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Big Fish Games partners with Coinbase for Bitcoin acceptance
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Internet media delivery software and game service provider Big Fish Games has partnered with Bitcoin Bitcoin While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we've gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC's first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John's.One could now argue that While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we've gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC's first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John's.One could now argue that Read this Term wallet and merchant service provider CoinBase to accept the cryptocurrency for its array of products.
The partnership will result in all games offering the option to be purchased with Bitcoin. Free games will offer BTC as an option for in-app purchases. The partnership marks Big Fish as Coinbase's first foray into online games and gaming.
"Being able to offer bitcoin Payments Payments One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl Read this Term to our consumers through Coinbase is just one more way Big Fish is meeting demand and setting the pace for the mainstream consumer and for the mainstream industry. This is not a test, this payment method will be available worldwide for all of Big Fish PC and Mac games in the Big Fish app store. We are excited to offer this new payment method to the nearly 105 million annual mainstream game players that visit our game app stores, with the reassurance that Big Fish is working with Coinbase, one of the most secure and reputable companies in the bitcoin industry," stated Big Fish chief executive and founder Paul Thelen.
Given the digital currency took a hit this last couple of weeks with the fall of once the world's largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox, we still see more merchant services being offered, showing its immense popularity.
"Base fees on credit cards can take 15% or more of small purchases on the internet. Big Fish not only wanted to have an alternative and less costly form of payment, but also wanted to stay ahead of the curve by offering its customers options on how to pay for their entertainment," added Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam in a press release.
Coinbase is leading the pack of Bitcoin accepting merchants and provides its services for OverStock.com and Fiverr among other platforms. Coinbase recently also partnered with Balanced to offer subscription and reoccurring Bitcoin payments.
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Manawatū and Horowhenua
Manawatū and Horowhenua region
Story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
Features of the landscape
Human impact on the environment
Māori and European newcomers, 1820–1870
Rapid change: 1870–1880
Unsettled times: 1880–1910
Heyday: 1910s to 1960s
Challenges: 1960s to 2000s
Culture and heritage to 1940
Culture and heritage since 1940
Trondhjem sawmill
The Scandinavian partnership of Richter and Nannestad built this large sawmill on the Whanganui railway line in 1878, at what is now Bunnythorpe. The workers' settlement was named Trondhjem (Trondheim), the capital of Norway during the Viking era and birthplace of one of the partners.
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Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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Local Foods, based in Houston, aims to source ingredients from local farms. (Courtesy Dani Parsons)
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The Cambria Hotel Austin Downtown will open in summer 2023. Located at 68 East Ave., Austin, the 14-story, 212-room hotel will include a multifunctional meeting space, a fitness center, a pool, a bar and other amenities. This is the third property for Cambria Hotels in Austin, which broke ground on the project in October. www.choicehotels.com/cambria
Houston-based restaurant Local Foods will open its first Austin location in February at 454 W. Second St., Austin. The menu will focus on ingredients from local farms, serving sandwiches, salads and sides alongside wine, beer and coffee. Local Foods' Austin pop-up location at 5350 Burnet Road will continue to offer takeout and delivery service until the downtown restaurant opens. www.localfoodstexas.com
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Oman faced defeat in the hands of Bangladesh in sixth match of Men's T20 World Cup at Al Amerat on Tuesday.
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Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah chose to bat against Oman. The team scored 153. Oman's team struck 127 for nine in 20 overs.
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Islamabad: President Dr Arif Alvi has apologized to an aged taxpayer over administrative injustice by the Federal Board of Revenue.
In a press release issued on Sunday, the president expressed dismay over the treatment of an 82 years old tax payer by the FBR and directed FBR chairman to take punitive action against the entire chain of decision-makers involved in the case.
He directed the Chairman of FBR to look into the entire system of irresponsibility and corruption and take punitive action against the entire chain of decision makers involved in the case.
Dr Arif Alvi took exception to the decision of FBR against a senior citizen that refused him to refund a paltry sum of 2,333 rupees on frivolous grounds and dragged him into unnecessary litigation spanning over a year. Apologizing to the senior citizen Abdul Hamid Khan, the President said that our heads should hang in shame for the inconvenience caused by FBR to the senior citizen.
Apologizing to the senior citizen Abdul Hamid Khan, the president said that their heads should hang in shame for the inconvenience caused by the FBR to a senior citizen.
The president took exception to the decision of FBR against the senior citizen in which the bureau had refused to refund a paltry sum of Rs2,333 on frivolous grounds and dragged him into unnecessary litigation spanning over a year.
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The president while rejecting FBR's appeal in the instant complaint observed that it appeared that unlawful treatment meted out in the instant case with a view to irritate and humiliate the aging pensioner.
Abdul Hamid Khan (the complainant), a senior citizen of 82 years of age, had claimed a refund of Rs 2,333 on his income tax return for the year 2020 and submitted requisite documents of advance tax deduction of the PTCL and cell phone company bills on 19.10.2020.
The complainant e-filed refund application on 19th October, 2020 followed by representation to FBR Chairman on 24th December, 2020.
The Unit officer of FBR rejected his refund claim, on 29.01.2021, on the grounds that the applicant had failed to furnish the original certificates required for authentication.
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It further ordered to identify and initiate disciplinary proceedings against the official who passed the impugned order in derogation of the law and procedures and dragged the aging taxpayer into unnecessary litigation as well as report compliance within 45 days. Consequently, FBR filed a representation with the president against the original order of FTO on 24.06.2021.
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Q: Comparing images and labeling the differences c# I am currently working on a project in which I am required to write software that compares two images made up of the same area and draws a box around the differences.  I wrote the program in c# .net in a few hours but soon realized it was INCREDIBLY expensive to run.  Here are the steps I implemented it in.

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*Created a Pixel class that stores the x,y coordinates of each pixel and a PixelRectangle class that stores a list of pixels along with width,height,x and y properties.

*Looped through every pixel of each image, comparing the colour of each corresponding pixels.  If the colour was different I then created a new pixel object with the x,y coordinates of that pixel and added it to a pixelDifference List.

*Next I wrote a method that recursively checks each pixel in the pixelDifference list to create PixelRectangle objects that only contain pixels that are directly next to each other.  (Pretty sure this bad boy is causing the majority of the destruction as it gave me a stack overflow error.)

*I then worked out the x,y coordinates and dimensions of the rectangle based on the pixels that were stored in the list of the PixelRectangle Object and drew a rectangle over the original image to show where the differences were.
My questions are: Am I going about this the correct way?  Would a quad tree hold any value for this project?  If you could give me the basic steps on how something like this is normally achieved I would be grateful.  Thanks in advance.

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*Dave.

