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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD HONORED WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT FORT LAUDERDALE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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Christopher Lloyd. Photo: Michele Eve Photography
Christopher Lloyd was honored this weekend with a Lifetime Achievement Award in a ceremony immediately preceding the World Premiere screening of Arnold Grossman's The Boat Builder on Friday, November 6 at Cinema Paradiso – Ft. Lauderdale.
The award, which celebrates the actor's prolific career in film, television and theater, was presented to Christopher Lloyd as part of the Opening Night celebrations for the 30th Anniversary Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. The ceremony preceded a sold out World Premiere screening of The Boat Builder.
The Boat Builder is a story about "the building of a dream," written and directed by Arnold Grossman and starring Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Taxi), Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle), and David Lascher (Hey Dude, Sabrina the Teenage Witch).
Christopher Lloyd stars as Abner, an embittered old mariner and widower living a solitary life. Withdrawn from his family and the tight-knit community of his small marine town, he is a grumpy and unsociable man who seems to live in the past – only finding comfort in the countless hours spent building a sailboat in his yard. When neglected young orphan Rick (Tekola Cornetet) wanders onto Abner's property hiding from local bullies, the two find common ground and form an unlikely bond which changes their lives in unexpected ways.
The Boat Builder is set to make its Colorado Premiere at the 38th Denver Film Festival – where it is in competition for the Festival's True Grit award for Best Colorado Produced Film – on Friday, November 13, 6:30pm at the UA Denver Pavilions.
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On February 7, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) reintroduced the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights (HER) Act to permanently end the global gag rule. The bill, co-sponsored by 45 Senators and 150 Representatives, will help expand access to health programs for women around the world, ensuring that foreign NGOs can continue to operate US-supported health programs abroad — including those providing counseling, referral, and legal abortion services. In a joint op-ed, Rep. Lowey and Sen. Shaheen recognized that "[a]ccess to reproductive health care allows women to more fully participate in their respective societies and economies, improves both child and maternal mortality and empowers women to make decisions about their futures and those of their children." NCJW and 113 other diverse organizations endorsed the Global HER Act and celebrate its reintroduction.
On February 5, President Trump delivered his second State of the Union address, a speech filled with gross inaccuracies, mischaracterizations, and misinformation. For instance, he asked Congress to pass "legislation to prohibit late-term abortion." To be clear, "late-term abortion" is a medically inaccurate term coined by anti-abortion activists to create a stigma around basic health care. What's more, bills like New York's Reproductive Health Act do not "allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments before birth." Instead, the law simply codifies Roe v. Wade, ensuring that New Yorkers have access to their constitutionally-protected right to an abortion. Many factors — including difficulties in accessing abortion care, delays in arranging travel and funds to pay for the procedure, and changes in life circumstances — influence the decision to have an abortion after the first trimester. Laws to make such procedures more accessible will not make them more common. NCJW applauds the passage of the Reproductive Health Act and the proposal of similar legislation, which reflects Jewish tradition: that a woman's health is paramount at any and all stages of pregnancy.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee focused its first hearing of the 116th Congress on the impacts of Texas v. United States. In her opening remarks, subcommittee Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) explained what is at stake if the ACA is struck down: "the 13 million Americans who gained health insurance through the Medicaid expansion will lose their health insurance; the 9 million Americans who rely on tax credits . . . will no longer be able to afford their insurance, and health insurance costs will skyrocket across the country . . . ." The Congresswoman also noted that 130 million Americans with preexisting conditions would be denied coverage or charged higher rates, denying important protections the President has falsely promised to provide. Watch the complete hearing here. The subcommittee's next hearing will examine the Trump Administration's expansion of junk insurance plans as well as legislation that will restore enrollment funding and protect individuals with preexisting conditions. Access to health coverage is a reproductive justice issue — we all deserve to have the resources we need to make our own decisions about our health, families, and futures. NCJW supports the ACA, which has expanded access to health care to millions.
On February 7, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a vote on forty-four judicial nominees and attorney general nominee William Barr. NCJW is outraged by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) decision to advance 44 judicial nominees — several of whom NCJW opposes — and the attorney general nominee in one session. Doing so is a clear abdication of the senators' constitutional duty to advise and consent, as such a rushed agenda precludes the Committee from properly doing its job. The Committee voted to advance all forty-four nominees, including six circuit court nominees: Bridget S. Bade (Ninth Circuit), Paul B. Matey (Third Circuit), Eric D. Miller (Ninth Circuit), Eric E. Murphy (Sixth Circuit), Chad A. Readler (Sixth Circuit), and Allison Jones Rushing (Fourth Circuit). All of the circuit court nominees were advanced along party lines, 12-10, with the exception of Bridget Bade, who was advanced 17-5. Thirty-eight lower court nominees were also advanced to the Senate floor, including Wendy Vitter (Eastern District of Louisiana), Matthew J. Kacsmaryk (Northern District of Texas), Brian C. Buescher (District of Nebraska), Michael J. Truncale (Eastern District of Texas), J. Campbell Barker (Eastern District of Texas), and Howard C. Nielson, Jr. (District of Utah). Click on each nominee's name to read NCJW's letters of opposition that were sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
During the markup, Chairman Graham astonishingly and incorrectly remarked that the blue slip has never been used as a veto on behalf of home state senators. On the contrary, former committee Chairman Grassley used the blue slip policy, during the Obama administration, to block eighteen nominees, including six to circuit courts. Ranking Member Feinstein (D-CA) requested that the circuit court nominees listed for a vote be held over again to resolve the disagreement over blue slips, a request denied by Chairman Graham because the nominees "had hearings." Read NCJW's full statement and take action.
On February 5, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Neomi Rao to fill the vacancy on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit created by the elevation of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. Rao, who currently serves as administrator of the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has published several pieces that are insensitive to race, LGBTQ rights, sexual assault survivors, and beyond, thus rendering her incapable of being a fair and independent judge. At her hearing, Rao did express regret regarding some of her statements, calling them "common sense observations," but failed to allay concerns about her work at OIRA reflecting these troublesome views. She also refused to answer whether Brown v. Board was correctly decided or commit to recusing herself in cases concerning OIRA. NCJW opposes Rao's nomination. Read our letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee here.
On February 7, the Supreme Court blocked (5-4) a Louisiana abortion law from going into effect with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court's four more liberal members. Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Gorsuch voted to allow the law to go into effect. The case, June Medical Services v. Gee, concerns a 2014 Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. In the 2016 case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the Supreme Court ruled that an almost identical admitting privileges law in Texas was unconstitutional. The last-minute ruling blocks enforcement of the law — allowing Louisiana's 3 clinics to remain open — while the court considers whether to hear the case. If the court decides to hear June Medical Services v. Gee, it could be a chance to revisit and possibly overturn Roe v. Wade. NCJW opposes the Louisiana law and others like it, which are thinly veiled attempts to undermine the constitutional right to abortion.
On February 7, as part of the "Monster Markup," the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to advance the nomination of attorney general nominee William Barr to the full Senate. Barr has criticized the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and also holds expansive views of executive power that would further sanction President Trump's efforts to cripple civil rights, including reproductive rights, and quash true religious freedom.
Take action today! Tell your senators to oppose Barr for attorney general.
The House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on gun violence prevention in almost a decade on February 6. Among other issues, the hearing largely focused on HR 8, the Bipartisan Background Check Act of 2019, which would establish universal background checks on all gun sales in America. A vote is expected on the measure next week. Also in the House, Reps. Anthony Brown (D MD) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced HR 717, the Raise The Age Act, which would raise the age to purchase a semi-automatic assault-style rifle from 18 to 21. Under current federal law, individuals must be 21 to purchase handguns, but only 18 to purchase long guns, including semi-automatic rifles. And, in the Senate, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced Ethan's Law, a bill that would hold gun owners who fail to safely store or secure their firearms accountable for the tragic consequences that all too frequently result from negligent storage practices. Eight kids and teens are unintentionally shot or killed every day with improperly stored guns. NCJW supports these gun safety measures.
On February 1, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its proposed rule that would limit waivers on how long certain people can have access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. Currently, able-bodied adults without dependents, referred to as ABAWDs, can access SNAP benefits for three months while they find work unless they receive a state waiver. The new rule would restrict those waivers, and could ultimately harm more than 750,000 people if put into place. The proposed rule follows failed efforts to limit SNAP benefits legislatively via the Farm Bill, which passed without these limitations last fall. NCJW opposes this proposed rule.
On February 3,an op ed signed by members of the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Collaborative, including NCJW, was published in eJewish Philanthropy.
On February 4, NCJW joined two letters asking Congress to secure back pay for federal contractors who went unpaid during the shutdown.
On February 4, NCJW joined 18 LGBTQ organizations on a letter organized by Lambda Legal urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Neomi Rao to the DC Circuit Court.
On February 4, NCJW joined 21 women's organizations on a letter organized by the National Women's Law Center expressing concern regarding the nomination of Neomi Rao to the DC Circuit Court.
On February 5, more than 100 groups including NCJW joined a women's community letter organized by National Women's Law Center urging passage of the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the federal minimum wage to $15/hour by 2024.
On February 5, NCJW joined 28 faith groups on a letter to Members of Congress urging them to avert another shutdown and implement responsible spending practices for the Department of Homeland Security.
On February 6, NCJW and over 130 other organizations sent a letter to Sen. Grassley and Rep. Neal, Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees, supporting the Johnson Amendment.
NCJW signed on as an amicus curiae (friend of the court) to a brief in Moussouris v. Microsoft, gender discrimination and pay equity case before 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.


