Combining contemporary and nation home plans can mean combining rustic supplies comparable to slate flooring, uncovered ceiling beams, and kitchens with contemporary stainless-steel home equipment , plastic laminated cupboards , glass shelving and butcher block countertops. The final result`s a recent kitchen which is serviceable and has a cozy , rustic feel. Up to date design is about clean surfaces similar to glass and chrome steel , and the usage of bold colors.
Earlier than we go right down to the actual theme of up to date house plans, it`s essential to know the fundamental options of a modern household. For starters contemporary house plan has large windows to offer a lightweight and comfy atmosphere, high ceilings, versatile and continuous floor plan to accommodate modern furniture and fixtures; and utilization of modern supplies, similar to glass, metal , vinyl, stone, marble, and so on.
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Mid-Century Trendy house plans are growing in recognition from New York to LA and everywhere in between. These plans include historic Eichler designs from the 1960s, in addition to current home plans impressed by the enduring `Case Study ` modern houses in Los Angeles of the late Forties and early 1950s. Led by Dwell journal , the mid century aesthetic of open plans, giant home windows and minimal detailing is emerging as one of the key design trends of the early 21st century.


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Ruby RNCryptor
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This is a Ruby port of Rob Napier's Cocoa [RNCryptor](https://github.com/RNCryptor) library. Like RNCryptor, Ruby RNCryptor intends to be an easy-to-use class that correctly handles random initialization vectors, password stretching with PBKDF2, and HMAC verification.

This port is based on his [Data Format](https://github.com/RNCryptor/RNCryptor-Spec/blob/master/RNCryptor-Spec-v3.md) wiki page. It currently implements version 2 and version 3.

Usage Example:
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```ruby
require './lib/ruby_rncryptor'
require "base64"

password = "n3v3r gue55!!"
encrypted = RubyRNCryptor.encrypt("This is a tiny bit of text to encrypt", password)

puts Base64.encode64(encrypted)
puts "Decrypting..."

decrypted = RubyRNCryptor.decrypt(encrypted, password)

puts decrypted
```

Release Notes
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2017-04-01 - version 3.0.2

- Fixed for OpenSSL deprecation warning.

2016-01-25 - version 3.0.1

- Addressed a timing attack vulnerability by making the HMAC comparison constant time.
- Updated the tests to use the newer rspec expect syntax.

2013-12-20 - version 3.0

- Generates version 3 file format files by default.
- Made a gemspec for this library, version 3.0 for file format version 3.
- Decrypts files encrypted with a bug in the Cocoa version where multibyte passwords were truncated.

Generate and install as a gemfile
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	gem build ruby_rncryptor.gemspec
	gem install ./ruby_rncryptor-3.0.1.gem

Credits
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- Ruby port by Erik Wrenholt 2013.
- Original RNCrypto library and format are by Rob Napier.

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You will need to know that building construction process will include the preparation of building plans as well as the building system. it will thus be important for you to make sure that you have effective planning which will render the project execution right and also successful. You will need to know that there exist two types of construction which can be of two types and this will include the large-scale residential building or commercial building and the construction of small houses. When you are planning to construct a house, you will also need to know that this process will include a lot and all these tasks will determine the last product that you shall have.
Construction will start with planning, designing as well as financing and this will continue till the structure is ready for occupation. Building project will mainly be designed by architects and managed and supervised by either a construction manager or an engineer. It will be quite a good idea that you search for the right builder who will carry out everything for you starting from the planning, designing as well as managing your site. There are so many people who don't know how they will make the right decision of the company that they should work with since they don't know what to is that they will need to check on. You will need to be well aware of all the crucial steps that are involved in any building process, and this will help you to make some informed as well as confident decision together with builder you will want to work with. Before you start your search for the right builder who you will choose, you will need to make sure that you will understand what is their role in construction project and also know what it is that you will check on so that you can make the right choice. It will be better if you know what type of a building company will you be looking for in the market so that you don't end up being confused when you find a lot of firms.
It will not be easy for you to make the right decision of the company that you are going to deal with because the market is flooded with multiple firms that are offering these services. You will need to start the search with a budget that you will work within. A budget will be essential as it will help you in making the right choice of the particular firm that you will need to check out for.


Whether you are looking for something interesting to do this weekend, searching for the perfect venue for your event, or you just want to learn more about that cool theatre you went to in Chatham, you've come to the right place!
There's always a great event just around the corner at The Vogue! Check out our Event Calendar to keep up to date with some of the coolest events happening in Miramichi!
The Vogue Theatre has everything you need for your event. It is a modern, soft seat venue with 320 seats and all the bells and whistles you would need; but it is also an incredible historical venue in the heart of Miramichi East that locals love going to.


Football's a funny old game. If you're old enough to remember 'The Saint and Greavsie', then you'll know where the popularisation of that particular stock phrase originated. It wasn't a great show in all honesty, but was as good as it got in an era when TV punditry was primarily about humour, albeit of the cheesy, Tarbuckesque variety, rather than slick Sky's every-angle-covered gizmo-fest.
The technophile's choice, which on the weekend just past, added 3D to its dishful of whistles and bells, thrives on the groaning sideshow that accompanies the game now it faces 24 hour rolling scrutiny and the fear of missing any detail, regardless of its relevance. The back pages and websites fill up with financial reportage, or banal conjecture about which Latin wonderkid Sir Alex or Arsène might be trying to shoehorn into their crowded training ground car park. Analysis of what happens on the pitch is forced to fit in around this.
Forest-Derby clashes are gathering an ugly sideshow all of their own. It's usually what we look for in any derby fixture, and Glasgow's Old Firm take the prize, weaving a few centuries of Irish bloodshed into their histories and on-the-pitch meetings. What is often obscured by all the kerfuffling is that the matches themselves are not very good. Not always the case, of course: this season's first Manchester derby at Old Trafford was a belter; our victory at the City Ground over the Rams in August was thrilling. Whilst all that history, the friction, and the battle for local pride go into making the occasion what it is, it could easily become an unwanted distraction for Forest at this stage of the season.
"Don't panic, Captain Mainwaring!" feels like an appropriate battle cry in the aftermath of Saturday's reverse. So the news that Billy Davies has accused Nigel Clough of assaulting him in the bout of mass handbags that followed is worrying. And Davies' comments on the matter give cause for concern. He talks of the pettiness surrounding the fixture compared to the Old Firm matches he experienced, yet is ensuring at the same time that the next meeting between the sides (hopefully not next season at least!) will feature more of the same.
If it's an attempt to deflect attention from the fact that Forest were ineffective against a very poor Derby side anchored at the wrong end of the table, it's somewhat excessive. Forest's magnificent run had to end eventually. That it should be at the hooves of Derby, is – as Jimmy Greaves would've noted – funny, ironic, maybe inevitable. Derby's players probably needed no more of an incentive to raise their limited game than the chance to end that run, and may have been praying that Reading or QPR didn't beat them to it.
We need to move on quickly, and the response Davies gets from his players will be telling. Their growing air of invincibility has been breached, and beating Sheffield Wednesday at home this weekend – straightforward enough on paper – takes on massive significance. Failure to do so could lead to a crash in confidence, and plenty of other sides fancying their chances against us. February promises to be a defining month in the season, with awkward trips to Coventry, Doncaster and Leicester, more local sides seeking revenge for defeats, heavy in a couple of cases. A resurgent Sheffield United will come to Nottingham looking for a victory to cement their play-off ambitions.
By the time Swansea visit on March 6th, things could look very different. Davies will have a much better picture of the calibre of the squad he assembled in the summer, and we will know much more about his own credentials as a manager of our club.


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Archived Webinar, CSL in Session
Older Adults, Services and Programming
October 23, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT
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Seniors are a growing segment of the population, and they need the type of services and programs that libraries are so good at providing.
Join us for a discussion about connecting with and serving seniors in your community — including those seniors who are experiencing memory loss. Staff from the Denver Public Library will share stories, tips, and information about their top senior programs designed for those "North of 50".
