This feature is absolutely killer and now that I have it, would not want to record any other way.
I find this "feature" a little dangerous and much prefer to determine the correct pattern at record time. Since the pattern selection is tied so intimately with source distance, mic height, and room acoustics, the correct selection cannot be determined in post production.
It is of course dangerous to use this feature as a crutch and not do proper setup, but using proper techniques (I really like double M-S or M-S-M so far in my experimentation) or ORTF with the ability to slightly adjust patterns from true cardioid to a wider cardioid pattern only adds options at mix time... I view it as one more parameter that I have at my disposal. I like to try to avoid as much processing as possible, but if I can get a warmer sound by opening up the mics a bit or by EQ'ing, it seems to me I'd rather adjust the mics pattern than boosting electronically.
It goes without saying, this feature does not take away the other aspects of responsible engineering. Me... I like this extra dimension of these mics a lot.
Just curious - why are you bringing this up now, quoting a posting that John wrote in July...?
Yes - and especially, why comment on things I did not say in the excerpt quoted????
Not the best quality. Noisy and I got unexpected interupts in the datastream (no ASIO driver).
QTC1 is the same mic as QTC40 and very close to QTC50. It's the same microphone AFAIK only the selection of the capsules is tighter for QTC50/M50.
Thanks a lot, Audiop, I'll take a look!
Google has, for several months now, only been returning 2 hits for "MKH8030"....any word?
Peter, have you had further experience with the mkh8020 since this recording; have you tried to use it with "diffuse field eq"..?
I haven't recorded since then and I played around a little with EQ on those tracks. I will receive MKH8040 any day now and then it's time for a new round without klicks and in a more silent environment. I will also try them at home but the acoustics are not that funny. Well controlled but warm and "close". Except for piano.. also guitar, flute, violin and banjo will follow.
Even though they are omni, and you plan a cardioid comparison. If possible do consider a few samples with 8020 as well; would be nice to hear in a more silent environment, with different instruments.
Yes, in the next week or so I'll focus on 8020/QTC1 and 8040/CM3. I will record the same signal with all pairs but the interesting thing will be comparing similar polar patterns of course.
My intention is to build up a collection of mics (omni, cardio and fig-8) that will allow me to tackle most recording situations with top notch results.
As we have discussed earlier I would be very happy if I can use the 8020 in a way that resembles the QTC1 in "openess" but with less* noise.
Down the road I will try to run the MKH8000 mics to the old MKH20/40 and I will also take a look at some lower priced SDC omnis like those from AT, AKG and Röde.
edit:*changed "noise" to "less noise".
As we have discussed earlier I would be very happy if I can use the 8020 in a way that resembles the QTC1 in "openess" but with noise.
This is interesting research! And do you still plan to analyze intermodulation distortion figures for the microphones as well?
Yes I will do what I can in order to investigate harmonic and intermodulationdistortion in a bunch of mics.
It's a little tricky but it can be done.
If it's too tricky, stay with the sound-samples - It's the sound that counts!
Please look at this link for measured distortion on some microphones.
John, you might want to add that one job to your sig line.
Another one who thinks it's witty to bring up this old subject, and with a quote of something that was posted in April... The last one who did so only went back as far as June... What's that supposed to be good for?
For all the times it has not appeared but should have?
I'm shopping for shockmounts to my mic's and it looks like I'll go with the Rycote INV-series.
I'm aware of directional mic's being much more sensitive to structural noise than omnis but I wonder, has anyone done actuall tests to see (errr hear :-) how much of a difference there is with omnis in real use?
I'm not sure if I should order a pair of Rycote INV-3 for the MKH8040 and be done with it or if I should buy a pair in the same time for the MKH8020.
Maybe I'll go for the INV-7 for the QTC1 also.
My experience is that you don't need shockmounts for pressure omni's. My most used pair [DPA 4006 TL] certainly doesn't need any!
For directional mic's Rycote's INV are wonderful, in my experience!
I have both INV-2 and INV-3 for my MKH 8040s and will get the same again for my MKH 8020s as soon as I get them.
But John - do you experince any structure born audio transmission through hard mounts of the 8020..?
Omnis are not immune to structure borne noise.
I can't imagine hard mounting the main rig for orchestra sessions.
Gran Cassa, timpani, Bass, tuba, bass trombone and french horns are all capable of creating sympathetic vibrations that travel even heavy stands.
But John - do you experience any structure born audio transmission through hard mounts of the 8020..?
I haven't got the 8020s yet (but will soon).
Though I did have a pair with me at the IBS Microphone Placement Masterclass recently and they were used on a piano in the INV-2 mounts with remote cable.
But the InVision mounts are so cheap it's not worth taking the risk. I use the S-series flexible cable with my InVisions to minimise the risk of handling noise getting up the cable.
Well Kjetil - you are the experienced, when it comes to orchestral recordings so Peters [AudioP] question remains.
I haven't had any issues with structure born noise myself, but I haven't made any tests showing which was best either. [I have to admit that I believed what I was told from DPA regarding this]. So if some have any tests at hand it would be interesting to hear them.
"7. The amplifier portion of these microphones is shock mounted in rubber....."
I can tell you that sound does travel the stand. As a consequence we try to use heavy stands (avenger B150 when possible) with 6 lead shot bags hanging off the base. We also use shockmounts. I do, however find mounts for heavy mics are either too stiff and privide little absorption, or too loose and cause difficulties in precise posisioning.
will an M150 still sound good on an orchestra hard mounted?
All electronics are susceptable to vibration on some level. The capsule is obviously the most sensitive.
I want the mics to capture air vibration as it hits the diaphragm and not vibration transferred through the body.
I see - but usually internal shock mounts are not very effective.. are they.?
Anyhow I don't want to discuss this, this way - real life testing is what we can trust. So I will remember this and see if I can make better recordings with shock mounted pressure omnis.
I too have had plenty of issues with omnis and hearing noise that comes up the stand.
I quote this section because of an experience probably 10 years ago by now that I had. I was recording and orchestra and due to hall scheduling, was not able to fly the mics until the day before the show. So, I used stands and in a break between rehearsals, finally flew them in the air. What struck me was how much the sound and image cleared up. There had been no perceived issues before we flew, but once the mics were no longer attached to a stand, the image got larger and the bass extended.
The stage is a solid one- definitely don't get walking sounds when you cross it. The supports are all steel under it and it is built like a tank (unlike a number of stages in LA that are hollow and not suitably supported underneath).
Due to this experience, I like to fly mics whenever possible for the recordings where it really is a big deal. Unfortunately many halls are not set up for flying mics and many groups aren't willing to book the time to do it so there are limits to what is possible. It does make a pretty huge difference, though.
I have found some surprising problem with my mic's.
Having a gig comming up I decided to go thru my relative new rig to make sure everything is working fine.
I discovered one of each in my MKH8020 and MKH8040 pair has a strange noise comming from it.
The noise is higher in level than the intrinsic noise of the mic's and is almost constant in the faulty MKH8040 and comes and goes in the MKH8020.
It sounds as when you're operating a low quality pot or having a bad solder on some connection and move it.
Anyone else have this problem? Maybe place your mic in a quiet room, crank the gain so you hear the mic noise and see what it gives.
I'm thinking on giving up on Sennheiser due to all problems I've had with them. One think that going with a big reputable name and paying big cash is going to save you problems and give pro quality.
I recently had so send back a pair of HD650 becsue of mechanical noise from the points where the cup is fixed to the "headband". Swallowing or moving the head just slightly gave a plastic clicking noise similar to an old hinge that hasn't been lubricated. My dealer changed the headphones without discussion and that was good of course.
A couple of years ago when I bought my HD600 there was some buzzing noise from one side and it turned out to be a strand from the voice coil rubbing against some structure.
Four products purchased and problems with them all.
This is unusual - my pair are fine.
It seems you are extremely unlucky as all the products you mention are all very reliable and have an extremely small failure rate.
You sound a bit like I used to be - everything I bought new was nearly always faulty, but was fine after it was swapped. Was like this for years and then suddenly stopped - it's just a version of Murphy's Law.
Your local Sennheiser agent will sort this pronto for you, but please give him all the details so he can make sure the factory knows in case it was a batch problem.
Obvious question, perhaps, but could it be a faulty cable or connector? It's only happening in one channel .... did you swap out the 8020 with the 8040 using the same cable?