A: looks like you want to implement blob detection. my suggestion is not to reinvent the wheel and just use openCVSharp or emgu to do this. google 'blob detection' & opencv
if you want to do it yourself here my 2 cents worth:
first of all, let's clarify what you want to do. really two separate things:

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*compute the difference between two images (i am assuming they are
the same dimensions)

*draw a box around 'areas' that are 'different' as measured by 1. questions here are what is an 'area' and what is considered 'different'.
my suggestion for each step:
(my assumption is both images a grey scale. if not, compute the sum of colours for each pixel to get grey value)
1) cycle through all pixels in both images and subtract them. set a threshold on the absolute difference to determine if their difference is sufficient to represent and actual change in the scene (as opposed to sensor noise etc if the images are from a camera). then store the result in a third image. 0 for no difference. 255 for a difference. if done right this should be REALLY fast. however, in C# you must use pointers to get a decent performance. here an example of how to do this (note: code not tested!!) :
  /// <summary>
    /// computes difference between two images and stores result in a third image
    /// input images must be of same dimension and colour depth
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="imageA">first image</param>
    /// <param name="imageB">second image</param>
    /// <param name="imageDiff">output 0 if same, 255 if different</param>
    /// <param name="width">width of images</param>
    /// <param name="height">height of images</param>
    /// <param name="channels">number of colour channels for the input images</param>
    unsafe void ComputeDiffernece(byte[] imageA, byte[] imageB, byte[] imageDiff, int width, int height, int channels, int threshold)
    {
        int ch = channels;

        fixed (byte* piA = imageB, piB = imageB, piD = imageDiff)
        {

            if (ch > 1) // this a colour image (assuming for RGB ch == 3 and RGBA  == 4)
            {
                for (int r = 0; r < height; r++)
                {
                    byte* pA = piA + r * width * ch;
                    byte* pB = piB + r * width * ch;
                    byte* pD = piD + r * width; //this has only one channels!

                    for (int c = 0; c < width; c++)
                    {
                        //assuming three colour channels. if channels is larger ignore extra (as it's likely alpha)
                        int LA = pA[c * ch] + pA[c * ch + 1] + pA[c * ch + 2];
                        int LB = pB[c * ch] + pB[c * ch + 1] + pB[c * ch + 2];

                        if (Math.Abs(LA - LB) > threshold)
                        {
                            pD[c] = 255;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            pD[c] = 0;
                        }

                    }
                }
            }
            else //single grey scale channels
            {
                for (int r = 0; r < height; r++)
                {
                    byte* pA = piA + r * width;
                    byte* pB = piB + r * width;
                    byte* pD = piD + r * width; //this has only one channels!

                    for (int c = 0; c < width; c++)
                    {
                        if (Math.Abs(pA[c] - pB[c]) > threshold)
                        {
                            pD[c] = 255;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            pD[c] = 0;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

2)
not sure what you mean by area here. several solutions depending on what you mean. from simplest to hardest.
a) colour each difference pixel red in your output
b) assuming you only have one area of difference (unlikely) compute the bounding box of all 255 pixels in your output image. this can be done using a simple max  / min for both x and y positions on all 255 pixels. single pass through the image and should be very fast.
c) if you have lots of different areas that change - compute the "connected components". that is a collection of pixels that are connected to each other. of course this only works in a binary image (i.e. on or off, or 0 and 255 as in our case). you can implement this in c# and i have done this before. but i won't do this for you here. it's a bit involved. algorithms are out there. again opencv or google connected components.
once you have a list of CC's draw a box around each. done.

A: You're pretty much going about it the right way. Step 3 shouldn't be causing a StackOverflow exception if it's implemented correctly so I'd take a closer look at that method.
What's most likely happening is that your recursive check of each member of PixelDifference is running infinitely. Make sure you keep track of which Pixels have been checked. Once you check a Pixel it no longer needs to be considered when checking neighbouring Pixels. Before checking any neighbouring pixel make sure it hasn't already been checked itself.
As an alternative to keeping track of which Pixels have been checked you can remove an item from PixelDifference once it has been checked. Of course, this may require a change in the way you implement your algorithm since removing an element from a List while checking it can bring a whole new set of issues.

A: There's a much simpler way of finding the difference of two images.
So if you have two images
Image<Gray, Byte> A;
Image<Gray, Byte> B;

You can get their differences fast by
A - B

Of course, images don't store negative values so to get differences in cases where pixels in image B are greater than image A
B - A

Combining these together
(A - B) + (B - A)

This is ok, but we can do even better.
This can be evaluated using Fourier transforms.
CvInvoke.cvDFT(A.Convert<Gray, Single>().Ptr, DFTA.Ptr, Emgu.CV.CvEnum.CV_DXT.CV_DXT_FORWARD, -1);
CvInvoke.cvDFT(B.Convert<Gray, Single>().Ptr, DFTB.Ptr, Emgu.CV.CvEnum.CV_DXT.CV_DXT_FORWARD, -1);

CvInvoke.cvDFT((DFTB - DFTA).Convert<Gray, Single>().Ptr, AB.Ptr, Emgu.CV.CvEnum.CV_DXT.CV_DXT_INVERSE, -1);
CvInvoke.cvDFT((DFTA - DFTB).Ptr, BA.Ptr, Emgu.CV.CvEnum.CV_DXT.CV_DXT_INVERSE, -1);

I find that the results from this method are much better.
You can make a binary image out of this, ie: threshold the image so pixels with no change have 0 while pixels that have changes store 255.
Now as far as the second part of the problem goes, I suppose there's a simple crude solution:
Partition the image into rectangular regions. Perhaps there's no need to go as far as using  quad trees. Say, an 8x8 grid... (For different results, you can experiment with different grid sizes).
Then use the convex hull function within these regions. These convex hulls can be turned into rectangles by finding the min and max x an y coordinates of their vertices.
Should be fast and simple