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Q: How to microbenchmark subroutines in R? I have programmed an R function f that calls subroutines f1 and f2.  Say
f1 <- function() Sys.sleep(0.1)
f2 <- function() Sys.sleep(0.2)

f <- function(){
  f1()
  f2()
}

I want to benchmark the performance of f and its subroutines in order to find out which subroutine can be improved regarding the runtime. Unfortunately microbenchmark only gives the runtime of f:
microbenchmark(f(), times = 10) # gives
Unit: milliseconds
 expr      min       lq     mean   median       uq      max neval
  f() 302.0776 309.7246 312.5698 312.9659 314.0021 327.6248    10

I would like to have statistics for the subroutines called in f. Something like
Unit: milliseconds
 expr      min       lq     mean   median       uq      max neval
 f1() 100.0000 107.0000 115.0000 115.0000 117.0000 127.0000    10
 f2() 202.0000 209.0000 212.0000 212.0000 214.0000 227.0000    10

A: As also outlined in the comments, profiling your function is the way to find out the time of the subroutines.
The package that is mentioned from Hadley Wickham is deprecated in favor of profvis, so I think profvis is the one to go for.

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BLUE IVY CARTER WINS VOICE ARTS AWARD FOR NARRATING 'HAIR LOVE' AUDIOBOOK
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Blue Ivy Carter has won big at the 2021 Voice Arts Awards. The oldest daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z garnered the award for "Best Voiceover – Children's Audiobook" for her work on Matthew A. Cherry's Hair Love.
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Those who have read the children's book know that Hair Love is all about a father who takes care of his daughter. The book follows the highs and lows of parenthood with hair as the central theme of the story.
"A couple years ago I was coming across a lot of viral videos about African American fathers that were doing their daughters hair," Matthew A. Cherry said of his highly-acclaimed book in a recent statement. "It really seemed like it was an anomaly, people were really sharing it because they weren't used to seeing it," Cherry shared. "I just wanted to normalize it and kind of shine a light cause oftentimes Black men get a bad rap in not being involved in their kids' lives, and I really wanted to showcase a strong Black family unit and show that dads are present."
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Blue Ivy Carter serves as a voiceover for the audiobook edition of Hair Love. Matthew Cherry was sure to take to social media to congratulate the young talent for receiving her award at the 2021 Voice Arts Awards. "Big congrats to Blue Ivy Carter for best audiobook narration," Cherry wrote online.
Blue's grandmother, Tina Lawson, also took to Instagram to congratulate her granddaughter. "Congrats my Blue," Tina wrote online. "You killed this," Lawson exclaimed. "It's only the beginning," the celebrity mother wrote to her granddaughter. "You are so talented! Grandma is beyond proud!"
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Blue Ivy Carter's latest award adds to the Grammy Award she received earlier this year. Beyonce gave congratulatory regards to her daughter during her acceptance speech for Best R&B Performance at the 2021 Grammy Awards. The recording artist's win at this year's ceremony was a history-making moment as Beyonce is now the most awarded and nominated woman artist in Grammy Awards history.
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Blue Ivy Carter certainly appears to follow in her parents' footsteps as an entertainer. She celebrates her tenth birthday next month.
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PFAW Report: The Mythical Martyrdom of Jerry Boykin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 8, 2012
Contact: Miranda Blue or Justin Greenberg atPeople For the American Way
A new People For the American Way Right Wing Watch: In Focus report identifies the techniques used by Religious Right leaders to portray themselves as victims of an assault on religious liberty. The report, The Mythical Martyrdom of Jerry Boykin, examines the anti-Muslim extremism of Retired Lt. Gen. Boykin that derailed an offer to speak at West Point Military Academy, as well as the tactics he employs to legitimize his own religious and political agenda.
"Lt. Gen. Boykin's claim that Muslims have no First Amendment rights and that the United States is at war with Islam are contrary to basic American values," said Michael Keegan, President of People For the American Way. "His attacks against Muslims are so extreme he was even publicly rebuked by President George W. Bush. It is ironic that a man who so fundamentally misunderstands our Constitution's guarantee of freedom of worship to all Americans is playing the victim of religious oppression. In reality, Boykin is just a part of the far-right effort to use the banner of religious freedom as cover for spreading fear and intolerance."
The report, available here, explores five propaganda techniques employed by the religious right to obfuscate issues and recast their objection to specific policies as an attack on the religious liberty of Christians, including:
Distorting and reframing issues as a question of religious freedom and free speech;
Mischaracterizing one's opponents to marginalize their concerns;
Whitewashing history by diverting attention from one's past incendiary statements;
Perpetuating lies in order to portray President Obama as hostile to Christianity; and
Propagating myths and spreading fear about Sharia law.
"Right-wing activists and even some elected officials are using religious liberty as an excuse to denigrate others' beliefs and hijack the policymaking process," continued Keegan. "Calling out those who spread intolerance to further their own political agenda will help us all live up to the ideals enshrined in the First Amendment."


