cost streaming services might not move the needle
Streaming radio service Pandora recently announced the launch of a lower-priced interactive streaming platform, the result of its purchase of Rdio last year. Unfortunately, the launch might not have the result many in the music business are hoping for; while it will surely convert a handful of listeners who couldn't afford the standard $9.99 USD per month price, it won't move the needle in a meaningful way. That's because the hardest jump for people to make is not from $5.99 to $9.99 -- it's from zero to a penny.
Why white label music streaming apps should become commerce platforms
With the announcement of Pandora's partnership with Ticketfly to enable in-app ticket purchases, it appears that streaming services have started to realize that they can't survive on music listening alone. Spotify has deals in place with Songkick and Merchbar, and other services will likely follow suit over the course of the coming year. While these steps are laudable and needed, they are only the tip of the iceberg. In order for streaming services to survive and thrive, as well as compete with one another, they need to greatly expand their commerce offerings.
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How brands can capitalize on the end of music streaming exclusives
As of right now, it looks like the age of the music streaming exclusive might be drawing to a close. While providing albums exclusively to one service might have led to a financial windfall for some artists, the resulting piracy and fan backlash proved to be too much for Universal Music Group, which sent out a decree declaring the end of the practice a few weeks ago. This is great news for listeners who want to stick with one service, but it also creates a new problem for artists -- in an age of declining album sales and advances, they need more sources of revenue. Music streaming services can no longer provide that, and brands can be the ones to step in and fill that role. If done well, branded album exclusives can provide a benefit for the artist, brand, and fans -- but done poorly, they can result in bad press and frustration.
How music boosts digital brand strategy, even for existing apps
Studies show that music helps with fundamental tasks like learning. It also improves memory and drives engagement. Adding a musical element to your marketing can build brand awareness, customer engagement and personalise the customer experience. Here are a few examples of the way in which music can help with your digital brand strategy. | {
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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and ARC Nuclear Announce Steps to Further Collaboration to Commercialize Advanced Small Modular Reactor
August 28, 2017-GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC (ARC Nuclear) today announced steps to advance their collaboration to develop and license the ARC-100 advanced small modular reactor (aSMR).
Through a newly-signed Development Agreement, GEH intends to license intellectual property associated with its PRISM advanced reactor design to ARC Nuclear. GEH has also agreed to provide to ARC Nuclear access to nuclear infrastructure programs related to quality, safety culture, training, processes, procedures and tools. In addition, GEH will make an in-kind contribution to ARC Nuclear through its agreement to provide engineering and design expertise.
"Our work to date with the GEH team has validated our expectation of the synergy of combining ARC Nuclear's senior engineers - with their deep sodium fast reactor operational and design experience as key members of EBR-II prototype program - with GEH's next generation of nuclear engineers and designers with their proven competence in modern nuclear design," said Don Wolf, Chairman and CEO, ARC Nuclear. "We are clearly seeing how the power of this engineering collaboration and GEH's infrastructure can give us a leap forward in reducing both time to market and development costs."
"This new agreement recognizes that GEH and ARC Nuclear each have significant experience, investment and intellectual property in sodium fast reactor technology derived from Argonne National Laboratory's successful EBR-II reactor which operated for more than 30 years at Idaho Falls, Idaho," said Jon Ball, Executive Vice President, Nuclear Plant Projects, GEH. "At GEH, we are excited to see how this complementary collaboration will allow us to further accelerate commercialization of this technology with ARC Nuclear."
The companies announced a collaboration in March 2017 to progress the ARC-100 design for global power generation with initial deployment in Canada. GEH and ARC Nuclear are working to commence a preliminary regulatory review of the ARC-100 by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission through its Vendor Design Review process. At the same time, a joint GEH-ARC Nuclear engineering team is working to advance the ARC-100 design.
GEH and ARC Nuclear have agreed to re-examine their relationship upon completion of the Canadian Vendor Design Review and give consideration to focus for the ARC-100 beyond Canada.
About GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
Based in Wilmington, N.C., GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) is a world-leading provider of advanced reactors and nuclear services. Established in 2007, GEH is a global nuclear alliance created by GE and Hitachi to serve the global nuclear industry. The nuclear alliance executes a single, strategic vision to create a broader portfolio of solutions, expanding its capabilities for new reactor and service opportunities. The alliance offers customers around the world the technological leadership required to effectively enhance reactor performance, power output and safety. Follow GEH on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC (ARC)
Founded in 2006, Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC. (ARC Nuclear) is a privately held Delaware company formed with many of the pioneers who played key roles in the EBR-II program and are today regarded as leading authorities in small fast reactor technology. ARC Nuclear's mission is to commercialize the ARC-100 and produce safe, economically competitive, carbon-free energy for the global energy market, with a design that can also offer a viable solution to the problem of nuclear waste.
