COMMENTS: The Phonecian Club 1991 recording comes from the out-of-print offical CD "Into The Red"
COMMENTS: This is a copy of the master recording taken from the Dimeadozen bittorrent site. This concert was supporting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
COMMENTS: BS recording. This is sometimes incorrectly listed as March 18.
COMMENTS: A crankingamps recording. This is a copy of the recording taken from the Dimeadozen bittorrent site.
COMMENTS: A Tb Master 035 recording. This is a copy of the recording taken from the Dimeadozen bittorrent site.


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Now there's a sensitive reply from a member of the "caring conservative" faction of the Republican party. It's apparently un-American to take time off work to demonstrate about legislation that might affect the future of kith and kin. It's more American to shut up, drop the kids off and go to work, and let the government make your life's decisions for you.
Maybe that's why people like Anne are still in office.
As it turns out, the number of the workers who ditched work for the day was pretty modest here, so the wheels of commerce in Louisville were hardly threatened by such un-American activities as marching and carrying protest signs. Several Mexican restaurateurs closed their establishments for the day, losing several thousand dollars' worth of income in the process. Perhaps Anne would think that to be un-American as well.
In contrast, on Friday, the entire public school system and many other local schools and businesses will close up shop for a more important observance of what it means to be an American, the running of the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. In the grand scheme of things, a two-minute horse race is beyond a doubt more significant, more earth-shattering than legislation affecting millions of undocumented aliens. Be a patriot, bet on a horse. Better yet, bet your future on the abilities of Anne and friends to make wise, informed decisions on your behalf.
My bus driver this morning though the immigrants were wrong to protest. She believes all the propaganda about "illegality" and "taking jobs away from us" I said there is no excuse for us ordinary workers not supporting other workers in preference to the executives. Our government wanted the illigals here illegally so they could be exploited and used to drive down domestic wages. It worked really, really well, because our wages have been stagnant since immigration law last changed in the 1980s to require that we present ID to get hired. Remember how long ago that was? That was the end of even modestly good raises for all US wage earners, immigrant worker or not.
In the end, I doubt much will change. Most of the Republicans (especially from the South) know that deporting millions of undocumented workers will kill their local economies and piss off their constituents who hire them. It's only the "keep America closed to illegals" yahoos that want to ship them out.
I hadn't made the connection between the ID requirement and wages. I'll bet you're right, silverbird.
BTW, you posted the same comment twice. I deleted one of them.


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Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon (June 15, 1899 – November 1, 2005) was a Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, tribal council member, and elder based in Connecticut.

As a young girl, she was selected by women elders for training in traditional pharmacology and culture. She studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania with Frank Speck. Beginning in 1934, Tantaquidgeon  worked with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for more than a decade, including several years among western Native American tribes. Together with her father and brother, in 1931 she founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans.

She published several books about Native American traditional medicine and healing with plants. For years she preserved vital records and correspondence of tribal members, which proved integral to their making the case for federal recognition, which the Mohegan received in 1994. That year, Tantaquidgeon was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.

Biography
Gladys Tantaquidgeon was the third of seven children born to Mohegan parents, John and Harriet Fielding Tantaquidgeon. They lived on Mohegan Hill in Quinnetucket (Uncasville, in New London County, Connecticut). She was a 10th-generation descendant of the Mohegan chief Uncas, who was prominent in the colonial era. Culturally, the Mohegan tribe is Algonkian; linguistically, they speak one of the many Algonquian languages. In childhood, Gladys learned traditional practices, beliefs, and lore from nanus, respected women elders.  By age five, the tribal nanus had chosen her to be schooled in the traditions of Mohegan culture. One of her mentors was the Mohegan traditionalist Fidelia Fielding (1827–1908). From Fielding, she learned the ways of the makiawisug who guard the healing plants. Another mentor was her maternal aunt, Nanu Emma Fielding Baker (1828-1916). In 1992 Baker was posthumously elected by the tribe as the Mohegan Tribal Medicine Woman and was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame for her work in education and preservation. Gladys started studying with her aunt in 1904, specializing in traditional herbal medicine, and attending classes in local schools.

In 1919, at the age of 20, Tantaquidgeon attended the University of Pennsylvania to study anthropology. Penn anthropologist Frank Speck met Gladys as a child while he was working with her nanu Fidelia Fielding. When Gladys was old enough, Speck invited her to study with him at Penn; he arranged housing with foreign students at his home in Swarthmore, enrolled her in classes, and enlisted her as a fieldwork assistant to broaden her understanding of Native American cultures. Tantaquidgeon later did field work related to the Lenape and other eastern Algonquian tribes. She expanded her knowledge of traditional pharmacopeia by researching herbal medicine practices among many related East Coast tribes.

From 1934 to 1947, at the time of the Indian Reorganization Act and the Indian New Deal under the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Tantaquidgeon started work with the US Bureau of Indian Affairs. She was hired in 1934 under the Wheeler-Howard Act to administer social service benefits for Indians. At first she was assigned to the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

In 1938 Tantaquidgeon transferred to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board to serve as a "Native Arts Specialist". Working in the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming, she helped indigenous artisans preserve traditional skills and arts. In addition, she helped them form cooperatives and other institutions for the sale and management of their arts. She developed ways for tribes to revive their cultural practices. According to the Mohegan Tribal Historian Melissa Fawcett, while working for the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Tantaquidgeon also helped preserve customs that had been prohibited in the 19th century, such as the Ghost Dance and the Sun Dance. Part of Tantaquidgeon's job was to encourage the restoration of these and other previously prohibited traditional practices.

In 1931, Tantaquidgeon worked with her brother Harry, a former chief, and father John to found the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum. It is the oldest such museum to be owned and operated by Native Americans.  After concluding her government service in 1947, Tantaquidgeon returned to Mohegan Hill, Uncasville. She worked full-time at the museum for the next 50 years, until 1998.

As a librarian in the Niantic Women's Prison in the late 1940s, Tantaquidgeon had helped minority women. During the 1970s and 1980s, she also served on the Mohegan Tribal Council, encouraging the preservation and revival of tribal customs and language. During the 20th century, Tantaguidgeon served as the special guardian of Mohegan Hill

Tantaquidgeon published several books in her lifetime about traditional herbal medicine.  Her best-known work, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practices and Folk Beliefs (1942) was reprinted in 1972, 1995 and 2000 as Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians. In 1992 she was elected as the Tribal Medicine Woman of the Mohegan. She  preserved numerous records and tribal correspondence in boxes under her bed. These proved critical as documentation to aid the tribe's case for federal recognition. The tribe proved community continuity and was acknowledged as federally recognized in 1994, as part of a settlement linked to their claim for the lands that make up the present-day Mohegan reservation.

Dr. Gladys Tantaquidgeon was the great-aunt of Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, an author and the current Mohegan Medicine Woman.

