Looking for a new place for a quick stay-cay? Look no further than the trendy and very insta-worthy Warehouse Hotel that just opened at Robertson Quay!
The hotel recently opened in January this year, and used to be a heritage building that was built in 1895.
The warehouse, previously know as a 'godown', was originally owned by one of the most successful businessmen back in the 1900s. Its beautiful peaked roof and shuttered windows made it stand out from the other buildings.
The Lo & Behold group, the same folks behind The White Rabbit and Overeasy, fell in love with the space and the warehouse's rich history. Partnering with design agency, Asylum, they converted this heritage building for a modern audience.
The warehouse was restored and built into a modern 37-room boutique hotel that focuses on heritage and local culture. All rooms include elements of the original warehouse design, including double-height ceilings and industrial details.
The Warehouse Hotel is proudly owned, operated and designed by Singaporeans.
The furnishings are all locally sourced, down to the tiniest decorative details. Rooms also have minibars that stock Southeast Asian products including salted egg yolk potato crisps, Vietnamese dark chocolate, and gin made with Sichuan peppers.
All rooms have access to natural light via windows or skylights. Together with the high ceilings, the rooms feel wide and spacious. You'll feel such a change from the congestion of city life!
Materials used in the rooms include traditional rattan and natural leather for an industrial feel. Rooms also feature complimentary high speed wifi, Bang & Olufsen bluetooth speakers, custom pillow top mattresses, 100% eco-certified Ashley & Co bath amenities, and access to the rooftop pool!
While each room is individualised and have their own "look" (featured below is the River View Room), the open concept and minimalist feel is consistent throughout.
The Warehouse Hotel restaurant, Po, boasts Singapore-inspired cuisine. The menu was established by Chef Willin Low, founder of acclaimed restaurant Wild Rocket. The menu comprises local classics that have been staples of family gatherings and celebrations, but updated with a twist.
Their star dish is the wrap-it-yourself Popiah, a hands-on experience we are all familiar with!
The ingredients are braised for over four hours, resulting in a deliciously rich popiah filling. You can choose between 3 options – the Classic Platter ($28), Prawn Platter ($38 with tiger prawns) and the Fresh Flower Crab Platter ($58).
Other dishes of interests are the Truffle and Duck Pie Tee ($19 for 6) and the Kurobuta Char Siew ($19).
Located just outside the restaurant is the Warehouse Hotel bar.
They offer cocktails that reflect the history of this building, such as Kaya Lumpur, a citrusy mix of pineapple rum, kaya and basil, and Kopi Cat, a concoction that includes condensed milk and salted caramel vodka. Their names add a local flair, and ingredients are sourced locally too.
The Warehouse Hotel is about heart and history. They present a brilliant mix of old mystery and new modernity from the design of the rooms down to the food.
You can expect hotel-standard hospitality, with an air of adventure and a personal touch. So go ahead, book a night or two for an experience of your own!


It took a growing anti-pork barrel dissent for President Aquino to utter the "it is time to abolish the PDAF" spiel, only to propose reforms in the system seconds after. The same offline and online outrage should make him realize, too, that his pork barrel double talk will not appease the millions who pledged to march to Luneta on Monday, Aug. 26.
It is time to end the government's pretense that priority development assistance fund (PDAF) in principle is good and that the system only needs to be reformed (which Aquino apologists propagate). Pork barrel, by any other name, presents a problem deeper than the corrupt schemes of lawmakers, Napoleses, and fake nongovernment organizations (NGOs). The real goal and nature of the appropriation system should be questioned: Does pork, by any other name, promote genuine national development? Does it really help the poor in the long term?
In the literature, pork barrel is sometimes hailed by neoliberal pundits as an alternative to the welfare state model, precisely because it allows a fragmented approach to social service provision and more room for private sector participation in the provision of these needs. The neoliberal premise is that the cash-strapped state can allocate only crumbs to education, healthcare and other social services while the private sector is given the steering wheel for these services. Thus, we see all sorts of piecemeal approaches – from scholarship grants, medical assistance programs, bridges, basketball courts and multi-purpose halls.
Have we finally awoken to the bankruptcy of "development" in priority development assistance fund? For decades, pork has constrained our imagination of development to more basketball courts, multi-purpose halls, and scholarship programs. The opposite of this is the national democratic vision of development: state-run national industries, work for all, land to the tillers, modernized agriculture and food sovereignty. Under the current neoliberal framework of Philippine governance, these development goals will never end up in the annual budget.
Pork barrel essentially represents a political economy that uses eager politicians as agents of privatization of social services. The pork barrel scholarship programs bragged by Aquino and other politicians only serve to justify the sharp cuts in tertiary education budgets. Pork-sourced medical assistance from lawmakers only serves to justify the corporatization of public hospitals. Pork, even if transparent, feeds the vicious cycle of profiteering and political patronage – both of which are beneficial only to bureaucrats and their partners in the private sector.
Here, we are not even factoring in the likes of Napoles and corrupt politicos, or the "epal" syndrome of many politicians who are so proud to attach their name in the construction of covered courts and waiting sheds. But the basic problem is clear: billions of people's money are being channeled to cute palliative projects by politicos that are in no way in line with national development! Hence "pork barrel misuse" is redundant, as public finance is already misused once it falls under pork/ lump sum items in the general appropriations.
Now President Aquino wants us to believe that he is for the abolition of this inherently flawed system when he actually wants to perfect the same system with new rules. It's like putting cherry on top of warm poop, but the poop stays there. Such is the stunt of a desperate President trying to preserve the holiness of his pork-laden "Daang Matuwid".
We should take note that President Aquino's own pork, to the tune of more than P1 trillion, will remain untouched under the so-called reforms. The so-called new safeguards will only cover funds disbursed to members of the Senate and House. We should take note too that the new rules do not articulate a clear development agenda. Hence we can still expect the permanence of basketball courts, multi-purpose halls and other pork picks in the annual budget under the new system.
Netizens on Friday were quick to expose Aquino's deceptive talk on pork, coming up with #newpork to make fun of the intrinsic evils in pork barrel. Budget Chief Butch Abad and the President should read this and this in case they still cannot think a new name for PDAF.
Whatever name the President picks, it will always be clear to the national democratic movement that it is bureaucrat capitalism. It will always be clear that pork, by any other name, is institutional plunder and patronage under the collaboration of bureaucrats and corporate interests. Transparent pork is transparent plunder. Effective pork is effective political patronage. There is no way you can purge the evils in pork. You have to abolish it per se. And when we say abolish, we mean to scrap the entire pork system, not repackage it under a new name.