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United Kingdom Infrared Telescope
(Redirected from UKIRT)
UKIRT, the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope, is a 3.8 metre (150 inch) infrared reflecting telescope, the second largest dedicated infrared (1 to 30 micrometres) telescope in the world. Until 2014 it was operated by the Joint Astronomy Centre in Hilo and located on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i as part of Mauna Kea Observatory. It was owned by the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council. UKIRT is currently being funded by NASA and operated under scientific cooperation between Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, the University of Hawaii, and the U. S. Naval Observatory. The telescope is set to be decommissioned after completion of the Thirty Meter Telescope as part of the Mauna Kea Comprehensive Management Plan.[1]
Mauna Kea, Hawaii County, US
19°49′21″N 155°28′14″W / 19.8225°N 155.47069444444°W / 19.8225; -155.47069444444Coordinates: 19°49′21″N 155°28′14″W / 19.8225°N 155.47069444444°W / 19.8225; -155.47069444444
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Infrared telescope
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Like related telescopes on Tenerife, it is a Cassegrain device with a thin primary mirror, around 2/3 thinner than in other contemporary devices and weighing only 6.5 tonnes. The mirror is held in a massive steel 'cell' of 20 tonnes which is linked to the supports by Serrurier trusses. The instrument is held and pointed by a massive 'English Equatorial mounting' or yoke which sits on ball-bearings on steel piers, swinging east-west and rotating around north-south. The geometry of the mount limits the telescopes access to objects between +60 and -40 degrees of declination but it is extremely sturdy and free from deformation and so allows very accurate pointing.
The telescope was built between 1975 and 1978; the mechanical systems were built by Dunford Hadfields Limited of Sheffield and the optics by Grubb Parsons of Newcastle. Originally known as the Infrared Flux Collector it began operation in October 1979.
With the delivery of the wide-field imager WFCAM in 2004, UKIRT began a revolutionary large-scale sky survey (the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey, UKIDSS). This project takes some 80% of the available telescope time in wide-field mode. Wide-field takes some 60% of the telescope; the other 40% is devoted to operations with the Cassegrain instrumentation. In December 2008 it was announced that the telescope would be moving to wide-field mode full-time [2].
Since December 13, 2010 UKIRT is operated remotely from Hilo in a minimalist operation mode (no observers present). Most of the time is used by the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey, but some 60+ nights per year are used by Korean institutes.
A UKIRT infrared survey was used to discover a redshift distance record breaking Quasar in 2011.[2] The Quasar could not be seen in visible light, but could in the longer wavelengths observed by UKIRT.[2] The UKIDSS observations allowed astronomers to find the most distant quasar in 2011.[3] It took five years to find this item but once found, other telescopes such as the VLT further analyzed it.[3]
UKIRT was used for UKIDSS, which provided a big improvement over 2MASS.[4]
InstrumentationEdit
UKIRT at sunset
UKIRT has four Cassegrain instruments of which 3 can be on the telescope at the same time and a wide-field imager placed forward of the Cassegrain focus.
CGS4 is a cooled-grating spectrometer with a 90-arcsecond long slit, at spectral resolutions between about 1,000 and 30,000.
Michelle is a 320x240 pixel mid-infrared imager/spectrometer operating between 10 and 20 micrometres.
UFTI is a 1024x1024 pixel imager operating between 0.8 and 2.5 micrometres.
UIST is a 1024x1024 pixel imager/spectrometer operating between 0.8 and 5 micrometres, and offering an integral field mode 3x6 arcseconds in size.
WFCAM (at forward Cassegrain) is a wide-field imager with four 2048x2048 arrays, each of which covers a field 13.6 arcminutes on a side, for a total field of view of about 0.2 square degrees.
UpgradesEdit
Though it was built inexpensively, UKIRT has been extensively upgraded. A program of improvements from 1990 to 1998 greatly improved the imaging performance, and in 2001 the telescope delivered median infrared seeing ranging from 0.8 arcseconds at dusk to 0.5 arcseconds in the early morning.[5] Between 1998 and 2003, two major software projects were undertaken - the ORAC project providing a major upgrade to the user interface and automating telescope operations, and the OMP providing a comprehensive observation database and data feedback mechanisms. Since 2003, using these two software enhancements, UKIRT has carried out highly efficient flexible scheduling - tailoring observation execution to the prevailing weather conditions. Observations are selected from the database according to the current seeing, atmospheric water vapour, sky transparency and a science priority allocated by the telescope time allocation panel.
Continuing operationsEdit
It was announced on 16 December 2009 that the telescope is "subject to discussions leading to managed withdrawal".[6] In 2012, its shutdown for end of the 2013 was announced. The possibility of transfer was noted as a possibility.[7] In 2014 the telescope ownership was transferred to the University of Hawaii. It is being operated under a Scientific Cooperation Agreement among the University of Arizona, the University of Hawaii and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center. Funding for operations is currently being provided by the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona is responsible for daily operations and scientific productivity. Technical support is provided by East Asian Observatory, the successor organization operating the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. In addition to NASA mission support, observing time is provided to astronomers and planetary scientists at the University of Hawaii and University of Arizona and researchers at LM-ATC. The UK continues to provide support for data pipelines and archives for the Wide-Field Camera and receives a share of the time for survey projects of joint interest.
Contemporaries on commissioningEdit
Although seeing in the infrared, the UKIRT was large for an optical telescope and signaled a coming focus on this part of the spectrum that only grew in the coming decades. Other IR-dedicated telescopes include WIRO 2.3 in Wyoming, USA,[8] the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope (TIRGO, 1.5 m) in the Swiss alps, and a 1.6 m at Mont Mégantic Observatory in Canada. Eventually, Britain produced VISTA, but it is in the southern hemisphere.
Here is the UKIRT (then called Infrared Flux Collector) compared to the other largest optical telescopes circa 1978, only some of these could also see in the near infrared.
Name(s) /
BTA-6
Special Astrophysical Obs
238 inch
605 cm Visible 2070 m
(6791 ft) 1975
Hale Telescope
Palomar Obs.
Mayall Telescope
Kitt Peak National Obs.
Blanco Telescope
CTIO Obs.
7217 feet 1976
Anglo-Australian Telescope
Siding Spring Obs.
Joint Astronomy Centre
380 cm Infrared 4205 m
(13,800 ft) 1979
ESO 3.6 m Telescope
ESO La Silla Obs.
357 cm Visible
Infrared 2400 m
Shane Telescope
List of largest infrared telescopes
List of most distant astronomical objects
^ "Third Maunakea observatory set for decommissioning". University of Hawaii News. University of Hawaii. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
^ a b Iain Coleman - Universe's most distant quasar found (Thursday, 30 June 2011) - Cosmos Online Archived July 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ a b Most Distant Quasar Found
^ Farewell UKIRT
^ "Home - Science and Technology Facilities Council". www.scitech.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
^ STFC Archived November 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ http://physics.uwyo.edu/~mpierce/WIRO/