Jon Allen
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
[email protected]
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Discovery came out about a month ago, and while it does have some shortcomings, it stands as an excellent creatively focused block sandbox game. It seems that the developer, noowanda, is dedicated to addressing many issues with the game; the upcoming update notes claim that there will be a fairly hefty amount of tweaks to the existent game, all for free, of course.
It's not known when this update will be going live, but hopefully it'll be sometime in the near future.
What do you think? Did you like Discovery? What features would you like to see included in a future update? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
So is there ever going to be a PAL release?
I suppose I will get this instead than minecraft U. I can't justify myself to pay 30$ for it.
When will this be out in Europe. Anyone know?
I like to build stuff so I will get this instead of MC!
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Chip Gaines Reveals That He Felt 'Caged' And 'Trapped' Toward End Of 'Fixer Upper'
Chip Gaines is opening up about the highs and the lows of his hit show, Fixer Upper.
As fans of the show know, he and his wife, Joanna Gaines, called it quits on their hit HGTV show after just five seasons. Since they stopped the show, they've been busy with a number of things including a line at Target, a new baby, and a new book. Now, Gaines is opening up about the show and why they decided to leave in the January issue of Cowboys & Indians.
In the tell-all interview, Chip said that he has somewhat of a love/hate relationship with television, explaining that when things are natural and organic, he is totally in his element, but when something becomes staged on TV, it boxes him up and he is not in his element.
"I felt like toward the end of the Fixer Upper journey, I felt caged, trapped," he explained.
The father-of-five says that he and Joanna genuinely enjoyed their first three seasons of the hit show, but didn't particularly like the final two because they had become worn out and it felt forced.
"Jo and I couldn't figure it out. I mean, why? You're getting to have all this fun, right? But it's like if I put a camera in your face and said, 'Hey, say something funny.' Or if I put a camera in your face and said, 'Hey, be smart.' I just struggled with that environment. Especially at the end of it."
"Most of our creative energy goes toward business-related concepts; and the TV part of it, it's like, do we want to do that again? We are having so much fun enjoying our family and growing this business here in Waco," the reality star dished.
And luckily for fans of Fixer Upper, the famous duo are in talks with the Discovery Network to bring content to the channel. They are just now working out all of the final details, but there is expected to be plenty of design tips from Joanna, as well as a lot of Chip's sense of humor.
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Sébastien Philippe (born 8 February 1975) is a French racing driver. He has competed in such series as Super GT and the French Formula Three Championship. Philippe won the All-Japan Formula Three Championship in 2000 and previously had won the 1993 Formula Campus by Renault and Elf season. He also finished runner-up in Super GT's GT500 category in 2006 alongside Shinya Hosokawa.
Philippe currently manages the French motorsport team ART Grand Prix.
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Formule Campus Renault Elf drivers
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It's Marvelous Middle Grade Monday at Shannon Messenger's Blog and #IMWAYR day at Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers. It's also Nonfiction Monday.
Hautman, Pete. Slider
September 12th 2017 by Candlewick Press
ARC graciously provided by publisher upon request
David is interested in competitive eating-- he can eat a pizza pretty quickly, and he's watched a lot of competitions and thinks he could probably do pretty well. When he accidentally bids $2,000 on a half hot dog and his bid wins, he turns to several local competitive eating events to try to earn back the money before his mother sees the charge on her account. He wins a White Castle-type challenge, but only receives a gift card as a prize. This is somewhat helpful as he trains for the Super Pigorino Bowl at the local pizzeria, but he needs the money that winning the competition at the Iowa State Fair will provide. He embarks on a training regimen that involves insane amounts of food, including entire heads of cabbage, for building capacity. In the meantime, he parents aren't thrilled. It's not the academic success that David's older sister, Bridgette has in college, and he doesn't require the care that his younger brother, Mal does. If his mother labeled things, which she doesn't, Mal would be on the more serious end of the autism spectrum. David is very good at caring for Mal, so when David's parents think he needs more of a summer job than choking down pizzas, they have him tend Mal while the his mother teaches a class. David makes some headway with Mal's increased socialization-- Mal travels further, with fewer meltdowns, when he is wearing sunglasses, and David also thinks critically about the charateristics that make food appealing to Mal, and gets him to add several new things to his diet. Eventually, David's parents find out about the credit card bill, so the eating competition becomes even more important. Will David be able to use his skills, as well as his smarts, to figure a way out of his financial and personal crises?
