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Carl Auböck: The Workshop
Edited by Clemens Kois & Brian Janusiak
Contributions from Carl Auböck IV, Sophia Lambrakis, Patrick Parrish, and Michael Boyd
Design by Brian Janusiak
Design / Objects / Legendary Austrian Workshops
9.75 x 11.25 inches
400 color photographs
The Werkstätte (Workshop) Carl Auböck was founded in the 19th century—one of many workshops in Vienna specializing in bronze-casting. However, Carl Auböck II (1900-1957) was one of the very few Viennese students who attended the Bauhaus in post-World War I Weimar, and when he returned to the Workshop he brought inspiration from this new design movement. Expert craftsmanship and superior quality materials such as hand-sewn leather, polished bronze, and various woods became the signature of the Bauhaus-inspired Auböck Workshop and many of their whimsical, modernist designs stand out as prescient objets d'art.
Carrying on generations of the Workshop tradition, son Carl Auböck III (1924-1993) and grandson Carl Auböck IV (born 1954) were instrumental in forging ahead with new ideas and designs while preserving the quality craftsmanship and integrity of the Workshop which today remains among the last of its kind. Despite designing over 6,000 original objects and pieces of furniture in the early to mid-20th century, Auböck somehow has eluded the spotlight and the Workshop's products remain cult objects of desire, cherished quietly by design greats and savvy collectors. More incredibly, only one quarter of the Workshop's designs have been documented, leaving an astounding 4,000 objects yet to be "discovered."
Carl Auböck: The Workshop documents hundreds of signature Workshop objects culled from exclusive private collections, and brings us into the Workshop itself with contemporary photographs, interviews with Carl Auböck IV, and historical documents and photographs depicting the Workshop's historic legacy.
Clemens Kois is an artist, designer, photographer, and impassioned collector of 20th century design, particularly Austrian. He's spent a great deal of time drawing inspiration from, and scavenging flea markets in, the many cities he's lived in, including Salzburg, Rome, Vienna, and New York City.
Brian Janusiak is a designer and a principal at Various Projects, Inc., the New York based multi-disciplinary design studio. He is also the co-founder and co-curator of the retail project, Project No. 8.
Carl Auböck IV is an architect, designer, and the current head of the Werkstätte Carl Auböck in Vienna. As the heir, and namesake, to a fascinating family legacy, he also oversees the Carl Auböck Archive, putting together exhibitions and having published two books thus far cataloguing the designs of his prolific forefathers.
Sophia Lambrakis is a professional writer, editor, and translator in the fields of film, fashion, food, and design, dividing her time between Europe and the USA.
Patrick Parrish is the owner of the Manhattan design gallery Mondo Cane and the creator of the popular blog MONDOBLOGO. He has contributed to Apartmento, Bad Day, and 01 magazines with both his photography and interviews of Martino Gamper, ro/lu, and Project No. 8. He is a collector, a sometimes painter, and always has a camera in his pocket.
Michael Boyd is a designer, writer, and collector of vintage modern design. He is the principal of BoydDesign, a firm with an emphasis on furniture, interior, and garden design; it is also a consultancy for the restoration and preservation of modernist architecture, and for collecting modern design.


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The St. Croix Foundation Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is pleased to release the results of their revealing youth survey, entitled "Answers for Change." The survey was developed entirely by YAC members to gain information from their peers about the challenges facing youth in their community.
The 44 question survey addresses issues surrounding school climate, school safety, future academic plans, and personal motivators, and was distributed to private and public schools on St. Croix. In total, over 900 surveys were tallied during the spring of 2012.
The Youth Advisory Council, which was created by the St. Croix Foundation in 2009, is a youth philanthropy group made up of 16 students from St. Croix private and public middle and high schools. The Council was founded with the express goals of engaging youth and teaching them about the importance of philanthropy and charitable giving, as well as civic awareness. Today, YAC serves as a platform for burgeoning youth leaders to assess and address the needs of their peers through various outreach initiatives.
YAC members believe that the results from their survey will serve to illuminate the needs, aspirations, and challenges of young people in the community. The results will also help the Council and the Foundation direct their future efforts toward more relevant supports for young people and for their schools.
While the overall results from the survey were very informative, some responses were particularly revealing. One question asked students whether school was valuable to them. 59% of students in public high school responded that yes, school was valuable to them, compared to 93% of private high school students.
In another question which addressed the issue of school safety, 80% of private high school students said they felt safe compared to 41% of their public school peers. However, when private high school students were asked how they dealt with stress, the responses indicated that 13% drank, 22% smoked, and 21% used drugs, in contrast to public high school students who responded with lower levels of drug, alcohol and tobacco use. Public middle school students also reported in the 'Answers for Change' survey that 12% considered dropping out of school.
Overall, the survey revealed that there are some incredible opportunities within our public middle schools to sustain what appears to be higher levels of student engagement while at the same time addressing some potentially serious social trends that may lead students to lose focus and in turn fall out of the system in high school.
After reviewing the questions about support, YAC member Kemit Sweeney said, "Students lack a connection between their daily lives and the theoretical knowledge from school. When they don't find it, they drop off the radar." YAC members believe that their survey has given youth on St. Croix a voice and through collaborative efforts from community stakeholders, targeted steps can be taken to prevent youth from dropping off the radar and out of the system.
Moving forward, YAC members will be using the data collected from their survey to develop a Youth Network, which will entail a resource clearinghouse for youth providing career development, as well as mentoring and social supports. They have already begun to reach out to other youth groups in the Territory inviting them to join forces to prove that youth have the ability to mobilize for positive causes to make a positive difference in their community. YAC members wish to extend their heart-felt thanks to the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority for their assistance in tallying the surveys. The Council is also grateful to Mr. Boatang of The University of the Virgin Islands Extension Services for allowing them to meet regularly in their building. Additional thanks go out to Mr. Gary Molloy and Ms. Janine Schuster of the Virgin Islands Department of Education for providing the Department's support for the survey. The Youth Advisory Council also expresses their thanks to the St. Croix Foundation Matt Miller Fund and the Miller family for their ongoing support and guidance.
Last but certainly not least, YAC extends a sincere thank you to all of the students who participated in the survey from the following schools: St. Croix Educational Complex, St. Croix Central High School, John H. Woodson Junior High School, Elena L. Christian Junior High School, St. Mary's Catholic School, Free Will Baptist School, Arthur Richards Elementary School, Country Day School, and Good Hope School. Student responses are greatly appreciated and will remain as a guiding factor in the projects that YAC undertakes this year.
Survey results can be found on the St. Croix Foundation's website at www.stxfoundation.org. And, for more information about the Council email YAC at scfyac2009@yahoo.com or contact the St. Croix Foundation at 340-773-9898.