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Eternity reached out and embraced Frederick David Lee on April 14, 2016 after a six- month battle with pancreatic cancer. The sorrow of those whom he left behind is surely offset by the joy of those who are greeting him on the other side as he takes on new assignments and renews relationships with those awaiting him there. David, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Dec 3, 1942, to William Day Lee and Carol Varis Phillips, was the third of six siblings: Carill Ina (John) Nicoll, William Phillips (1 Pamela and 2 Ellen) Lee (deceased), Maria (Jay) Hoopes, Gary Don (Loraine) Lee, and Linda (Rick) Jackson. David married, first, Young-Ja Kim Lee in Seoul, South Korea on August 18, 1967, which marriage was sealed May 9, 1968 in the Salt Lake Temple. Kim passed away March 8, 2010. This 43-year union was blessed with four beautiful daughters: Teresa Stanley, Christina (Chad) Gunderson, Laura (Tom) Andrew, and Jenica (Zachary) Taylor. Near-perfect grandchildren include Sienna, Brant, and Austin Stanley; Olivia and Adam Gunderson; Ethan, Emma, Jacob, and Lily Andrew; and Jackson, Alexandria, and Donovan Taylor. On June 17, 2011, David married Elaine Anderton Kirsch Lee, and there followed a joyous "Chapter Two" in both of their lives, sadly cut short by David's recent passing. Elaine's children were all very fond of David and grateful for him coming into the life of their mother. David grew up in Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah, before moving to Billings, Montana. Returning to Utah, he graduated from Orem High School ('61), Brigham Young University (BYU) (Geography, '69), and later from George Washington University (Geography, 1980). He also did post-graduate work at University of Maryland. Professionally, he joined the Utah National Guard in 1961, and following graduation from BYU he was selected to attend Officer Candidate School, receiving his commission in the U.S. Army in 1970. He served on active duty until 1978, at which time he transferred to the Army Reserve. He graduated from the Command and General Staff College in 1990 and retired with 32 years of service at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Concurrently, in 1980, he joined the Civil Service and spent 20 years working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Topographic Engineering Center (Alexandria, Virginia), retiring in 2001. After retiring, he taught part-time in the Religion Department at BYU for five years and served as curator of the Orem Heritage Museum for a time. David served four full-time missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: the first was a proselyting mission to South Korea (1962-1965); the second was a Public Affairs mission to South Korea with his first wife, Kim (2009; cut short because of her illness); next was a Church Education mission to the Big Island of Hawaii with his wife, Elaine (2012-2014); and finally, a mission served in their home area of Orem, Utah (2015; cut short because of his losing bout with cancer). He loved the Lord Jesus Christ and served faithfully throughout his life in many callings. David had a love for life, sprinkled with a generous amount of humor. He loved music, both performing and writing it. He also loved writing, and wrote a number of books. A favorite motto? "Everything comes down to love." A big thank you goes to the many friends, neighbors and family members that have shown such an outpouring of love and support during the time David has been ill. Thanks are also extended to Envision Hospice Care for the excellent care they provided. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. in the LDS church located at 990 North 100 West in Orem, Utah. Friends and family are invited to a viewing from 9:00 to 10:40 a.m. prior to the service. Following the funeral the Interment service will be at the East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery, 4800 North East lawn Drive in Provo, Utah with full military recognition.
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How much medical doctors and teachers earn in Ukraine?
People often ask questions about wages of certain professionals in Ukraine: lawyers, teachers, accountants and other groups of employees.
On average, jobs in Ukraine pay about 10-15% of western salaries for similar positions.
However, for top professionals the disparity is higher, and they could be getting only 5% or less of the remuneration typical for this occupation in your country.
For instance, the health industry in Ukraine is financed by the state and workers are paid from the government's budget. Thus, wages in the medical field, including doctors, are lower, not higher than the average remuneration in Ukraine.
The average monthly salary in Ukraine in 2017 was 6953 hryvnia (in total through January-November) or US $246, according to the government statistics service Ukrstat.
In the health industry the average monthly wage was only 4869 hryvnia ($173).
Educators earn higher salaries: 5736 hryvnia ($203).
Medical doctors and teachers are mostly women. These two vocations are traditionally among low paid jobs.
About 54% of workers in Ukraine are paid "white" salaries, without additional payments in the form of cash in the envelope or gifts (gratitude). Usually the employees who get 100% official wages work for the government. Which means, teachers and doctors, who are paid by the state, are indeed getting these meagre salaries as the official statistics tell us. There are no additional cash payouts by the company trying to pay less tax or pension contributions. What you see is what you get.
How much teachers earn in Ukraine?
From 1 January 2018 salaries of teachers have been raised by 25%, in accordance with the directive of the Cabinet, Interfax reported. The decision was made on 11 January 2018.
This means, we can expect earnings of educators to progress to the level of 7,170 hryvnia ($250), which is still below the average wage in the country.
On average, according to the Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, teachers will be getting extra 1,500 hryvnia ($52) monthly. Teachers earn salaries in accordance with "tariffs" for government employees. They don't get extras in the form of "gratitude" gifts (or cash) that doctors sometimes get from patients.
Teachers' wages are 100% "white", without extras such as cash in the envelope, typical for commercial private structures. Many teachers opt to earn extra money by doing private tutoring in their spare time.
How much female medical doctors actually earn in Ukraine?
Certainly, it depends on the company where the medical doctor works.
If she is working for a government hospital, her wages will be low.
Employees of private companies may be earning higher wages, but they still will be incomparable with the typical income of medical professionals in western countries.
Top specialists in every country earn more. In Ukraine, this may include tips and gifts by patients, if the doctor works for a state hospital.
Right now Ukrainian recruitment portal Work.ua lists 402 vacancies for doctors of medicine. The majority of them list wages in the range of 5,000-10,000 hryvnia monthly (US$177-355).
Although there is one vacancy offering 80,000 hryvnia ($2,841) per month to a dentist, listed by a private company, promising "European standards of earnings". However, the majority of listings offer wages far below such numbers.
Trud.com, another employment website, has a graph showing that average wages of medical doctors in Ukraine moved from around 7,000 hryvnia in January 2017 to about 10,000 hryvnia in October 2017.
Wages offered to medical professionals in Kiev are higher than in other regions. There are also some vacancies offering positions abroad with a higher pay.
Not sure the official statistics provides a true picture of earnings by profession? There is a way to find out the current situation on the job market.
Even if you don't speak Ukrainian or Russian, which is still widely used by websites from Ukraine, you can still see current job listings and wages offered to workers of certain professions.
1. Translate the job name from English to Russian (or Ukrainian) through Google Translate tool.
2. Copy the word in Russian (Ukrainian) in the form on Work.ua. Click the red button on the right. 3. You will see the list of vacancies. The size of salary in hryvnia is listed next to the name of vacancy for majority of jobs.
4. Use Google Translation tool in the direction from Russian to English to understand the search results better. Simply copy the URL of the page and paste it in the form and click the button.
5. You will see the same page with the results (available vacancies) in English. The translation may not be perfect but it's understandable enough.
6. This way you are able to find out current levels of remuneration offered to employees in a certain industry. The highest offers may be rather improbable, requiring several degrees or years of experience of working abroad, so look for the most commonly listed wages.
7. Use a currency converter to find out the value of wages in your local money. Simply search on Google for the key phrase "hryvnia to [USD or other currency]" and you will see the converter. Enter the amount and see the value in dollars or other currency.
8. You can also search by city. Payments offered in various cities may differ substantially.
Kiev is known for higher salaries than smaller regional towns.
You can also view offers in Odessa, Lviv, Kharkiv through the main search form on the Home page of Work.ua.
The list of jobs by region (including smaller towns) is located here: https://www.work.ua/jobs/by-region/?grouped=1.
The data on wages that you see will be current.
Well, if you are going to take up teaching as a career in Ukraine, you should be ready for a backbreaking work. The salaries here are good enough for today, but still you have to work hard and have a burning desire to teach and to improve yourself in many ways.