Tara – tbannon@denverlibrary.org
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Stephanie – stwoeagles@denverlibrary.org
Session Slides (PDF)
Creative Aging Toolkit for Public Libraries
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Letting Go with Dignity
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Facilitators: Tara Bannon, Amy DelPo, and Stephanie Two Eagles
Tara currently works as a Senior Librarian at the Park Hill Branch Library, which is a part of the Denver Public Library system. Awarded the Nell I. Scott Employee of the Year Award in 2013, Tara continues to innovate and inspire. Tara's current pursuits include intentional community building through deliberative dialogue and civic engagement and locating Denver's best nachos.
Amy DelPo is a reference librarian at the Schlessman Family Branch of the Denver Public Library. There, she is a jack of all trades, doing everything from storytimes to readers advisory to programs for people with memory loss. She is passionate about the power of community to improve the quality of people's lives, and she believes that libraries can positively transform what it means to age in America.
Stephanie Two Eagles served as director of the Colorado Film Commission and retired after 26 years with the agency. She began working as a shelver at Denver Public Library nearly five years ago, most of that time at Park Hill Branch, where she has been a customer for three decades.
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If you want to reach the most numbers of customers, you need to have a social media presence. Also, you must employ the best social media strategy to make people notice your brand. It's important to choose the best platforms, employ a great manager, deliver consistently, and grow your audience.


poll released on Wednesday found.
narrowed from McAuliffe's 47-39 lead two weeks ago.
8 percent in the prior poll.
Democrats while Cuccinelli has only 81 percent of Republicans,"
Brown said, noting that 11 percent of Republicans favor Sarvis.
Two percent of Democrats polled said they favored Sarvis.
national attention and stars from both parties to Virginia.
for each of them, during various elections.
The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 1,085 likely voters on Oct.
15-21 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.


What will Canada's population look like in 2050? Will the country be experiencing a marked decrease in its population or will have it have exceeded demographic projections with a higher intake of immigrants? What will Canada look like in light of the doubling of its senior population, and how will newcomers be integrated into Canadian society? This panel aims to explore what factors inform policy decisions related to Canada's population growth and immigration policies. It also aims to examine the ways in which population growth and immigration policies impact other areas of Canadian society such as the labour force, the economy and education. This panel will also examine growth considerations from an Indigenous lens, exploring how policy decisions should be made now to ensure that Indigenous populations grow sustainably and equitably in future – both on-and-off-reserve and in both rural and urban areas.


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Congratulations to Courtney DuChene '19 and Carol Dole, whose work has been published in the journal of the Jane Austen Society.
Drawing on her honors project from last year, Courtney DuChene '19 and Dr. Dole have published a piece in Persuasions On-Line, the journal of the Jane Austen Society.
DuChene's honors project, which was supervised by Dole and Alice Leppert of Media & Communications Studies, focused on updated adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. As a follow-up, DuChene and Dole submitted a proposal on updates of Pride and Prejudice for a special issue of Persuasions.
The co-authored piece focuses on Austen's sexually transgressive character Lydia as she appears in adaptations set in modern times. You can read the piece here.


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Louisa Johnson Bio, Age, Height, Early Life, Career, Personal Life, And More
Biography, Showbiz, Singers
Louisa Johnson Biography
Louisa Johnson was born on Jan 11, 1998, in Essex, England. She is an English songwriter and singer from Thurrock, Essex. She won the 12th series of UK X Factor in 2015. When she won this competition, she was only 17 years old, so she became the program's youngest winner. Her debut studio album is due for release in early 2018. Her instruments are vocal, and she has been active since 2015.
Real Name: Louisa Johnson
Nick Name: Louisa
5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Birth Place: Thurrock, United Kingdom
Favorite Animal Pet:
Address: https://twitter.com/louisa?lang=en
Louisa Johnson Early life
She was born to David Johnson and Lisa Hawkyard. The father of Louisa is a construction worker, and her mother is the instructor of the driving. She grew up in Thurrock. She is also the supporter of Premier League football team West Ham United.
Louisa Johnson Career and Fame
Louisa invited to take part in the X Factor Live Tour of 2016. She already a semi-professional singer before emerging on the X Factor UK in 2015. The fame which she also received from the X factor landed her on the cover of a Fabulous magazine in a November 2015 issue.
She successfully completed six chair challenge to "judges' houses' by singing the song, "and I am telling you I am not Going" by Jennifer Hudson. When Jennifer reached there, all the six chairs filled and Ora described the atmosphere "like a zoo." At judges' houses, she also sang the song "respect" by Aretha Franklin in front of Ora and Meghan Trainer in Los Angeles. Her this performance attracted the attention of media as its televising saw Johnson wearing two different pairs of shoes, with some viewers inferring some faking.
In May 2016, she released a song with Clean Bandit called "tears." The song got high success reaching no three on the Scottish singles chart, number 5 on UK singles chart and no 21 on the Irish singles chart, and in other countries of Europe. In the following month, after the song released, she emerged as an act at the Summertime Ball where she performed the song "tears" and the new version of the song "over and over again" alongside Nathan Sykes.
She released her solo debut single "so good" in Oct 2016, which got fame as her first studio album. This single reached t 13 on the UK singles chart.
After her performances, she is also increasing her fame day by day. She attracted all the judges by her enchanting voice.
After her performances, Cheryl Fernandez told the reality show to coach on her nerves as ITV painted the picture of an amateur.
Louisa Johnson Personal Life
Louisa Remained closed and dated with a guy named Ellis. She and Lauren Murray were amongst the four finalists on The X Factor UK, where the series was 12th. There is no authentic information about her recent boyfriend.
Mother of Louisa also appeared on the stage of the show and claimed that her daughter sings in the bathroom under the shower as if she had never seen a stage before.
Louisa Johnson Facts
Louisa is a popular pop singer, beautiful songwriter and energetic young lady from England who well recognized as the winner of the 12th season of The X factor.
She has an accumulated net worth of 150 thousand dollars. She is also a fan of football team named West Ham United of Premier League.
Her album "so good" released on Oct 28, 2016. She is also a rising star and gave performances with many great names including the Vamp, Ella Eyre, and Professor Green. Before loaning her vocals to a soccer Six gig and being invited to The Diana Awards.
Louisa Johnson is one of those young stars who got fame at such a young age, and she has a huge no of her fans around the globe. She is also active on social media like Facebook and Instagram.
The judges are always bewildered at her performances, and often she gets the comment like "the best" "brilliant" etc.
Her winner's single a cover of Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young' released and reached the no one on the i-tunes chart.
She also has made a record deal with Simon Cowell's label, Syco with an estimated £125,000 advance.
Best songs of Louisa include "best behavior" in 2017, "Unpredictable" in 2016 and "so good" in 2016.
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People often worry that their horse will be naughty for their photoshoot, but what makes a horse "naughty"? It's in a horse's nature to do whatever is easiest for them at any given time – if they are misbehaving, there's usually a reason behind it, whether it's fear, boredom, discomfort or maybe a touch of laziness (lol).
As a horse owner myself, I'm well-versed in experiencing the various "naughty" behaviours, and you can rest assured that nothing will surprise me. Your photoshoot will work around how your horse is feeling on the day, and we can keep moving as necessary, changing it up to keep your horse occupied. We won't do anything that makes either you or your horse uncomfortable, and we will discuss this before and on the day.
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Progreso Lakes is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas. The population was 240 at the 2010 United States Census. The city, incorporated in 1979, is centered on Lion and Moon Lakes, two resacas or ox-bow lakes.
Progreso Lakes is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas. In addition, it shares the U.S.-Mexico border with the city of Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas.
Progreso Lakes is located at 26°4′24″N 97°57′41″W (26.073384, -97.961371). It is situated along FM 1015 in southern Hidalgo County, approximately two miles south of Progreso and six miles south of Weslaco. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km2), of which 2.1 square miles (5.4 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (4.11%) is water.The Progreso-Nuevo Progreso International Bridge over the Rio Grande connects the city with Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas in Mexico.
As of the census of 2000, there were 234 people, 83 households, and 68 families residing in the city. The population density was 111.4 people per square mile (43.0/km²). There were 88 housing units at an average density of 41.9 per square mile (16.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.86% White, 0.43% Asian, 1.71% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 39.74% of the population. There were 83 households out of which 33.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.5% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.9% were non-families. 13.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.82 and the average family size was 3.13.
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Flowers will be laid and a minute's silence observed on the first anniversary of the Shoreham Airshow tragedy on Monday.