If most Michiganders support a graduated income tax, why has Lansing turned a deaf ear?
Who's paying their fair share in Michigan? For decades, the state has had a flat tax - right now, it's 4.25% - but some say it's time to join the 34 other states that have a graduated income tax rate. That system would work similar to how the federal income tax does. High-income earners would pay a larger percentage; lower-income earners would pay a smaller percentage.
According to Michigan State Rep. Jim Townsend, a Democrat from Royal Oak, a graduated income tax rate would net about $700 million in new revenue for the state. For most people, it would mean a tax break, if you structured it properly. The change would allow for 95% of Michigan taxpayers to pay less than the 4.25% we all pay now while only 5% would pay more.
Is that about fairness? Would that push us more toward a balanced economic system that provides opportunity at the bottom? Or is it punishing the rich to ask them to pay more?
According to Rep. Townsend, Michigan residents overwhelmingly favor a graduated income tax. So, why hasn't it been enacted? It appears that the Republican controlled state legislature isn't so keen on embracing an idea that is high on the Democratic agenda. Does a graduated income tax have a future in Michigan? Can supporters raise enough money — $1 million — to accumulate enough signatures — roughly 315,000 — to get this tax reform measure? It would require a state constitutional amendment on the 2016 ballot.
Rep. Townsend says lower and middle income earners pay a much higher percentage of their income to the Michigan sales tax than the wealthy. The graduated income tax is designed to make sure everyone is paying the same proportion of their income in all state and local taxes combined.
Lupher says we have a prohibition on graduated income taxes in the Michigan State constitution. He adds later that while we have a 4.25% income tax rate in the state, nobody is paying 4.25% of their income since we have a very high standard deduction.
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 Paint Your Wagon (musical), a 1951–1952 musical
 Paint Your Wagon (film), a 1969 film adaptation of the musical, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg
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 "Paint Your Wagon", the twenty-fifth and last episode in the 2005 children's television series, Muffin The Mule

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It would be much better if you do correctly and efficiently something with suggestions or instructions, though some other people would venture to do it personally. The policy applies to Tibet tours too because it is a remote, mythic, and dreamed-of place.
Here, Mark Lee, a used-to-be guide and now Tibet tours advisor with over than 25 years of working experience in Tibet tourism, would like to share his tricks or tour notes, or give suggestions on how to travel Tibet efficiently, correctly, and happily.
His travel notes, an authentic guide for tourists including you and me to follow when you want to travel Tibet, show you step-by-step how to get to Tibet, with what documentations you are allowed to enter Tibet, what type of tours you like, etc. And the most important, which is the key point of the website, is to help you have a better Tibet tour as well as spend less money. Fun for less !
Can a travel agency supply Tibet travels & tours with Anybody ?
The answer is absolutely NOT correct.
A.	Government officials, Journalists, and diplomatists ARE much warmly welcomed to Tibet. However any of the three kinds are non-travel-agency's customers while Tibet Autonomous Region Foreign Affairs Office is responsible to meet and accept them.
B.	Tourists with regular passports are the major customers that any travel agency can offer Tibet tours of any kinds.
Thus, make sure you choose the right travel agency when you pick up the searching result from Searching Engines.
Similarly, Don't think that you can go to Tibet by only possessing passports.
With what type of visa can you apply for tibet permit in a common and tourist way ?
Tourists with this type of visa will be easier to obtain Tibet permit than all the other visa types. With this type of visa, people don't supply any other affiliated documentations when applying for Tibet permit.
2. "F", "M", "Z", "J", etc. and all the other types of visas.
Tourists like you always mention Tibet permit. But do you know anything more about the word "Tibet permit" ? Actually there are various types permits with which you can enter Tibet and launch Tibet tours.
This is for tourists' use when they are onboard Tibet train or take flights to come in to Tibet. And only with the original one (but NOT the copy one) people can be onboard Tibet train or take the flights. Otherwise you cannot get train tickets or not allowed to the aircraft.
This is for tourists' use when they travel to any other not-completely-opening places, such as Tingri, border town Gyirong, and Tsedang, etc. besides Tibet entry permit. But it is to be obtained once you get Tibet entry permit. Or you don't need it unless you go to some places like in the list above.
Furthermore, if you in-depth travel to military-not-opened area like Mt. Kailash, and etc. Besides the two types of permits mentioned above, you have to have it for that kind of tours.
When traveling to any in-depth places and also military-not-opened area, such as Ngari area, Overland from Chengdu to Lhasa, etc. you have to have it, together with Military Permit, and then you can go there.
This kind of permit is only to issue for Taiwanese who travel in Tibet.
Please be notified that, tourists from Hong Kong (own citizenship) and Macau do NOT apply for Tibet permit because they are part of China, and are treated as mainland of China.
No matter you like it or not, but it is an incontestable fact that Westerner Tourists have to have China visa before getting Tibet permit. Thus, you have to apply in the places close to your living area for China visa first.
Till here, you have finished stepping your first foot in the door of going to Tibet. To draw a conclusion of the "first foot", you can understand that you are ready and well-prepared for having a Tibet tour. Those are China visa, Tibet permit.
Then what about the other step to move forward to Tibet tour? Now, the next step is how you get to Tibet. I mean by what means you go there?
2. By what means can you go to Tibet?


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Exclusive interview with British Olympic swimming champion REBECCA ADLINGTON!
Rebecca "Becky" Adlington is only 23 but already OBE and Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988 and the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in the 400 m and 800 m as well as bronze medals in the women's 400 m and 800 m freestyle events in this year London Olympics. We have asked her a few questions and here is what she said.
Swimming games to help kids feel safe in water
In light of the report from the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) which reveals a third of children in England cannot swim by the time they leave primary school, here are five simple, yet fun swimming games which parents can play with their children to help teach them how to swim and to feel confident and happy in the water.
Baby Swimming: More Than Just a Badge
Leading swimming expert Laura Molloy explains why swimming is a vital lifesaving skill.

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Today the Swedish biotech companies BioArctic Neuroscience and Swenora Biotech have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement for a novel treatment of Spinal Cord Injury Treatment. Under the terms of the agreement, BioArctic obtains the global rights to study, develop, manufacture and market the treatment of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI).
"Through innovative Swedish research at Karolinska Institutet and the Karolinska University Hospital, Swenora has developed a device that will contribute to successful neurosurgical interventions, which will hopefully improve functional recovery and quality of life for patients with spinal cord injury", said Hugo Thelin, Chairman of Swenora Biotech AB.
"We are very pleased with this licensing agreement with Swenora, which has introduced a totally new concept for the treatment of spinal cord injury that is a devastating condition leading to a seriously diminished quality of life and with personal sufferings and economic costs", said Professor Lars Lannfelt, Chairman of BioArctic Neuroscience AB.
Peripheral nerve grafts in combination with a growth factor can promote spinal cord repair in rodent animal models of severe SCI. To promote nerve grafting procedures, a biodegradable device has been constructed where peripheral nerves are inserted together with a growth factor. The device is used during the neurosurgical procedure, when injured tissue is replaced, to connect viable nerves on each side of the injured segment. The procedure aims at rerouting regenerative pathways with multiple neuronal autografts and promoting the outgrowth of neurites.