http://www.ukirt.hawaii.edu
http://www.ukirt.hawaii.edu/telescope/telescope.html
http://www.ukidss.org/
https://www.as.arizona.edu/ukirt
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Episode 106 :: Robert Ellis :: The Trouble with Buddhism
By Ted Meissner | March 3, 2012
Robert Ellis speaks with us today about his book The Trouble with Buddhism: How the Buddhist Tradition Has Betrayed its Own Insights.
It seems that there continues to be a deep divide between traditional approaches to Buddhism, and secular approaches to Buddhism. It's not our practice, we all do essentially the same kinds of activities, the same kinds of meditation, and we all make our sincerest efforts to be mindful and use right speech, for example. There are some variations, of course, but whether one lights incense or chants doesn't seem to raise ire as much as a philosophical disagreement about assertions not in evidence. Usually, this centers around concepts of literal rebirth, or the possibility — let alone testability — of enlightenment.
One reason secular practice continues to set aside claims about past lives is that, so far, they do not have a reliable and unambiguous means of demonstrating the causative relationship between what are so far at most, interesting stories. If it were clear and unambiguous, if one could demonstrate that relationship in conditions which control for our human tendencies to overspeak our case, to misremember and reinterpret inaccurate stories from accurate reflections of the real world, it wouldn't be a problem! But it is. And other traditions from Buddhism have their own stories about what happens upon the ending of physical life, and they find them equally compelling.
Sincere, honest, free inquiry is the appoach many of us who have a secular practice, take. Stories, though they can be inspiring and helpful, are not facts, and if you accept your own without evidence, you must also accept other stories without evidence. Out of a genuine interest in ascertaining what is true from what is false, we can only begin the journey based on what we can mutually agree to and show one another. But traditional attitudes commonly disparage that as not having enough faith, and being a lesser path. Despite Buddha's own admonishment to question.
Robert M. Ellis graduated from Cambridge University, UK 1989, and got his Ph.D. from Lancaster University, UK 2001. He has taught in colleges and universities, and now works as a distance learning tutor of philosophy, religious studies, critical thinking and politics. Robert is also author of A Theory of Moral Objectivity, The Trouble with Buddhism, and A New Buddhist Ethics, as well as educational resources and occasional creative writing.
So, sit back, relax, and have a nice Lumbini.
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Moral Objectivity
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Mark Knickelbine on March 6, 2012 at 9:19 am
I have to admit a bit of disappointment with this episode. You never got around to asking him what he means when he uses the phrase Middle Way. It sounds like he is going beyond how Gotama used the term — i.e., an alternative to either hedonism and asceticism — and has some kind of general philosophical principle in mind.
Ted Meissner on March 6, 2012 at 10:19 am
Hi, Mark. Hopefully Robert can address that very question here on the page, he is happily active online and then you can have the engagement directly.
Robert M. Ellis on March 9, 2012 at 3:44 am
I tried to post here earlier but there was a technical problem.
You can find my definition of the Middle Way on http://www.moralobjectivity.net/concept%20-%20Middle_Way.html .
Linda on March 11, 2012 at 9:30 pm
Thank you to Robert for sharing your views in conversation with Ted. I especially appreciated your thoughts on "hard agnosticism".
It seems to me that the Buddha's approach was to demonstrate by living example just how strongly he felt about not holding views by refusing to engage in debates over metaphysics. What is, to me, really beautiful about the way he put his stance into practice is that it remains a vivid demonstration of the principal that holding a belief — any belief, even if it is a belief that something doesn't exist — and engaging in debates over it is divisive and unnecessary — he proves his conviction about this by sticking to the program he lays out. Arguing about things not in evidence rarely changes minds, and adds significantly to the misery in the world. He was constantly telling us to just concentrate on and work with that which we can directly experience, and counselling us to refuse to worry about, or argue over the things that are beyond experience precisely because doing so increases dukkha.
It can be a challenge to maintain an agnostic stance when we do have an expectation that certain things are probable (like when life ends, it ends, and there is nothing of us that continues; or perhaps that rebirth seems logical as it allows consciousness to evolve) but in refusing to debate endlessly over unprovable things, we have so much more energy to direct to taking care of the things we can understand and learn from through cause and effect — making those wise choices every moment, as Ted mentions at the end of his podcasts. Those choices are based on visible, testable realities which, though experiential and, consequently, not precisely measurable, we have much more information about them than about speculative metaphysics.
But beyond even that is the way that sticking to an agnostic stance opens up our ability to talk to those whose beliefs or tendencies might be different from our own. If we just stick to the here and now, we have a great deal of common ground we can talk about. As soon as we start debating, we're back in the unresolvable black hole of divisive arguments over unprovable things. To secular Buddhists it's quite clear that assertions over things not in evidence are a problem — and those who tell us not believing in these is wrong are being divisive. It might be less obvious (but still true) that when we assert unprovable things (there is no rebirth, god, or whatever) we are doing the same thing. We are convinced we are in the right because it's a fact that you can't prove a negative, but that doesn't change the fact that we are arguing for something for which there is no evidence — so both sides are in the realm of the unprovable.
It is far a far more generous stance to just refrain from arguing over whether there is or is not rebirth, is or is not a God, and stick to looking at how holding views affects practice.
David Chou on July 26, 2013 at 8:18 am
"Moderation in everything" they say…even, I say, moderation itself.
Robert M. Ellis on March 15, 2012 at 4:21 am
I very much agree with you here, Linda, especially over the way an agnostic stance can support meaningful dialogue with people of all persuasions. However, such helpful dialogue depends on being able to distinguish the meaningful aspects of their views from the metaphysical assertions. I think a certain decisiveness is needed (hence the hard agnosticism) in rejecting the polarities of metaphysical debate to enable helpful dialogue to occur. In order to reach the stage of hard agnosticism a certain amount of even-handed critical discussion of the metaphysical positions might also be needed. It is the even-handedness that I think is important here and that I sometimes find missing from secular Buddhism as I have encountered it so far – if criticising theism we need to criticise atheism too, and when criticising the dogmas of religion also criticise the dogmas of scientism. I don't think we can just refrain from arguing – it is the way we argue that requires reflection and skill. Argument needs to be supportive of practical goals rather than engaged in just for its own sake or as part of a power-struggle.
This relates to the blog entry I put up recently on the UK Secular Buddhism site (http://secularbuddhism.co.uk/blogs/) on the Middle Way as a potential core principal for secular Buddhism.