The events will take place at the Old Toll Bridge in Shoreham at 1.22pm – the exact time the tragedy happened last year, when a Hawker Hunter jet crashed onto the A27 at Lancing during a display, killing 11 men.
Maurice Abrahams, 76, from Brighton; Graham Mallinson, 72, from Newick; Mark Trussler, 54, from Worthing; Dylan Archer, 42, from Brighton; Richard Smith, 26, from Hove; Tony Brightwell, 53, from Hove; Mark Reeves, 53, from Seaford; Worthing United footballers Matthew Grimstone and Jacob Schilt, both 23; personal trainer Matt Jones, 24, and Daniele Polito, 23, from Worthing, all lost their lives.
Before the one-year anniversary, local churches will be coming together to hold a service for the community, at 11am on Saturday, at St Mary's Church, Shoreham, organised by Shoreham Churches Together.
West Sussex County Council leader Louise Goldsmith will be among those laying flowers at Monday's ceremony. She said: "Throughout the last year our thoughts have been with the families who lost loved ones. This tragedy has had a massive impact on the community and touched so many lives.
West Sussex County Council will also mark the minute's silence across all of its offices and flags will be flown at half-mast at council buildings. Other minute's silences will also be held around the county including at the Shoreham Centre, in Pond Road, Shoreham.
Mrs Goldsmith added: "It is hard to believe it's been nearly 12 months since the Shoreham Airshow tragedy. I am very aware for the families, relatives and friends who lost people on that day, these past 12 months will have been the hardest they've ever lived through and my heart goes out to them. There has been hardly a day that's passed where they haven't been on my mind.
"Although I might be the leader of West Sussex County Council and – proudly – hold the responsibilities that position demands of me, on that day I admit to being one of thousands absolutely shocked and brought to tears by the scenes in Shoreham – yet so humbled, moved and extremely grateful for the amazing work undertaken by all the emergency services, unstintingly supported by St John Ambulance, and Red Cross.
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Merry Christmas! There's a new video clip at the bottom of this post. It's uploaded in HD, so you should be able to click on the YouTube screen and enlarge it if you'd like.
And, hooray for fresh snow! You'll see that a bunch of the tree bulbs are glowing under the snow. Makes for a neat effect.
In an earlier article, I've described some of the backstage technical details which make everything tick.
Late last night, a friend of mine (a very experienced lighting designer & master GrandMA programmer as well) came to visit. He loved the different looks, and especially the fact that nearly all of them could stand on their own, background music or not. We talked for a while about the behind the scenes gear that make everything run so nicely.
He asked what the 'next step' might be.
I had to think. There's currently available several RGB mappable, flexible pixel mesh products in the professional market. And as they say, you can have anything in this world for money.
But – and this is perhaps more important – this is a home in a nice quiet neighborhood. It's neither a rock concert nor a rave. And to this point, it still looks like classic Christmas lights, albeit slightly enhanced. I think that's important and magical.
At least for now, that's how it's going to stay.
A few nights ago, I went out to get the mail and noticed a car parked across the street. They had their window open, and through it I could hear John Denver & the Muppets singing 'Silent Night' (see comments below). The car was packed with 8 year old boys and their parents. I asked the boys if they wanted to stand inside the tree and watch the patterns from there.
"The diamond house. Because it's so sparkly and amazing." That made me smile.
Thanks for visiting! Enjoy the video and stills below.
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In the fall of 2011, we were lucky enough to visit Walt Disney World in Orlando. We spent the day and evening there, and were gathered around Cinderella's castle for the evening lighting ceremony. It was a magical moment, and the shaky cell phone photo taken above became the inspiration for our decorations this year.
Our goal this time was to create something beautiful, classy and memorable. We wanted still images which could stand on their own, plus sequences which could gracefully flow and be complemented by music.
I think we succeeded in grand style.
A couple of still photos are included above, and the boring technical details below. I'll post some video and more stills in a week or two.
The stone face of the house is covered with warm and cool white LED panels. We lost track of the exact number installed. The CAD guy in our builder's office claims that there's about 944 square feet of stone which need to be covered. Each panel of lights measures 2 meters x 1 meter. Total LED count here is somewhere in the 22,000 – 24,000 range.
240 watts of LED floodlight.
~4,100 discretely controlled RGB bulbs on the 25′ tree.
~150 'sparkle' lights (higher power, 3 x RGB emitters in a single package), also on the façade.
More RGB bulbs on the rooflines. Maybe 250 – 300?
28 (?) universes of DMX over ethernet, totaling ~ 5 megabits per second of data throughput.
Custom designed DC dimmers and Art-Net–> DMX bridge interfaces.
Lighting computer jam syncs to time code generated by audio computer, which keeps things nicely locked together.
Small radio transmitter broadcasting in stereo on 87.7 MHz.
A huge challenge was figuring out how to attach the lights to the house's stone walls. It's done in 'dry stack' style, which means that most of the stone sections stick out 1/2″ to 3/4″ in front of the mortar. So there's lots of area to grab on to, but the shapes are very irregular, with often non-parallel sides.
I considered C clamps (too much money, didn't want scratched rock) and plastic alligator work clamps (didn't open wide enough, except for the super expensive ones). At 200-300 pieces required, cost starts to increase in a hurry.
While trolling through Lowes I found a perfect solution. Plastic gray PVC electrical conduit is available in many diameters. I bought 10′ sections of 3″ and 2.5″ pipe to test. Using a chop saw, I cut a section of pipe in narrow bracelet-sized pieces, with widths varying between 3/16″ and 1/4″. Then, I used the same saw, I cut about 50 degrees out from each circle, leaving me with a section of plastic which looked a bit like PacMan.
These sections were both very flexible and very strong. They easily stretch to the width of a stone section, but also grab tightly when released.
For $40 in pipe (and a lot of annoying plastic powder kerf), I'm absolutely thrilled with the results.
I designed a daughtercard which, through a short section of ribbon cable, mates with Parallax's Spinneret ethernet module. And thus, a two universe Art-Net to DMX bridge was born. Parts cost for the daughtercard was just a few dollars. It works beautifully, running at an easy 44 frames per second on both outputs. If I get some time in January, and if there's any interest, I'll release the .spin code I used.. Size of the card is only about 1″ x 3″, which is nice and compact.
In this case, the panel lights use one universe and the floodlights are on the other.
Art-Net bridge module, mates with Parallax's ethernet / Propeller development board, the Spinneret. Includes 2 x XLR5 output jacks and proper RS485 drive stages.
2 universe Art-Net bridge. Not shown is the ribbon cable which connects the two.
The house face lights use 120 channels of one universe and the flood lights 12 of another. Crazy that it's easier – at least in this case – to add a universe than to run more cable between here and there.
The stone face lights are controlled by five DC DMX dimmers I designed. Each drives 24 discrete outputs or 12 warm/cool pairs. Everything except the 24v/2.5A power supply fits on a 3″ x 5″ PCB card, which is nice and compact. The drive stages are rated at 2A each, but the panels only draw about 80 mA each. That leaves plenty of headroom, and no noticeable heat is generated anywhere on the card. Connectors on the left are for Neutrik's Ethercon series.
Earlier this summer I previewed some different styles of net light. I was concerned because all of the AC-driven ones flickered annoyingly when I glanced my eyes back and forth across them. The flicker was at either 60 or 120 Hz, and it bothered me. It'd be easier, I reasoned, to go with custom panels which could be directly DC powered.
So I asked the factory to modify an existing design for +24v DC operation, which they did nicely. The dimming engine runs at a 5 KHz refresh cycle, which means the light output is both camera- and eyeball friendly.
Power Draw: 4 LED wash lights + 24 channels of house panel light.
Total data rate is ~ 5 megabits per second sustained.
Questions? Comments? It's truly beautiful to see at night.
One mechanical on/off timer for the tree.
Built-in dawn / dusk sensors for the house light circuits.
A few weeks ago one of my wife's friends invited her to run an In-the-Dark-5K race, the proceeds of which benefit the Olive Osmond Hearing Fund. The late Olive was the mother of the famous singing Osmonds, and the grandmother of several of our friends in high school.
We encourage everyone to wear their brightest colored running gear! Don't forget your glow sticks and body paint! We will have black lights on the course to be sure that everyone will GLOW for HEARING!