Not only was David a particularly appealing character, and his role in his family realistically drawn, but his sidekicks Cyn and HeyMan were interesting as well. I liked the idea that the three of them had been friends, but now Cyn (whom David finds a bit appealing) and HeyMan are spending more time together but aren't sure if they are ready to be boyfriend/girlfriend. A lot of intriguing relationships going on in this book, and they are not the same old ones typical to middle grade literature.
I've also never seen a novel about competitive eating! It's not a topic that interests me personally, but I can see it being appealing to ever hungry middle school boys who are enthralled by the idea eating fifty slices of pizza or several dozen sliders. The research into training strategies, famous eaters, and different types of competitions is well done, and the creation of a couple of less-than-honest competitors is clever. I especially liked how David got the better of "The Gurge" on more than one occasion!
Of course, the most brilliant thing about this book is the way that it takes a very serious facet of David's life-- his brother Mal-- and frames the relationship the two have with the amusement of competitive eating. David is stoic in the way that many children who have siblings with issues can be, and he is kind and helpful to his brother while being a tiny bit annoyed, but he does feel a lot of pressure to be less of a problem to his parents because of the issues his brother faces. Readers will pick up this book because of the premise and the appealing cover art work, and learn some important life lessons in a way that slips down as easily as pizza crusts dipped in water.
For readers who like Jordan Sonnenblick, John David Anderson, and Gordon Korman and other humorous titles that also include messages of social importance, Hautman's Slider is two delicious and nutritious all beef patties of humor on a sesame seed bun of humanity.
Elliott, L.M. Suspect Red
September 19th 2017 by Disney-Hyperion
E ARC from Netgalley
Richard and his family live near Washington, D.C., where his father does something secretive for the government. They live in a solid, middle class neighborhood with J. Edgar Hoover and other government employees. When a new boy Richard's age moves in, he's glad to find another kindred spirit who liked J.D. Salinger and other books. Vlad's father also works for the government, but his mother is from Czechoslovakia and seems to have somewhat suspect views. McCarthyism is spreading quickly in 1953, with librarians taking books like Robin Hood off the shelves and lots of public figures being accused of being communist. Richard's father (who was involved in enough mission in WWII that he has some intermittent PTSD) is involved in some of the government missions, and hopes that he can redeem a mission gone wrong by bringing in some treacherous Communists. Richard wrongly thinks that Vlad's mother might be dangerous, and tips off his father. As McCarthy's dictatorial ways start to fall into disrepute, Richard and his father become less and less sure that "witch hunting" Communists is the way to go.
Strengths: The details of daily life were fantastic, right from the beginning, and I didn't find any historical anomalies, which made me very happy! Like Wiles' Sixties Trilogy, the chapter start out with period photos and descriptions of what is going on in history. Unlike the Wiles' books, these are short and well placed, and really speak to what is going on in Richard's life. The comparisons to what is going on in today's government are not explicit, but clearly there. Harry Truman. That's what the government needs right now. Harry Truman. Even if he didn't like dogs very much.
Weaknesses: The plot takes a while to develop, but I was so engrossed with the details of Richard's life that I didn't really care. Could have used a few more descriptions of clothing. And cars.
What I really think: So glad to have this to order for the fall! Brilliant depiction of a singular era in US history.
Patricia T. 11:11 AM EDT
A book on competitive eating is really unusual! SLIDER will have appeal to teens. There is a lot going on the story.
SUSPECT RED really catches my attention, because of the subject and the era. Great review.
Cheriee Weichel 2:07 PM EDT
I can't imagine wanting to read about someone who wants to win an eating contest, but you have piqued my interest with Slider.
Akilah 3:04 PM EDT
That Pete Hautman book sounds great. I like his work in general, and a story about EATING CONTESTS sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for putting it on my radar.
Greg Pattridge 3:20 PM EDT
Two great recommends. You had me with the eating contest scenario in the first and the time period in the second.
Tammy and Clare 7:18 PM EDT
Thanks for telling us about Slider. It is good to know about this book when we confer with teachers and kids. You never know when we will find a reader who will love this book
Rosi 11:17 PM EDT
The both sound great. I will put them on my TB list and hope to get to them soon. Thanks for the post.
Unknown 1:53 AM EDT
Slider sounds really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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In the Gina Miller judgment ( UKSC 5, 24 January 2017) the eight-member majority of the UK Supreme Court uses a surprising phrase to refer to the standing of referenda in the constitution. It notes that the European Union Act 2011 adopts the more 'elegant way' of having a referendum take place after an act of parliament has approved a bill and not before (at par. 120).