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House Republican Raúl Labrador To Run For Majority Leader After Eric Cantor Loss
David Iaconangelo / Jun 16 2014, 12:14PM EDT
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Rep. Raúl Labrador, Republican from Idaho, announced on Friday his intention to run for the second-highest seat in the House after the former majority leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia, lost his primary to Tea Party favorite and economics professor Dave Brat. The Washington Post notes that Labrador -- a Puerto Rican-born conservative who came to power in 2010 as part of the Tea Party wave -- will join four other Republicans vying for the seat: Reps. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Peter Roskam of Illinois and Marlin A. Stutzman of Indiana, in addition to current third-ranking Republican Kevin McCarthy of California. With the election on Thursday, he'll have a short amount of time to stoke the coals of his campaign.
Labrador was part of a bipartisan House team tasked with designing that chamber's version of immigration reform, but dropped out of negotiations last June after disagreements over how to handle health care for undocumented immigrants under the reform package. The other three conservatives on the team soon followed and the effort fizzled as House Republicans coalesced in opposition to the Senate's own reform bill. Immigration was the central issue in Brat's campaign against Cantor, with the upstart charging Cantor of supporting "amnesty" for undocumented immigrants -- though a poll of his district's constituents shows that dissatisfaction with House GOP leaders and the perception that Cantor was disconnected from his home district was probably the deciding factor in the race.
The Post writes that many of the conservative advocacy groups who celebrated the loss of Cantor -- who said he supported extending a path to citizenship for Dreamers -- turned into Labrador boosters after the representative made his announcement on Friday. But Scalise, a southern conservative, is seen as the only real threat to McCarthy, who has extensive alliances across the GOP caucus. And Labrador may still be to the left of the most hardline anti-illegal immigration and restrictionist groups: Politico notes that Rep. Steve King of Iowa, long the most outspoken hardline conservative on immigration, tweeted disapprovingly last week that Labrador was "pro-amnesty."
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An interview with Owen Ashworth of Advance Base (formerly Casiotone for the Painfully Alone)
By Joshua James Amberson on September 27, 2013
"I'm not very interested in singing about myself," says Owen Ashworth, the humble songwriter behind Advance Base. Often using the first person narrator to paint a scene or explore characters, Ashworth approaches songwriting more like an old time folk storyteller than a modern singer-songwriter. "I know that it's natural to assume that the person singing a song is singing about themselves, and I don't mind that, but when I'm singing one of my songs, I'm picturing the characters in the songs, and most of the time, they are people I made up, even if they aren't all that different than me," says Ashworth.
In an age when most songwriters focus on self-exploration, his style of songwriting seems slightly antiquated. But where one might expect sparse acoustic guitars to accompany this approach, most of Ashworth's music uses keyboards, vintage electric pianos, and drum machines. This unlikely pairing of folk storytelling and minimalist electro pop is what makes his music so intriguing and so hard to pin down.
Ashworth made a name for himself with his previous moniker, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (CFTPA), a synth pop project that started in 1997 while he was taking an Intro to Piano class in college and borrowed a battery-powered Yamaha keyboard from his brother to practice scales on. He instantly fell in love with the keyboard's presets and started making songs of his own. "A slow rock beat and a few drony organ chords sounded pretty good to me, so I started writing these simple little songs and singing them into a hand-held tape recorder," Ashworth says.
He made tapes for his friends and, with their encouragement, kept going with it, eventually getting signed to German indie label Tomlab (home of Deerhoof and The Books) in 2001. Early in his career, he realized that CFTPA was, conceptually, a project that wouldn't last forever and even had the idea for the last CFTPA album – Vs. Children – planned in 2003, six years before its release. When the album finally got released in 2009, he spent a year and a half on the road in support of the album before retiring the CFTPA name, and all the songs that went with it, for good in 2010.
The Advance Base project started while making beats for Chicago rapper, Serengeti. The name had been used for his home recording studio since 2006, but the 2011 Serengeti album was his first time he'd been credited under the moniker and the name became the default for everything to come after. The switch to Advance Base could easily be seen as just a new name, since Ashworth makes music that is so distinctly his own. "I don't know how to describe what it is, really, but for better or worse, I can't seem to shake whatever it is that makes one of my songs sound like one of my songs," Ashworth says. But the project does have definite differences from his previous work in CFTPA – a vintage Rhodes electric piano takes the lead role in most of the songs, the tempos are generally slower, the characters and themes slightly altered.
"I have a wife and a kid, and more of my writing deals with family relationships these days, as opposed to the heartbroken love songs that I wrote as a younger man," Ashworth says. The changes have made the critics take his music more seriously, with his 2012 debut, A Shut In's Prayer, getting praise across the board and making #19 on MOJO Magazine Best Albums of 2012. Everyone seemed to call it a "more mature" effort, which could be seen as comical given the innate similarities, but Ashworth understands the critics' interpretation, "The older I get, the more nostalgic my songwriting seems to get, and I think there's something more mature-seeming about singing about memories," he says. A subtle, but striking, change is that while CFTPA were mainly stories of the city, a pastoral backdrop has taken over many of the Advance Base songs. It seems fitting then that he would reinterpret an artist from the largely rural, character song-driven, folk blues of the 1920s and 30s.
The gospel folk blues of Washington Phillips has long been revered as a marvelous curiosity among folk music enthusiasts. Using only a zither-like instrument that many scholars are convinced was homemade, Phillips recorded only 18 songs, 16 of which survive today. The attraction is more than just an early example of DIY ingenuity, though. As Ashworth puts it, "No one else's music sounds like Washington Phillips'." Phillips' one-of-a-kind voice brings the unique sound of his instrument and his spiritual lyrics to an almost ethereal realm. "His voice is completely wonderful and pushes out so much genuine empathy and caring. It's so intimate and so completely mysterious at the same time," Ashworth says.