Plus, other friends from long ago live in the same city (Logan, Utah). So we decided to take a road trip.
Back when she first heard about the race, I'd just taken delivery of 150 meters of white EL wire, which will be used in a Halloween project next month. I was testing the EL inverter in the workshop when she walked in. I suggested – half in jest – that we wrap her jacket in glowing wire for the run.
"Well, not really," I said sadly, recalling that that with a bit of electronic sorcery the phosphorescent hue can be shifted a bit to the left or right. And with some even more clever math, it can be dimmed. But that's about it.
This seemed like a lovely idea. We sketched out some rough plans. Later that afternoon, she took a trip to a nearby outdoor equipment retailer and returned with great handfuls of flat black webbing, plus an assortment of plastic clips, latches and turnarounds.
The drawings and loose parts sat neatly on the shelf until yesterday, the day before the race.
We designed a form fitting vest / jacket skeleton using the webbing, white marking pens and a stapler. Once all the pieces were in the right place, the staples were replaced with machine stitching.
She also fabricated a small pouch to hold the controller and battery pack, and attached it to the vest's rear, just below the shoulder blades.
The controller board was a a saved prototype from a different project. It was originally designed to drive 6 sections of RGB LED tape (18 channels total, 2A peak per channel, that's a lot of LED tape) using either live DMX or data stored on an SD card. However, it was easy enough to repurpose a pair of pins to drive the LED node string.
Plus, it was free. Because as any accountant will attest, massive sunk costs can be completely ignored a few months later.
The card contains a DMX input stage, plus a few pushbuttons and LEDs for user feedback. I wrote a tiny program which captured incoming DMX at 44 frames per second, then saved the data to an SD card.
An interesting quirk of memory cards is that although they can be read from very quickly and consistently, the write process is not always as smooth. Even when writing entire sectors (512 bytes at a time) to the card, there can be random and variable delays incurred by the card's internal electronics. 300 mS isn't at all uncommon.
So the DMX capture code actually copies data to a very large circular buffer (at very precise intervals), and the SD write routine is triggered each time new data is ready. Since the input buffer is big enough, the two routines never step on each other's toes. The result is perfectly stable recording and playback, even though both processes are running at different – and sometimes variable – speeds.
It's an elegant bit of code, if only in a 'you really had to be there' sort of way.
Also extremely vital, because dropped frames are ugly and visually jarring.
An 8-AA, 2400 mA-H, NiMH battery pack supplies power. Its output feeds a cute little 7-16v input, 5V/2A DC-DC converter, which then powers the controller and LED string. Testing showed that the 42 LEDs pulled between 800 – 1500 mA depending on their state. The battery pack was tested for an hour under load, with no problems. The DC-DC converter didn't become appreciably warm, which was nice.
Using a copy of Madrix Professional (again, sunk costs), I built a rough facsimile of the jacket's LED layout.
The rest was easy. I arranged a cuelist of about 30 different looks, then let them cycle through over about 14 minutes total. Madrix output DMX through an ENTTEC USB Pro interface, and the jacket controller, in DMX capture mode, recorded each and every packet. In regular playback mode, the file is read and (if needed) looped.
"Are you wearing a bomb?" asked a curious onlooker before the race started, and while the vest was turned off.
This comment piqued the interest of a nearby campus police officer. After we turned on the lights, he wasn't as concerned.
Not nearly as uncomfortable to wear as we expected it might be.
My wife, recovering from a shoulder injury, made good time through the run.
Overkill? Certainly. But it was fun to see people watch and smile.
Here's some video from the race, then a few minutes inside which show some of the different patterns displayed.
The neighbors let us know, without mincing many words, that there will be Trouble if we don't set the up the giant yard tree for Christmas again this year. We've been told that kids living on the opposite corner of the development would howl in protest if they weren't driven home – the long way – via our little corner.
Fortunately, last year's anchoring system proved so strong and sturdy that I plan to extend the tree to its full 25′ height. This means that there won't be any extra node string ends on the ground this year, and the entire tree will be about 6′ taller.
But it'd be boring not to add something new to the collection.
For a few years, we've wanted to decorate the house with snowflakes of varying size and shape. Sadly, the daydreams have so far not materialized. Certainly there are a wide variety of pre-fab wireframe snowflakes available for sale. But I wasn't terribly interested in the overall look.
A few years back, when we first started working with RGB LEDs overmolded on a cable, I drew up some simple snowflakes in the CAD program, then sent them to the shop which does all the metal forming for the products we sell during the day. A 48″ x 96″ sheet of .06″ aluminum, fully tessellated with snowflakes, cost about $400 for materials and laser time. This, by the way, was the after-hours cash price, so who knows the actual street price of the silly things. In this business, it's often best not too ask.
Advantages: Discrete RGB is cool, but there's already almost 4000 nodes on the big tree.
Disadvantages: The LED package is nontrivially large. Wiring harness is bulky and adds about 3″ of depth to each snowflake. The wiring spaghetti backstage is ugly. Installing those nodes in aluminum holes is absolute murder on the fingers. For covering the whole house in snowflakes, the installation must be immaculate.
(Optional) relatively decent pricing, as quantity will approach 60-100 pieces in varying size.
So without further ado, here's a summary of thoughts, experiments and misfires which have percolated through over the past few months.
During a quick trip to Lowes I procured a series of translucent plastic sheets. One set, designed for use in commercial fluorescent lighting fixtures, was embossed with an interesting honeycomb pattern. This plastic can be cut by hand or by machine, so it's possible to make any desired shape. Placing some RGB lighting tape leftover from the 2011 Superbowl project made an interesting effect. However, where the LEDs touched the plastic, their shape and spacing was clearly visible. Moving them farther and farther behind lowered the intensity but diffused the hot spots. 3-4″ seemed a good distance to work with. But making 100 fairly low-cost light boxes to ensure good diffusion just didn't seem fun. Nor did mounting them on the side of the house. The winter winds here can take your breath away, so safety is always a concern.
This is a pretty neat product. While normal fiber optic cable is designed to transfer light from one end to the other with minimal losses, sideglow cable contains added magic which slightly disperses the light along its length. The resulting product can be used as a replacement for neon tubes, but in a much more flexible way. Traditionally, it's driven by a 200 watt metal halide light bulb and a wheel containing dichroic glass filters.
Perhaps, I thought, the cable could be molded in the outline of a snowflake. This moves the effect away from 'light blobs in a row', which is important for this project.
Some folks stateside sell the stuff at what seems to be very inflated prices. Decent eBay sellers seemed to be from Asia, so I cruised Alibaba for a few hours in hopes of skipping the various middlemen.
The cable comes in varying thicknesses from 1-10 mm. I brought in samples of several sizes, plus an 18 watt (2 outputs, each with a 3W RGB LED) drive source.
The verdict? Nice but expensive. Price ex Asia for 6mm cable (the smallest which seemed to emit enough light to be useful) is $1 / foot plus freight. Any drive source less than 3W each of R, G and B is inadequate. 6mm cable has a bend radius of not less than about 40 mm. So fine detail is out. Driving high-brightness LEDs isn't a big deal, but a properly packaged constant-current DMX-driven LED driver at 3 channels, even not counting our design time, would be ~ $30 each.
Thus making the house snowflakes a $5-6k project. Strike 2.
The driver would be relatively bulky as well. So that's strike 3.
Also note that the photo above is terribly, terribly overexposed. That much brightness out the side of the cable doesn't happen in the real world.
The next step in the quest for something low profile and evenly illuminated led to EL wire and paper. Electroluminescent wire has been around for quite a while, and made especially popular as part of dancers' costumes, shown briefly between commercials on television talent shows. It's fairly inexpensive, flexible and continuous in intensity. However, it doesn't dim well, it's only available in single static colors.
The existence of EL wire, however, leads the curious researcher to something called EL paper. It's half a millimeter thick and can be cut to any shape with regular scissors. Drive voltage is 100+v, with current dependent on the paper's area. It can be dimmed, but not easily. Still, this could be a neat, neat effect. Continuous light output in an arbitrary pattern.
I found a few factories who could make panels 2 meters wide x 1 meter tall. Sadly, the best pricing I could find, even when buying in largeish quantities directly from the maker, hovered around $0.023 per square centimeter. Add designing a DMX-driven high voltage outputter (cough, cough… these don't seem to even exist!) for each snowflake and the project becomes ferociously impractical. Plus, still single color per panel.