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Kanees Fatima breaks down while speaking about her son Shoiab who died in the Ali Enterprises Garment Factor fire on September 11, 2012.
One of the key issues I will raise in this work is the idea of Structural Violence and Structural Injustice. I want introduce these concepts here because their study will be a major part of the project ahead. It is the underlying issue I explore in the first set of stories that appear here – the consequences for the lives of the families of those who perished in the September 11, 2012 fire in the Ali Enterprises garment factory in Baldia Town, Karachi. As the project progresses, I will discuss questions of structural injustice through the lives of bonded laborers, traditional fishing communities, slum dwellers, factory workers, displaced farmers, child laborers and other communities.
Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton, in the introduction to D. J. Christie, R.V. Wagner and D. D. Winter (Eds) Book Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology in the 21st Century offered a very succinct and clear description of structural violence and injustice, when they wrote:
Structural violence [and injustice] … is almost always invisible, embedded in ubiquitous social structures, normalized by stable institutions and regular experience. Structural violence [and injustice] occurs whenever people are disadvantaged by political, legal, economic or cultural traditions. Because they are longstanding, structural inequities usually seem ordinary, the way things are and always have been…Whenever people are denied access to society's resources, physical and psychological violence exists.
What we will find is that their stories reveal the fragile threads with which entire families hold onto their daily existence, and the ease with which their dreams, plans and futures can be shattered. By listening carefully, we will begin to see the economic arrangements that trap entire communities in very tenuous lives, and how specific social, economic and political arrangements work to deprive them of dignity, justice, liberty and choice.
There is of course a lot of academic and other writings about this issue and I will be referring to them in the coming weeks. References to books and articles of interest will be posted here on this website. However, a close examination, and criticism of structural injustices remains largely on the margins of human rights discussions, and certainly absent in most all media and journalistic writings about violence, poverty, deprivation, displacement and suffering. It is just not something most are able to see or understand. And perhaps more importantly, with its assumed criticism of the current structures of power, it is not something easily produced. Seeing our world as the work of man, as one created through the systems and institutions s/he creates, is a very Vico- vian (that is, Giambattista Vico, author of The New Science) idea. It is based on the realization that it is man who creates the institutions and social structures that privilege a few, and deprive the many, and hence it is man who must change or adjust them. It argues that the conditions of poverty, deprivation, suffering or injustice are not natural, or a consequence of mere chance, but are in fact an integral part of our social and economic history, and as such, can be understood, and rectified.
Maria Therezia Starzmann described, in a paper on Palestine titled 'Structural Violence as Political Experience in Palestine: An Archeology Of The Past In The Present' points out that:
…structural violence, which Žižek (2008: 2) has described as the "catastrophic consequences of the smooth functioning of our economic and political systems," is that it appears to lack identifiable perpetrators (Galtung, 1969; Galtung and Höivik, 1971). In this sense, structural violence can be distinguished from direct violence, which is much more immediate because it inflicts suffering directly onto bodies which often remain visibly scarred. While this analytical distinction allows us to grasp paradigmatic perpetrations of violence, in reality the line between direct and structural violence is blurry; even if holding both concepts in tension, it is not always possible to draw clear boundaries around them.
I personally experienced these institutional and social realities and their debilitating effect on the lives of the many while documenting the landless peasant movement for land rights in Okara, Punjab in 2002 and 2003. Their eviscerating poverty, and backwardness, were and remain a direct result of the economic and political arrangements that disadvantage them and deprive them of any possibility of improvement, growth, and greater autonomy over their lives and futures. It was then, while living in the villages of Okara, that I first began to understand that issues of injustice and suffering went beyond the question of law and legality, but directly to questions of human decisions and arrangements.
The original term is attributed to Johan Galtung, who in a 1963 paper titled 'Violence, Peace and Peace Research' first discussed this idea. It has also been attributed to some the founders of the Liberal Theology movement that emerged in Latin American in the 1950s and 1960s. More recently, the physician Paul Farmer (a liberal theologist himself), one of the leading proponents for an anthropological understanding of structural violence, has been at the forefront of a call for a need for an anthropological understanding of how structural violence is perpetuated and maintained. In works like The Uses of Haiti and Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War On the Poor Paul Farmer has made lucid arguments for how certain economic, political and social arrangements result in premature death, long term suffering and inflict tremendous injustice on individuals. He has repeatedly argued that by understanding the institutional and social structures of a society – the economic arrangements, the social networks, the transactions that transpire between the players in these arrangements, we can begin to unravel and highlight the sources of suffering, deprivation and injustice in a society.
These arguments have also been made by writers and philosophers such as Iris Marion Young in works like Responsibility for Justice and the Politics of Difference. We have variations to this argument, perhaps most recently in the works of Martha Nussbaum and her concept of the 'Capabilities' approach to human development. See works like Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach and Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Whereas her focus is more on outcomes that reflect ideas of justice and liberty, the underlying analysis turns our attention to the same study of underlying social, economic and political arrangements that deprive people of rights and inflict specific injustices on them. It is also a call for a deeper understanding of underlying institutions and structures.
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Recently, I was talking with a friend about an issue she was having with someone she works with. She was very upset about how her coworker was spreading gossip and how she did not want to go to work because of this situation. She was beyond frustrated and she was ready to give her coworker a piece of her mind. She was venting to me and I understood how she was feeling. I have been there too. What about you? Do people ever get under your skin? I think most of us can relate to this. People talk about us behind our backs. We know people who lie and cheat to get ahead. Sometimes people will lie about us in order to make themselves look better. We are not strangers to being mistreated and unfortunately, that's just the way it goes. It really should be no surprise to us, though. Jesus told us it would be this way.
How do you respond when people mistreat you? What do you do when others lie about you or skew the truth about something you said or did? Do you get angry? Do you call them up to give them a piece of your mind? Do you talk about them behind their back, complaining about how awful they are? Maybe you take the avoidance route and just try to stay away from them. Whew! This can be tough, because we want to defend ourselves and show those people a thing or two about how they should treat others.
"Do to others as you would have them do to you." (Luke 6:27-31).
Strive to live at peace with others and seek to emulate Christ in how you deal with people who mistreat you. It would be so easy to "fly off the handle", but Jesus told us not to do that. He showed us to respond with prayer, humility, love, kindness and forgiveness towards others.
Thank you! This is exactly the word I needed.