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Investigative Journalist Sharyl Attkisson: "The Main Story Is Not What They Did To Stop Trump, It's Why"
In commenting on the current brouhaha about the FISA memo and the violations of law by the NSA and the Obama administration, as well as the collusion of the FBI and DOJ to take down Donald Trump before he could be elected president, investigative reporter and author of The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote Sharyl Attkisson said that the main story is not about what they did to Trump to stop him, but why they did it.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Attkisson wrote, "My take for what little it's worth: The main story isn't about what they allegedly did to try to stop Trump. It's *why.* It's about what they feared Trump & Co. would expose. I think that will turn out to be the bigger can of worms."
My take for what little it's worth: The main story isn't about what they allegedly did to try to stop Trump. It's *why.* It's about what they feared Trump & Co. would expose. I think that will turn out to be the bigger can of worms.
She was then asked, "Is the [Robert] Mueller Investigations real purpose is to cover up the FBI/DOJ mistakes, attempting to bring down a sitting President?"
Attkisson replied, "I believe the better question is *why* some bad actors in intel community were so panicked at the thought of Trump being president, bringing in people who would examine what they've been doing the past 15+ years."
She then added, "(Including the time when Mueller was FBI Director). Disclaimer note: Mueller is not accused of any wrongdoing."
Well, not so fast. He stands accused of a lot of wrongdoing, whether anyone has actually brought an indictment against him is something else.
Recently acquired court documents indicate he was involved in a coverup of a Florida families ties to the 9-11 hijackers. Prior to that, we know that he was the one that began the purge of references "offensive" to Islamic supremacists in the FBI's anti-terrorism training material.
Furthermore, we know from a leaked cable from Wikileaks that the State Department under Hillary Clinton was to have Mueller conduct a Uranium transfer with the Russians in 2009 at a "secret tarmac meeting," which occurred on September 21, 2009.
Attkisson went on to tweet, "It's fair to say there's panic among some bad actors within our intel agencies who are now pulling out all the stops to try to spin Congress & the media & keep from getting inside. That kind of panic can lead to mistakes being made."
"Interesting to see "open govt." groups & advocates pressing to keep "the memo" secret. This may be unprecedented." she added.
What happens when federal agencies accused of possible wrongdoing — also control the alleged evidence against them? What happens when they're the ones in charge of who inside their agencies — or connected to them — ultimately gets investigated and possibly charged?
She then followed up with two very important issues to keep in mind during the investigation.
Of course, she pointed out that not only are there people in the Justice Department, as well as Congress, trying to stop the FISA memo from being presented to the public, but even media outlets and reporters are attempting to keep it secret.
She wrote, "Meantime, the Department of Justice has officially warned the House Intelligence Committee not to release its memo. It's like the possible defendant in a criminal trial threatening prosecutors for having the audacity to reveal alleged evidence to the judge and jury."
"This is the first time I can recall open government groups and many reporters joining in the argument to keep the information secret," she added. "They are strangely uncurious about alleged improprieties with implications of the worst kind: Stasi-like tactics used against Americans. 'Don't be irresponsible and reveal sources and methods,' they plead."
She then followed up with what everyone should agree on simply because we don't have two Constitutions, but one.
"As for me? I don't care what political stripes the alleged offenders wear or whose side they're on," she wrote. "If their sources and methods are inappropriate, they should be fully exposed and stopped."
Indeed, and they should be prosecuted. The why is important, but the simple violations of the law are enough that indictments and arrests should be taking place.


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He was born in Oakland in 1963 to southern transplants and made frequent trips back to Carroll County Mississippi where he heard blues played by relatives and neighbors. But of course as a child of the '60s he was also exposed to Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, and also the urban blues of Maxwell Street, after a family move to Chicago.
In 1996 he released his debut recording, Big Mama's Door, and won a W.C. Handy award the following year for Best New Artist. Territory, released in 1999, was named Best Blues Album of the Year by Downbeat magazine. Then he won a Grammy in 2004 for his contributions to the compilation Beautiful Dreamer: The Music of Stephen Foster.
Hart was featured in the 2003 Wim Wenders lm The Soul of a Man, and also in the documentary Last of the Mississippi Jukes. In 2007, he appeared in the film The Great Debaters, playing the role of a 1930s juke-joint blues man.
With Jimbo Mathus and Luther Dickinson, Hart formed The South Memphis String Band and with them issued two albums, Home Sweet Home, and, Old Times There. When not breaking new ground with old music, Hart also performs with his powerhouse electric trio, Muscle Theory.
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Q: Store array of string in typeorm postgres database I would like to store an array of strings in my Postgres database, I have the below code but it is not working as I want:
  @Column({type: 'text', array: true, nullable: true })
  names: string[] = [];

I got the following error:
PostgreSQL said: malformed array literal: "["james"]"
Detail: "[" must introduce explicitly-specified array dimensions.

Anything I might be doing wrong?

A: I was able to resolve this with
  @Column('simple-array', { nullable: true })
  city: string[];