Here's where things become very interesting. Folks in the sign-cutting industry have, for a long time, made some striking art by edge-lighting pieces of plastic. Further, designs can be etched in to the plastic, either using a stencil and sandblast method, a CNC router or laser ablation. Each section of the plastic disturbed in some way catches light.
I bought from the local plastic shop four pieces of 3/8″ cast acrylic plate. 3/8″ is expensive, but it's also the same thickness as my RGB LED tape. These were precut in squares, one each of 6″, 12″, 18″ and 24″. Retail price for the plastic was $70.
These guys have a nice little Epilog laser for cutting and etching, but its table size was too small to handle the 18″ and 24″ pieces. I was referred instead to a shop which owned a drop-dead-gorgeous 150w Kern Laser, featuring a cutting area of 50″ x 50″. Plenty of size and power for this project.
I emailed over some vector graphics files and we were in business.
We happened to have some extra high-power DMX dimmers in the shop – prototypes from a custom design built for a touring concert group. These six-channel dimmers have a super heavy duty output stage, and digitally dims at a frequency far higher than the broadcast video cameras they were using. Each of the two RGB banks can handle 10 meters of double-density (60 LEDs per meter) RGB LED tape. For just fooling around, this is massive headroom.
I wrapped two snowflakes in LED tape and turned on the dimmer. The results were spectacular. Smooth, even illumination everywhere the snowflake pattern was ablated, and complete transparency otherwise. The etched patterns are nearly invisible, even in daylight. The prototypes have a very thin profile and are exceedingly simple to drive. Each snowflake, even at full brightness, requires maybe 300 mA per color at 12v. Over the next month or so, I'll gin up a dozen or so 36-channel (12 x RGB bank) dimmers with an Art-Net front end. Each snowflake will connect to the dimmer using a length of thin and inconspicuous CAt5 cable. These will mesh nicely with the Art-Net infrastructure already in place.
As an interesting side note, it's actually less expensive, component-wise, to design using ethernet than to include a properly optically and galvanically isolated input stage for DMX.
Underexposed by 2 stops to keep the color saturated. Amazingly crisp and bright in real life.
There's only one downside at this point: retail price for the laser time was $225. Even divided by four snowflakes, it's way too much money. But the look is stunning and perfect, so we'll figure out a less expensive way to proceed. Perhaps even the vinyl stencil + sandblasting method will prove affordable at this scale. I need to investigate whether a CNC router can produce roughly the same effect but at a fraction of the cost. It may be a good excuse to buy a smaller (36″ x 36″) router just to have. Or a biggish laser table.
Anyway, stay tuned for fall. The flock of snowflakes should be spectacularly beautiful.
If anyone has suggestions for pulling off this look without totally breaking the bank, I'd love to hear from you in the comments below.


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Q: Is it possible to input an address to a pointer from stdin? Not that long ago, I had an idea for some simple inter-process comunication: one process outputs an address to a pointer, I copy that to the input of another process, and that changes the original variable.
I implemented it like this:
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    bool p;
    cin>>p;
    if(p){
        int n;
        n=0;
        cout<<&n;
        cin.get();
            cin.get();
            cout<<n;
        }else{
            int *point,n;
            scanf("%p",&point);
            cout<<point;
            cin>>n;
            *point+=n;
        }
        return 0;
    }

I used scanf because cin complained, and wouldn't compile. I tried to run it, with two processes, but after I launched the second instance, and input the pointer's address, as outputed by the first, it froze. As I only have access to Windows, I have no idea as to whether it got a SIGSEGV, or if it did something completely diferent.
Is it just me trying to change the value of another process's variable that is crashing it, or is it something else that is stopping me?

A: You cannot do this that way because first process will not have access to the second process' memory address space (in common operating systems, including Windows and Linux).

A: Each process has its own memory, completely separate from that of other processes. A pointer value is meaningless in context of a different process, even if you manage to get it across.

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New 'massive' dinosaur skeleton discovered
By Traci Watson, Special for USA TODAY
It stood two-stories high at the shoulder. Its tail was almost as long as a city bus. And it tipped the scales at some 65 tons — heavier than a fully loaded semi-truck.
Meet Dreadnoughtus schrani, one of the most massive land animals of all time.
Other enormous dinosaurs are known due to a few found fragments of bone, but the recently unearthed remains of Dreadnoughtus are so complete and beautifully preserved that they will provide unprecedented insight into how giant dinosaurs were related to each other, how fast they grew and how something so heavy lugged itself around. Indeed, never before has so many representative pieces of a super-large dinosaur been found.
"It's a really important discovery," says paleontologist Michael D'Emic of Stony Brook University, who is not associated with the new find, reported in this week's edition of the journal Scientific Reports. "The glimpses we have of those giant, giant dinosaurs are pretty fleeting. (Dreadnoughtus) will serve as a key to understanding all those other, more fragmentary specimens."
The completeness of the Dreadnoughtus remains, discovered in Argentina in 2005 and unearthed between 2005 and 2009, allowed scientists to estimate its weight with unusual precision. At 65 tons, Dreadnoughtus was heavier than many models of the Boeing 737. It's the largest dinosaur whose weight can be accurately calculated, says discoverer Kenneth Lacovara of Drexel University, who named the beast after the vast 20th-century battleships called dreadnoughts.
But Lacovara allows there's a "good chance" that a dinosaur known as Argentinosaurus was heavier than Dreadnoughtus. Paleontologist Roger Benson of the University of Oxford, who was not affiliated with the new find, also puts Dreadnoughtus behind Argentinosaurus, which may have weighed as much as 90 tons.
Whether it was the largest or only the second-largest dinosaur, Dreadnoughtus was unimaginably imposing. Though a plant-eater, it came equipped for battle with a muscular tail it could have used as a weapon and large claws on its back feet. Its size would've made it the king of the forests where it lived in the late Cretaceous period.
"If this thing just leaned on a T. Rex, it would probably kill it," Lacovara says. Walking up to it "would be like approaching a living building. … It would be a pretty overwhelming moment, and not advisable."
Though it could laugh off all comers, even Dreadnoughtus was not immune to the power of a river in full flood. Some 80 million years ago, a raging torrent swept away two Dreadnoughtuses — perhaps already dead — before dumping them on a bed of quicksand-like sediment. In a stroke of luck for scientists, the mire swallowed the animals whole.
Thanks to the dinosaurs' entombment, Lacovara and his team recovered some 70% of the bones Dreadnoughtus had below its head, the researchers report in Scientific Reports. Until now, no more than 27% of any giant dinosaur's bone types had been found. Argentinosaurus, for example, is known from a half-dozen vertebrae, a leg bone and a few scraps of hipbone, Lacovara says.
The new find will serve as a Rosetta Stone to unlocking the mysteries of other enormous dinosaurs, D'Emic says. For example, did these animals need to survive for a century to get so big, or would a growth spurt of a few decades suffice? (Analysis of the fossil suggests it was not yet full-sized.)
"This is a truly huge animal," Lacovara says. "It kind of staggers the imagination."


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Q: how to duplicate one row in table 1 and multiple associated rows from table 2 using php I have a table with cars. Each car has one, or more, tuning stages located in another table.
In the table with tuning stages; There is a car identifier: [cId] = car id.
First I duplicate the car and store the new generated id from mysql_insert_id() into $new_carId.
Then I fetch all associated tuning stages, based on the car identifier [cId], and do the same as I did with the car, but in a while()-loop.
Now the new duplicated stages has the [cId] from the old car.
I now need to replace [cId] with whatever id stored in $new_carId so the duplicated stages gets assigned to the new car.
The way I see it; I have two options:
Either make it happen directly in the INSERT-query or
do an sql UPDATE at the end of the while()-loop.
here is my code so far:
/**
 *  Duplicate an existing car with associated tuning stage:
 *  Each car may have more than one associated tuning stage located in a separate table.
 *  We need to make sure all stages is duplicated as well, and assigned to the new car.
 *
 *  [cId] car id.
 *
 *  debug() is a personal debugging function.
 */
    if (isset($_POST['duplicate_car'])){
    #   duplicate the car.
        $orgCar_id = (int)mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['orgCar_id']);  //  ID of the car we make the duplicate from.