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A real time frequency analysis is included. The values can be stored as a WAV file, or a as a comma separated value list.
Test the program before obtaining a license!
This program will run on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10 (32bit and 64bit) computers with a sound card and 30MByte space on disk. It will not install on older versions of Windows. The speed requirements are not very hard. A 1GHz machine is suffient. On slower CPUs the load on the system might lead to reduced responsiveness of the system.
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The EU's General Data Privacy Regulation, which goes into effect in May 2018, may prove to be a greater boon than a bane for financial services firms globally.
The regulation applies to organizations located in the EU as well as organization located outside of the EU that offer goods and services to or monitors the behavior of EU citizens.
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GDPR also requires organizations to get specific and unambiguous consent from clients before organizations can apply analytics to the data covered by the regulation.
To address GDPR's privacy requirements, as well as other privacy regulations, Anonos developed its privacy rights management platform BigPrivacy that can selectively dial up or down the identifiability of data while maintaining the information's value at the data level.
By creating an information-rich but identity-light data sets, it opens new opportunities to share data that would have been too risky for organizations previously, added LaFever.
LaFever cited an example of a bank's private wealth management business not wanting to share client data with the bank's real estate business for the fear that the real estate business would use the data for client prospecting.
However, the real estate business could use a copy of the non-identifying data to hone its offerings without targeting the private wealth management clients, he added.
Anonos is targeting data-driven industries, such as pharmaceuticals, human resources, and consulting initially.
"In some respects, healthcare has its own analog to GDPR with the Healthcare Information Portability and Accountability Act," noted LaFever.
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By Nancy Badertscher on Friday, January 23rd, 2015 at 12:00 a.m.
Since 2011, the University System of Georgia has been consolidating some of its 35 colleges and universities.
The biggest of these mergers -- combining four-year Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta and largely two-year Georgia Perimeter College anchored in the suburbs -- is slated to be final in 2016.
When this merger was approved earlier this month by the university system's Board of Regents, officials said the university that emerges would retain the Georgia State name. They said it also would become the largest university in Georgia.
But in a mass email to former students, the school's alumni association suggested the merger will put GSU in an even more exclusive class. With a student enrollment of more than 54,000, the consolidated university also will be one of the largest in the nation, the email said.
PolitiFact Georgia decided to check the facts and the numbers.
We looked first at the claim that a merged Georgia State and Georgia Perimeter College would be No. 1 among the state's colleges and universities, based on enrollment.
The University of Georgia currently holds that rank, with 35,197 students enrolled last fall, followed closely by GSU with 32,556 students.
But a consolidated school would have 53,927 students, if the 21,371 students who attended Georgia Perimeter last fall were put on GSU's rolls.
That would put GSU's enrollment well above UGA's and No. 1 in the state by more than 20,000 students, based on current data. Enrollment is forecast to exceed 54,000 by 2016, assuming normal growth..
Now, what about that national claim?
We found a couple of organizations that rank colleges and universities by enrollment. But for our purposes we had to discount the most widely known of those, U.S. News & World Report. The magazine, which grades colleges and universities on several standards, bases the ranking we saw on undergraduate enrollment. Georgia State's claim is based on total enrollment.
The website Matchcollege.com identified the largest 300 colleges and universities in the U.S, -- and only 17 of them had 50,000-plus students. Several of the highest-ranking schools were largely on-line, although Ohio State University and the University of Central Florida were high on the list with 56,387 students and 59,601 students, respectively.
We discounted the schools that are largely online, including Phoenix University, with its 300,000-plus students. We did not see how to make apples-to-apples comparisons between the largely online and traditional brick and mortar colleges and universities, and a data expert we consulted agreed.
Bragging rights are also hard to determine since a lot depends on how the numbers are counted, and who is counted? We found where Central Florida calls itself the second-largest university in the U.S.
In Indiana, we found that Ivy Tech College, which is the state's system of community colleges at multiple locations, is considered one college. It calls itself the nation's largest single accredited statewide community college.
We looked at federal government data and went to websites to get more recent enrollment numbers. From that we found: Arizona State University with a first-day 2014 fall enrollment topping 82,000; Lone Star College hitting an all-time high enrollment last fall of 82,818; University of Minnesota reported system-wide enrollment this fall of 67,477; The University of Texas at Austin in fall 2013 had 52,076 students enrolled; and Tarrant County College (another community college in Texas) with a fall 2014 enrollment of 50,628.
Richard Vedder, director of the not-for-profit Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington D.C., said he was confident that Georgia State will qualify as one of the nation's largest universities, once the merger is complete.
He said it was "a little unusual to have a two-year merge into a four-year" university.
"Schools like Georgia State take on thousands of marginally qualified students who don't go on to graduate and tend to hurt their rankings. Now, they're going to add Georgia Perimeter students," he said.
"It might be good to save an institution. It might be a way to improve access. But I can't see any reputation gains from it," he said.
Vedder also cautioned that "getting big doesn't necessarily mean getting better."
Hank Huckaby, chancellor of the University System, has never said the goal was to boost Georgia State's size.
He has said the merger will play to GSU's strength as "a recognized national leader in improving student retention and graduation rates."
"Combining these attributes with Georgia Perimeter College's leadership in providing access to students across the metro area presents a major opportunity to improve student success," Huckaby said after the merger was approved.
GSU officials also have stressed that the university's rankings as a top-tier public research university will not be impuned and that Georgia Perimeter's academic enterprise will be evaluated and measured separately from Georgia State's bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs by organizations that rank institutions.
A student earning a 4-year degree from Georgia State can expect to earn $44,200 starting out and $72,900 at mid-career, according to payscale.com. By comparison, a student with two-year degree from Georgia Perimeter can expect to make $37,200 starting out and $48,200 at mid-career.
Georgia Perimeter has been without a permanent president since 2012 when President Anthony Tricoli resigned after an audit revealed a budget shortfall at the college of about $25 million. Tricoli has since filed suit, alleging he was made the fall guy and misled about the finances.
Revelations about the shortfall initially hurt the college's credit rating. But it has since bounced back and recently been upgraded.
Our conclusion: The merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College will make the state's largest university, as plans exist now. It also would make the combined university one of the largest in the nation.
We rate the alumni association's statement True.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 at 12:00 a.m.
Interviews with Richard Vedder, director of The Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Washington, D.C.
Lois Norder/AJC assisted in researching this fact check.


Cross Hatching, is a style that has been used in art making for many years by most civilisations. Its most common application in art making is in drawing where the artist wishes to 'fill' or shade a part of the artwork. Hatching is generally made by close parallel lines executed in drawing materials such as ink, pencil, charcoal, crayon, paint and the like, whereas Cross Hatching is what it sounds like; another hatching pattern crossing the first one.
In Australian Aboriginal Art, the fine technique of Cross Hatching (known as 'Rarrk') has taken on a more structured and stylised appearance, and can have significant meaning when it is used in an artwork. It is used largely by the artists of the Northern Territory, and particularly in Arnhem Land in their bark or other fine work paintings, some of which are very old.
One can marvel at how such fine and perfect line work can be achieved with somewhat basic tools, but the usual way Aboriginal artists achieve this finesse is to pull a few strands of long human hair, hold them together at one end, dip them deep in the paint and then use the length of paint coated hair as a brush. The hair length is carefully pulled in a straight line across the surface of the artwork. The hairs, already straight with the weight of the paint, take the least line of resistance and straighten out perfectly, producing a fine, straight line. The process is repeated at regular intervals and then when this is dry, the same is done in the other direction. Any overlap of paint from the area to be cross hatched can just be wiped off while it is wet as the work is in progress..
The Aboriginal artists believe that these overlaid patterns of colour and line contain the power associated with that particular painting or story subject, and this is easy to imagine given the awesome images this technique creates.