Advance Base's recent EP, The World is a Bad Fix Everywhere, reinterprets Phillips' music in a subdued fashion that pays tribute more than it reinvents. Its five songs mainly use an autoharp, a Rhodes electric piano, and a drum machine to retell these old stories, creating a curious dichotomy – while incorporating electronic sounds into these folk songs, he's also using instruments old enough to be considered vintage. A combination that makes the album exist somewhere outside of time, not clearly of any era. Which seems a proper tribute to Phillips' otherworldly music; music that was recorded in the late 1920s, but was largely unknown until it was collected and re-released in the early 2000s.
While not a religious person, Ashworth is compelled by the relationships people have to religion and connects to gospel music as a songwriter, "I find there is a lot of very relatable emotion and struggle happening in those songs," Ashworth says. The EP started with Ashworth teaching himself to play the well-known Washington Phillips song, "Mother's Last Word To Her Son." He says, "There's so much to the relationship of that son and his mother and her religion. I can't listen to that song without wondering about those people and what happened to them." The project is also the result of his recent writer's block. "I've chosen a really ambitious kind of over-arching narrative for my next album. It's just one big story and it's taking forever to put all of the pieces together," Ashworth says, "For now, I'm stuck…so I've been recording a lot of covers, just to keep the engine going."
While the much-anticipated follow-up to A Shut In's Prayer might be a ways away, he's not letting it slow him down. Currently on tour in Europe and with The World is a Bad Fix Everywhere just released in June, another EP, Our Cat, came out at the end of July. Our Cat is a perfect example of Ashworth's unabashed love of the mundane. "Small details and tangible things are a sneaky way into people's lives, and I want songs to feel real," Ashworth says. Ashworth takes on little moments with an almost literary zeal and has documented many moments of life that have previously gone unacknowledged in song.
He's sung about a confessional letter blowing down the street, walking home in the snow after missing the bus, and killing time while waiting for a car to get fixed. Now he turns his lens on the story of a cat that gets lost and (spoiler alert) eventually gets found. In another songwriter's hands, these kinds of songs might come off as shallow or dull, but Ashworth has a way of making these moments shine in a fashion that's more akin to a short story author than a songwriter. "I work to make the songs feel as intimate and relatable as I can manage, because those are the kinds of songs that I like to listen to. Some people like big songs, some people like little songs," he says, "If you want to hear a song about world peace, you can listen to a Coldplay record. For lost cats or keys, you can listen to Advance Base."
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Nanodiamonds enable efficient hydrogen purification
In a study published in Nature Energy, researchers led by Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) describe how nanodiamond-reinforced composite membranes can purify hydrogen from its humid mixtures, making the hydrogen generation processes more efficient and cost-effective.
This image offers an abstract visual representation of graphene oxide sheets (black layers) embedded with nanodiamonds (bright white points). The nanodiamonds exert long range electrostatic forces (nebulous white circles) which stabilize the sheets even in humid conditions creating a promising membrane material for hydrogen purification. Yasuhiro Chida (Brocken 5) and Toru Tsuji (Photograph)
There are several scalable methodologies to produce hydrogen, but hydrogen generally comes as humid mixtures and their purification is a challenge. Membrane technology allows for energy-efficient and economical separation processes. But we need to have the right membrane materials to make it work.
—Professor Easan Sivaniah, who led the iCeMS team
Graphene oxide (GO), a water-soluble derivative of graphite, can be assembled to form a membrane that can be used for hydrogen purification. Hydrogen gas easily passes through these filters, while larger molecules get stuck.
Hydrogen is typically separated from CO2 or O2 in very humid conditions. GO sheets are negatively charged, which causes them to repel each other. When exposed to humidity, the negatively charged sheets repel each other even more, allowing water molecules to accumulate in the spaces between the GO sheets, which eventually dissolves the membrane.
Dr Behnam Ghalei, who co-supervised the research, explained that adding nanodiamonds to the GO sheets resolves the humidity-induced disintegration problem.
Positively charged nanodiamonds can cancel out the membrane's negative repulsions, making the GO sheets more compact and water-resistant.
—Dr Behnam Ghalei
The team also included other research groups from Japan and abroad. The researchers at Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (SPring-8 / JASRI) conducted advanced X-ray studies. The Institute for Quantum Life Science (QST) helped with materials development. ShanghaiTech University (China) and National Central University (Taiwan) were involved in state-of-the-art materials characterizations.
Sivaniah says that nanodiamonds have potential uses beyond hydrogen production. Humidity control is also vital in a number of other fields, including pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and lithium-ion battery production. Membrane technology could also revolutionize air conditioning by efficiently removing humidity. Air conditioners are among the most inefficient ways to cool, as a significant amount of the electricity used to power them is used to remove humidity, generating more CO2 emissions.
Sivaniah is the founder of OOYOO, a start-up which aims to be instrumental in commercializing membrane technology for a zero-carbon future.
In November, OOYOO signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CAPTICO2, a company formed in Norway in January 2020 with the purpose of developing and commercializing high-capacity and cost-effective Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) modules.
Under the agreement, OOYOO and CAPTICO2 will explore opportunities to capture and convert up to 99% of the CO2 emission from the shipping industry.
Huang, G., Ghalei, B., Pournaghshband Isfahani, A. et al. (2021) "Overcoming humidity-induced swelling of graphene oxide-based hydrogen membranes using charge-compensating nanodiamonds." Nat Energy 6, 1176–1187 doi: 10.1038/s41560-021-00946-y