        $sql_car = 'INSERT INTO TUNE_cars (make, model, chassis, motor, motorkode, orgEff, orgNm, year, options, note)
            SELECT make, model, chassis, motor, motorkode, orgEff, orgNm, year, options, note FROM TUNE_cars WHERE cId = '.$orgCar_id;
        //  debug($sql_car);
        $qry_car = mysql_query($sql_car);
        $new_carId = (int)mysql_real_escape_string(mysql_insert_id());  //  We need to attach this ID to the new duplicated tuning stages.
    //
    /**
     *  Duplicate any associated tuning stages:
     *  We need to fetch all stages associated with the old car,
     *  duplicate them aswell, and attach them to the new car.
     *
     *  [sId] stage id
     *  [cId] car id. This connects the stages to a given car.
     */
        #   fetch all stages associated with the old car.
            $sql_stages = 'SELECT sId FROM TUNE_stages WHERE cId = '.$orgCar_id;
            //  debug($sql_stages);
            $qry_stages = mysql_query($sql_stages);
        //
        #   duplicate the stages.
            while($get_stage = mysql_fetch_assoc($qry_stages)){
                $sql_dup_stage = 'INSERT INTO TUNE_stages (cId, stage, stageHp, stageNm, stagePrice, stageMethod, stageDyno, sinfo, snote)
                SELECT '.$new_carId.', stage, stageHp, stageNm, stagePrice, stageMethod, stageDyno, sinfo, snote FROM TUNE_stages WHERE sId = '.$get_stage['sId'];
                //  debug($sql_dup_stage);
                $qry_dup_stage = mysql_query($sql_dup_stage);
            //
            }
        //
    /**/
    }
/**/

As you can see; I used the last method:
I did an UPDATE at the end of the while()-loop.
I do believe this could be done simpler and are open for suggestions...

A: You don't need the second update. Change
$sql_dup_stage = 'INSERT INTO TUNE_stages (cId, stage, stageHp, stageNm, stagePrice, stageMethod, stageDyno, sinfo, snote)
            SELECT cId, stage, stageHp, stageNm, stagePrice, stageMethod, stageDyno, sinfo, snote FROM TUNE_stages WHERE sId = '.$get_stage['sId'];

to:
$sql_dup_stage = 'INSERT INTO TUNE_stages (cId, stage, stageHp, stageNm, stagePrice, stageMethod, stageDyno, sinfo, snote)
            SELECT \''.$new_carId.'\', stage, stageHp, stageNm, stagePrice, stageMethod, stageDyno, sinfo, snote FROM TUNE_stages WHERE sId = '.$get_stage['sId']


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The Myth of Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin was a British comic actor who became one of the biggest stars of silent cinema of the 20th century
. Pantomime and the special movements created the character of
"Bum"
and established an
iconic figure
in the World History of Cinema. Chaplin also moved on to directing films such as "The Lights of the City" /"City Lights" and "Modern Times" / "Modern Times" and was co-founder of the film company United Artists Corporation.
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889, in London. His father abandoned Chaplin, his mother and his older brother shortly after his birth. The abandonment left the two brothers in the hands of their singer mother, who was facing serious mental problems and had to be confined to an asylum. In a musical performance, the mother - Hannah - inexplicably lost her voice in the middle of the song, which led to the production manager to push five-year-old Chaplin to the stage, whom he had heard singing, to replace her.
But the sequel was not easy. At first, he joined a small dance group in which he did everything, then worked in a
Theatre, "Casey's Court Circus", until - in 1908 - he collaborated with the king of pantomime, Fred Karno , and became one of his stars. With the Carno troupe he was in America for the first time. There, he gained the attention of a film producer and signed his first contract, for a fee of $150 a week.
His film career began in 1914, with the short film «Make a living». In this film, the character of the little bum was born. Next year he will make 35 films. «The Tramp» / "The Bum" (1915), which is considered to be the actor's first classic film. The story established Chaplin's character as the unexpected hero when he rescues the farmer's daughter from a gang of robbers.
Through his work, Chaplin became known as a perfectionist until exhaustion! His love of experimentation often meant countless shots, and it was not uncommon for him to order the reconstruction of an entire set! Nor was it unusual to start shooting with a leading actor, then find that he made a mistake in distribution, and start over with someone else!
During the 1920s, Chaplin's career was a huge success. He created some landmark films, such as "The Kid" (1921), "The Pilgrim" (1923), "A Woman in Paris" (1923), "The GoldRush" (1925) – a film for which he will declare that he wants to be remembered – and "Circus" (1928).
The great film successes continued during the 1930s. In 1931, "City Lights" was released. This was followed by the film "Modern Times" (1936), in which he cauterized the economic and political situation of the world. But in a unique way, Chaplin expressed his beliefs and positions through his film "The Great Dictator" (1940), in which he sharply ridiculed the governments of Hitler and Mussolini.
"I want to see the return of decency and kindness,"
he said at the time of the film's release. "I am just a man who wants to see a real democracy in this country."
For his statements he received negative criticism and angrily left America, resorting to a small farm in Switzerland.There will follow some films that he will direct, but the mythical hero and his story will throw the curtain somewhere there ...
In the early hours of
25, 1977, Chaplin left his last breath at his home in the suburb of Switzerland. His last wife, Oona, and seven of his children were by his side at the time of his death.
Chaplin's body was stolen from his grave, near Lake Geneva, by two men demanding $400,000 as a ransom to return it. The men were arrested and his body returned to his last residence 11 weeks later.
The mythical figure of Charlie Chaplin will always accompany the
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New Delhi: Will Baahubali 2 live upto the hype of the makers and expectations of fans? We may or may not know why Katappa killed Baahubali, but one thing that everyone knows is that Baahubaali 2 will break all box-office records or at least will dare to. But don't be shocked when we tell you that even before its release Baahubali: The Conclusion, S S Rajamouli's epic war drama, has already made many records. Baahubali 2 will release in 9,000 screens across India.
Why did Kattappa kill Baahubali? An enigma that has been on the mind of every Indian since the last 21 months, will finally get unveiled on Friday with the release of "Baahubali 2: The Conclusion". If trade pundits and films experts are to be believed, filmmaker S.S. Rajamoulis magnum opus will set new benchmarks in Indian cinema.
Released in July 2015, 'Baahubali: The Beginning' -- the first film in the epic fantasy franchise -- raked in over Rs 600 crore at the box office while leaving fans amazed with its grandiose sets, unprecedented action sequences and astounding storyline. Thus, fans across the world keenly await "Baahubali 2", which will release in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam in over 6500 screens across India.
"I have sky high expectations from 'Baahubali 2: The Conclusion' and I believe it's going to make records. Expectations from first film were not that big. Despite that'Baahubali: The Beginning' worked so well. The way it performed is the reason why expectations are so huge from the second part," Mumbai-based distributor Rajesh Thadani told IANS.
"This film has the potential to create new benchmarks in cinema. There have been films in the past which have had big hype, but 'Baahubali' is an exception. It will definitely open doors for the southern industry in other regions," Thadani added.
Trade expert Taran Adarsh said "Baahubali 2" will get a "hurricane" at the box office, which has not witnessed huge footfalls for the last few weeks now.
"The weather may be hot and humid, but the box office is ice-cold... Await 'Baahubali 2' to reactivate film business... Expecting a hurricane at the box office," Adarsh tweeted last week.
In north India, Delhi-based distributor Joginder Mahajan is expecting a "miracle" with the film.
"Advance booking for the film is doing great. There are discussions going on between exhibitors and distributors regarding the profits in north India. The hype of the film is really huge amongst the masses. It might break all the records at the box office," Mahajan said.
Ashish Saksena, COO-Cinemas, BookMyShow said that they are witnessing an "unprecedented advance booking" for "Baahubali 2".
"We have already sold over one million tickets across languages, even when the bookings have been live for just over a day. Though the film is largely perceived to be loved by South Indian audience, the response from Hindi speaking markets has been highly encouraging as well," Saksena said.
In South, "Baahubali 2" will release in around 650 screens in Tamil Nadu. According to trade analyst Sreedhar Pillai, it's the biggest release for a film in the state.