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Q: How to exclude worksheets with "- Matrix" at the end of their name? I have a code which I want to apply on multiple worksheets.
I want to exclude "Data" and all the worksheets containing "- Matrix".
I used * wildcard to select these worksheets though it doesn't work.
Sub DoForSheets()
    Dim xwks As Worksheet
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    For Each xwks In Worksheets
        If xwks.Name <> "Data" And xwks.Name <> "* - Matrix" Then
           Debug.Print xwks.Name
        End If
    Next
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

A: Instr will do the Job for you.
Try:
Sub DoForSheets()

    Dim xwks As Worksheet
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    For Each xwks In Worksheets
        If xwks.Name <> "Data" And Not InStr(1, xwks.Name, "- Matrix") > 0 Then
           Debug.Print xwks.Name
        End If
    Next
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

Doesn't Matter where the - Matrix is in the Name. This will not Fail

A: Use the Right function:
 Right(xwks.Name, 6) = "Matrix" 'returns True if right hand side of the string is "Matrix"

There is also Left and  Mid

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"Shaka Beach: Laka Laka La" (Stylized as "シャカビーチ〜Laka Laka La〜") is the 8th single by the Japanese band Uverworld and was released on August 8, 2007 in CD and CD+DVD format. The song uses Spanish guitar influences. In the promotional video, people are seen doing the mambo.

Track listing

 "Shaka Beach ~Laka Laka La~" (シャカビーチ〜Laka Laka La〜)
 "Rainy"
 "Sorrow [file named "Moment"]"

Charts

Oricon sales chart (Japan)

2007 singles
Uverworld songs
2007 songs
Gr8! Records singles


The critically acclaimed conversation series Speakeasy continues its fourth season with an episode featuring four-time Grammy Award-winning musician Lenny Kravitz and singer and songwriter Sean Lennon. The revealing conversation illuminates the duo's long standing friendship, Kravitz' career from choir boy to rock star, and the influence their parents have had on their lives. Speakeasy airs on Public Television and public television's WORLD Channel. Air dates and times are available at www.speakeasytalks.com.
Sean Lennon is a musician and visual artist. He is the son of John and Yoko, and an old friend of Lenny Kravitz. Lennon first met Kravitz at age 16 when he co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" for Kravitz's second album, Mamma Said. In the past year, Lennon has collaborated with Lana Del Rey, The Black Lips, Fat White Family, Willow Smith and Les Claypool. The group Claypool Lennon Delirium will release their second album in early 2019.


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Q: Return lexicographically maximum possible proper string Obtain a proper string that is lexicographically maximum. In one operation, you can swap a character It is given that a string is called a proper string if it has equal counts of 'a','b','c','d'. You can swap a character of the string with any of 'a','b','c','d'.
    import java.util.*;
class Main
{
static int MAX = 26;
static String smallestStr(char []str, int n)
{
    int i, j = 0;
    int []chk = new int[MAX];
    for (i = 0; i < MAX; i++)
        chk[i] = -1;
    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        if (chk[str[i] - 'a'] == -1)
            chk[str[i] - 'a'] = i;
    }
    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        boolean flag = false;
        for (j = 0; j < str[i] - 'a'; j++)
        {
            if (chk[j] > chk[str[i] - 'a'])
            {
                flag = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (flag)
            break;
    }
    if (i < n)
    {
        char ch1 = str[i];
        char ch2 = (char) (j + 'a');
        for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
        {
            if (str[i] == ch1)
                str[i] = ch2;

            else if (str[i] == ch2)
                str[i] = ch1;
        }
    }

    return String.valueOf(str);
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    String str = "aacacbbc";
    int n = str.length();
    System.out.println(smallestStr(
                    str.toCharArray(), n));
}
}

The output is supposed to be  dadacbbc
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Why bother having a top university?
Posted on July 6, 2012 by Martin Ince
I may be a little late to this party, but here goes. About 60 years ago, Korea (the Republic, ie the South) had a standard of living roughly on a par with Upper Volta. Its people were poorer than the average Egyptian. Now it is a rich nation, a democracy
and a feared international competitor on the economic stage.
As with Japan in earlier decades, Korea's success has come at a price, including massive work stress and even more gigantic pressure on school and university students. The nation has been clear that a highly educated population was essential for economic success. Now, Korea is getting more expansive. Its cultural centre in London shows that it wants soft power as well as export-powered material success.
As part of this process, the old-established Seoul National University has been built up as a world-class Korean university. In the QS World University Rankings it comes out in 42nd spot in the world, and in QS@s Asian rankings it is in fourth place, just behind Hong Kong and Singaporean institutions that have the advantage of working in English.
As a newish and vigorous democracy, Korea has lively politics, and in the run-up to forthcoming elections, the opposition DUP has had a great idea. Let's kill of SNU. Instead, its top people (academics and students) would be scattered throughout the land, and with it (spot the hand of the politician here) the money that goes with them.
This idea is utterly doomed. While many members of parliament might welcome some more spending in their constituency, SNU is the alma mater of a clear majority of Korean parliamentarians. And Koreans feel intense loyalty to their old college. By contrast, "only" 30 per cent of UK MPs went to Oxford or Cambridge. (10 per cent did not attend university – these useful facts from The Sutton Trust.)
Of course, it is possible to argue that SNU is too big a beast in the Korean university jungle. It has long had special funding to which other universities had limited or no access.
However, the real point is that this money has done what it was meant to do. SNU is a world institution that gives weight to the Korean education system by being the top predator in the food chain.
More to the point, Korea has other big, successful universities such as Korea U and Yonsei (often banded together with SNU as the elite SKY group), and KAIST and POSTECH, technology specialists with massively growing world renown. KAIST has also had a lot of special funding and is key to the nations's central belt of high-technology innovation. KAIST and POSTECH were 90th and 98th in the World University Rankings in 2011, with Yonsei at 129 and Korea at 190. A word too for Ewha Woman's University at 344, fighting the long battle for women
in Korean life.
Despite these successes, SNU is likely to remain the main event in the Korean university system. Killing it off would gain the other institutions little, and would leave Korea looking foolish on the world stage. I know from many visits that Korea cares more than any other nation about its standing in world university rankings. Killing off its top institution would be a remarkable act of self-mutilation. Instead, a slow reform that equalises the resources for all Korean universities is the way ahead, and will leave SNU in pride of place.
(Declaration – I founded the THES/QS rankings and now work with QS. I also present on the matter at events around the world, often in Korea.)


