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/**
* @file
*
* Represents a entity which produces a report summarizing the test outcomes for the user
*
* An example of a report producer is the entity which prints the outcomes of the tests in a file
*
* @date Oct 27, 2017
* @author Lorenzo Nodari <[email protected]>
*/
#ifndef REPORT_PRODUCER_H_
#define REPORT_PRODUCER_H_
#include <stdio.h>
#include "test_report.h"
#include "section.h"
#include "list.h"
#include "typedefs.h"
#include "model.h"
/**
* Struct used to contain the statistics used by @crashc to give the user additional info on the run tests
*/
struct ct_test_stats {
/**
* The number of total tests @crashc have detected
*
* @definition Test
* It's is a single loop of a @testcase
*/
unsigned int total_tests;
/**
* The number of passed tests
*
*/
unsigned int successful_tests;
/**
* The number of failed tests
*
*/
unsigned int failed_tests;
};
/**
* Contains function pointers to the implementations of the function used to produce the report of the particular parts of the tests.
*
* @definition Report Producer
* It's an entity which, given a in-memory representation of the outcome of the tests just performed by @crashc,
* generates an output (e.g. json, xml, sql db) which nicely summarizes the outcomes of the tests.
*
* This allows for easy customization and high code maintainability. Use this struct to generate your custom test reporter.
* For example, one may want to create a test reporter which save its data ina mysqlite database.
*/
struct ct_report_producer {
ct_test_reporter_c test_reporter;
ct_snapshot_tree_reporter_c snapshot_tree_reporter;
ct_summary_reporter_c summary_producer;
ct_assert_reporter_c assert_reporter;
ct_reporter_c report_producer;
};
/**
* Prints the string representation of a ::ct_snapshot_status
*
* @param[in] status the status to compute the string representation of
* @return a string representation of \c status
*/
char* ct_snapshot_status_to_string(enum ct_snapshot_status status);
/**
* Prints the string representation of a ::ct_section_type
*
* @param[in] type the type to compute the string representation of
* @return a string representation of \c type
*/
char* ct_section_type_to_string(enum ct_section_type type);
//TODO in my opinion these functiosn should be placed in another header called like "default_report_producer.h"
/**
* @addtogroup defaultReportProducer Default Report Producer
* @brief a struct ct_report_producer which print the summary of @crashc test outcomes in a file by writing the test correctly indented
* @{
*/
/**
* Prints the report of the executed tests in a default format
*
* \note
* The report will be printed in the file specified by struct ct_model::output_file
*
* @param[inout] model the model to handle
*/
void ct_default_report(struct ct_model* model);
/**
* Prints the tests summary in a default format
*
* \note
* The report will be printed in the file specified by struct ct_model::output_file
*
* @param[inout] model the model to handle
*/
void ct_default_report_summary(struct ct_model* model);
/**
* Prints a the report of a single test with a default format
*
* \note
* The report will be printed in the file specified by struct ct_model::output_file
*
* @param[inout] model the model to handle
* @param[inout] report the test report to put in the file
*/
void ct_default_test_report(struct ct_model* model, struct ct_test_report* report);
/**
* Prints a representation of a snapshot tree in a default format
*
* \note
* The report will be printed in the file specified by struct ct_model::output_file
*
* @param[inout] model the model to manage
* @param[inout] snapshot the snapshot to write into the file
* @param[in] level the depth level \c snapshot is in the snapshot tree
*/
void ct_default_snapshot_tree_report(struct ct_model* model, struct ct_snapshot* snapshot, int level);
/**
* Prints a default report for the assertions related to a specific snapshot
*
* \note
* The report will be printed in the file specified by struct ct_model::output_file
*
* @param[inout] model the model to manage
* @param[inout] snapshot the snapshot to write into the file
* @param[in] level the depth level \c snapshot is in the snapshot tree
*
*/
void ct_default_assertions_report(struct ct_model* model, struct ct_snapshot* snapshot, int level);
///@}
/**
* Creates a new initialized structure in the heap
*
* @return a structure containing the statistics data related to the tests
*/
struct ct_test_stats* ct_init_stats();
/**
* Creates and initializes in memory a new default report producer structure
*
* @return a structure representing a naive report producer
*/
struct ct_report_producer* ct_init_default_report_producer();
/**
* Frees the memory occupied by a struct ct_test_stats
*
* @param[inout] stats the structure to dispose from the memory
*/
void ct_destroy_stats(struct ct_test_stats* stats);
/**
* Frees the memory allocated for the default report producer
*
* @param[inout] producer the structure to dispose from the mermory
*/
void ct_destroy_default_report_producer(struct ct_report_producer* producer);
#endif /* REPORT_PRODUCER_H_ */
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Q: Getting Semantic Grids scss foundation 4 to work I have 3 sections that collapse under the default breakpoint
but I do not know how to get it to collapse with my own css using scss.
default foundation grid that works well and collapses
<div class="row">
<div class="large-4 columns">...</div>
<div class="large-4 columns">...</div>
<div class="large-4 columns">...</div>
</div>
I tried below out but but it doesn't seem to collapse
<div class="container">
<div class="div1">...</div>
<div class="div2">...</div>
<div class="div3">...</div>
</div>
.container{
@include grid-row;
.div1 {
@include grid-column(4);
}
.div2 {
@include grid-column(4);
}
.div3 {
@include grid-column(4);
}
}
A: its because you are writing the SCSS for grid-row wrong.
@include grid-row();
Do NOT use @extend. that is NOT how foundation4 is made to be used... @extend just stuffs your styles into .row and .column and that is not what you want to do, instead you want to stick THOSE styles into your styles the reverse way using semantic code therefore you can change the code later in your SCSS and it updates later.
Here is the correct answer:
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="div1">...</div>
<div class="div2">...</div>
<div class="div3">...</div>
</div>
SCSS
.container{
@include grid-row();
.div1, .div2, .div3 {
@include grid-column(12);
@media #{$medium-up} {
@include grid-column(4);
}
@media #{$large-up} {
@include grid-column(4);
}
}
}
Note: this is with foundation 5. You must create breakpoints. Your mobile breakpoint should have 12 columns if you want the whole view to collapse in mobile, or whatever you want. This is the same as
<div class="small-12 columns"> </div>
if you want 4 columns for medium and up you write:
<div class="small-12 medium-4 columns"> </div>
So to write that symantically without helper classes you write this:
<div class="myclassname"> </div>
and the SCSS code is:
.myclassname {
@include grid-column(12);
@media #{$medium-up} {
@include grid-column(4);
}
}
A: I was baffled by this, but then found out it is actually intended behavior. Here's a quote from the official Foundation grid documentation:
We kept media queries out of the code for our grid mixins. This will enable you to include the mixins inside of whatever breakpoint you'd like, putting you in complete control. If you want to create 10 breakpoints and shift the layout around between each one, by all means. If you want to use only the default breakpoints, we've got variables for that.
A: Use @extend instead.
.container{
@extend .grid;
div{
@extend .columns;
}
}
.div1 {
@extend .large-4;
}
.div2 {
@extend .large-4;
}
.div3 {
@extend .large-4;
}
I made a couple of mixins that works well and I think that makes it easier:
https://gist.github.com/jofralogo/5324278
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Dhyan De De Idhar Bhi Zara?
Ok, this one is an odd question.there was this music album long time back released by t-series.it had nice songs some of which were picturised on umm Kishan Kumar. one of the songs was "Dhyan De De Idhar Bhi Zara".there was this another fast paced song with kishan kumar potrayed as an action hero. i just cannot remember the name of that song. can anyone help?
HUMMMMMMMMMM.....I think it is "theree mere sapne"
Baitha banda kunwara tera.. 2nd line.Sorry dont remmed collection name and other song. Sorry.
yea that was the second line! |
In a genius-composer-centric tradition, a lot of ink is spilt over finding performance approaches that are "faithful" to the composer's intentions. One of the crucial components of this concern, beyond identifying the most accurate score (the "urtext") is the choice of instrumentation: timbre is such a defining quality of music that we might rightly consider that a composer was thinking of a particular instrumental sound when setting a work to paper, and thus if we want to recreate that sound "faithfully" we should turn to that instrument. This is the premise behind the "historically informed performance" approach; for more than a century musicians have argued that reproductions of instruments from the past should be used to play the music composed for those instruments.
Welcome to The Avid Listener, your weekly resource for thoughtful commentary and discussion about music.
Launched in the fall of 2014, The Avid Listener now includes nearly 50 essays on a wide variety of subjects, including modes of listening (avid, structural, spiritual, and distracted); Hip-hop and cultural diplomacy (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4); gender and music; film music; musical notation; authenticity and interpretation; protest music; music and place; songwriting and recording; and music and disability. Forthcoming topics include music and literature and video game music. For a complete list of current and upcoming essays, download The Avid Listener Digest August/September 2015. New posts will appear every Monday beginning August 24.
For those teaching a music history or music appreciation course, we invite you to consider some suggestions for integrating The Avid Listener into the classroom. Guidelines for college instructors can be found here; guidelines for high school instructors, linked to the Common Core English Language Arts Standards, can be found here. Teachers looking for material to start the semester off right should check out Sara Haefeli's essays "If History Is Written by the Victors," "The Problem with Geniuses," and "Does Music Evolve?"
And for those who want to submit their work to be considered for publication on The Avid Listener, please download our editorial guidelines and let us know if you have any questions.
We hope you enjoy reading The Avid Listener, and good luck with the coming school year!
Are you a music scholar with an interest in blogging? Is there a music-related subject you'd like to explore in 500 to 1,500 words? Do you wish music criticism were more accessible, pitched to today's undergraduate students?
If so, please consider submitting your work to The Avid Listener. See our editorial guidelines below, and let us know if you have any questions! |
A few days ago a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent, e.g. VX, in Salisbury, England. Over a decade ago, another former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, died in London after being poisoned with polonium, a highly radioactive substance produced inside nuclear reactors, placed inside his tea. Russia's spies are still a threat in the 21st century, at least attempting to assassinate people they choose in Western cities and capitals.
All that made me think back to an issue of the Economist I received a few weeks ago. It had a special report on the future of warfare and this map on the threat posed by Russian conventional forces.
It does a good job of showing that in just a conventional sense, Russia remains a dangerous threat to NATO. The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are incredibly vulnerable, all but surrounded by Russia and its allies/proxies.
North Korea tested another missile yesterday. And while we do not have the precise details, I happened to come across this video from the New York Times exploring the different means by which the United States defends against missile threats. It makes use of some nice illustrations and motion graphics to explain ballistic missiles and missile defence systems.
Credit for the piece goes to Robin Stein and Drew Jordan.
A story over the last several days you may not have heard about concerns the disappearance of the ARA San Juan, an Argentinian Navy submarine. Here in the US and over in the UK, we use rather large nuclear-powered submarines. They can travel the world underwater without ever coming up for air. But most of the rest of the world uses much smaller diesel-electric submarines. They have to come up for air every couple days, like in all those World War II submarine movies.
As you know, these kind of stories are right up my alley and I wanted to try and explain the story visually. Unfortunately, it took me way too long to illustrate the two submarines you will see. So instead, we have more of a comparison of the San Juan, a Type 1700 submarine, and the movie-famous American Los Angeles class attack submarine.
The Argentinian sub is just over half the size of the American sub. It's rather small.
I had a lot of other things planned, but had to drop them. The point is that the Argentinian submarine is a lot smaller, has fewer crew, but needs to come to the surface in the next day or two, most likely. Time is beginning to run out.
Over the weekend, the American and North Korean leaders got into an argument with the North Korean leader calling President Trump old and the American leader calling Kim Jong Un short and fat. High class diplomacy.
So what holds the North Korean army, by numbers likely not quality one of the largest armed forces in the world, back from sweeping down the Korean coastlines and overrunning Seoul? Well, that would be the role of the Demilitarised Zone, or DMZ. And thankfully yesterday, whilst your humble author was out sick, the Washington Post published a piece looking at the DMZ.
The piece uses a giant, illustrated in the background to provide context to the words and imagery sitting in the foreground. (That is how I justified covering it in the blog: map.) Overall the experience was smooth and informative about the sheer amount of destructive power waiting just miles north of Seoul.
Credit for the piece goes to Armand Emamdjomeh, Laris Karklis, and Tim Meko. |
For those in the Bay Area, Placerville, 2 – 2 1/2 hours away, is the perfect location for a quick ski weekend. Ski on Saturday and do a little shopping and wine tasting, safely below the snowline on Sunday.
Head out early on Friday to beat the traffic. This scenic detour adds less than 30 min to your drive and is the first winery you will encounter on your way to Placerville. Located one mile from the famous gold mining town of Coloma and Sutter's Mill. Their FireplaceFriday's (5:30 – 7:30) are sure to warm you up. Enjoy live local musicians, food truck fare and Gold Hill's wines and their own craft brews.
Continue on another 15 min to Placerville and settle into your stay at Coloma Spring Suites.
Go slow and have dinner in your neighborhood. A weekend in the foothill feels world's away from the Bay Area but is an easy 2 2 1/2 hour drive from Bay Area locations. By the time you are done with dinner ,the traffic has cleared out. You will arrive in Placerville in time for a good nights sleep and wake up ready to start your weekend.
Day 2: Alternative 1 – Skiing?
Sierra at Tahoe is less an hour away. The scenery along the way is spectacular. After a full day of skiing head back to Placerville where you are safely below the snowline. This makes your drive home on Sunday a breeze.
Wine Tasting in El Dorado.
With over 150 years of history steeped in gold and agriculture, the El Dorado region is poised for its newfound resurgence in viticulture. Unique vineyard soils and a high elevation create a superior environment for a vast array of varietals. The region is gaining recognition for its ability to grow quality grapes that exhibit a sense of place. For more information about El Dorado and wines visit ElDoradoWines.org.
A few favorites close by include Nello Olivo. The wine tasting cellar, in the basement of one of the most beautiful Victorian Mansions in Placerville, is a five-minute walk from your suite at Coloma Spring Suites. The Olivos have chosen to grow old-world style grapes—particularly those common to regions of Italy, Nello's ancestral home—which flourish in the California Sierra Foothills climate. Wine Country possesses a lush array of wineries. Look for dinners/ poetry reading and other events on the Events Calendar. The next closest is Boeger Winery. This is one of the oldest wineries in the region with a tree shaded, creek-side picnic area. Pack a picnic lunch with the sandwiches at The Farm Table on Main Street. To find some of the other 70+ wineries check out ElDoradoWines.org . While visiting the wineries speckled throughout Apple Hill stop by some of the apple farms. Even when the harvesting season is over several farms, includingHigh Hill Ranch – Boa Vista Orchards – Abel's Apple Acres, stay open all year with freshly made pies / freshly pressed cider and seasonal craft fairs. The region is also home to over 30 choose-and-cut tree farms. Spend some time outside with your family or friends making memories picking out that perfect tree for your home. Main Street offers a unique shopping experience for art/ antiques / clothing and gift items. . Main street merchants stay open late at least once a month for a street fair Visit-ElDorado.com for more information.
Day 3: Brunch and the Sunday Paper Wine Cellar Stock-up Hike the Placerville Trail.
Stock your wine cellar for your holiday parties on Sunday. An abundant wine region, El Dorado has a diverse selection of tasting rooms to explore and discover new gifts. Head to the charming area of Camino during the month of December to take advantage of Magnum Days at Madrona Vineyards with discounts on large format and library bottles for your holiday table. If you agree that wine is bottled poetry then head to Nello Olvio Winery for their monthly Poetry Sunday Live. Enjoy an afternoon of fine wine paired with poetic words in the charming atmosphere of the wine tasting cellar. Take the 20-minute drive through the pine-wooded mountains to acclaimed Skinner Vineyards and Winery; known for their focus on hand-crafted Rhône style wines. Join them for their Second Sundays, an intimate wine and food tasting experience hosted in the cellar tasting room. Explore the flavors of the holidays and how to perfectly pair them with Skinner wines. Stretch your legs with a hike along the Placerville Trail, part of the Rails-to-Trails movement. It's features include a railway tunnel and the Weber Creek railway bridge that soars high above the creek. The trail extends from Camino to Diamond Springs, passing through Smith Flat and downtown Placerville. For more hikes and other Outdoor activities see our map Placerville – "Old Hangtown" was founded in the gold rush.
visitors have found gold in a unique refuge from city life. Vineyards, Apple and Christmas tree farms dot the countryside. There is spectacular scenery for hiking, biking, and white water rafting.
Placerville Paths is a great resource for hiking in the region.
If you need a place to stay while visiting the area, consider Coloma Spring Suites, a pleasant 5-10 min walk from Old Town Placerville, Coloma Spring Suites' location provides you with the amenities of shops, services, entertainment and restaurants to make your stay more pleasant. Premier wineries, Apple Hill ranches, historic Coloma, the American River– for swimming and rafting, and the Eldorado National Forest – for hiking – are all located within minutes of Main Street Placerville and Coloma Spring Suites.
Pollock Pines and Camino are located just east of Placerville on US Highway 50. In these two towns, you'll find magnificent forests of pine, cedar and oak, rushing mountain streams, deer and other wildlife in their natural setting. Camino offers the pastoral farm and orchard scenes known as "Apple Hill".
In the fall, the Apple Hill Farms open and activities expand to include some old-fashioned fun. In addition to fresh-picked apples, apple pies and fresh pressed cider, there are crafts fairs, fishing holes, hay mazes, pony, train, hay rides, and more.
In winter, snow sports are nearby at popular ski areas and show parks. |
Reportage + Société | Le Buzz
Le Buzz: Beyond the French news
February 22, 2013 By Emmanuelle Tremolet |
This article is in English. Click here to read it in French.
This week in Le Buzz, we discover, or rediscover, a dancer of elegant physique, an actress who is living proof that talent has no age, a fashion ambassador and an actress turned singer, daughter of… and sister of…
But who are we talking about here? They are certainly newsworthy French people, but who are they? That's for you to discover below.
The Frenchman Benjamin Millepied, new director of dance at the Opéra de Paris
It could be that his name doesn't seem familiar, but you've probably heard it somewhere before.
Benjamin Millepied is a French dancer and choreographer, known for having worked on Darren Aronofsky's film 'Black Swan'. It was on the set of this film that he met the actress Natalie Portman, whom he married in 2012. In October 2014, he will succeed Brigitte Lefèvre, the Director of ballet at the Opéra de Paris since 1985.
Benjamin Millepied is one of the greatest dancers of his generation, he enchants and bedazzles. After having studied at the Conservatoire National in Lyon, he entered the New York City Ballet where he was named principal dancer in 2002.
He has danced the great ballets of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, the latter of whom, the choreographer of West Side Story, even marked him as a "genius".
Alongside his dancing career, Benjamin Millepied is the face of the Yves Saint-Laurent perfume 'Homme Libre' . His elegance and chic allure has drawn the attention of labels such as Air France and Uniqlo. After having spent 20 years in the United States, the French dancer will soon return to the French capital with his wife and son. Welcome back!
You can find here the programme of the Opéra de Paris for the 2012/2013 season.
The French actress Emanuelle Riva, age 85, accepted into the BAFTA
At the age of 85, the French actress has won the Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) for Best Actress for her role in Michael Haneke's film 'Amour'. Emanuelle Riva played the role of an old woman, the victim of a stroke, whose relationship with her husband is consequently put to a difficult test.
The role of the husband is played by another great name in French cinema, Jean Louis Trintignant, known notably for his role in the Claude Lelouch film, 'Un Homme et une Femme'.
Emanuelle Riva, stage and film actress, came to fame in 1959 in Alain Resnais' first feature film, 'Hiroshima mon amour', based on the novel by Marguerite Duras.
The film 'Amour' has had a great cinematographic success. After receiving the palme d'or at Cannes in 2012, it has been nominated at the Oscars in the category of Best Film. Emanuelle Riva will equally take part in the Oscars, being held on the 24th of February in Los Angeles, in the category of Best Actress.
Without question, the Frenchies are well liked in Hollywood. Marion Cotillard will also be in the running to receive a statuette. And now, the Oscar for Best Actress is awarded to…
The Victoires de la Musique French awards crown the artist Lou Doillon
Maybe you don't know Lou Doillon, but you no doubt know Jane Birkin.
Lou Doillon is the daughter of Jane Birkin and the director Jacques Doillon. She is also the half-sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg.
In Paris, on Friday the 8th of February the 28th Victoires de la Musique awards were held, the equivalent of the American Grammy Awards. On this occasion, Lou Doillon was named Female Artist of the Year for her first album, titled 'Places'. "Mum, I got it!" she shouted with joy to her mother Jane Birkin.
'Places' is a folk rock album with a sombre tone, written by this young woman of 30 years of age and produced by one of the great names in French music, Etienne Daho.
Lou Doillon, who was formerly an actress, model and stylist, seems to have found her way in music… She has just kick-started a French tour, for which you will find the dates here. Lou Doillon, a French artist to discover!
1 – Benjamin Millepied and Natalie Portman at the 84th Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, February 26th 2012. | AFP/JOE KLAMAR.
2 – Loic Venance, AFP, Getty Images , The Associated Press.
3 – Les-Julies.com.
4 – Site officiel de Lou Doillon.
artiste,
Cinéma français,
French music,
French Musicians,
Emmanuelle Tremolet
"Je suis une française partie vivre à l'autre bout du monde, en Australie, avec une envie folle de découvrir un autre pays. Au bout du compte, c'est la France, que je redécouvre à travers les yeux des Australiens et de nombreux francophiles. Je vous invite à découvrir ma vision de la France."
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"Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalitéMake your life a dream and the dream a reality"
Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Translation
Mais je parle, je parle... But enough about me... |
my son has been very needy of us when we are around, Is this normal at 17 months?
he wants to be with us/ or climbing on us alot or he will get upset and cry.
My 15 month old is doing this too. It started since we've been back from vacation. He's been wanting his pacifier more often. I thought it was because we were somewhere out of our element and out of our routine. I just don't know. |
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While cover art only comes once an album, a gig poster is a way that a band can visually explore their music every time they play a show. And there really is a lot to be said about a great gig poster. If they connect with music lovers, they can fill seats and even become cult artwork for college dorms everywhere.
Still it can be hard to translate music into images, so we're going to break down this art form into six keys that might help you get started. To make things simpler, we're going to do this on mobile devices and skip the crayons and paint tubes, because we know that we can get equally awesome results. The PicsArt photo editor fits the bill for the task here, because this app has a deep and flexible editor as well as a Drawing Tool, which is a great combo for any artistic undertaking. Here are six key tips to cracking the art of the gig poster.
Every band has a personality, so build a unifying theme in every layer. Double Exposures are a great way to combine images and backgrounds, and effects can help define the energy of each element, whether it's a vintagestyle filter or a more transformative effect that makes an image look handpainted with watercolors. PicsArt has an extensive effects library, and lets you control the blending mode of each photo or piece of clipart that you add in.
More than in any other project, the font that you use here is super, incredibly, outrageously important! Your band name is your flag, and your font is almost more important than the name. A lot of names could work for different styles of music, but fonts speak to specific feelings. Hippy bubble letters, angry slashing letters, cool minimalism… do not underthink your font.
One of the best ways to link your artwork to the vibe of the band is to simply make sure that you are listening to the music while you create. Creating something independently of the music is fine, but it's much easier to feel your way into your project if you can hear the thudding drums and jangling guitars. That energy will make its way into the final results.
A gig poster is an advert, and that means that you want to grab attention from the distractions of the street. Nothing jumps out at us faster than the color itself, so start with strong colors; neon is near impossible to ignore for example. Beyond that, a strong image is key. You don't need complexity or detail, a hard hitting bonkers idea will do. Who can walk by a bulldog's jowls dangling over a collared shirt? Cutting and pasting from photos in the app makes this as easy as cake.
Another basic element to any poster's feeling is something that underlies the entire poster itself — the texture! You can actually play with various types of textures without buying sheets of expensive paper. PicsArt has texture masks that will give your poster the tactile look of everything from newspaper to a brick wall.
The final test of any poster is the simplest, but it's critical that you keep this in mind. Ask yourself, "would I hang this poster on my wall?" Well… wouldyou? If it doesn't belong on your wall, then you're not connecting to it and that means other people probably won't either. Your poster should look so good that even people who have never heard the band will want it hanging over their beds.
Are feeling the groove yet? Sink yourself into a gig poster project and see if you can strike a winning chord. Download the PicsArt app for free on Android, iOS or Windows Phone to give it a go! |
Few heart patients need antibiotics
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
October 18, 2007 -- Dentists no longer need to prescribe antibiotics to most patients at risk of heart disease, according to a new recommendation by the American Heart Association (AHA).
The new guidelines, published in the October 16 issue of Circulation, revise the broad recommendations for preventative antibiotics the AHA issued in 1997. The earlier guidelines were based on the observation that dental procedures flood the patient's blood with oral bacteria. Researchers worried this bacteria could cause infective endocarditis, a potentially serious infection of the heart's lining.
In revisiting the guidelines, an AHA committee noted that daily activities as routine as brushing your teeth are just as likely as a tooth extraction to send bacteria from the mouth into the bloodstream. And there's no evidence of a dental procedure actually causing infective endocaditis.
But just to be on the safe side, the AHA is keeping its prophylactic antibiotics recommendation in force for patients at the greatest risk of infective endocarditis. That includes those with:
Prosthetic cardiac valve or prosthetic material used for cardiac valve repair
Previous infective endocarditis
Congenital heart disease (CHD)
Unrepaired cyanotic CHD, including palliative shunts and conduits
Completely repaired congenital heart defect with prosthetic material or device, whether placed by surgery or by catheter intervention, during the first six months after the procedure†
Repaired CHD with residual defects at the site or adjacent to the site of a prosthetic patch or prosthetic device (which inhibit endothelialization)
Cardiac transplantation recipients who develop cardiac valvulopathy
The AHA offers a wallet card for these patients describes the recommended antibiotic protocols for various dental procedures.
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The pope's message on for ever ====> I don't believe he's right, so it's good that he leaves a lot of wiggle room. On the other hand, Christ taught in parables which made it hard for everyone even the apostles to understand him. We need GOD'S help to understand even Christ's teachings. Maybe the pope wants to believe it won't be for ever but he knows GOD'S telling him differently, so he leaves a little wiggle room just in case kind of like Abraham trying to save Sodom & Gomorrah. Abraham couldn't do it, so don't expect the pope to be able to do it.
Maybe it's GOD'S way of telling the pope he's wrong on the gay and lesbian ideas too.
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Beer brings together the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
I was there; I was struck that anyone could make such a classical allusion at a beer conference.
Fritz Maytag —owner of the Anchor Brewing Company, and 2008 recipient of a James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1993 Maytag launched the Anchor Distilling Company whose Old Potrero Rye Whiskey and Junipero Gin quickly became models for a burgeoning artisanal distilling movement in America and around the world.
And, he is a classical scholar.
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Bonjour Citygaragistes,
It was a stormy year of pain and sorrow that we will never forget. So many people gone, families in need, black and white fighting in the streets for justice, a beast eating us away, a dark cloud floating on our head.
But tonight at midnight, all together, we should make a wish for a better future. We should all together help each other with love. So black and white and brown become one color. And all together we will kill that beast eating us.
Life will be back to us soon and we will be wiser (we hope). Merci to all of you for your support. Because of you, our City Garage Classic Weekends has been a big success, and the same with our new show with Steven Leigh Morris. Please, if you can, help us with a little donation so we can continue to go on until we re-open the theatre. We wish you all a magic new year in 2021.