Legacy, awards and honors
 As an "outstanding role model", Tantaquidgeon was awarded the 'Tiffany Jewel' by the University of Connecticut.
 Connecticut Education Association's Friend of Education Award
 For "consistent endeavor in the area of social justice", she received the National Organization for Women's Harriet Tubman Award in 1996.
 She received honorary doctorates from the University of Connecticut (Doctor of Humane Letters degree, 1987) and Yale University (1994).
 In 1994, she was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
 Her 100th birthday, June 15, 1999, was declared as 'Gladys Tantaquidgeon Day' by Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut; and it was marked in the U.S. Congress by Hon. Sam Gejdenson.
 Her likeness was carved out of sacred basswood and resides on the Mohegan Reservation.

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References

Further reading

External links
 Gladys Tantaquidgeon biography , The Mohegan Tribe, official website
 Gladys Tantaquidgeon Collection, Hartford Courant newspaper articles
 Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, Connecticut Office of Tourism
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Johnson Matthey PLC (JMAT.L)
JMAT.L on London Stock Exchange
Patrick Thomas
61 2018 Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
Robert MacLeod
53 2014 Chief Executive, Executive Director
Anna Manz
2016 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director
Simon Farrant
2017 General Counsel, Company Secretary
2017 Executive Director - Sector Chief Executive, Clean Air
Xiaozhi Liu
60 2014 Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Jane Griffiths
2017 Non-Executive Independent Director
Christopher Mottershead
John O'Higgins
Martin Dunwoodie
2018 Investor Relations Director
Mr. Patrick Thomas has been appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of the Company., effective from 26th July 2018. He has appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board - Designate of the Company., effective 1st June 2018. Patrick has deep experience in leading international speciality chemicals businesses. He brings to Johnson Matthey an impressive track record of driving growth through science and innovation across global markets. Since 2015 Patrick has been Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Management of Covestro AG, a world leading polymers business. Between 2007 and 2015 he was also Chief Executive Officer of its predecessor, Bayer MaterialScience, prior to its demerger from Bayer AG. Patrick will step down from his role at Covestro AG at the end of May 2018. Before joining Bayer, Patrick spent five years with the global chemical company, Huntsman Corporation, including as President of its Polyurethanes, Performance and Advanced Materials divisions. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of ICI's polyurethanes business and led its integration into Huntsman. In his earlier career, Patrick held a number of global and regional roles in ICI. Patrick also has strong board experience. He is currently an independent non-executive director of Akzo Nobel N.V., the paints, coating and specialty chemicals group. He was previously an independent non-executive director and member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of BG Group plc from December 2010 to February 2016. Patrick's background is in Engineering Science; he has an MA from Oxford University, is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Mr. Robert J. MacLeod is Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of Johnson Matthey PLC. He has been appointed as a Chief Executive of the Company effective June 5, 2014. He joined Johnson Matthey as Group Finance Director Designate in June 2009 and assumed his current role in September 2009. Previously he was Group Finance Director of WS Atkins plc and worked in a variety of senior financial roles at Enterprise Oil plc. He is currently a non-executive director of Aggreko plc. He is a Chartered Accountant.
Ms. Anna Manz is an Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director of the Company., effective 17th October 2016. During her 17 years at Diageo, Anna has held a series of senior financial roles, at both group and regional level, including Finance Director Spirits North America, Group Treasurer and subsequently Finance Director Asia Pacific. As well as strong credentials in financial leadership, Anna brings international experience and deep commercial awareness to Johnson Matthey. In her current role as Group Strategy Director, Anna leads Diageo's strategy and business development activities and also leads the Mainstream Spirits business. Prior to joining Diageo, Anna worked in the Quest International business of Unilever / ICI. Anna is a chemistry graduate and a qualified management accountant. She is a non-executive director of ITV PLC. From June 2012 until August 2013, Anna Manz was a director of Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Mr. Simon Farrant is an General Counsel, Company Secretary of Johnson Matthey PLC. He joined Johnson Matthey from corporate legal practice in 1994. Appointed Company Secretary in 1999 and Group Legal Director in 2007. He is a Solicitor and Attorney & Counselor-at-Law (State of New York).
Mr. John Walker is no longer Executive Director of the Company effective 31st March 2020. He is no longer Sector Chief Executive, Clean Air of Johnson Matthey Plc with effective 1st October 2019. John has been assumed responsibility for Group EHS, Sustainability and Manufacturing Excellence, with effect from 1 October 2015. He joined Johnson Matthey in 1984. Appointed Division Director, Emission Control Technologies in 2009 after holding a series of senior management positions within the division in the USA, Asia and Europe. Appointed Executive Director, Emission Control Technologies in October 2013.
Ms. Xiaozhi Liu is Non-Executive Director of the Company. Xiaozhi has worked extensively in the automotive sector, particularly in China, as well as in Europe and the US. Her knowledge and perspective on technology driven businesses in China and globally will complement and enhance that of our other board members, particularly as the automotive powertrain evolves. Currently Xiaozhi is the Chief Executive of ASL Automobile Science & Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a consulting and business development company which she founded in June 2009 focusing on automotive innovation and technology commercialisation, particularly for the Chinese market. Prior to founding ASL, between January 2007 and December 2009, Xiaozhi held positions as President, Chief Executive and Chairman of Neotek Corporation, a manufacturer of brake components and other automobile parts. Before that she held various positions within the General Motors Group, including as Director of Electronics, Controls and Software in the US and Managing Director of General Motors Taiwan. As well as bringing deep, relevant executive experience, Xiaozhi also holds non-executive director positions at Autoliv, a global automotive safety supplier from Sweden, at Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd, a global automotive glass manufacturing company from China, and at Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, a multinational drink and brewing holdings company based in Leuven, Belgium.
Mr. Alan Murray Ferguson is an Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Johnson Matthey PLC. Currently a non-executive director of Croda International Plc, The Weir Group PLC and London Mining Plc (where he is chairman of their respective audit committees). He was a previously Chief Financial Officer and a Director of Lonmin Plc. Prior to joining Lonmin, he was Group Finance Director of The BOC Group until late 2006 when the Linde Group acquired BOC. Before joining BOC in 2005, he worked for Inchcape plc for 22 years in a variety of roles including Group Finance Director from 1999 until his departure. He is a Chartered Accountant and sits on the Business Policy Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
Dr. Jane Griffiths is Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company., effective 1st January 2017. Jane is currently Company Group Chairman of Janssen EMEA, the research-based pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson. She joined Johnson & Johnson in 1982 and since then has undertaken a series of roles including international and affiliate strategic marketing, sales management, product management, general management and clinical research. Jane is Chair of the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust in EMEA, a sponsor of the Johnson & Johnson Women's Leadership Initiative and a sponsor of the Janssen Global Pharmaceuticals Sustainability Council. Jane has a PhD in Plant Biochemistry/Genetics.
Mr. Christopher John Mottershead is Non-Executive Independent Director of Johnson Matthey Plc. Prior to joining King's College in 2009, Chris had a 30 year career at BP, most recently as Global Advisor on Energy Security and Climate Change. Before this, he was Technology Vice President for BP's Global Gas, Power and Renewables businesses, and was also Technical Manager for its North Sea exploration and production activities. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Mr. John E. O'Higgins has been appointed as Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company, with effective from 16th November 2017. He is Chief Executive of Spectris plc, a leading supplier of productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls. He joined the board of Spectris plc as Chief Executive in January 2006. Prior to this John worked for Honeywell in a number of management roles, including as president of automation and control solutions, Asia Pacific. He began his career as a design engineer at Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart. John has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from INSEAD.