I'm back home now, but this study abroad was my first real experience outside of the country. I've been to Canada a couple times, but that's so much like the United States I don't even have to switch my currency over.
Over the past five weeks, I've had the opportunity to experience multiple cultures, cuisines, and learned a lot of history. Each of the cities we visited had a rich history that spanned over thousands of years. There were government buildings, castles, natural wonders, and so many more wonderful adventures.
I never knew exactly what to expect when traveling to the United Kingdom and Ireland. I expected there to be a bit of a language barrier, which there was. A lot of the accents I ran into, especially in Ireland were very thick and they pronounced some words differently. I also learned that in Ireland, instead of using jail they use the word gaol, which means the same thing.
Overall the United Kingdom was not much different from the United States. You could tell that they have been around a lot longer and actually care about their citizens and the overall well being of their country. They have had a lot longer to make their mistakes and learn from them than the United States has though. I don't think anyone would have imagined how many executions would become apart of tours later in history. Notoriously those who spoke for the people and stood up for what was right, were killed in public spectacles. The United States has a someone similar history with slavery and the blatant disrespect of minorities over the last few hundred years. The biggest difference is that it is not acknowledge here as a piece of history and how this country was built. So, I guess they have had a lot longer to see their mistakes and eventually learned to build from them.
The public transportation here in the United States needs to take a lot of notes from United Kingdom's. There are a ton of trains and busses going throughout the city at all times. You would have never thought their system would be so helpful when they have such a large number of public transportation. It truly is the best way to get around town without breaking the bank with cars or having to walk everywhere. One thing I greatly appreciated was that they would notify customers in all stations of any issues, delays, and alternative routes if they were necessary. Here the train or bus just might not come and it makes people less able to rely on public transportation. It makes it a lot harder for the people here to do the things they want to do when they can't get anywhere reliably. Another big difference is that the trains go outside of the city where things are a bit more spaced out. Once you get out of Detroit there is barely any buses that people can get around on, so people have a higher need for cars. You can see how this large use of trains and buses could help with the pollution in the area, since most people have no need for cars, which is a lot of ecofriendly than the model we have here.
The food also had some differences that were fairly noticeable. For one, the food was much fresher than what I typically have in the United States. I went to McDonald's a couple times and the burgers tasted much better than what I am used to. The portions were also larger than what I can get back home, which in most places meant your money went a lot further. When you went to expensive restaurants it was just like going to one here like, the food tasted okay but was hardly seasoned, smaller portion sizes, and the dishes were unreasonably priced (I made visiting those kinds of restaurants a rarity). Also, in London especially, the bread was sweet. I cannot quite put my finger on it, but I loved it!
The schooling and opportunities there in the past have been beneficial to those seeking higher educations, because the costs are either free or less than half of the cost attending a single year at Michigan State. With Brexit there is no telling how the education system is going to change, since the United Kingdom will be leaving the European Union. There are a lot of things that still have to be figured out. For one, it will probably much harder to travel into and out of the rest of Europe for the UK. I did notice that many businesses had help wanted signs in windows and I learned that its because the workers have gone back home. With the United Kingdom no longer in the European Union they no longer have the same resources and have no idea what is going to happen in the coming months and years. There are a lot of decisions to be made, but it is clear that the people want out of the Union. Outside of large businesses and travelers, there is little advantage that the people gain from staying apart of the EU, so they are trying something different. They are in a somewhat similar spot America was in when Trump was elected as president (not saying he was at all qualified or has done a good job at all), but they want a change. Since the old way has not worked they are going to go the drastic route and do something out of the ordinary to see if that can change things for the better.
This trip has been eye opening in a lot of ways. Our visit to the BBC in Glasglow has me thinking about different apprenticeships and internship opportunities I could look for here in the states. I got the chance to travel, get my passport stamped twice in the course of five weeks, and learn along the way. I made fourteen new friends and even learned some things about myself along the way. I can also say that I walked an average of about five and a half miles a day for five weeks. This was a great experience and I think everyone should take the time to study abroad.
I can't wait to see where I'll head to next!