A: This should work for an array.
@Column('text', { array: true })
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KJCC welcomes Prof. Marisa Belausteguigotia, Spring 2019 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations
PhD. in Ethnic Studies with an emphasis on women, race and sexuality at the University of California at Berkeley (2000). Full Professor at the School of Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)/National Autonomous University of México (2004). Coordinator of curricular innovation from the gender, critical theory and cultural critique perspectives in Graduate Studies at the Humanities at UNAM (2010 until today). Advisor to the Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal (CDHDF)/ Commission on Human Rights of México City (2014 until today). Chair of the Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género (PUEG/UNAM) / Gender Studies Program at UNAM (2004-2013). She analyzes the relationship between critical pedagogies, artistic and juridical practices from a gender perspective to focus on women's access to justice. She works with women in prison bridging academia towards the activation of academic knowledge from a pedagogical, artistic and juridical angle.
Director of the project Mujeres en Espiral: sistema de justicia, perspectiva de género y pedagogías en resistencia / Spiral turns: juridical system, gender perspective and pedagogies in resistance (2008 until today), an academic and activist initiative that fosters women's access to real justice, through practices of pedagogical, juridical and artistic intervention in prison This project has produced a variety of visual, textual, and juridical material (murals in prison, fanzines, documentaries and short films, amicus curiae, benefits for women in prison, reports on violation of rights in female prisons, among others) and has created the Clinic of Public Interest Marisela Escobedo (2013), that works with specific cases of female juridical mistreatment, in order to render the gendered biased exercise of faulty justice against women visible. Currently the Clinic of Public Interest Marisela Escobedo, the juridical part of the project she directs, is working on three cases of women mistreated by the juridical system waiting to be resolved by the Supreme Court.
Her teaching and research analyses the imperative of public universities participation in the solution of current social urgencies, that is to say the activation of academic knowledge for social intervention (the bridging of academia towards activism), particularly through the interaction of artistic, juridical and pedagogical practices, from a gendered perspective in women's full access to justice.
Her work has been recognized with several awards: Omecíhuat by el Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres INMUJERES DF/ Ministry for Women in México City, for her academic, theoretical and conceptual work in favor of the development of gender studies at the university (2009); Hermila Galindo award, offered by the Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal CDHDF / México City Commission of Human Rights, for her direction of the Gender Studies Program (PUEG) at UNAM (2004-2011). First prize in the Annual Award Mujer y Publicidad / Women and Advertising (Guadalajara/ México 2009), for the campaign created by the Gender Studies Program she directed (PUEG) La Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres, nuestra manera de ser Pumas / Equity between women and men our way of belonging). In 2013 the Gender Studies Program PUEG received the award Margherita von Brentano of the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, given to the project MISEAL (Medidas para la inclusión social y equidad en Instituciones de Educación Superior en América Latina/Measures for social, racial and female inclusion to university studies, undergraduate and graduate in Latin-America) a project she directed, oriented to the social, gendered and racial inclusion in university studies- undergraduate and graduate- in Latin-America. In 2015, she was granted two first prizes (best film and best director) in the FICFUSA film festival in Colombia for the co-direction and screenplay of the documental Nos pintamos solas/Mirrors and Walls in female prisons, a film that analyses the life of women in Mexican prisons. Most recently in 2017, the short film La/Mentada de la LLorona/Women Hollowing Cry, produced collectively by the project she directs Mujeres en Espiral/ Spiral Turns and a group of female prisoners in México City, was awarded first prize in the category of best social short film in the Short Film Festival of La Rioja Argentina.
She has published around 90 articles and essays, a quarter of them in English, and 8 books, the most important ones are: Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought: Historical and Institutional Trajectories (2016) in collaboration with Yolanda Martínez San-Miguel and Ben Sifuentes-Juauregui, from Rutgers University at New Jersey; Des/posesión: Género, Territorio y Luchas por la Autodeterminación / Dis/possession: Gender, Territory and the Fight for Self Determination, coedited with María Josefinda Saldaña-Portillo, from NYU in 2015; Pintar los Muros: Deshacer la Cárcel / Murals in Female Prisons (UNAM, 2014); Pedagogías en Espiral: Los giros de las teorías de género y la crítica cultura/ Spiral Pedagogies: Turns in gender studies and critical theory (PUEG 2012), in collaboration with Rían Lozano; and Race and gender in the creation of new worlds (FCyS/PUEG, 2009). Professor Belausteguigoitia has been one of the most active scholars in translating, teaching and researching the work of Chicanas and Chicana theory in México. She has brought about into Spanish Borderlands/La Frontera. The New Mestiza and Chela Sandoval's Methodology of the Oppressed, edited by UNAM.
Her work in relation with the US academy is evident in both publications, lectures, key note speeches as well as teaching activities. She has developed a very active academic relation with the United States (especially with the University of Rutgers, NYU, University of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles and lately through the Mellon Foundation with the Northwestern University at Chicago). In Europe she works actively with Germany (Frei Universität Berlin, Postdam University and Humboldt University), Spain (Universidad Miguel Hernández in Elche) and in Latin-America mainly with Colombia and Argentina (Universidad de Antioquia and University of Buenos Aires UBA). She has given more than 200 lectures related with the topics mentioned above.
During her stay at NYU, Prof. Belausteguigoitia will be teaching the graduate course Arte, activismo y academia - Urgencias sociales y universidad crítica and will organize the symposium Critical University, Critical Dissidence: Pedagogies of Art and Violence in the Americas (April 25 & 26, 2019), as well as two public lectures.
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Thinking hardly
or hardly thinking?
Major trains of thought
The good, the bad
and the brain fart
Ghazali
Pyrrhonism
Teetotalism
Come to think of it
""Therefore, the word "belief" can for this majority not mean "perceiving the truth of something" but can only be understood as "taking this as the basis for life." One can easily understand that this second kind of belief is much firmer, is much more fixed than the first one, that it can persist even against immediate contradicting experience and can therefore not be shaken by added scientific knowledge. The history of the past two decades has shown by many examples that this second kind of belief can sometimes be upheld to a point where it seems completely absurd, and that it then ends only with the death of the believer. Science and history can teach us that this kind of belief may become a great danger for those who share it.
—Werner Heisenberg[1]
Belief is an equivocal term referring to (usually willing) acceptance of an idea.
Belief comes in various flavors:
Synonymous with "favorable view" as in "I don't believe in winding electrical cords too tightly."
Result of "seeing is believing" where someone believes in regular sunrises.
Assessment of likelihood: "I believe you can understand this."
Trust of another person: "I believe you did put my check in the mail."
From a deep place within: "I believe my spirit guide is telling me to lay healing hands on your boo-boo."
Utter staring delusion: "I believe I am being told to cleanse the world of evil."
Pragmatic self-interest: "Well, a man's got to believe something, and I believe I'll have another drink."[2]
1 In philosophy
2 In psychology and other social sciences
In philosophy[edit]
Philosophy often contrasts belief with knowledge. Philosophers usually define belief as the acceptance of a propositional statement[3] or of a propositional attitude. Knowledge is defined - in terms of belief - as "justified true belief", per Plato. (Figuring out just what "justified true belief" entails is a whole 'nother can of worms.) However, various models attempt to explain how belief operates:
Representationalism: Beliefs are stored as (or as something akin to) propositional statements in memory.
Dispositionalism: Beliefs are the equivalent of having behavioral dispositions that correlate with holding some propositional statement to be true. Comparisons to theories of behaviorism are often drawn here.
Interpretationism: Similar to dispositionalism, but the belief is not necessarily interpreted as something interior to the person or to the agent itself. A classic example of interpretationism is Daniel Dennett's concept of the intentional stance , in which an agent's beliefs are projected onto it through an interpretation of its actions.
Eliminativism: "Belief" is too mushy of a concept to be useful and should be thrown out. This position is usually associated with the broader position in philosophy of mind known as eliminative materialism, which takes the position that all the concepts of folk psychology are inadequate for a scientific examination of the mind.[4]
In psychology and other social sciences[edit]
The slipperiness of the term "belief" has led to a number of technical distinctions in the social sciences (although some, i.e. the aforementioned eliminativists, would prefer to do away with the concept entirely). A number of distinctions and definitions have been proposed by various psychologists, cognitive scientists, anthropologists and philosophers. A few of them include:
Daniel Gilbert's argument that to understand a concept, one must first truly believe in it. Everything that is understood is believed in in some sense, and only later discarded or disbelieved.[5]
Dan Sperber's distinction between intuitive and reflective beliefs, where the former is a basic type of belief that is not propositional and the latter is akin to a representationalist model of belief. Sperber also includes the concepts of "half-understood" and "semi-propositional" beliefs in his system.[6][7]
There is also the problem of explaining the divergence between behavior and professed belief (often called "hypocrisy" in common parlance). Eric Schwitzgebel calls these "in-between cases of belief."[8] Slavoj Zizek, in reference to ideology, makes a distinction between two types of manifestations of ideological belief. He first cites a classic conception of ideology as defined by Karl Marx: "[T]hey do not know it, but they are doing it." (Cf. false consciousness.) He distinguishes this from a definition given by Peter Sloterdijk in which an ideological belief is held and acted on in a cynical fashion: "[T]hey know very well what they are doing, but still, they are doing it."[9]
Belief in belief
↑ Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg, p. 204 (1958).
↑ Peter de Vries
↑ See the Wikipedia article on Proposition.
↑ See the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on belief for further detail.
↑ Daniel T. Gilbert. How Mental Systems Believe. American Psychologist, vol. 46, no. 2, Feb. 1991
↑ Dan Sperber. Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs. Mind and Language 12 (1) (1997). pp. 67-83
↑ Dan Sperber. Culturally Transmitted Misbeliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2009) 32, 534-535
↑ Eric Schwitzgebel. Acting Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs, or the Gulf Between Occurrent Judgment and Dispositional Belief. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 91 (2010) 531–553
↑ Slavoj Zizek. Cynicism as a Form of Ideology. Excerpt from The Sublime Object of Ideology, pp. 28-30
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Method | HTTP request | Description
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[**CreateTaskChannel**](WorkspacesTaskChannelsApi.md#CreateTaskChannel) | **Post** /v1/Workspaces/{WorkspaceSid}/TaskChannels |
[**DeleteTaskChannel**](WorkspacesTaskChannelsApi.md#DeleteTaskChannel) | **Delete** /v1/Workspaces/{WorkspaceSid}/TaskChannels/{Sid} |
[**FetchTaskChannel**](WorkspacesTaskChannelsApi.md#FetchTaskChannel) | **Get** /v1/Workspaces/{WorkspaceSid}/TaskChannels/{Sid} |
[**ListTaskChannel**](WorkspacesTaskChannelsApi.md#ListTaskChannel) | **Get** /v1/Workspaces/{WorkspaceSid}/TaskChannels |
[**UpdateTaskChannel**](WorkspacesTaskChannelsApi.md#UpdateTaskChannel) | **Post** /v1/Workspaces/{WorkspaceSid}/TaskChannels/{Sid} |

## CreateTaskChannel

> TaskrouterV1TaskChannel CreateTaskChannel(ctx, WorkspaceSidoptional)

### Path Parameters

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**ctx** | **context.Context** | context for authentication, logging, cancellation, deadlines, tracing, etc.
**WorkspaceSid** | **string** | The SID of the Workspace that the new Task Channel belongs to.

### Other Parameters

Other parameters are passed through a pointer to a CreateTaskChannelParams struct

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**FriendlyName** | **string** | A descriptive string that you create to describe the Task Channel. It can be up to 64 characters long.
**UniqueName** | **string** | An application-defined string that uniquely identifies the Task Channel, such as `voice` or `sms`.
**ChannelOptimizedRouting** | **bool** | Whether the Task Channel should prioritize Workers that have been idle. If `true`, Workers that have been idle the longest are prioritized.