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Building New Bridges, Remembering the Old: 1934, "Franklin D. Roosevelt Highway Bridge," SLR/IRL
I continue to share my mother's historic documents for those who love and appreciate history. Today's original 1934 Stuart Daily News publication is very impressive, oversized, with aerial photographs and pride-filled words lauding the City of Stuart, and her Roosevelt Bridge as part of the new "Gateway to the Gulf of Mexico."
This gateway, of course, was the Cross State Canal that was federally funded through "navigation" with the dual use to discharge Lake Okeechobee water, that Nature would have flowed south to Florida Bay, into the northern estuaries enhancing "Fishing, Hunting, and Sports on the Beautiful St Lucie….Lake Okeechobee, and Caloosahtchee River…."
In 1934, an era of Man Over Nature, both men and women did not know their determination to control the environment and its waters would, eventually, kill almost everything they loved.
And here we are today…
But as my hero Ernie Lyons, editor environmentalist of a later newspaper, the Stuart News said: "What men do they can undo."
I believe this.
New bridges must be built. Not just of concrete but of the heart.
Bridges between people and politics. Bridges between corporations and children. Bridges between agriculture giants and fish. Bridges between developers and a new way to live. Why? Because like it or not, we are a Florida Water Family. All connected. All bridged together by depending on this place.
#FLWaterFamily
I will end with words from my mother, historian, Sandra Henderson Thurlow:
"Jacqui, This is a very large book that was published to celebrate the dedication of the original Roosevelt Bridge on January 8, 1934. The pages are supposed to face each other so "Stuart–'Atlantic Gateway to the Gulf of Mexico'" run together. The sentence at the bottom should be "The City of Stuart Invites You to Winter on the Beautiful St. Lucie River." A gentleman who lives in Rio, Richard Lewis Miller, shared the original in honor of his father, Alvin Richard Miller 1906-1976." Mom (http://www.sandrathurlow.com)
Sandra Henderson Thurlow, website:http://www.sandrathurlow.com
Joe Crankshaw, Transformation of Stuart, TCPalm, http://archive.tcpalm.com/news/in-10-year-span-roosevelt-bridge-transformed-sleepy-little-stuart-ep-405274002-349339071.html/
Former Blog post on subject, JTL: https://jacquithurlowlippisch.com/2018/04/12/city-of-stuart-atlantic-gateway-to-the-gulf-of-mexico-1937-staurt-daily-news/
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City of Stuart, "Atlantic Gateway to the Gulf of Mexico," 1937 Staurt Daily News
Page 8-9, historic Stuart Daily News, Special Edition 1937, in celebration of the Stuart to Ft Meyers Cross State Canal courtesy Knight A. Kiplinger
As we continue our historic journey, today we view pages 8-9 of the 1937 Stuart Daily News. Today's ad for the City of Stuart is so large that it is featured side-to-side rather than top to bottom in the publication. Proudly, because of the completion of the Stuart to Ft Meyers Cross-State Canal, Stuart has branded itself as "the Atlantic Gateway to the Gulf of Mexico," particularly for the nation's yachtsmen.
Although this image below was not in the publication, I wanted to include it because one might drive by and not recognize this recently renovated, now officially registered historic structure in Rio for what it really is, ~a monument to the cross-state canal!
From page 9 of Stuart on the St Lucie by Sandra Henderson Thurlow.
Today in 2018.
Of course also in the ad Stuart lauds itself as a fishing mecca touting: "Florida's finest fishing in adjacent waters." The truth of the matter is that the quality of the St Lucie River and Southern Indian River Lagoon, as documented by local fishermen, had been deteriorating since the opening of the St Lucie Canal to Lake Okeechobee in 1923. (Sandra Henderson Thurlow, Stuart on the St Lucie) Nonetheless, the rivers and ocean remained "marvelous" fishing arenas as this 1938 Chamber of Commerce Fishing Guide shows.
Today, the City of Stuart remains the vibrant and beautiful heart of Marin County, but it no longer brags about being "the Gateway to the Gulf of Mexico." As much as the St Lucie Canal has caused issue with our local waterways, I do think the Stuart to Ft Meyers connection, and being a starting point for a historic boat trip across the state is worth re-boasting about!
City of Stuart: http://www.cityofstuart.us
History, City of Stuart: http://www.cityofstuart.us/index.php/naming-of-stuart
Stuart Museum: http://www.stuartheritagemuseum.com
Stuart Chamber: https://www.stuartmartinchamber.org/tourism/history
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Last Thursday Shall Be Proclaimed "Water Tower Day," as Lake O discharges reached the top! SLR/IRL
If the discharge waters of Lake Okeechobee filled up the City of Stuart, Florida. Last Thursday, they would have reached the top of Stuart's iconic water tower that stands at 134 feet.
Stuart, North of Monterey.
Whereas, if the ACOE's discharge waters of Lake Okeechobee were "filling up the City of Stuart," last Thursday, October 26, these polluted waters, would have reached the top of Stuart's iconic 134 foot water tower…
Whereas, once again, our economy and ecology is completed devastated, and high bacteria levels in the water are exacerbated therefrom….We shall remember this day…
We shall, therefore, designate, Thursday, October 26, as "Water Tower Day" and say together: "Lake O discharges have reached the top; this must STOP!"
Stop the Discharges
Yes, to put the Lake Okeechobee discharges into perspective, last Thursday the cumulative 2017 ACOE/SFWMD discharges from S-80 passed 134 "Stuart Feet". The Stuart water tower is 134 feet tall. See my brother Todd's cumulative total page below:
St Lucie River Discharges
S-80 Cumulative Total 2017: http://www.thurlowpa.com/LakeOLiveData/2017/
– In the lost summer of 2013, Stuart/Martin County received 284 "Stuart Feet", 2.1 times the height of the tower.
– In 2017, the gates did not open until September 5. So it took only 52 days to accumulate that same amount of discharges!
– In 2013, the discharges started on May 8 (with the exception of some small pulses earlier in the year). That year, it took 91 days to hit a cumulative "134 Stuart Feet" – on August 7.
In other words, the discharges have been almost twice the rate as they began in 2013. You can see this in the slope of my brother's graphs in the web page above. This doesn't really mean a lot though. In 2013 the discharges didn't really begin to accelerate until mid-July. At that point, the rates of discharge were comparable to what we are getting now.
– At the current average of about 4200 cfs, we would hit the 2013 total of 284 Stuart feet in another 42 days (December 9). If they are saying the discharges could continue for months, this could happen. We could have another record year, even though the disaster didn't start until September. Maybe they will throttle it back a little or start pulsing again so it won't be the case. In any event, this is already another lost year…
(This blog post was based on writing and ideas by my brother and contributing blogger, Todd Thurlow, http://www.thurlowpa.com)
* I edited this post from "today" to "last Thursday." An ever rising story. 🙂 JTL
X. Mascarnas, TCPalm. on-line image.
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Professor Ram Gopal, a visiting faculty at the ISB, talks to Galit Shmueli, tenured Associate Professor of Statistics and Information Systems and SRITNE Chaired Professor of Data Analytics.
There is some confusion regarding the terminologies: data analytics, data mining, business analytics and business intelligence. Can you clarify if they are synonyms or if they have different meanings?
When I was growing up, there were no such words as there was hardly any data. The term "data mining" started creeping in only as more data started coming in. That is when computer scientists took up data mining, which involved writing more algorithms for sifting through the data. With progress occurring in data mining, the business community began to wonder about what they could do with all the data they had with them. This led to the coining of terms such as "business analytics" and "business intelligence". Traditionally, data analytics encompassed fields such as statistics, data mining, artificial intelligence, and related areas. The area of business analytics brings all these fields together in a manner that relates directly to businesses and how to add value to them. If we look at "Google Insights for Search" and search these terms over the last few years, we find some very interesting trends. The first thing you will find is that basically, the terms "business intelligence" and "data mining" fluctuate almost together. Both these terms are also very highly searched. Other terms such as "business analytics" and "data analytics", which are less popular, are also increasingly searched today. Geographically, India is number one in online search for these terms. Singapore takes the second spot. The United States has already got its feet into data analytics. There is huge potential in Asia because there is a lot of data that you can sift through and not too many people are doing that yet.
One debate that I see in the literature and in the community is that there seem to be two classes: One, the business intelligence, which is more backward-looking as it is based on understanding what has transpired in the past, whereas business analytics is more forward-oriented as it tells us how we can improve our business processes in terms of strategy and operations. Is that a distinction that you see?
Statistics is about proving what you expect. Visualisation, and I will add, business analytics and data mining, etc., are about discovering what you didn't expect.
One thought that comes to my mind is about the emerging trends of prediction. Is prediction somewhat different from forecasting? What is the relationship between the two?
Forecasting is basically a fancy word for prediction into the future. When we look at time series or a series of events over time or some particular measurements over time, we are trying to predict into the future. This would be termed "forecasting." How forecasting differs from prediction is in the structure of the data, because in forecasting we are looking at a single, or sometimes, multiple series of measurements over time and predicting into the future. In contrast, "prediction" is typically used to denote modeling data from one sample of people to make predictions about another sample. This is called a cross-sectional data set. Since the data sets are of such different nature, we must have different types of algorithms and methods to carry out the prediction or the forecasting. Although forecasting and prediction may require the same approach since both fall under the same hat, the methodologies are going to be slightly different, taking into account the different nature of data.
I think in the business community and also amongst business students, there is a realisation that moving forward, data is going to be one of the key business resources. In fact, I have read reports that in most organisations, data is the most important resource after human resources. I see that the business community and business students see a lot of value in business analytics. The question that often comes up is whether these skills are technical skills that require companies to hire or consult with some technical experts, or are these business skills that business students and leaders need to have some knowledge of?
In the old days, you would have statisticians sitting in-house and collaborating with the local domain experts. But it was the statistician who took care of the data, especially in terms of analysis. That has been changing over time. In spite of all the rankings saying that statistics is one of the most desired jobs in the world, what businesses look for are people on the interface – who can basically see the analytics part and also understand the whole business context of things. From my experience with students at the University of Maryland, MBA students, who have taken a few courses in data analytics and data mining, are seen as unique in interviews, since they have business knowledge and familiarity with data analytics. Technical ability is required in data analytics but not the hard-core computer science type of technical ability. What is more crucial is an understanding of when things are going to work, what is out there, what are the options, etc. MBAs and business students can definitely gain a lot from taking data analytics courses – not the old paper-and-pencil type of courses but applied courses that involve real data sets and work on real projects. Through this, students will understand where their own limitations lie and the value they can bring to organisations with some knowledge in data analytics.
Essentially what you are saying is that students need to understand the domain so that they know how to leverage upon the analytics tools and figure out what kind of business issues can be dealt with using these tools. My follow-up question to that is are there particular job functions, organisations and industries where these skills are particularly useful or is the need more widespread?
I would say that today, almost every business, whether medium or large, in every possible area, has data. If you have the data, then it is worth seeing whether the data can bring value to the organisation. With that in mind, if you look at the types of jobs that are being offered in almost every industry, they are looking for data-savvy people. So I think it does not really matter which sector you are going into. It could be the government agencies, private sector, NGOs, etc – there is no distinction there. All these sectors have interesting data and there is almost always knowledge to be gained from the data, given that you have the skills. Because data by itself is not knowledge – it is a lot of noise and a little bit of signal.