The point can be understood as a practical matter. It will be awkward for parliament to be making a policy choice after a referendum has addressed the same issue. There is, however, a deeper meaning to the reference to 'elegance'. Under the British constitution, parliament is the main institution where we collectively deliberate about our future. Referenda can only supplement this process, not replace it. This relationship is a constitutional one, or a matter of higher law that ought to be always respected both in letter and in spirit. 'Elegance' here presupposes a systematic theory of the constitution, where everything has its place.
The High Court had said that the substantive rights arising out of EU law and the European Communities Act 1972 could not be abolished merely by the exercise of the royal prerogative. This is a standard interpretation of existing law, adapted for the context of Article 50. The Supreme Court accepted this, but added one further reason. It said that membership in the European Union is not merely an act of alliance with other states or an 'international' decision, as some suggested. It marks the transformation of a state's legal order.
Membership means that any law made in cooperation with those other states through the workings of the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament – and under the supervision of the Court of Justice – becomes without any intervening step the law of the land. This is a distinct feature of the single market that allows for a fully reciprocal free movement of goods, services, persons and capital. So the European Communities Act 1972 did not merely mark the incorporation of existing substantive rights – in employment, equality, environmental or consumer law. It also marked the creation of a new law-making process.
The possible withdrawal from the EU by virtue of the passage of time under Article 50 (after two years, if there is no other agreement) will not only abolish substantive rights based on EU law but will also abolish this co-operative law-making process. Such constitutionally significant change may not happen through the Royal Prerogative. So at par. 82 of the judgment the Supreme Court's majority says: 'we cannot accept that a major change to UK constitutional arrangements' can be achieved by a ministerial decision. Constitutional change can happen, they continue, 'in the only way that the UK constitution recognises, namely by Parliamentary legislation'. The conclusion follows, they say, from 'the ordinary application of basic concepts of constitutional law to the present case'.
It sounds a mundane point but it is not. It puts beyond doubt something that many legal theorists have doubted: constitutional change cannot happen in the United Kingdom through practice, evolution or change of opinion. Constitutional change can only happen through the proper channels of democratic law-making. This is not said anywhere explicitly in our unwritten constitution, but is now held to be true as a 'basic concept' of the constitution.
The same idea was stated with great clarity in the HS2 judgment of the Supreme Court three years ago, according to which the British constitution makes a distinction – also unwritten – between 'constitutional statutes' of higher significance and ordinary statutes that may give way to the first. What is a 'constitutional statute' depends on its content and not on how it was made – since all statutes are made in the same way. The European Communities Act 1972 was one such a statute, as is the Human Rights Act 1998 among others.
It follows that an 'implied repeal' of the European Communities Act 1972 cannot be enough to set it aside. This is why, one assumes, the government's Brexit notification Bill makes explicit reference to the 1972 Act in section 1(2) – but whether this short and vague reference will be sufficient to create legal clarity, is anybody's guess.
The Miller judgment will be famous for its affirmation of the rule of law as against an unaccountable and overreaching executive. But it should also be remembered for marking the recognition by the UK courts of the systematic nature of the British constitution. Articulating and protecting this 'elegant way' of the constitution should be celebrated as an intellectual and a moral achievement of the highest order.
SUGGESTED CITATION Eleftheriadis, Pavlos: The 'Elegant Way' of the Constitution, VerfBlog, 2017/2/06, https://verfassungsblog.de/the-elegant-way-of-the-constitution/, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170206-113614. | {
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Current CubeSat communication technology limits the amount of time, and number of accesses with ground stations. It has been proposed to use a constellation of CubeSats to improve relay performance and increase the number of accesses between a CubeSat and ground stations. By using the spatial and temporal analysis features of STK, coupled with the STK/Matlab interface a robust tool was created to analyze the performance of CubeSat constellations based on a store-and-forward communications model which is not currently supported by the STK Engine. Utilizing the Connect messaging format through a socket connection on the local machine, a Matlab graphical user interface, called SATCAT, was constructed in order to provide a user with the ability to control many aspects of the STK Engine externally. A function was created to use three Time Ordered Access (TOA) reports from STK to determine how long it would take for data to be relayed from a target to a ground station through a constellation of CubeSats. Three sample scenarios were created to demonstrate the use and performance analysis capabilities of SATCAT. The performance of a single CubeSat was analyzed and compared to the performance of a three CubeSat constellation and a thirty-seven CubeSat constellation. It was shown that a constellation of three CubeSats decreased the average relay time from 328 minutes to 149 minutes and a constellation of thirty-seven CubeSats further reduced the average relay time to only 3 minutes. While decreasing the average relay time, the constellation of three CubeSats also increased the number of accesses over a twenty-four hour period from 6 to 36, and the constellation of thirty-seven CubeSats allowed for 564 accesses. | {
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Dialogue Definition, Examples and Observations
An Introduction to Punctuation
Humanities › English
Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms
Saints Peter and Paul by Daniele Crespi (1598-1630). Paolo e Federico Manusardi/Electa/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images
by Richard Nordquist
Richard Nordquist is a freelance writer and former professor of English and Rhetoric who wrote college-level Grammar and Composition textbooks.