Summary: Unleash your wildest creativity with this unique doodle app; equally enjoyable by all ages!
With the submission phase of the 2013 App Innovation Contest now concluded, I have found a moment to catch my breath and reflect back on the breakneck development process endured over the past six weeks. In this lengthy postmortem wall-of-text, I will touch upon the variety of successes and challenges that I met as I worked my way toward producing a fun and entertaining desktop application compatible with the Lenovo Horizon All-in-One and the Aura Interface. This article will not be a code dump, but rather a detailed and hopefully insightful explanation of some approaches that I took throughout development and how I overcame many obstacles along the way.
When I first reviewed the specs of the Lenovo All-in-One, I was immediately attracted to its gigantic 27" screen and full 1080p resolution, coupled with the 10-point multitouch capabilities. A sketching app seemed like a natural fit and I instantly envisioned a table-top drawing pad that all members of a family could gather around and enjoy. As it turns out, I wasn't the only one with such a vision. At least two other entries from the Entertainment category are also drawing apps, although they all have their own great uniqueness. Other similar concepts may exist outside of CodeProject, but I have a difficult time navigating the foreign AIC 2013 sites.
Three years ago, I developed a drawing app known as Scribblify for iPhones (and subsequently, iPads). It was developed using Objective C and was strictly a mobile iOS application. The interface and all features were designed for low resolutions (480x320) and limited hardware capabilities. The most distinct features of this app included the original and highly varied brushes that I created, symmetry drawing capabilities and special color effect modes. The goal of the app was not to compete with any serious illustration apps, but rather to allow anyone regardless of age or skill level to instantly create colorful and unique artwork. Scribblify gained a somewhat cult following especially across schools; with over a quarter million downloads it continues to be enjoyed around the globe.
ABOVE: The original mobile version of Scribbify, circa 2010. Although updates have been made to the app since then including retina and iPad support, the overall interface remains mobile-centric and is designed to fit in a 480x320 area; using such an interface on a desktop version would feel constrictive, at best.
Armed with the general familiarity with developing creative drawing applications as well as prior experience developing for touch devices (including mobile and desktop), I proposed as part of this competition to redevelop Scribblify from the ground-up for desktop platforms. It may have been theoretically possible to do a more direct port of the original, but the substantial differences in mobile vs. desktop behavior and the relatively primitive GUI I designed originally made this undesirable and non-intuitive on the large All-in-One.
Approximately six solid weeks of development time and three major changes to the core programming methodology later, my completed product was uploaded to CodeProject. It inevitably contains some hiccups and is missing some features that I had hoped to include, but I still consider it to be a great success given the time constraints and development hurdles I encountered.
ABOVE: The final product. After 1.5 months of intense development and a transition between three development platforms, this is how the new All-in-One version of Scribblify turned out.
Before starting work on the production-grade application, I wanted to first create a functional prototype to examine the overall feasibility of my plans and to get a sense of how the application would work on the actual touch device. For that, I turned to a small development kit known as AGK (App Game Kit), released by TheGameCreators a couple years back. AGK supports BASIC (Tier 1) and C++ (Tier 2) development branches and provides easy deployment to a variety of platforms including iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows and Mac.
In fact, AGK is fully capable of producing well polished and fast desktop applications; my final award winning 2012 AIC entry, Ballastic, was developed using AGK. At least three other competitors this year also used AGK. For this app, however, I knew that AGK lacked some essential functionality that I had desired, and the next release wouldn't be ready until December. Even so, I used AGK to create a very basic working prototype for testing touch responsiveness and a few app-specific features with the Lenovo AIO.
ABOVE: The humble beginnings, October 5, 2013. This is the original prototype for Scribblify AIO Desktop conceived in AGK to test the touch responsiveness and a couple paint-related effects I wished to include in the final submission including mirror mode and color choices.
AGK is powered by OpenGL and therefore can handle texture and image manipulation very efficiently. However, the current version does not natively support dynamic drawing to textures or render buffers (the next update is expected to support this). You can disable clearing of the main buffer [EnableClearColor(0)] which will then retain whatever gets drawn to it, but this is somewhat unpredictable behavior and causes more issues when trying to overlay interface elements since they will essentially be baked into the screen as well. There are numerous other feasible approaches, including memblock manipulation (i.e., iterating through pixels and modifying them manually) and standard sprite cloning, but to create a simple drawing canvas separate from other elements is still more trouble than what would be ideal--again the next beta release should solve this problem.
I have a lot of experience in Web-related development. One platform that I often considered for bringing Scribblify to the desktop was HTML5 and it's native canvas element, which is now well supported by all browsers. However, I was never very motivated to do so (with only one person ever making a formal request for it) and never acted upon the idea until two weeks into this competition. Although I had worked with canvas rendering to some extent in past projects, I had never gotten nearly as acquainted with it as I became over the next couple of weeks.
Initial benchmarks of 2D rendering via HTML5 canvas on the Lenovo Horizon were very promising. In fact, when using the native drawing features available in HTML5 (i.e., drawing lines, rectangles, fills) a steady 60 FPS can be achieved in Chrome even when throwing complex operations at it. Every existing HTML5 app I tested on the Lenovo used shape-based drawing operations and ran smoothly. However, most of these apps only supported single touch and none of them included the rich image-based textures and components that Scribblify required. So, the only way to find out the true performance feasibility for Scribblify via canvas 2d was to actually build out the app!
During this phase of development, I opted against using any framework other than the native HTML5 canvas capabilities. As a consequence, all of the grunt work relating to context transformation and rendering had to be manually developed. HTML5's default canvas feature is quite low level, or perhaps I've simply become spoiled by all of the open source frameworks and products (including AGK) that support simple sprite drawing and easy object transformation out-of-the-box. With HTML5 canvas manipulation, applying a simple rotation to an image can be a pretty complex matter involving saving the context's current state, transforming the entire canvas, drawing the image to the newly transformed context (with an offset to compensate for the top-left anchorpoint), then restoring the previous state of the canvas.
One of the biggest obstacles I encountered going the canvas-only HTML5 approach related to dynamically changing the color of the brushes. When using the primitive drawing shapes and commands supported by Canvas, you can easily set the stroke and fill colors with no hassle (i.e., context.fillStyle = '#FF0000';). In fact, you can pass in any RGB/RGBA/HSL/HEX format and it will work just fine, same as in CSS. Once the stroke or fill colors have been assigned, all subsequent calls to the context will use the specified fill color, until you update it again or restore the context to its previous state. This is how virtually all canvas-based drawing apps alter brush colors and is fast and efficient. You can get more creative by creating custom icon fonts with unique shapes (i.e., different brushes)--the canvas fill commands will equally affect text; text objects can also be transformed like any other canvas element giving you much more flexibility than the primitive shape commands alone.
Unfortunately, the above method of colorization will not work for Scribblify. The signature brushes developed for Scribblify depend heavily on shaded tones to create organic and abstract texturing effects that are not possible using flat colors. By using text or primitive shapes and canvas fill functions, you will always get a solid color returned. Sure, you can adjust overall opacity or apply additional post-processing effects such as soft edges, but the results are still not adequate for Scribblify and carry excess overhead. Another clever approach is to read the pixels of the source image, store a separate instance for each channel (R, G, B, Alpha), then combine them into a new image on-the-fly by multiplying the global transparency by the destination color values using the "lighter" composite mode available in HTML5. The downside of this approach is it does not work as expected in a few special cases, such as creating the resultant image on a transparent canvas. Still another way is to iterate through all the pixels of the brush and manually update the color tint of each pixel. This is acceptable when calling the command periodically, but the color effects in Scribblify require many color change operations per frame as the user draws and therefore this approach severely hinders the framerate.
For the HTML5 2D canvas version of Scribblify, I ultimately ended up taking a relatively simple two-step approach to set the brush color efficiently even many times per frame, while preserving the texture detail of the original texture as well. The first phase is to draw a primitive rectangle to a temporary canvas using a fill color that matches the desired brush color. Then, using the "destination-atop" composite mode, draw the source image on top of the rectangle. The resultant will preserve the transparency of the source image while using the tint color of the rectangle (to work effectively, the source image should be grayscale). Then, using the "multiply" composite mode, which has only recently been included in Chrome, again draw the original source image on top of the previous output to restore the grayscale tones but keep the final color. The drawImage() method of a canvas' context can accept another canvas as it's parameter instead of an image, so you can pass the temporary canvas directly to the main canvas to draw the color-manipulated brush.
Alas, even with all of my successes in this 2D canvas version of Scribblify, I found the performance was less than optimal once multitouch and color effects were involved. The framerate would dip down to 10-20 FPS especially when drawing very rapidly with many fingers, which was unacceptable in my vision of creating a truly immersive drawing experience. The image drawing operations via drawImage() proved to be quite a bottleneck for 2D canvas rendering when compared to more traditional vector and shape-based path drawing.
With only a couple of weeks to spare, I began exploring WebGL alternatives to my native 2D canvas approach. I am not well versed in OpenGL, let alone given such a short deadline. However, I had a hunch that Chromium's fast WebGL rendering capabilities would be able to solve the issue of drawing many textured sprites to the render buffer or canvas in rapid succession. I explored a variety of open source and MIT-licensed WebGL frameworks in my quest to find one that'd allow my existing work in canvas to readily carry over with minimal effort, with the hardware-accelerated performance benefits of using WebGL.
My ultimate decision was to inherit the relatively mature, MIT-licensed Cocos2d HTML5 framework for the canvas itself while retaining all of my previously developed components for the core user interface. Cocos2d HTML5 originally only supported canvas operations, but more recently it integrated WebGL as well. Since I developed the entire GUI using standard HTML components and libraries, there was little issue porting them over to a C2D-powered HTML5 application. All of my original HTML5 canvas drawing operations, however, had to be revised quite substantially and ported to C2D using a new syntax. It took me approximately one week to get all of my drawing code ported over to C2D. WebGL has the added benefit of more straight-forward and accurate color conversion (especially when encapsulated using the C2D library) and handles texture drawing at lightning speeds.
ABOVE: The nearing completion Scribblify app, now using the WebGL-powered Cocos2d HTML5 engine at a blazing 60 FPS even with multitouch and constant color swapping.
The moment of truth. I tested the new WebGL-capable version of Scribblify and monitored the framerate. Even with all ten fingers drawing at once while using the most operation-intensive brushes, I was generally able to sustain approximately 60 FPS! It would occasionally dip lower especially in mirror mode, but never to a point of being consciously noticeable.
With a week to go I still had some serious GUI components to tackle. The Aura Interface guidelines mandate several strict requirements for apps intended for that platform. Two items in particular caught my attention. 1.) The apps must be fullscreen with no chrome or taskbar. 2.) The apps cannot use any native dialog windows. Since my app was Chromium-based, I knew my best bet at fullscreen would be to compile it down into a native executable shell. (There were also local security considerations involved, so just using 'kiosk' mode exclusively would not have been sufficient). A couple open source initiatives supported exactly that, including app.js and node-webkit. Node-webkit is more actively maintained with wider support options, so I ultimately took this approach to package up my Web app and launch it fullscreen through a single EXE.
ABOVE: The completed Gallery view of Scribblify. From the Gallery, users can preview their previously saved art, view full-screen versions, delete a particular work, or import any item back into the canvas for additional compositing.
One last footnote about problem encountered during the development process. It seems that the Lenovo Horizon has some quirks with touches not always being captured or released successfully when met with frantic touch movements or interacted with by more than just fingertips. Other developers reported about this isue on the CodeProject forums and elsewhere, when developing using various different platforms. The same issue was prominent in Chrome/Chromium, most notably when pressing one's full palm down on the screen and moving it a little (this is true on any website or Web app ran through Chrome on the Horizon). Chrome stores each touch in a TouchList object upon touchstart, but when many touches come in contact at once some are never released. Eventually the 12-limit TouchList array is filled and all subsequent touches are halted until the browser is restarted. As such, manually intervening can only go so far in curing this problem (the TouchList object is immutable and cannot be altered by the client). I detailed this bug to the Chromium team and they analyzed it as best as possible, but concluded it is a device-specific Windows-only problem that they can't replicate on their own 10-point touch devices using the same demo application I built for testing.
I spent considerable time working to compensate for such possible touch issues to the extent allowable by Chromium. If one or several touches are erroneously recorded, the app will silently handle alternate operations when interacting with the HUD and this generally will go unnoticed (one exception being option toggles in the preferences which may behave sporadically). If the user immediately triggers an impossible number of touches, an alert will appear explaining the situation with some guidance on how to prevent it in the future (by using only fingertips). At this point, Scribblify automatically saves their current work to the gallery and encourages them to restart the app to restore full touch control. They can ignore the warning and may still be able to draw to an extent, but some fingers will not be available. I trust that this issue will actually be resolved with firmware/driver updates for the Horizon, as it doesn't seem to be reproducible on other devices.
As has been my motto all along, it was my utmost goal to create an app powerful enough and with enough functionality that it could be enjoyed by professional artists, while also giving children and non-artists equal pleasure in creating great art. During the development phase, I showcased the app to a very diverse crowd ranging from a two-year-old child all the way to a 97-year-old woman, all of whom had no problems creating dynamic and abstract art while enjoying it immensely. I believe, with that, my mission was a success!
Let your creativity run wild with Scribblify, a one-of-a-kind drawing and painting tool for children and adults of all ages and skill levels. From natural to abstract and everything in between, Scribblify allows anyone to create spectacular artwork with ease--limited only by one's imagination. This app entry will be for a desktop port of the existing mobile application, and is being developed specifically for the All-in-One PC, as promoted through the App Innovation contest. The desktop version will include a more diverse user interface and other unique features to accommodate the features available on Lenovo's All-in-One, including up to 10 simultaneous touches and widescreen HD display.
This desktop app, for the All-in-One, will include dozens of hand crafted brushes, each with its own unique appearance and behavior. Most of the brushes are unlike anything seen elsewhere and range from organic to surreal. In addition, many exciting color effects will be provided to support creative blending, plasma colors and more. The wide variety of exclusive brushes, preset backgrounds, advanced color effects and mirror drawing capabilities ensures endless entertainment to all.
Scribblify has existed as a mobile application since 2011. As a mobile product, great care had to be taken to design an interface and feature set that low resolution phones and related devices could support. Until the 2013 App Innovation Contest, no desktop version of Scribblify was imagined let alone conceived; it has remained a mobile-only app, thus isolating a large percentile of potential users.
It is not difficult for one to recognize the benefits of developing such an app for much larger and more powerful form factors, including the 27" full HD All-in-One PC promoted through this challenge. With a surface size large enough to fill a coffee table and 10-point multitouch technology, I immediately envisioned a desktop version of Scribblify that would enable entire families to gather around the All-in-One and create brilliant works of art as if finger-painting on a large canvas.
As a visual teaser, screenshots of the core foundation and artistic possibilities of Scribblify are presented below. Note that these screenshots are derived from the original mobile version of the application. However, the majority of brushes, effects and features found in the original version are also being implemented into the new desktop app. The overall interface, on the other hand, will be redesigned to reflect the much larger screen estate available on the All-in-One machine. .
The original mobile version of Scribblify was developed using Objective C and OpenGL ES 1.0 for iOS. Subsequently, and Android port was developed from scratch using compatible C++ OpenGL ES libraries. The All-in-One version is again being developed from the ground up using PC-compatible solutions and libraries. A portion of the media assets (notably brushes and backgrounds) will be inherited from the mobile counterpart. The core drawing and coloring methods will also be ported over as needed to effectively mimic the basic functionality found on mobile versions.
The specific framework and underlying programming language(s) that will be used for the final desktop version of Scribblify is still being evaluated. During the preliminary tests for the All-in-One, the C++ Tier 2 version of AGK (App Game Kit) will be used to rapidly develop functional prototypes with full sensor support. AGK, developed by The Game Creators, features a suite of sensor-specific methods for effortlessly tapping into many sensors available on Intel's latest line of products.
Since last fall, AGK has supported the full line of sensors available in Intel's Ultrabook line of laptops and all major mobile devices; these commands should remain generally compatible with the Lenovo line of computers. Since the AGK framework supports C++ development, additional sensor support can be worked in as-needed during the prototyping phase of this project.
Once the general prototype has proven successful, the development of Scribblify for desktops may veer into other development territory. Unfortunately, AGK may not yet support a variety of desired features needed to ensure smooth and versatile performance of this app. Therefore, other OpenGL-based solutions will be evaluated as needed to convert the prototype into a polished application. Details of alternate platforms for final deployment are still being reviewed, but may include an HTML5-based Web application (using Canvas and other non-WebGL techniques) or a C++/C# derived app using readily available OpenGL-based frameworks. The key is to quickly develop a working app in time for the competition deadline, with minor updates to follow thereafter.
Additional mirror modes to quickly create symmetrical art in many forms.
First version of article; a companion to the original express entry submitted for the 2013 App Innovation Contest.
Just wanted to check in and see how development of Scribblify is going so far? Would be great if you could take a few minutes to fill out this short Round 2 Dev Survey[^] to give us some feedback on your progress.
Mathew, there is something in your drawing Apps. Something touchy, something imaginative. Hope to see it live in AIO and do some artwork myself.