Merci and love to all,
The Bourgeois Gentleman
Happy holidays! In the spirit of that, City Garage brings you, by popular demand, a little seasonal cheer with a reprise of Moliere's classic comedy"The Bourgeois Gentleman," translated and adapted by Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe. And this week on "Animal Farm: Conversations on Theater and Politics with Steven Leigh Morris and Guests," Steven talks with performer, poet, and award-winning playwright Luis Alfaro. We'll be running these for the next two weeks until we return with new programming for 2021.
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And here is a little about the "Bourgeois":
Nominated for "Best Adaptation," 2008 LA Weekly Theatre Awards
Nominated for "Best Adaptation" by the LA Weekly, and a "Critic's Choice" in the Los Angeles Times, this sparkling new translation/adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was described by the LA Times as a "gracefully loopy soufflé" and an "unguarded hoot." Wealthy and foolish Monsieur Jourdain is in love with the Countess Dorimène and aches to be what he is not—a member of the aristocracy. Determined to overcome his low birth with an education in high style, he unwittingly surrounds himself with charlatans and swindlers who gleefully take his money and prey on his innocence. Originally written by Moliere as a "comedy ballet" for Louis XIV, this new translation re-imagines the play for today's audience, transporting us into an extravagant fantasy world of song, dance, and upper class nonsense with a French accent.
Here is what the critics had to say:
"With a generous soupcon of witty anarchy…this sleek City Garage take on Moliere's deathless satire of nouveau riche pretensions and aristocratic machinations is nominally avante garde, but mainly an unguarded hoot….With many wicked analogies to modern mores, Michel and Duncombe slyly tailor our times into their tart adaptation, complete with anachronisms, nonstop postures, and purposely limp songs….everyone embraces the formalized mischief with élan."
"Critic's Choice," Los Angeles Times
"Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe's fresh and bawdy translation-adaptation serves up a bouquet of comedic delights."
"Go," LA Weekly
It will be showing on our City Garage YouTube channel from 8:00pm this Friday, December 25, through noon on Friday, January 1st.
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It's free to view but we ask people to make a donation if they can through our Chuffed page:
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Merci to all our donors throughout this very difficult year. We hope for good things for 2021 and to see you all again at City Garage as soon as it is safe to re-open.
Merci, stay safe, wear a soak, and bonnet fetes!
Here are some photos:
(Left to right) Troy Dunn, Jeff Atik, Ruth Crossley photo: Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) Jeff Atik, Ruth Crossley photo: Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) Jeff Atik, Max Molina photo: Paul Rubenstein
This week we have a real City Garage classic for you, a production from 2000, "Top Dogs" by Urs Widmer. And on our online talk show,"Animal Farm: Conversations About Theatre and Politics with Steven Leigh Morris and Guests," Steven talks with Angela Gaspar Milanovic and Bronwyn Mauldin from the LA County Department of Arts and Culture. It's a very interesting and in-depth discussion of the impact of Covid on the arts in LA and what the Department is doing to help.
Here is a link to the talk show:
And here is information about the show streaming this week:
Top Dogs by Urs Widmer
City Garage continues its ongoing "City Garage Classics" series this weekend with a production from 2002, Top Dogs by Urs Widmer.
LA Weekly — Pick of the Week!
By Urs Widmer
Production Design and Dramaturgy by Charles A. Duncombe Jr.
Cast: Tatiana Alvarez, Joel Drazner, Richard Grove, Dyan Kane, Dennis Ottobre, Mark Rebernik, Bo Roberts, Gene Williams
LA Weekly — Pick of the Week!review by Constance Monaghan
"Swiss playwright Urs Widmer's brutally funny look at life after downsizing may be billed as surreal, but to anyone familiar with the corporate milieu, it can only seem painfully real. It opens with an endless series of huge, projected mouths announcing name, impressive corporate title and obscene salary. When next we find ourselves in a roomful of these same "top dogs," now jobless clients of the New Challenge Corporation employment agency, our pity can't help but be tinged with smug satisfaction. That duality of response continues as we empathize with this "white-collar trash" newly shorn of identity (literally clinging to their wingtips and pumps) and simultaneously scorn them for weaknesses we also identify with. Director Frederique Michel brilliantly balances the explosively comic and movingly melancholic in a precise, stylish staging that segues from drill-team choreography, to dead-on spotlit monologues (one man fantasizes becoming a zookeeper while a woman imagines impressing her hard-nosed mother with a top-floor office), to re-enactments of the characters firings. The ensemble is impressive: Tatiana Alvarez, Joel Drazner, Richard Grove, Dyan Kane, Dennis Ottobre, Mark Rebernik, Bo Roberts and Gene Williams. Charles Duncombe Jr. created the set, lighting, sound and video (along with Cristian YoungMiller and Arosh Ayrom)."
It will be showing on our City Garage YouTube channel from 8:00pm this Friday, December 18th, through noon on Friday, December 25th.
It's free to view but we ask people to make a donation if they can through our Chuffed page
Merci to our donor this week, Chandra Commuri!
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(Left to right) Tatiana Alvarez, Mark Rebernik, Dyan Kane, Richard Grove, Joel Drazner; photo: Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) Joel Drazner, Bo Roberts; photo: Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) Bo Roberts, Mark Rebernik, Dennis Ottobre, Dyan Kane, Joel Drazner, Richard Grove; photo; Paul Rubenstein
A Collage from Garbage
We are excited to bring you the next episode of our weekly talk show, "Animal Farm: Conversations on Theater and Politics with Steven Leigh Morris and Guests." This week Steven talks with Michael A. Shepperd, the Artistic Director of Celebration Theater, one of LA's preeminent LQBQT theaters and a thoroughly delightful man. Please watch and share the link with your friends—and remember, we are always looking for suggested guests, themes, questions, and your videos of your favorite animal friends. Go to website and click on the "Animal Farm" link and fill out the form at the bottom of the page. Here is the link for this week's episode:
https://citygarage.org/animalfarm
A Collage from Garbage, The City, and Death by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
We're also happy to continue our ongoing "City Garage Classics" series with a real vintage classic from the old space in 1997: Garbage, the City, and Death by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It was the last play written by Fassbinder and tells the story of Romi, a beautiful prostitute and the Jewish real estate speculator who falls in love with her. The play was banned in Germany in 1975 because it was accused of reproducing anti-semitic stereotypes. In fact, Fassbinder was using a victim's revenge to, as fellow German playwright Heiner Muller put it, "describe the devastation of a city in huge, harsh images. The city is Frankfurt. The means of revenge is real estate speculation and its consequences." Fassbinder portrayed the anti-semitism that he felt was still rife throughout German society, despite hypocritical posturing and pious condemnations of the country's Nazi past. Consistently a defender and advocate for marginalized populations, the reactions the play evoked, particularly from the left, seemed to bear out Fassbinder's judgment.
Mature audiences
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And thank you again to all of you who continue to support us during this difficult time. We hope to see you again at the theatre!
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(Left to right) Strawn Bovee, Gustav Vintas; photo: Paul Rubenstein
Department of Dreams
We're very excited to bring you the next episode of "Animal Farm: Conversations on Theater and Politics with Steven Leigh Morris and Guests." This week Steven talks with two of our favorites playwrights, whose work we've done just recently: Kosovar playwright Jeton Neziraj, whose "Department of Dreams" we premiered at City Garage last fall, and Roland Schimmelpfenig, one of Germany (and Europe's) most prominent playwrights, whose "Winter Solstice" we did in 2018. We hope you'll enjoy Steven's talk with them. Here is the link: (and if you missed earlier episodes, you can catch up on this page).
In honor of having Jeton with us again this week, as our City Garage classic we're reprising "Department of Dreams." In case you weren't able to see it in the theatre with us (or missed its first streaming, a few months ago) this is your chance again! Here is a little bit about it from the original press release:
"In this nightmarish, Orwellian comedy an autocratic government demands its citizens deposit their dreams in a central bureaucratic depository so that it can exert the fullest possible control of their imaginations. In this vast, underground complex, civil servants like Dan, a new hire for the prized job of Interpreter, sift patiently through the nation's dreams looking for threats to the government's authority. If order is to be maintained, deviance must be extinguished and imagination co-opted. Dan works hard and tries stubbornly to survive in this strange dream world but finds nothing is as it seems except the authority that rules it."
And here's what the critics had to say:
"The premiere represents a coup for City Garage's founders, artistic director Frédérique Michel and producing director Charles A. Duncombe, whose company has been presenting edgy theater for more than 30 years. Michel, who also directs, and Duncombe, whose typically stunning production design is a highlight, do full service to Neziraj's savagely topical, darkly funny piece….Michel's staging, combined with Duncombe's animated projections — a sort of Dadaesque Betty Boop — complete Neziraj's Orwellian portrait of a mad world in which all individuality is suppressed….This is not an easy play. It's difficult to understand, at times incomprehensible. But it is important work by a world-class playwright who challenges our complacency at every twist and turn."
It will be showing on our City Garage YouTube channel from 8:00pm this Friday, December 4th, through noon on Friday, December 11th.
Merci to our wonderful donors of this week, including "Giving Tuesday" (so far!)
Berta Finkelstein and Bill Claiborn
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John Logan; photo: Paul Rubenstein; background image by Gaston Vinas
Marriage Blanc
We have a special guest this week on our new talk show, "Animal Farm: Conversations on Theater and Politics with Steven Leigh Morris and Guests:" playwright Neil LaBute. He is one of the most important and provocative playwrights in America today. We hope you enjoy Steven's talk with him.
Animal Farm Episode 6: Neil LaBute
Also, we're excited to continue our ongoing "City Garage Classics" series this weekend with a production from 1999, "The White Wedding" by Taduez Rozewizc. It was a special project for us because we had with us for its opening the eminent Polish critic and writer Jan Kott.
"A surreal erotic fable chock full of Freudian themes and imagery, "Marriage Blanc" (White Wedding) is a good fit for the libido-drenched avant antics of Santa Monica's City Garage. Nudity, emotional confrontation, socio-political satire and absurdism abound in this tale of a girl's frightened resistance to an arranged marriage and her own emerging womanhood. But Tadeusz Rozewizc's wry allegory also lets the ensemble demonstrate its facility with more traditional performance and stagecraft, thanks to linear narrative, continuity of character, and turn-of-the-century setting."
In a striking departure from the company's frequent forays into stark, existential modernism, production designer Charles A. Duncombe Jr's ornate period scenery and warm-hued lighting prove well-suited to the 1968 play's deliberate construction as a distant fairy tale — necessary to avoid censorship in the playwright's native Poland."
"A playful and erotic journey through the turn-of-the-century Polish countryside by one of Poland's foremost modern playwrights. In this surreal fairy tale for adults, a young girl who is about to be married struggles with her sexuality while contending with her nymphomaniac sister, lecherous father, and repressed mother. Despite the mother's best efforts, the prim Victorian society of her orderly bourgeois household is constantly overwhelmed by eruptions of pagan sexuality. Yet, typical of great Polish theatre, beneath the sunny surface, serious themes brood, posing troubling questions about the persistent split in Western culture between the body and the soul, the heart and the mind, sexuality and spirituality. Tadeusz Rozewicz enjoys an international reputation as one of Poland's leading playwrights and poets, and has been described by The Guardian as "One of the modern masters of the century's dark realities."
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It will be showing on our City Garage YouTube channel from 8:00pm this Thursday, November 25, through noon on Friday, December 4th.
Merci, stay safe, wear a mask, and Happy Thanksgiving,
Adam & Evie
Bonjour City Garagistes,
We are excited to bring you the latest episode of our new talk show on YouTube, "Animal Farm: Conversation on Theater and Politics its Steven Leigh Morris and Guests." This week, the show again goes abroad (virtually), this time to Poland, where Steven talks to two prominent young Polish theater directors, Anna Smolar and Magda Szpeht, about the autocratic shift that began in Poland in 2015 and its impacts on the arts and social issues. Here is the link:
We're also happy to continue our "City Garage Classics" series, this time with a more recent production from 2017, Charle L Mee's "Adam and Evie." Here is some information from the original press release:
"Much of our life is spent coupling, uncoupling, or recoupling. We're obsessed by love and sex: how to get it, how to keep it, or how to get out of it and try again. In this new work, multiple-award-winning visionary playwright and poet Charles L. Mee looks at love from Adam and Eve to our own
rapidly changing times where the possibilities of thwarting yourself in love expand with every new boundary we cross. In Adam and Evie Mee joyously celebrates our unruly, childish, wise, heart-breaking, romantic, and lustful longings in gorgeous language, startling images, and the comic mishaps of dozens of lovers who bounce off each other in gradually more complex interactions resulting in a final, glorious paean to the thrill and ache of love.
Among other awards, Charles Mee is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Obie Awards, for Vienna: Lusthaus (1986) and Big Love (2002), PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama for a playwright in mid-career, and the Fisher Award given by the Brooklyn Academy of Music."
It will be showing on our City Garage YouTube channel from 8:00pm this Friday, November 20, through noon on Friday, November 27th.
It's free to view but we ask people to make a donation if they can through our Chuffed page—where you also can see short performances from our members doing monologues, songs and scenes:
(Left to right) Yukiko Hadena, Bo Roberts (masked) (photo: Paul Rubenstein)
(Left to right) Yukiko Hadena, David E. Frank (masked) Megan Kim (photo: Paul Rubenstein)
OedipusText/LA
We're excited to share with you the next episode of our new online talk show, "Animal Farm: Conversations on Theater and Politics with Steve Leigh Morris and Guests." This week the show goes to London (at least virtually) to speak with playwright Susan Blundell, actor Lloyd Morris, and musician Elliot Devivo about their online production of "Silence and Joy," a piece about Ludwig Van Beethoven and the black violinist and virtuoso, George Bridgetower. Here is the link: (And if you missed past episodes you can find them on our website. Look for the "Animal Farm" tab in the upper right menu).
We're also continues out ongoing "City Garage Classics" series this weekend with a production from 2003, our adaptation of the Oedipus story, "OedipusText/LA" by Charles Duncombe. Here is what the critics had to say:
"Symbolist tactics and City of Angels targets mutate throughout "OedipusText: Los Angeles" in Santa Monica. This adroit City Garage deconstruction imbues Sophocles' ageless saga of the incestuous king of Thebes with modern elements ranging from self-help to trip-hop. It transpires, as usual with this company, in a self-contained abstract ethos. Author-designer Charles A. Duncombe draws Jocasta's lines from Helene Cixous' opera "The Name of Oedipus: Song of the Forbidden Body," but his esoteric text is otherwise original and impressive. Fredereque Michel's staging of this melange of neoclassical restraint, shock-radio sass and Freudian polemic attains droll kinetic cohesion, moving a unified ensemble around Duncombe's screen-dominated minimalist set with invisible ease. Duncombe's concentrated lighting, Paul M. Rubenstein's wry videography and Teckla de Bistrovlnovska's color-coded costumes are invaluable in locating the reference points. Simon Burzynksi's intense hero is a leather-jacketed Tom Cruise Jr., while Maureen Byrnes' Jocasta is a riveting column of white who recalls the late Irene Worth. Rubenstein's sidesplitting DJ is scandalously effective, and David E. Frank is brilliant, whether playing a Nehru-dressed, rocker-voiced Tiresias or a shrieking Dr. Laura-esque harpy. Three red-capped gangbangers (Eric Jung, Jason Piazza and Thomas Ramirez) share chorus duties, alternating as isolated urbanites whose interactions with Tina Fallon's brittle chat-room fraud and Jennifer Piehl's unfettered online exhibitionist punctuate Oedipus' downward spiral."
LA TIMES — RECOMMENDED
"Freud's Oedipus complex is borrowed from Sophocles' mystery; adaptor Charles A. Duncombe lobs the ball back into Sophocles' court with an absorbing 90-minute shot propelled by modern psychology's Papa. The plague upon Thebes is here sexual dysfunction in an L.A. of tomorrow: Internet and telephone romances that skirt the terrors of flesh-to-flesh contact; porno and erotic power games all perverted from a primal, forbidden love of mama. Unlike in Sophocles' play, Oedipus' mom, Jocasta (the fine Maureen Byrnes), knows what's going on, and merely waits for Oedipus (Simon Burzynski) to figure it out. Blind prophet Tiresias (the excellent David E. Frank) morphs into a drag queen who imposes glib S&M fetishes on Oedipus….Rubenstein's video collages (the hull of a '50s convertible stranded in South-Central, a woman's breast, an upper thigh) play in stark counterpoint to the argument on the boards that modern alienation — exacerbated by consumerism and high tech — has roots in antiquity. Frederíque Michel's arch staging elegantly complements Duncombe's rhetorical text (with segments by Helene Cixous)."
LA WEEKLY — RECOMMENDED
Merci, stay safe, and wear a mask.
(Left to right) Maureen Byrnes, Eric Jung, Thomas Ramirez, Jason Piazza, Simon Burzynski (photo: Paul Rubenstein)
(Left to right) Maureen Byrnes, Simon Burzynski (photo: Paul Rubenstein)
We are excited to share with you the next episode in our new talk show, "Anima Farm: Conversations About Theatre and Politics with Steven Leigh Morris and Guests." This week even talks with Doctor Susana Smith Bautista and Chandra Indigo Jackson about "Teen Tix LA": a program to help create new young audiences for theatre. If you missed the first two shows they're available here on our website. New episodes every Wednesday at 6:00pm.
If you have questions you'd like Steven to explore or suggest a topic or guest, please let us know.
And, if you have a short video of your favorite animal friend, send it to us here. Each week we feature a new one.
And of course our City Garage Classics program is still going strong. This week we have a production from 2003 "Katzelmacher" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Here is what the LA Weekly had to say:
LA WEEKLY — PICK OF THE WEEK
KATZELMACHER is the German slang for "cat screwer," which actually refers to somebody with an unbridled sex drive. In the case of Jorgos (Steve Najarro, bearing an expression of sweet bewilderment), in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's very first (1968) play, the label is a misnomer, an ethnic slur applied to this Greek ("foreign") laborer in a provincial German town. Katzelmacher is something of an etude in which Fassbinder shows the stock jealousy and xenophobia that ensues after the migrant worker, who barely speaks the language, beds his employer (Maureen Byrnes) and draws the romantic attentions of the local women (Kathryn Sheer, Katharina Lejona and Szilvi Naray-Davey). Mean while, the guys (Mathew Gifford, Bo Roberts, Laurence Coven and David E. Frank) are barely employed yet too proud to work for the low wages that Jorgos plans on sending home to his wife and kids. Fassbinder is really looking at the psychological effects of money, at how the town's orgasmic violence stems from its economic malaise — which, though a truthful idea, does little to explain the sadism of the rich. Frederique Michel smartly evokes the play's 1966 setting (with Brigitte Bardot flip 'dos and costume designer Erin Vincent's one-piece leather minis) with an ensemble bereft of Hollywood lip enhancements and repaired teeth. Rather, they look plucked from the regions — perfect for this play's ambiance. Michel stages the episodic scenes in the style of a cabaret, propelled by sound designer Jason Piazza's percussion….The production is a mostly disciplined and cogent examination of "otherness" that's, distressingly, more apt than ever."
It will be showing on our City Garage YouTube channel from 3:00pm this Friday, November 6, through noon on Friday, November 13th.
Merci to to our wonder flu donors this last week:
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(Left to right) Katherine Sheer, Matthew Gifford; photo Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) Katarina LeJona, Steve Najarro; photo Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) David E Frank, Matthew Gifford, Steve Najarro, Bo Roberts; photo Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) Laurence Coven,Szilvi Naray-Davey; photo Paul Rubenstein
We're excited to share with you the second episode of our new talk show "Animal Farm: Conversations About Theater and Politics with Steven Leigh Morris and Guests." His guest this week is Rob Weinert-Kendt, the Editor of American Theatre Magazine and he and Steven speculate about what's next for theatre in age of covid. Please check it out. (Also, if you missed last week's show, all shows will be archived here on our website. Look for "Animal Farm" in the menu above. Here is the link to this week's show:
https://youtu.be/-pvT4bBkxw4
We're also continuing our City Garage Classics series with this week's production from 2013, "Caged," by Charles Duncombe, directed by Frederique Michel. It was a "Pick of the Week" in the LA Weekly. Here is some information from the original press release:
"City Garage is proud to announce the world premiere of Caged, by Charles A. Duncombe. Two naked human specimens in a cage, Visitors come and go, fascinated by them, arguing, and wondering about these creatures. Do they feel pain, love, joy, sadness, envy? What do they think when they see us staring at them? What do we really see? A reflection of our own hope or despair? What reality do we inhabit and how did we get there? This new play for City Garage by award-winning playwright Charles A. Duncombe, is a tender and absorbing drama about entrapment, a reflection on life, how we seem each other and ourselves."
"Duncombe's smartly written script is delightfully provocative and insightful. Performances are sharply calibrated under Frederique Michel's direction."
"Duncombe nails his targets, whether zeroing in on male versus female bonding activities, the difference between the sexes when presented with mirrors and their own reflections, or the inexplicable attraction to religion. Director Frédérique Michel handles the material beautifully… All seven actors playing the visitors inhabit multiple roles with ease."
"This new play by City Garage co-founder Charles A. Duncombe in a delicately intricate production explores the kaleidoscopic variations of the push-pull of relationships, remarkably similar whether "primitive" or "civilized."… Director Frederique Michel luxuriantly masters this congenial new space, wrangling the different levels of action subtly with an insinuating tactile sense… Duncombe and Michel spin so many layers with all those wisps of insight that the textured whole becomes piquantly allusive, even haunting. It is one of the continuing pleasures of City Garage, as with many established local companies, to see the progressive development of individual actors over many roles over time…"
"Poignantly symbolic, Duncombe's text so deft and tongue-in-cheek and the direction, by Frédérique Michel, so finely tuned…"
It will be showing on our City Garage YouTube channel from 8:00pm this Friday, October 30, through midnight on Wednesday, November 4th.
Many thanks to our wonderful donors of this week, Mr. and Mrs. Larson.
Merci, stay safe, wear a mask, and vote!
(Left to right) Kristina Drager, RJ Jones (below) Nathan Dana Aldrich photo: Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) Megan Kim, Mariko Oka RJ Jones; photo: Paul Rubenstein
(Left to right) Kristina Drager, Nathan Dana Aldrich; photo: Paul Rubenstein |
Melissa Harris-Perry on Race, Media, and the Story Behind This Year's Presidential Race | Democracy Now!
the Maya Angelou presidential chair at Wake Forest University, where she directs the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She's also executive director of the Pro Humanitate Institute at Wake Forest and runs the Wake the Vote initiative.
Last month, professor, author and political commentator Melissa Harris-Perry had a very public breakup with MSNBC after four years of hosting her eponymous weekend show. Reaction extended from the blogosphere to the floor of the House, where Illinois Congressmember Luis Gutiérrez stood next to a sign of the NBC peacock with the hashtag #NBCSoWhite and suggested the network has a racial diversity problem. But even though her show is now off the air, Melissa is still sparking critical conversations. She joins us to talk about this year's presidential contest, voter ID laws, anti-LGBT legislation and much more.
REP. LUIS GUTIÉRREZ: What's going on at NBC? Last week, Wake Forest University professor and MSNBC television host Melissa Harris-Perry was abruptly pulled from the airwaves without even a chance to say goodbye. NBC said they wanted a show that was more about politics. But I have to say that when I watched the show, Melissa Harris-Perry was talking about politics in a unique way, like few others on the airwaves. She brought diverse voices to the table to talk directly and unapologetically about the politics of race in America, a major theme among candidates and a critical conversation to include on the airwaves. I'm sad to see her go, just like Alex Wagner before her, but I am even sadder because I don't think these are isolated cases.
AMY GOODMAN: That was Democratic Congressman Luis Gutiérrez speaking on the House floor about the important role of Melissa Harris-Perry's show on MSNBC. Well, her show may be off the air, but she's still sparking critical conversations.
To talk more about this year's presidential contest, controversial new voter ID laws, the U.S. media, anti-LGBT legislation and much more, we are joined by Melissa Harris-Perry herself. She is the Maya Angelou presidential chair at Wake Forest University, where she directs the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She's also executive director of the Pro Humanitate Institute at Wake Forest and runs the Wake the Vote initiative.
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: It's so nice to be back.
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: That was amazing.
AMY GOODMAN: —the congressman, with that hashtag, #NBCSoWhite. Why did you leave MSNBC?
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: I didn't mean to leave. I certainly wanted to stay. I refused to go back on air, initially, simply because what had happened was the show was gone, and I felt that they were asking me to come back to anchor my hours, but not to actually host my show.
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: So, the show had a certain kind of branding. We did certain kinds of work. We brought particular voices. We had a perspective and a point of view, and we had a lot of editorial control. That had been true for four years. But over the course of really the months that began in 2016, we had moved to kind of—and I want to be clear: I think the word "politics" is the wrong word. It was horse-race election coverage. Right? Which is not the same thing, from my perspective, as "politics." I wasn't prepared to simply do horse-race election coverage. And so, I had not been invited to host my show nor to even anchor during my hours for weeks. After some other media outlets asked questions about that, I was then invited back, not, again, to host my show, but to anchor 10:00 a.m. to noon, Saturday and Sunday. I felt that doing so would have been to signal to the audience that everything was fine. And everything was not fine. Therefore, it was important to actually not be there, so that it would be a clear and visible signal that everything was not fine.
AMY GOODMAN: You mean your show at that time was now called Place for Politics, like the rest of MSNBC is branded? It wasn't Nerdland or MHP anymore?
NERMEEN SHAIKH: So who were the—just give us a sense of the kinds of voices that you had on your program.
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: I mean, you know, for us, we were—we were a roundtable, basically, of, at any moment—sometimes it might be a one-on-one, but it was often three to four people at the table. We worked really hard to make sure that we had diverse voices, so that both meant racially diverse, it also meant diverse in perspective, it also meant diverse across genders, it also meant diverse across perspectives. And, you know, so, for us, that meant, at any given moment, you might have, you know, a cis heterosexual white man like Dave Zirin, who nonetheless is one of our favorite black feminists, but is a cis heterosexual white man, doing—kind of performing a black feminist analysis of sports, at the same time we might have, you know, Kenji Yoshino, who is a queer Asian constitutional scholar, who would be there to talk to us about the Supreme Court. So he's doing kind of very clear, straightforward, straight-ahead analysis of the Supreme Court, but also doing it in a body that might be unusual.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, you brought up sports, so tell us what happened Super Bowl time—not that sports were your big thing, but this Super Bowl, 50th anniversary, was certainly huge with what Beyoncé did.
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: Yeah. Well, so, Beyoncé dropped "Formation" the night before the Super Bowl. For us, that was kind of right in the wheelhouse of all the things we cared about. "Formation" took up the issue of Hurricane Katrina. And, of course, as you know, I lived in post-Katrina New Orleans. My husband is an advocate and civil rights attorney who did a lot of post-Katrina work in New Orleans. And, of course, our show had been thinking about New Orleans for a long time—and, frankly, thinking about Beyoncé for a long time. So we immediately knew that we wanted to address this video, address the popular culture questions, address the racial questions, address the Black Lives Matter imagery that emerged as a result. And we were told not to do so.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean? Who told you not to do so?
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: The sort of senior—what's the word? He wasn't—he's not a producer on our show, but he was—he's the person, Chris Peña, who was sort of over what happened on the weekends. And he simply came in and said, "No, you can't do it." And so there was a back-and-forth struggle for a few hours.