(1) Dialogue is a verbal exchange between two or more people. (Compare with monologue.) Also spelled dialog.
(2) Dialogue also refers to a conversation reported in a drama or narrative. Adjective: dialogic.
When quoting dialogue, put the words of each speaker inside quotation marks, and (as a general rule) indicate changes in speaker by starting a new paragraph.
From the Greek, "conversation"
Examples and Observations
Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?
Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so.
(Joy Page and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, 1942)
"'How are you?' I said.
"'As you see,' old Hernandez said, and he pushed his cap back on his forehead and smiled, 'alive.'"
(Martha Gellhorn, "The Third Winter," 1938)
Eudora Welty on the Multiple Functions of Dialogue
"In its beginning, dialogue's the easiest thing in the world to write when you have a good ear, which I think I have. But as it goes on, it's the most difficult, because it has so many ways to function. Sometimes I needed a speech do three or four or five things at once—reveal what the character said but also what he thought he said, what he hid, what others were going to think he meant, and what they misunderstood, and so forth—all in his single speech." (Eudora Welty, interviewed by Linda Kuehl. The Paris Review, Fall 1972)
Dialogue vs. Talk
"[T]he dialogue is selective--finely polished, and arranged to convey the greatest possible amount of meaning with the least use of words. . . . [Dialogue] is not a phonographic reproduction of the way people actually talk. It's the way they would talk if they had time to get down to it and refine what they wanted to say." (Robertson Davies, "The Art of Fiction No. 107." The Paris Review, Spring 1989)
"Talk is repetitive, full of rambling, incomplete, or run-on sentences, and usually contains a lot of unnecessary words. Most answers contain echoes of the question. Our speech is full of such echoes. Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes. Some people mistakenly believe that all a writer has to do is turn on a tape recorder to capture dialogue. What he'd be capturing is the same boring speech patterns the poor court reporter has to record verbatim. Learning the new language of dialogue is as complex as learning any new language." (Sol Stein, Stein on Writing. St. Martin's Griffin, 1995)
"Once captured, words have to be dealt with. You have to trim and straighten them to make them transliterate from the fuzziness of speech to the clarity of print. Speech and print are not the same, and a slavish presentation of recorded speech may not be as representative of a speaker as dialogue that has been trimmed and straightened. Please understand: you trim and straighten but you do not make it up." (John McPhee, "Elicitation." The New Yorker, April 7, 2014)
Harold Pinter on Writing Out Loud
Mel Gussow: Do you read or talk your dialogue out loud when you're writing it?
Harold Pinter: I never stop. If you were in my room, you would find me chattering away. . . . I always test it, yes, not necessarily at the very moment of writing but just a couple of minutes later.
MG: And you laugh if it's funny?
HP: I laugh like hell.
(Mel Gussow's interview with playwright Harold Pinter, October 1989. Conversations With Pinter, by Mel Gussow. Nick Hern Books, 1994)
Advice on Writing Dialogue
"There are a number of things that help when you sit down to write dialogue. First of all, sound your words--read them out loud. . . . This is something you have to practice, doing it over and over and over. Then when you're out in the world--that is, not at your desk--and you hear people talking, you'll find yourself editing their dialogue, playing with it, seeing in your mind's eye what it would look like on the page. You listen to how people really talk, and then learn little by little to take someone's five-minute speech and make it one sentence, without losing anything." (Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Random House, 1994)
"[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (P.G. Wodehouse, Paris Review Interview, 1975)
"Just as in fiction, in nonfiction dialogue—voices talking out loud on the page—accomplishes several important dramatic effects: It reveals personality, provides tension, moves the story along from one point to another, and breaks the monotony of the narrator's voice by interjecting other voices that speak in contrasting tones, using different vocabularies and cadences. Good dialogue lends texture to a story, the sense that it is not all one slick surface. This is especially important in a blatantly first-person narrative, since it offers the reader relief from a single, narrow viewpoint. The voices in dialogue can enhance or contradict the narrator's voice and contribute irony, often through humor." (Philip Gerard, Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life. Story Press, 1996)
Pronunciation: DI-e-log
Also Known As: dialogism, sermocinatio
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Back to the Woods is the second studio album by American rapper Angel Haze. It was released independently on September 14, 2015. The album was supported by three singles: "Impossible", "Babe Ruthless" and "Moonrise Kingdom".