### Return type

[**TaskrouterV1TaskChannel**](TaskrouterV1TaskChannel.md)

### Authorization

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**ctx** | **context.Context** | context for authentication, logging, cancellation, deadlines, tracing, etc.
**WorkspaceSid** | **string** | The SID of the Workspace with the Task Channel to delete.
**Sid** | **string** | The SID of the Task Channel resource to delete.

### Other Parameters

Other parameters are passed through a pointer to a DeleteTaskChannelParams struct

Name | Type | Description
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### Return type

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### Authorization

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## FetchTaskChannel

> TaskrouterV1TaskChannel FetchTaskChannel(ctx, WorkspaceSidSid)

### Path Parameters

Name | Type | Description
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**ctx** | **context.Context** | context for authentication, logging, cancellation, deadlines, tracing, etc.
**WorkspaceSid** | **string** | The SID of the Workspace with the Task Channel to fetch.
**Sid** | **string** | The SID of the Task Channel resource to fetch.

### Other Parameters

Other parameters are passed through a pointer to a FetchTaskChannelParams struct

Name | Type | Description
------------- | ------------- | -------------

### Return type

[**TaskrouterV1TaskChannel**](TaskrouterV1TaskChannel.md)

### Authorization

[accountSid_authToken](../README.md#accountSid_authToken)

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## ListTaskChannel

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### Path Parameters

Name | Type | Description
------------- | ------------- | -------------
**ctx** | **context.Context** | context for authentication, logging, cancellation, deadlines, tracing, etc.
**WorkspaceSid** | **string** | The SID of the Workspace with the Task Channel to read.

### Other Parameters

Other parameters are passed through a pointer to a ListTaskChannelParams struct

Name | Type | Description
------------- | ------------- | -------------
**PageSize** | **int** | How many resources to return in each list page. The default is 50, and the maximum is 1000.
**Limit** | **int** | Max number of records to return.

### Return type

[**[]TaskrouterV1TaskChannel**](TaskrouterV1TaskChannel.md)

### Authorization

[accountSid_authToken](../README.md#accountSid_authToken)

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## UpdateTaskChannel

> TaskrouterV1TaskChannel UpdateTaskChannel(ctx, WorkspaceSidSidoptional)

### Path Parameters

Name | Type | Description
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**ctx** | **context.Context** | context for authentication, logging, cancellation, deadlines, tracing, etc.
**WorkspaceSid** | **string** | The SID of the Workspace with the Task Channel to update.
**Sid** | **string** | The SID of the Task Channel resource to update.

### Other Parameters

Other parameters are passed through a pointer to a UpdateTaskChannelParams struct

Name | Type | Description
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**FriendlyName** | **string** | A descriptive string that you create to describe the Task Channel. It can be up to 64 characters long.
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### Return type

[**TaskrouterV1TaskChannel**](TaskrouterV1TaskChannel.md)