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: I don't think it's about ratings, though. This was never said to me in any way as being primarily a ratings question. It's really a direction question. It was a—and I want to be really clear about something: I think, in an organization built on hierarchy, that those at the top have every right to change direction. And so, one of the things that I think has gotten lost is, as though I have an argument with the directional change. Now, I do, in the sense that that isn't the direction I wanted to go in, but that isn't really where the—sort of where the fight broke out. I'm the leader of an organization; I've changed direction in my organization.
The issue was that there was a directional change that was not being communicated either to me as an employee or, even more importantly, to my audience. And so, what happened was, we were simply disappeared, with no communication to the audience, and then I was going to sort of reappear as though everything was fine. That, for me, was what was unacceptable. So, the email communication that was leaked was about me explaining to my team why I was making their life harder by not coming back to host. And clearly, the portions of it that ended up in The New York Times were the most inflammatory or potentially inflammatory portions relative to race, which is the point at which I made a decision to leak the entire letter, so that people could read the entire email and make a decision on their own about what they thought I was saying, one way or another. But the issue wasn't that MSNBC made a decision to go a new direction. That's their right. It's their channel. It was that they weren't communicating it.
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: I have a Ph.D. in it, that's right.
AMY GOODMAN: And here we are in one of the most contested elections we have ever known.
AMY GOODMAN: Your thoughts, what you can't say now on MSNBC?
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: Well, I guess what I'd say is, for me, what's—I have—you know, it was interesting to listen to Congressman Gutiérrez stand there and say that he saw politics in our show. I certainly felt that we were completely capable of covering an election. We had covered elections previously. We've been on air for four years. Obviously, we covered the 2012 election.
AMY GOODMAN: You were in Iowa when your show was in Iowa, but you weren't on your show?
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: I did not—I did not—well, I was on my show as a guest, but I was not allowed to host my own show. Ari Melber hosted my show; I was a guest on it. That was part of how we knew things were going wrong. I was not allowed to host my own show, nor was I invited to be any part of coverage in New Hampshire. I was not invited to host my show from South Carolina, despite the fact that I live in North Carolina and was in South Carolina. I have no idea why. No one communicated any of those things to me.
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: That's true. I did. I loved our show. It's been gone for a little over a month, and I am surprised even about how much I miss it. The people I worked with, turns out, were—I said I didn't know how few friends I had, until suddenly the folks who I talked to every day for four years were gone. They were the people I talked to about politics all the time, and I miss them profoundly.
That said, in the end, when I was invited to come—again, to come back to host those hours or to anchor those hours, but not to host the show, I definitely felt that I was being used in order to signal that everything was fine. And again, everything was not fine. When I talk about mammy, the symbol of mammy is one kind of historically where the African-American woman cares more about the family of the employer than about her own family. And what I want to be really clear about was that I care more about the MHP show family, about our audience, about our team, than I do about Andy Lack or Phil Griffin's family, their profits, their ratings—which seem to be just fine. Again, this wasn't an argument about whether or not they were making the right decisions for their bottom line.
But again, my primary job is as a college professor. My primary intellectual, personal and political commitments are actually not about how many TV minutes or hours I get. I felt like I needed to have been communicated with clearly, so that I could make a decision about what direction I was going in. The decision to not have a conversation with me about any of that, the decision to leak not only this information but other information later when the conversation started, the attempt to silence me once we had the struggle—and particularly in the context of MSNBC having rehired Brian Williams and having made public comments where they said things like, you know, "We're in an NBC family where second chances are always possible, where redemption is an important part of who we are"—it is, frankly, painful that after four years of working extremely hard for these people, after giving up a lot of family time and personal time and professional time, to be discarded in that way. And so, for me, although I don't know what the reasons are, I am pleased that, ultimately, I cared more about my family than about theirs.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, very quickly, before we conclude, can you talk about your experience in the context of the concept "crooked room" that you talk about in your book, Sister Citizen?
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: You know, I probably can't, only because I don't know that we can analyze ourselves in that way. Sister Citizen is about the stereotypes that African-American women are bound by, so the ways that we think—that we know who black women are, based on some very old stereotypes of mammy, of Jezebel, of the angry black woman. And so, I sometimes feel like I see them happening, particularly in the context of media and social media. But the truth is, we're not very honest about who we are as ourselves. None of us can see ourselves very well. It's kind of like we can't hear the sound of our own voice because of how it reverberates. So, I will leave it to others to write the thought pieces about that.
AMY GOODMAN: —post it online at democracynow.org.
We're on our 100-city tour, tomorrow Columbus, Ohio at the Ohio State University; then on Saturday in Missouri, in St. Louis and Columbia and Kansas City; on Sunday in Santa Barbara and in Los Angeles; on Monday in San Francisco. Check our website at democracynow.org. Hundred city, folks, we're going on the road. |
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OnoBello.comBreaking Discreet NewsPresidency Denies Waiting for Buhari's Return as Deadline for Assent of 2017 Budget Approaches
Presidency Denies Waiting for Buhari's Return as Deadline for Assent of 2017 Budget Approaches
Category: Breaking, Discreet, News
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The presidency has denied any report that claimed the 2017 budget has not been assented to because it was subtly waiting for President Muhammadu Buhari to return from his trip to the United Kingdom.
According to the presidency, the rumours were spurious since Buhari transmitted full presidential powers to the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on May 7 before leaving the country.
The social media community was awash with speculations that the delay in signing the budget since its transmission by the National Assembly on May 19 was a deliberate ploy to ensure that Osinbajo does not assent to the Appropriation Bill.
The delay also raised more fears owing to the 30-day constitutional requirement for the assent of a bill after its transmission by the National Assembly to the executive and the duration expires on June 18.
However, in reaction to the speculations, a source in the presidency confided in Thisday on Sunday that "holding the nation down by delaying assent to the budget would be at variance with the president's intention".
The source further stated that Buhari does not want the nation to be held to ransom in anyway and hence his decision to transfer powers without reservation to Osinbajo.
The top source who pleaded anonymity also expressed confidence that the budget "would be signed soon".
In the same vein, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has said that the 2017 budget will be signed into law this week.
Speaking on Friday, on the floor of the House, Dogara also expressed delight that the House has kept to its promise to carry out a Budget reform that will ensure that the 2017 Appropriations Bill is processed in a transparent manner.
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Home Economy With What We Saw in the Tech Space in 2016… 2017...
With What We Saw in the Tech Space in 2016… 2017 Should Be Mind Blowing
Ben Benoy
It's that time of year, when we stop to reflect on what 2016 had to offer. You'll most likely being seeing a lot of this kind of review in the days to come, so I'll start you off by looking back at the innovation that rocked the tech sector this year.
It should be no surprise that five of the seven most valuable companies in the world are technology companies.
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), and Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) are setting the pace for disruptive technology that we see, and often don't see, every day.
2016 was a banner year for these companies, not only for the disruptive technology they created, but for the technology development environments they produced. Mainly technology policy.
This year we saw Apple lobby hard for mobile device encryption and Amazon hit the government about drone regulations for product delivery.
Both of these industry juggernauts know that without one foot inside our nation's capital, their landscape growth is severely limited.
Apple has become a symbol of American innovation, but with wireless earbuds being the top innovation for 2016, hardware development options are looking bleaker every day.
Expect these top tech companies to double down on software and infrastructure innovation to support the burgeoning data problem we have now with On-Demand everything.
Thanks, Netflix!
Yes, with streaming movies, games, and TV shows, 3G wireless networks no longer make the cut. 4G-LTE wireless coverage is the only way to go. But these fast networks are only as good as the wired infrastructure backing them up.
Traditional tech service companies like Alphabet and Facebook are getting into the fiber infrastructure business to support their user's hunger for more services, wired or wireless.
Cellular wireless is cool, but satellite wireless is cooler since your wireless signal comes from space. To make space infrastructure more affordable, SpaceX tested reusable rockets for satellite payload delivery in 2016.
Yes, these bad boys land back at the same pad they were launched from, refuel, and are ready for the next delivery!
Elon Musk was so excited about this capability, he shared his grand plan for a million-strong Mars Colony. The only catch, at least a million people have to sign up to keep the tickets under $200,000 apiece. What a value!
Just in case you're planning on staying on Earth for a while, Alphabet (Google) launched a project to deliver affordable Wi-Fi to regions of the world that cannot support traditional cellular infrastructure.
It's called Project Loon, and involves high-altitude balloons that float in the stratosphere (11 miles in the sky) to deliver a 4G-LTE wireless network.
No matter what wireless infrastructure your devices connect to, expect a lot more device-to-device communication for automation in 2017.
The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution has come full circle, connecting almost any device imaginable to the Internet for automation and intelligence. Fitness and health trackers, home automation, and driverless cars are just a few sectors at the tip of the iceberg with this life-changing capability.
2016 saw the launch of Tesla's automated driving capability, but other auto manufacturers and tech companies are right on their heels. Even Uber, the world's largest taxi company that owns little to no cars, launched a self-driving On-Demand taxi fleet in Pittsburgh this year!
In healthcare, we saw leaps in genetically engineering immune cells to fight cancer, and artificial intelligence computers assist physicians with patient diagnosis.
Monsanto (NYSE: MON) dumped the agriculture industry on its head by taking the same gene editing techniques applied to live beings, and purchasing it for plant gene editing. The company hopes to develop plants that are more drought and disease resistant without cross splicing species.
In short, 2016 was the year that brought us that much closer to the future. All those technologies dreamed up for Star Wars, the Jetsons, Star Trek… they're not all just make believe anymore.
So, with all that in the rear-view mirror, what can we hope for in 2017? Really, anything in the realm of possibility (and imagination) is on the table. And we'll be here to give you the latest market insights on how to profit from these changes.
From my family to yours, have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Ben Benoy is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and has been an active retail trader since 2006. He identifies investment opportunities based on key social media trends. He first identified the concept in 2008 and has since developed a tool for tracking investment "chatter" between social media users. His proprietary Social Media Stock Sentiment system has developed into a state-of-the-art platform that identifies and classifies chatter about stocks through algorithms and other indicators to forecast stock-price direction. Ben's track record speaks for itself — over the past 12 months, his system boasts a win rate of 82.2% on 112 stock trades.
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Péguilhan é uma comuna francesa na região administrativa do Alto Garona, região de Auvérnia-Ródano-Alpes. Estende-se por uma área de 23,58 km².
Em 1 de janeiro de 2017 a comuna de Lunax foi fundida com Péguilhan.
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The Visiting Teaching message for December 2013 is the first part of a series on the life of the Jesus of Mormonism. This month's lesson is titled "The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: The Only Begotten Son".
In my October message I talked about the origins of the Mormon Jesus, this month I want to take a look at what Mormons say about the Father of Jesus Christ.
In the Doctrine and Covenants 132:19-22 Mormons are told that their ultimate goal is to achieve godhood and then continue to procreate throughout eternity.
All of these teachings are a far cry from what God has said about Himself.
He is the God, there is no other – Isaiah 44:6 – Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
God has always existed. – 1 Timothy 1:17 – Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Jesus said God is a spirit – John 4:24 – God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
If God isn't unique, if he's just one in a plethora of gods out there why do we only have to worship him? What would set him apart, making him special and worthy of our love and worship? Furthermore if we can become our own god, through our acts of obedience why do we even need God?
These are just some of the questions I think about as I consider the differences between the god of Mormonism and the one true God of the universe. I would love for Mormons to come to know and love the one true God, but I fear for them. I'm afraid they'll never get it, and never understand or care to understand how vastly different the one true God is from the one they cling too.
But I will continue to pray for them, and hope they will forgo their devotion to the false teachings of Mormonism and embrace the truth of who God really is. |
Dignitary snubbed by partisan bureaucracy ??
Whether you like him or don't, Dan Ashton is the elected -Member of the Legislature – for Penticton. He also did considerable work as both mayor, and later MLA, to help secure funding for the long-overdue expansion of Penticton Regional Hospital.
Now, for not the first, but second time, Ashton ( shown at right) appears to be snubbed by the "communications" department with Interior Health.
You may have noticed a neat photo-op on Page 1 of Monday's Penticton Herald where dignitaries gathered to mark the 100-day countdown to the opening of the new patient care tower.
Among the VIPs in the photo were Penticton Mayor John Vassilaki and hospital chair Petra Veintimilla, an Oliver Town councillor.
But, why no MLA when hospitals are provincially funded? I asked Interior Health this question on Tuesday morning and it took 72 hours for them to come up with an answer.
A non-answer from a communications department that doesn't answer a question.
Please don't use the excuse that the NDP is now in power and Ashton is in Opposition. I expect to see member of Parliament Richard Cannings on stage Canada Day at Gyro Park even though his NDP party has been relegated to third place federally.
Ashton's office was never sent an invitation. The first snub came Dec. 19 when the "keys" to the expanded hospital were announced.
Snubs and oversights of this nature should never happen because Interior Health hires professional "communications" staff. These are not volunteers. Many in communications earn six-figure salaries to go along with huge expense accounts and great benefits.
This comes at the expense of patient care.
I also reached out to Veintimilla, who agrees Ashton should have been included.
Last week's photo-op was organized by Kevin Parnell, former sports scribe with The Capital News, a freebie paper in Kelowna, who at the same time worked for the Kelowna Rockets.
2. Somebody higher up doesn't like Ashton.
3. A power game involving the governing NDP/Greens and BC Liberals.
Personally, I've never been a fan of public relations departments. This recent escapade gives me even less faith in them.
As a citizen in the community and a solid supporter of the Penticton hospital expansion since Day 1, I'm offended.
Somebody needs to be apologizing to Mr. Ashton … and his supporters. |
Eddie Vedder's Promise To A Fan That Was Kept After 22 Years
Melek Nur PervanDecember 23, 20213 mins read
Almost every band has started their career by performing at small venues in their hometown before gaining recognition as worldwide rock stars. In Pearl Jam's case, all band members already had a fanbase when they founded the band since it wasn't their first project.
However, that doesn't mean the band didn't perform in relatively small venues before becoming one of the best-selling bands of all time. Their loyal fans have been following their concerts since those days, and in fact, there's a fan that has witnessed everything first-hand.
Let's dive into the one-of-a-kind story of how frontman Eddie Vedder met one of his fans in their early days and ended up seeing him once again after 22 years. Furthermore, the singer gave his word to that fan and kept it after all those years despite the initial misunderstanding.
Eddie Vedder Made A Promise In 1992
Pearl Jam performed at a 1,500-capacity club in Cincinnati called Bogart's twenty-two years ago. As he revealed during an interview with Diffuser in 2014, a fan named Joe Wolfe spotted the band at the local movie theater following their performance at the venue.
The fan approached the band members but didn't have the camera to capture the moment as there weren't cellphones with cameras everywhere back then. However, Eddie Vedder promised Wolfe to take a picture the next time they encounter each other.
In his own words, Wolfe said:
"I ran into Vedder and the band when they all went to the theater to see 'Wayne's World.' There weren't camera phones back then, and he said he would do a picture with me the next time I saw him."
Although it may sound crazy to you, they ended up seeing each other once again many years later. While Vedder almost backed down from his promise, their story ended happily.
Eddie Vedder Kept His Promise To Joe Wolfe
In 2014, Joe Wolfe ran into Eddie Vedder again in Cincinnati before their show at the U.S. Bank Arena 22 years after their first encounter. However, the singer refused to take a photo with his fan for some reason, which initially disappointed Wolfe.
Vedder revealed during the show that he initially didn't want to take the photo because of a misunderstanding. The Pearl Jam frontman told the entire story to the gathered crowd and apologized for mistaking the fan with a guy that stole his joint at the club.
Wolfe was invited backstage by Vedder after the concert. The rocker and his fan took the photo, and Vedder even gave Wolfe an autograph and a guitar pick while thanking him for being a part of the show that night. Despite a minor confusion, Vedder kept his 22-year-old promise to Joe Wolfe after all.
You can watch the video below.
Eddie VedderPearl Jam
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Shantipura is a village in Malia tehsil, Junagadh district, Gujarat, India. Its population is 1,973. Shantipura is believed to be the place where the ancient Shudra community of Kshatriyas first took its place as the warriors of the Koli warrior elite.
References
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Village website
Villages in Junagadh district |
Manowar's Hungarian Weapons
Király Danuvia Submachine Guns & Machine Pistols
Király Danuvia Submachine Gun Model 1939
Király Géppisztoly / Danuvia Gépkarabély 39.Minta
Danuvia 39.M on top
Danuvia 43.M on bottom
Made by Danuvia Gépgyár, Budapest, 1939-43
Quantity: approx. 11,000 (not all sources agree)
Caliber: 39.M 9x25mm Mauser. Delayed blowback, selective fire
Muzzle velocity 425-463 m/sec, Cyclic rate: 730-780 rpm
40-round staggered row foldable/detachable box magazine
1046mm [41.2"] overall, 500mm [19.68"] barrel
Weight 3.7kg [8.2 lbs], 4.15kg with loaded mag
Effective range 600m
Tangent ramp type rear sight graduated 50-600 meters
Theoretically the submachine gun was best suited for close quarters in-city fighting from house to house. The Hungarian Army leadership did not believe in widely using submachine guns. Police and Gendarmerie leaders were more interested. On Jan 25, 1939 the Haditechnikai Intézet (HTI) [Institute of Military Technology] compared the German M1938 9mm Schmeisser submachine gun with the Hungarian Pal Kiraly designed submachine gun. They decided to go with the Kiraly gun. Main reasons: lighter weight, longer barrel, more accuracy, higher muzzle velocity, larger magazine capacity and easier maintenance. It was adopted for service by the Honvédség (Hungarian Army) on 8/12/1939. It was referred to as the 39.M.
This Kiraly submachine gun (sometimes referred to as Roham Puska - Sturmgewehr, also called 'Machine Carbine') was designed in 1937. The design of this weapon, which is chambered for the 9mm Mauser cartridge, is credited to Danuvia's engineer, Pál D. Király and resembles in many respects that of the Swiss SIG MKMO and MKMS (shown on the left) submachine guns. Any resemblance to the Beretta M1938 is only skindeep. Previously Pál Király was an engineer at SIG and he was the co-designer of the MKMO. The folding magazine system of the Model 39 is similar to that of the SIG MKMO. The magazine, even when loaded, can be folded forward into a recess in the stock, where a plate then slides over it. The folded in magazine was liked by the troops, because enemy sniper spotters could not differentiate between regular rifles and machine guns from the distance. The weapon had a 500mm [19.7"] carbine-length barrel to increase accuracy.
In 1940 1566 39.M's were ordered by the military for the Police [Rendõrség] and Gendarmerie [Csendõrség], however the Honvédség liked it so much, that they withheld this first shipment for their own use. For the Police & Gendarmerie they sent 1000 German Bergman M1935/I 9mm machine pistos instead.
The 39.M functioned well under subzero conditions on the Russian front. The only complaint was the inconsistency of ammunition supply, because this was the only weapon on the front issued with the 9x25mm Mauser cartridge.
Cartridge dimensions: Case Length: 24.9mm [.980"], Rim Dia.: 9.9mm [.389"], Overall 35mm [1.377"] long, Bullet Wgt: 125gr/8.15g.
The standard Model 39 submachine gun has a one-piece stock. After testing the 39M for paratroopers they found it too long, so a version with a folding wooden butt was produced for paratroopers as the Model 39/A (or 39/AM). These guns were supplied with a special carbine sling. 276 folding stock Model 39/A guns were delivered in 1941.
Function: The fire selector/safety is the circular cap located on the rear of the receiver and is operated by rotating the cap to align with one of the three settings: 'E' for semiautomatic fire, 'S' for full automatic fire and 'Z' for safe setting.
Direct translation E = Egyenként (one-by-one), S = Sorozat (in-a-row), Z = Zárva (closed).
After a loaded magazine is inserted, a bolt handle is pulled back, the bolt stays in the rear position. After the trigger is pulled, a spring loaded bolt moves forward, pushes a cartridge into the chamber, and the firing pin is released initiating the firing. Blowback gas starts the reloading process again. The weight of the heavy bolt carrier provides the necessary delay. At the single shot (semi-auto) setting, the bolt stays in the rear position.
By 1942 the demand overwhelmed the production. Quality of the production of spare parts started to slide, which caused problems on the front. Most of the problems were the non-heat treated magazines' lips wearing out too quick. The leadership again considered the German Bergmann and Schmeisser submachine guns, but decided to stay with the Kiraly 39.M, and reinstated the strict quality control. The Hungarians received an amount of MP40 machine pistols from the Germans. Unfortunately these MP40's had the same problems, their non-heat treated magazines only lasted 500-600 rounds due to excessive lip wear.
The large number of captured Soviet 7.62x25mm PPSh41 submachine guns were not a significant help. They were very inaccurate, 'spray-and-pray' guns. The magazines tended to jam and 5-10 rounds had to be removed from the drums to get them to start feeding properly.
By 1943 the military's demand grew to 162,000 39M's. Manufacturing reached 4000 a month.
On Oct 12 1942 a new submachine gun was introduced by Kiraly. This improved version eliminated the common problems associated with the 39M. See the 2 guns side by side at the top of this page. The new designation was Kiraly-Danuvia 43.M Geppisztoly.
This Submachine Gun was issued with a standard 35.M type Sword bayonet. 480mm overall, 340mm long double edged blade. 15mm dia socket sleeve. |
HUME INDIANS. The name Hume was first recorded in 1670 in a list of Indian groups said to have been raiding outlying farms and ranches of Coahuila and Nuevo León. In 1674, however, the Humes and other Indian groups of their area began to make overtures of peace to Spaniards. The Humes ranged over an area in northwestern Coahuila and the adjacent part of Texas, but all of their recorded native encampments were seen north of the Rio Grande. These encampments were shared with other Indian groups friendly to the Spaniards. In 1675 Fernando del Bosque visited such an encampment about twenty miles north of the Rio Grande, apparently in the general vicinity of modern Eagle Pass. Bosque was told that many of the Hume Indians and their encampment associates had died in recent smallpox epidemics. In 1684 Juan Domínguez de Mendoza referred to the Hume Indians in his description of a journey from El Paso to the western part of the Edwards Plateau. Some of the Hume Indians entered Spanish missions of Coahuila and Texas. In 1699 Humes were present at San Juan Bautista Mission at its first location on the Río Sabinas of Coahuila, and these seem to have followed the mission when it was moved to its second location near the Rio Grande at the site of present-day Guerrero, Coahuila. The mission censuses of 1734 and 1772, however, recorded no Humes at San Juan Bautista. One Hume Indian was baptized at San Francisco Solano Mission in 1708 when it was at its second location near Zaragoza, Coahuila. Some six or seven Humes are confusingly recorded in the registers of San Antonio de Valero Mission of San Antonio for the years between 1718 and 1757. Although the Hume Indians have usually been listed as a Coahuilteco speaking Indian group, there is no informative documentary evidence pertaining to their language, and it is possible that they spoke one of the unrecorded languages of the area. Little was recorded about their culture. It is said that they had conflicts with some of their neighbors and on occasion took children as captives, presumably for adoption, and ate the flesh of slain enemies. One document notes that Hume women, like the men, were armed with bows and arrows. Analysis of the registers of San Antonio de Valero Mission of San Antonio indicates that the names Junced and Sumi are distorted variants of the name Hume. Junced and Sumi have long been mistakenly regarded as names of separate Indian groups represented at this mission. Hume has sometimes been interpreted as a synonym for Jumano, but both groups were separately recorded in the registers of at least three Spanish missions; and Domínguez de Mendoza, who knew both groups in western Texas, did not equate the two names. The Hume Indians of Coahuila and Texas were apparently unrelated to the Hume Indians known to early Jesuit missionaries of Durango and Sinaloa in western Mexico.
Herbert Eugene Bolton, ed., Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, 1542–1706 (New York: Scribner, 1908; rpt., New York: Barnes and Noble, 1959). Thomas N. Campbell, Ethnohistoric Notes on Indian Groups Associated with Three Spanish Missions at Guerrero, Coahuila (Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1979). J. Jesús Figueroa Torres, Fr. Juan Larios, defensor de los Indios y fundador de Coahuila (Mexico City: Editorial Jus, 1963). William B. Griffen, Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1969). Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910; rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959). J. R. Swanton, Linguistic Material from the Tribes of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1940).
Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas N. Campbell, "HUME INDIANS," accessed April 18, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/bmh20. |
This article analyzes the ways in which the right to education and freedom of education are expressed in local school choice policies in Finland. We aim to discover the elements that form democratic iterations on the right to education and freedom of education by contrasting their manifestations in three local institutional spaces for parental school choice. We focus on different levels of structures and agents including national legislation, local spaces for school choice, municipal demographics, and the impact of socioeconomic status and institutional space for school choice on parental attitudes. |
Day 129: OT Fourth Kings C11-16; A Young King, Finances, & the Kings' Book of Words!
A ruthless mother rules while her daughter hides her grandson to become the king later on at the age of seven. Joiada the priest protects the young ruler and together they restore the temple in Jerusalem:
And Athalia the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose, and slew all the royal seed. But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took Joas the son of Ochozias… and hid him from Athalia, so that he was not slain. And he (Joas) was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land.
Joiada the priest… made him (Joas) king, and anointed him: and clapping their hands, they said, God save the king.
…and she (Athalia) saw the king standing upon a tribunal… she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy…
Joiada commanded the centurions… Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord. And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.
Joiada restores true worship… And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and the people… and all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and broke down the altars… they slew also Mathan the priest of Baal…
Now Joas was seven years old, when he began to reign.
In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem… And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada the priest taught him.
Here is a first glimpse of the inside finances of the early temple in Jerusalem:
All the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart they bring into the temple of the Lord, let the priests take it according to their order, and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanneth repairing.
…the priests did not make the repairs of the temple… and the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people…
And Joiada the high priest took a chest and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the doors put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.
For it (the money collected in the chest) was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired… they bestowed it faithfully…
But the money for the trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.
The ongoing saga of the kings in power in Israel over Samaria, in Juda including Jerusalem, and in Syria to the north continues…
Most who reigned were evil in the eyes of the Lord:
…reigned… over Israel in Samaria. And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam… who made Israel to sin.
More details are to be found in the book of words of the days of the kings of Israel and Juda:
And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
…are thy not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
What have I learned about my faith through these passages?
I am not sure but… there was a young king, there were temple finances, and the reign of kings over time were many, and there is a book of words!
Glory be to God! Al-le-lu-ia! Amen!
Day 129: Reading The Bible with a TROML Perspective; A Young King, Temple Finances, the Reign of Kings, and the Book of Words!
Read and inspired by the Old Testament, The Fourth Book of Kings Chapters 11-16
This Book continues the history of the two hostile kingdoms, Israel and Juda, up to their captivity. The Assyrians in 722 B.C. led Israel away; the Babylonians in 586 B.C. led Juda into captivity.
4 Kings Chapter 11: Athalia usurps the throne by murder; Joiada's plot; Joas is proclaimed king; Athalia is slain; Joiada restores true worship.
And Athalia the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose, and slew all the royal seed. But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochizias, took Joas the son of Ochozias… and hid him from Athalia, so that he was not slain. And he (Joas) was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land.
4 Kings Chapter 12: Joas' good reign; Joas orders repairs to the Temple; Hazael bribed not to attack Jerusalem; Joas murdered and succeeded by Amasias.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Geth, and took it and set his face to go up to Jerusalem… Wherefore Joas king of Juda took up all the sanctified things… all the silver… and sent it to Hazael king of Syria, and he went off from Jerusalem.