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Vizio M55-E0 TV Review
October 4, 2017 by Chris Heinonen Leave a Comment
Review Specs
Far improved HDR over the 2016 model, WCG support, integrated streaming, and very accurate calibrated presets that give anyone the best image possible.
No TV tuner, integrated "apps" are slower than others and have fewer services, only one HDMI 2.0 full bandwidth input, fewer dimming zones than 2016.
For your peak TV value this year, the 2017 Vizio M-Series is hard to beat. Other than the TCL P607, that only comes in a 55" size, the Vizio offers the best combination of pure HDR and SDR performance for your dollar. It is improved over the 2016 model with much better HDR support, but gives up a little bit in SDR performance to get there.
4x HDMI (one 18.0Gb/sec), 1x Component, 1x Ethernet, 1x USB
1x Optical, 1x Analog
Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Vudu
Wi-Fi Support
3D Support
48.97"W x 30.58"H x 9.13"D
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The Vizio M-Series falls below their P-Series in terms of performance, but unlike the P-Series it has physical changes this year. While it still lacks the TV tuner that they removed last year, it has gained WCG support, better HDR, and the ability to stream content without needing to pull out your phone or tablet. With more competition than ever in this price range, can the Vizio M55-E0 offer enough performance to keep up with the pack?
Vizio M55-E0 Design and Features
Each year Vizio updates their lines and one of the hardest things for people to do is to know what's changed. So it is probably easiest to break down the differences for the 2017 M-Series models vs. the 2016 M-Series. The key differences are:
32 dimming zones for each 2017 model (vs. 64 before)
Support for wide color gamut in the 2017 models
Brighter HDR highlights in the 2017 models
No more IPS versions, only VA panels, so all offer good contrast ratios
Integrated "apps" for streaming content from Netflix and more
The drop in local dimming zones is a big change from last year. More local dimming zones provide more control over the contrast ratio of the TV and a better image. Fewer zones can mean more artifacts, like blooming or haloing with bright objects against a dark background.
Last year the M-Series offered HDR highlights but did not support wide color gamut. This year Vizio has changed that and made sure the M-Series supports all the important features to get the most out of 4K content.
This year Vizio has included a real remote control that lets you control volume and provides on-screen menus. While having menus in the tablet app were great for calibrating, where on-screen menus can affect readings, they were a pain for making quick adjustments. By moving back to a standard remote the Vizio M55-E0 is easier to control that it was last year and it still offers the app if you prefer that.
"Integrated" Streaming
A big drawback to the Vizio TVs last year in my view and that of many others was the reliance on Chromecast for streaming. While this gave you lots of services to choose from, it tied you to your phone or the included tablet. This year, Vizio is still using Chromecast but making it possible to launch that streaming from the integrated "apps".
To be clear, the Vizio doesn't have any integrated apps. Instead, it is more of a web app that you browse and then that starts the Chromecast stream. The apps are not built in, and you'll notice this as it can take a few seconds to load when you turn the Vizio on. The design also means that in theory it could be updated much faster than custom apps since it isn't an app at all, but time will tell how that goes.
Right now the Vizio M55-E0 gives you access to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Vudu and a few more less common services. The Amazon app does not provide HDR at this moment but that upgrade is planned. Vudu provides access to Dolby Vision titles, letting you stream in the maximum quality you can from any service right now.
What Vizio doesn't provide here is voice search or anything similar to look for content. Other companies are providing that in this price range, and with the wide range of streaming services out there is helps. The Vizio is an improvement over the Chromecast streaming of last year, but it lags behind what TCL, Samsung, and others are offering.
Vizio M55-E0 Image Quality
The Vizio M55-E0 supports both HDR10 and Dolby Vision, so it will take full advantage of the 4K Blu-ray discs that are available. Transformers: The Last Knight comes up short as a film but is beautiful demo material. On the Vizio M55-E0 the Dolby Vision disc is fantastic on-screen. Greens and Reds have tons of saturation and pop, looking even more vivid than they do on my non-Dolby Vision OLED. The dynamic tone mapping lets the Vizio resolve as much detail in the image as TVs that have higher nit output, giving you the full impact of HDR on-screen.
Torture testing the dynamic backlight using the hilltop scene in Harry Potter 7.2 the Vizio does very well. It keeps everything visible without losing details in the shadows. The highlights of Hogwarts in the background aren't as bright as with an OLED or an LCD with more dimming zones but it still looks great. The one thing that did trip up the local dimming was the Netflix login screen. The cursor would often cause the backlight to engage in a noticeable way, but in real-world content, I didn't see this.
What I did see on the Harry Potter hilltop scene is that the color of Voldemort's face on the HDR version was slightly off. Calibrating the display didn't correct this, it just seemed to be something with how the Vizio handles the EOTF for HDR content.
Wonder Woman is also available to stream in Dolby Vision through Vudu on the Vizio M55-E0. While much of the film has a conservative color palette, there is a tremendous use of HDR and WCG when appropriate. While the flaws of the 4K Blu-ray disc are still here, with noise in bright areas thanks to the 2K DI, the film is great on the Vizio. HDR objects like the lasso of truth light up on the screen, with lush colors on Thmeyscira and rich oranges for explosions and fires.
With HDR content, the 2017 Vizio M55-E0 is much brighter than the 2016 Vizio M-Series models. Vizio has always been a bit of an odd-ball on HDR measurements, as most TVs get dimmer when you use larger HDR windows while the Vizio always got brighter. It is as if they were keeping the local dimming backlights turned down to avoid any blooming at the expense of peak highlights. This year, despite the lower backlight zone count, highlights are much brighter than before. I measured 740 nits for the highlights with a 10% window, which was well above what they were in 2017. I don't have a 2016 on hand so perhaps they changed the backlight behavior there as well, but here HDR is much better than it was before.
Streaming The Handmaid's Tale on the integrated Hulu kinda-app worked well, though the show has a color palette that makes beige exciting. Hulu still hasn't enabled 4K streaming on devices outside of video game consoles, so the image here is relatively soft in comparison to the other titles. We didn't have any issues buffering over WiFi or Ethernet, but we also have rock-solid WiFi and Internet so it should never be a problem.
Compared to the M-Series from last year, the M55-E0 has traded off a bit of SDR performance to improve the HDR performance. SDR material looked relatively flat, coming from an OLED, but HDR material popped with vivid colors and highlights. While the Vizio M55-E0 is perfectly capable of handling SDR content just fine, it shines when given HDR content that you can expect to see more of in the future.
Calibration and Data
We measure and calibrate all our displays using CalMAN software from SpectraCal. Measurements are done with an i1Pro2 and a C6 HDR meter, along with a Murideo Six-G pattern generator. For SDR we target the Rec.709 color gamut and a BT.1886 gamma curve. For HDR we aim for a 1000 nits target along with Rec.2020 and DCI/P3 primaries.
Vizio continued to excel by offering Calibrated and Calibrated Dark presets. These are very accurate out of the box, and easy to understand. While other displays make you guess if you should use Movie, Custom, Cinema Pro, Cinema Home, ISF Expert, or some other mode, Vizio just gives it a name that is accurate and easy to understand.
Using the Calibrated preset for SDR, before calibration the M55-E0 is very accurate. The RGB balance moves towards blue a bit at the end, and the gamma tracks a bit closer to 2.3 than perfectly BT.1886 but it is very good. Looking at the saturations they all fall at 3.0 dE2000 or below, and only a handful of the ColorChecker patches go above 3.0. Luminances are well controlled, and if you look at the ColorChecker comparator, you see that the target and measured values are very close.
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After calibration, we get the grayscale to be better by a completely insignificant amount. Everything get just a hair better but to be honest, you should save yourself the time, set the brightness and contrast correctly, and you're good to go. I should note that the M55-E0 does look to clip whiter than white still in their video processing, which is one thing that they could correct since some content carries that data even if it should not.
For HDR measurements, we use a target of 1000 nits instead of relative, which is what most publications use. The reason to not use relative is that it will make an HDR TV that can do 300 nits and an HDR TV that can do 2000 nits look to be identical in how accurately they can reproduce HDR content. Since HDR is all about brightness, and about hitting that target, using relative feels like cheating to me.
Because the Vizio can do around 740 nits, you'll see that the dE2000 for the grayscale starts to rise a lot just after 55%, where the target Y (luminance) values increase. At 55% we expect 148 nits but we are getting 120, causing the dE2000 to hit 5.1. If you remove luminance, as relative does, then you'd get a dE closer to 3.3.
You can see this behavior in more detail with the larger tone mapping curves. You can see how it tracks closely from 0-40%, but from 45% on it tracks below the EOTF, with a lower light output level. This is preserving some detail at the brightest parts of the image, letting you see content from 70-85% that would otherwise be completely clipped, but it is what causes the higher dE2000 errors. On a display that can easily do 1000 nits here, like the Sony Z9D, you'd be able to use a 1000 nits target and have no real errors at all provided the EOTF and grayscale tracked correctly.
The Vizio M55-E0 covers 81.6% of the DCI/P3 xy gamut and 88.9% of the DCI/P3 uv gamut. These numbers are lower than other TVs in the price range, like the TCL P607, but because the Vizio can get brighter it winds up with a similar color volume. Each display can produce a similar number of colors, they just vary in the shades and brightness of the colors they can produce.
I tend to calibrate the white balance on HDR displays and leave most of the other controls alone. Right now they can interact so much with the tone mapping of the display, and every TV seems to handle tone mapping differently. Since their behavior isn't consistent, and can vary with test pattern versus real content much more than SDR displays do, I think you're best to choose the presets that follow the EOTF the best. Using a 20 point control is not necessary, though.
Post-calibration the errors in the grayscale from luminance are still present, but the RGB balance is better and the overall error level is lower. It's not perfect, but it is improved. With the Vizio M55-E0 I suggest just using the Calibrated preset for the most accurate images, dialing in contrast and brightness, and then adjusting the grayscale with the two point controls if you have the capability. If you do not, then I wouldn't bother paying for it as it isn't going to be worth it. Overall a well performing display for the price.
The Drawbacks
The main drawback to the Vizio M55-E0 might not even be a drawback to you, but cord cutters will miss the lack of an OTA tuner. You'll need to add an external tuner to watch network TV if you don't subscribe to cable or satellite. TV streaming services like Playstation Vue, which could provide these channels, also aren't supported with the integrated "apps", but you could start them with your phone. As someone that uses a HDHomeRun to stream their TV if I don't have a tuner, the lack of an app that supports live TV is a bummer.
Only the main HDMI input is compatible with HDMI 2.0 at full bandwidth. If you want to watch HDR content you'll need to use this one, so you'll likely need a receiver or an HDMI switch to go with it. This is something that was not a big deal last year, but with 4K Blu-ray players now only around $200, 4K game consoles with HDR coming out later this year, and 4K media streamers all over, this limitation is a bigger deal now.
Comparisons and Conclusions
The big question is how the Vizio M55-E0 matches up to the competition. At the same price, depending on which is on sale that week, you find the TCL P605 and P607. Here I feel the TCL has an advantage over the Vizio. While the Vizio has slightly wider viewing angles, the TCL has a superior streaming platform in Roku, an integrated TV tuner, and all three HDMI inputs are compatible with HDR over HDMI 2.0. The Vizio offers an extra HDMI input, but if you need an OTA tuner, that takes up one already.
That said, the TCL only comes in a 55" while you can get the Vizio in 50", 55", 65" and 75" sizes. The Vizio also offers improved build quality and a nicer design than the TCL. Another option we looked at in the similar price range is the Samsung MU8000. While it has a better OS and search feature, the image quality comes up short of the Vizio. It also lacks support for Dolby Vision but does have an integrated TV tuner. Given the choice, I'm going to take the Vizio M55-E0 over the Samsung and add-on a TV tuner, but can see where people would prefer the ease of the Samsung.
Vizio has done a good job updating the M-Series for 2017 with far better HDR performance and making it much easier to stream apps. Some people will be bothered by the lack of a tuner, like myself, but data shows that most people don't use it anyway. The M-Series had its usual throne of "Best Value TV" stolen away by TCL this year, but then TCL changed course and now it only comes in a 55" size leaving the other sizes there for Vizio to take. The Vizio is a good TV for today, but it really is ready for what is going to come in the future.
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'With changes come opportunities': first reactions to the cancellation of Art Basel in Hong Kong
Local galleries are determined to forge ahead after the fair announced it will not take place this year in light of coronavirus fears
Lisa Movius
7th February 2020 12:14 GMT
Art Basel in Hong Kong and the satellite fair Art Central have called off their 2020 editions © Art Basel
Local galleries are greeting the news that Art Basel in Hong Kong has cancelled its 2020 edition with resignation and determination to forge ahead even without the marquee event, and the concurrent Art Central, which has also been called off. "It seemed inevitable that Art Basel would have to cancel this year's fair. But we know they will be back next year better than ever. Hong Kong will remain the most important venue in Asia for Art Basel," says Fred Scholle, the founder of Galerie du Monde, the city's oldest existing art gallery. Hong Kong currently has had 24 cases of the 2019-novel coronavirus, and one fatality.
The Hong Kong Art Gallery Association is planning a board meeting on 11 February to discuss the next steps for the city, which has instituted mandatory 14-day quarantines on all travellers from mainland China. "As a gallery, we are obviously saddened by the decision to cancel ABHK and Art Central but at this point it was the sensible decision to take and we fully support it," the director of Rossi & Rossi, Fabio Rossi, who is currently the co-president of the gallery association, said in a statement. "However, the Hong Kong art scene is much more than two fairs and the auctions; it is a vibrant, creative and diverse scene made of commercial galleries, public spaces, and artists."
"The impact of the cancellation for the local and regional galleries will obviously be substantial as March had become the time of the year for not just commercial sales but, more importantly, for networking opportunities with an international audience of collectors and curators," Rossi adds. "However, with changes come opportunities. HKAGA is committed to support the local art scene and to refocus the attention to what exists in the city." Rossi says that he will proceed with the opening of his gallery's next show on 15 February, and other spaces in Wong Chuk Hang are also holding openings next week.
Henrietta Tsui-Leung, the founder and chief executive of Galerie Ora-Ora, says the cancellation has prompted her to reassess the model for her gallery. "We will plan a live stream program with my artists and ask them to talk about their art," she says. "The cancellation proves to us over and over that we need to beef up our online presence, which is cost effective for medium size galleries that don't have outposts everywhere. We are also going to be more active in the European and US markets in the next 12 to 18 months. I just think we need to be more proactive and think of creative ways not always just fairs anymore." She adds that "ABHK is still important for Hong Kong and the region, we will support their decision and find various ways to collaborate with them."
Meg Maggio, the director of Pékin Fine Art, with locations in Hong Kong and Beijing, says: "I think local smaller fairs will move in quickly to fill the void. We have already been invited to participate in new fairs in Xiamen, Bangkok, and Jakarta. "Organisers of each fair have contacted Pékin Fine Arts asking us to consider participating. The Asia regional art market will not contract because of the absence of Hong Kong based fairs. The appetite for high quality artworks by Asian artists will not diminish." Albeit for vastly different reasons, the cancellation of Art Basel in Hong Kong evokes the 2013 pause of erstwhile giant SH Contemporary in Shanghai, creating a vacuum which was filled by then-upstart fairs Art 021 and, the following year, West Bund Art and Design. Without an Asian Art Basel, the proliferating ranks of regional fairs may prove more crucial in 2020.
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If I have a class named SomeClassThatDoesSomething and go to declare a reference to it, I used to could type "final SomeClassThatDoesSomething sctds =" and IDEA would let me.
Now there is this infurating "feature" that converts that into someClassThatDoesSomething instead of just taking what I typed in.
How do I disable this completely counter productive behavior.
This is about CREATING new reference names not COMPLETION of EXISTING names and that is already disabled still does it. Very frustrating!
Plus I WANT that to work on COMPLETION of EXISTING names, but NOT on CREATION.
Please provide a video of the problem with this option disabled.
does not matter what I type, anything other than ESCAPE and it automatically inserts the exact name of the class but in lowerCamelCase, this is very easy to replicate.
I do not have recording software on my machine nor the desire to hunt something down and install it for something that is this easy to replicate.
Not reproducible with that option disabled.
if I type anything other than sioobe it does not auto insert the long name, but if it is the exact set of capitalized letters it auto selects.
See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-88179 and the linked issues. If you disable the option shown on my screenshot, it will not select this variant on space and `sioobe` will remain after you press space or =, otherwise you confirm the completion choice that is displayed in the popup. With the option disabled, you will need to press Enter for code completion.