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Crosby loses starting role with A's new arrivals
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Crosby unhappy with A's additions
PHOENIX -- Nomar Garciaparra and Orlando Cabrera finalized one-year contracts with the Oakland Athletics on Friday, relegating shortstop Bobby Crosby to a backup role.
Shortly before introducing Garciaparra and Cabrera to the media, the Athletics met with Crosby, who has publicly expressed his displeasure.
"We had a conversation with him this morning,'' assistant GM David Forst told ESPN's Jerry Crasnick. "Some things were addressed, but I don't want to go into what we talked about.''
Cabrera will displace Crosby as Oakland's regular shortstop, and Garciaparra could further reduce any at-bats Crosby might get coming off the bench.
"I've enjoyed it here, but the best thing for me is to go somewhere I can be an everyday shortstop," Crosby told the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this week amid reports of the signings. "They've made up their minds, and I just hope they can give me the opportunity to move on."
Crosby won the American League Rookie of the Year award in 2004. But he's since been dogged by injuries, and he batted .229, .226 and .237 over the past three seasons.
Cabrera got a $4 million deal, and Garciaparra was guaranteed $1 million with the chance to make $250,000 each in performance and roster bonuses.
The 34-year-old Cabrera had been in camp for two days and worked out with the A's before Friday's exhibition against the Seattle Mariners.
"I'm just happy to be playing baseball," he said Thursday in a brief statement.
Garciaparra, limited to 55 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers last season because of injuries, was due to arrive in camp before game time. The 35-year-old batted .264 with eight homers and 28 RBIs last year, and strongly considered retirement in the offseason.
"I was pretty close," Garciaparra said. "The biggest thing is that I felt like I needed to know if I was capable of going out and playing. When it came down to it, the situation presented itself here.
"There's a good combination of young guys with talent, great arms and veteran guys," Garciaparra said. "With Jason Giambi coming back, that's huge. He's been through the system here. I'm going to enjoy watching Matt Holliday hit every day with me instead of against me."
A six-time All-Star, Garciaparra spent a majority of his three years with the Dodgers at first base. He also played shortstop and third base, and the A's are likely to find playing time for him at more than one position.
Garciaparra started his career with the Boston Red Sox, hitting 30 or more home runs twice and driving in 100 or more runs four times in nine seasons. He was the AL Rookie of the Year in 1997 and was second in the AL MVP voting in 1998, but is no longer the feared hitter who ranked among the game's best for a decade.
He has played in the NL since the Chicago Cubs acquired him from Boston in July 2004.
Cabrera, a two-time Gold Glove winner, hit .281 with eight homers and 57 RBIs in 161 games with the Chicago White Sox last season. He's also played for the Montreal Expos, the Red Sox, and the Los Angeles Angels over a 12-year career.
"There's a lot of room for improvement in my career," Cabrera said. "If I stay healthy I know I can help my team win games. The numbers will come. I feel like I could play four or five more years."
Oakland's willingness to spend for Cabrera and Garciaparra after trading for Holliday and signing Giambi during the winter indicates A's GM Billy Beane believes the team is ready to challenge the Los Angeles Angels for the AL West title.
"I think we have a great chance to go to the postseason," Cabrera said. "We have the challenge of taking over the West."
Forst indicated there was no talk of "going for it" but that the club was always looking for talent.
"This is an important addition to the club," Forst said. "We feel like we've greatly improved our team."
The addition of both infielders gives the young A's four players 34 and older. Russ Springer (40) and Giambi (37) are the oldest players on the roster.
Jerry Crasnick covers baseball for ESPN.com. The Associated Press contributed to this story.