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Vermont Dismisses Milo
By Jim Connelly
Vermont junior forward Justin Milo was dismissed from the team on Tuesday according to a representative of the Catamounts athletic department.
Milo, who was tied for second on the team in scoring this season, was let go for what head coach Kevin Sneddon said was "the best interest of the program."
According to the Burlington Free Press, Milo called the dismissal unfair and said he was told he was "basically not committed to the team.
"What upsets me is the fact that's the end of my hockey career potentially. Basically, I'm shocked."
The Free Press story quoted Sneddon as saying, "We obviously spent a lot of time as a staff, with the support staff, and with the leadership and just felt it was in the best interest to move forward without him as part of our team. That's pretty much it."
Milo transferred to Vermont after playing just one season at Cornell. After sitting out a year, Milo returned to the ice last year with the Catamounts scoring 26 points in 39 games as Vermont advanced to the Frozen Four.
Last weekend, Vermont dropped three out of four points at home against Merrimack to fall to eighth place in Hockey East. Milo was not in the lineup for either game.
The Catamounts return to action this weekend with a two-game series at New Hampshire beginning Friday night at 7:30 p.m. on NESN.
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Senior Writer Jim Connelly is a senior writer and has been with USCHO.com since 1999. He is based in Boston and regularly covers Hockey East. He began with USCHO.com as the correspondent covering the MAAC, which nowadays is known as Atlantic Hockey. Each week during the season, he writes "Tuesday Morning Quarterback."


Landing heavily on the quiet lines of this house.
that proves this world is a cold smooth place.
filling with the panic of birds, asking: What?
That poem appeared in an anthology called American Poetry, The Next Generation, and I dog-eared the hell out of that book. Underlines, marginalia, the works. Nobody pointed me to that poem, I just read, read and read voraciously. I think I read because I was lonely, and I wrote because I was stuck. Sometimes it is that simple, no matter how old you are. I was private with those poems for years, and that's part of what makes me so astonished and so humbled to read submissions for Teen Sequins. Every teen who sends us their poem is brave, unquestionably. That's part of why we give an honorable mention to all those who submit. I think as one turns into an older writer, the distinction of "honorable mention" can be sort of tossed off, in the the way that a silver medalist might be pissed and a bronze medalist might be elated. But when Robby and I give honorable mentions, it's because we really see the action of sending out a poem into the world as honorable. We create a poetry world by sharing poetry, and by sharing their (your) poetry with us, these teens (you!) make our world better. There's a ripple effect I think. And we don't take it lightly either, the honor of reading what is sometimes a person's (your) first submission, the first time a poem is sent to anyone outside of a classroom. We know that, and we're terribly grateful to be trusted in such a way.
Isn't it good and strange and difficult and wonderful to be in the world? What? / What if not this?
Teens, send us your work. If you submitted to us last year and you weren't featured, submit again. We'll hold your work in the best way we can, celebrate you to the fullest.
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Q: PHP array delete one item Just a simple question - have this array:
 Array
(
    [year] => Array
        (
            [0] => 2019
 [1] => 2020
        )

    [user] => usermail@gmail.com
)

I just want to completely remove [user] => usermail@gmail.com from this Array.
The user will have always only one ocurrence.
I tried unset($filter['user'][0]); also unset($filter['user']); but nothing works.

A: you can use unset
<?php

 $array = Array
(
    "year" => Array
        (
            0 => 2019,
 1 => 2020
        ),

    "user"=> "usermail@gmail.com"
);

unset($array['user']);

print_r($array);
?>

A: Actually "[user] => usermail@gmail.com" is an array index not array.
You need to use this syntax
unset($array['user']);

here $array is the name of array.

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Lawyers for a disgraced rookie cop who fired his gun in a dimly lit stairwell and killed an innocent man are expected to drop their appeal of his conviction, the Daily News has learned.
Peter Liang was found guilty earlier this year for the manslaughter death of Akai Gurley, 28, on Nov. 20, 2014, in an East New York housing project.
Liang, 29, and his partner Shaun Landau, also 29, stood by as the doomed man's friend, Melissa Butler, frantically tried to save his life while receiving instructions from a neighbor a floor below in the Pink Houses.
Liang said at his April sentencing: "I was in shock. I could barely breathe. The shot was accidental, but someone was dead ... My life is forever changed. I hope I have a chance to rebuild it."
The rookies were fired from the NYPD immediately after the conviction that could have put Liang behind bars for up to 15 years.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun reduced Liang's conviction to criminal negligent homicide, and he was sentenced to 800 hours of community service. The Brooklyn district attorney's office filed an appeal to overturn the judge's reduction as Liang's defense team filed a motion to overturn the conviction.
According to sources familiar with the case, both sides stipulated Tuesday they would drop their appeals.
"We stand by our prosecution of Peter Liang, holding him accountable for the shooting death of Akai Gurley. The decision by both sides to withdraw their appeals means that Mr. Liang has waived any and all rights to challenge his conviction in state or federal court. Given the unlikelihood that we would prevail on our appeal, this agreement is the best way to protect the integrity of the conviction and marks the end of a successful prosecution," said Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for the Brooklyn DA.
"(Liang) has taken responsibility for the tragic accident and does not wish to cause any further emotional stress to Mr. Gurley's family, nor NYC, so therefore will not appeal the conviction," said Karlin Chan, community activist and supporter of Liang.
Since the conviction, Gurley's daughter Akaila received a $4 million settlement — Liang was ordered to pay $25,000 of it — from the city for her father's death.
The emotional distress lawsuit Butler, 29, filed was dismissed.
Prosecutor Marc Fliedner resigned to start his own practice and prosecutor Joseph Alexis was recently named the chief of trial bureaus, as well as a liaison for the office.
Liang completed his community service at a senior citizens center near Sheepshead Bay just before Thanksgiving and is looking for a job.