And his (Joas) servants arose, and conspired among themselves, and slew Joas… and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amasias his son reigned in his stead,
4 Kings Chapter 13: Joachaz' wicked reign in Israel; Israel saved by the prayers of Joachaz; Joas succeeds Joachaz; Joas' wicked reign; Jeroboam succeeds Joas; Eliseus prophesies three victories; Death and burial of Eliseus; Hazael afflicts Israel until his death.
Israel/Samaria to the north and Juda/Jerusalem to the south (referenced map).
In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of Ochozias king of Juda, Joachaz the son of Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria, seventeen years. And he did evil before the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam… who made Israel to sin, and he departed not from them.
And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael the king of Syria, and into the hand of Benadad the son of Hazael, all days.
Bit Joachaz besought the face of the Lord; and the Lord heard him, for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them, and the Lord gave Israel a savior, and they were delivered out of the hand of the king of Syria…
And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joas his son reigned in his stead.
In the seven and thirtieth year of Joas, king of Juda, Joas the son of Joachaz reigned over Israel in Samaria sixteen years. And he did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam… who made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.
And Joas slept with his fathers: and Jeroboam sat upon the throne.
Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereof he died: and Joas king of Israel went down to him…
Joas to Eliseus: O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the guider thereof…
Eliseus to Joas: The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from Syria: and thou shall strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume them… And he struck three times and stood still. And the man of God (Eliseus) was angry with him (Joas)… If thou hadst smitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to utter destruction: but now three times shalt thou smite it.
And Elias died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab… were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the body into the sepulcher of Eliseus. And when he had touched the bones of Eliseus, the man came to life, and stood on his feet.
Now Hazael king of Syria afflicted Israel all the days of Joachaz, and the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them because of the covenant, which he had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob…three times did Joas (king of Israel) beat him (Benadad king of Syria, son of Hazael), and restored the cities to Israel.
4 Kings Chapter 14: Amasias' good reign in Juda; Amasias defeats the Edomites; Joas defeats Amasias; Jeroboam succeeds Joas; Amasias assassinated; Azarias succeeds Amasias; Jeroboam's wicked reign; Zacharias succeeds Jeroboam.
… reigned Amasias son of Joas king of Juda… And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like David his father… And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to death that had slain the king his father, but the children of the murderers he did not put to death, according to that which is written in the look of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded saying:
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sins.
He (Amasias) slew of Edom in the valley of the Saltpits ten thousand men, and took the rock by war, and called the name thereof Jectehel, unto this day.
Amasias (Juda/Jerusalem) sent messengers to Joas (Israel/Samaria): Come let us see one another… And Juda was put to the worst before Israel… But Joas took Amasias and him into Jerusalem: and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem… four hundred cubits… And he (Joas) took all the gold, and silver, and all the vessels, that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria… and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead…
Now they made a conspiracy against him (Amasias) in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachis… and killed him there.
And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amasias…
…reigned Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel in Samaria… And he did that which was evil before the Lord. He departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam… who made Israel to sin. He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath, unto the sea of wilderness, according to the word of the Lord the God of Israel… that there was no one to help Israel… but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam…
Kings Chapter 15: Azarias becomes leprous; Joathan succeeds Azarias; Zacharias is assassinated; Manahem slays Sellum and takes the throne; Manahem pays tribute to the Assyrians; Phaceia succeeds Manahem; Phacee slays and succeeds Phaceia; Osee slays and succeeds Phacee; Joatham's good reign in Juda; Achaz succeeds Joatham.
…reigned Azarias son of Amasias, king of Juda. He was sixteen years old when he began to reign… And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwell in a free house apart: but Joatham the king's son governed the palace, and judged the people of the land… And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? …and Joatham his son reigned in his stead.
…reigned Zacharias son of Jeroboam over Israel in Samaria. And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam… who made Israel to sin.
Sellum… reigned one month in Samaria. And Manahem… came into Samaria, and struck Sellum… and slew him, and reigned in his stead. And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy, which he made, are thy not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
And Manahem slept with his fathers; and Phaceia his son reigned in his stead.
…reigned Joatham son of Ozias king of Juda.
And Joatham slept with his fathers… and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.
4 Kings Chapter 16: Achaz' wicked reign in Juda; Achaz hires the Assyrians to help him; Achaz desecrates the Temple; Ezechias succeeds Achaz.
…reigned Achaz… But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover he consecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire according to the idols of the nations: which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
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"I have never been hurt by what I have not said." President Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933.
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Q: count() without GROUP BY So I tried running this simple code
select COUNT(Ename),BOSS
from EMPLOYEE
WHERE BOSS=7839
but seems I did not get the output unless I use a "group by" boss below. I am not able to understand why can't I get output without "group by".
Can anybody explain in laymen terms. Would be much appreciated.
A: Count is an aggregate function. When you use Count (or any other aggregate function such as Count, Sum, Max, Min) next to select, then every other column item must be in group by. If you only use
select COUNT(Ename) -- there is no BOSS
from EMPLOYEE
then you don't have to use Group By. Lets say you have 5 columns: 1-COUNT(Ename), 2- BOSS, 3- column3, 4- column4, 5-column5. Then you would have to write select code as below:
select COUNT(Ename),BOSS, column3, column4, column5
from EMPLOYEE
WHERE BOSS=7839
GROUP BY
BOSS, column3, column4, column5
A: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employee WHERE boss=7839 should work.
COUNT(), like AVG(), MIN(), MAX(), is an aggregate function: it takes several rows, and outputs only one. So, since a row can have several columns, the value for one of those column is established by the function; the value chosen, among the many rows, for each of the other columns has to be specified somehow. This is normally done with GROUP BY.
If you ask COUNT(*), name, the request would not be fulfillable, because which employee's name would be returned across the rows? The first employee's? The last? A random one? -- and so an error is raised: you cannot select the field unless you GROUP BY it. Some RDBMS might allow skipping this specification, and use any of the previous options (MySQL uses the first row, I think) to resolve the ambiguity.
If you ask COUNT(*), boss, the request is fulfillable even if useless, because the WHERE condition specifies that boss=7389. So there is no ambiguity... this is actually the same as asking SELECT COUNT(*), 7389 AS boss. But the RDBMS might not have the insight to understand this, since it is an edge case (it is otherwise legal SQL, and it could happen, but it's not so common except in contrived cases); and might raise the same error as before on general principles.
A: You need GROUP BY because COUNT() is an aggregate function. Really, the best way to do this is by using the HAVING command:
SELECT COUNT(ename), boss
FROM employee
GROUP BY boss
HAVING boss = 7839
A: Either you specify COUNT() alone, or you ask for COUNT(),boss but latter implies GROUP BY.
COUNT() is an "aggregate function", which means that, unlike regular functions (that can be evaluated for each row), these ones wait for the dataset to complete before they can give you an answer. That's case for SUM(), MIN(), MAX() or such as long it regards a whole column.
This means that you cannot ask for their value while the dataset is being parsed and, for this reason, cannot display their result aside the current value of a field (here being "boss"), because it just makes no sense. They're meant to be displayed as a bottom line after the data themselves.
However, you may do some groupings, according to a given criteria, that will sort your table along, then forming some subgroups each having a same value for the fields you specified in GROUP BY. These groups will each act as a mini-table upon which you aggregate functions can be evaluated.
A: When we use an aggregate function it return a single value. Using multiple aggregate function in a single query is also ok but when we mix up aggregate and normal then this become a mismatch. If we want to mix them up then we need to make others column on group by
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Is Cal State Long Beach changing its mascot to the Squirrels? Photo courtesy of Instagram.
The school has had two color schemes: its original brown and gold, and the black and gold worn by teams today.
In the 69 years the school has been around, it's averaged a name change every 11 and a half years or so and a mascot change every 14 years. So Manfredi can be forgiven for thinking he might soon be watching the Squirrels play in the Pyramid.
In the history of the school, there's arguably never been more confusion around branding than there is at this specific moment. The college currently refers to itself as both CSULB and Long Beach State. The school's official instagram handle is CSUlongbeach, but the display name for that page is Long Beach State University.
Respectfully, that doesn't make any sense. Marketing and branding are about simplicity and recognizability. Nike: one logo, one name. Apple: one logo, one name. That's not Marketing 101, that's the information that the professor assumes you already know when you walk into the Marketing 101 class. The university already has tons going for it: a great history, a great city, and an "LB" logo that's known worldwide. It just needs to figure out how to put the confusion to bed and forge ahead behind one identity.
So with that said, we took a crack at answering the biggest questions facing our shared alma mater—whatever its name may be.
Great question. The kind of thing you'd ideally like to be sure of before writing a tuition check or buying season tickets.
We are strong believers that the school should be Long Beach State, in any and all branding—for sports and academics, on the diplomas and the signs leading into school. The reasons are simple: there is an enormous amount of pride in the city of Long Beach, and virtually no pride in the CSU system from anyone that isn't employed by it.
Former president F. King Alexander often told us that the school's professors were the stumbling block in switching from CSULB to Long Beach State, as they felt that California was a better brand to be associated with than Long Beach.
A few notes: a Google Trends analysis shows that CSULB is the most popular search result out of CSULB, Long Beach State, Cal State Long Beach, and LBSU. That makes sense given that it's currently the official name of the school. But if you look at a geographic analysis, almost literally no one outside of California has searched CSULB. The school's national brand is already Long Beach State—it's by far the leading search result in every area besides Southern California.
Google Trends analysis of branding.
Google search trends by state.
Putting the school's best foot forward with "Long Beach" instead of "CSU" (the second-best public university system in California!) would also take a big step towards unifying the school with the city, something programs like the Long Beach College Promise have sought to do. Alexander and current president Jane Close Conoley have both talked about the need to bridge the "Atherton divide" between the school and the rest of the city. Becoming Long Beach State would help.
Similar moves have already paid big dividends for schools like San Diego State and Fresno State, who have much more recognizable brands nationwide and locally than they did when they were CSUSD and CSUF.
Hoo boy. Here we go.
The university recently posted a mock-obituary for Prospector Pete and Conoley has confirmed that the iconic lower-campus statue of Pete is being removed and relocated. Where is it going? To a building that hasn't been built yet. We're taking that as a pretty strong sign that Pete is gone for good, and we're starting from that assumption. We'd love to see a tree where the statue was—alums who are pissed about its removal can stop there to pay their respects.
The CSU system has requested that schools move away from using people as mascots. Fortunately, numbers aren't people. We've been referring to the school's teams as the 49ers even over the last few years when university releases started referring to them as "the Beach," and we'll continue to do so until we stop seeing "Long Beach State 49ers" on ESPN when the school plays televised games.
With campus sentiment aligned against the gold rush and prospectors generally, there's no reason that "49ers" can't simply represent 1949, the year the school was founded. That is, after all, why that name was originally chosen anyway. We aren't in favor of actually referring to teams as the 1949'rs, which has been suggested, for the aforementioned marketing reasons—shorter and simpler is better.
We also aren't in favor of the path the school has forged, referring to its sports teams as "the Beach." The reason for that is simple: We are writers, and "the Long Beach State 49ers beach volleyball team" is a lot easier on the brain than "the Long Beach State Beach beach volleyball team." Reversing course from the Beach to the 49ers would require a shift in direction from the athletic department, but as we've already discussed, naming shifts happen pretty regularly anyway.
Even though "Dirtbags" are technically human mascots, we're not in favor of changing the name of the school's best-known sports team.
If "49ers" is to be erased from campus as it's been erased from the school's jerseys, we'd prefer choosing a completely new mascot, as opposed to using the "Beach" moniker. Nugget the Donkey is likely still available, or the school could pick an entirely new animal. We'd suggest the Japanese Garden's Koi fish as an original and somewhat unique option—better than squirrels anyway, which inhabit every college campus and park in the country.
Keeping the 49ers would also save the school some effort. A change to that name campus-wide would require renaming the Daily 49er newspaper, the 49er Shops, the Nugget, the Outpost, the Gold Mine Gym, the school's famous and beloved 49er Camps, and the school's 49er Foundation.
For one thing, the university needs to get on the same page. That's easier said than done given that the campus is really a series of interlocking fiefdoms with occasionally overlapping interests. Conoley's executive committee regularly gets the main players together and should make it easier to get everyone saying the same thing.
It appears that the school is three years or so into a four- or five-year process of renaming itself Long Beach State. Let's not wait, and just do it today. Spend the money to change the signs, the website names, and the email addresses—we've been a part of corporate restructuring that included all of those things, and it's easier than it sounds. It will be worth it to not log onto www.csulb.edu and see references to both names all over the place, or to see high school athletes announce that they're going to attend CSULB to play basketball at Long Beach State.
Almost more important than what the school does is how it does it. The message should be articulated clearly and strongly. At the start of the spring semester this year, every student on campus should know what school they go to and what its mascot is. No shadow transitions, no subtlety.
It's worth remembering that whether the school is the Long Beach State Beach or the Cal State Long Beach 49ers, somebody's going to be mad. Hell, some people still long for the return of the brown and gold color scheme, which has always been reminiscent to us of midnight diaper changes.
The biggest constant in the school's history is change. Beloved traditions have frequently come about on a whim. "Go Beach!" is echoed all over campus, but it's literally just a phrase former president Bob Maxson started saying one day. Students wear shirts saying they Bleed Black & Gold, but that color scheme exists because football coach George Allen walked on campus and said, "Brown and gold's ugly, make it black and gold instead" and wiped away 40 years of history.
Change is inevitable, it's always happening. We say speed it up, and make the next change at least feel like a final decision. Then communicate it clearly to students, professors, and fans. That way even if they don't like whatever the decision is, they'll know they've been dealt with fairly.
As for us? When people ask, we say we went to Long Beach State, and that we cover the 49ers. |
'Jew Coup': Impeachment Effort Prompts Another Anti-Semitic Tirade from Rick Wiles
By Kyle Mantyla | November 25, 2019 10:42 am
End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles used his most recent "TruNews" program to rail against an alleged "Jew coup" that he believes is working to impeach President Donald Trump.
Wiles, who is deeply anti-Semitic and dedicates many of his TruNews programs to railing against Israel and the Jews—yet still regularly receives press credentials from the Trump administration—titled his Friday night program, "Jew Coup: Seditious Jews Orchestrating Trump Impeachment Lynching" and spent an hour and a half viciously attacking various Jewish members of Congress, the media, and the government.
"That's the way the Jews work, they are deceivers, they plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda," Wiles said. "This 'impeach Trump' effort is a Jew coup and the American people better wake up to it really fast because this thing is moving now toward a vote in the House and then a trial in the Senate. We could have a trial before Christmas. This country could be in civil war at Christmastime. Members of the U.S. military are going to have to take a stand just like they did in the 1860s with the Civil War. They are going to have to decide: are you fighting for the North or the South?"
"People are going to be forced, possibly by this Christmas, to take a stand because of this Jew coup in the United States," he added. "This is a coup led by Jews to overthrow the constitutionally elected president of the United States and it's beyond removing Donald Trump, it's removing you and me. That's what's at the heart of it."
"You have been taken over by a Jewish cabal," Wiles continued. "The church of Jesus Christ, you're next. Get it through your head! They're coming for you. There will be a purge. That's the next thing that happens when Jews take over a country, they kill millions of Christians."
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Q: flip between an img and text I'm trying to add animation so when I hover over my pictures they fade out and another div with text fades in. Just like on this page: http://jack-hughes.com/
But, I have my pictures in a bootstrap container with class of "col-md-4" and every time one of the photos fades out, the others move into its spot.
How can I make something just like the example website?
This is what I have so far, but it's not even close.
$(".box-1").on('mouseover', function() {
$(this).fadeToggle(300).addClass('back');
});
A: Have you tried using hover? It will handle both your mouse in and mouse out events.
You can wrap each image with its text in a surrounding div, and use your hover function on this div. Also, if you use the same classes for each image/text combo, your jQuery is very simple.
HTML
<div id="about" class="container-fluid">
<div class="header">
About
</div>
<div class= "row front">
<div class="col-sm-4 about-box-container">
<img class="about-box front box-1" src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png">
<div class="about-box back box-1">
text
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 about-box-container">
<img class="about-box front box-2" src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png">
<div class="about-box back box-2">
text
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 about-box-container">
<img class="about-box front box-3" src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png">
<div class="about-box back box-3">
text
</div>
</div>
</div>
jQuery
$('.about-box-container').hover(
function() {
$(this).find('.front').fadeOut(300, function() {
$(this).siblings('.back').fadeIn(300);
});
},
function() {
$(this).find('.back').fadeOut(300, function() {
$(this).siblings('.front').fadeIn(300);
});
}
)
Demo here
A: jQuery's fade effects set element's display property to 'none', and its place is freed to use for other elements. Try to use opacity and :hover without any JS (actually, this is what is done at http://jack-hughes.com):
CSS:
.test {
position: relative;
}
.test img {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: solid 1px lightgray;
padding: 10px;
}
.test .test2 {
width: 102px;
height: 102px;
padding: 10px;
display: flex;
text-align: center;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
background: lightgray;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
opacity: 0;
transition: all 0.3s ease-out;
}
.test .test2:hover {
opacity: 1;
}
here is updated plunker based on @Tricky12's HTML: https://plnkr.co/edit/pGYckIcRDPZKS7Ma4vSQ?p=preview
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In this example the Obsolete attribute is applied to class A and to method B.OldMethod. Because the second argument of the attribute constructor applied to B.OldMethod is set to true, this method will cause a compiler error, whereas using class A will just produce a warning. Calling B.NewMethod, however, produces no warning or error.
Two warnings for class A are generated: one for the declaration of the class reference, and one for the class constructor.
The Obsolete attribute can be used without arguments, but including an explanation of why the item is obsolete and what to use instead is recommended.
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Q: shinycssloaders doesn't work when deployed on shinyapps.io I have a app that works just fine without adding shinycssloaders package. But for some reason, after I added the package and added the lines (see below), it stopped working if I deploy it with shinyapps.io. The app runs fine locally, just wouldn't let me deploy it.
# load the library
library(shinycssloaders)
withSpinner(plotOutput("my_plot"))
# if you have `%>%` loaded, you can do plotOutput("my_plot") %>% withSpinner()
The error message I'm getting in the log is attached down below, but I have package shinycssloaders, and I've tried downloading it from CRAN and github, but neither works.
2019-05-13T16:41:39.317482+00:00 shinyapps[890504]: Using pandoc at /opt/connect/ext/pandoc2
2019-05-13T16:41:39.538904+00:00 shinyapps[890504]: Listening on http://127.0.0.1:46817
2019-05-13T16:41:43.893648+00:00 shinyapps[890504]: Warning: Error in withSpinner: could not find function "withSpinner"
2019-05-13T16:41:43.908035+00:00 shinyapps[890504]: 68: div
2019-05-13T16:41:43.908036+00:00 shinyapps[890504]: 67: mainPanel
2019-05-13T16:41:43.908034+00:00 shinyapps[890504]: 69: tags$div
2019-05-13T16:41:43.908032+00:00 shinyapps[890504]: 70: tag
I'm sure this work because it is on their github page, but I'm not sure what I did wrong. Worst case scenario, I'll just get rid of it so it's not a huge issue, but it'd be cool if I can use it. Any help is appreciated!
EDIT
So I attached a sample code, feel free try to deploy it, did't work for me. But works fine locally (since it's a sample app, the loading spinner is extremely quick, but you'd still be able to see it).
library(shiny)
library(shinycssloaders)
ui <- fluidPage(
actionButton("go", "Go"),
numericInput("n", "n", 50),
withSpinner(plotOutput("my_plot"))
)
server <- function(input, output) {
randomVals <- eventReactive(input$go, {
runif(input$n)
})
output$my_plot <- renderPlot({
hist(randomVals())
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
A: Since the log says Warning: Error in withSpinner: could not find function "withSpinner"
I went ahead added the package name in front of withSpinner function, so now in the UI function, it should be
shinycssloaders::withSpinner(plotOutput("my_plot", height = 600))
and it works perfect with deploy. Although it seems bizarre, because I indeed attached library(shinycssloaders). In my actual app, I attached it in server.R file, perhaps that's why.
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Be a special part of the 2014 Santa for Seniors Gift Collection Drive and help create warm memories for our seniors in Volusia County. All collected gifts will then be distributed to COA clients just before Christmas.
It's easy! Drop off unwrapped gifts your local Walgreens Store anywhere in Volusia County!
Santa for Seniors Gift Drive for the Council on Aging/Meals on Wheels that will take place on Thursday, November 20th to Thursday, December 4th. All Drop off locations will be at all the 26 Volusia County Walgreen's Stores. Please drop off any unwrapped gifts and they will be distributed to COA Clients just before Christmas.
Unwrapped Gift Ideas: Slippers, Socks, Sweaters, Gift Cards, Postage Stamps, Toiletries, Bath Bench, Adult Diapers, and ALL cash Donations are matched five times, $1 buck turns into $5 dollars. Imagine what we can do together!
Remember all of your donations are tax deductible.
Council On Aging thanks you in advance for your support. For More information please call 386-253-4700 ext. 215 or [email protected] visit COAVolusia.org.
Remember please drop off your loose change, to change a Senior's life! |
Q: Java - Create a variable which does the same thing as a name of a class Maybe the title souds misterious, but i don't the specific words of java.
I will try to be clear :
I would like to create an instance of the class A<T extends B>, but I only know the Type of T.
Type myType = ...; //defined in my code via getGenericParameterTypes() from a Constructor object
Class myVariable = Class.forName(myType.getTypeName());
A<myVariable> = new A<myVariable>(); //doesn't work
Maybe some of you may know a solution or an other way to do it.
Thank you !
EDIT :
Here is more information :
I have a class A<T extends B> and i have to call it recursively, the only parameter is T and T is the class of a parameter of a method.
I got the name of T using :
Type typeT = cl.getConstructors()[0].getGenericParameterTypes()[0];
String nameT = typeT.getTypeName();
now i want to do
A<T> myNewInstance = new A<T>();
But i dont know how to define T
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A Touch of Class hed oprindeligt ATC og var en tysk popgruppe, selvom ingen af de fire medlemmer kom fra Tyskland – Joseph Murray kom fra New Zealand, Tracey Elizabeth Packham fra England, Sarah Egglestone fra Australien og Livio Salvi fra Italien.
Deres første single, Around the World (La La La La La) (en coverversion af sangen af "Pesenka" af den russiske gruppe Ruki Vverkh) lå nr. 1 på Tyskland i 6 uger i år 2000, hvilket sætter rekorden for nogen europæisk sang. Den blev også nr. 1 i de fleste andre europæiske lande, dog ikke lige så lang tid, og selv i USA klarede den sig ganske godt. Senere har DJ Carlee lavet et techno-cover af sangen, som han kalder Dizzie Round the World. Bandet Befour lavede også en coverversion i år 2007 kaldet Magic Melody.
Deres debutalbum Planet Pop blev udgivet d. 6. februar 2001 af Sony BMG Entertainment, og det blev belønnet med en ECHO-pris for "bedste danseakt". To af deres senere singler, My Heart Beats like a Drum (Dam Dam Dam) og Why oh Why mindede om Around the World og blev populære flere steder i Europa, men ATC er stadig mest huskede for deres første hit.
På et tidspunkt vandt DJ'en ATB en retssag omkring navneefterligning, og ATC var tvunget til at skifte navn til A Touch of Class. De udgav i 2003-2004 tre singler fra deres andet album Touch the Sky, men de havde ikke stor succes, og på grund af pengeproblemer var gruppen tvunget til opløsning.
Nuværende status
I oktober 2007 blev ATC halvt genforenet, da Livio og Joseph sang en ny version af Around the World i det tyske show Ultimate Chart Show, der primært viser sangere med klassiske discosange. Livio har indspillet nogle få "prøvesange", der kan høres på hans MySpace, og arbejder på et nyt album, selv om han dog endnu ikke har fået kontakt til et pladeselskab. Joseph er skuespiller, og hans nyeste filmroller er i filmen Go Go Tales og miniserien Empire.
Diskografi
Albums
2000 Planet Pop
2003 Touch the Sky
Singler
"Around the World (La La La)"
"My Heart Beats like a Drum"
"Thinking of you"
"Why oh why"
"I'm in Heaven (When you Kiss me)"
"Call on me"
"Together" (feat. DJ Bobo)
"Set me Free"
"New York City"
Popgrupper fra Tyskland
Musikgrupper fra 1998
Musikgrupper opløst i 2003 |
Q. Is your full name Javaid Iqbal Hussain?
Q. Mr Hussain, are you a forensic scientist by occupation?
A. At the forensic laboratory in Birmingham.
A. I am a Bachelor of Science, a degree in Zoology.
Q. What is your specialism at the forensic science laboratory?
A. Fingerprint detection and enhancement.
Q. On 19th March last year on the request of the Greater Manchester Police did you attend 24 Tandle Hill Road Royton Oldham?
Q. Did you go into the rear room on the ground floor where Detective Sergeant Abbot indicated to you three areas of possible blood staining?
Q. Would you like to look at exhibit six, please. Do you have those in front of you?
Q. Would you like to look at photograph one. Does that show the area in which that possible blood staining was present?
Q. Were all three areas treated with chemical reagents in order to reveal any fingerprint details that might have been present in the staining?
Q. Can you explain what a chemical reagent is?
A. It's a reagent which is applied in order to reveal or to enhance any possible fingerprint detail which is present.
Q. What is a reagent?
A. It's usually a chemical solution.
Q. I am going now, my Lord, to page 77a. Was the first reagent that you used on those three areas an iodine spray?
Q. Was that applied on 19th March after you had completed your initial visual examination?
Q. What is the purpose of applying the iodine reagent?
A. In order to enhance the fingerprint detail which was already partially visible.
Q. Is the enhancement achieved by the formation of a visibly blue product?
A. It is with iodine reagent, yes.
Q. Did you apply the iodine in the form of a very fine iodine spray?
Q. Did you achieve visual enhancement of the three areas of staining?
Q. Were you satisfied that there had been no damage, diffusion or distortion of those three areas?
Q. Then did you apply a second reagent?
Q. Is that called ninhydrin?
A. It's called ninhydrin reagent, yes.
Q. Can that react with various blood constituents which might be present in latent fingerprints?
A. Yes, it can react with amino acids or urea or various properties.
Q. Is that, therefore, another reagent used in fingerprint detection and enhancement?
Q. And does that now produce when it is applied a visible purple product?
Q. How long would it take to achieve makimum enhancement of a fingerprint?
A. Maximum enhancement can be achieved from a period almost immediately to about perhaps 14 days, it depends on the conditions.
Q. Did you apply ninhydrin to the wall as a fine stream of solution from a water bottle?
Q. Was visual enhancement evident to you?
Q. How long after you application?
A. It was evident approximately 20 minutes after application.
Q. Were you satisfied there had been no damage or distortion to the stained area as a result of that application?
Q. On 24th March did you re-attend the scene?
Q. At that time had you been informed that fingerprint details had been revealed as a result of your previous visit?
Q. Were you requested to treat the areas of staining with a further reagent which would enable you to express an opinion as to whether or not these areas had been laid in blood?
Q. So this was not now a fingerprint test but merely to find out whether the fingerprints were, infact, in blood?
Q. Did you apply a further reagent that day, 24th March?
A. It's called trtra-amino biphenyl.
Q. Does that react with the haemoglobin present in blood?
Q. What form of product does that produce?
A. It forms a dark brown insoluble product.
Q. Did you treat all three areas with that chemical on 24th March?
Q. What did they demonstrate?
A. All three areas demonstrated a positive dark brown reaction and there was no atypical reactions.
Q. So you have now applied three different reagents, is that right?
Q. You said that in respect of the last reagent there was no atypical reactions?
A. There was nothing unusual in the way the material behaved which would lead me to believe that perhaps something untoward was happening. The material behaved exactly as I would have expected had it been blood.