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Q: Insert copy of a row multiple times with 1 column changed I have the table
+---------------------+
| ID | Code | Amount  |
+---------------------+
| 1  | 101  | 1.2     |
| 2  | 101  | 1.3     |
| 3  | 101  | 1.3     |
| 4  | 101  | 1.4     |
| 5  | 101  | 1.2     |
| 6  | 101  | 1.5     |
| 7  | 101  | 1.4     |
| 8  | 101  | 1.3     |
| 9  | 101  | 1.1     |
| 10 | 101  | 1.0     |
+---------------------+

I am trying to copy each row with a unique ID around 20 times and changing
So my output should be like this.
+---------------------+
| ID | Code | Amount -|
+---------------------+
| 1  | 101  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 102  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 103  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 104  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 105  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 106  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 107  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 108  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 109  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 110  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 115  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 118  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 121  | 1.2     |
| 1  | 119  | 1.2     |
| 2  | 101  | 1.3     |
| 2  | 102  | 1.3     |
| 2  | 103  | 1.3     |
| 2  | 104  | 1.3     |
+---------------------+

And so on for the table. The codes are going to be the same for each ID. They are not in an order like my example table above so I will need to hard code them in somewhere. There is 20 more codes I need to add for each ID. The amount will be the same. The ID will be the same. But the code is always going to be different.
I need to update this table to reflect this.
I am having trouble doing it. I can copy the row once. And then change the code. But I can only do that for the first ID and I cannot do any more. Help is very much apreciated.
Thanks,

A: Create a simple 1-column table with the additional codes.
CREATE TABLE AdditionalCodes (Code int)

INSERT INTO AdditionalCodes VALUES (102), (103), (104), (105)

Now all you have to do is join this table with the original table, and insert the result.
INSERT INTO MyTable (ID, Code, Amount)
SELECT t.ID, c.Code, t.Amount
FROM MyTable t, AdditionalCodes c

A: You can use a CTE or subquery to define the codes.  Here is a method using VALUES():
select t.id, c.code, t.amount
from thetable t cross join
     (values(101), (102), (103), . . . ) codes(code);