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LOCKS AND CANALS EXTEND NAVIGATION – AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE IN MUSKOKA
Article by J. Patrick Boyer
Everybody driving up Highway 11 enters Muskoka by crossing over a canal.
The 386-kilometre-long Trent-Severn waterway system linking Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario, like other canals in Canada and elsewhere, incorporates lakes and rivers with engineered channels and locks. Depending on time and place, such transportation corridors serve trade, commerce, tourism, and defence.
Muskoka's canals, locks, channels, and dams although on a smaller scale, fit a similar pattern to others around the world, accommodating water-level differences, saving time, earning money and providing safety.
The first to propose a canal in Muskoka was Canada's legendary explorer and map maker, David Thompson. In July 1837, when making a detailed study of this district's waters, he encountered two sets of picturesque rapids on a loop of the river draining Lake Rosseau into Lake Muskoka.
Thompson also found Ojibwa villagers living here, many families in a permanent village called Obajewanung. With two dozen log cabins, domesticated dogs, and cleared land growing potatoes, corn, and beans, they also had numerous birchbark canoes to ply the lakes above and below the rapids. Their "carrying place" lay on the left bank, "N 60 E 50 yd, very good to a Bay of still water." His measurements of the river's loop here record "a strong Rapid abt. 2 ft descent and, about 260 yd above it, a strong shoal Rapid of large Stones of abt. 2 ft descent – in all say 5 ft descent." His conclusion: "...easy to make a Lock..."
Thompson envisaged improving navigation by cutting a channel, with this lock, across the same neck of land used by the Ojibwa as a portage to bypass the rapids, whose drop in 1837 was five feet.
Three decades later Alexander Cockburn had become Muskoka's largest employer (with lumbering, retail, and shipping) and wanted a proper canal between lakes Muskoka and Rosseau for his Gravenhurst-based steamships. Already, with ingenious improvisation and herculean effort, large vessels had been moved above the rapids, so steamers were operating on the upper waters. But real locks would make shipping more convenient, facilitate economic growth, and ease travel for fishermen and hunting parties deeper into the District.
Two developments facilitated his plan.
In the 1860s the Ojibwa families had been removed, despite their opposition, to a comparatively barren "reserve" on Parry Island in Georgian Bay. Only a tiny reserve, on one side of the riverbank, remained.
Second, Alexander Cockburn won election to the Ontario legislature as Muskoka's representative. He traded votes in the House and influence with ministers for programs in his district. In 1869 construction of the lock began. That same year Obajewanung, the Indian village, was renamed Port Carling, to the abiding satisfaction of Public Works Minister John Carling.
The Public Works engineers laid out the canal exactly where David Thompson proposed, the carrying place of Indigenous peoples in Muskoka over the prior ten thousand years.
"A hive of activity buzzed around a disorganized cluster of workers' shanties," recorded one of the stoneworkers, pioneer settler Harry Boyer, in his diary. The 19-year-old, dynamiting solid rock, was blasting to create a channel for the locks. The arduous work continued into 1870, then 1871.
Coffer dams created a water-free work area. Construction used timbers, but when the hewn pine logs proved unable to hold back the water, the first attempted structure was torn apart. At least one man had drowned in the effort, so far. A new construction supervisor, John L. Shea, took charge.
Men toiled down in the well to more closely fit squared timbers into stronger, water-tight walls. By opening a channel through the neck of land, they created an island in the centre of Port Carling. Today it is named James Bartleman Park, to honour Ontario's first Indigenous lieutenant-governor, who grew up in the village, a descendent of the Ojibwa band who traditionally occupied the entire place.
Ready by 1872, the locks were put into service for central Muskoka lakes steamship traffic – a major advance for Muskoka's settler society and Cockburn's steamship fleet. The gates on the locks, as well as the swing bridge, were opened and closed many times a day throughout navigation season by the muscle-power of two men, usually the lock master and his assistant.
Meanwhile, a canal and lock project was also underway to link north Muskoka waterways for navigation.
With a three-metre difference in water-levels between Fairy and Mary lakes, the North Muskoka River draining the higher into the lower generated spectacular rapids, crashing down 10 feet, downstream from where the Brunel Road crossed the river. A dam was built to back up the waterfalls and harness the force of their more concentrated drop for power to drive lumber
milling operations. From 1873, a sawmill began using the water's energy to turn logs into lumber, shingles, siding, and flooring.
To use this same watercourse for navigation, Ontario's Public Works engineers in 1873 laid out channels to bypass the dam and mill, on its east side, and a lock to accommodate the waters' different elevations. Constructed of timber, this canal project continued during 1874 and was completed by 1875. The benefits were immediately realized as steamers began carrying passengers and freight between Huntsville, upriver from Fairy Lake, and Port Sydney, at the foot of Mary Lake. All social and commercial life around Mary Lake became more readily part of an extended four-lake community.
Walls of the Brunel Locks' channel had to be repaired every year, until reinforced by squared logs. Even then, they were rebuilt in 1890, 0and again in 1926. In 1947 a concrete facing was added. Between 1987 and 1989 the locks were completely reconstructed using concrete and incorporating modern operating mechanisms.
Like the Brunel Locks, Port Carling's locks demanded continuous attention after 1872. In 1902 and 1903 the lock was enlarged to accommodate longer steamships. By1909 the lock gates needed replacement. New oak ones were built. As back-up, the old ones were sunk, on recommendation of the public works superintendent, "to have them on hand in case of accident to the new gates."
During 1921 and 1922 major reconstruction of the Port Carling locks included a new swing bridge mounted on a round concrete base. A great deal of steel was used, delivered to Bala by train, transported over winter ice by teams and sleighs, and then, in an era before cranes, hoisted into place by a derrick pole. At this time, around the other side of Port Carling Island along the river's original course, a new lock for small boats was also constructed.
In the 1950s Ontario Premier Leslie Frost launched his new historic site marker program by unveiling the Province's first in Port Carling: "Water transportation, so vital to the early farmers and lumbermen, was greatly aided by the construction of these locks, 1869-71, by the provincial government."
In 1962 and 1963 the small boat locks and accompanying control dam holding water at navigable levels were reconstructed (with a Winter Works grant from Ottawa to reduce seasonal unemployment) under a plastic canopy, the working space heated by a boiler. And so maintenance continues.
Port Carling's swing bridge would be supplanted by a lift bridge. Motors would replace muscles to open and close lock gates, to raise and lower the bridge. The big locks helped revival of steamboat tourism, unique to Muskoka, in summer, and during winter, drained, has served as dry dock for Segwun and Wenonah II maintenance work.
Today, Muskoka District's commissioner of engineering and public works, Fred Jahn, calls Port Carling's navigation infrastructure an "essential service" for commercial and passenger traffic. Muskoka last year spent $2,245,900 on new gates for both sets of Port Carling's locks – necessary upkeep for a transportation corridor that Anne Duke Judd, describing the Indian River, aptly calls "the real main street of Port Carling."
The third set of locks, after Port Carling and Brunel, would come at north Muskoka's well-used Indian "carrying place" between Lake of Bays and Peninsula Lake, a route so famous it even bequeathed its popular name The Portage to this locale.
In 1886, Ontario's Department of Public Works began dredging a canal between Fairy and Peninsula lakes, following the course of a swampy creek. Working through 1887, the canal was completed in 1888, at a cost of $25,000. Where natural banks did not exist along the route, log piles and squared timbers shored up the excavations from erosion by wash, soon common as the canal was opened to shipping.
Meanwhile at The Portage homesteader William Osborne happily saw his vision coming true. The need for a canal between North Muskoka's two major lake systems – the four lakes around Huntsville and the Lake of Bays – drew him to the remote inter-lake zone years before as a shrewd early settler. He acquired, with his sons, the strategic acreages both as free grant lands and direct purchases from others, including squatters, keen to sell their infertile patches. Osborne had always seen his future more in harvesting transit fares than raising farm crops.
Monopolizing access between the two lake systems, he saw his dream becoming reality in 1886 when the canal was being opened to create Muskoka's longest artificial waterway. Linking Fairy and Peninsula lakes would greatly extend Huntsville's hinterland. In 1887 William upgraded the crude track over his awkward stretch of rocky ridges and swampy mud areas, grading and gravelling his roadway, getting ready to move people and cargo across the portage.
New steamships came into service on both sides, with wharfs at North Portage for Captain Alfred Denton's Northern and Florence Main on Peninsula Lake, and at South Portage for Captain George Marsh's Mary Louise and Excelsior working Lake of Bays. More vacation resorts appeared. Busy Huntsville needed increasing supplies of tanning bark. Water-borne traffic for passengers and cargo grew.
Where the two lakes most closely approached each other was, of course, Osborne's land – just five-eighths of a mile across. However, this "tantalizing proximity" was, as Muskoka authority Gary Long notes, "tempered by the geographic reality that Lake of Bays stands 103 feet higher" and the fact "a line of hill runs along the narrow isthmus." Those cliffs and precipitous slopes had led savvy indigenous canoeists to make a longer portage, rather than attempt the shortest overland trail.
Though a canal had seemed inevitable, engineers plotting its route and the number of locks needed revealed the project's cost to be an even higher barrier than its geographic hurdles. The place would retain its name The Portage. William Osborne now started dreaming of a railway. In the meantime, dominating the trans-shipment centre, his teams and wagons carried the full load.
Dredging that navigation channel between Fairy and Peninsula lakes was not the only place in Muskoka where water traffic could be expanded without having to build locks. Cutting a channel between lakes Rosseau and Joseph lowered both to the same level, and saved money – an engineering expedient only possible politically in a pre-development era before docks and boathouses dotted the higher lake's shoreline. With steamships and other craft moving readily between both lakes through The Cut, over which a bridge was built to maintain the land route as well, the small village of Port Sandfield (named for Ontario Premier Sandfield Macdonald, again a nod to provincial funding) emerged. The high level stationary bridge was replaced by a more pragmatic swing bridge in 1924, which was again fully reconstructed in 1997.
Elsewhere, engineers sometimes had just to widen existing channels. Dynamiting off the rock on one side of The Narrows between Gravenhurst Bay and Lake Muskoka opened passage for larger steamships from Gravenhurst's expanding fleet and tugs pulling wide booms of logs to Sawdust City's bay-rimming sawmills.
Muskoka without canals would still be good, but not the jewel it has become.