"Even Rajinikanth's 'Enthiran' and 'Kabali' released in just over 500 screens. The craze for 'Baahubali' is phenomenal and unprecedented. The buzz is bigger than it has ever been for a big Tamil film. Tickets are sold out everywhere," Pillai told IANS.
Unlike other states, where the ticket prices have been hiked in huge numbers, in Tamil Nadu, the film's ticket is being sold at the nominal price of Rs 120 due to the price cap by the government.
Pillai added that the film's release timing is perfect.
"It's the summer vacation for kids. The film is going to have a dream run for first four days as May 1 (Labour Day) happens to be holiday. It's a very well planned release and I have been told the team locked the release date nearly eight months ago," he said.
In Kerala, meanwhile, Global United Media is releasing the film in over 300 screens.
"This is the biggest release ever for a non-Malayalam film. This is the kind of film which doesn't get made every day. Since the release of 'Baahubali: The Beginning', the total number of theatres in Kerala has increased which has automatically paved the way for a wider release for the second part.
"The film is going to set new benchmarks for Indian cinema," Prem Menon, Managing Director, Global United Media said.
The buzz around the film's release is even higher in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, say experts.
So, one can say that the stage is perfectly set for "Baahubali 2" to prove is mettle and set new records in Indian cinema.


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Dr. Ritchie strongly believes in treating the whole person rather than focusing solely on the injury or condition. He views each patient as an athlete in his or her own right—an individual who needs to "get back in the game" at full capacity, whether that activity is work, play or life in general. He enjoys the hands-on opportunity to use his knowledge and skills to fix injuries and return people to a full and active lifestyle.
Prior to joining the team at New Mexico Orthopaedics, Dr. Ritchie proudly served his country in the United States Air Force and was Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Albuquerque's own Kirtland Air Force Base. He is also proud to be one of the first surgeons in the state of New Mexico to earn the Subspecialty Certificate in Sports Medicine from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. In addition to being an avid skier, Dr. Ritchie enjoys cycling and running. He is also a novice auto racer.


The government is funded through September 30th, congressional leaders have agreed on an omnibus appropriations bill, signed into law by President Donald Trump.
It passed the House in a vote of 256-167, Iowa Congressmen Blum and King voted against it while Congressmen Young and Loebsack voted for it.
It also made it through the Senate in a vote of 65-32, both Iowa Senators Ernst and Grassley voted against it.
The bill is criticized for giving legislators only hours to read through the more than 2,000 pages as well as the near $1.3 trillion cost.
However, agriculture groups are praising portions of the bill. Within it is a fix to the grain glitch, changing the tax reform bill in Section 199A back to Section 199, putting private grain handlers and cooperatives on an even playing field.
The bill also helps out livestock producers, it has a one year delay of the Electronic Logging Devices mandate for livestock haulers, allowing them to drive more hours. There is also an exemption for livestock producers from reporting manure emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency.


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"Country Roads" part 2, more 21st century Jane Eyre!
Traxy Thornfield 25 May 2010 Creative Writing
Part 1 is here: "Country Roads" – a bit of Jane Eyre in the 21st century.While part one was chapter 12 of Jane Eyre, this is chapter 13… sort of. Brontë tells these bits in ~7000 words, I had 2500 in total, so it feels quite rushed and I'm not particularly pleased. I prefer the 2500-word version with all parts put together and rearranged slightly to these 1000-word bits I've posted here. Either way, constructive criticism is appreciated as always. 🙂
"Country Roads" (cont'd)
Julia thought about the events as she continued to the post office. Who was that man? Not that it actually mattered; he was just a man passing her on the road, never to be seen again. And on a motorcycle as well! She had never even touched a simple scooter and that day in school, she had to see the dentist, much to her relief. Always eager to learn, except when it came to transportation. She was nearly ten before she learned to ride a bicycle without support. Her aunt had forced her to take swimming lessons when she was about eight, and now, she was twenty years old and had never learned how to drive. If she needed to go somewhere, she took the bus. Easier that way. Cheaper. Safer. Definitely safer. Her uncle had tried to encourage her once when she was sixteen, by putting her behind the wheel in a deserted car park. As soon as she touched the pedals, she freaked out and started crying hysterically. He never tried it since.
'Sooner or later, you'll have to face your demons, Julia,' he'd said on the way back. 'You can't go on like this.'
But she had, four years and counting.
Coming back, Moorland House looked just as it always did – dark, turreted and like it was waiting for something. It was a handsome house, surrounded by gardens that probably looked spectacular in the summer, but in February, everything seemed … dead. The only remnant of life was the dark ivy clinging to the side of the house she passed on the way to the kitchen entrance.
As Julia entered, the BBC4 voice spoke of the latest upset in Westminster, as always. 'The radio keeps me company,' Mrs. Deacon explained once. There was music playing somewhere, but the old lady didn't appear to notice it – she was too busy preparing a tea tray.
'Oh, there you are, dear! He's been asking for you.'
'Who?'
'Mr. Harrington, of course! He's returned, and as always without notice. Incorrigible man! Now, he's had a bit of a tumble, but he's all right, he says.' Mrs. Deacon poured the kettle into a fine china teapot. 'Oh, and little Odelia is beside herself with excitement. You should go and see to her.'
In the nursery, the little five-year-old was eager to see her father and couldn't keep still. Once they were summoned to the library, where a CD with piano music played in the background, Odelia leaped up to give the man a hug and a peck on the cheek.
'Look, Miss Julia! Daddy's here!'
With their reunion settled, she curled up in his lap, leaving Julia to finally get a good look at her employer.
He had rid himself of the leather suit in favour of a black v-neck and trousers, but it was him, nonetheless. The biker.
'Good evening, sir.'
Mr. Harrington raised an eyebrow.
'Oh, it's "sir" now, is it? You were a lot less formal an hour ago.'
'An hour ago, I didn't know you were my employer,' said Julia, and quickly added, 'sir,' for good measure. If he owned this house and paid to have her there to look after his daughter then he must be rich, seriously rich, maybe even some kind of lord. Surely that meant she was expected to be as formal as she could be? Not easy if you're just a common Swedish girl.
'Acutely observed, Miss … what's your name again?'
'Julia. Julia Ljung.'
'Jung? You're not German, are you?'
'No sir, I'm Swedish.'
'Oh really.' Mr. Harrington arched an eyebrow again, leaving her to wonder why everyone seemed to think her nationality somehow amusing. 'You speak very good English.'
'I do my best.'
Odelia, not happy with being ignored, looked up at her father.
'Did you bring me back a present?'
'I have.'
'Can I see it?'
'When my luggage gets here.'
'Did you bring a present for Miss Julia also?'
'I wasn't aware I was obliged to bring your au pair a gift. – Did you expect a present, Miss Young?'
Having decided it was too much to ask of any Brit to pronounce her surname correctly, Julia ignored the mispronunciation and shook her head.
'No sir. I have no reason to expect a present. I've never met you before today.'
'Do you like presents?'
'Doesn't everyone?'
'My daughter lives and breathes for presents; don't you, little one?'
Odelia nodded. As there was no prospect of getting her present straight away, she slid from her father's lap and occupied herself with dancing to the music.
'Just like her mother,' he said grimly. Darkness had fallen over his countenance, but as soon as it had settled, it was gone again. 'Never mind.' He forced himself to smile and changed subject, averting his eyes from the tiny dancer. 'So, how do you find Moorland? Dreadful place that it is.'
'I like it, sir.'
'Do you?' The surprised look on his face faded as he shook his head. 'I suppose it has its moments. Mrs. Deacon hasn't driven you from your senses?'
'No sir.'
'Tell me, do you always speak so abruptly?'
He laughed at her response, short as it was.
'I won't bite you, you know. – Ah, there, she smiles! Finally!'
'I don't know what to say to you, sir. Where I come from, there is no "sir"; we use first names. I don't even know yours and if I did, I don't want to offend you.'
'Using my first name would offend, but only because I have the misfortune of being named Ethelred. See? Ethel.' Ethelred Harrington gave a bitter laugh before glancing at the clock on the mantelpiece. 'Odelia should be in bed by now, Miss Young. What are you about, keeping her up at this hour?'
Puzzled by the abrupt change, Julia took Odelia and left for the nursery.
Suit yourself, Ethel, she thought. If you can't be civil, I don't see why I should be.