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William Livingstone House, located in the Brush Park district of Detroit, Michigan, United States
William Livingstone, 6th Lord Livingston (died 1592), Scottish lord of Parliament
William Jervis Livingstone (1865–1915), Scottish planter in Africa
William Livingstone (minister), 17th-century minister and writer in Lanark, Scotland

See also
William Livingston (disambiguation)

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Joey Connor is an attorney at Bloomberg Tax in Washington, D.C., specializing in the taxation of gaming and sports gambling. Joey has presented to attorneys on the Supreme Court's opinion in Murphy v. NCAA and frequently writes articles discussing the tax and fiscal impacts of gaming. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Joey practiced law in Fairfax, Virginia. Joey received his J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Virginia.


The good thing is that the experts will install the solar energy devices for you. Also, they will train you and other home users on how to get the best from the new program. If the steps are followed well, then it is time to enjoy the solar energy without expecting an electricity bill at the end of the month. If possible sell the excess power to the government.


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F1 Disc 4 (1990-94)
This disc contains 328 images starting with the 1990 British Grand Prix at Silverstone and ending with the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa in 1994. Circuits visited for the first time ...
This disc contains 328 images starting with the 1990 British Grand Prix at Silverstone and ending with the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa in 1994.
Circuits visited for the first time and recorded on this disc are Jerez, Donington Park and Barcelona. Barcelona held its first Grand Prix in 1991 and would be the permanent replacement for Jerez, whilst Donington was awarded a one-off 'European' Grand Prix.
Significant newcomers on the scene during this period were Michael Schumacher, who replaced an otherwise detained Bertrand Gachot at Spa in 1991 in the Jordan, which itself was a new entrant; and Damon Hill who debuted in a pink Brabham at Silverstone in 1992. Both of these make many more appearances on the disc on the winner's step. Just what the Belgian public thought of Gachot's detainment and their opinion of British justice can be seen by the track graffiti and T-shirt slogans during that year's Belgian Grand Prix.
Amongst the images of the winners are Michael Schumacher doing his first leap of joy on the top step of the Spa podium just one year after making his debut at the same circuit, and Nigel Mansell at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone where union jack clad fans are invading the track to greet him on his slowing down lap. Over the years Mansell had built up a following akin to that of a football crowd with their nationalistic and highly partisan and vocal support which could be quite uncomfortable at some continental venues. The track invasion has had a far reaching effect on British race fans, Silverstone was ring fenced for the following year and has been far more restrictive in policy towards access ever since.
There is also an image of what is possibly Ayrton Senna's finest win ever, in his McLaren in the rain at Donington Park in 1993.
The title photograph is a portrait of sorts of Michael Schumacher at the British Grand Prix in 1992. He was by now a Benetton driver and is sitting in his car giving feedback to his engineers when in order to amplify a point he pulled this grimace. It was just luck to catch it, but the photograph has won me first prize in a competition and been published in a motor racing coffee table book.
Images are supplied on compact disc (CD) for playing on computers or compatible devices using Picasa Slideshow format (Picasa software included). All images are also supplied as individual files for downloading, saving and printing.
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All images (with exceptions that are given credit) are by me (Abigail Brody) taken with my Nikon or iPhone 6, depicting my personal objects, such as my WarbyParker glasses, fountain pen, Apple mouse and art supplies. The pin with the classic rainbow-stripped apple logo on the picture above was given to me by a friend (an Apple fan) just a year shy of my joining Apple in 2001.
While entirely customized (colors, typeface and layout), I am using Squarespace.com to host my site and blog.


Ranked the world's most liveable city by The Economist for seven years running, Melbourne has experienced unprecedented growth as it becomes home to an increasingly diverse demographic.
As the population grows and lifestyles change and evolve, so too does the need for considered development that is designed for current and future generations. Beyond Melbourne, cities are beginning to display positive efforts of future-proofing by utilising big data and employing smart interventions. Architects, designers and engineers play an ever-important role in being able to shape communities and optimise lifestyles. Contextualised, these solutions tend to be climatically and culturally specific, adding layers onto the richness of a city's past.
However, the questions remain; How do we future proof Melbourne? How do we ensure the viability of life through exponential growth? How do we apply global inspiration while accounting for the local?
Beulah International, an international and award-winning property pioneer, engages with these ideas in all their projects. With a focus on living spaces, they are in the business of building healthy and sustainable communities.
In their latest project, Southbank by Beulah, they have invited six teams of the world's leading architectural firms to propose architectural designs that engage in this conversation. At the 'Future Cities' symposium, each firm will communicate their vision for Southbank by Beulah which will set new trajectories for communities of the future.
Poised to be a discussion on the future of the proposed site and the city beyond, each of the symposium's key speakers will bring their unique thinking to the event.
where we visited each studio to learn more about their process and approach to architecture.
Southbank by Beulah aspires to be a project that offers immense public benefit to the local and wider community. Upon completion, the site will become a local facility to live, work and play in; offering a wide selection of amenity for a diverse range of users. Read about why we are keen to help develop communities of the future.
Priority seating is a dedicated area closer to the stage. Priority seating ticket holders will also be eligible to skip ahead of general admission queues.
No, you will be sent a QR code closer to the event, which can be scanned on any mobile device.
Is seating reserved? How do I ensure I get a good seat?
I can't attend anymore. Can I get a refund?
Unfortunately we do not offer refunds on tickets if you are no longer able to attend. You may however, give your ticket to another individual to attend on your behalf.
Can I enter the symposium after the event starts?
If you are running late, you will only be granted access in between presentations. You will be required to wait in the foyer until an usher grants you access.
A program will be available 24 hours before the symposium. This will include what teams are presenting at what time. It is recommended that you attend the symposium for the entire duration to avoid disappointment.
Is food and beverage allowed?
Food and beverage is not allowed in the auditorium.
What will the presentation be like?
Each of the six teams will present their concepts for the Southbank by Beulah competition and discuss how their design style ties into the notion of Future Cities more broadly. Each team will be allocated a designated time slot. It's guaranteed to be an educational and engaging experience.
Will there be anything else other than the presentations?
Attendees will have the opportunity to partake in an exciting and unique immersive experience prior to the symposium. The experience will run every five minutes, so please allow enough time before the symposium to experience it for yourself.
Is there an opportunity for networking?
There will be an opportunity for networking prior to the symposium commencing at 1pm; however throughout the duration of the symposium, there will be little to no network opportunities.
Will there be an open panel discussion?
Due to timing constraints, unfortunately there will not be an open panel discussion. If timing permits, there may be an opportunity for questions - please send one question to info@southbankbybeulah.com and specify which team your question is for.
Can I meet the architects?
There will not be an opportunity to meet and greet with the architects due to the amount of event attendees.
Refunds will only be issued should the event be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Please refer to the ticketing T&Cs for more information.
There is limited paid street parking available. Please refer to our transport guide (above) for more information.


Sitting on the veranda a few days later, Rama glanced at the street to see a man pushing his way through pedestrians, carts, and wandering cows. Several paces behind him, an emaciated woman struggled to keep up. Rama stood taller when the man, who looked like a university student, turned into the entrance to Sharada Sadan.
Godubai, second daughter. Rama waited until the woman caught up and stood two steps lower than her brother. Rama observed the umbrella she used to keep the sun off her shaved head, the bones that protruded from her skin, and her sunken eyes.