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Rockstar Talks About RDR2's Evolved NPCs, the Much More Detailed Interiors and the Organic Activities
Alessio Palumbo • May 4, 2018 04:38 PM EDT
New Red Dead Redemption 2 information keeps pouring out after Rockstar's meeting with select press outlets. Yesterday we wrote about the developers' effort to make players feel like the van der Linde gang is real.
Now, French website JeuxActu managed to sit down with Rockstar's Rob Nelson (Co-Studio Head and Art Director) and an incredibly in-depth interview resulted from that chat. Below we've highlighted his description of the evolved NPC system we'll see in Red Dead Redemption 2 and how the player's interactions can organically result in the discovery of certain activities.
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Being immersed in a credible world with a captivating story, capable of engaging the player, while giving them the freedom to lose themselves, then returning to the main quest in a natural way, is something important for us. And that was our main goal for Red Dead Redemption 2, to erase the boundaries between all these aspects to make it coherent and organic. Everything must appear natural, without any transition or lag, to reinforce the sense of immersion and connection between each mission. For example, in the camp, a simple conversation with an NPC can result in a bank robbery, or reveal important details about the story, background, and thus trigger a new mission that the player may want to do right away or later. Simply leaving the camp to search for supplies may allow the player to discover other interesting activities or other goals. Everything is done to reinforce the feeling of embodying the character Arthur, an outlaw who is part of a famous gang, not to mention that everything must remain as entertaining as possible.
The gang needs money to do this, you will have to carry out missions as diverse as various to rob banks, intercept trains, steal from people, hunt, but also resell. There are 1001 ways to make money, even outside missions, in an honorable way, and less respectable too, to let the player do what he wants. You can kill people to steal their money, but you can also threaten them and extract their currency less violently. To leave the choice to the player is very important for us. It is not a Manichean system, it is not good against evil, everything is nuanced. Of course, we play Arthur and he has his own character, but you are given the opportunity to shape his way of behaving a bit.
The idea of the gang, the camp, the interaction between the characters, those with whom there will be cutscenes, the way the horse behaves, which must be in osmosis with the attitudes of Arthur. The animal has a high level of interaction with the character, depending on your reactions. This is also valid with other animals. In the demo, you could see a deer grazing, raise his head as Arthur approaches him. If you are never a threat to him, he will continue to eat quietly. On the other hand, if you shoot him, there will be several different animations.
Nelson also revealed something that should make Rockstar fans very happy. While their open world games have long been incredibly detailed, the interiors always suffered a bit by comparison; this shouldn't be the case anymore.
For Red Dead Redemption 2, we tried to go further in the interiors. You can go into a house, open the drawers, take the jewelry in the drawers. Small things in even smaller things, so that the world is the deepest and most credible possible. From big coffers to small pockets in people's jackets, you can steal everything, without ever knowing what you're going to fall on. We tried to create a consistent world in which it is possible to jump and hold onto a train running at full speed, enter the cars, find a bag, open it and take what's inside, come out the train without being spotted, all this will be possible.
These are lofty goals for sure, but it's Rockstar we are talking about. If there's any developer that can pull it off, it's them. Red Dead Redemption 2 will be available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One starting October 26th.
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Q: Select only rows without other occurrence type I'm not sure how to explain this question so let me try with a simplified example.
I have two tables Tickets and TicketEntities:
Tickets
tID | Customer |  Val
----|----------|------
1   | Paul     |  20
2   | Paul     |  10
3   | Peter    |  15
4   | Jane     |  100
5   | Doe      |  400
6   | John     |  5