Critical reception
The album was praised by critics. It received an average score of 82 on Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Track listing
References
2015 albums
Angel Haze albums
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So as to make this task a little simpler for you, here is a rundown on some of the most important features that you need to take into consideration when it comes to the need to find the best of the telescopes for your needs. Read on in this simple guide, free of any technical terminologies as you seek to find the best telescopes that would be most suitable for your needs.
Number one, you need to know of the fact that when it comes to the need to settle for the best of the telescopes for your needs, do not ever make your selection basing your judgment on the power rating given about the device. This is for the fact that when it comes to telescopes and of the best quality, the power is not the only parameter to look into but far more than this, after all the power is often overrated. Over and above this, power rating may sound so dazzling and appealing as it often is but there is a catch to it as well that you may be oblivious to anyway. Even though magnification happens to be so crucial in some consideration looking at the fact that it means the image will appear larger, there is the other side to it which is in the fact that thanks to the high power of magnification, your telescope will gather so much light and this is going to be spread over a larger area which in turn makes the images appearing on the eyepiece look faint or blurred in effect. On top of this, it is supposed to be well known that where you choose to go for the high powered telescope devices, know of the fact that these will call for some specific eyepiece requirements and as such you need to know of the particular eyepiece spec requirements they are that will work perfectly with the given instruments. But generally, know of the fact that there are some times where lower power will work best, giving you such better viewing experience.
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If you choose construction equipment rentals instead of buying your own construction tools and equipment, you can really put yourself at an advantage because it is more affordable as compared to the other alternatives you have. Many people these days are forced to buy cheap construction equipment that may also be of poor quality because that is the only way for them to get the resources that they need. But there is no need for you to worry about this problem anymore because there are lots of construction equipment rentals for you to choose from these days that offer high-quality construction equipment for a much lower price. Given such, one can really say that renting construction equipment is the best option that you have because it does not only let you save money but you can also guarantee that the construction tools that you have are all of the finest quality. So the next time you are torn between two options whether to buy your own tools and equipment or rent, you now know which among them is the best option for you to choose.
When you also rent construction equipment instead of buying your own, you can also make sure that you will not only save money but you can also refrain from wasting time and effort as well. This is because construction equipment can really be difficult to maintain and repair whenever you have caused any damage in them throughout your use. Although this may not be a big deal for some, it can really cause you to a lot more time and effort to maintaining and repairing them. Yet this is not applicable when you rent construction equipment for your projects.
SR22 filing is what you often hear if you have a revoked or suspended drivers license and you are now finding the right way of getting it back. To be insured and licensed once again, you must pay close attention to this concept. The state of Florida requires drivers to do SR22 filing if they have been into some form of trouble on the road. For you to get back your driving benefits, it is important that you know how you can obtain your own SR22 insurance.
If you refer to SR22 insurance as an insurance plan, it is nonexistent. Basically, SR22 is a form and not an insurance, and is something that must be filled out by the insurance company of choice. The company will then file this form to the respective governing bodies to prove that you have obtained adequate insurance for it. To put things into better perspective, the insurance company that you choose will provide the SR22 insurance as plan and will deal with the paperwork to notify the state of Florida about your coverage. The state will then be regularly updated by the insurance company that you choose about any cancellations or renewals to your car insurance policy. SR22 filing is one way of the state to keep tabs on your insurance standing and is a requirement after a couple of years of your incident or issues.
If you are not responsible in following road rules in the state of Florida, you will be required to do SR22 filings. A range of violation types require filing of SR22 by the state. A number of small accidents, injuring someone because of an accident that is your fault, driving without insurance, reckless driving, and drunk driving are just some of them. If you have never broken any laws of traffic, you will not be worrying at all about getting SR22 insurance. Getting SR22 insurance is necessary when other violations are added. Additional violations include DUI or driving under the influence, being part of a car accident without any car insurance, and multiple traffic violations within the duration of a few years. If you want to keep your drivers license, you have to secure SR22 insurance.
Most insurance companies offer SR22 insurance. Unfortunately, there are some that will not provide any response to your requests or just turn you away. If you are required to get SR22 insurance, you should find an SR22 insurance specialist who knows car insurance companies that deal with high-risk situations. On a daily basis, the insurance specialist that you choose should know how to deal with several filings. This often implies that you will have more options and that they can get the job done in no time.