Q. Did the material behave exactly as you would expect blood to behave in respect of each of the three reagents?
Q. Can you think of any other material which would have had a similar appearance and which would have given a similar reaction to those three reagents?
A. No, I can think of no other material which would have behaved in that way.
A. Save for blood, yes.
Q. What was your opinion as a result of that particular product testing?
A. Based on my visual examination and the results I obtained with all three reagents , it's my opinion that all three areas were made in blood.
Q. Were you able to distinguish between human bloold and animal blood in reaching that conclusion?
A. That's because haemoglobin is present in the blood of many species and on the basis of the test which I performed it's not possible to distinguish between the blood of different species.
Q. Would you stay there, please?
Q. You applied a total of three solutions to each of these stains, did you not?
Q. A chemical called ninhydrin which you applied using a washing-up liquid bottle, did you?
A. It's a plastic bottle with a fine jet.
Q. And you soaked the surface, did you?
Q. Might that cause whatever is on the surface to run?
Q. Does it not have a tendency?
Q. It is about the third test that I want in particular to ask you questions. That was an application of a substance called tetra-amino biphenyl?
Q. Is there a short word one can use for that?
A. I tend to call it TAB.
Q. The use of TAB for this purpose is a relatively new technique, is it not?
Q. And consequently operational experience, practical experience, of its use is still rather limited?
Q. As a result of that limited experience, is it your opinion now that, although the three areas of staining may be blood, you cannot state that categorically to the exclusion of other haemoglobin bearing substances?
Q. You recognise that you are unable to distinguish between human blood and animal blood? I am saying that there is room for doubt as to whether it is blood at all?
A. I am certain in my opinion that the material there was blood. I concede that that is not proof positive.
Q. Would you agree then, and I am referring to an earlier statement from you which I can show you: "" cannot state categorically that these stains were blood to the exclusion of all other materials""
Q. This is a passage, a part of the house where food was regularly conveyed by trolley?
Q. And there has been some evidence that food was splashed on the walls. Is that the sort of source that might contain haemoglobin?
MR JUSTICE HUTCHINSON: Sorry, is what the sort of source?
MR CARUS: Food splashing on the walls.
MR JUSTICE HUTCHINSON: Might food contain haemoglobin, food for human consumption?
A. It would have to be food which contained haemoglobin.
MR CARUS: Exactly. Thank you Mr Hussain.
Q. Obviously, one substance which contains haemoglobin is blood?
Q. Can you think of any other materials which would have produced those marks on that wall which reacted in the same way to the reagents that you applied?
Q. So your opinion that you expressed, the certainty that the material was blood, was part based on the application of these reagents and part upon the physical appearance of the substance?
Q. Thank you very much, Mr Hussain. |
Q: Do status effect particles still show while the player is invisible? Will other players still see the particles from a player that drank a Potion of Invisibility?
A: Yes it's easily detectable and also you will be outlined when hit by certain arrows.
A: The particles are visible unless the server has a plugin for it. You could also hope that the other players have gone into settings, and turned particles to none, which should disable them for their screen.
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The company operates a centralised revenue management department in Berlin, which includes 30 young and motivated talents managing, maximizing and optimizing revenues for the various properties.
We caught up with Deniel Frey, VP of Revenue Management, to talk about channel management, e-commerce and being optimised for Google, and bringing all departments together in a cohesive Revenue Strategy.
Q: With a centralised revenue team, does this help you work closer with other departments?
Frey: We believe that the only possibility to focus on total revenue management is to align one strategy across all revenue generating departments.
Some hotel companies are incentivizing each department individually, which from our point of view is counterproductive as no one is taking responsibility for the business. Our sales and revenue teams are discussing and analysing every inquiry together, but in the end, it's the revenue department which is taking the decision.
Q: What is your approach to channel management? How are you driving direct business?
Frey: Nowadays everyone is complaining about high commission costs generated by third-party distribution, but I firmly believe that the key to success is channel optimization. It is not about shifting bookings towards the direct distribution, it is optimizing revenues through every individual channel as it's hard to change a customer's booking behaviour.
Q: How do you use data to personalise the booking experience?
Frey: We are currently building our own CRM system, which will help us to personalize the booking from A to Z and I believe that Duetto will have an important role in this process.
Q: What else are you doing with e-commerce and marketing to remain competitive?
Frey: E-commerce and marketing are important revenue drivers for us and together with revenue management all three departments go hand-in-hand to guarantee success. Revenue management manages demand, but also identifies need periods in time and, together with marketing and e-commerce, works to take timely and effective actions.
I believe that every revenue manager needs to have insight into e-commerce and marketing to understand the whole picture and the whole business. Nowadays it's not just managing demand, it's much more about creating demand and stimulating demand.
We focus on social media marketing, offline marketing, affiliate marketing, newsletter campaigns, etc. And at present, our co-focus at the moment is our CRM system, which will help us to change our e-commerce and marketing strategy completely.
Q: Talking of e-commerce, what's your approach to being optimized for Google?
Frey: We know that 96% of all clicks hit the first four spots on Google's search engine results page, so firstly, the hotel needs to make sure they are on top of this ranking. Secondly, the hotels are the ones that are owning the brands, so they should be the ones bidding on the brand and not the OTAs, for example.
Google has access to a large amount of data and can use this data to personalize a customer's journey. This data will be used to direct the customer to the restaurant, to the hotel, to the destination of his preference, as Google knows exactly what we want. I believe that the manual search processes will become less and less, and the sooner the travel industry realizes this trend, the better we can participate into it.
Q: How well do you think your company is prepared for a downturn in any of its markets, and how do you think you're going to win in those markets?
Frey: We believe that proper technology, speed, flexibility, and market insights will help us to maintain our market share and our revenues. And we believe that Duetto will support us in that during difficult times. |
Derma exfoliation removes dead skin cells and free your skin from impurities. Exfoliation also increases blood circulation, which in turn helps you to achieve a healthy glow.
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Treatment is completed with a mask and photo light therapy which hydrates and reverses environmental damage, reducing fine lines and other signs of premature aging. |
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former space shuttle commander, speaks at the 215th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON ? The United States must reach outto other countries to increase international cooperation in space, NASA chiefCharles Bolden told an audience of astronomers this week.
It's notacceptable for the United States to come up with a space plan on its own, andthen invite other countries to participate, Bolden said.
"Wehave got to make them true partners, which means they sit at the table when youplan," he said. "We have incredibly talented partners and we have tolearn to trust them."
Bolden saidcreating a future with broader internationalpartnership will enable better missions, because costs and expertise wouldbe shared, and will also serve to improve America's reputation in the world,where images of U.S. soldiers marching through foreign lands are often the mostsalient association people have with America.
He spokeTuesday at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C., calling for "a relationship where our partners are treated asequals."
A formerastronaut, Bolden was nominated as NASAadministrator by President Barack Obama, and confirmed in July 2009 by theU.S. Senate. He is a veteran of four space shuttle flights, including themission to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.
Bolden iscurrently presiding over an agency with an uncertain future. President Obama isreviewing NASA's plans, which include building new spacecraft to carry humansto Earth orbit, backto the moon, and beyond. But the President has not yet made a decisionabout whether to charge NASA with a new vision, or to carry on with its currenttack.
"Idon?t know what the president's decision is going to be," Bolden said,though he was confident that President Obama would carry on a strong program ofscience and exploration. "I do not see this present being the presidentwho presided over the end of human space exploration."
He said anincrease in funding would be necessary to keep America's human space programstrong, but he promised to put the interests of science in line with those ofexploration.
"I canmake this commitment to you: The future of human spaceflight will not be paidfor out of the hide of the science budget," he said, to strong applausefrom the researcher audience.
Bolden alsolaid down a challenge to the listening astronomers to reach out to the publicto communicate the excitement of science, and to work harder to educate thenext generation.
"Ineed for you to get out and do things you're not accustomed to doing," hesaid. "We are going nowhere, nowhere, if we don't educate our kids."
He said toomany scientists leave it to teachers to educate children about science, but toomany teachers are afraid to teach science and math.
"Weare leaving a generation behind," he lamented. |
Q: With vagrant-berkshelf deprecated, will it be possible to drive builds from Vagrant, with Chef solely as a provisioner? I have had a number of issues recently with vagrant-berkshelf not syncing Chef cookbooks on an existing machine reliably. And, basically, when doing research on workarounds, I see something like:
vagrant-berkshelf is deprecated, use Test Kitchen instead.
My use case is that I have Vagrantfiles, used to build VMs and DigitalOcean droplets, that are hand-written and only use Chef to provision the VMs. I am most definitely approaching Chef as a user, not an author or tester of cookbooks.
So, I am in a case of Vagrant -> Chef, not Chef -> Vagrant.
When looking at Kitche-Vagrant, I see that:
The kitchen-vagrant driver for Kitchen generates a single Vagrantfile for each instance of Kitchen in a sandboxed directory..
My question is: if my workflow relies on hand-written, complex, Vagrantfiles, can I continue to use Chef as a provisioner without having to rely on vagrant-berkshelf?
Some of the possible alternatives I see are:
*
*mangle Test Kitchen configuration to work with my exiting Vagrantfile. I fear that this is not the intent of this tool and will not end well.
*use chef.cookbooks_path attribute in vagrant and let it take the place of vagrant-berkshelf.
*switch out provisioners and use say Vagrant->Ansible.
The Vagrantfile below is somewhat simplified, but the gist is that the Vagrantfile is in charge and Chef is just used to provision.
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
#...grab some variables from my host environment...
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY = ENV['BUILD_DJANGO_SECRET_KEY']
Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
config.vm.define "myserver" do |config|
config.vm.provider :digital_ocean do |provider, override|
override.ssh.private_key_path = digoconf.private_key_path
override.vm.box_url = "https://github.com/devopsgroup-io/vagrant-digitalocean/raw/master/box/digital_ocean.box"
provider.token = digoconf.TOKEN
...
end
#had chef_client before, that worked too.
config.vm.provision "chef_zero" do |chef|
chef.log_level = "info"
#I haven't tested these out
#chef.cookbooks_path = ["../community/cookbooks","../.berkshelf/cookbooks"]
env_for_chef = " DJANGO_SECRET_KEY='#{DJANGO_SECRET_KEY}'"
chef.binary_env = env_for_chef
chef.environment = "digitalocean"
chef.add_recipe "base::install"
end
end
end
A: It isn't deprecated per se, but it does no longer have a maintainer and does highly recommend against its use. There is no replacement for the workflow you describe. Sorry. If you are interested in taking over as maintainer, I can put you in contact with the team.
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CDC via CNN
Salmonella outbreak tied to raw turkey expands with 63 more illnesses
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Turkey urges China to respect Uighur rights, close camps
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Uber is now using boats to beat Mumbai's terrible traffic
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Turkey appears to snub US; no assurances on Syrian Kurds
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More than 164,000 pounds of ground turkey recalled; 52 more people sick in deadly salmonella outbreak
By Debra Goldschmidt, CNN (CNN) -- Jennie-O Turkey Store Sales Inc. is recalling about 164,210 pounds of raw ground turkey products due to the possibility of salmonella contamination, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Friday. The recall was announced as the...
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Trump call with Turkish leader led to US pullout from Syria
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Watching out for these illnesses tied to recalled foods at Thanksgiving
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Lauren Lipton
Positively Philadelphia: A brief history of our Thanksgiving trimmings
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — If you wonder why we eat some of the things we do on Thanksgiving, who better to ask than chef Walter Staib. He's the culinary ambassador of the City of Philadelphia and the chef and proprietor of the City Tavern Restaurant in Old City, where the holiday dinner is as... |
Getting cosmetic dental work and dental care in a number of parts around the globe, particularly in wealthy countries from the planet, could be very costly, whether or not you can get any kind of dental coverage.
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Your dental professional might suggest dental x-ray on your first visit, a scheduled checkup, or perhaps a return for treatment. However the Ada (ADA) recommends the frequency of journeys towards the dentist's X-ray chair should be based upon the present condition of the patient's oral health.
Most significantly, in case you really want to save cash you have to take excellent proper care of your dental health. Brush the teeth two times each day or after each meal and floss at least one time daily to defend against your chance of dental problems. Cut lower in your sugary intake to be able to lower your dental issues, thus your time and effort within the dentist's chair. |
Born in Kirkcaldy in 1930 Frances Walker studied at Edinburgh College of Art and then took up a post as visiting teacher of art for the Hebrides. This experience engendered in her a life-long love of wild and desolate places and since then she has chosen to depict the most remote landscapes, her compositions usually based on coastal reaches, craggy rocks and deserted beaches.
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Medical Marijuana Doctor Daytona is a cannabis dispensary in Daytona-beach, Florida.
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I am a Solicitor Advocate specialising in Criminal Law. I represent clients at the police station, Magistrates Court, and the Crown Court. I cover all areas of Criminal Law.
I obtained a Law Degree from Teesside University and completed the Bar Vocational Course at Northumbria University. I also completed the Police Station Accreditation Programme and Training contract, qualifying as a Solicitor in 2005. I obtained Duty Solicitor status for police stations and Magistrates Courts in 2006. My carer successfully progressed and I obtained Higher Rights of Audience in 2015. Before joining Watson Woodhouse Solicitors in June 2017 I worked for a local firm in Teesside.
I have experience of all types of criminal law ranging from Assaults, Arson, Burglary, Drug offences, Fraud, Public Order offences, Road Traffic offences, Robbery, Sexual offences, Theft and Murder. |
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From Model to the Business of Beauty
The Inside Story of Ekin Ozlen's Entrepreneurial Journey
by Sam Johnson, Special to California Business Journal
Entrepreneurs are inherently visionaries in recognizing a common problem and creating a solution to address it. Oftentimes, entrepreneurs begin their careers as a multifaceted professional who — after working in other industries — can leverage their experience to introduce a newer, high-quality solution.
Looking to entrepreneurs operating within the beauty and skincare industry, the public is bombarded by products created by celebrities. After all, the influence of such figures has a broad impact on the behavior of their followers. For these products to take off amongst wider audiences, however, they often require a "seal of approval" from other key influencers.
One such influencer is former model Ekin Ozlen. After reaching a point in her life where she knew she wanted more for herself, her career, and to offer more value to her own followers, Ozlen set out to blend her personal needs and lifelong passion for beauty with high-science skincare and haircare.
The result is Keracell: a revolutionary line of products utilizing Multiple Human Cell stem cell (MHCsc) technology developed with the help of two Ph.D. biomedical scientists who are experts in molecular biology and stem cell research.
Intersecting Necessity and Entrepreneurial Passion
If Ozlen appears familiar to you at first glance, it's likely because you've seen her before from her time as the go-to cover girl for many of Target's womens' products, or possibly on the pages of catalogs and magazines such as Cosmopolitan or Maxim.
"When I was younger, I loved writing poems and stories. I realized that I was good at it," Ozlen says, "and always wanted to be a singer-songwriter. As a model, you're more of a blank canvas, but as a singer you can funnel your own individual creativity into your work. Music provided me a creative outlet that my modeling career lacked," Ozlen adds, explaining that modeling was more of a survival-driven career move.
Keracell is a revolutionary line of products utilizing Multiple Human Cell stem technology developed with biomedical Ph.D. scientists in molecular biology and stem cell research.
Ozlen's career reached a crescendo when she wanted found a space where her necessities and passions intersected.
"I wanted to be a business owner, but I also knew I had to take care of myself and my horses. I always wanted to remain independent and yet successful at the same time."
After her husband at the time, a renowned plastic surgeon, passed away, Ozlen leaned on her deep love of skin and hair care and holistic healing from watching her late husband's process in his practice for years. This is where Ozlen's entrepreneurial journey with Keracelll began.
Fighting Stigma With Success
Ozlen's drive behind her self-described necessity in branching into Keracell was due to one word: results. Being in the beauty industry for years, surrounded by the biggest and best makeup artists, hair stylists, plastic surgeons, dermatologists in New York City enabled Ozlen to provide everything she needed to begin her entrepreneurial journey with the Keracell brand.
"I was so tired of buying products and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on these new beauty and skincare items that didn't do what they claimed that often left me with reactions or blemishes, or didn't heal my damaged hair."
This led Ozlen to the inclusion of MHCsc science into Keracell's products. Though the concept of human stem cells is often widely stigmatized and misunderstood, Ozlen's brand and unique product lines do not utilize any human DNA whatsoever in the products; rather, Keracell's 4 different product lines — encompassing 40 different products — only utilizes human stem cell "extract" instead of the actual human stem "cells" themselves.
While some argue that this straddles an uncomfortable ethical boundary, Ozlen is committed to continue her drive in building the Keracell brand and educating those in order to bring its products to a larger audience of people in need of the results they have been proven to show since the brand's inception.
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Safaricom's over 17 million customers to benefit from fast mobile browser, Johannesburg, South Africa — September 29, 2011
Kenya's largest integrated telecoms operator Safaricom, today announced the extension of its existing partnership with Opera Software to deliver the Opera Mini browser solution to its more than 17 million subscribers. This includes the launch of a co-branded version of the Opera Mini mobile browser, which is now available for download across Safaricom's network in Kenya. This is part of a global agreement between Vodafone and Opera Software.
The deal delivers faster access to websites and easy entry to Safaricom portals. Safaricom subscribers can reach the content they want, with less frustration and expense. With just one click, customers have music, news, games, and information on Safaricom's products and services at their fingertips.
Kenya has 22 million mobile phone users, which is around 55% of the total population. Safaricom, which is 40% owned by Vodafone, is the only network in Kenya that provides broadband high-speed data to its customers through its 3G network, Wimax and fibre. Kenya is also the third largest market in Africa for Opera Mini.
According to Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore, the partnership with Opera Software would significantly improve the internet experience of the firm's growing base of data customers.
"With the launch of the Opera Mini browser, we are leveraging a key partnership to bring our data customers to a new, higher level of experience. This is aligned with our strategy of not just making the internet a mass product in Kenya, but also making it more efficient," said Collymore.
At least nine out of every ten of the 8 million Kenyans who use the internet regularly do so through the Safaricom network.
Already, 121 million people all over the world have discovered how Opera Mini can revolutionize their mobile web experience. Not only does Opera Mini deliver the Web faster to almost any phone, it also cuts data costs by shrinking the pages down before they are delivered, while retaining all the functionality of a normal webpage.
"Africa is a booming market for us, and this deal with Safaricom will bring the best Internet experience possible to millions of people eager for mobile web access," said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software. "Opera believes that Internet access is a universal right, and being part of bringing that to Kenya is key for us. Opera Software has always striven to develop the fastest and technologically most advanced browsers. As a result, the Opera browser is the choice for the majority of mobile web users."
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Jessica, a former Crawford Fund conference scholar, is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian (APD) and Nutrition Systems Scientist with CSIRO Agriculture and Food. As a dietitian and public health nutritionist, she works predominantly with 'non-nutritionists' on approaches to leveraging agriculture and food systems for better nutrition outcomes, particularly among vulnerable population groups including women and young children. Jessica completed her PhD at the University of Queensland where she examined the contribution of fish to nutrition and food security in Bangladesh. Previously she worked for WorldFish, a CGIAR Research Center, developing approaches to integrate nutrition considerations into their work on food security related to fisheries and aquaculture.
Small fish, big impact: nutrition-sensitive fish agri-food systems in Bangladesh
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Fish plays a vital role in nutritional quality of diets in Bangladesh, especially for the poor. It is also inextricably linked to the culture of Bangladeshi people, and supports the livelihoods of more than 17 million people. Nutrient composition analysis has shown wide variability in the nutritional value of different fish species, with small indigenous fish species (SIS) being a particularly rich source of iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin A, vitamin B12 and other micronutrients, in comparison to commonly farmed species. Given widespread malnutrition issues in Bangladesh, there is significant opportunity for fish to play a greater role in contributing to improved food and nutrition security. WorldFish and partners have developed a package of approaches to maximise the benefit of fisheries and aquaculture for nutrition outcomes among vulnerable groups through nutrition-sensitive fish-agri food systems. These involve; inclusion of nutrient-rich SIS in pond polyculture systems, enhanced stocking of SIS in wetlands, integrated vegetable production on pond dykes and homestead gardens, simple processing of fish to improve suitability for consumption by infants and engaging women in fish harvesting to promote frequent consumption of SIS by women and children. These activities are supported by broader approaches including transforming norms, attitudes and practices around gender equity and social behaviour change communication for improved nutrition and hygiene practices. The integrated and multi-component nature of these approaches has shown numerous benefits for nutrition, gender equity, income, and livelihoods. Nutrition-sensitive approaches to fish agri-food systems are central to contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh and beyond. |
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By The Editorial Board. The BDN Opinion Section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies, or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. • June 16, 2019 10:00 am
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After years of delay, Maine lawmakers are on the verge of enacting rules for the sale of recreational marijuana. The rules they are considering, which were drafted by the state's Office of Marijuana Policy, meet important safety and community engagement standards and deserve legislative support.
In 2016, Maine voters approved legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use. Since then, lawmakers, often hampered by vetoes from former Gov. Paul LePage, have failed to enact the rules needed to turn the referendum vote into reality. Last year, lawmakers overrode a veto from LePage, to put in place rules for adult marijuana use. But action on rules for retail sales of marijuana faltered.
The rules now under consideration build on the work of several groups that sought to write rules for legal, retail marijuana sales for recreational use. Maine already allows medical marijuana sales. Still, the Office of Marijuana Policy, which was established in February, deserves credit for working quickly in the past few months to finalize the proposed rules.
A legislative committee previously spent the better part of a year drafting a set of regulations that were ultimately rejected by lawmakers in 2017 after a veto from LePage. That group's proposed regulations focused on four priorities that remain valid today.
The first is to fulfill the will of Maine voters. Many in the State House, and beyond, opposed the legalization referendum. The Bangor Daily News editorial board did as well. But, voters passed it and regulations for retail sales are long overdue.
The second is to ensure that regulations are strict to ensure the safety of Maine communities and children. This is accomplished through clear and precise definitions around what products can be sold and how they must be labeled. It is also addressed with limits on retail marijuana facilities near schools, daycares and churches, and a ban on social clubs.
A third priority — empowering communities — is addressed by allowing municipalities to opt-in to allowing marijuana retail facilities. If a community opts in, the proposed rules also give it the ability to zone where the facilities can locate and to set more stringent regulations than what the state adopts.
The fourth priority is to maximize state revenue. The proposed tax rate of 20 percent is below what is charged in western states, but is similar to Massachusetts' levy. This is the highest tax rate lawmakers have considered, so this is an improvement in terms of ensuring that Maine benefits from the eventual retail market. Under existing law, some of the tax revenue would support law enforcement training and public health and safety programs related to marijuana use.
A companion bill, LD 335, which also remains under consideration in the Legislature's final days, proposed to direct 25 percent of the sales and excise taxes collected by the state from retail marijuana sales to communities that host the shops. An amendment adopted in House would drop the revenue sharing rate to 12 percent. Directing some of the tax revenue from marijuana sales to communities where those sales happen makes great sense.
One substantial hangup remains. The proposed rules limit retail marijuana sales licenses to businesses owned by Maine residents. We appreciate the inclination to favor Maine-owned businesses, but such a restriction may violate interstate commerce rules. One vendor, Wellness Connection of Maine, which owns four of the state's eight medical marijuana dispensaries, has already threatened to sue if the provision remains in the rules.
Eliminating this requirement could avoid legal battles down the road.
Rules for a retail marijuana market in Maine are overdue. These rules meet important standards and should move forward.
Correction: An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that the Office of Marijuana Policy was created in March. The office was established in February.
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April 16, 1939 ~ June 27, 2021
David Lewis Pike, 82, went to his heavenly home on Sunday, June 27th 2021. He was a beloved father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, and friend to everyone. David was greeted in heaven by his beloved son Bruce Daniel Pike, beloved grandson Noah Enriquez, and beloved Mother and Father Eleanor and Lewis Pike. He was born April 16, 1939 in Boston Massachusetts where he had fond memories of playing sports such as hockey, football, and fishing. He loved clam digging and swimming in Boothbay Maine. David served four years in the Air Force - and in 1957, while stationed in Laredo, Tx, he met his wife Lisa Pike, mother of their six children: Kurt Douglas Pike (wife Sue Pike), Bruce Daniel Pike, Lisa Renee Pike, David Lewis Pike (wife Martha Pike), Jane Rose DuBois (husband Gary DuBois) and Eleanor Alice Enriquez (husband David Enriquez). David had 17 grandchildren, and several great grandchildren. He is survived by his brother John Pike (wife Jeanne Pike), sister Ginger Moller (husband Ed Moller), and his Uncle Robert Pike. David loved life, and the precious time he spent with his family. He always had a positive outlook, and enjoyed singing, dancing, and making everyone laugh. His beautiful spirit will be deeply missed by all of us. We will carry him in our hearts forever. Rest in peace Dad, we love you. David Lewis Pike will be honored for his service to the Air Force, and laid to rest at Ft. Sam Houston.
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Thank you for always showing the most genuine love to the family. You were an inspiration to all of us. I couldn't be more proud to call you my grandfather. -David Anthony Pike and Family
Grandpa we love you and will miss you dearly. Your stories that always got us laughing and your love are what we will remember. Rest In Peace and we will see you again one day. Paul, Erin Pike and family
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Grandpa I miss you so much. But I know you're up in heaven singing, dancing and making everyone laugh. Thank you so much for being the rock of the family and for being the best grandpa anyone can ask for. Until we meet again RIP grandpa, you'll live in my heart forever. Love you always, Carrie and my crazy Cassiano boys.
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To the Pike family , Thank you for sharing your amazing Father and Grandfather with us at Northeast Rehab ! The therapy team called him "Mr. Sunshine" because he always brightened up the gym. I was so fortunate to be able to spend a great deal of time with David. Oh the stories he could tell! His favorites though were those about his family ! He had a 100 watt smile but when his family came it was 1000 watts. From the conversations I had with you his family and the love I saw you all share I know his legacy will live on ! Praying for peace as well as joy in the memories. I know David is saving a dance for me in Heaven ! Love and gratitude for knowing the Pike family and especially David !! Michele Scribner
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Dad thank you for everything!!! I Will miss you so much. I will miss our long talks we use to have. We had great road trips together….New Mexico, South Padre, Port Aransas, Carrizzo Springs. I will always cherish those memories. All the football games went to for Marcos. Thank you for always being there for me. Marcos and Carrie. We love you so much..you will be in our hearts forever. |
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Oslo, Norway, June 13, 2011 – STM Norway AS, a division of STM Group, Inc., announced today the first demonstration of DVB-RCS2, the recently completed second generation of the DVB-RCS standard. The implementation of the new standard on STM's SatLink platform was witnessed in a demonstration on June 7th at an event in Norway attended by representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Norwegian Space Center.
RCS2 provides for higher order modulation and coding along with many other elements contributing to higher throughput and bandwidth efficiency. Total efficiency gains with RCS2 can be as large as 300 percent on TDMA carriers compared to legacy VSAT networks. STM's implementation of DVB-RCS2 will yield bandwidth efficiencies up to 2.9 bps/Hz on TDMA carriers and offer excellent return link availability with ACM, as is critical for new broadband networks. Plus, there are significant gains in the average throughput per VSAT with SatLink's higher symbol rate support and much higher capacity carrier groups with fast dynamic bandwidth sharing via frequency hopping.