TicketEntities
EntityID |  TicketID |   Type
---------|-----------|--------
1        |   1       |   1
2        |   1       |   2
3        |   3       |   1
4        |   4       |   1
5        |   5       |   2
6        |   6       |   2

I want to create two views (preferably so if one view is possible):

*

*[Already solved] View to show me Tickets with TicketEntity type 1. My working solution:
Desired Result:
tID   |   Customer  | Val | EntityID |  Type

-------|-------------|-----|----------|-------
    1     |     Paul    | 20  |  1       |   1
    3     |     Peter   | 15  |  3       |   1
    4     |     Jane    | 100 |  4       |   1
Note: Not actual query/results
SQL
SELECT *
FROM Tickets AS t
LEFT JOIN TicketEntities AS e ON t.ID=e.TicketID WHERE e.EntityTypeId = 1

*View with only Tickets with TicketEntity type 2 but not 1
Desired Result:
tID   |   Customer  | Val | EntityID |  Type
------|-------------|-----|----------|-------
5     |     Doe     | 400 |  5       |   2
6     |     John    | 5   |  6       |   2

SQL
SELECT *
  FROM Tickets AS t
  LEFT JOIN TicketEntities AS e ON t.ID=e.TicketID WHERE e.EntityTypeId = 1
AND
NOT EXISTS (SELECT *
  FROM dbo.Tickets AS t2
    INNER JOIN dbo.TicketEntities AS e2 ON t2.Id=e2.Ticket_Id
    WHERE e2.EntityTypeId = 2)

*OR more preferably, the single view:
Desired Result:
tID    |    Customer |  Val |  Entity_Type1 |  Entity_Type2
-------|-------------|------|---------------|---------------
1      |    Paul     |  20  |  1            |  2
2      |    Paul     |  10  |               |
3      |    Peter    |  15  |  1            |
4      |    Jane     |  100 |  1            |
5      |    Doe      |  400 |               |  2
6      |    John     |  5   |               |  2

SQL
I'm not sure how to go about it. Self join?
Finally, Improvements to the question are welcome. What's the best way to approach this problem?

A: I think two left joins from the Tickets table to the TicketEntities table should work here:
SELECT
    t.tID,
    t.Customer,
    t.Val,
    te1.Type,
    te2.Type
FROM Tickets t
LEFT JOIN TicketEntities te1
    ON t.tID = te1.TicketID AND te1.Type = 1
LEFT JOIN TicketEntities te2
    ON t.tID = te2.TicketID AND te2.Type = 2;

Demo
Note carefully that we do not impose any WHERE restrictions on the two TicketEntities joins.  This is to ensure that we don't filter off any ticket records prematurely.

A: Try this. Since you already have your data simple Left join with master table of ticket will give the desired result as per your need.
; WITH CT1 AS (
    SELECT *
    FROM Tickets AS t
    LEFT JOIN TicketEntities AS e ON t.ID=e.TicketID WHERE e.EntityTypeId = 1
),
CT2 AS (
    SELECT *
      FROM Tickets AS t
      LEFT JOIN TicketEntities AS e ON t.ID=e.TicketID WHERE e.EntityTypeId = 1
    AND
    NOT EXISTS (SELECT *
      FROM dbo.Tickets AS t2
        INNER JOIN dbo.TicketEntities AS e2 ON t2.Id=e2.Ticket_Id
        WHERE e2.EntityTypeId = 2)
)
SELECT TICKET.ID, TICKET.CUSTOMER,
      CASE WHEN ISNULL(CT1.EntityID,'')='' THEN CT2.VAL ELSE CT1.VAL END AS VAL,
      ISNULL(CT1.EntityID,'') AS ENTRY_TYPE1, ISNULL(CT2.EntityID,'') AS ENTRY_TYPE1
FROM TICKETS AS TICKET
LEFT JOIN CT1 ON TICKET.ID=CT1.ID
LEFT JOIN CT2 ON TICKET.ID=CT2.ID

A: One query for many [Type] values. Let's try pivot function. Consider you must use aggregate function for grouping rows. Query may look like this:
WITH CTE AS (
   SELECT
      T.tID,
      T.Customer,
      T.Val,
      TS.Type
   FROM
      dbo.Tickets T
      LEFT JOIN dbo.TicketEntities TS ON T.tID = TS.TicketID
)
SELECT *
FROM
   CTE
   PIVOT (Max(Type) FOR Type IN ([1], [2])) P

You may extend this query replacing ([1], [2]) with select. See: SQL PIVOT SELECT FROM LIST (IN SELECT)