It Shoulda Been You - Did He Like It?
"It Shoulda Been You" puts a modern spin on the traditional wedding comedy, proving that when it comes to wedding day insanity, it's all relative. It's a culture clash for the ages when two families from wildly different backgrounds come together to celebrate a wedding. As if the union wasn't complicated enough, the bride's ex-boyfriend arrives, bringing the wedding to a screeching halt and throwing both families into hysterical chaos.
April 14, 2015: As the father of the bride might put it, "Oy." "It Shoulda Been You," which opened on Tuesday night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, confirms the sad truth that weddings — those supposed celebrations of everlasting love — bring out the worst in some people. That includes cynics, show-offs, heavy drinkers, envious have-nots and, it would seem, the creators of American musicals. The last big wedding-themed show I remember on Broadway was "A Catered Affair" (2008), a singing adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's 1956 movie that turned the sentimental tale of a blue-collar bride into a dishwater-gray dirge. "It Shoulda Been You" takes the opposite tack. It's so aggressively bubbly it gives you the hiccups. Or do I mean acid reflux? In any case, it's not easy to swallow. Featuring a book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove, with music by Barbara Anselmi, this crumbly meringue of a production would seem to be hoping to capitalize on the success of reality television shows about brides behaving badly, as well as cinematic laugh-fests like "Bridesmaids." But this show, directed by the actor David Hyde Pierce and starring Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris as battling future mothers-in-law, also looks further back for inspiration.
April 14, 2015: The best way to enjoy the madcap, madly old-hat "It Shoulda Been You" is to pretend it's a lost TV relic from the 1970s. The shortcomings of Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi's mossy new show, about an interfaith wedding gone awry, are easier to forgive through a lens of affectionate camp: the dated stereotypes of pushy Jews and boozy WASPs, the creaky farcical contrivances, the hokey-schmaltzy jokes. (The opening pages of the script provided to critics are printed in Comic Sans.) But while the antics are predictable—aside from one huge, implausible twist—they're not unenjoyable, thanks to a seasoned and flavorful all-star ensemble. Remember the Broadway episodes of "The Love Boat?" This is the "Love Boat" version of Broadway.
April 14, 2015: That old popular-comedy chestnut "Abie's Irish Rose" is given a modern twist in the new musical "It Shoulda Been You," which plays like vintage dinner theater infused with a Borscht Belt sensibility. That it nonetheless manages to be truly amusing is a testament to the talent both on and offstage: such comic pros as Tyne Daly, Harriet Harris and Edward Hibbert manage to make the hoariest of jokes uproarious, while director David Hyde Pierce has staged the proceedings with a brisk expertise that makes the 100 intermissionless minutes fly by. It's the sort of show that practically redefines the term "guilty pleasure." The plot concerns the impending nuptials of the Jewish Rebecca (Sierra Boggess) to the Catholic Brian (David Burtka), with family tensions inevitably rising to the fore. Rebecca's zaftig older sister Jenny (a charming Lisa Howard), while happy for her sis, wonders if she'll ever find similar happiness. Meanwhile, matriarchs Judy (Daly) and Georgette (Harris) are consistently at odds, with their hapless husbands (Chip Zien, Michael X. Martin) helplessly watching from the sidelines.
April 14, 2015: Something old, something new Something borrowed, something blue-ish. If you can predict that "blue-ish"--in the new musical, "It Shoulda Been You" - rhymes with something like "it's true-ish when you're Jewish," then you're two (or five) steps ahead of the authors. If it's Jewish jokes you want, there's a truckload of them onstage at the Atkinson. If you don't want Jewish jokes, there's a truckload of them at the Atkinson. Viewing the 2011 tryout at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick (N.J.), I found the humor mirthlessly forced. ("It would have been a scream back in 1965," I wrote). 30 months later, I'm here to report that "It Shoulda Been You" is now considerably better than it was. This, thanks to a general upgrading of the cast (other than four central actors); slicker, fast-farce work from director David Hyde Pierce; and what seem to be many more jokes. Weaknesses still remain, led by the contrived story and a decidedly non-rousing score, but what was well-nigh intolerable in New Jersey is now... well, tolerable. The story harkens back to "Abie's Irish Rose," which was already hoary when Anne Nichols wrote it back in 1922. Jewish boy weds Irish Catholic girl, with the parents and everyone battling away. The critics loathed it, but it ran five years and became Broadway's longest running play; 93 years later, "Abie" somehow remains in the number three slot.
April 14, 2015: Broadway's so-far stuffy spring season needed to loosen up, and relief arrives with the campy ensemble comedy "It Shoulda Been You." Now open at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, the musical is notable as the Broadway directing debut of David Hyde Pierce, the "Frasier" star. "Shoulda" has a stock set-up: The Steinberg and Howard families have gathered at a fancy hotel for the interfaith union of their children, Rebecca and Brian (Sierra Boggess and David Burtka). So fresh-faced are these two they could model for the cake-topper. Such purity can only foreshadow trouble, and indeed, disaster strikes when Jenny, the bride's sister (Lisa Howard), accidentally dials Rebecca's ex-boyfriend, Marty (Josh Grisetti), clueing him in to the fact he wasn't, you know … invited. Jenny is the emotional heart of the comedy, a hodgepodge of capers and confessions that would probably fall flat in the hands of less experienced performers. As it is, this cast is as close to a dream team for a wedding comedy as you can get.


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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): A Rare Disorder That Usually Affects Boxers And Athletes
The head is the single most important part of our body, as it houses the brain, the mastermind organ behind everything that we do (or don't do). The brain is the cornerstone of the Central Nervous System, and tells all the other parts of the body to go about doing the different tasks that they perform throughout our lifetime. For example, it makes sure that we are protected from nasty infections by raising our body temperature in the form of a fever, and stimulates the release of hormones when we are afraid or excited. These are just two examples of a practically limitless number of functions that the brain performs, so it's only fair that this crucial, yet delicate, organ is encased in a sturdy protective shell. That's precisely the reason why the human skull is so tough.
However, what happens when a person gets hit repeatedly on the head?
CTE: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Although we know a lot about many diseases that can affect the human body due to rapid advances in medical technologies, but there are still a host of disorders and ailments lurking in the darkness of our ignorance. CTE is one such disease that was only recognized and proven in 2014.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, is a degenerative disease that is usually observed in people who suffer repeated blows to the head. These people generally include athletes, such as boxers, wrestlers, American football players or other sportsmen, who experience consistent physical brain trauma. The biggest obstacle in the treatment of this ailment is that, as of now, it can only be detected after a person has died.
The Cause of CTE
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The main cause associated with CTE is repeated physical trauma to the head, which can result in the degeneration of brain tissue. This leads to the release of a relatively unknown protein, called tau, which accumulates in the brain and damages brain cells. Other causes of CTE (apart from brain trauma) are currently unknown.
Symptoms of CTE
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A person suffering from CTE can experience unusual (and sometimes harmful) levels of aggression, partial amnesia, dementia, confusion and lack of reasoning capabilities. The patient is also at a much greater risk of suffering from depression, chronic stress, and suicidal tendencies. They can also experience a gradual loss of cognitive abilities and motor disturbance, in some cases.
Unfortunately, the exact symptoms pertaining to CTE are not fully understood. This disease is further complicated because in most cases, these symptoms only begin to appears many years, or even decades, after the injury or trauma. This brutal, delayed impact makes this condition even more dreadful.
Cases in the Past
Adrian Robinson Jr (Image Credit: http://theshadefiles.com)
Many cases of CTE associated with the deaths of athletes (especially football players) that have surfaced recently. A significant number of these deaths, whether they were suicides or as a result of some brain disorder, are inherently associated with CTE. One famous pro football player, Adrian Robinson Jr, committed suicide earlier this year. Another retired football player, Dave Duerson, shot himself in 2011 and urged his family in his suicide note that his brain tissue be examined for the disease. The autopsies from both of these athletes revealed that they had CTE.
Since we do not have suitable techniques to detect the signs of CTE while a patient is still alive, it becomes imperative that the utmost care be taken with our brains throughout out lives. Also, the precise number of blows to the head that can lead to the accumulation of the tau protein is unknown, and likely different for every person. Therefore, the best defense technique we have is to be more cautious while playing high-impact sports and protect our head at all times.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Athletes: National Center for Biotechnology Information
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Q: 0th value of array being changed after assigning values to separate array in C I am reading from a file
(contents of file labeled in1):
8
0 2 1 4 2 2 3 1
3 2 5 4 6 7 9 2 8

which is passed by command line to my program.
(Here is a minimal working version):
/*
 *Run using make with accompanying Makefile using file in1 as input on command line
 *
 * */
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[]){

if(argc != 2){

   fprintf(stderr,
      "Error: Improper amount of command line arguments. Need one input file.\n");
   exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

}

FILE* fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");

int n;
int* A = calloc(n+1, sizeof(int));
int* idx = calloc(n, sizeof(int));

fscanf(fp, "%d", &n); //assigns n from file

printf("N is equal to : %d\n", n);

for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){ //assigns operations from file

fscanf(fp, "%d", &idx[i]);

}

for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){

   printf("idx[%d] = %d\n", i, idx[i]);

}

for(int i = 0; i <= n; i++){//set operands

   fscanf(fp, "%d", &A[i]);

}
for(int i = 0; i <= n; i++){

   printf("A[%d] = %d\n", i, A[i]);

}

for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){

   printf("idx[%d] = %d\n", i, idx[i]);

}
}

This minimal version still produces the same result. That is this output:
N is equal to : 8
idx[0] = 0
idx[1] = 2
idx[2] = 1
idx[3] = 4
idx[4] = 2
idx[5] = 2
idx[6] = 3
idx[7] = 1
A[0] = 3
A[1] = 2
A[2] = 5
A[3] = 4
A[4] = 6
A[5] = 7
A[6] = 9
A[7] = 2
A[8] = 8
idx[0] = 8
idx[1] = 2
idx[2] = 1
idx[3] = 4
idx[4] = 2
idx[5] = 2
idx[6] = 3
idx[7] = 1

See how idx[0] is first equal to 0, then after assigning A, has a value of 8?
Why is this?
(Makefile to run the program):
PROGRAM_NAME = minRecreate
FLAGS        = -std=c99 -Wall
SOURCE       = $(PROGRAM_NAME).c
OBJECT       = $(PROGRAM_NAME).o
EXEBIN       = $(PROGRAM_NAME)

$(EXEBIN) : $(OBJECT)
        gcc -o $(EXEBIN) $(OBJECT)

$(OBJECT) : $(SOURCE)
        gcc -c $(FLAGS) $(SOURCE)

clean :
        rm $(EXEBIN) $(OBJECT)

memcheck : $(EXEBIN)
        valgrind --leak-check=full $(EXEBIN) in1

A: The first time you use n, it is not initialized. The rest of the program results in undefined behavior, but most likely what's happening is that A is not large enough, so it ends up clobbering idx.