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Controlled Descent (Stories of the Restoration)
This is where it all started, only not really. Controlled Descent is not the first novel I ever wrote. I finished four others before starting it. It isn't even the first book in the future history collection I call "Stories of the Restoration." It gets to proudly wear its "First!" badge based on its status as the first published Story of the Restoration. (For those interested, the series order is posted on the left sidebar of this blog and also on my assorted author pages.)
And now, without further ado, let me present to you my firstborn.
Controlled Descent: Chapter One
Machines were Justin Wyatt's life. The only thing he loved more than building them was putting the finished product to work, and the big, fast, noisy widgets were always the most fun to test in the field. The world might not need a revolutionary new snowmobile design, but he was having an immensely good time giving it one.
He checked his safety straps and braced for the day's third trial run. The rented helicopter lifted his prototype sled towards the top of the mountain, and icy rocks flashed by, far below. Watching engine readouts had kept him preoccupied during the first two lifts, but this time he enjoyed the scenery instead.
The view across the desolate peaks of the BrooksRange was stupendous. The biggest drawback to being rich was money's tendency to attract people and responsibilities that he would rather avoid. Privacy was a luxury he was more than willing to purchase. The freedom to indulge his whims was the only real benefit of having more money than he could ever spend.
The helicopter dipped lower, and the sled cleared the top of the run. Justin released the tow cable. Thin cold air seared down his throat as the sled plummeted towards the steep slope. A thumb flick brought the motors online, and they whined as the gyros kicked in. Snow flared upwards on landing, the impact jolted through Justin's body, and the sled roared as snow churned through the intake chamber.
The mountainside flew past in a celebration of swooping turns and wrenching drops. Justin leaned into a sharp arrest at the end of the run, only meters from the waiting helicopter. Echoes bounced off the valley walls.
He peered upslope at the trails he had carved.The modified jetfoil was doing an excellent job. The sled would never be able to share a hill with skiers, but a groomed slope would survive reasonable traffic without damage. His client would be pleased.
The sound of rotors thumped overhead while he checked over the displays and reviewed the telemetry from the run. When he looked up, William Clooney was waiting for him beside a second helicopter at the far side of the pickup zone.
The rotor blades of both vehicles were lazily spinning at idle. The downdraft ruffled William's stylish overcoat and made a mess of the man's expensively cut gray hair. His expression was a courtroom blank, and the presence of his briefcase was a bad sign.
Justin stripped off his goggles and popped the safety harness. "Aren't we on vacation? What brings you here?"
William glanced at the helicopter, and then approached awkwardly over the snow. "I brought you a problem."
"I thought you and your pack of feral lawyers were supposed to tend to problems, so that I could ignore them." Justin powered down the sled. The idle turned rough, developing a dissonant rattle that threatened to shake the engine cowling loose. He reached underneath to pull the plug. "Disaster can wait."
William sighed indulgently a few minutes later."Was it a successful test drive?"
"More or less. Wait a second." Justin finger-tightened a questionable bolt and punched up the power again. The machine responded with a rumble. "Did you see me? How'd it look?"
"Terrifying, but I'm neither an adrenaline junkie nor addicted to snow sports. I don't understand how you do it,honestly."
"Practice. Ride the drop, keep your balance, and correct course so that things break your way. It isn't hard."
"Not for you, perhaps." William paused. "Are the new power cells still meeting your expectations?"
Justin retrieved his toolbox from the helicopter and pulled out the diagnostic kit and a set of instruments. "They're not technically power cells."
"I don't think the public will be comfortable with 'ferroceramic electromagnetic storage capacitor,'" William said. "We can let Marketing decide."
"No, we can't. Wyatt R&D isn't getting these. I don't feel like listening to them bitch about my methodology. The patents are still sealed in my name. I might toss them to Dawnstar Foundation,once I work out the bugs." Justin finished a few more adjustments to the motor before defeating the temptation to ignore his responsibilities. "All right,what's the dire crisis? Another directive from an unhappy ex-Wyatt?"
William shook his head. "Not this time, although ex-Wyatt the Second will be involved."
"Then it must be another licensing request from what's-his-name over at Martin-Hong. Tiff's been hounding me about expansion again."
"His name is David Hong," William said. "And he's their director of R&D, as you very well know. You've invited him to dinner more than once."
"No, I didn't. Tiffany planned all those. She likes him. I think he's a weasel. I don't remember weasel names."
"In any case, no, it isn't a licensing issue.This is official trouble, and dire enough that I've scrounged up a backup pilot. Entirely too many people saw you drinking beer for breakfast for you to legally fly second seat. We don't need the scandal of Civilian Security Bureau officers arresting you for violating flight regulations as soon as you get home."
Justin stopped dead in the middle of repacking the field kit. "Home today? That bad?"
"Bad enough. Extremely bureaucratic."
"What kind of red tape? Audit? Insurance? Asset taxes?"
William settled a long-suffering glare on Justin and refused to answer, which meant it had to be a regulatory issue. William was touchy about those.
"Articles of Restriction again?" Justin sat back on his heels. "Does the Fed want to drive growth or not? Is the US part of a global economy or not? Isn't the government ever going to get tired of changing its own rules? Maybe it's time for another Restoration. Maybe we could get itright the third time around."
William said stiffly, "Speaking on behalf of everyone who was out of diapers during the last round, I'll thank you not to make light of that option."
"I'm not joking. The never-ending new regs are choking us. We can't sit back and let a pack of bureaucrats—"
"Dammit, Justin, shut up." William folded his arms and deliberately turned his back. "You know I think that the Fed isn't holding the reins tight enough. I am in no mood for this. You have no right to joke about Restoration. You didn't live through it."
Justin's anger dissipated in an instant. "No, I didn't. Sorry."
William had lived through the riots and the militia-driven coups and the societal collapse that preceded Restoration, and the scars ran deep. He'd been nearly as old as Justin was now by the time the worst of the chaos was beaten back.
The man brushed at his coat in a finicky gesture. "The Fed's regulatory powers are nothing, compared to what they were,and the dangers of corporate or privately driven rebellion are still very real.Yes, we glued the broken pieces of the world back together, but it's still fragile, and it needs corporate cooperation to survive. You know that, when you're not acting like a child who's been told to clean his room."
"I said I was sorry." Justin turned to finish packing. "You know I'm stupid about some things."
"I'm sick and tired of that particular stupid,"William said. "Ignorant pouting was excusable when you were sixteen. It's an embarrassment now. I hate it when you mock what my generation went through. I hate it. We built something good from the ruins we made of our country, and people died to make it real. Don't even joke about tearing it down for your damned convenience."
"I'm not mocking anything, William. I've helped rebuild it, thanks to you."
The self-inflicted financial and physical damages of the Restoration years had stifled growth and innovation for a longtime, but overall the United States had come out ahead in the wake of the global meltdown. From its incorporation, Wyatt Enterprises had ridden the crest of a surging economic revival.
Justin walked around William to face him down."Look, all I'm saying is that we never could've gotten off the ground today.The Restoration changes in patent law and tax structures, the consolidation of services and loosening of regulatory oversight; that made Wyatt Enterprises possible. Now the government is smothering everything again."
William sniffed. "They can't smother me."
"Nothing keeps you down." Justin caught William's eyes and made sure his gratitude was visible. "Anyone who could take a fifteen-year-old's crazy patent application and build an empire out of it can do anything. I'm sorry I pushed your big red button. I don't know what I'd do without you."
"Without me you'd own a mechanic's shop in Lincoln,Nebraska," William said. He added with exasperated affection, "Finish up before you freeze to death. I'll give you the full brief in the helicopter."
"Should I give you my phone?"
William responded with an outstretched hand and a grimace. They had learned together the expensive consequences of expletive-laced phone calls made in the heat of the moment, but William had borne the brunt of the recovery work. Justin surrendered the device that had empowered so many impulsive rants. Once the sled had been wrestled into its carrier and both helicopters were on their way back to the lodge, William transferred the documents to Justin's account and handed over a folder stamped with official seals.
Before finishing the first paragraph, Justin could feel his blood pressure spiking. He kept his mouth shut and kept reading. His temper was developing a sharp edge, but he refused to hit William with it again so soon. When he was done, he set down his datapad and took a deep breath. "You'd better keep the phone for a while," he said.
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Fashion, by its nature, relies on change and innovation. It is an exciting world, which is both highly cutting edge, and highly traditional. The big fashion houses and the 'usual suspect' countries with a strong fashion history (France, Italy, the US and UK) dominate the scene. However, we are currently seeing what may be the beginnings of huge and lasting change in the world in general. The old economic certainties seem incredibly fragile now. The US and Europe are struggling to keep up, as China and India steam ahead. It does not seem so far fetched as it might once have done to imagine a world where ordinary Europeans have to take out loans just to afford basic clothes, as the centre of the fashion world moves to the catwalks of Beijing and Mumbai. Fashion is money, and money is fashion: without money, fashion cannot exist. Last year, Hermes launched a new sari line. Perhaps that is indicative of a new joining up of fashion from east and west.
None of us really know how the economic future is going to shake-up, but it seems likely that things will look very different in fifty or one hundred years time, to how they do now. Nothing lasts forever. Perhaps the likes of Dior and Armani will adjust to a new global reality, or perhaps they will falter. Provided they are prepared to do what fashion houses do best and innovate, perhaps they will be able to stay ahead of the game. Look at, for example, the way traditional British brands such as Burberry and Aquascutum have been able to reinvent themselves in recent years, appealing to an entirely new audience.
However, it is not just the east which threatens the old fashion houses today. Cheap fashion is often more appealing to those in the middle-income bracket than expensive designer wear is. After all, why blow a month's shopping budget on one piece, when you could have five from H&M or Zara, and still get change? Many people will still value luxury and quality over price, but with economic realities changing, how many will continue to do so in future?
The big problem for luxury brands operating in a changing world is that they depend on being at the centre of the world. The big fashion houses of Milan and Paris were established during a time when their countries were drivers of world politics and economics. Italy and France are, of course, still important on the international stage. However, they are perhaps trading on past glories. How long can that keep them at the centre of the fashion world? If the new Europe cannot keep on on the world stage, why would its fashion be desirable? Cheap designer fakes are so common in parts of the east because they evoke the wealth of the West. Why would a member of the new Chinese middle-class want to buy into a world which is fading from view, rather than their own confident, economically powerful world?
Another practical problem for fashion houses (at both the luxury and cheaper ends of the market) is the increasing cost of resources. Just as the world is struggling to feed its people, so it may struggle to clothe them. With land at a premium, it may become harder and harder for fashion companies to get hold of the kind of volumes of material that they need to keep things rolling. Recently, India banned cotton exports because of short supply. Such battles over access to resources may become increasingly common over the next few years.
Despite all these challenges for the traditional fashion model, it seems likely that the fashion brands that we know and love will survive in some form. For a disinterested observer, the next couple of decades could be a very interesting time. It may be that mass designer goods become less saleable in the west, as the cost of living creeps up. At the same time, the growing middle-class of the east is likely to want to embrace luxury whenever they can, but with their own slant and stamp on it. It would not be at all surprising to see new brands emerging from new markets, and old brands adapting to new realities with different lines (as Hermes have done). For a while, it may be that the global fashion world becomes a whole lot more level. Longer-term, the nature of luxury is exclusivity, and so someone will always end up on top.


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Tony Dannon (* 24. März 1924 in Villa Latina als Antonio D'Annunzio; † 12. April 2011 in Sterling Heights, Michigan) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker und Arrangeur. Der Akkordeonist war auch als Komponist, Autor und Musikpädagoge tätig.

Leben und Wirken
Dannon wuchs in Mittelitalien auf; mit drei Jahren begann er Akkordeon zu spielen. 1935 wanderte seine Familie in die Vereinigten Staaten aus. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs war er Musiker in einer Army-Band. 1957 gründete Dannon mit seinem Geschäftspartner Oliver Petrini in Dearborn Musikschule und -Laden Modern Accordion Studio, das italienische Akkordeone verkaufte. Daneben trat er im Raum Detroit mit eigenen Formationen in italienischen Restaurants und Clubs auf, wie im Lido in St. Clair Shores. Eine Zeitlang arbeitete er auch als Musiker beim Sender WXYZ-TV.

Höhepunkt seiner Karriere war der Auftritt in der New Yorker Carnegie Hall im Rahmen der Accordion Artist Series. Dannon betätigte sich auch als Komponist und Arrangeur; außerdem schrieb er mit Art Van Damme (mit dem er auch 1997 zusammen auftrat) zwei Bücher über Jazzarrangements. Er starb im Alter von 87 Jahren an Demenz.

Diskografische Hinweise
Accordion to Dannon (Ampco, 10-inch-LP)

Publikation
Jazz Magic (mit Art Van Damme)

Weblinks
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Musikpädagoge
Jazz-Akkordeonist
Komponist (Jazz)
Arrangeur
Musiker (Vereinigte Staaten)
US-Amerikaner
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Gestorben 2011
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Q: How to add a contact to contactgroup using Kentico Rest API? There is a POS windows application where a store manager processes bills for customers. Our client want us to provide them an API service where this service will add a customer as a contact and also be assigned to a POS contacts contact group in Kentico 12.
Is there any possibility to achieve this using Kentico 12 Rest API out of the box feature?