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Published Date: 9. March, 2012
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sarah j ritch
sarah j ritch is a composer and improviser from chicago whose interest in classical composition arose from both her studies in piano and cello as well as explorations of the guitar and bass in punk and metal bands in las vegas between 1996 and 2003. she eventually landed in chicago and earned a bachelor of music from roosevelt university and a post-baccalaureate certificate in sound from the school of the art institute of chicago. she has been the composer-in-residence for chicago classical ensembles the millennium chamber players and anaphora, and regularly performs solo and with her free improv group sound collision alliance.
on her debut album, string theory, sarah displays her interest in both improvised noise and notated tonal music as she explores the acoustic structures of strings and sines. over the course of the album electronically treated cello gives way to droning and pizzicato violin; a pure drone at the center resolves itself with a rising and falling violin sonata; and a cello converses with itself in woodtones.
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr048-sarah-j-ritch-string-theory/
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jim baker / sarah j. ritch – live at the surplus of options sound collision alliance – 53:38 sarah rasines – every single girl deserves a song ?alos – ricordi indelebili Frank Wilke / Andrè D. – Vertical Theory
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A group of 81 House Democrats pressured the IRS on Friday to develop a plan to address what the agency itself has called a significant "frustrating" backlog in tax returns that threatens to delay refunds for the 2022 filing season.
Led by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), the lawmakers warned a delay in refunds due to the processing backlog is "causing taxpayers severe financial hardships and loss" — with many missing key tax documents needed to place a down payment on a mortgage or apply for student aid.
"No taxpayer should have to lose out on the opportunity to purchase a home and or enroll in college because they are waiting for their returns to be processed," the lawmakers said in a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.
Both the IRS and its watchdog agency, the Taxpayer Advocate Service, have warned of likely processing delays for the upcoming tax season. The IRS had a backlog of more than 6 million unprocessed individual tax returns and 2.3 million unprocessed amended returns as of mid-December.
House Democrats are calling on the IRS to address the tax return backlog as the 2022 filing season nears.
Rep. Eric Swalwell is leading the charge of Democrats who want actionable change at the IRS this year.
The IRS did not immediately return The Post's request for comment on the letter.
The lawmakers noted that understaffed offices have left taxpayers with "an inability to even reach an IRS customer service representative" and caused an uptick of inquiries to local branches of the Taxpayer Advocate Service.
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In a letter, Democratic lawmakers said some Americans were facing financial hardships due to delays in receiving their refunds from 2021.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig had earlier warned that this filing season would be frustrating due to staffing issues at the agency.
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Meanwhile, National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins said the public could face "even longer delays" this year.
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The CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths brings in 2 Supermen and a Hunter.
Have you been wanting to see Tom Welling reprise his role as Clark Kent? Maybe you are a Brandon Routh fan and want to see more of him in the blue tights and red cape. Or you are a Birds of prey fan (yep, I am one), and you want to see Ashley Scott be the Huntress again, (yes). If you are any of these fanboys/fangirls wanting this, you will be excited to know (or you already do know), that all of those are happening.
The CW is bringing, "Crisis o Infinite Earths" to the Arrowverse starting December 8, 2019 I Supergirl and then will span through the other shows, Batwoman, The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and Arrow. If you are not familiar with the story, it is one of the more famous and well-done stories for DC comics. It came out in 1985, wrote by Marv Wolfman and drawn by George Perez, both of which are great guys, and took place in pretty much all the DC titles. There was a 12-issue title for it that was the center focal point of the story. That story, which I will not give spoilers with the CW shows going to be doing it, but it was about the multiverse for DC.
The main villain was this guy called the Anti-Monitor who wanted to take over all of reality, you know, like all good villains want to do. Because it was the multiverse, there were multiple versions of the characters and not all were good.
One being the Kingdom Come Superman, who was older and not so much the boy scout any longer. Guess who will be playing this version of Superman? That's right, Brandon Routh. Now, I'm not a huge fan of his version of Superman in "Superman Returns", but it's not bad, and it has some good points. One being I did like the suit, well, the small S is not my favorite, but the overall look of the suit is cool. The texture and those little s's are really cool in my opinion. Well, this new suit he has for the Kingdome Come Superman is downright awesome. Check out these images posted with him and his grey hair.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B27S_CWFMpq/?utm_source=ig_embed
We now know what version of Superman Brandon Routh is playing the big question I have is, will Tom Welling be putting on the tights?
Do you remember when Smallville first was on? The creators had a rule, no flights, no tights. They stuck by that rule and we never saw him in the suit for 10 seasons and finally in the last episode we see him become Superman. Now he's older and I want to see Tom Welling be the Superman that he should have been when the show ended. The one that most people wanted to see on the big screen, me included, where he has the suit and he is the Man of Steel. There are no photos of him in the suit but Erica Durance, aka Lois Lane from Smallville, did post this on her Instagram of her and Tom together.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B24bciDDvD9/
Right now, I don't know anything about Ashley Scott aside from that she will be the Huntress once more. I'm looking forward to seeing her costume. Will it be the one from the original show? Will it be the purple one from the comic? Maybe it will be all new? Only way to find out will be to watch and I can't wait to watch it.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reigning "Jeopardy!" champion Mattea Roach represents a new generation of the quiz show's all-star players.
As of Friday, the 23-year-old Canadian has won 19 games and amassed $469,184 in prize money, putting her among the top 10 contestants for both consecutive victories and regular-season winnings in "Jeopardy!" history.
Roach, who begins her fifth week of competition Monday, is in the company of veteran standout players including Ken Jennings, who's currently hosting the show, and this season's champs Amy Schneider and Matt Amodio.
"The fact that I'm now one of the best players of all time hasn't fully sunk in yet. It doesn't really feel real," said Roach, the first Gen Zer to be dubbed a "super champion" by the show for achieving a double-digit string of wins. (Generation Z generally refers to those born from 1997 to 2012.)
A tutor for aspiring law school students, and perhaps one herself, she plays with a breezy confidence. Roach is relaxed enough to casually think out loud about her approach, as she did when she hit a crucial Double Jeopardy last Wednesday.
"You know what, if I wager a lot and lose today, like whatever, I had such a good run," Roach mused, then successfully wagered a hefty $8,000 and ended up taking the game from formidable challenger Ben Hsia of Fremont, California.
The category was anatomy, the clue was "To gently tease another person," and Roach's slightly exasperated response: "I should have wagered more. What is 'rib'?"
Besides conservative bets, her play has been distinguished by the broad range of knowledge and buzzer command that "Jeopardy!" champs have. Athletic skill doesn't contribute to the latter, said Roach, who admits that sports isn't a favored category.
Among her trademarks are an engaging smile and demure wave to the camera at the start of a game; tattoos including Talking Heads song lyrics, and attire that's on the serious side but with a touch of personal flair. For a recent interview, however, she paired a T-shirt with denim.
"There's no denim on 'Jeopardy!'" Roach said, helpfully. As for her on-camera wardrobe, it's all clothes she already owned — "I hate shopping," she said — and which she figured would send the right message.
"I wanted to be comfortable, I wanted to look professional and I wanted to express my personality, and I think I accomplished that," she said.
A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, who lives in Toronto, Roach credits her love of learning to her mother, Patti MacKinnon, an auditor, and her father, Phil Roach, who works in human resources. Mattea Roach began reading at age 3, skipped a grade in elementary school and enrolled at the University of Toronto when she was 16.
After mom and dad helped pay for the first two years of college, Roach put herself through the rest.
"I have three younger siblings at home, and even with them (her parents) both working there's only so much money to go around," she said. "I figured I can work, so why would I not be?"
She majored in sexual diversity studies and earned minors in political science and women and gender studies. The school's debate program helped her gain poise and tackle unfamiliar subjects, presumably helpful training for "Jeopardy!" — and maybe politics.
As a youngster, Roach said, she had a vague interest in the "workings of government" and, while she's retained an interest in it, she realized it wouldn't be a good fit. Despite the flurry of media and online attention that "Jeopardy!" has brought, "I'm actually a very private person, and I prefer to have a relatively more normal job," she said.
She was applying to law school when "Jeopardy!" summoned her to be a contestant. Her success and that of Amodio (38 wins, $1.52 million) and Schneider (40 wins, $1.38 million) has made the show's 2021-22 season a memorable one.
Roach mentioned on air that she would be able to pay off her student loans after her first win. What is she planning to do as the sum has grown?
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