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BEST 5 INDIAN ARMY ATHLETES IN 2021 TOKYO OLYMPICS
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Indian army athletes in 2021 Tokyo olympics.
Indian Army does not only guard the country from the enemies on the border in fact brings laurels as well in sports. Let's know top 5 Indian army athletes in 2021 Tokyo olympics
World's mega sport event is none other than the Olympics. It is a dream of an athlete to win a medal in the Olympics. Indian army athletes in olympics is not a new thing.
Also read: 10 indian childhood games at the verge of their end.
These athletes have done quite well in national games, Asian games and World Championship games and we hope these Indian Army Athletes in 2021 Tokyo Olympic will surely bring medals for India.
SUB TARUNDEEP RAI :
Subedar Rai, VSM (5/8 GR) hails from Namchi, Sikkim. He is India's hope in Archery and Indian army athletes in 2021 Tokyo olympics
Tarundeep Rai represented team India twice in olympic games. Tarundeep won his maiden gold medal at the 2004 Asian Grand Prix Bangkok.
Tarundeep Rai won India their maiden individual silver medal in archery at the Asian Games at the 16th Asian Games on 24 November 2010 in China.
Tarundeep was a member of the Indian archery team that won the bronze medal at the 15th Asian Games in Doha in 2006.
Tarundeep Rai is awarded with Arjuna Award and the government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian awards in the India.
SUB MAJ SATISH KUMAR YADAV:
Satish Kumar Yadav is from 11 Kumaon Regiment and hails from Bulandsahar, Uttar Pradesh. He is Indian army athletes in 2021 Tokyo olympics.
Satish Kumar is the first Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics in the super heavyweight category. He won the bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon in the super heavy weight category.
Before joining the army Satish did not even know the difference between Boxing and WWE. He thought Under Taker and John Cena are boxers.
He was awarded ARJUNA award in 2018 and now representing India in super heavy weight category in Tokyo Olympics 2021.
SUB DEEPAK PUNIA:
Sub Deepak Punia is from 19 Raj Rif and basically from Jhajjar district of Haryana. He is also an Indian army athletes in 2021 Tokyo olympics.
Deepak Punia won the silver medal at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in the freestyle 86 kg category. He is an Army Sports Institute wrestler and reigning Junior World Championship.
He won a silver medal at the senior Asian Championship 2021. He is presently ranked world No 2 in his weight category.
NB SUB SANDEEP KUMAR:
Nb Sub Sandeep Kumar is from 16 Jat and hails from Haryana. He is also an Indian army athletes in 2021 Tokyo olympics.
Sandeep Kumar make his new national record in the 20 km men's race walk during the 8th National open race walking competition held at Ranchi in Feb 2021.
Olympic Tokyo 2021 will be his third olympic. He has also represented India in 2016 Rio Olympics in the 50 km race walk event.
He has also qualified for the 2022 World Athletics Championship which will be held in Eugene, USA.
SUB AMIT PANGHAL:
Sub Amit Panghal is light flyweight Indian boxer from 22 Mahar and hails from Rohtak district of Haryana. He is also an Indian army athletes in 2021 Tokyo olympics.
Sub Amit Panghal won silver medal at the 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships in the Flyweight division and became first Indian Boxer to win medal in AIBA World Boxing Championship.
He won the bronze medal in the light flyweight category of the 2017 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Tashkent in May 2017. Panghal also won a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games.
Panghal won a gold medal in Boxing World Cup 2020 held in Cologne, Germany.
Presently Amit Panghal is ranked n0. 1 in his weight category. India has a lot of hope from Amit Panghal in Tokyo Olympics 2021.
Well written sir. We are proud of army sir
Pravesh singh
Thanks Pankaj sir you always teach us something new
We feel proud for our army. These soldiers will surely get medals for India
Lets see who gets the medal.
We are proud of our soldiers sir. Nation always comes first for them. Either it is a battleground or a playground.
Soldier, real hero of the nation
Amazing Indian army soldiers…


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Demeaning key institutions undermines our democracy
Law enforcement, the FBI, the judiciary and the career civil service are all under siege by this administration.
By Dick Virden
If we think the North Korean regime is breaking an agreement on nuclear activities, for example, we will be unable to prove it to anyone – friend or foe – without credible intelligence.
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If, as we all hope, a deal can be reached to eliminate the nuclear threat and reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, one key element will be the need to verify that North Korea lives up to its terms. Or, as Ronald Reagan's favorite Russian proverb had it: trust but verify.
But how to do that? Aye, there's the rub. To ensure compliance, we need to rely on our intelligence professionals – the very people whose competence Donald Trump frequently belittled, as candidate and as president, because he didn't like their finding that Russia had meddled in our 2016 election on his behalf.
To discredit that conclusion, Trump repeatedly suggested that our intelligence community could not be trusted because it was wrong about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The errors that analysts allegedly commit live after them; the good is oft interred in secret archives.
An institution he will need
Ironically, by dismissing unwelcome intelligence reports to save his agenda – and maybe his own skin — the president undercuts trust in an institution he will need to build support for enforcing any deal with Pyongyang. If we think the North Korean regime is breaking an agreement on nuclear activities, for example, we will be unable to prove it to anyone – friend or foe – without credible intelligence.
The same goes for Iran. Trump will need to offer solid evidence of Iran's cheating to justify junking a nuclear pact that is strongly supported by other major powers, our allies as well as China and Russia. Such proof can only come from the very intelligence agencies whose reliability our own leader has impugned, as the world has clearly noted.
Just recently in Syria, for example, we charged that a war crime involving the use of chemical weapons was the responsibility of the country's president, Bashar al-Assad. Russia, however, stood by its man, blaming U.S.-backed groups instead and asking why anyone should believe American intelligence after what happened in Iraq. That sound you heard was chickens coming home to roost.
As with our intelligence community, so it is with other institutions that are vital to our democracy and our engagement with the world. If you malign them or starve them of resources, you cannot count on their being available when you need them.
Contempt toward State Department
At the Department of State, our diplomacy is being marginalized by budget cuts, unfilled positions and open contempt from the White House. In the future, when we realize we need first-rate professionals who really understand what's happening in Country X, we may find we no longer have such experts. The lack of such in-depth understanding was one of the reasons for our failure in Vietnam.
Domestically also, our democratic institutions and traditions are being weakened. Individual journalists and the "mainstream media" are under constant barrage from the president and others. One result is diminished respect for a free press, a core part of our democracy. A recent Pew poll, for example, found that only 42 percent of Republicans agreed that media had a legitimate watchdog function to perform. This even though our Founding Fathers thought a free press was so essential that they made freedom of speech the very first amendment to our Constitution. That's even before the right to bear arms.
Law enforcement, the FBI, the judiciary and the career civil service are all under siege by this administration. The president has denigrated judges whose rulings he disliked and humiliated his own attorney general, as well as other officials he himself appointed. He treats dedicated career civil servants as disloyal members of a so-called "deep state;" and he fired the FBI director for upholding his oath to the rule of law and the Constitution, instead of pledging personal allegiance to him.
Shortsighted focus
When key votes did not go the president's way in the Senate, he urged that body to throw out centuries of traditional safeguards and go to strict majority rule on all measures, forgetting or not caring that one day — and maybe soon — the shoe will be on the other foot with a different party in power.
What all these actions have in common is a shortsighted focus on immediate gain without regard to long-term consequences. They also betray an autocratic impatience with the system of checks and balances and democratic practice we've built over 2½ centuries. We chose to share power and to be ruled by law, rather than by a strongman. It's a system that has served us well. Our record of democratic governance is the envy of the world. We should all fight to protect it.
Dick Virden is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer. He lives in Plymouth.
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Demeaning key institutions undermines our democracy

By Dick Virden

May 3, 2018

If, as we all hope, a deal can be reached to eliminate the nuclear threat and reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, one key element will be the need to verify that North Korea lives up to its terms. Or, as Ronald Reagan's favorite Russian proverb had it: trust but verify.

But how to do that? Aye, there's the rub. To ensure compliance, we need to rely on our intelligence professionals – the very people whose competence Donald Trump frequently belittled, as candidate and as president, because he didn't like their finding that Russia had meddled in our 2016 election on his behalf.

To discredit that conclusion, Trump repeatedly suggested that our intelligence community could not be trusted because it was wrong about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The errors that analysts allegedly commit live after them; the good is oft interred in secret archives.

An institution he will need

Ironically, by dismissing unwelcome intelligence reports to save his agenda – and maybe his own skin — the president undercuts trust in an institution he will need to build support for enforcing any deal with Pyongyang. If we think the North Korean regime is breaking an agreement on nuclear activities, for example, we will be unable to prove it to anyone – friend or foe – without credible intelligence.