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It is important to pay attention to the companys best practice. The best thing to do is to make sure that you buy the right product from the right manufacturers. You should not only think of the amount when you are making your choice. It may be better not to bend so much towards the low cost as that may mean that the quality is also low. The online presence of the company that you want to trade with can give you an insight into the company.
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It is not possible to avoid going to a physical casino if there is no internet. When the internet started rising, it became simpler and easier to play casino because you only need to do it online. It is important to note that you can play your favorite online casino game and with much convenience than when playing in the traditional way. There are different casino games and you may face a challenge when choosing the appropriate one. You should go for the online casino that would offer what you want. The following are tips to help you when choosing an online casino.
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It is necessary to consider the modes of payment accepted by the online casino. It would be disappointing to learn that your preferred online casino does not allow the payment methods that are familiar and comfortable with you. Before starting the real money play, it is good to visit the banking page and know the payment options available. You can contact customer care if you do not find the information. Ensure that you go for the online casino that has a variety of payment options.
It is important to ensure that your preferred online casino would offer the games that you would be interested in. If you choose the online casino with a variety of games, you would be assured to find your favorite game. Moreover, such casinos offer both download and no-download game formats that would suit desktop owners and those that play on public computers. You would love playing online casino if you choose the best one.
The security of your items and goods is one thing you should not take lightly. For you to store your items well, you need to look for a functional storage unit. When talking about a storage unit, we refer to a place where one can hire to store their goods. The availability of many storage units makes the process of choosing the right one to be an overwhelming task. Before deciding on a storage unit, you should research for the best ones that are present in your area. The best way to choose a storage unit is by studying all your options and selecting one that satisfies your requirements. This article discusses the factors one should consider when looking for a storage unit.
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Choosing the most reliable building contractor can be challenging for most people. This is because there are numerous building contractors in the market. It is therefore important for one to one to research adequately before they hire a building contractor. You also need to be a bit knowledgeable about the services provided by various building contractors before you make your decision. This will allow you to differentiate between the competent building contractors and the incompetent ones. Make sure to also put factors like the building contractor's reputation into consideration before you make your choice. You should also note that the quality of services provided by a given building contractor depends on their level of skills. The use of the word-of-mouth is also very powerful when it comes to finding the best building contractor in the market. Here are tips to help you find a competent building contractor.
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The cost of the building contractor is the final thing to consider. It is critical to employ the services of a building contractor that is within your financial capability. You should, therefore, determine the cost of working with different building contractors available in the market when making your choice. This is because the cost of using a certain building contractor is not everything when it comes to choosing the most skilled building contractor in the industry.
One might think that getting the right men's underwear is an easy task, however, the truth of the matter is that the process seems to be challenging for most men. The process of getting the right underwear becomes complicated since the market is flooded with different underwear brands. Due to the challenges, and most men prefer buying one style of underwear. Men are advised to consider trying different styles of underwear before sticking to one as the brands offer different levels of breathability and comfort. The following are the factors to consider when shopping for men's underwear.
It is important for men looking for underwear to first understand their shopping needs. For instance, you need to know whether you need briefs, boxers, trunks or jocks. It is a good idea to have an understanding of the different types of mens underwear before you decide to shop.
The low rise briefs are the most popular and commonly worn underwear by men. Unlike the full rise Y-front briefs, the low rise briefs are shorter and it looks like the cropped version of the full rise briefs. In the market, you will find different brands specializing in making the low rise briefs.
Regardless of your body type, you can comfortably wear the low rise briefs. Another reason why men love the low rise briefs is that they come in all sort of colors and their style is universal.
In addition, you can choose a full rise brief which is an extended version of the low rise counterparts. One of the benefits of choosing full rise briefs is that they can fit any body type. At times, obese and skinny men might be uncomfortable wearing full rise briefs, therefore, they should opt for boxers.
When you find both the low and high rise briefs to be not of your type you might consider getting boxer shorts. Unlike shorts, the boxer shorts are made from cotton and have an elastic waist. Besides, boxer shorts are ideal for both skinny and guys with heavy body frame.
In the market, you will also find boxer briefs. The boxer is slightly different from the boxer shorts in that it fit tightly. Though there are different types of men's underwear, you need to know your body size as this will assist you in choosing the outfit that will perfectly fit you. Now that you know the type of underwear and color of your choice, it is important to also know the material used in making the outfit. Mens underwear is available in a variety of fabrics, including, but not limited to, nylon, cotton, silk, plus so much more. This article is, therefore, vital for men looking for underwear that will meet their needs.