Ōita (大分市, Ōita-shi) is the capital city of Ōita Prefecture.
In the 16th century, Ōita became a center for trade with the Portuguese.
Some famous places in Nishinomiya are Koshien Stadium, where the professional baseball team the Hanshin Tigers play, and Nishinomiya Gardens.
Ōita is on Beppu Bay in northeast Kyushu.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2002). "Ōita" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 742.
↑ Nussbaum, "Ōita-ken" at p. 742.
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Gryphon Science Fiction Rediscovery #24.
Transit Serum, a short story by Philip E. High, can be found on pages 32-46 of this anthology.
Philip E. is a name familiar to lovers of colourful adventure novels, many of them published by the old Ace books under Donald A. Wollheim's editorial direction. His debut novel was Prodigal Sun, (Ace, 1964), and was the first of many. Earlier, he had been a prolific short story writer for all of the leading British magazines, including Authentic Science Fiction and New Worlds. We are delighted to report that Phil High is once again writing short stories. His latest story here, Transit Serum, is vintage High – colorful, bizarre, and written with verve and panache.


text: 54 SCHOOL BUS FLEET JANUARY 2020 WWW SCHOOLBUSFLEET COM PEOPLE Help us spread the word about school bus industry personnel appointments retirements awards and passings Email announcements to info@ schoolbusfleet com SHARE YOUR PEOPLE NEWS School bus manufacturer Thomas Built Buses has named JED ROUTH as its vice president of sales service and marketing Routh is replacing longtime Thomas Built veteran KEN HEDGECOCK who retired on Dec 31 Thomas Built Buses has flourished under Ken Hedgecocks leadership and support over the past 44 years While Ken will be greatly missed following his retirement at the end of 2019 we are fortunate to have Jed stepping into this role said CALEY EDGERLY president and CEO of Thomas Built Buses Jed has been with Thomas Built Buses for 23 years and has been deeply involved in many areas of the business He is a natural fit for this position and the sales marketing and service teams of Thomas Built Buses will continue to thrive under his guidance In addition to overseeing all sales service and marketing initiatives Routh will manage the manufacturers dealer network along with training and education for dealers and customers Photo courtesy Reed Pecha Routh Hedgecock School Bus Driver Honored on Good Morning America for Comforting Student ISABEL LANE of Wisconsin was recently honored on Good Morning America after a photo of her comforting a frightened student on his first day of school was widely shared on social media As School Bus Fleet previously reported in September Isabel Lane a driver for Augusta School District placed her hand behind her seat for 4 year old Axel a student starting a kindergarten program to hold onto as he became upset when it was time to board the school bus Axels mother was trying to take a photo of him happily riding the bus for the first time but managed to capture Lanes heartwarming gesture instead On Nov 18 Lane who is also a special education teachers aide for the district was honored during Good Morning Americas Make Your Monday segment where she received the day off from work and a limousine ride to Lotus Spa in Eau Claire Wis Ken Sigurdson the dean of students and transportation director for Augusta School District told Good Morning America that he was fortunate to have Lane as a student when he worked as a teacher for the district and that she always brings the same positivity and enthusiasm to work as she did when she was a student Lane told Good Morning America that she feels overwhelmed by all of the support from the community and school district and that it is satisfying to be able to make an impact on someone so young Isabel Lane of Wisconsin was honored on Good Morning America after a photo of her comforting a frightened student on his first day of school was widely shared on social media


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Q: XIB view has larger bound values and doesn't fit the screen I have a XIB view.
When i added it to my view, i want the width and height to fit the iOS device.
However, it doesn't fit.
If i use autolayout it would fit the screen. But how do i use it ?
In the code example below, it takes the Bounds of the XIB file. Therefore it doesn't fit the view. How can i solve this?
-(id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame{

    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];

    if (self) {

        self.myView=[[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"MyView" owner:self options:nil] lastObject];

        self.bounds=self.myView.bounds;

        [self addSubview:self.myView];

    }

    return self;

}

A: Load your view, then
    [_subview setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];
    [_contentView addSubview:_subview];
    [self activateConstraintsForView:_subview respectToParentView:_contentView];

Use this function :
- (void)activateConstraintsForView:(UIView *)view respectToParentView:(UIView *)parentView
{

    NSLayoutConstraint *bottomConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:view
                                                                    attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom
                                                                    relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                                                       toItem:parentView
                                                                    attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom
                                                                   multiplier:1.0
                                                                     constant:0];

    NSLayoutConstraint *topConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:view
                                                                 attribute:NSLayoutAttributeTop
                                                                 relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                                                    toItem:parentView
                                                                 attribute:NSLayoutAttributeTop
                                                                multiplier:1.0
                                                                  constant:0];

    NSLayoutConstraint *leftConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:view
                                                                  attribute:NSLayoutAttributeLeft
                                                                  relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
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                                                                 multiplier:1.0
                                                                   constant:0];

    NSLayoutConstraint *rightConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:view
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                                                                   relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
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    [NSLayoutConstraint activateConstraints:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:topConstraint, leftConstraint, bottomConstraint, rightConstraint, nil]] ;
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Hope, it helps.

A: In your initWithFrame method add this at the end:
[self setConstraintsOfView:self.myView withRespectToParentView:self];

And add the method below at the end of your class:
-(void)setConstraintsOfView:(UIView *)subView withRespectToParentView:(UIView *)parentView
{
    NSDictionary *viewsDictionary = @{@"subView":subView};

    NSDictionary *metrics =@{@"offset":@0};

    NSArray *heightConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|-offset-[subView]-offset-|"
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    NSArray *widthConstraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"H:|-offset-[subView]-offset-|"
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    [parentView addConstraints:heightConstraint];

    [parentView addConstraints:widthConstraint];
}

VFL is much easier than setting each constraints. This method sets the  top, bottom, leading and trailing space = 0 of subview with respect to superview.
I think you want to achieve this though:
https://github.com/PrajeetShrestha/ConstraintTest