The same goes for Iran. Trump will need to offer solid evidence of Iran's cheating to justify junking a nuclear pact that is strongly supported by other major powers, our allies as well as China and Russia. Such proof can only come from the very intelligence agencies whose reliability our own leader has impugned, as the world has clearly noted.

Just recently in Syria, for example, we charged that a war crime involving the use of chemical weapons was the responsibility of the country's president, Bashar al-Assad. Russia, however, stood by its man, blaming U.S.-backed groups instead and asking why anyone should believe American intelligence after what happened in Iraq. That sound you heard was chickens coming home to roost.

As with our intelligence community, so it is with other institutions that are vital to our democracy and our engagement with the world. If you malign them or starve them of resources, you cannot count on their being available when you need them.

Contempt toward State Department

At the Department of State, our diplomacy is being marginalized by budget cuts, unfilled positions and open contempt from the White House. In the future, when we realize we need first-rate professionals who really understand what's happening in Country X, we may find we no longer have such experts. The lack of such in-depth understanding was one of the reasons for our failure in Vietnam.

Domestically also, our democratic institutions and traditions are being weakened. Individual journalists and the "mainstream media" are under constant barrage from the president and others. One result is diminished respect for a free press, a core part of our democracy. A recent Pew poll, for example, found that only 42 percent of Republicans agreed that media had a legitimate watchdog function to perform. This even though our Founding Fathers thought a free press was so essential that they made freedom of speech the very first amendment to our Constitution. That's even before the right to bear arms.

Law enforcement, the FBI, the judiciary and the career civil service are all under siege by this administration. The president has denigrated judges whose rulings he disliked and humiliated his own attorney general, as well as other officials he himself appointed. He treats dedicated career civil servants as disloyal members of a so-called "deep state;" and he fired the FBI director for upholding his oath to the rule of law and the Constitution, instead of pledging personal allegiance to him.

Shortsighted focus

When key votes did not go the president's way in the Senate, he urged that body to throw out centuries of traditional safeguards and go to strict majority rule on all measures, forgetting or not caring that one day — and maybe soon — the shoe will be on the other foot with a different party in power.

What all these actions have in common is a shortsighted focus on immediate gain without regard to long-term consequences. They also betray an autocratic impatience with the system of checks and balances and democratic practice we've built over 2½ centuries. We chose to share power and to be ruled by law, rather than by a strongman. It's a system that has served us well. Our record of democratic governance is the envy of the world. We should all fight to protect it.

Dick Virden is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer. He lives in Plymouth.

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Потофё, пот-о-фё, потофе́, потафе́, потафю́ (,  — букв. «котелок на огне») — традиционное блюдо французской кухни, известное на территории страны ещё со времён раннего Средневековья и наследовавшее древнеримским похлёбкам. Представляет собой густой наваристый суп из говядины и овощей, который в процессе варки подают в качестве как первого, так и второго блюда: бульон и варившиеся в нём мясо и овощи подают раздельно. Согласно французской гастрономической энциклопедии Ларусс, сытный потофе составляет целый обед. Похожим на потофё жидким блюдом во французской кухне является мармит — непроцеживаемая и неосветляемая старинная похлёбка.

В течение многих веков потофё был самым востребованным блюдом во Франции за семейным столом. Традиция раздельной подачи основы и гарнира появилась в эпоху Ренессанса, в XVI веке. В XVII веке ко французскому двору прибыли испанские принцессы Анна Австрийская и Мария Терезия Испанская, благодаря их любви к родной олье подриде потофё обогатилось дополнительными ингредиентами, хотя испанское барочное блюдо приводило в ужас классических французских поваров. Виконт Андре де Мирабо видел в потофё одну из опор французской монархии. В конце XVIII века, когда рестораны с дежурным блюдом потофё стали заменять в Париже старые харчевни, на современной набережной Великих Августинцев рядом с рынком птицы появился «Вечный мармит» с котлом, кипевшим день и ночь, в котором варились каплуны и бычье мясо. Как только из котла доставали кусок готового мяса, в него сразу отправлялся такой же кусок сырого мяса. Гастрософ  утверждал, что за 86 лет, что работал «Вечный мармит», в его котле побывало полмиллиона каплунов. После Великой Французской революции потофё стал национальным блюдом. На севере Франции и в центральной её части потофё готовили из мяса быка с разнообразными бобовыми. На юге Франции потофё был более сложным блюдом: к говядине, на испанский манер, добавляли свинину, хамон и колбасы. В  аналогом потофё выступал пуль-о-пот, обязанный своей популярностью королю Генриху IV. В современной французской кухне, несмотря на тенденцию отхода от классических супов, потофё входит в десятку самых популярных блюд. Термин «потофё» используется во французской кухне для обозначения большого котла из жаропрочного материала, например, меди, для приготовления супов.

Для приготовления потофё требуется мясной бульон, отварная говядина и овощи (корнеплоды и листовые). Для потофё выбирают разную говядину: как жирную (грудинка, покромка), так и постную (лопатка, пашина) и студенистую (рулька, хвост), а также мозговые кости. Традиционные овощи для потофё — морковь, репа, пастернак, репчатый лук, чеснок, лук-порей, сельдерей. Картофель для потофе не обязателен и отваривается отдельно. Блюдо подают в два этапа. Сначала сервируют обезжиренный бульон с гренками, иногда сырными, затем тосты с костным мозгом. Далее на блюде следует нарезанное мясо в окружении отварных овощей, посыпанное крупной солью и молотым перцем. Из приправ к мясу сервируют корнишоны, тёртый хрен, горчицу, пикули, маринованную свёклу и репчатый лук. К потофё обычно подают красные вина.

Во Франции потофё — символ благополучной семейной жизни. В «Былом и думах» А. И. Герцен излагает позицию Прудона на брачные отношения «без особого равенства развития, основанные на удобстве, на хозяйстве, […] на гигиене». В них, со слов Прюдона, жена берётся как сиделка, как добрая хозяйка, pour avoir un bon pot-au-feu, «чтобы иметь хороший обед». Прудон шутил над их общим знакомым N, который был счастлив, потому что «у него жена не настолько глупа, чтобы не умела приготовить хорошего pot au feu, и не настолько умна, чтобы толковать о его статьях».

Популярное блюдо нашло отражение в произведениях классиков французской литературы. Героиня новеллы «Ожерелье» Ги де Мопассана Матильда, очаровательная девушка из бедной семьи, которая вышла замуж за мелкого чиновника, мечтала о тонких обедах и изысканных яствах, о сверкающем серебре и тонком фарфоре в тот момент, когда её муж снимал крышку с супника с потофе. В романе Оноре де Бальзака «Евгении Гранде» по бедности потофе собираются готовить из воронов. В переводах на русский язык потофе заменяют на «бульон» или «суп с капустой».

В русской аристократической кухне потофё появился в XIX веке, по данным автора «Поварского искусства» 1902 года П. М. Зеленко, в России по названием «потофе» фигурировал суп с капустой. Е. И. Молоховец в «Подарке молодым хозяйкам» приводит рецепт потофе — супа с савойской капустой на основе жёлтого бульона (с обжаренными кореньями), в котором отваривают ошпаренные и свёрнутые в шарики капустные листья.

В рассказе «Горы» М. В. Авдеева официант ресторана «Дюссо», касимовский татарин в чёрном фраке с завитыми волосами и салфеткой в руке, поверг рассказчика в величайшее затруднение, поинтересовавшись у него, что тот предпочитает: потофе или бранвас. В русской литературе слово «потофё» употреблялось в переносном значении «обыватель, мещанин». Крутицына, героя романа П. Д. Боборыкина «Солидные добродетели», считали «пресным, слащавым, наклонным к "pot-au-feu" и, наконец, скучным». К. А. Скальковский в своём труде о балете «В театральном мире» характеризовал русских балерин как любящих семью и своё искусство, настоящих pots au feu.

Примечания

Литература

Французские супы
Блюда из говядины


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Q: At what tenses can I use the "to be going to" and "used to" constructions? There are constructions like:
to be going to
used to
be used to
get used to
At what tenses can i use them?
For example
"to be going to" in past simple looks well: I was going to...
But "to be going to" in future simple probably looks strange: I will be going to...


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Wow what a product Apple have launched! (http://www.apple.com/iphone/) !! From the specs of the phone only the camera resolution bothers me. 2.0 mega pixels is very 2005, my current phone (a Nokia N73) has 3.2 mega pixels and i'm already chomping at the bit for the Nokia N95. Having said that i love everything else i've seen and read about it.. except that i have to wait till 2008 to realistically get my hands on it, and by then i will be wanting a 7-8 Mega Pixel camera phone. (yes i love my photography!). I hope this will have a positive effect on the industry in re-thinking how we can interact with a portable device, rather than sticking in the safe zone and rolling out higher spec's but same interface. I love the touch sensitive screen, i hope its not difficult to use if you have large fingers, but i can't be worse than most phones these days, (actually a cool afterthought would be to be able to re-size on-screen keyboard!). The way the photo application allows you to pinch photos reminds me of video i saw on UTUBE called Multitouch. Star trek never had it so cool.