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Greta Thunberg...''one of our planets greatest advocates''....''You and me, we're a team''....
During her recent visit to Washington, DC, Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was hailed by Barack Obama as "one of our planet's greatest advocates." When the two met prior to her speech before Congress, the former president assured her of his own environmental bona fides with this: "You and me, we're a team."
To demonstrate her passionate commitment to reducing fossil fuel emissions, Greta traveled from her country to the U.S. by a solar powered yacht, rather than a gas-guzzling private jet, the most planet-destructive mode of transportation. Her "carbon-free" trip to America was largely a symbolic gesture, but there's no doubt she's a true believer in the hotly-disputed theory that fossil fuels are destroying the planet.
If she thinks Obama is on her team, she's one of the most gullible and uninformed 16-year-olds in the world. Since she apparently knows little about his carbon-consumptive living, I will share that information here. According to TIME, following are a few of the lifestyle choices he made in the first five months after leaving the White House in January 2017, each of which speaks volumes about how seriously he takes his own feigned call for "each and every one of us" to make drastic cutbacks in the use of fossil fuels.
● He bought an 8,200 sq. ft., 9-bedroom, fully air-conditioned mansion in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the nation's capitol.
● The day he left office, he flew 2,200 miles in a near-empty U.S. government Boeing 747 all the way across the continent to Palm Springs, California for his first post-presidency vacation.
● After relaxing at an 11,000 sq. ft. fully air-conditioned villa at the exclusive Thunderbird Heights Resort in nearby Rancho Mirage, he flew 3,300 miles, by private jet, all the way back across the continent to the Caribbean, where he vacationed with Richard Branson at Branson's $48,000 per night, fully air-conditioned luxury villa on Branson's private island.
● After departing his vacation with Branson by private jet, he took another private jet to fly 6,000 miles for some much-needed R & R at the late Marlon Brando's fully air-conditioned French Polynesian hideaway in Tahiti.
● Next, he took another private jet for a 2,700-mile trip to Hawaii, where he golfed for several days before taking yet another private jet for the 4,800-mile return trip to his 8,200 sq. ft. fully air-conditioned mansion.
● In February, he twice traveled from DC to New York, both times by private jet, the first to take in a play on Broadway, the other to rub shoulders over dinner with U2's Bono.
● In early May, he private-jetted from DC to Milan, Italy, a roundtrip of 8,200 miles, where a caravan of 14 carbon-powered SUVs took him to give a paid speech about — sit down for this — humans dumping too much CO2 in the atmosphere.
● While in Milan, he stayed for two days at the 2,000 sq. ft., fully air-conditioned, $9,500 per night presidential suite at the exclusive Park Hyatt Milan.
● Next, he took a private jet, from Milan to Tuscany, where he stayed at Borgo Finocchieto, a fully air-conditioned manor house that once was home to 21 families before being turned into an ultra-luxurious vacation villa for the rich and famous.
● Having left a feather-light carbon footprint in Italy, the former president returned, by private jet, to his 8,200 sq. ft. fully air-conditioned mansion in DC.
One of the world's loudest climate preachers, the former president flew more than 27,000 miles during his first five months of retirement, a distance greater that Earth's circumference. There's no telling how many private jet flights he's taken in the last two-plus years, but one thing's for sure. His opulent lifestyle reveals a total lack of concern that fossil fuel emissions are destroying the environment.
How does this sanctimonious man get away with such stunning hypocrisy? He gets away with it because the corrupt mainstream media never call him out for consuming the unconscionable amounts of carbon energy needed to fuel his insatiable appetite for lavish living, the planet be damned.
And does any sane person really believe that the current crop of save the planet warriors (i.e., Sanders, Warren, etc.), are any different than the above mentioned flaming hypocrite?
Democrats: A bunch of rich people convincing poor people to vote for rich people by telling poor people that other rich people are the reason they are poor
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Re: ''one of our planets greatest advocates''....''You and me, we're a team''....
Greta is, unfortunately, just another useful idiot. The sad thing is she's probably not stupid -- just duped by her parents who should be brought up on child abuse charges.
As to Barry and his hypocrisy -- well, that's well documented. There are still legions of other useful idiots who think he and his husband the Mooch are the cat's meow.
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Old n Grumpy
The sad thing is she's probably not stupid
Just dumb & inexperienced.
She hasn't figured out she is just a pawn for her "uncle" george, who is trying to save the planet like he tried to save all those Jews during WW2
Greta traveled from her country to the U.S. by a solar powered yacht
That only uses it's diesel engine when no one is looking.
« Last Edit: November 25, 2019, 02:53:45 PM by Old n Grumpy »
Basking in the glow of my white Privilege, while I water the Begonias with liberal tears!
Air is Free, that's why we need a carbon tax.
I will give up my guns when the liberals give up their illegal aliens
We need a Bull Shit tax to make the Democrats go broke!


I am trying to use Angular Directive with MVC. Following Alex's blog post https://asmagin.com/2016/07/05/using-angularjs-directives-in-sitecore-edit-mode/ It is supposed to be working. But I am keep running into a problem.
I was able to get Text and Title to render in the browser (not logged in, preview mode).
When I open the page in Experience Editor, it breaks for me with the layout that has my angular code. So I am trying to solve the problem of double quotes, Sitecore outputs long line of code for the editing purposes, and this is where it all breaks, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
When I visit the page it looks good with no errors.
Any Recommendations or help would be greatly appreciated.
There is a helper method @Html.RawJsEncodedString in my post that you need to use here.
You need to wrap you @Html.Sitecore().Field("Title") in that method so that it will encode quotes and correctly output it via ng directive.


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Q: SQL is getting the product from 4 categories even though I am using distinct?? help Thanks for looking.
I am grabbing products from an mdb which are marked as being "hotdeal" but each product is in several categories and it is showing each one 4 times!! Can anyone see where I have cocked up?
many Thanks....
pHotDeal = getUserInput(request.querystring("hotDeal"),2)

mySql="SELECT DISTINCT products.idProduct, sku, description, price, visits, listPrice, length, width, height, smallImageUrl, sales, dateAdded, isBundleMain, rental, map, freeShipping, stock.stock, emailText, deliveringtime FROM products, stock, categories_products WHERE listHidden=0 AND active=-1 AND user1 is null AND idStore=" &pIdStore& " AND products.idStock=stock.idStock AND products.idProduct=categories_products.idProduct"

' hot deal
if pHotDeal<>"" then
 mySQL=mySQL&" AND hotDeal=-1"
end if

Why is it not "distinct-ing" ?? :)
Thanks anyone

A: Try with:
Group By products.idProduct

A: I found the problem. The "sale" button didn't have a value for the querystring "orderby" . It seems that when I add an orderby value it only shows each product once. Sorry! I know I didn't past the orderby option by bit, I didn't think it had anything to do with it!
SO the answer is - there was an empty querystring.
Thank you all for your help!!

A:   SELECT DISTINCT products.idProduct,
                  sku,
                  description,
                  price,
                  visits,
                  listPrice,
                  LENGTH,
                  width,
                  height,
                  smallImageUrl,
                  sales,
                  dateAdded,
                  isBundleMain,
                  rental,
                  map,
                  freeShipping,
                  stock.stock,
                  emailText,
                  deliveringtime
    FROM products, stock, categories_products
   WHERE     listHidden = 0
         AND active = -1
         AND user1 IS NULL
         AND idStore = " &pIdStore& "
         AND products.idStock = stock.idStock
         AND products.idProduct = categories_products.idProduct
         AND categories_product.idCategory = ??
GROUP BY products.idProduct

You need a category id to get 1 row.