The DVB-RCS2 standard was published by the DVB organization (www.DVB.org) in March of this year based on collaborative work by many leading industry participants. Both the specification and implementation are the culmination of three years of advanced development, in which STM Norway was the key technology contributor, leading several research organizations under contract to ESA.
"We are grateful to ESA and the Norwegian Space Center for their support and guidance in reaching this milestone. The DVB-RCS2 standard would not have become a reality without their support and the widespread industry commitment," said Bjorn Platou, General Manager of STM Norway. The event demonstrated the key performance enhancements in DVB-RCS2, including the new 16-state Turbo code, higher order modulations of MF-TDMA carriers at 8PSK and 16QAM, Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) per timeslot, and the new efficient Return Link Encapsulation (RLE).
STM provides complete IP based satellite network systems, under the SatLink brand, that follow the DVB-RCS standard and operate in C, Ku, and Ka bands. The company also produces cellular base station products based on the GSM standard and integrated with its SatLink platform. STM products are in use globally and serve customers in diverse industries for a variety of IP based applications. Based in Irvine, California, STM has offices in several worldwide locations for product development, network services, and technical support. |
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1. Understand who your readers (and your clients) are. "Unless you're writing a personal journal, you're writing for readers, editors, publishers, and clients — not yourself. Try to appeal to them. If they don't care about what you have to say, they won't read what you write." – Mark Grabowski, journalism professor.
2. Double check your facts, and be original. "A new issue that is arising is plagiarism. Successful magazine writers need to know that 'copy and paste' does not equal writing. That may have gotten them through school, but it won't keep them employed as writers." – Cynthia Clampitt, freelance writer and editor.
3. Create a strong outline for your feature article. "Spend extra time to make a great outline. That way, you can go back, fill in sections, and put your brain on "auto-pilot" if needed to get the job done. A great outline lets you split up a magazine feature article into manageable chunks, and gives you a greater sense of accomplishment when you complete sections." – Joel Elad, blogger.
4. Record your interviews with experts. "Whenever possible, record your telephone interviews with experts. You can buy a gadget that you attach to your cell phone and computer. Then, you can send the mp3 file to Idictate.com and within 24 hours you'll have a typed transcript. From there it's easy to shape and edit a finished piece!" – Peggy Hall, veteran freelance writer.
5. Don't chase the publishing or cultural trends. "Write about things you care about and are interested in. Otherwise, your indifference will likely be reflected in your writing." – Mark Grabowski, journalism professor. If you've been hired to write an article or book that you have no interest in, try to find ways to make your writing edgy and quirky! If you can increase your enjoyment levels, you'll make your readers happy. And that alone can help you build a better freelance writing career.
6. Unzip your writer's voice, and get out of the way. "Write like you talk to your friends and family (just leave out the "ums" and "you knows"). It seems to me that a lot of people adopt what they think of as a "writerly" voice when they write. They start using technical jargon, business- or marketing-speak, legalese, academic bloviation, or bureaucratese because they have the misconception that 'that's the way everyone does it.'" – Roy Jacobsen.
7. Tell a good story. "When I get nervous or unsure about writing an article, I go back to the basics, and just try to tell a good story. Stories can be edited to make them shorter, or more interviews can be added to fill in details, but getting the main story down is the most important part. If a writer can do that, all else is minor." – Sylvia Forbes, writer.
8. Be courageous when you write. "My journalism professor told us how it can be easy to get nervous or feel embarrassed when, for instance, you have to move people around for a photograph or re-ask a question if the answer needs clarification. But you have to remember that you're there to do your job. People expect you to do it. If you look and sound confident when, say, you're positioning the subjects for a photograph, then they will trust you and do as you ask.'" – Mary Beth Kriskey, Copywriter/PR Specialist.
Understanding your client is also important — who can be different than your reader.
I need to buy a recording device to tape my interviews.
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Another option is to conduct interviews over speaker phone with just a regular MP3 recorder.The only snafu I've ran into is that my dog likes to suddenly go nuts & is very loud. So he is now kicked out of the office!
Thanks for the tips! Understanding the reader is important. If you don't know who you're writing for, you may become stuck as a writer. Don't forget to double check your spelling and punctuation.
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Really great tips, Laurie. I especially love number 6.
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Optim roving. It's amazing stuff – it's wool, but is treated so that it is almost as fine a fiber as cashmere.
It's so ridiculously soft. There was a reason that Cristi wore some of it around her neck all day, and kept petting it.
1. I was a very picky eater as a child, but have managed to overcome that with a very few exceptions. I still cannot eat mushrooms, raw tomatoes, or shrimp. The weird thing about that is that ALL of those are texture issues – the flavor doesn't actually bother me at all.
2. I also can't stand mustard. I can taste the tiniest bit of mustard in just about anything. *shudder* That one IS a flavor thing.
3. I keep my cds and dvds in alphabetical order (Cds are also broken down into categories), and if one is missing, I can generally remember them well enough to know which one it is.
4. My nose does this weird clicky thing where the cartilage at the tip will actually pop and stay off-center. Kris jokes that I'm the first person he has met that can literally get her nose "out of joint".
6. When I eat anything that is in multicolored pieces (M&M's, Skittles, etc.), I always eat them so that I have equal numbers left of each color. Always.
7. I have a weird relationship with memes. Part of me hates them, and a part of me really wants to be tagged because it makes me feel like someone wants to hear what I have to say. Sick, I know.
And yes, I know that's only six people, but I know better than to try to tag Turtlegirl, and almost everyone else has done this already.
Ha! I do the exact same thing with Skittles, except I eat all the purple ones first (well, not all, but the majority of them), and then eat the rest of them evenly, because the purple are my least favourite.
That roving is like buttah!
I'm so jealous. I need some of that stuff. MOre than the fluff I ended up with. Hmm…what did I do with that anyway?
Look at that fluff! I always get distracted when someone shows me happy shiny roving. Fluff!
ooh. Nice soft dyeable (spelling is all off. No coffee) pron! I can't wait to see what you do with it!
I am totally with you on #1! For me it's a texture thing mostly too (though I can't stand the smell of mushrooms either)–the thought of the shrimp against my tastebuds just gives me the shivers! Such pretty roving you have.
Wow, don't dye it. It's amazing just as it is.
whoa, I almost could have written that list!
In regards to #5, I believe you! I'm exactly the same way. I also have to agree with you about #1 as well. My entire family makes fun of me for my picky eating habits, but there are just some things you can't get past. I'm happy to see I'm not the only one! |
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The news title nearly sounds like there will be something really new but it's not like that.
It is new but doesn't change anything essential in the game.
The vinyl-master J.S.Paint surprises again with another high quality modification. With a new background image for the World Racing 2 Menu called "Future" the daily look at the menu isn't that monotonously anymore.
At this modification its name is the program. It shows a very futuristic BMW with a same futuristic dresses woman in front of a big city. The complete scene is made in comic style and looks completely different like the masses of background mods do.
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Challenges in a new dawn of data protection - Commvault
Article by Commvault principal architect Chris Gondek
The amount of data produced in the world today is doubling every three years as information pours in from digital platforms, IoT devices, and billions of mobile phones.
In this new dawn of data, companies are able to generate more data at a faster rate and it is more accessible to a larger number of users, making data an organisation's most strategic asset.
As a result, the nature of doing business is shifting to become largely about data consumption.
But the significant increase in data has its own issues.
For starters, large amounts of data place huge demands on network and application performance, threatening both businesses and customer experience.
Organisations must ensure users have easy access to data, wherever they are, while also keeping it secure.
In addition, many organisations struggle to understand their data.
The problem is twofold.
On the one hand, businesses have a tremendous amount of data, digging into it to understand their customers takes skill, and often specialised software.
At the same time, business data is rarely found in one place – businesses have multiple places to store data, as do individuals, making it a challenge to aggregate it all to build a full picture from the data. With many organisations seeking to modernise their infrastructures and leverage the cloud, business data will continue to be scattered across environments.
Perhaps the most important challenge for data is its protection.
Whether organisations want to mine data for insights, or simply prevent it from falling into the wrong hands, data is needed to keep businesses moving with minimal disruption.
Today, all enterprises have a responsibility towards their data – they have to be able to protect it, at all times, from all risk.
Unfortunately, data risk and loss can come from a huge number of places: internal, external, malware, system failure, human error, flood, or fire.
At the same time, the wide disparities in data strategies, the evolving nature of data and related technologies, as well as the changes in governmental and industry regulations, make it no easy task for an organisation to stay protected.
Despite this, organisations are responsible for creating, maintaining and using data.
This means they are also responsible for creating backup copies, retaining it for compliance and using it when it is attacked to maintain and restore services.
A lack of proper data protection processes can mean anything from a loss in revenue and reputation to a loss of lives in cases in which hospitals and critical healthcare systems are involved.
But it is impossible for businesses to protect themselves if they don't know what they are protecting, and it isn't always as simple as it sounds.
To keep data safe, organisations must know everything about their data.
Taking the time to understand the ins and outs of their data while adhering to good data practices, is the only way organisations can avoid the long-term consequences of cyber-attacks, human error and system failure.
At the same time, these practices have the added benefits of improving redundancy, while assisting in developing a clear and automated disaster recovery plan.
Increasingly, it's becoming clear that organisations who take this step will also enjoy an increased competitive edge, as they begin to understand their data, their costs and the opportunities for improvement.
With data now an organisation's most important asset, organisations must take the time to understand their data and build a robust data protection strategy to keep it safe.
But they can't do it alone.
At the same time, organisations must be empowered by technologies that address their needs for scale and reduced complexity without compromising reliability or cost-effectiveness.
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<h1><a name="Device">Device</a></h1>
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<p>The <code>device</code> object describes the device's hardware and software.</p>
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<h2>
<a name="Device_properties">Properties</a>
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<li><a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a></li>
<li><a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a></li>
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<p>Since <code>device</code> is assigned to the <code>window</code> object, it is implicitly in the global scope.</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>// These reference the same `device`
//
var phoneName = window.<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a>;
var phoneName = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a>;
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<h1><a name="device.name">device.name</a></h1>
<p>Get the device's model <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a>.</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>var string = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a>;
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<p><code><a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a></code> returns the <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a> of the device's model or product. This value is set by the device manufacturer and may be different across versions of the same product.</p>
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<a name="device.name_supported_platforms">Supported Platforms</a>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>Android</li>
<li>BlackBerry</li>
<li>BlackBerry WebWorks (OS 5.0 and higher)</li>
<li>iPhone</li>
<li>Windows Phone 7 ( Mango )</li>
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<a name="device.name_quick_example">Quick Example</a>
</h2>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>// Android: Nexus One returns "Passion" (Nexus One code <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a>)
// Motorola Droid returns "voles"
// BlackBerry: Bold 8900 returns "8900"
// iPhone: All devices returns a <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a> set by iTunes e.g. "Joe's iPhone"
//
var <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a> = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a>;
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</h2>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code><!DOCTYPE html>
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<title><a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Properties Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova-1.5.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
// Wait for PhoneGap to load
//
document.addEventListener("<a href="phonegap_events_events.md.html#deviceready">deviceready</a>", onDeviceReady, false);
// PhoneGap is ready
//
function onDeviceReady() {
var element = document.getElementById('deviceProperties');
element.innerHTML = '<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Name: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> PhoneGap: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Platform: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.platform">device.platform</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> UUID: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.uuid">device.uuid</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Version: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.version">device.version</a> + '<br />';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p id="deviceProperties">Loading device properties...</p>
</body>
</html>
</code></pre>
<h2>
<a name="device.name_android_quirks">Android Quirks</a>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>Gets the <a class="external" href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html#PRODUCT">product name</a> instead of the <a class="external" href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html#MODEL">model name</a>.
<ul>
<li>The product <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a> is often the code <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a> given during production.</li>
<li>e.g. Nexus One returns "Passion", Motorola Droid returns "voles"</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>
<a name="device.name_iphone_quirks">iPhone Quirks</a>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>Gets the <a class="external" href="http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIDevice_Class/Reference/UIDevice.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006902-CH3-SW13">device's custom name</a> instead of the <a class="external" href="http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIDevice_Class/Reference/UIDevice.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006902-CH3-SW1">device model name</a>.
<ul>
<li>The custom <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a> is set by the owner in iTunes.</li>
<li>e.g. "Joe's iPhone"</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h1><a name="device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a></h1>
<p>Get the <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#version">version</a> of phonegap running on the device.</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>var string = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a>;
</code></pre>
<h2>
<a name="device.phonegap_description">Description</a>
</h2>
<p><code><a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a></code> returns the <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#version">version</a> of phonegap running on the device.</p>
<h2>
<a name="device.phonegap_supported_platforms">Supported Platforms</a>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>Android</li>
<li>BlackBerry</li>
<li>BlackBerry WebWorks (OS 5.0 and higher)</li>
<li>iPhone</li>
<li>Windows Phone 7 ( Mango )</li>
</ul>
<h2>
<a name="device.phonegap_quick_example">Quick Example</a>
</h2>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>var <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a> = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a>;
</code></pre>
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<a name="device.phonegap_full_example">Full Example</a>
</h2>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title><a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Properties Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova-1.5.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
// Wait for PhoneGap to load
//
document.addEventListener("<a href="phonegap_events_events.md.html#deviceready">deviceready</a>", onDeviceReady, false);
// PhoneGap is ready
//
function onDeviceReady() {
var element = document.getElementById('deviceProperties');
element.innerHTML = '<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Name: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> PhoneGap: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Platform: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.platform">device.platform</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> UUID: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.uuid">device.uuid</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Version: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.version">device.version</a> + '<br />';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p id="deviceProperties">Loading device properties...</p>
</body>
</html>
</code></pre>
<hr>
<h1><a name="device.platform">device.platform</a></h1>
<p>Get the device's operating system <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a>.</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>var string = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.platform">device.platform</a>;
</code></pre>
<h2>
<a name="device.platform_supported_platforms">Supported Platforms</a>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>Android</li>
<li>BlackBerry</li>
<li>BlackBerry WebWorks (OS 5.0 and higher)</li>
<li>iPhone</li>
<li>Windows Phone 7 ( Mango )</li>
</ul>
<h2>
<a name="device.platform_quick_example">Quick Example</a>
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<pre class="prettyprint"><code>// Depending on the device, a few examples are:
// - "Android"
// - "BlackBerry"
// - "iPhone"
// - "webOS"
// - "WinCE"
var devicePlatform = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.platform">device.platform</a>;
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<a name="device.platform_full_example">Full Example</a>
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var element = document.getElementById('deviceProperties');
element.innerHTML = '<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Name: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> PhoneGap: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Platform: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.platform">device.platform</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> UUID: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.uuid">device.uuid</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Version: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.version">device.version</a> + '<br />';
}
</script>
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<p id="deviceProperties">Loading device properties...</p>
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<a name="device.platform_iphone_quirks">iPhone Quirks</a>
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<p>All devices return <code>iPhone</code> as the platform. This is inaccurate because Apple has rebranded the iPhone operating system as <code>iOS</code>.</p>
<h2>
<a name="device.platform_blackberry_quirks">BlackBerry Quirks</a>
</h2>
<p>Devices may return the <a href="#device%20platform">device platform</a> <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#version">version</a> instead of the platform <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#name">name</a>. For example, the Storm2 9550 would return '2.13.0.95' or similar.</p>
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<h1><a name="device.uuid">device.uuid</a></h1>
<p>Get the device's Universally Unique Identifier (<a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier">UUID</a>).</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>var string = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.uuid">device.uuid</a>;
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<a name="device.uuid_description">Description</a>
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<p>The details of how a UUID is generated are determined by the device manufacturer and specific to the device's platform or model.</p>
<h2>
<a name="device.uuid_supported_platforms">Supported Platforms</a>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>Android</li>
<li>BlackBerry</li>
<li>BlackBerry WebWorks (OS 5.0 and higher)</li>
<li>iPhone</li>
<li>Windows Phone 7 ( Mango )</li>
</ul>
<h2>
<a name="device.uuid_quick_example">Quick Example</a>
</h2>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>// Android: Returns a random 64-bit integer (as a string, again!)
// The integer is generated on the device's first boot
//
// BlackBerry: Returns the PIN number of the device
// This is a nine-digit unique integer (as a string, though!)
//
// iPhone: (Paraphrased from the UIDevice Class documentation)
// Returns a string of hash values created from multiple hardware identifies.
// It is guaranteed to be unique for every device and cannot be tied
// to the user account.
// Windows Phone 7 : Returns a hash of device+current user,
// if the user is not defined, a guid is generated and will persist until the app is uninstalled
//
var deviceID = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.uuid">device.uuid</a>;
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<a name="device.uuid_full_example">Full Example</a>
</h2>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title><a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Properties Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova-1.5.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
// Wait for PhoneGap to load
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document.addEventListener("<a href="phonegap_events_events.md.html#deviceready">deviceready</a>", onDeviceReady, false);
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function onDeviceReady() {
var element = document.getElementById('deviceProperties');
element.innerHTML = '<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Name: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> PhoneGap: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Platform: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.platform">device.platform</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> UUID: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.uuid">device.uuid</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Version: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.version">device.version</a> + '<br />';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p id="deviceProperties">Loading device properties...</p>
</body>
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<h1><a name="device.version">device.version</a></h1>
<p>Get the operating system <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#version">version</a>.</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>var string = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.version">device.version</a>;
</code></pre>
<h2>
<a name="device.version_supported_platforms">Supported Platforms</a>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>Android 2.1+</li>
<li>BlackBerry</li>
<li>BlackBerry WebWorks (OS 5.0 and higher)</li>
<li>iPhone</li>
<li>Windows Phone 7 ( Mango )</li>
</ul>
<h2>
<a name="device.version_quick_example">Quick Example</a>
</h2>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>// Android: Froyo OS would return "2.2"
// Eclair OS would return "2.1", "2.0.1", or "2.0"
// Version can also return update level "2.1-update1"
//
// BlackBerry: Bold 9000 using OS 4.6 would return "4.6.0.282"
//
// iPhone: iOS 3.2 returns "3.2"
//
// Windows Phone 7: returns current OS <a href="phonegap_storage_storage.md.html#version">version</a> number, ex. on Mango returns 7.10.7720
var deviceVersion = <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.version">device.version</a>;
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<a name="device.version_full_example">Full Example</a>
</h2>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code><!DOCTYPE html>
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<title><a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Properties Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova-1.5.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
// Wait for PhoneGap to load
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// PhoneGap is ready
//
function onDeviceReady() {
var element = document.getElementById('deviceProperties');
element.innerHTML = '<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Name: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.name">device.name</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> PhoneGap: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.phonegap">device.phonegap</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Platform: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.platform">device.platform</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> UUID: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.uuid">device.uuid</a> + '<br />' +
'<a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#Device">Device</a> Version: ' + <a href="phonegap_device_device.md.html#device.version">device.version</a> + '<br />';
}
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This August, over 1,000 young Christian delegates from more than 140 countries convened outside Jakarta, Indonesia, for the 2016 Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG). My colleague Rachel Lamb and I were there representing Young Evangelicals for Climate Action along with the broader creation care community we're part of, including A Rocha and the Au Sable Institute.
'The Bible declares God's redemptive purpose for creation itself. Integral mission means discerning, proclaiming, and living out the biblical truth that the gospel is God's good news, through the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ, for individual persons, and for society, and for creation. All three are broken and suffering because of sin; all three are included in the redeeming love and mission of God; all three must be part of the comprehensive mission of God's people.' (Part 1, Section 7).
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Personally, God used YLG to help launch me into this new season of life, re-centered on Christ, refocused on God's story, and reconnected in the global body.
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Ludmilla Azova is a soprano opera singer who studied at the New York College of Music and has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the National Orchestra Association, and performed the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte with the Bermuda Festival Theatre. Other operatic roles performed in New York include Mimì in La bohème, Madama Butterfly and Marguerite in Faust. In 1966, she appeared as Anna Gomez in a production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul at New York City Opera. Azova has also been an active recitalist. In a review, dated October 6, 1969, in The New York Times, Peter G. Davis wrote, "Ludmilla Azova brought a bright, silvery soprano and an abundance of authoritative style to her Russian song recital at Town Hall late yesterday afternoon. Born in Europe of Russian parents, Miss Azova clearly knows where of what she sings ... In addition to the charm and elegance of her interpretations, Miss Azova's well-schooled, even, secure soprano consistently delighted the ear ... She is a beautiful woman, a charming recitalist and a singer of accomplishment."
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Pyotr Koryugin, an FSB operative, was one of the solicitors of 2 million rubles from a citizen of Azerbaijan, but never confessed to the crime.
The Moscow Garrison Military Court sentenced Pyotr Koryugin, a former FSB officer, to 8-year imprisonment for trying to get a large sum from a vendor with a police operative and several businessmen. In return, they promised the vendor would not be held liable for alleged drug possession. According to Kommersant, the victim's name is as Yusif Khalilaev, an Azerbaijan-born owner of a sales outlet in the Sadovod market. It was Rashad Asadov, his rival from the same country, who had tipped off the solicitors. He envied Khalilaev's luxurious lifestyle and assumed that he must have been involved in drug trade. Asadov got the help of a friend, Rashatdat Agalarov, and contacted Pyotr Koryugin, the Moscow FSB operative officer, who did not mind making extra money.
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Q: How find first checked item index in a c# checkedlistbox with lambda I need to set the selectedIndex of MyCheckedListBox to the first Checked Item index of the list and highlight it.
How to write a lambda expression to Select Min Index of MyCheckedListBox.CheckedItems as an alternate for using loop.
A: You don't need a lambda or a loop. The SelectedIndex property does exactly that.
From MSDN:
ListControl.SelectedIndex Property
Gets or sets the lowest ordinal index of the selected items in the list.
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How have we been using UnLock Pre-Algebra?
Mary has been working on this course on her own with very little input from me, but at times I have had to reteach a concept or explain a procedure that she didn't quite understand from the lecture. Still, she has been keeping pace with and even sometimes outpacing the pacing guide, having all but completed the first three units (she just needs to take the test for unit 3). Many of the beginning units were strictly review for her, which I fully expected in a pre-algebra program, so some days she has done two lessons. By her own choice. I think that's a little bit of a testimonial, because she is normally a math hater.
She has found that most lessons take her a half hour or less to complete and even the monster review she did today before tomorrow's test (50 problems) only took her 31 minutes.
Alesia's lecture style---not at all dry and boring. My daughter finds her very engaging.
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More conceptual teaching---we found that for some topics the lecture and reference notes were very focused on the procedure and barely touched upon the "why" behind the procedure or did not touch upon it at all. I ended up re-teaching the lesson on the Distributive Property, because my daughter didn't fully understand the why behind each step she was doing and so she was misapplying the procedure. The lecture and the reference notes did not address why the distributive property is a property (why it works) at all, so we also covered that. Understanding the why is an important part of understanding math. A lot of the video time is spent on working examples. I would like to see more time spent on the concepts with possibly fewer examples. Additional examples could be added to the reference notes for students who need them.
Better readability---the colors used on the interactive whiteboard in the videos and the small, gray font used in Maple T.A. for the problem sets are hard to read due to the low contrast. Using a different angle on my monitor helped a little, but black would be better. While I can increase the size in my browser for the problem sets (I found that 150% made it much easier to read), I can't really do anything about the color. My daughter doesn't have any serious vision issues (she does wear fairly weak reading glasses), but kids with serious vision issues (like her younger brother) may struggle to read the writing on the wall. Mary found that the long review problem sets made her eyes ache. I think you can see what I'm talking about in the screenshots I've included in this review.
Shorter reviews before the tests---reading as many as 60 problems on the computer and completing them in one session is very fatiguing. It would be great if the review was a little shorter.
Shorter load times---the UnLock Math website loads beautifully and they even have a handy chat feature (Alesia and I chatted on there briefly when I had some technical difficulties and she cleared them right up for me). But the Maple T.A. platform has amazingly slow load times. Slow enough that I can click to open the gradebook, click another tab to read something else for 30 seconds, and come back to find that the gradebook still isn't loaded. All of the problem sets and the gradebook are affected by this. My daughter has had instances where she clicked the "next" button again, because the next problem wasn't loading and she thought maybe she didn't click it in the sweet spot…only to find that she had and so it skipped the next problem. The slow load times can be frustrating.
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At least, I haven't encountered any, and I've lost track of how many we have tried. I have found programs that have been a near perfect fit for this or that child---that's the beauty of being able to select a different program for each child. Sometimes a program is a good fit overall but the font is hard to read. Sometimes a program is a good fit overall but there are too many problems. And it's common for a child to not get something and to need it explained a different way, even with programs that are heavily conceptual.
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I like Alesia's lectures. I like the program set-up (especially the learning path for each lesson). I like the independence it gives the student. It has a lot of positives.
Mary is doing well with it and seems to be making progress. She has a solid A average. But she also complains that there are things she doesn't quite get or that go out of her head after completing the lesson, so I'm evaluating whether a different Pre-Algebra program would be a better fit for this child. I suspect she may do better with a different program format, which is not the fault of this particular program.
A student who needs solid, procedural teaching can probably do well with this program. A student who is always asking "why" may struggle with it or need additional support from Mom and Dad. Children with vision issues may find the interface hard to read and since all the work is done online, that may be a challenge that is difficult to overcome. But if you are looking for a no-nonsense, solid program that you child can do on her own, I recommend viewing a sample lesson here so you can see for yourself if Unlock Math might fill the bill.
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Saudi Arabia should be on the lookout for Iran's new "shocking decision" if it does not stop support for U.S. sanctions against Tehran, says Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a former Iranian diplomat currently working as a special assistant to Iran's Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani.
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It is reasonable to say that when the government removed Amir Abdollahian, he was given his current advisory role as a way to isolate him but his views remain popular among hardliners and the Revolutionary Guard leadership. In that sense, his comment about Arab Gulf states probably reflects the desires of the hardliners.
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\section{Experiments}
\label{experiments}
In this section, we evaluate our \TAAD method along with \tfa modules on \multisports and \ucftwofour datasets. We start by defining the metrics used in \refsec{subsec:metrics}
and motion category
classification in \refsec{subsec:motion_classifcation}.
First, we study the impact of different \tfa modules under different motion conditions in \refsec{subsec:tfa}.
Secondly, we compare our \TAAD method with \sotalong methods in \refsec{subsec:comparisons}.
Later, we discuss baseline model and impact of tracker on it in \refsec{subsec:baseline_exp}.
We finish with a discussion in section~\refsec{subsec:discussion}.
\subsection{Metrics}
\label{subsec:metrics}
We report metrics that measure our detector's performance both
at frame- and video-level, computing frame and video \maplong (\map),
denoted as \fmap{} and \vmap{} respectively.
These metrics are common in action detection works~\cite{kalogeiton2017action,weinzaepfel2015learning,li2020actionsas}.
A detection is correct if and only if its \ioulong (\iou) with a ground-truth
box or tube, for frame and video metrics respectively, is larger than a given threshold (e.g. $0.5$) and
the predicted label matches the ground-truth one.
From this, we can compute
\aplong (\ap) for each class and then take mean across classes, to get the desired \map metric.
Tube overlap is measured by \spatiotemporal-\iou proposed by ~\cite{weinzaepfel2015learning},
similar to ~\cite{li2021multisports}, we evaluation code from ACT\footnote{\url{https://github.com/vkalogeiton/caffe/tree/act-detector}}.
\subsection{Motion categories}
\label{subsec:motion_classifcation}
We split action into three motion categories: large, medium and small.