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Q: Application.OnKey not working in excel? I'm running a macro using Application.OnKey "%x", "myMacro". But now it's not working, could there be any reasons this is not working?
Also if i wanted to change it and use ALT + SHIFT + "x" would it be "%+x" ? I've tried and it still haven't work. any ideas?

A: It's obviously a bit late, but since it took me a lot of googling to finally find the answer, it might help make it more likely for others to run into the answer in the future.
I have no programming background, and all I wanted was to make Ctrl+Shift+V paste the formatting of a copied cell much like it does in Word. The following should have worked, but wouldn't:
Sub pfkey()
    Application.OnKey "^+v", "pformat"
End Sub

Sub pformat()
' Pastes the formatting of a copied selection

    Selection.PasteSpecial paste:=xlPasteFormats, Operation:=xlNone, _
        SkipBlanks:=False, Transpose:=False
    Application.CutCopyMode = False
End Sub

Despite being syntactically correct, this will only work if you first "run" the module. What I did was:

*

*Select the module containing the pfkey() subroutine

*Press F5

*Select pfkey again in the dialogue box

*Click run
Bam -- working code.
Where I found the answer: "AFTER running the macro, the key combination would be assigned."

A: Taking a cue from @Zoraal, I found that you can create an Auto_Open() sub that includes any/all of your application.onkey requirements.  This will "activate" them on starting excel so you don't need to manually run the module every time.
I use the personal workbook method (discussed here) to store all my macros.  I simply created a module called shortcuts and put in the following subroutine:
Sub Auto_Open()
    Application.OnKey "{yourshortcuthere}", "yoursub"
    Application.OnKey "{yourothershortcuthere}", "yourothersub"
End Sub

The reference macros can be contained in multiple other modules.