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Bang goes that theory
The Churchill Island cannon
By John Wells
THERE is a cannon in the gardens of the house on Churchill Island that has caused a great deal of concern in certain quarters. It has also caused me no small worry. In a story I wrote in about 1974 I said the cannon was from the Confederate States of America raider 'Shenandoah'. That was certainly my belief and, indeed, it still is.
Not everyone shares my conviction. In 1982, the Round Table of Civil War Historians in the US contacted the Victorian Conservation Trust saying there was no proof the cannon was from the 'Shenandoah' and it should not be passed off as such.
The Trust contacted me asking if I could help locate some proof. I couldn't. I couldn't even remember where I first got the information. Perhaps there is a reader out there somewhere who can help. If so, please get in touch!
Any connection between Lieutenant Waddell, commander of the raider, and Samuel Amess, or John Cleeland, could offer a vital clue.
The 'Shenandoah' was originally a British vessel, the 'Sea King'. Between 1861 and 1865, when the Union was at war with the Confederacy, both sides sent raiders to sea to prey on each other's shipping.
Few were as successful as the 'Shenandoah'. She was at sea for more than a year, sailed 58,000 miles and visited every ocean except the Antarctic. She sank 32 ships belonging to the US and captured six as prizes. She was eagerly sought by the Union Navy and her main contribution to the unsuccessful war effort of the Confederacy was probably in the number of Union ships involved in the hunt for her.
Our colonial masters in England had warned us that under the rules of war (yes, there are rules) we could only offer ships from the warring parties medical aid and emergency repairs, and such ships must then put to sea immediately.
The citizens of Melbourne ignored this advice and the 'Shenandoah' was made very welcome. Her officers and men were treated as romantic heroes. A ball was held in their honour at Ballarat and some 2000 people attended. The ship was open to the public on several occasions when she was moored at Port Melbourne. On one day alone she had 800 visitors.
John Wells is a Gippsland historian and author. His books include Colourful Tales of Old Gippsland and Gippsland - People, a Place and their Past. This essay was first published in the West Gippsland Trader.
The Churchill Island cannon. Photo: Phillip Island Nature Parks.
CSS Shenandoah on the Williamstown slip, February, 1865. Photo: US Naval Historical Center
Samuel Amess, Melbourne Lord Mayor, 1869. The story is that Lieutenant Waddell presented the cannon from CSS Shenandoah to Amess, in view of the great hospitality the ship's crew received in Melbourne in 1865, and that Amess then took the cannon to Churchill Island, which he owned.
The ship's exploits were well known. She had sunk something like £6 million worth of Union shipping and newspapers in every corner of the globe carried stories about her.
She was allowed to provision fully, carry out extensive repairs and to remain in the port from January 25, 1865 to February 18, hardly an 'immediate departure'. Perhaps the most significant sign of her welcome in Melbourne was that, when she sailed, 42 Victorians had joined her crew.
This put Victoria in very clear breach of international law and when the Union finally won, the British Government was required to pay a "fine" of £50,000. That didn't seem to worry anyone in Melbourne.
One of the people to offer hospitality was Sam Amess, prominent citizen, councillor of the City of Melbourne and later Lord Mayor, and owner of Churchill Island. The ship's officers were entertained at the Melbourne Club.
The story is that Lieutenant Waddell presented the cannon and some cannon balls to Amess and that Amess then took them to Churchill Island. The US historians argue that this cannon was not on standard issue for the Confederacy at this time and so could not have come from the 'Shenandoah', but it could have been taken by her from one of the ships she sank.
No-one knows. It seems probable that no-one ever will know now, but if sufficient connection between Waddell and Amess, or Waddell and Cleeland (he had a part of Phillip Island at one time and knew Amess well) could be established, it might lend weight to the claim. After all, no-one has come up with a better story, or any proof either way.
The island is itself a treasure chest of our history. George Bass was almost certainly the first white man to see it when he entered Western Port on January 5 1798. Legend has it that he marked a rock of the south-east corner of the island.
Lieutenant James Grant sailed from England in the new survey sloop 'Lady Nelson' on March 23, 1800. His ship was designed for coastal survey work, with a shallow draught and sliding keelboards. After a slow but safe journey, he arrived in Port Jackson in December. He was sent back to explore Western Port in March 1801 and on March 22 he came to Churchill Island, where he planted a wide variety of seeds as an experiment.
The island seemed suitable for agriculture and this is the source, too, of the name, because the seeds were given to Grant by John Churchill, of Dawlish, in Devonshire.
Lieutenant Murray then took charge of the Lady Nelson and he visited Churchill Island aboard her in December 1801. He was delighted to find that Grant's crops had flourished.
In about 1857, Sam Pickersgill, from Yorkshire, moved onto the island with his family. He stayed there for about six years but it seems he never bothered to get any formal licence to hold it.
John Rogers took up the first Crown grant of the island on January 29 1866, at a cost of £210, which seems to have been a very high price at that time.
Rogers mortgaged the island to John D. McHaffie, whose run covered most of Phillip Island at the time, and the mortgage was only repaid when Rogers sold the island to Samual Amess in June 1872. Samuel Amess, the man who probably brought the cannon to Churchill Island, was a wealthy fellow from Scotland's Fifeshire. He came to Melbourne in 1852, made a successful trip to the goldfields and was back in Melbourne in 1853 as a prominent and successful builder.
Sam Amess died in 1898 and the island passed to his son, then his grandson, each of whom was also named Samuel.
When the grandson died, the island was sold to Gerald Neville Buckley, perhaps in 1920. In 1935 the title passed to a partnership of various members of the Buckley family but in 1938 it was bought by Harry Jenkins.
He died in July of 1963 and left the island to Sister Margaret Campbell, who had nursed his crippled son. She decided to sell the island in 1973 and it was bought by A. Classon.
In 1976 the Victorian Conservation Trust bought the island for the people of Victoria and they are the current owners.
They own the island, and they own the cannon. That means, of course, that they also own the problem of finding out just whence it came. I cannot help them. Can you?
(Of course, if I maintained a sensible filing system, I'd be better informed....)
If the cannon came from the CSS Shenandoah it now belongs to the United States Government, as ALL Confederate property became the property at the end end of the Civil War and the therefore must be surrended to the UNited States because it is their property.
If the cannon did not come from the CSS Shenandoah Churchill Island is allowed to keep it.


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Rare items available for Festival International telethon
Live music, auctions and more part of first-time event
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GuGu Drum Group from Shanghai performs at the 2017 Festival International de Louisiane.(Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE / USATODAY Network)
Zachary RIchard, Sweet Cecilia and the Feufollet Trio will perform for the first Téléthon du Festival, a Festival International de Louisiane fundraiser, set for 6 p.m. Monday on KDCG TV.
KDCG can be seen on channel 22 over the air and LUS Fiber, Cox Cable 9 and Charter 11.
In addition to live music, the telethon will feature an on-air auction, video highlights from previous festivals and appearances from past presidents and founding members who will discuss the event's evolution.
"We are really excited about this event and hope everyone will tune in and take part," said Scott Feehan, the festival's executive director, in a press release. "It is amazing to look back on the history of festival and see the impact it has on our community."
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The 2018 festival is set for April 25-29 in downtown Lafayette. This year's lineup will be released Friday.
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Postcards open a window to the past
By Phillip Zonkel | phillip.zonkel@presstelegram.com |
The Historical Society of Long Beach's vintage postcards are small in size – 3 1/2- by- 5 1/2 inches – but rich in memories – images from the 1933 earthquake, the opulent Hotel Virginia and amusement rides at The Pike, among many others.
The historical society's permanent collection houses more than 2,000 postcards, and, starting today, 50 of them will be displayed in "Greetings from Long Beach: Vintage Postcards from the HSLB's Archives."
which closes spring 2009.Even tThough just a sampling of the postcards will be displayed, the entire collection is accessible – via the historical society staff – to the public.
The postcards in the exhibit, which date from 1904 to 1961 and have never been displayed to the public, represent local events and structures from the city's past.
Divided into 21 categories, they depict buildings (Villa Riviera and Long Beach City Hall), roller coasters (the Jackrabbit Racer and the Cyclone Racer), oil (the Richfield Refinery Fire, June 2, 1933), disasters (the 1913 Empire Day disaster), the beach, waves, downtown and piers, among other subjects.
"The images on the postcards are colorful and whimsical," says Julie Bartolotto, executive director of the Historical Society of Long Beach. "While the purpose of the postcards was to show the folks back home what things were like here on the West Coast, you can also see how the graphics on the cards reflect the popular styles of the time."
The postcards also were used to document an experience or event as it happened, Bartolotto says.
More than half of the postcards have been used, with postmarks from all over the United States including Iowa, South Dakota, New York and Vermont.
Replicas of five vintage postcards are for sale for $1 each or 12 for $10.
Amy Luke, the historical society's office and archives manager for the Historical Society of Long Beach, discusses the images and history of five postcards in the exhibit:
"GREETINGS FROM LONG BEACH"
On The back of this circa-1950 s card, which was taken west of Pine Avenue looking east toward the skyline, reads, "Portion of skyline of Central business and hotel district, seen from Nu-pike Bathing Beach west of Rainbow Pier. Municipal Auditorium and Convention Hall is seen to the right." The Wilton Hotel, now The Breakers, is the tall white building on the left, Luke says.
"THE EMPIRE DAY DISASTER"
On May 24, 1913, several thousand people came to Long Beach to mark Empire Day, a Canadian and British celebration that took place on Queen Victoria's birthday. A crowd had gathered in front of the Municipal Auditorium, but before they could enter, 350 people fell when the top level of the Rainbow Pier collapsed through the bottom level and onto the sand. Thirty-six people died immediately and 14 later from injuries they sustained.
Photographers from Burro Studio, which was located at The Pike, rushed to the scene minutes after the collapse and snapped exclusive pictures, Luke says.
This postcard, one of 10 documenting the disaster in the historical society's collection, looks down into the gaping hole and shows people scrambling to escape.
Postmarked Dec. 31, 1910, this card was sent to South Dakota resident Minnie Kruse, whose family donated it, Luke says. Kruse's cousin, aunt and uncle lived in Long Beach, she says.
The back of the card reads, "Dear Cousin – How are you? I have been sick a few days, but am feeling fine this morning. With Love. From Cousin."
"OSTRICH FARM, LONG BEACH"
In 1907, a Long Beach business owner, trying to emulate the prosperity of Los Angeles' successful ostrich farm, opened one on 2 acres at Long Beach Boulevard and 15 th Street, Luke says. The ostriches were raised for their feathers, which would be used in fancy ladies hats.
However, "I don't think the owner of the farm knew what he was getting into," Luke says. "The ostriches were temperamental, fighting with each other and smashing each other's eggs."
The farm closed three or four years later, Luke says.
The card is postmarked Jan. 31, 1909, in Watsonville, and the writing on the back reads, "Just back from Long Beach. Had a nice visit. Meet us at Pajaro Tuesday evening. Ma says bring a lantern."
"LONG BEACH SANITARIUM"
This circa-1912 postcard promotes the Long Beach Sanitarium, which was located at 10 th Street and Linden Avenue and was originally called Long Beach Hospital, Luke says. In 1907, it was leased by the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which was run by Michigan-based John Harvey Kellogg, who advocated various treatments for his patients including diet reform and frequent enemas.
The back of the card reads, "A strictly modern medical and surgical health resort where the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium methods are used … A specialty is made of scientific electrical treatments of every description."
The sanitarium was sold in 1921 and taken over by The Sisters of Charity, who renamed it St. Mary's Hospital.
Phillip Zonkel, (562) 499-1258
phillip.zonkel@presstelegram.com
When: 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1-5 p.m.; 1 to 7 p.m. Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays; closed Dec. 24 to 26 and Dec. 31 to Jan. 1. Exhibit opens today from 1 to 10 p.m. (extended hours are part of the Bixby Knolls First Fridays event). historical society has extended hours first Friday of the month in collaboration with Bixby Knolls First Fridays. The exhibit will close in the spring 2009
Where: Historical Society of Long Beach, 4260 Atlantic Ave.
Admission: Free.
Information: (562) 424-2220, www.hslb.org.
Phillip Zonkel