Computing per-motion-category metrics requires labelling the ground-truth
action tubes. We start this process by computing the \iou
between a pair of boxes separated offsets equal to $[4,8,16,24,36]$ in sliding window fashion.
We average these 5 \iou values and get the final \iou value as a measure of speed.
We then split the dataset into three equal size bins, each containing instances of actions with relative speed difference from other.
Now we can assign the motion label to each instance based on IoU of instance and splits boundaries of the dataset:
\begin{equation}
\text{\multisports} = \begin{cases}
\text{Large} , & \quad \text{\iou} \in [0.00, 0.21] \\
\text{Medium} , & \quad \text{\iou} \in [0.21, 0.51] \\
\text{Small} , & \quad \text{\iou} \in [0.51, 1.00]
\end{cases} \\
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\text{\ucftwofour} = \begin{cases}
\text{Large} , & \quad \text{\iou} \in [0.00, 0.49] \\
\text{Medium} , & \quad \text{\iou} \in [0.49, 0.66] \\
\text{Small} , & \quad \text{\iou} \in [0.66, 1.00]
\end{cases}
\end{equation}
Given these labels,
we can compute \ap metrics per motion category.
There are two options for these metrics.
The first is to compute
\ap for large, medium and small motions per action class and then
average across actions.
We call this metric \emph{\motionmap}.
The alternative is to ignore action classes and compute \ap
for large, medium and small motions, irrespective of the action,
which we call \emph{\motionap}. This essentially measures action
detection accuracy \wrt to motion speed, irrespective of class.
We compute the metrics both on a per-frame and on a per-video level,
same as above. Video metrics are denoted with a \emph{video} prefix.
We will release the code training and testing our \taad network along with evaluation scripts for \motionap{} and \motionmap.
\input{tabtex/TAB_motion_speed}
\subsection{Motion-wise (main) results}
\label{subsec:tfa}
As the main objective set out for this work, we first study how cuboid-aware baseline compares against track-based \taad under significant motion.
We compare different choices for
temporal feature aggregation. In \cref{tab:splits}, we measure the frame- and video-motion-\map,
for models trained with
different \tfa{s}, on \multisports and \ucftwofour.
Pooling features across tracks, instead of neighbouring frames,
even with a relatively simple pooling strategy, \ie Max-Pool over the \spatiotemporal dimensions,
results in stronger action detectors, with a 5.7 \%
and
5.8 \%
frame
and video
\map
boost on \multisports.
More involved feature aggregation
strategies, such as the temporal convolution blocks (\tcn) or \aspp variant, lead to further
gains. Note that the biggest improvements on \multisports occur in the large motion category,
+ 8.4 \% \motionmap{}, with smaller gains in meduim (+3.9\%)
and small (+5.5 \%) motions.
\input{tabtex/TAB_motion_ap}
\cref{tab:motion_ap} contains \motionap{} results on \multisports
for different choices of \tfa modules.
It is clear that \taad combined with any of the \tfa modules leads to
large performance gain. %
Larger motions' performance benefits the most, followed by medium
and small motions.
For example, the \aspp module helps more with large motions
($+7.9$) than with small motions ($+4.5$).
We observe the same trend
in \cref{tab:splits},
both for frame and video \motionmap.
The above results signify that there is a large gap between the performance on action instance with large-motion and small-motion for baseline method.
\taad combined with any of \tfa module helps reduce this discrepancy and improves overall performance on both the datasets.
\input{tabtex/TAB_Multisports}
\input{tabtex/TAB_UCF101-24}
\subsection{Comparison to the State-of-the-art}
\label{subsec:comparisons}
We compare our proposed detector with the state-of-the-art on the \multisports and \ucftwofour with approaches that focus on both frame- and tube-level action detection, unlike approaches~\cite{pan2021actor,tang2020asynchronous} which solely focus on frame-level evaluation.
It is important to note that, similar to baseline, \taad does not make use of any spatial context modelling.
So that we can understand gains made using track-aware feature aggregation rather than gains made by mixing other \spatiotemporal context modelling modules~\cite{tuberZhao2022}.
We report frame- and video-\map
for different methods in \cref{tab:multisports}, namely \slowfast variants from the original \multisports paper,
Ning \etal's \cite{ning2021person}
Person-Context Cross-Attention Modelling network and our improved baseline,
and three versions of our model,
one with \maxpool along the temporal dimensions,
the \aspp variant and the temporal convolutional network (\tcn).
\cref{tab:multisports} contains the results of this experiments, where
we clearly see the benefit of using tracks for action detection.
The addition of feature pooling along tracks,
even with the simpler \maxpool version, outperforms
our improved baseline by 4.3 \% frame \map. Better temporal fusion strategies,
\ie \aspp and \tcn, lead to further benefits.
As a result, we set a new \sotalong on \multisports dataset.
Note that all of our TFA modules add only less than 1G FLOPS ($<2\%$) to total computation of the whole network.
Finally, we compare our proposed \taad model on the older \ucftwofour dataset in \cref{tab:ucf24}.
Our model outperforms most of existing methods, with the exception of TuebR~\cite{tuberZhao2022} and MOC~\cite{li2020actionsas}.
We think the reason for this, is TubeR make use of set prediction framework~\cite{carion2020end} with a transformer head (plus 3 layer for each encoder- and decoder-transformer) on top a CNN backbone (CSN-152), additionally they also use actor context modelling similar to~\cite{pan2021actor}.
Also, I3D based TubeR need $132M$ FLOPS, which much higher than $97M$ needed by SlowFastR5-TCN based \taad.
In case of MOC, it uses flow stream as additional input and uses DLA-34\cite{yu2018deep} as backbone network.
Note that our goal here is to analyse and improve action detection
performance across different actor motion speeds. That is why we do not
make use of any spatial attention or context modelling~\cite{tuberZhao2022} between actors.
These are certainly very interesting topics and orthogonal to our proposed approach.
Nevertheless, in fair comparison to baseline, our network consistently shows improvement in all metrics on both datasets.
Additionally, the low quality of proposals on \ucftwofour given
by \yolovfive also hampers performance final performance.
We report the corresponding \yolovfive+DeepSort metrics in
\cref{tab:trackers_recall}.
Fine-tuning the detector on each dataset
is a necessary step,
especially on \ucftwofour where the video quality is worse than \multisports.
\subsection{Building a Strong Baseline on \multisports}
\label{subsec:baseline_exp}
\input{tabtex/TAB_baseline}
Here, we investigate the effect of our proposed changes on the performance
of the baseline action detector. \cref{tab:baseline_progression} contains the \fmap{@0.5} values,
computed on \multisports,
for our re-implementation of the \resnet \slowfast network, the addition of the background
negative frames, the conversion of the multi-label to a multiclass classification and finally
the addition of the \fpn. Each component improves the performance of the detector, leading to a much
stronger baseline.
\input{tabtex/TAB_detector_recall}
\qheading{Tracker as filtering module:} Using trackers as a post
processing step for action detection has many advantages,
which we demonstrate in all the above tables, including \cref{tab:ucf24},
where we get substantial improvement in \fmap{}, labeled as ``Baseline + tracks''.
First, the tracker helps filter out
false positive person detections with high scores that appear spuriously for few frames,
which reduces the load on person detection bounding box thresholding.
Most of current \sota methods use a relatively high threshold to filter out
unwanted false positives person detections,
e.g. \pyslowfast~\cite{fan2020pyslowfast}
uses $0.8$ and mmaction2~\cite{mmaction2} uses $0.9$.
Furthermore, strict thresholds can eliminate some crucial true positives.
In contrast to standard methods,
we use a relatively liberal ($0.05$) threshold value for our track-based method.
Secondly, using a good tracker greatly simplifies tube construction.
Trackers are specifically designed to solve the linking problem,
removing the need for greedy linking algorithms
used in previous work \cite{singh2017online, kalogeiton2017action,li2020actionsas}.
The performance gains, both in \vmap{} and \fmap{}, obtained
by ``Baseline + tracks'' rows of \cref{tab:multisports} and \cref{tab:ucf24}
over the ``Baseline'' row, clearly demonstrate this.
\subsection{Discussion}
\label{subsec:discussion}
In this work, our main objective is
to study action detection under large motion.
The experiments on \multisports and \ucftwofour,
see \cref{tab:splits,tab:motion_ap},
demonstrate that \taad, \ie utilizing track information for
feature aggregation, improves performance across the board.
Nevertheless, this does not mean that there is no room for improvement.
Our method is
sensitive to the performance of tracker, since this is the first step of our pipeline.
Using
a better state-of-the-art tracker and person detector,
such as the ones employed by other contemporary methods \cite{pan2021actor,tang2020asynchronous,ning2021person,kopuklu2019you}),
should further boost performance, especially on \ucftwofour,
where \yolovfive struggles.
Further, we can improve action detection performance by incorporating spatial/actor context modelling~\cite{tuberZhao2022,pan2021actor} or long-term temporal context~\cite{tang2020asynchronous} or transformer head~\cite{tuberZhao2022} or backbone~\cite{liu2022video,li2022mvitv2} with \taad.
\input{figtex/FIG_large_visuals_three}
One could argue that our definition of motion categories is not precise.
Unlike object size categories
in \mscoco~\cite{lin2014microsoft} however,
motion categories are not easy to define.
Apart from the complex camera motion, including zoom, translation and rotation, which
is pretty common, and quick actor motion, both of which we
show in \cref{fig:reasons},
special care has to be taken to avoid mislabelling cyclic motions.
\multisports for example contains multiple actions,
\eg in aerobics,
where the actor
starts and end at the same position, which would result in a high \iou
between the boxes and thus lead to an erroneous small motion label.
To solve this problem, we use an average of \iou{s} computed
at different frame offsets.
While our motion labelling scheme is not perfect, visual
examples show that it correlates with motion speed.
Lastly, we can see visuals in Fig. ~\ref{fig:large_motion_visual} where baseline fails to detect action tubes but \taad to able to detect them.
We will provide more qualitative examples
in the \mbox{\textbf{Sup.~Mat.}}\xspace to illustrate this point.
\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}
In this work, we analyse and identify three coarse motion categories
in action detection datasets. We observe
that existing action detection methods struggle in the presence of
large motions, \eg
motion due to fast actor movement or large camera motion,
To remedy this,
We introduce \taadlong (\taad), a method that utilizes
actor tracks to solve this problem. \taad aggregates information
across actor tracks, rather than using a tube made of cuboid from proposal boxes.
We evaluate the proposed method on two datasets,
\multisports and \ucftwofour. \multisports is the ideal benchmark
for this task, thanks to its large number of instances
with fast-paced actions. \taad not only bridges the performance
gap between motion categories, but also sets
a new state-of-the-art for \multisports by
beating last year's challenge winner by a large margin.
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
\Spatiotemporal action detection, which classifies and localises actions in space and time,
is gaining attention, thanks to AVA~\cite{gu2018ava} and UCF24~\cite{soomro2012ucf101} datasets.
However, most of the current state-of-the-art works~\cite{li2020actionsas,singh2017online,feichtenhofer2019slowfast,pan2021actor,tuberZhao2022} focus on pushing action detection performance
usually by complex context modelling~\cite{tuberZhao2022,pan2021actor,tang2020asynchronous}, larger backbone networks~\cite{feichtenhofer2020x3d,li2022mvitv2,liu2022video}, or by incorporating optical flow~\cite{zhao2019dance,singh2017online} stream.
These above methods use cuboid-aware temporal pooling for %
feature aggregation.
In this work, we aim to study cuboid-aware action detection under varying degree of action instance motion using \multisports~\cite{li2021multisports} dataset which contains instances with large motions unlike AVA~\cite{gu2018ava} as shown in \cref{fig:dataset_movement_stats_cumulative}.
\input{figtex/FIG_cumulative_IoUs}
\input{figtex/FIG_reasons_for_large_motions}
\input{figtex/FIG_motion_types}
Large object motion can occur for various reasons, e.g., fast camera motion, fast action, body shape deformation due to pose change, or mixed camera and action motions. These reasons are depicted in \cref{fig:reasons}.
Furthermore, the speed of motions within an action class can vary because of a mixture of the above reasons and nature of action type, e.g., pose based or interaction based action.
Either of these reason can cause sub-optimal feature aggregation and lead to error in action classification of a given reason.
We propose to split actions into three categories: Large-motion, medium-motion, and small-motion,
as shown in \cref{fig:dataset_movement_stats_cumulative,fig:movement_types}.
The distinction is based on the \iou of boxes of the same actor over time,
which we can compute using the ground truth tubes of the actors.
We propose to study the performance on different motion categories
of a baseline cuboid-aware method, without other bells and whistles like context features~\cite{pan2021actor,ning2021person,tang2020asynchronous} or long-term features
\cite{wu2019long,tang2020asynchronous}, because large-motion happens quickly in a small time window,
as seen in \cref{fig:dataset_movement_stats_cumulative} and \ref{fig:reasons}.
In large-motion cases \iou would be small (\cref{fig:movement_types} (a)), as a result
a 3D cuboid-aware feature extractor will not be able to capture
the feature that is centred on the actor's location through out the action duration.
To handle the large-motion case, we propose to track the actor over time and extract features using \toialignlong{ }(\toialign); resulting in \taadlong (\taad).
Further, we study different types of feature aggregation modules on top of TOI-Aligned features for our proposed \taad network, showing \cref{fig:main_figure}.
To this end, we make the following contributions:
(a) we are the first to study the large-motion action detection systematically, using evaluation metrics for each type of motion, similar to object detection studies on \mscoco~\cite{lin2014microsoft} based on object sizes.
(b) we propose to use tube/track-aware feature aggregation modules to handle large motions, and we show that this type of module helps in achieving great improvements over the baseline, especially for instances with such large motion.
(c) in the process, we set a new state-of-the-art for the \multisports dataset by beating last year's challenge winner by a substantial margin.
\section{Related Work}
\label{sec:related_work}
Action recognition~\cite{carreira2017quo,wang2018nonlocal,feichtenhofer2019slowfast,weinzaepfel2021mimetics,feichtenhofer2020x3d,singh2019recurrent,liu2022video,li2022mvitv2} models provide strong video representation models. However, action recognition as a problem is not as rich as action detection, where local motion in the video needs to be understood more precisely. Thus, action detection is the more relevant problem to understand actions under large motion.
We are particularly interested in the \spatiotemporal~\emph{action detection}
problem \cite{Georgia-2015a,gu2018ava,girdhar2018better,wu2019long,tuberZhao2022},
where an action instance is defined as a set of linked bounding boxes over time, called action tube.
Recent advancements in online action detection~\cite{soomro2016predicting,singh2017online,behl2017incremental,kalogeiton2017action,li2020actionsas,yang2019step}
lead to performance levels very competitive with (generally more accurate) offline action detection methods~\cite{gu2018ava,wang2018nonlocal,saha2016deep,saha2017amtnet,peng2016eccv,zhao2019dance,singh2018tramnet,singh2018predicting,van2015apt} on \ucftwofour~\cite{soomro2012ucf101} dataset.
\ucftwofour has been a major benchmark for \spatiotemporal action detection (i.e. action tube detection), rather than \ava ~\cite{gu2018ava}. The former is well suited for action tube detection research, as it provides dense action tube annotations, where every frame of the untrimmed videos is annotated (unlike \ava~\cite{gu2018ava}, in which videos are only annotated at one frame per second).
More recently, Li~\etal~\cite{li2021multisports} proposed the \multisports dataset, which resolves two main problems with the \ucftwofour dataset.
Firstly, it has more fine-grained action classes.
Secondly, it has multiple actors performing multiple types of action
in the same video.
As a result, the \multisports dataset is comparable to \ava in terms of diversity and scale.
Moreover, the \multisports dataset is densely annotated, every frame at a rate of 25 frames per second,
which makes it ideal to understand action under large motion, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:dataset_movement_stats_cumulative}.
At the same time, there have been many interesting papers~\cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast,feichtenhofer2020x3d,tang2020asynchronous,pan2021actor,chen2021watch} that focus on keyframe based action detection on \ava \cite{gu2018ava}.
\ava has been helpful in pushing action detection research on three fronts. Firstly, backbone model representations are much better now thanks to works like~\cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast,feichtenhofer2020x3d,liu2022video,wang2018nonlocal,chen2021watch}.
Secondly, long-term feature banks (LBF) ~\cite{wu2019long} came to the fore~\cite{zhang2019structured,tang2020asynchronous,pan2021actor}, capturing some temporal context, but without temporal associations between actors.
Thirdly, interactions between actors and object have been studied~\cite{pan2021actor,zhang2019structured,tang2020asynchronous,ning2021person}.
Once again, the problem we want to study is action detection under large motion, which happens quickly at a small temporal scale. All the above methods use cuboid-aware pooling for local feature aggregation, which - as we will show - is not ideal when the motion is quick and large.
As a result, we borrow the \slowfast~\cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast} network
as the baseline network for its simplicity and \spatiotemporal representational power.
Also, it has been used for \multisports~\cite{li2021multisports} as baseline
and in many other works on \ucftwofour as a basic building block.
The work of Weinzaepfel~\etal~\cite{weinzaepfel2015learning}
is the first to use tracking for action detection.
That said, their goal was different than ours.
They used a tracker to solve the linking
problem in the tube generation part,
where action classification was done on a frame-by-frame basis given the bounding box proposals from tracks. We, on the other hand,
propose action detection by pooling features from within
entire tracks.
Gabriellav2~\cite{dave2022gabriellav2} is another method that makes use of tracking to solve the problem of temporal detection of co-occurring activities, but it relies on background subtraction which would fail in challenging in-the wild videos.
Singh~\etal~\cite{singh2018tramnet},
Li~\etal~\cite{li2020actionsas} and Zhao~\etal~\cite{tuberZhao2022} are the only works generating flexible micro-tube proposals without the help of tracking. However, these approaches are limited to few number of frames (2-10),
and without the possibility to scale to larger time windows of 1-2 seconds as it would require multi-frame tube anchors/query to regress of box coordinates on large number of frames together, and performance drops after few frames.
\section{Methodology}
\label{sec:method}
\input{figtex/FIG_tracking_action_detector}
In this section, we describe the proposed method to handle actions
with large motions, which we call \taadlong (\taad).
We start by tracking actors in the video,
using a tracker described in Section~\ref{subsec:tracker}.
At the same time, we use a neural network
designed for video recognition,
\slowfast \cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast},
to extract features from each clip.
Using the track boxes and video features, we pool per-frame features
with a \roialign operation \cite{he2017mask}.
Afterwards, a \tfalong (\tfa) module
receives the per-track features and
computes a single feature vector,
from which a classifier predicts the final action label.
\refFig{fig:main_figure} illustrates
each step of our proposed approach.
\subsection{Baseline Action Detector}
\label{subsec:backbone}
We select a \slowfast \cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast} network
as our video backbone.
The first reason for this choice is that its performance
is still competitive to larger scale transformer models,
such as \videoswin \cite{liu2022video} or
\mvit \cite{fan2021multiscale,li2022mvitv2}, on the task of
\spatiotemporal action detection.
Furthermore, \slowfast is more computationally efficient
than the transformer alternatives, with a cost of
65.7 \gflops compared to 88, at least, and 170
for \videoswin \cite{liu2022video} and \mvit \cite{fan2021multiscale} respectively,
and offers features at two different temporal scales.
Having different temporal scales is important, especially since
we aim at handling fast and/or large motions, where a smaller
scale is necessary.
Finally, \slowfast is the default backbone network of choice for
\multisports and \ucftwofour datasets, which are the main benchmarks in this work, facilitating comparisons with existing work.
We implement our baseline using \pyslowfast\cite{fan2020pyslowfast} with a
\resnet~\cite{he2016deep} based \slowfast~\cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast}
architecture, building upon the works of
Feichtenhofer \etal \cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast}
and Li \etal \cite{li2021multisports}.
First, we add background frames (+bg-frames),
i.e. frames erroneously detected by our detector,
\yolovfive, as extra negative samples for training the action detector.
Next, we replace the
multi-label with a multiclass classifier, switching
from a binary cross entropy per class to a cross entropy loss (CE-loss).
Finally, we also added a downward \fpn block (see Sup.Mat. for details).
Through these changes, we aim to build strongest possible baseline.
\subsection{Tracker}
\label{subsec:tracker}
We employ class agnostic version of
\tracker~\cite{yolov5deepsort2020} as our tracker,
which is based on \yolovfive \cite{yolov5,redmon2016you} and
TorchReID\cite{torchreid}.
We fine-tune the medium size version of \yolovfive as the detection model for `person` classes.
A pretrained OsNet-x0-25~\cite{zhou2021osnet} is used as re-identification (ReID) model.
As we will show in the experiment section,
a tracker with high recall, \ie small number of missing associations,
is key for improving performance action tube detection.
We will also show that the fine-tuning the detector is a necessary step,
particularly for \ucftwofour, where the quality and resolution of the videos
is small.
Tracker can also be used as bounding box proposal filtering module.
Sometimes, the detector produces multiple high scoring detection which are spurious and lead to false positives but these detection does not match to any of the tracks being generated because they are not temporally consistent.
The proposals generated by tracks can be used with the baseline methods at test-time, as a result it helps improve the performance of the baseline method.
\subsection{Temporal Feature Aggregation}
\label{subsec:tpa}
\qheading{\toialignlong{ }(\toialign):} The \slowfast video backbone processes the input clip and produces
a $T \times H \times W$ feature tensor, while our tracker returns
an array with size $N_t \times T \times 4$ that contains the boxes
around the subjects. An \roialign \cite{he2017mask} takes these two arrays as input
and produces a feature array of size $N_t \times T \times H \times W$, \ie
one feature tube per track. In case the length of the track is smaller than length of the input clip then we replicate the last available bounding box in temporal direction, which occurs around $~3\%$ of input clips in \multisports dataset.
\qheading{Feature aggregation:} In order to predict the label of a bounding box in a key-frame,
we need to aggregate features across space and time, first we apply average pooling is spatial dimensions on features extracted by \toialign, then \tfalong role performed by
one of the following variants considered:
\setlist{itemsep=0pt}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Max-pooling over the temporal axes (\maxpool).
\item A sequence of temporal convolutions (\tcn).
\item A temporal variant of Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (\aspp) \cite{deeplabv3plus2018}. We modify \detectron{'s} \cite{wu2019detectron2} ASPP implementation, replacing 2D with 1D convolutions.
\end{enumerate}
We also tried temporal version of \convnext~\cite{liu2022convnet} and \videoswin~\cite{liu2022video} blocks, however these resulted in unstable training,
even with the tunning of learning rates and other hyperparameters. In our experiments, we only used one layer of temporal convolution for our \tcn module, adding more layer did not help. See the \mbox{\textbf{Sup.~Mat.}}\xspace for more details.
\subsection{Tube Construction}
\label{subsec:tube_con}
Video-level tube detection requires the construction of action tubes from per-frame detections.
This process is split into two steps~\cite{saha2016deep}, one to link the proposal to form tube hypothesis (i.e. action-tracks), second, these hypothesis need to be trimmed to the part where action is present in these tracks.
One can think of these two steps as tracking step plus temporal (start and end time) action detection step.
The majority of the existing action tube detection methods \cite{li2021multisports,singh2022road,li2020actionsas,singh2018tramnet}
use a greedy proposal linking algorithm first proposed by in~\cite{singh2017online,kalogeiton2017action} for the first step. %
For baseline approach, we use the same method for tube linking process from~\cite{singh2017online}.
Whereas for our method (\taad), we already have tracks, as a result, the linking step is already complete.
While the temporal trimming of action-tracks is performed using label-smoothing optimisation~\cite{saha2016deep}, which is used by many previous works~\cite{kalogeiton2017action,li2020actionsas}, specifically, we use class-wise temporal trimming implementation provided by~\cite{singh2017online}.
\subsection{Datasets}
We evaluate our idea on two densely annotated datasets (\multisports~\cite{li2021multisports} and \ucftwofour \cite{soomro2012ucf101}) with frame- and tube-level evaluation metrics for actions detection, unlike \ava \cite{gu2018ava}, which is sparsely annotated and mostly used for frame-level action detection.
\qheading{\multisports~\cite{li2021multisports}}
is built using 4 sports categories, collecting $3200$ video clips annotated at 25 \fps,
and annotating 37701 action-tubes instances with $902$k bounding boxes.
Although it contains $66$ action classes, we follow the official evaluation
protocol~\footnote{\url{https://github.com/MCG-NJU/MultiSports/}} that uses $60$ classes.
Due the fine granularity of the action labels the length of each action segment
in a clip is short, with an average
tube length of $24$ frames, equal to one second,
while the average video length is $750$ frames.
Each video is annotated with multiple instances of multiple action classes,
with well defined temporal boundaries.
\multisports contains action instances with large motions around actors, as shown in \reffig{fig:dataset_movement_stats_cumulative}
\qheading{\ucftwofour \cite{soomro2012ucf101}}
consists of $3207$ videos annotated at $25$ \fps with $24$ action classes from different sports,
$4458$ action-tube instances with $560$K bounding boxes.
Videos are untrimmed for in nature,
where average video length
is $170$ frames and the average action tube length is $120$ frames.
The disadvantages of \ucftwofour are the presence
of only one action class per video and the low quality of its images,
due to compression and the small resolution, namely $320 \times 240$ pixels.
Even though \ucftwofour has less diversity,
less motion, less classes and more labelling noise compared to \multisports,
it is still useful for evaluating action detection performance,
thanks to its temporally dense annotation.
\subsection{Implementation Details}
\label{subsec:training_hparams}
We use 32 frames as input with sampling rate of 2, which means more 2 seconds of video clip.
We use Slowfast-R50-$\tiny{8\times8}$~ \cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast}, meaning speed ratio $\alpha=8$ and channel ratio $\beta=1/8$.
We use stochastic gradient descent (SGD) to optimise the weights, with a learning rate of
$0.05$ and batch size of $32$ on $4$ GPUs.
We use 1 epoch to warm up the learning rate linearly,
followed by a cosine learning rate schedule \cite{cosine_lr}, with an final learning rate
of $0.0005$, for a total of 5 epochs.
Note that we only train for $3$ epochs on \ucftwofour.
All our networks are trained with a batch size equal to $32$ on $4$ Titan X GPUs.
We use frame-level proposal released by \cite{li2021multisports} with \multisports dataset for fair comparison. More details can be found in \mbox{\textbf{Sup.~Mat.}}\xspace.
\section{Overview}
\label{experiments}
Here, we aim to provide additional details about the certain parts of main paper.
First, we show architecture of backbone network, where feature pyramid network structure (FPN) incorporated into \slowfast~\cite{feichtenhofer2019slowfast} network in figure~\reffig{fig:backbone}.
Second, we show the structure of \tfa modules used in our \taad model in \refsec{sec:tfa_structure}.
Then, we present frame-level \motionmap and \motionap on individual time scales in \refsec{sec:indiv_scale}
Finally, we show visual results of detected action-tube instances under different motion types in \refsec{subsec:visuals}.
\input{figtex/FIG_slowfast_backbone}
\input{text_supp_mat/01_tfa}
\section{Individual time scales results}
\label{sec:indiv_scale}
Frame-level \motionmap and \motionap{} on individual time scales are shown in
following tables:
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\arabic*)]
\item \motionap{} on \multisports in \reftab{tab:motion_ap_ms}
\item \motionap{} on \ucftwofour in \reftab{tab:motion_ap_ucf24}
\item \motionmap{} on \multisports in \reftab{tab:motion_map_ms}
\item \motionmap{} on \ucftwofour in \reftab{tab:motion_map_ucf24}
\end{enumerate}
\input{tabtex/TAB_supp_motionAP_indivScaleMS}
\input{tabtex/TAB_supp_motionAP_indivScaleUCF24}
\input{tabtex/TAB_supp_motion-mAP_indivScaleUCF24}
\input{tabtex/TAB_supp_motion-mAP_indivScaleMS}
The main take-away from these tables is that results are consistent across different time scales
compared to the average over all time scales.