Several social events go hand in hand with flowers. People look at these occasions as if without flowers they cannot happen. Due to that perception individuals have to buy flowers. Today, there are shops selling all types of flowers that you may desire. It is possible that there the flowers shops on the internet. Again, the flowers needed during the funeral services and the wedding services are different. In this case, you can find them all in the market. In this case, once you buy flowers be sure that the firm has to deliver. It is vital to know that there are many flower delivery companies that you can employ when you need some flower delivery service. There are factors that you need to deliberate to ensure that you hire the ideal flower delivery company. Analyzed below are the things that you need to have on mind when employing a flower delivery service.
The charge of the flower delivery firm needs to be the prime aspect on your list. To hire the best flower delivery firm you need a lot of money. This needs you to start by budgeting. Still, you need to go to various companies just to find more about their wages. If you budget and inquire about the wages of various flower delivery services be certain that you can choose a firm asking you to pay the money close to your budget where you can be certain that you cannot face any monetary problems. If you go to many flower delivery services and find that they have huge wages you need to negotiate.
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Jeff Gordon wins his third Daytona 500, his first since 1999
PAT DOOLEY SUN SPORTS WRITER
DAYTONA BEACH - Jeff Gordon had already won a pair of Daytona 500s. On Sunday, he added a Daytona 507 1/2.
In the first overtime race at Daytona, Gordon held off 2004 Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch and defending champion Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win the 47th running of the Great American Race.
It took 203 laps because of a late caution flag, but Gordon won his 70th race and his first Daytona 500 since 1999.
"We came in here under the radar," Gordon said. "I don't think too many people were thinking about us because we hadn't done anything spectacular. But we knew in our hearts we could win. I just told the guys if we were in the top five near the end we could win this thing."
For much of the race it appeared that it would belong to Tony Stewart. Stewart had won one of the qualifying races and his first Busch Series race already during the week and led for 107 laps.
Stewart, who was passed by Earnhardt Jr. with 20 laps to go last year, took the lead for the seventh and final time on lap 196 but couldn't hold it. He faded to finish seventh and finished off the race trading bumps with Jimmie Johnson.
The two drivers emerged from the NASCAR trailer all smiles after what appeared to be a heated exhange between their cars on the track.
"NASCAR just wanted to make sure it wasn't something that was going to linger overnight," Stewart said. "It's over with."
Said Johnson, "It's just hard racing. We both come to the finish line doing all we can. Let's all go home."
Gordon's triumph came in a race that lacked drama for most of the day but made up for it in the end, as it usually does in restrictor plate racing.
The 10th caution flag of the race forced a restart with only six laps to go. Earnhardt Jr., who had been almost no factor during most of the race, seemingly came out of nowhere to get into contention 15 laps from the finish then jumped into the lead on the 195th lap, fell back and then retook the lead two laps later.
"It was like he flipped a switch," Gordon said. "I was surprised he wasn't up there with us, but I wasn't surprised he was there at the end."
Earnhardt Jr. was in 18th place after 160 laps before finally making his late charge. Asked if he made the best out of bad situation, Little E said, "That's an understatement."
"We were terrible all day," said Earnhardt Jr., who finished third. "But we got it going at the end. A lot of guys at the end hadn't seen me all day."
Just before the race-tying record 11th caution flag, Gordon eased back in front.
The recently applied NASCAR rule that does not allow the race to end with a caution flag meant the 500 miles would be eclipsed before the race would be decided.
As a result, after 201 laps of racing, two laps were still required. Gordon forced Busch to try to make his late pass on the outside, but Busch couldn't make it.
"I had that butterfly-in-the-stomach feeling that I had a shot to win the Daytona 500," Busch said. "I wouldn't have cleared him if I would have went to his high side. I know I wouldn't have. I'm going to be happy with that decision. I'm not going to kick myself."
Pole-sitter Dale Jarrett struggled to get his car going early in the race and finished 15th.
"They were running over me," said Jarrett. "We finally got it going where I could drive, but it was just so frustrating because it wouldn't go. It could have been a lot worse. We could have been caught in the middle of those wrecks."
As the sun set behind the bulging grandstands, so did the Daytona 500 careers of Mark Martin and Rusty Wallace, the two popular drivers who were hoping to win in Daytona for the first time. Both drivers are calling it quits after this year.
Martin finished sixth, Wallace 10th.
"I wanted to win this race, but that's OK," Wallace said. "It really isn't OK, but I told everybody if I didn't win it wouldn't be the end of the world. But I wanted to go out way on top. I wanted to win."
1. Jeff Gordon 2. Kurt Busch, 3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 4. Scott Riggs 5. Jimmie Johnson
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