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Is Sarah Palin America's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The two differ in many key respects, of course, but it is remarkable how similar they are. There are uncanny parallels in their biographies, their domestic politics and the way they present themselves — even in their rocky relationships with party elders.
Both are former governors of a northwest frontier state with great natural beauty (in Ahmadinejad's case, Ardabil). Both are known for saying things that produce a classic Scooby-Doo double take in their audiences. Both appeal to a sort of wounded nationalism, speaking of the sacrifice of dedicated troops for an often feckless public, and identifying themselves with the common soldier. They are vigilant against foreign designs on their countries and insist on energy and other independence.
But above all, both are populists who claim to represent the little people against wily and unscrupulous elites, and against pampered upper-middle-class yuppies pretending to be the voice of democracy. Together, they tell us something about dangerous competing populisms in an age of globalization.
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Juan Cole Oh, and believe it or not, the conclusion is even worse:
Right-wing populism, rooted in the religion, culture and aspirations of the lower middle class, is often caricatured as insane by its critics. That judgment is unfair. But it is true that such movements often encourage a political style of exhibitionism, disregard for the facts as understood by the mainstream media, and exaltation of the values of people who feel themselves marginalized by the political system. Not all forms of protest, however, are healthy, even if the protesters have legitimate grievances. Right-wing populism is centered on a theory of media conspiracy, a "my country right or wrong" chauvinism, a fascination with an armed citizenry, an intolerance of dissent and a willingness to declare political opponents mere terrorists. It is cavalier in its disregard of elementary facts and arrogant about the self-evident rightness of its religious and political doctrines. It therefore holds dangers both for the country in which it grows up and for the international community. Palin is polling well at the moment against other Republican front-runners such as Mitt Romney, and so, astonishingly, is a plausible future president. At least Iranians only got Ahmadinejad because of rigged elections, and they had the decency to mount massive protests against the result.
FWIW, I can't say I follow Sarah Palin closely, but every time I hear her quoted, it's about big government, socialism, bureaucracy, etc. If she's basing her politics on religion, it's not very explicit, though she personal beliefs and actions obviously appeal to evangelicals who share similar beliefs and admire her actions (like not aborting Trig).


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Getting inside Einstein's mind
By elizabeth jones
Drama explores scientist's life
Elizabeth M. Jones
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WINONA — The Page Series at Saint Mary's University will present "Einstein Alive!," the final event of the season, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Page Theatre.
"Einstein Alive!" is a one-man show performed by storyteller Marc Spiegel, who has been presenting for 12 years.
"Within the process, he takes on the persona of Einstein and introduces himself, talks about Albert's life and movement from Germany, some of the big themes in his work, and goes on to explain some of the basic scientific principles that are relevant to his work," said Patrick Grace, the general manager of the Performance Center.
The event is not simply geared toward students of science.
"I think everyone will be engaged, from first grade on up to 94-year-olds," Grace said.
He said Spiegel has worked to find a way of explaining Einstein's ideas and theories — such as the theory of relativity — in a way that is easy to understand for both school groups and the general public.
The performance involves some audience participation and helps show attendants that "science isn't just done by guys in white lab coats," Grace said.
The inspiration to bring "Einstein Alive!" to the theater sprang from a desire to bring a performance that showcased science.
"We were thinking of science as one of the core groups we don't really present," Grace said. "We're not always able to tell important stories about important people in science."
Tickets for the performance are $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and students, available at the Saint Mary's box office by calling (507) 457-1715 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays or by visiting www.pagetheatre.org.
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The 1924 North Dakota Agricultural Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1924 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Stanley Borleske, the team compiled a 5–3 record (3–3 against NCC opponents) and finished in fourth place out of nine teams in the NCC. The team played its home games at Dacotah Field in Fargo, North Dakota.

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When is the last time you had a really good shot of moonshine? At Twin Stills Moonshine Distillery in Long Island, New York, you can have a shot of 100 proof corn moonshine, or have a shot of some of the finest whiskey infused with natural flavors. After being in business for only three years, Twin Stills Moonshine Distillery is already outgrowing its facility. Their LI o'OldTymer Whiskey and LI o'OldTymer Moonshine products are flying off the shelves!
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Q: How to Compare URLs Case-Insensitively? I'm trying to match the request URL sent to my ASP.NET application case-insensitively because bots or users might mistakenly request a non-canonical form and I need to redirect them.
Which one of the comparison modes is semantically the best choice?
StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase
StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase
StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase

Ordinal might be to restrictive because it does code-point matching. Might not account for all linguistic variations. CurrentCulture does not seem right for URLs because URLs are supposed to not be culture-specific. InvariantCulture also does not fully make sense because it represents an English-like culture that does not exist on the planet. I'd rather not use it for user-facing strings, not even for the URL in the browser.
Which mode is the right one?

A: As you've pointed out, there's no perfect solution. I've always used InvariantCulture and have been happy with the results. But then, my URLs are typically English or English-like, so it's pretty hard to encounter a problem.
Another possibility would be to write a handler or module that intercepts the request and gets the user's culture from the HTTP headers. It could then use that culture to do the transformation. Maybe.
This is one of those things you could spend forever on. I just selected InvariantCulture and figured I'd revisit the decision if I ever have a problem. So far, nobody's noticed. At least, nobody's complained about it.


Arrange marriages against the bride's consent is a big topic of debate in India and no wonder lot's of Bollywood Wedding movies are themed around the runaway bride concept. Many of these big fat Bollywood wedding's go as planned in Hindi films but few of them end up being nasty surprises when the Dulhans decides to risk it all by going against their family's will and follow where their hearts take them. These naughty Bollywood brides looking perfect in their bridal outfits, end up keeping everyone on their toes including the groom. The stage is now set for an exciting climax as nobody knows what decision would the bride eventually make.
Many of the leading ladies of Bollywood, right from Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone, Priety Zinta etc. have found themselves in such situations in 1 or more movies during their careers when playing a Dulhan. It is quite common that a bride might feel some wedding jitters just before their marriage. However, dragging their feet to their Shaadi in their Bridal wear only to back out from the marriage last minute or becoming a runaway bride is simply crazy. We have put together a list of Bollywood Movies Where the Bride had change of heart just before their big moment.
And then Amrish Puri uttered those eternal words, 'Jaa Simran….Jee Le Apni Zindagi' and the nation started breathing again. Very few moments in Bollywood movies has the ability to bring the nation together, this was surely one of them. Shot in picturesque London, Switzerland, and Punjab, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge revolved around the tales of a spoilt brat Raj played by Shah Rukh Khan and a down to earth girl Simran aka Kajol.
Shahrukh Khan played the ultimate charmer in this movie as well as a perfect all-rounder. In the first half, he is flirting shamelessly with Kajol in the beautiful Swiss Alps who he met accidentally on a Europe tour and who is already engaged. In the second half, when she returns to India for her arranged marriage, he is trying to work the odds in his favor to win back the girl by wooing her family. The movie had its moments especially the climax scenes when Amrish Puri tries to cockblock Kajol from running away from her arranged marriage but eventually gives in, remember the train scene?
As per Reports, Shahrukh was not keen to play Raj in the movie initially when Aditya Chopra approached him for the role but eventually he convinced him and rest is history. This movie shattered records like none other in the 90's and is been running in Mumbai's Maratha Mandir Theatre for almost more than 2 decades now. DDLJ's Euphoria was so big that every teen girl in India in that era related to Kajol's character 'Simran' and dreamed of meeting a guy like 'Raj' who would come over and sweep them off their feet.