A: In Kentico contact membership in a contact group is stored in om.contactgroupmembercontact object type. So I believe the following should work:
POST request to URL: ~/rest/om.contactgroupmembercontact?format=json
And the following data:
{
    "ContactGroupMemberContactGroupID":yourContactGroupID,
    "ContactGroupMemberType":0,
    "ContactGroupMemberRelatedID":yourContactID,
    "ContactGroupMemberFromManual":true // Manually added contact
}

You need to know ContactGroupID and ContactID which can be retrieved with other queries.


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Jose Manalo As StarStruck Judge, Reason Behind This Revealed
This is the reason behind the stint of Jose Manalo as a StarStruck judge
It is confirmed that Kapuso comedian-host Jose Manalo is one of the judges in StarStruck Season 7 and the reason behind this stint is now revealed.
When the news circulated on social media that the Eat Bulaga host will be one of the talent search's judges, he received criticisms.
Some were questioning his credibility to be a critic to the aspiring actors and actresses of GMA 7.
Photo source: Philippines Report
On the other hand, fans defended that Jose is also talented and he had been in the industry for several years. That makes him aware of the in-and-out of showbiz.
READ ALSO: Jose Manalo Receives Criticisms Due To 'Starstruck' Judge Rumors
Based on the article from PEP, Henyo Master Joey de Leon was the one gave the opportunity to Jose Manalo to be a StarStruck judge.
Joey had been a judge or council member of the talent search for Season 1, 2, 3, and 6. He is supposed to be a judge also in the 7th season of the reality show.
However, he can no longer do the upcoming season so he chose Jose to replace him.
According to the article, this will be a big challenge to the comedian-host, especially that he must prove that Joey did the right decision to give the opportunity to him.
Jose will join veteran actress Cherie Gil and primetime actress/fashion icon Heart Evangelista as StarStruck council members.
At the time of writing, the Kapuso network has not introduced yet who are the aspiring stars for Season 7. The reality talent search is expected to air next month, based on the report.
What can you say about this?
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Q: Neo4j labels, how to handle special characters? I'm new to Neo4j and Cypher and could use some simple input on using special characters in node labels. Can someone clarify what's not allowed and suggest how to handle turning database headings with special characters into Cypher friendly labels.
IATI, one humanitarian reporting standard uses hyphens while another called HXL uses hashtags and plus signs. I'd like to make a node with multiple labels like (:reporting-org:#org+reporting) making a node for a reporting organization that can be queried via reporting-org or #org+reporting but I understand I can't use these special characters.
It this so? Any thoughts on how to make headings like reporting-org and #org+reporting cypher friendly?

A: Escaping labels containing special characters with backticks should work e.g.
`reporting-org` and `#org+reporting`


Yes! you read it right!
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Well, this must be a late info but as what they say, "It"s better to be late than never..".
It costs 2,200yen for male customers, and 2,000 yen for the females.
Cost for the kids is lesser of course! And you can enjoy it for 90 minutes only. Dinner starts from 5pm to 9pm.
So, what are you waiting for? Grab a bite now!


LifeCell is one of the most important global names involved in stem cell banking. Stem cell banking involves the practice of collecting blood that is still leftover in the umbilical cord of the new born baby as well as the placenta so that it may be used in the future for medical treatment purposes. There are a number of reasons why this has emerged as a major and important practice after child birth. Come and take a look at the reasons why you should get cell banking done.
The basic building blocks of a human body have been categorized as stem cells, and they help in the effective development and functioning of various organs. These cells can repair and replace in order to treat certain life threatening diseases. This is especially helpful for immune diseases, which can be treated with the help of stem cells because they can repair and restore normal functioning of the damaged organs. The cells that are to be used for treatment will be harvested and then processed so that the repair functions can start.
Why should you bank stem cells?
The stem cells of your baby must be banked because it can help in transplants to restore the functioning of damaged organs. Also, it is important because it can also help in harvesting cells of rare ethnicity in case you are in a part of the world where you cannot find that ethnicity. This makes it very important so that any kind of disease can be fixed.
Where do you find stem cells?
The stem cells can be found in various parts of the body like the dental pulp, menstrual blood, bone marrow, fat cells and even the peripheral blood. This is usually concentrated in the umbilical cord, which needs to be harvested for repair and restoration of diseased organs.
What is the potential of stem cell banking?
There are over 500 clinics that have been registered under LifeCell. These clinics are authorized to conduct transplants and other therapeutic treatments. The procedure has already helped in conducting over 5000 transplants the world over. It has the potential to become a routine practice with the mere cost of banking the stem cells at the birth of a child. The probability of a person requiring a stem-celled based transplant has gone from 1 to 217 for the average person. This also increases the scope of this procedure.
What is the probability of an effective treatment?
The treatment has a high matching probability if the stem cell can be found for the right patient. The existing inventory has been raised to many hundreds of thousands of units as well, which makes it that much easier to find a match. Also, there is immediate availability of frozen stem cells so that people can avail the same in case there is an emergency.


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Piscis is located only a walking distance from the centre of Arroyo, a busy little village with Spanish and English Bars, Restaurants, Supermarkets, Banks etc. Arroyo is well connected by a local train with Fuengirola, the airport, Malaga city and other touristic areas.
There is a Tivoli World, cable car and holds a popular flea Market every Friday.


End-terraced industrial unit within a terrace of three. The property has concrete block walls roughcast externally under a mon pitched profile metal sheet clad roof and benefits from a solid concrete floor slab.
Workshop premises To Let within a popular industrial estate with good trunk road links and on site parking. The unit extends to 484 sq ft and qualifies for 100% rates relief. Flexible "easy in easy out" terms available. Last remaining unit!
The subjects comprises of a detached work shop unit.
Location The building is in the centre of Slough Trading Estate, with good access to local shops and the Town Centre. Served by Junctions 6 and 7 of the M4 motorway, the M25 and Heathrow airport are within 10 miles. Slough's fast mainline service to Paddington Station takes under 20 minutes.
See the latest Rothesay commercial property listings from across the market. Currently there are 411 available commercial properties near Rothesay.
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What is your vision for the role of the Kentucky Treasurer? How will our commonwealth be better in four years if you are elected?
Kentucky's Treasurer should be the chief ambassador for modernizing our economy, updating our tax code, modernizing revenue streams and developing a sound 21st century investment strategy.
Far too often our Commonwealth has failed to stress the importance of the Treasurer's role. Managing the financial and investment strategy in a fair and independent capacity is vital for Kentucky. Equally vital is the role that the Treasurer holds as a watchdog and advocate for all Kentuckians. A strong independent Treasurer that will not act as a rubber stamp for the Governor is essential.
Over the past 3 years, our Governor has been allowed to write checks that the Commonwealth can't cash. The Treasurer is the Chief Financial Officer for Kentucky and not the private account of any governor, Democrat or Republican. We're not wearing team jerseys, but rather advocating for the taxpayer; the people of each of our 120 counties.
I believe in a 2020 Vision for Kentucky's Treasury. That vision is successful when we generate new sources of revenue, understand the importance of smart budgeting, strengthen our taxpayer safeguards, to include fraud detection and prevention capabilities and improve the overall financial literacy in Kentucky.
Please highlight previous experience that you feel qualify you for serving in this office.
My life mirrors the regular experience of the vast majority of Kentuckians. I was raised in a working-class home in rural Kentucky and saw firsthand the struggles of a family doing the very best they can. I was fortunate enough to be gifted with a solid public education and through hard work, determination and the burden of student loans was able to attend the University of Kentucky.
As the owner of a small insurance and financial services agency, I understand the daily struggle of doing business in Kentucky's current economic climate.
I've spent the better part of my life advocating for my local community which has prepared me for the role of being a strong, proactive Treasurer, committed to advocating for all Kentuckians.
As the Treasurer of the Human Rights Commission for the past three years, I've had the fiduciary experience of monitoring a governmental agency's use of the tax payer dollar.
My life, professional and advocacy experience have more than prepared me to not only manage and improve the statutorily mandated duties of the Office of Treasurer, but also to be a statewide leader on economic issues such as poverty, food insecurity, revenue and tax reform.
More than 250 tax expenditures are draining Kentucky's General Fund. Kentucky loses more revenue from these expenditures than we generate for our state budget. As treasurer, what reforms would you support to enhance our state tax system?
According to the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, $13 billion are lost every year in the Commonwealth through tax expenditures, i.e. tax breaks, exemptions and exclusions.
This dereliction of duty by some in Frankfort is an affront to not only current Kentucky taxpayers but to generations to follow. As a commonwealth, we must take a comprehensive look at these tax expenditures and determine the tax payer's return on investment.
The Treasurer should be leading the call for curtailing or eliminating all together those that fail to provide a direct benefit to all Kentuckians.
It is equally important that the office fosters investment that modernizes our economy and improves the quality of life.
Kentuckians deserve a Treasurer that will not only be a good steward, but will advocate for economic reforms. Common sense advocacy that includes fair and equitable tax reform, protecting and fully funding our public pensions, investing in our infrastructure, roads and schools and operating our state government in a transparent, open way.