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IPERF_CLIENT = "iperf"              # Name of the test app executable
HOST_PREFIX = " -c "                # Server address prefix
TEST_TIME_PREFIX = " -t "           # Test time prefix
PARALLEL_THREADS_PREFIX = " -P "    # Number of parallel client threads to run
PACKET_SIZE_PREFIX = " -l "         # Packet size prefix
PACKET_SIZES = [32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536]        # packet sizes
PARALLEL_THREADS = [1, 2, 4]        # thread numbers
#TEST_CASES = [" "]                 # Test cases (TCP)
TEST_CASES = [" -u"]                # Test cases (UDP)

def Log(log_file)
  print yield                       # print to screen
  log_file.print yield              # print to log file
end

#Default values for command line parameters
test_loops = 3                      # How many time to execute each test case
test_time = 10                       # Time to run each test
test_server = "10.0.0.157"          # Server address
test_udp_bandwidth = 1000000        # Udp bandwidth to send

# First parameter to the script is a server host
if (ARGV[0].to_s.strip() != "")
  test_server = ARGV[0]
end

# Second parameter to the script is a time to run each test
if (ARGV[1].to_s.strip() != "")
  test_time = ARGV[1].to_i
end

#Third parameter how much times to run each test
if (ARGV[2].to_s.strip() != "")
  test_loops = ARGV[2].to_i
end

#Fourth parameter the UDP bandwidth to send
if (ARGV[3].to_s.strip() != "")
  test_udp_bandwidth = ARGV[3].to_i
end

if(ENV['OS'].to_s.include? "Windows")
  iperf_client = IPERF_CLIENT + ".exe"
else
  iperf_client = IPERF_CLIENT
end

start_time = Time.now

# Format log file name - add date and time
File.open("test_log__#{start_time.strftime("%d_%m_%Y-%H_%M_%S")}.log", "w") { |logFile|
	Log(logFile) { "Test started: " + start_time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S\n") }

	TEST_CASES.each { |test|
		if test.include?("u") then
			test = test + " -b " + test_udp_bandwidth.to_s
			Log(logFile) { "\nUDP TEST MODE\nSend bandwidth is set to " + test_udp_bandwidth.to_s + ".\n" }
		else
		    Log(logFile) { "\nTCP TEST MODE\n" }
		end
		PARALLEL_THREADS.each { |parallel_treads|
		    Log(logFile) { "\nParallel threads num is set to " + parallel_treads.to_s + "." }
			PACKET_SIZES.each { |size|
			    Log(logFile) { "\nPacket size is set to " + size.to_s + "b" + "." }
				test_loops.times { |run|
				Log(logFile) { "\nTest run num " + (run + 1).to_s + ".\n" }
				# construct test command line
				iperf_command_line = iperf_client + HOST_PREFIX + test_server + TEST_TIME_PREFIX +
				                     test_time.to_s + PACKET_SIZE_PREFIX + size.to_s + "b" +
									 PARALLEL_THREADS_PREFIX + parallel_treads.to_s + test

				# log test command line
				Log(logFile) { "\nExecuting: " + iperf_command_line + "\n" }

				# run the test
				result = `#{iperf_command_line}`

				# log result
				Log(logFile) { result }

				} # TEST_LOOPS
			} # packet_size
		} # parallel_threads
	} # TEST_CASE
} # log file

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La baia di Moloaʻa è una piccola insenatura della costa nord-orientale dell'isola di Kauai nell'arcipelago delle Hawaii.

Le misurazioni avvenute nella baia hanno rivelato che le onde dello tsunami causato dal terremoto delle isole Aleutine del 1 aprile 1946 sono state tra le più alte tra quelle misurate sull'isola di Kauai; la loro ampiezza  raggiunse infatti gli 11,5 metri.