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To The Core - 3rd person platformer group project
Today I bring you our group project for my Gameplay Programming university module,
To The Core!
To The Core is a 3rd person platformer where you've got to go deep into the earth to solve the case of the mysterious earthquakes that have begun to plague the land!
This group project involved 5 members, myself included, where I provided and created a range of mechanics and gameplay systems. I'd like to go through a few of them here and follow it up with a short review of how the team aspect of this proejct went.
Straight off the bat, the player within the game was developed by myself, brought over fomr the original player character demo. a fellow group member, Zoe had sword mechanics in her player system, and I wanted to also add sword combat to my won, so I went about looking into how she did it. I only ended up using the basic concept, then went and created my own animation system that linked up to my own player. In the end, I managed to create a sword with a 3 hit combat by rotating through an enum of attacks, executing the correct animations if the player continued to chain attacks within the given window of opportunity. Furthermore, I upgraded my combat system to use a sphere cast all function instead of a simple ray cat for better hit area results.
As I was not only in charge of developing the player and how it felt withing my level, ensuring ground checks worked on the levels created by my fellow group members, but also in-charge of the player's combat system, it was only natural that I created the framework for enemies to be built upon. Zoe had mainly focused on the second scene and wanted to add spider enemies, and so after giving her the framework, she generalised the method of receiving incoming damage through a general 'Enemy' class. She went on to create the enemy AI and attack patterns themselves, but the stats fed straight but into the player stats script that I had setup. Later on, enemies were needed in level 3 and it seemed appropriate to also add my slime enemies, altering them to become 'magma slimes' given the lava setting. This was a simple copy paste job from my pre-made combat demo system, but I had to alter some things to work with the new lightweight renderer pipeline & the new generalised enemy framework, which wasn't too bad. Finally, I went on to balance the attack damage & health stats of all the enemies and the player to feel nice and balanced throughout the gameplay.
Our team originally had a group meeting as well as created an online document regarding the plan for each level. At that stage I had come up with the plan and structure for the first level myself, but hadn't the time to implement it with all my time spent on the cross-level player character, player input and combat systems. Thank fully a fellow group member, Gabriel stepped up to ascertain the assets and build the scene according to my plans. Later, I swapped in and created the cave area, populated the scene with sheep enemies (they are immune and can just be bumped around, don't worry ethics were thought about), and rearranged the level's structure a bit to feel nicer to play. I ran into some issues with Gabriel using a Unity terrain when running the 'isGrounded' function within my player, so we ultimately had to swap that out for a flat plane.
Other than all that, I mainly acted as a somewhat manager for the group, ensuring everyone was on track, had tasks to do. Zoe did a fantastic job creating all the lovely functionality of the second level's minecart system, as well as everything else within that scene. Cameron used his third-year knowledge to get in the know about advanced camera systems using Cinemachine, and provided all the cutscene for each level and did most of the work on the thrid level, albeit Dan's attempt to create it. Gabriel did a great job providing an NPC system, as well as the raw power-ups for each level. He also create most of the UI.
The group's distribution worked quite well, but we encountered many issues when merging work together. Unity doesn't like it when multiple people are trying to work on the same scene, so we used GitHub and multiple branch to try and keep each scene separate, ensuring only 1 person was working on each scene at a time. Sadly, there were a few conflicts that came up when we merged the scene together and into the development branch at multiple stages, but this acted as a great learning experience for me. Personally I wish we had more time to add even more to the game, but isn't that always the case haha. Thanks for reading!
A full video of the game's playthrough can be found below!
The game features power-ups, coins, enemies, minecarts, moving platforms, cutscenes, combat, mazes, harmless sheep, and talkative farmers!
3RD PERSON PLATFORMER Moving Platforms DEMO
Today I'd like to talk about my latest edition to my 3rd person platformer unity demo, moving platforms.
When I think of moving platforms in games, I think of 1 of 2 things: 'Platforming speed runs', with sequences of jumps where a range of platforms are moving in all kinds of directions, or 'transport platforms', where you stand on a platform to be elevated or moved to somewhere else whilst experiencing limited movement of sorts.
Whenever moving platforms are involved, you need to think about how many forces and axis the player has to deal with. In games such as Super Mario Galaxy, where not only is the game in 3 dimension, but your direction of gravity is also constantly changing. Looking at how most of their platforms work, any platforms that involve jumping onto/off and between platforms is usually done on moving platforms that only translate in movement following 1 gravity source point, and not rotating through multiple gravity zones. When moving platforms involve rotating in space from 1 gravity zone to another, the player more often than not simply walks onto the platform and then it will take the player where they need to go without the need to jump. Jumping off the platform at this stage will most likely throw you into the void of space if you even can control the player over that shifting period.
This is to accommodate player skill and how their platforms move the player. As soon as Mario's feet touch the platform, they are then stuck to and moved by the platform. The instant he jumps and leaves the ground, he is free. This is good for platforming sequences where you must jump from 1 platform to the next, but if rotation and gravity direction is changing, that will just make life extremely difficult.
Some games make it so that even when jumping, the player is still moved by the platforms, making it even harder for the player to accidentally fall off the platform right after they jump whilst still on it.
Switching to my implementation, I have options to handle these situations. I had setup a moving platform handler which contains a start, end, and pivot point for a line of moving platforms that are spawn at 1 end and disappear at the other. The rate of platform appearing and the speed at which they travel along the path can be changed with public variables.
Every time a platform is generated, it has it's own height check variable. This reflects how high up the player can be above the platform until it stops moving the player. By default I left this at a minimal 0.08 to that when only standing on the platform will it move it. If I bumped this up to 3, then even when jumping, the platform will still move the player is relation to its movement.
The 1 flaw with my system is that I don't rotate the player at the same rate of the moving platforms. I couldn't figure out how to get this number accurately in time. Not only this, but the player will move in correspondence with the centre of the moving platform, not where on the moving platform they are standing on. This means when standing at the edges, you will see you played drift across the surface of the moving platform ever so slightly
Other than that, with the starting, end, pivot point, spawn rate, and speed options I'm very happy with what I created.
Thanks for reading and I'll see you in my final blog post!
3RD PERSON PLATFORMER 2.5D Spline DEMO
Back with another edition to my 3rd person platformer unity demo, this time I bring you 2.5D Splines!
My splines system has a whole lot of stuff it can do and is simply added by dragging in and unpacking a prefab. Once in the scene, the spline runs in the editor. Here you can play around with it's shape and length as you please using waypoints and waypoint toggles. You can even change settings such as how detailed the curve is.
When playing the game, players can walk up to the spline, then will enter a nice transition to go from free-walking to being locked on the spline in a 2D style. Once on the spline you can only move left and right. Once reaching either end of the spline again, you pop right off.
My spline uses a rather strange locking system, with a few bugs like being able to move out of bounds of the spline from the start position, as well as jumping not staying in-line with the spline when moving as well as jumping, but the base concept is there. If I had time, I'd like to make a more refined version in the future.
For now, checkout the video below for a much more detailed look into the system, showing what it can do, and the code behind it!