Through the \motionap{} metric,
we show that
that large-motion action instances are harder to detect compared to medium motions,
which in turn are even harder to detect compared to small-motion action instances, or in other
words performance of large-motion $<$ medium-motion $<$ small-motion.
This result is consistent across both our benchmarks, \ie
\multisports and \ucftwofour.
Such pattern is desirable and intuitive to understand, it is missing in \motionmap{} because some class might not have any (or very few) ground-truth instances in one or two motion type categories resulting very small value of \map or zero \map, since medium is middle motion category it has more classes with some instances with medium motion class, hence fewer classes with zero \motionap{} resulting in higher mean-AP i.e. \motionmap{} for medium motion type.
\section{Motion-wise visual results}
\label{subsec:visuals}
In this section we show visual results obtained using our baseline and \taad model.
We discuss some interesting observation in the caption of figures. The figures are
best viewed in colour. The qualitative results contain the following scenarios:
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\arabic*)]
\item \lmotion due to fast execution of actions in \reffig{fig:large_motion_action}.
\item \lmotion due to fast camera motion in \reffig{fig:large_motion_camera_plus}.
\item \mmotion action instances in \reffig{fig:medium_motion}.
\item \smotion action instance in \reffig{fig:small_motion}.
\item An action instance where \taad fails due to tracking error shown in \reffig{fig:tracking_error}.
\end{enumerate}
In all the captions,
``Overlap'' denotes the spatiotemporal overlap of the detected tube with the ground-truth tube,
as defined by Weinzaepfel \etal \cite{weinzaepfel2015learning}.
Ground-truth boxes and frames (dot at the bottom of the frame) are shown in green colour,
while the detected track is shown in red colour.
We use ``baseline+tracks'' in these figure as ``baseline'' method.
Since all the methods use same set of tracks, red box is used to annotate track boxes.
Each method's score has a separate colour, described in the sub-caption.
\input{figtex_supp_mat/FIG_large_action_motion}
\input{figtex_supp_mat/FIG_large_camera_motion_plus}
\input{figtex_supp_mat/FIG_medium_motion}
\input{figtex_supp_mat/FIG_small_motion}
\input{figtex_supp_mat/Fig_tracking_error}
\section{Structure of \tfalong Modules}
\label{sec:tfa_structure}
\refListing{lst:maxpool}, ~\ref{lst:tcn},
and ~\ref{lst:aspp} contain the \mbox{PyTorch}\xspace implementation
of our MaxPool, \tcn and \aspp \tfa modules,
used with our \taadlong (\taad)
method.
Similar to 1D-\aspp module (see Listing-Fig.~\ref{lst:aspp}),
In addition to these blocks,
we tried
1D-ConvNeXt~\cite{liu2022convnet} and 1D-\swin~\cite{liu2022video} blocks as well,
but observed that training was unstable and that the final performance was worse.
For example,
1D-ConvNext could only reach up to 44\% \fmap{} compared to 53.3\% using MaxPool module (Listing-Fig.~\ref{lst:maxpool}).
In all the listings that follow, $C$ is the number of channels and $T$ is the number
of input frames.
\begin{figure*}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption={MaxPool module with input feature of size $T \times C$ and output of $1 \times C$.},captionpos=b,label={lst:maxpool}]
{
(tube_temporal_pool): AdaptiveMaxPool1d(output_size=1)
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption={TCN module with input feature of size $T \times C$ with output of $1 \times C$.},captionpos=b,label={lst:tcn}]
{
(TCN): Conv1d(576, 576, kernel_size=3,
stride=1, padding=2, dilation=2)
(tube_temporal_pool): AdaptiveMaxPool1d(output_size=1)
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption={1D-ASPP~\cite{deeplabv3plus2018} module with input feature of size $T \times C$ with output of $1 \times C$.}, captionpos=b, label={lst:aspp}]
{
(ASPP): ASPP1D(
(convs): ModuleList(
(0): Conv1d(576, 256, kernel_size=1,
stride=1)
(1): Sequential(
(0): Conv1d(256, 576, kernel_size=1,
stride=1)
(1): ReLU()
)
2: ASPPConv1D(
(0): Conv1d(256, 576, kernel_size=3,
stride=1, padding=1)
(1): ReLU()
)
(3): ASPPConv1D(
(0): Conv1d(256, 576, kernel_size=3,
stride=1, padding=3, dilation=3)
(1): ReLU()
)
(4): ASPPConv1D(
(0): Conv1d(256, 576, kernel_size=3,
stride=1, padding=(5), dilation=5)
(1): ReLU()
)
(5): ASPPPooling1D(
(0): AdaptiveAvgPool1d(output_size=1)
(1): Conv1d(256, 576, kernel_size=1,
stride=1)
2: ReLU()
)
)
(project): Sequential(
(0): Conv1d(2880, 576, kernel_size=1,
stride=1, bias=False)
(1): ReLU()
)
)
(tube_temporal_pool): AdaptiveMaxPool1d(output_size=1)
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{figure*} |
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Abingdon-on-Thames ( ), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames. Historically the county town of Berkshire, since 1974 Abingdon has been administered by the Vale of White Horse district within Oxfordshire. The area was occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age and Roman defensive enclosure lies below the town centre. Abingdon Abbey was founded around 676, giving its name to the emerging town. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Abingdon was an agricultural centre with an extensive trade in wool, alongside weaving and the manufacture of clothing. Charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted by various monarchs, from Edward I to George II.
The town survived the dissolution of the abbey in 1538, and by the 18th and 19th centuries, with the building of Abingdon Lock in 1790, and Wilts & Berks Canal in 1810, was a key link between major industrial centres such as Bristol, London, Birmingham and the Black Country. In 1856 the Abingdon Railway opened, linking the town with the Great Western Railway at . The Wilts & Berks Canal was abandoned in 1906 but a voluntary trust is now working to restore and re-open it. Abingdon railway station was closed to passengers in September 1963. The line remained open for goods until 1984, including serving the MG car factory, which operated from 1929 to October 1980.
Abingdon's brewery, Morland, whose most famous ale, Old Speckled Hen, was named after an early MG car, was taken over and closed down by Greene King Brewery in 1999, with production moving to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The site of the brewery has been redeveloped into housing. The rock band Radiohead formed in 1985 when its members were studying at Abingdon School, a day and boarding independent secondary school. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 33,130. This is 2,504 more than in the 2001 Census total of 30,626, and represents just over 8% growth in the population.
History
A Neolithic stone hand axe was found at Abingdon. Petrological analysis in 1940 identified the stone as epidotised tuff from Stake Pass in the Lake District, to the north. Stone axes from the same source have been found at Sutton Courtenay, Alvescot, Kencot and Minster Lovell. Abingdon has been occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age defensive enclosure (or oppidum) lies below the town centre. The oppidum was in use throughout the Roman occupation. A Neolithic causewayed enclosure was found in Abingdon in 1926, dating to the 36th or 37th century BC.
Abingdon Abbey was founded in Saxon times, possibly around 676, but its early history is confused by numerous legends, invented to raise its status and explain the place name. The name seems to mean 'Hill of a man named Æbba, or a woman named Æbbe', possibly the saint to whom St Ebbe's Church in Oxford was dedicated (Æbbe of Coldingham or a different Æbbe of Oxford). However, Abingdon stands in a valley and not on a hill. It is thought that the name was first given to a place on Boars Hill above Chilswell, and the name was transferred to its present site when the Abbey was moved. In 1084, William the Conqueror celebrated Easter at the Abbey and it is possible that his son Henry I received some schooling at the abbey.
In the 13th and 14th centuries, Abingdon was a flourishing agricultural centre with an extensive trade in wool and a famous weaving and clothing manufacturing industry. The abbot seems to have held a market from very early times and charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted by various sovereigns, from Edward I to George II. In 1337 there was a famous riot in protest at the Abbot's control of this market in which several of the monks were killed. After the abbey's dissolution in 1538, the town sank into decay and, in 1556, upon receiving a representation of its pitiable condition, Mary I granted a charter establishing a mayor, two bailiffs, twelve chief burgesses and sixteen secondary burgesses, the mayor to be clerk of the market, coroner and a JP. The present Christ's Hospital originally belonged to the Guild of the Holy Cross, on the dissolution of which Edward VI founded the almshouses instead, under its present name.
The council was empowered to elect one burgess to parliament and this right continued until the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885. A town clerk and other officers were appointed and the town boundaries were described in great detail. Later charters, from Elizabeth I, James I, James II, George II and George III, made no considerable change. James II changed the style of the corporation to that of a mayor, twelve aldermen and twelve burgesses. Abingdon became the county town of Berkshire sometime after receiving its Royal Charter in 1556.
Assize courts were held in Abingdon from 1570, but in the 17th century it was vying with Reading for county town status. The county hall and court house were built between 1678 and 1682, to assert this status. The building, now the Abingdon County Hall Museum, was reputedly designed by Christopher Kempster, who worked with Sir Christopher Wren.
In 1790 Abingdon Lock was built, replacing navigation to the town via the Swift Ditch. In 1810, the Wilts & Berks Canal opened, linking Abingdon with Semington on the Kennet and Avon Canal. Abingdon became a key link between major industrial centres such as Bristol, London, Birmingham and the Black Country. In 1856 the Abingdon Railway opened, linking the town with the Great Western Railway at . However, Abingdon's failure to engage fully with the railway revolution, accepting only a branch line, sidelined the town in favour of Reading which became the County Town in 1869.
The Wilts & Berks Canal was abandoned in 1906 but a voluntary trust is now working to restore and re-open it. Abingdon railway station was closed to passengers in September 1963. The line remained open for goods until 1984, including serving the MG car factory, which opened in 1929 and closed in October 1980 as part of a British Leyland rationalisation plan. The nearest railway station is , away. Much of the original Abingdon branch line is now a cyclepath, whilst the land on which the station stood has been extensively redeveloped, and is now the site of a large Waitrose store and surrounded by a large number of new flats and houses.
The corporation was reformed, under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 but was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972. In 1974, under local government reorganisation, Berkshire County Council was abolished and Abingdon's governance was transferred to Oxfordshire with the town becoming the seat of the new Vale of White Horse District Council, with Abingdon becoming a civil parish with a town council. Since the 1980s, Abingdon has played host to a number of information communication companies, with many based in the town's respective business and science parks. With this, and the result of Abingdon's proximity to academic and scientific institutions in Oxford, the town has seen an influx of young professionals taking residence in the town's many residential areas such as Peachcroft.
The town was sometimes historically called "Abingdon-on-Thames", but the official name of the borough (as given in statutes from the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to the Local Government Act 1972 and all intervening Ordnance Survey maps) was simply "Abingdon". Local councillors voted in November 2011 to change the official name of the town to "Abingdon-on-Thames", and the change took effect on 23 February 2012.
Leisure and media
Sport and recreation facilities include the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre, Tilsley Park and the Southern Town Park. Abingdon had four cinemas but all have closed. The last was the Regal, which closed in 1989. It stood derelict for 24 years until it was demolished in 2003 and replaced by housing development, Regal Close. The Unicorn theatre was built in an area called The Checkers Hall in the ruins of the Abbey buildings and shows plays and films on an irregular basis. In addition, a new cinema, called the Abbey Cinema has been built in one of the Town Council buildings and operates in conjunction with the Regal in Evesham.
The local newspapers are The Oxford Times, Oxford Mail and Abingdon Herald. The Oxfordshire Guardian, a free newspaper, was based in Abingdon for many years and was founded as the South Oxfordshire Courier until its closure in 2018. Local radio and television stations are shared with Oxford, although ITV retains a news gathering centre in nearby Milton Park (formerly having a broadcasting studio in the town) for ITV Meridian. Historically the ITV franchise was ITV Central. Local analogue radio is provided by BBC Radio Oxford, Jack FM, Jack 3 and Heart South (historically 'Fox FM' and later 'Heart Thames Valley'), while the town is also covered by the Oxfordshire DAB multiplex. There was a Six TV local TV channel until 2009 and the town's further education college was the home to That's TV studios for Oxfordshire until it relocated to Oxford Science Park.
The Tesco Extra store west of the town is the largest supermarket in Abingdon and has historically been one of the most profitable Tesco stores in the country. Nearby is the Fairacres Retail Park, thought to be the first retail park in the UK and recently redeveloped, which includes Argos, Subway, B & M, Dreams and Pets at Home stores. It originally had two long established Abingdon retailers—Vineys Home Furnishings (now part of the Lee Longlands chain but retains its name) and Mays Carpets (now part of the Carpetright chain and has re-branded accordingly). In the town centre, many independent stores, estate agents and charity shops make up the Bury Street shopping centre as major high street names have chosen to go to other towns. However, a recent renovation has attracted stores such as New Look, Peacocks and WHSmith to open branches.
The town centre of Abingdon was renovated in 2012 as part of the council's redevelopment plan, with the 1970s shopping precinct converted to look more modern. The roads around the area have been changed: notably the one-way system around the centre has been partially changed to two-way. While this has slightly reduced traffic within the historic town centre, congestion has greatly increased elsewhere. Local businesses have also complained that the increased traffic has driven shoppers away. Redevelopment of the Old Gaol site, most recently a leisure centre, began in 2010. The first stage was demolishing the 1970s additions and swimming pool extension. The Gaol has been converted into luxury flats, shops and restaurants, with access to the riverside.
Sport
Abingdon has two non-League football teams: Abingdon United F.C., who compete in the and play at The Armadillo Energy Stadium, and Abingdon Town F.C., who play at Culham Road. Abingdon Golf Club/North Berks Golf Club (now defunct) was first mentioned in 1876. The club disappeared at the time of the Second World War The Oxford Saints American Football Club play their games in Abingdon at Tilsley Park and are one of the longest-running American Football clubs in the UK, founded in 1983. Abingdon is home to Abingdon Rowing Club, with members from 13 to 80 years old. It has had many successes at local and national races, and also holds its own head race in April, one of the main events in the Abingdon Calendar. Its boathouse is on Wilsham Road. Abingdon Amblers changed its name to Abingdon Athletics Club. They train at Tilsley Park and take part in county cross-country leagues.
Abingdon RUFC was formed at the Queens Hotel on 27 February 1931. During the 1930s the club was based at the Queens Hotel and games were played on the Council owned recreation ground at Caldecott Road. Immediately after the Second World War the club moved to outside the RAF camp (now Dalton Barracks) which offered on-site changing facilities and later a pitch inside the camp. At the start of the Suez Crisis in 1956 play temporarily returned to the Caldecott Road site because of security risks. This period saw the formation of the ill-fated Abingdon Sports Club; an amalgamation of the town's rugby, cricket and hockey clubs and the bid to establish a sporting centre at Hales Meadow. In a short time the ground was developed and a pavilion erected but the organisation was plagued with financial difficulties and very soon dissolved with hockey disbanding and Abingdon Rugby remaining at the site as tenants to the cricket club. In the mid-1980s a determined effort was made to acquire grounds and a clubhouse dedicated to rugby.
The current base at the town's Southern Sports Park was opened by former Abingdon MP John Patten in 1989. Abingdon has had members representing the county, progressing to first-class level and on to international status in the Six Nations Tournament. The Abingdon Sevens traditionally opens the Home Counties' playing season and has attracted sides from throughout the country and beyond. Initiated in 1956 as a one-off tournament to celebrate the town's 400th anniversary of receiving a Royal Charter, it proved so successful that the competition has been held on an annual basis ever since. Several years ago it was decided to introduce the youngsters of Abingdon to Club Rugby. The Youth Section has 200 playing members from the ages of 6 to 18. In 2013–14 Abingdon RFC's President, Paul Murphy MBE, was also the President of the RFU. Since 2016, Oxford Rugby League have played in Abingdon at Abingdon School's Tilsley Park.
Economy
The Pavlova and Gloria leather works were major employers but both are now closed. Alfred Booth and Company of Liverpool traded with the Pavlova Leather Syndicate from 1860, bought a share in it in 1917–18 and took it over in 1921. In May 1947 at the annual British Industries Fair in Birmingham, Pavlova advertised doe skins, chamois, lambskins and goatskins, much of it as suede, for uses including shoes, gloves and belts. In 1958 Pavlova's site covered , employed neary 200 people and included a staff sports field. At that time its factory still processed imported skins of sheep, lamb and goat, mainly to make suede. Garner Group took over the Booth Group in 1979 and became Garner Booth. Pittards plc took over Garner Booth in 1987 and became Pittard Garner. It closed the Pavlova works in 1993.
Abingdon was originally home to the Morland Brewery, whose most famous ale was Old Speckled Hen, named after an early MG car. Greene King Brewery bought Morland for £182 million in 1999, closed the brewery and moved production to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The site of the brewery has been redeveloped into housing. The Maltings was demolished and is now a mixed residential area and council offices. In 2010, a craft brewery, Loose Cannon, reinstated brewing in the town at the Drayton Road Industrial Estate and sells its beers locally, including on draught at some local pubs. Abingdon is near several major scientific employers: the UKAEA at Culham (including the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion research project), Harwell Laboratory, the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the new Diamond Light Source synchrotron, which is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over 40 years. Many inhabitants work in Oxford or commute by rail to London, from nearby Didcot. The Army now occupies Dalton Barracks, which, prior to 1993, was the Royal Air Force station RAF Abingdon.
Abingdon has a business park which has offices for several local, national and international companies including, until recently, Vodafone (acquired as part of its takeover of Mannesmann in 2000) and Northern Rock bank. The Science Park includes the global headquarters of Sophos, an anti-virus company. RM, an educational computing supplier, commonly refer to themselves as being Abingdon-based, which is technically true—even though their HQ is actually in nearby Milton Park, Milton, they have an Abingdon post code (as does the rest of Milton Park). Penlon Ltd, a medical equipment company, have their premises on the outskirts of Abingdon (their previous site, near the former railway station, has been redeveloped as residential housing). Another major employer is the British head office of the German appliance company Miele.
Industrially, Abingdon was best known for the MG car factory, which opened in 1929. 1,155,032 cars were made at the plant over the next 51 years until British Leyland closed it on 24 October 1980. Subsequent cars sold under the MG brand have since been produced either at Longbridge in Birmingham or at SAIC's factories in China. The company was founded in 1924 and moved its business alongside the Pavlova Leather Factory in 1929. By the outbreak of the Second World War, MG was established as one of the most popular brands of sports car in Britain. After the war, the MG factory continued to churn out increasing volumes of popular sports car which were available at competitive prices but the factory closed in October 1980 on the demise of the ageing but still popular MG MGB range, and was demolished within months. The headquarters of the MG Car Club, founded in 1930, is at 11 & 12 Cemetery Road, next to the old factory offices. A police station was built in its place, which was later extended with the addition of more cells, as Oxford's police station could not be extended further.
Geography and transport
Abingdon is south of Oxford, south-east of Witney and north of Newbury in the flat valley of the Thames on its west (right) bank, where the small river Ock flows in from the Vale of White Horse. It is on the A415 between Witney and Dorchester, adjacent to the A34 trunk road, linking it with the M4 and M40 motorways. The B4017 and A4183 also link the town, both being part of the old A34 and often heavily congested. Local bus services to Oxford and the surrounding areas are run by the Oxford Bus Company, its sister company Thames Travel and smaller independent companies.
Abingdon no longer has a rail service. However, in recent years, urban expansion has brought Radley railway station close to town's northeastern limits. The small, primarily stopping-service, railway stations at and Radley are both just over from the town centre. Abingdon's eastern ring-road and newest suburbs are connected by footpath and cycleway from Radley.
Culham station was called "Abingdon Road" when it first opened in 1844, being the nearest station to the town at that time. It was renamed "Culham" when the Abingdon Railway branch line to Abingdon railway station was opened in 1856. That branch line initially connected to the main line at Abingdon Junction, before being extended to Radley station when that opened in 1873. The branch line from Radley to Abingdon closed to passengers in 1963. The nearest major stations with taxi ranks are () and (). All are managed by Great Western Railway. Frequent express buses operate between the local railway stations and Abingdon, run by Oxford Bus Company and its sister company Thames Travel.
Governance
The town is also represented on Oxfordshire County Council. The incumbent Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon is Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat). Abingdon is represented on the Vale of White Horse district council, as well as having its own town council. Control of the town council has passed between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives in recent years. After the 2019 local elections, political composition of the council is:
Liberal Democrats – 18 seats
Green Party – 1 seat
Places of interest
Of the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey there remains a Perpendicular gateway and ruins of the mainly Early English prior's house, the guest house and other fragments. Other remains from the former abbey include the Unicorn Theatre and Long Gallery, which are still used for plays and functions including an annual craft fair. St. Nicolas' Church, parts of which were built in 1180, is near the museum. Abingdon Bridge over the Thames, near St Helen's Church, was built in 1416 and was widened or altered in 1790, 1828, 1927 and 1929. Abbey Gateway between the Abingdon County Hall Museum and the Guildhall remains a point of local importance.
Abingdon has the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle, which can be found to the north of the town centre surrounded by trees within a housing estate. Originally built of wood or stone, it was a fortification on a raised earthwork called a motte surrounded by a protective ditch. There is a Second World War FW3/28A pillbox by the River Ock near Marcham Road. A gaol, built by prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars in 1811, is on the south edge of town next to the Thames. In the 1970s the gaol was converted into a leisure centre. In 2011 the site was developed into residential and commercial premises. According to local legend, prior to its conversion in the 1970s, the gaol was haunted by the ghost of an eight-year-old boy who, after being convicted for arson in the mid-19th century, became the youngest person in the UK to be executed by hanging.
The Roysse Room was the site of Abingdon School (then 'Roysse's School') from 1563 until it moved to its current site after an indenture by John Roysse, who had been born and educated in Abingdon before he moved to London. The room is now part of the civic offices. St. Helen's Church dates from around 1100 and is the second-widest church in England, having five aisles and being wider than it is long. The tower of St Helen's Church has a modern ring of ten bells, cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 2005 and hung in a new frame with new fittings by White's of Appleton in 2006. Abingdon's county hall by the main market square, built in 1677–1680 reputedly by Christopher Kempster, stands on columns, leaving the ground floor open for a market and other functions. It was once hailed by Nikolaus Pevsner with the comment "Of the free-standing town halls of England with open ground floors this is the grandest". It now houses the Abingdon County Hall Museum and is run by Historic England.
Culture and folklore
Bun-throwing is an Abingdon tradition that began with the 1761 Coronation of King George III. This long-standing tradition of the town has local dignitaries throwing buns (5,000 buns in 2018) from the roof of the Abingdon County Hall Museum into crowds assembled in the market square below on specific days of celebration (such as royal marriages, coronations and jubilees). The museum has a collection of the buns, dried and varnished, dating back to bun-throwings of the 19th century. To date there have been 35 bun-throwing events. Since 2000, there have been bun-throwing ceremonies to commemorate the Millennium, the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, the 450th anniversary of the town's being granted a royal charter in 2006, the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011, the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2012, the centenary of the end of the World War I in November 2018 and the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2022.
The centre of town and the whole of Ock Street (half a mile) are closed every October for two days for the Ock Street Michaelmas Fair, once a hiring fair but now maybe Britain's longest and narrowest funfair. The much smaller Runaway Fair, the following Monday, was traditionally for workers who were unsatisfied with their employment after the first week. Abingdon has a very old and still active Morris dancing tradition, passed on since before the folk dance and song revivals in the 19th century. Every year a Mayor of Ock Street is elected by the inhabitants of Ock Street; he then parades through the town preceded by the famous Horns of Ock Street, a symbol of Abingdon's Morris Dance troupe.
The Friends of Abingdon's Unicorn Theatre, housed in the old Abbey buildings, is the site of first productions of many stage adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, by Stephen Briggs. Old Speckled Hen ale was originally brewed by Morland's of Abingdon to commemorate the MG factory in the town. It continues to be brewed by Greene King along with several complementary beers. The rock band Radiohead formed at Abingdon School in 1985.
Abingdonians
See also Abbot of Abingdon, Abingdon School and List of Old Abingdonians.
Ælfric of Abingdon, 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury
Alexander of Abingdon, late 13th-century/early-14th-century sculptor
Sammy Chung, British former football manager
John Creemer Clarke (1821–95), clothing manufacturer (Hyde and Clarke), JP, MP, benefactor
Oswald Couldrey (1882–1958), British artist, poet and author
Gerald Charles Dickens, actor and great great grandson of Charles Dickens, lives in Abingdon
Kate Edger was born in Abingdon and became the first NZ woman graduate
Saint Edmund of Abingdon, 13th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in Abingdon, as were his sisters, Saint Alice of Catesby and the Blessed Margaret Rich
Kate Garraway, former GMTV and now Daybreak presenter, born in Abingdon and attended Fitzharrys school
Michelle Goodman DFC, RAF Pilot and First Female Pilot to receive the DFC (b. 1976), lives in Abingdon.
Tom Hingley, lead singer of Oldham band Inspiral Carpets
David Jessel, BBC foreign correspondent and justice campaigner, born in Abingdon
Francis Maude, Conservative Party MP, born in Abingdon and attended Abingdon School
Paul Mayhew-Archer, comedy writer and actor. Taught drama at John Mason School and co-wrote The Vicar of Dibley; currently lives in Abingdon
Alain Menu, World Touring Car Championship driver, lives in Abingdon
David Mitchell, actor and comedian, attended Abingdon School
Tom Penny, professional skateboarder: skateboards for Flip Skateboards and attended Fitzharrys School
Radiohead, the rock band, formed as students at Abingdon School
Dorothy Richardson, novelist, born in Abingdon. She was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as the stream-of-consciousness technique.
John Spiers, melodeon player best known as a member of the band Bellowhead which broke up in 2016
Stephen of Abingdon, 14th-century Lord Mayor of the City of London
Matthew Taylor, footballer, grew up in the town and attended John Mason School
Thomas Tesdale, 16th-century local benefactor and eventual founder of Pembroke College, Oxford
Sir Henry Tombs VC, KCB (1825–74), a recipient of the Victoria Cross
Oliver Tompsett, West End star, best known for appearing as Fiyero in the musical Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London
Dean Whitehead, footballer, was born in Abingdon
Kit Young, actor from Abingdon
Education
Abingdon and Witney College: provides further education.
Abingdon School: private, boys, 11–18.
The Consortium: local authority, mixed, a partnership of schools including Abingdon and Witney College and the following secondary schools:
Fitzharrys School
Larkmead School
John Mason School
Europa School, UK which replaced European School, Culham.
Our Lady's Abingdon: private, mixed, 3–18.
School of St Helen and St Katharine: private, girls, 9–18.
International relations
Abingdon is twinned with:
Argentan, France
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Schongau, Germany
Lucca, Italy
Freedom of the Town
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Town of Abingdon-on-Thames.
Military Units
RAF Abingdon: 1955.
12 Regiment, RLC: 8 December 2010.
See also
Abingdon Monks' Map
The Abingdon Sword
Albert Park, Abingdon
Our Lady and St Edmund's Church, Abingdon
References
Citations
Sources
External links
Abingdon Council history
Civil parishes in Oxfordshire
Former county towns in England
Market towns in Oxfordshire
Populated places on the River Thames
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