Christine Cannon ( second right) and her team-mates were sucessful at the Edinburgh International last weekend.
Congratulations to Wigtown Curling Club member Christine Cannon, who as a member of Team Lockhart, won the Edinburgh Seniors at the weekend at Murrayfiend Ice Rink.
The team - Jackie Lockhart, Christine Cannon, Isobel Hannen and Margaret Richardson will be defending their Scottish Senior Championship in February.
The second round of the Galloway Province Curling League took place last week at Stranraer Ice Rink with two rinks each from Penninghame and Minnigaff Curling Clubs taking each other on.
G Milroy, Penninghame 13 A McClymont, Minnigaff 3; D Paton, Penninghame 6 D McArthur, Minnigaff 6.


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Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock London – review round-up
Dewey Finn (centre) and the young cast in School of Rock at the New London Theatre. Photo: Tristram Kenton
by Fergus Morgan - Nov 16, 2016
Like AC/DC, Andrew Lloyd Webber is back in black, returning to the West End with a new musical all about the liberating power of rock.
School of Rock is based on the hugely popular 2003 Richard Linklater film of the same name, which starred Jack Black as an irrepressible hard-rock enthusiast forming a kick-ass band with a group of uber-talented schoolchildren. If you haven't seen it, do. For various high-profile-celebrity-scandal reasons, they really don't make 'em like that anymore.
Lloyd Webber's stage adaptation, created in collaboration with Julian Fellowes (book), Glenn Slater (lyrics) and Laurence Connor (direction), received its world premiere on Broadway – the first Lloyd Webber musical since Jesus Christ Superstar to do so – last year to a generally positive New York press. It has now transferred to the New London Theatre, where it will stay until at least February.
But has Lloyd Webber managed to haul himself out of the flop-filled abyss of Love Never Dies and Stephen Ward? Does School of Rock have critics shaking their heads or their tail-feathers? Has anyone noticed the deafening irony of Lloyd Webber and Fellowes – two Tory peers who voted for cutting tax credits last October – championing a musical all about sticking it to the man?
And the ultimate question: couldn't you just watch the film instead?
Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews…
School of Rock – Get Your Rocks Off
Young cast members in School of Rock. Photo: Tristram Kenton
The show sticks closely to the plot of the film, following excuse-for-an-adult Dewey Finn as he slyly impersonates his substitute teacher flatmate to pay the rent, discovers his class of prissy private-school kids is actually a bunch of little Mozarts, then sets about crafting them into a rock outfit capable of taking first prize in a battle of the bands, dodging strict teachers and pushy parents along the way.
So how does all that work on stage?
Pretty well, it seems. Sarah Crompton (What's On Stage, ★★★★) finds School Of Rock "well-nigh irresistible", Michael Billington (Guardian, ★★★★) enjoys its "overwhelming good nature", and Mark Shenton (The Stage, ★★★★) claims it is Lloyd Webber's "freshest, funniest show since the youthful exuberance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats and Starlight Express".
They're not the only critics to have lost their po faces somewhere on Shaftesbury Avenue. For Henry Hitchings (Evening Standard, ★★★★), the evening is a "big-hearted, family-friendly show". For Quentin Letts (Mail, ★★★★★) it's a "rooty-tooty, rock-pumpin' effort". And for Dominic Cavendish (Telegraph, ★★★★★), it is "the most enjoyable few hours money can buy".
There are some resolutely dissenting voices. Ian Shuttleworth (Financial Times, ★★) cries that it's all "a little ridiculous" and casts a scathing eye over a commercial West End musical making a transparent battle-cry for transgression. And in an overtly – and entertainingly – political review, Andrzej Lukowski (Time Out, ★★★) strains to draw a link between this family-friendly show and the recent election of Donald Trump. It is, he writes, "a show about an under-qualified, over-entitled white guy who shambles his way to public adoration by blithely inflicting bankrupt baby boomer values upon a bunch of impressionable people who don't know any better".
Most critics, though, fall into line behind Paul Taylor (Independent, ★★★★), who lauds School of Rock as "a fable about the empowering force of music that crackles with mischief and sly irreverence".
School of Rock – Sweet Child O' Mine
Toby Lee in School Of Rock. Photo: Tristram Kenton
David Fynn takes on the Jack Black role, while three casts of children aged 10-13 rotate as his band of classroom rockers. And the most impressive thing, by most accounts, is that they all play their instruments live.
There's almost universal praise for Fynn. According to Taylor, he provides "a performance of explosive energy and scapegrace charm". According to Ann Treneman (Times, ★★★★), he supplies "Tigger-level bounciness". And according to Rod McPhee (Mirror, ★★★★), he is simply "superb".
Billington delves a little deeper, placing Fynn's "stumblebum" substitute in a long line of inspirational renegade teachers. "This is Alan Bennett's Hector," he writes, worryingly, "without the serial groping." Phew.
And what about those kids? Depending on who you read, they are either "irresistibly talented" or "simply phenomenal". They are either "uniformly excellent" or "as quirky as they are individual". Pick any review – they all heap praise on the young cast, with Toby Lee, Amma Ris, Jude Harper-Robel, Logan Walmsley, Selma Hansen, and Oscar Francisco each getting name-checked at least once. Taylor suggests that these outrageously prodigious kids "deserve to be showered with gold stars".
School of Rock – Sympathy for the Devil
Dewey Finn in School of Rock. Photo: Tristram Kenton
From a group of ultra-gifted, infectiously cool kids to Andrew Lloyd Webber. His show pilfers three songs from the film, but is otherwise an album's worth of original stuff.
Unsurprisingly, Shenton provides the most comprehensive context. "Lloyd Webber has regularly flirted with rock influences," he explains, "most notably with Jesus Christ Superstar and some twangy rock chords at times infecting even the score of Phantom of the Opera, but here he gives himself the opportunity to fully indulge that anarchic spirit."
It's an indulgence that has found favour with most. "Lloyd Webber's score is buoyant and bassy, with moments of guitar-shredding frenzy and a keen ear for pastiche," says a gently humming Hitchings.
"Some of the songs are incredibly catchy," agrees a toe-tapping Philip Fisher (British Theatre Guide).
"Lloyd Webber has here composed his happiest and most confident score in a long while," gushes Taylor, who has left Hitchings and Fisher at the bar and is already head-banging his way across the mosh pit, pushing small children out of his way.
It's only Shuttleworth who can't bring himself to join in with the dancing. "I spotted one archetypal rock chord sequence in the entire show," he gripes of Lloyd Webber's score. "There was nearly a second, but even when quoting musically from Walk on the Wild Side he couldn't resist gussying it up a bit."
School of Rock – Is it any good?
Despite Shuttleworth's moans, it seems it is. It's been generally four-starred, with a few fives chucked in as well. Lloyd Webber has undoubtedly drawn a line under his recent flops and carved another crowd-pleasing hit that harks back to his earlier days chronicling Christ's crucifixion.
Billington thinks it's "Lloyd Webber's most exuberant show in years". Hitchings calls it "a feel-good experience with a hint of anarchic wildness". And Shenton labels it a "genuine family musical".
Lloyd Webber? Exuberant and anarchic? It seems 2016 really has turned the world on its head.
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-I got a call from Brian Hewitt earlier with the news that fellow actor Jack Gargaro passed away from a heart attack this morning. I believe services are this coming Saturday. I worked with Jack in "Rise Up & Fall", "Transformation" & "Locked In" by HEWITT FILMS. He was a big part of my heading down the path of Acting (pic taken at the premiere of MS CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST where that moment actually took place). This was back when music was still my primary focus. Acting was just something to do here and there on the side between CAROLINE BLUE music video shoots. 🙂 Jack said I have a "presence"and really encouraged me to seriously become an actor. His words were on my mind, among other things, when I finally did make the switch. In the beginning years down the path of Acting he would repeat his encouragement, and even when I was fully down the path, he was still very kind and encouraging.
-In addition, Brian posted this short / slide film that Jack himself had made.
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Dogara Set To Dump APC, Unite With PDP.
•We are solidly behind him, say loyal Reps.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, may dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) this week. Dogara, who was absent at a parley by the APC House caucus with the Adams Oshiomhole -led National Working Committee (NWC) recently, delayed his planned defection from the party last week (Tuesday) when 36 six of his colleagues decamped to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
News men noted that the speaker, who has been sidelined from the affairs of the party in his home Bauchi State due to a disagreement with Governor Mohammed Abubakar, is billed to formerly announce his defection at his Bogoro / Dass / Tafawa Balewa federal constituency this week.
Members of the group rose from an emergency meeting yesterday, warning the APC to desist from surreptitious attempts to prevent Dogara from defecting to PDP. Spokesman of the group, Mr. Timothy Simon Golu, in a statement, who is the chairman of the House Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, said : "It is laughable that the APC is running cap in hand begging the speaker to remain in a party that has for so long failed to acknowledge his relevance and contribution to its existence.
Adding that, Dogara was not elected by the APC to be the speaker of the House of Representatives, and as such, the party cannot take it away from him. "It is common knowledge that the APC worked against his emergence, but other members who saw and recognised his nationalistic spirit voted for him. In any case, he is the speaker of the House of Representatives and not of the All Progressives Congress ," the group stated.
The APC under the leadership of Oshiomhole is a party of pretenders and hypocrites who think they are demi – gods that all must serve and pay obeisance to, whether they do right or wrong. "Golu declared that "Nigerians are now wiser and have fully discovered their gimmicks and games and will no longer be deceived as we approach the 2019 general elections.
"Already , the PDP is the majority in the House and we expect more members from the APC. " The Parliamentary Democrats Group, according to Golu , boasts of over 240 members of the House across political partieS. "We are solidly behind Dogara and will ensure that he remains the speaker, even after his defection to any party, " he said.


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Ammonites are one of most oldest animals. They share a trait that has caused a commotion to those who cared for the beauty of animals: they share Fibonnaci numbers, which shows how they we build.
As a record in Science shows; "The latest discovery in a cache of ancient Burmese amber has revealed something completely unexpected: an extinct squidlike organism called an ammonite, which swam Earth's seas while dinosaurs dominated the land 100 million years ago."
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Sannois je město v severozápadní části metropolitní oblasti Paříže ve Francii, v arrondissementu Argenteuil v departmentu Val-d'Oise a regionu Île-de-France.

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Sannois se nachází 15 kilometrů severozápadně od Paříže. Město sousedí s městy Argenteuil, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Franconville, Ermont a Saint-Gratien.

Historie
První známky osídlení na současném území Sannois pocházejí ze středního paleolitu, jedná se např. o opracované pazourky. V 11.–12. století je obec prvně zmiňována v církevních záznamech, byla založena kolem kostela na úpatí kopce Mont Trouillet. V 16. a 17. století pak město zažilo skutečný rozmach, a to zejména díky své geografické poloze mezi městy Pontoise a Paříž a díky zřízení pošty. Ve městě Sannois byla v roce 1626 založena Kongregace Milosrdných sester svatého Vincence de Paul. V průběhu 18. a 19. století se hospodaření města orientovalo především na zemědělství, a to je zména na produkci vína. V 19. století pak převládl průmysl (v roce 1900 zbývalo ve městě pouze 45 hektarů vinné révy, v poslední době ale radnice znovu výsadbu révy podporuje a v roce 2006 proběhla ve městě první novodobá sklizeň vína).

Památky
Nejvýznamnější památkou města je větrný mlýn (Moulin de Sannois) z roku 1759 na kopci Mont Trouillet.

Mezi další pamětihodnosti patří:

 Musée Utrillo-Valadon – galerie představující díla Maurice Utrilla, jeho matky Suzanne Valadon a dalších malířů
 Musée de la Boxe – věnováno historii boxu od starověku do současnosti
 kostel Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul – neorománská (1900–34) náhrada původního kostlea z 15. století, je zde pohřben Cyrano z Bergeracu
 Dům Alexandra Ribota – muzeum politika, který v tomto domě žil
 Château de Cernay – navzdory názvu se jedná pouze o buržoazní vilu z 19. století

Zajímavosti
 Archivář a paleograf André Vaquier ve svých odborných pracích uvádí, že město Sannois po jistou dobu po válce razilo vlastní mince, čímž reagovalo na nedostatek peněz ve Francii.
 Ve městě byl vytvořen recept na speciální dort (tzv. le pavé de Sannois) s ořechy a mandlovou pastou.
 Malíř Paul Signac zobrazil Sannois na několika svých obrazech (např. Zdymadlo v Sannois).

Galerie

Reference

Externí odkazy

Města v Île-de-France
Obce v departementu Val-d'Oise

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