I don't really like the flashback thing, but it was part of the instructions for the task, so it had to be there. When I write it properly, without constraints, I think I'll give it a miss… and a lot of other things as well. :/
2 Responses to ""Country Roads" part 2, more 21st century Jane Eyre!"
SDaedalus says:
This is really good. I like the idea of the leather gear. Can we get Richard Armitage to play Mr Rochester and reprise his costume from Robin Hood? Funnily enough I wouldn't normally be a fan of head-to-toe leather on men, but Richard was born to wear it.
Thank you. 🙂 The leather gear is just there because of the bike, which in turn is only there because I can't really see him coming home and falling off a horse in 2010!
RA as Rochester… *starts drooling with eyes glazing over* …HELL YES!! I believe that deserves a huge SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! *nods* Yup, that it does. 😀


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Q: Чтение файла выбранного в ListBox Имеется listbox, в который отображаются названия файлов с папки на диске C
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\Scripts");
        foreach (string file in files)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add(Path.GetFileName(file));
        }

Так вот. При выборе элемента в данном listbox-е хочу переносить текст из него в textbox, а значит открыть выбранный .txt файл, прочитать текст и "вывести" его в textbox. У меня это реализовано немного так скажем костыльно - приходится копировать все текстовики в папку к экзешнику, так как при выборе элемента в listbox-е получаю ошибку с текстом "не могу найти элемент путь_к_.exe/имя_файла.txt". Можно ли как - то при выборе файла в listbox-е читать текст с него именно в C:\Scripts, а не с папки с экзешником? На данный момент ивент с листбоксом выглядит так :
private void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string selectedscrpt = listBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();
        MessageBox.Show(selectedscrpt);
        fastColoredTextBox1.Text = File.ReadAllText(selectedscrpt);
    }

A: ... File.ReadAllText(File.IO.Path.Combine(@"C:\Scripts", selectedscrpt));


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← Scanning the headlines on OECD's Education at a Glance 2019
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In the United States, a right to schooling is legally guaranteed for all children regardless of immigration status. For many immigrant students, however, the right to schooling is far from certain. In addition to many other issues, students with U.S. citizenship may have family members with a different citizenship status. Mixed status families face problems such as deportation, often making sustained attendance in schools difficult. One response to these issues can be found in Deming public schools in southern New Mexico. For decades, Deming schools have welcomed students from nearby Palomas, Mexico. These transfronterizo (transborder or border crossing) students, hold U.S. citizenship but come from mixed status families. Each day, hundreds of students travel across the border to attend schools in Deming.
Hoping to learn more about Deming's powerful work, we recently spoke to friend of IEN and Educational Change SIG Chair, Professor Kristin Kew. Kew is in the first stages of a research project with Deming superintendent Dr. Arsenio Romero about these schools and the experiences of transfronterizo students and their families. Kew notes that since coming to the New Mexico State University, she has been fascinated with the role of the border in education. Of course, as the project begins, the current political climate gives the work entirely new meanings.
2 Places and Everyday Crossings
Kew suggests that Palomas and Deming could be one city. The two places co-exist. Their economies and people are entangled, but they are separated by a border. 20 years ago, this border was simply a chain link fence with a small hut. Border patrol knew all the students crossing for school. In general, though it was still a journey and involved process, crossing the border at this time was relatively informal. Today, a 2-million-dollar border wall welcomes the students as they cross. Kew points out how these checkpoints and walls create a strangeness to the ongoing calls for building a border wall. She notes that for these students, a wall is already an everyday reality.
Each morning, the journey for nearly 1000 students from 4 years old through high school seniors begins in Palomas. Palmoas is a small town in the state of Chihuahua roughly 30 miles from the U.S-Mexico border. In the 1940s and 1950s, when Deming began welcoming students crossing the border, Palomas did not have its own high school. The town has since opened and currently operates several schools that charge fees, but many families in Palomas still prefer to send children to Deming schools.
With the vast majority of transfronterizo students coming from mixed status families, most parents must say goodbye to their children at the border. After navigating through border security, Deming schools take over. Kew points out that "it is important to note the key role that crossing guards, bus drivers, and others play in helping students safely move from home to school and back each day." After hours of greetings and farewells and moving from one country to another, students finally arrive for the start of the school day.
Deming's Approach
Though Deming schools are not alone in welcoming transborder students, with transfronterizo students elsewhere in Mexico attending schools in places such as nearby El Paso or California, Deming is unique in its location. Where many of these other schools are found in larger cities, Luna County, of which Deming is the county seat, is largely rural. Additionally, Deming has one of the highest poverty rates in New Mexico. Deming's unique positioning creates distinct dynamics and issues as it welcomes students across the border. As parents who do not have documentation are not allowed to cross the border with their children, the schools must resort to alternative methods of communication. Principals have reached out to parents through Skype to discuss school matters. Deming has also stationed buses directly on the U.S. side of the border to pick up and drop off students. Yet, Deming does not have the same resources as other districts providing similar services. Kew says that these issues mixed with parents who continue to send their children to school, educators who find ways to support families, and children who make the journey to attend school every day reveal a key them in the early research. "Resilience within this community is a constant theme here," she says.
Deming schools also show a unique situation in serving their students. Though the students are citizens, they live outside the district. The decision to welcome students from outside the district dates back to 1948. For the first few decades, Deming schools welcomed students regardless of documentation status. Recently, however, the district policy has shifted so that only citizens can come from outside the district to attend the schools. But, Romero has firmly committed to continuing the practice of welcoming students from across the border. Likewise, many of the teachers are former Deming students themselves. With the majority of students being emergent bilinguals, teachers undertake both language learning and culturally affirmative teaching.
New Directions in Deming
The current political climate has added further adversity for the students and staff in Deming. For instance, when the Trump administration threatened to close to border last spring, Romero and his staff had to consider contingencies. They faced the possibility of students being stuck on one side of the border or the other. Where students in nearby El Paso could attend school virtually, Deming does not have the infrastructure to offer regular distance learning. They did offer 3 contingencies for sheltering or helping students return home, but issues such as these are becoming routine concerns for Deming schools.
Meanwhile, the research project is still in its early stages. Kew plans to move the research toward a critical ethnography. Beyond highlighting the work of the schools, this approach would allow for tracking student and family experiences crossing the border each day. The project hopes to explore the difficulty, uncertain, and further understand the resiliency involved in these educational journeys. Generally speaking, the work provides a powerful counter-story to current narratives about education, immigration, and border crossing.
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Where Does Clean Language Fit In The Business Ecosystem?
"How can Clean Language be used in the business world?" Nick Simmonds asked in an online forum.
"The same way it's used wherever else there are human beings, to help people communicate better with themselves and each other," is the flippant answer. But let's get more specific.
I've done odd bits with large organisations, helping distributed teams to work better together using an adaptation of Caitlin's work. Some of my "Metaphor Mastery" students work in large organisations and apply what they're learning in those contexts.
But more often, I find myself working with distributed project teams mainly made up of of freelances/associates; with independent change agents and consultants of all kinds; or occasionally with the founders of start-ups.
I think Clean Language is a natural fit here, more so than in large hierarchical organisations.
And it's easy to forget that the freelance world is a part of the business world. Is that because we're using outdated metaphors of business in our thinking, I wonder?
Freelances, in my experience, expect to take initiatives and make stuff happen for themselves, spurred on by their intrinsic motivation. They make informal alliances to bid for work, recognising the variety of different people's skills – and contacts. They take responsibility for themselves and their results. They choose to connect or disconnect. They aren't cogs in a machine, but active, organic agents in a rich ecosystem.
Similarly, in my work with the RSA's London Reinventing Work Network, it's become clear that enthusiasts for self-organisation, purpose-driven work, wholeness and authenticity love "ecosystem" metaphors, and kick vigorously against anything that hints of a "machine" metaphor.
What are the interesting things about ecosystems, compared with machines? Ecosystems don't have rigid boundaries – in fact, they don't have much that's rigid at all. Change is constant; complexity is inevitable; consequences are unpredictable. Probe-sense-respond is the way forward, as per Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework.
And luckily enough, that's how Clean Language works.
So, what if the business world is indeed an ecosystem? Then what happens to large organisations? And what is Clean Language's ecological niche?