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Football Picks From Expert Handicappers
Wagering on anything has been considered as a necessary piece of human instinct. Indeed, even children do this putting any of their valued belonging on line. Presently it has grown up as an incredible business. Sports wagers are done on the result or on the players. It has become such a high dangerous and testing industry that there are many game consultants in the field. Individuals consider their pro game advices prior to getting into any significant wagers.
The game counsels observe each part of a game and its players. They make investigates and considers with respect to each game and its players. They even investigation the forms of non-verbal communication dialects of the players before they offer any guidance. Great game exhorts on wagering assists you with knowing the correct way that can lead you to progress.
Pro game picks have been there since long, yet as the web offices came free game picks have offered football speculators unending possibilities.Football specialists appreciate sharing their free football picks and their viewpoint regarding which is the best group and among the players who will perform best. Football like the mentors, analysts, and sportanalyst likewise share their free football picks.
There are numerous site which give valuable data helping sports picks. These destinations give the most recent data, news, matchups,trends and details to assist you with crippling the forthcoming football match-ups. There are many dedicated individuals who give the best data and explores and numerous handicappers who assist you with bringing in cash by wagering. They likewise give free picks just to assist you with understanding your procedures and to get a gauge of how far you are ahead in bringing in cash on the genuine games.
There are two kinds of football pick or challenge. One in which you need to pick just the victor of the game altogether, and the other in which it is played against the spread. Spread is the number appointed to the more vulnerable of the two groups in wagering terms. It's anything but a decent pattern, if every one of the bettors place bets on who will dominate the match. An awesome football handicapper is relied upon to win 62% of the games he picks against the spread. That is the place where the term spread comes to its meaningful conclusion. By this they attempt to try and out the wagering in each group however much as could reasonably be expected. คาสิโนที่ดีที่สุด
Like football there are additionally ball specialists. The strategies and difficulties associated with b-ball picks are equivalent to in football picks. For these there are b-ball specialists who think about the game inside and out and the players. They can offer better guidance and ideas. Regardless of whether it is a b-ball pick, or football or another game pick, you ought to be moderate. At the point when your success and need to accomplish a greater number of wagers spread out you wagers instead of raising them.
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Although previous research has shown that teacher coaching can improve teaching practices and student achievement, little is known about specific features of effective coaching programs. We estimate the impact of MATCH Teacher Coaching (MTC) on a range of teacher practices using a blocked randomized trial and explore how changes in the coaching model across two cohorts are related to program effects. Findings indicate large positive effects in Cohort 1 but no effects in Cohort 2. After ruling out explanations related to the research design, a set of exploratory analyses suggest that differential treatment effects may be attributable to differences in coach effectiveness, coaching dosage, and the focus of coaching across cohorts.


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Q: Regular Expression With Unique Digits I am trying to create a regular expression with Unique digits separated with comma with max 5 digit and numbers are allowed from 1-10. for example
1,2,3,4,5 - valid
1,2,2,4,5 - Invalid (Because it's allowing to define duplicate digits)
but I want regular expression in which we can enter only unique number.
I am mentioning below my regex which allow digits with comma separated and allow 5 digits between 1-10.
^([1-9]|10)(?:,([1-9]|10)){0,4}$
Please help how to define this regex which allow only unique digits

A: You may use
^(?!.*\b(\d+)\b.*\b\1\b)(?:[1-9]|10)(?:,(?:[1-9]|10)){0,4}$

See an online regex demo.
The (?!.*\b(\d+)\b.*\b\1\b) negative lookahead fails any match if there are repeated identical digit chunks as whole words (enclosed with word boundary positions).
See the Java demo:
List<String> strs = Arrays.asList("1,2,3,4,5", "1,2,2,4,5");
String rx = "(?!.*\\b(\\d+)\\b.*\\b\\1\\b)(?:[1-9]|10)(?:,(?:[1-9]|10)){0,4}";
for (String str : strs)
    System.out.println(str + ": " + str.matches(rx));

Output:
1,2,3,4,5: true
1,2,2,4,5: false

Note that ^ and $ at the start and end of the pattern are omitted in Java code since .matches requires a full string match.


I may hate fall here in New York since it is FREEZING. I swear we only get two season here. Winter and Spring. Boo! But fall does bring one totally awesome thing with it, football! One of the only good things about fall is lazy football Sundays lounging around in front of the TV in my PJ's!
Now that my daughter is older, we have been playing around with the idea of taking her to a football game. Only issue is we live in the Buffalo region. Buffalo fans are notorious for their obnoxious behavior. The games are ridiculously fun for a day date. Hubby and I have gone to many,but I wouldn't take a little one. You just never know what you will encounter.
One random afternoon while scrolling my Facebook feed I spotted an advertisement for Buffalo Bills Kids Day ticket's from a ticket site. I was intrigued at the idea that the Buffalo Bills have a Kids day. Could it be? I can take my child to a game and so many kids would be in attendance that all the shenanigans that happens at most games would be obsolete? So I decided to google it & then bought tickets once I realized it was a legit event.
The event ran from 12:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. We arrived at around 1:30 and had plenty of time to have fun before the game. Buffalo Bills Kids Day was filled with a variety of activities, including mini golf, a rock climbing wall, a mechanical Bills helmet ride and more! They even had super cool photo opts. Lines did get pretty long for those beyond fabulous Insta pics. But it was totally worth it.
Prior to entering the stadium we had the chance to enjoy a variety of food truck offering from places such as Cibo, Buffalo's Best, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, and Ms. Judi! Once inside New Era Field, the Buffalo Bills Kids Day deal included $2 hot dogs, Pepsi products, and water. Safe to say we had an awesome time even before the game began. We will definitely be going back next year!
Who do you root for on Football Sunday?
That's great that the Bills host a kids day. Looks like you and your family had a lot of fun!
It looks like you guys had a great time! I love facebook for finding the good local events!
What a fun experience! We are huge football fans too... I love seeing NFL teams do this stuff.
What an awesome experience! I am a Cowboys fan but loved watching Jim Kelly play in Buffalo as a kid.
That sounds like a nice opportunity for the kids to enjoy a day. I'm the only one that ever watches football around here. I am a Giants fan.


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Calida severed ties with security firm, denies conflict of interest
by Patrick Garcia
By Jeffrey Damicog
Solicitor General Jose Calida has denied allegations of conflict of interest over his family's ownership of a security firm which has bagged several government contracts, saying he had long resigned as president of the company.
Solicitor Genral Jose C. Calida (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
"There is no conflict of interest," he assured in a statement.
Calida said he already resigned as chairman and president of Vigilant Investigative and Security Agency, Inc. even before he took over as Solicitor General on May 30, 2016.
The Solicitor General gave the explanation as he faces a criminal complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) concerning his family's ownership of Vigilant.
"Clearly then, Solgen Calida complied with Section 9 of RA 6713 (Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees) when he resigned as Chairman and President of Vigilant before he assumed office as Solicitor General," read his statement.
"His Interest in Vigilant was stated in his SALN (Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth) when he assumed office," he added.
Under the allegations, Calida has shown conflict of interest since Vigilant currently has contracts with a number of government agencies including National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor), and the National Parks Development Corporation (NPDC).
Calida said he has complied with the provisions of RA 6713 which prohibits public officials and employees from having "any financial or material interest in any transactions requiring the approval of their office" and having involvement in "any private enterprise regulated, supervised or licensed by their office."
He pointed out that "the OSG does not regulate, supervise of license security agencies like Vigilant."
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