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Collegamenti esterni

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Jim Tressel
From the beginning he was destined to be a football coach. After all, his father was Dr. Lee Tressel, who compiled an outstanding record of 155-52-6, including winning the college division national championship in 1978, at Baldwin Wallace (BW). Jim Tressel was quarterback for four of his father's teams before graduating with honors from BW in 1975. Lee then sent his son to Jim Dennison at Akron to learn more about the coaching profession. "Jim represents one of the brightest young coaches I have met," said Dennison upon hiring the 23-year old Tressel as his offensive backfield coach. Later, Dennison said, "I never doubted for a minute that he was destined for greatness." After three seasons, Tressel left Akron to further his coaching apprenticeship, first with Tom Reed at Miami (OH), then with Dick McPherson at Syracuse and with Earl Bruce at Ohio State. With this solid coaching resume behind him, Tressel took the next step up the ladder in December, 1985, as head coach at Youngstown State. After a rude awakening his first season (2-9), Tressel bounced back to capture the Ohio Valley Conference Championship in 1987. From 1989 to '91, Tressel was voted Ohio Coach of the Year as he directed the Penguins to the NCAA I AA playoffs with seasons of 9-4, 11-1 and 12-3, respectively. In 1991, YSU went all the way, capturing the I AA National Championship and Tressel was voted I AA Coach of the Year. Now in his eighth year, Tressel's record stands at 59-32-1.
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Crews install the Merriment on Main tree Tuesday morning at Three Flags Monument. Per tradition, the tree was delivered from Carlton Christmas Trees in Burney. (Nick Sestanovich– The Reporter)
By Nick Sestanovich | nsestanovich@thereporter.com |
PUBLISHED: November 26, 2019 at 6:03 p.m. | UPDATED: November 27, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.
Those who venture downtown in Vacaville will notice a new but familiar sight: an approximately 45-foot white fir at the Three Flags Monument on Main Street.
Vacaville residents know this means more than the start of the holiday season. It is the signifier of a longtime local tradition, the start of Merriment on Main.
The tree arrived early Tuesday morning after a long drive from Carlton Christmas Trees in Burney, as it has every year since Merriment on Main's inception in 1983. The tree will not be decorated until this weekend and it will not be lit until the official festivities on Tuesday, but the arrival of the tree itself has become a much-anticipated event. Some people even got up before 7 a.m. and stood in the cold weather to watch the tree being installed just outside of the CreekWalk bridge, where it will remain until January.
The event has become a tradition for Tassa Mackenzie, whose father, Doug, drove the tree down from Burney. As always, Tassa brought along her daughter Zoey, 8, who evidently was already in the spirit as she was sporting a Santa hat.
"It's beautiful," Tassa said of the tree.
Tassa likes the fact that she gets to spend time with her father, and viewing the tree installation gives her a bit of nostalgia as she grew up in Burney where the trees are grown. In addition to Merriment on Main, Carlton Christmas Trees has supplied firs to Jack London Square in Oakland, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay, the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood and casinos in Las Vegas.
Tina Buttari came by to watch with Caitlin Greer and Kenzie Crabtree in what is starting to become a tradition for them.
"I just like being part of stuff Vacaville does," Buttari said. "I like my hometown."
"I like being part of the tradition," Greer said. "We always go to Merriment on Main, so it's nice to be able to see it in its beginning."
All three are excited about Merriment this year, with Buttari looking forward to the French onion soup that the Vacaville Museum dishes out every year, and Greer and Crabtree eagerly anticipating the free hot chocolate.
The Merriment tree is hoisted from the back of a Carlton Christmas Trees truck to be lowered at the Three Flags Monument, where it will remain through January. (Nick Sestanovich– The Reporter)
Merriment remains a proud achievement for Richard Rico, the event's founder and former publisher of The Reporter. He established Merriment in 1983 as the newspaper was celebrating its 100th anniversary as a way to thank the community for its years of support. Rico was inspired by a former live tree near Ulatis Creek that was decorated by the Vacaville Fire Department each Christmas. Rico said he remembered the tree from his youth when he would pass it by when walking to school and wanted to recreate that when establishing a new holiday tradition.
Rico said the first Merriment on Main had a rather small turnout, but as Vacaville's population grew so did the event. Nowadays, the event draws thousands of attendees to watch the tree get lit and Santa Claus make his grand entrance to commence Vacaville's holiday season. Residents who grew up attending the event now get to share memories with children of their own.
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Rico said he did not anticipate that Merriment would become as big as it has, but he is glad the city has a holiday tradition that people look forward to.
"People are returning more to things that are meaningful to their lives and their family's lives," he said. "Celebrating a community Christmas is part of the heart and soul of any community, and I think it really strikes people. We've lived through a lot of troubled times in this country and this world, and this is something you can return to for some comfort."
Rico is pleased with the tree this year.
"It's a beautifully shaped tree, and it's gonna be spectacular again when we get all the new lights and ornaments on it," he said.
Merriment on Main will be held beginning at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Sponsors this year include The Reporter, NorthBay Health Care, city of Vacaville, KUIC, Vacaville City Firefighters Charity Fund, Kaiser Permanente, Maximum Fitness, Summit Crane, Vacaville Opera House, Yin McDonald's, Nugget Markets, Suihkonen CPAs and Consultants, Baumann & Associates, Crystal Lynn Photography, Little Goat Social Marketing & Design and Vacaville Magazine. For more information, visit merrimentonmain.org or Facebook.com/merrimentonmainvacaville/.
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2018 has proven to be a good year for people with stakes in publicly traded companies. While companies like Facebook and Tesla have suffered short-term losses from bad publicity, the Dow Jones industrial average has demonstrated a clear upward trend. Strong investor confidence makes the stock market a good source for cheap financial capital for well-developed companies.
This market situation has been noted by the leaders of various major tech companies that were privately traded in past years. During the first half of 2018, startups valued at $8.7 billion filed their initial public offerings. While the future health of the economy is uncertain, companies are continuing the follow this trend of going public while the stock market is booming.
One of the largest startups to enter public trading is Upwork. Upwork is the most popular hub for freelancers and clients on the Internet. Many freelancers find clients exclusively through the services offered by Upwork.
Upwork provides freelancers and their clients with job boards, collaboration tools, an invoice system, and a bill and payment system. The company also acts as a mediator to resolve disputes about pricing and project quality. The freelancer intermediary adds value by giving freelancers the resources to succeed as self-employed writers, programmers, researchers, or designers. Upwork is a cornerstone of the gig economy on the Internet.
According to the tech news site Recode, Upwork has quiety filed for its IPO. If Upwork does not encounter any unexpected difficulties, the company may be a publicly traded entity as early as Q4 2018. The CEO of Upwork, Stephane Kasriel, has not yet commented on the IPO deal.
Upwork's decision to file an IPO could be related to the funding goals of the company. When Upwork was formed after the merger of oDesk and Elance, the in-site freelance fees were increased from about 10 percent to 20 percent of project prices. This fee hike was part of the broader strategy to increase the revenue of Upwork. It is reasonable to suggest that the decision to make Upwork public is part of a similar strategy.
The revenue figures of Upwork are confidential, so it is unclear if the company is struggling to raise revenue. In the past, some investors speculated that Upwork might be valued at $1 billion. This valuation may be an inflated estimate. The public will soon learn of the the company's official valuation, but it is likely that Upwork will continue to grow with the tech industry.
Freelancers on Upwork offer a wide variety of skills. If you glance at the general job feed without selecting any specialties, you will notice jobs ranging from research assignments for PhD economists to programming jobs for C++ experts. The site also offers opportunities for creative fields like writing and graphic design.
Despite the diversity of job offerings on Upwork, a large amount of the company's revenue comes from tech jobs. In 2018, blockchain skills were in high demand across the site. Blockchain programmers, ICO whitepaper writers, and marketing experts enjoyed large returns as topics like Bitcoin and Ethereum buzzed across media outlets. Out of over 5,000 skills on the Upwork Skills Index, blockchain took the top position.
Skills that compliment blockchain projects are also highly demanded by clients on Upwork. For example, Go, a programming language created by Google to create blockchain applications, was in the top-20 list during Q2 2018. As distributed ledgers become commonplace in society, demand for skilled freelancers who understand blockchain protocols will increase.
Some skeptics of blockchain are concerned that blockchain's gains in the tech sector are driven by fanaticism and irrational exuberance. While this may be a valid critique of many cryptocurrencies, it likely does not apply to distributed ledgers. Distributed ledgers are suitable for government transfers, business contracts, and financial transactions. The technology is pervasive enough to be relevant for the forseeable future.
Upwork and other companies that are filing IPOs may regret their decisions to go public if a tech bubble crashes the economy. Nearly all stock market gains in 2018 came from the tech sector. A bubble would imply that 2018 is a poor year to enter the stock market. If a tech bubble pops, a large amount of the demand for programmers and similar freelancers would vanish. Such an economic shock would wreck havoc on the revenue flows of Upwork.
This unfortunate outcome is possible, but many experts believe it is unlikely. Financial analysts expect the value of blockchain to grow significantly over the next decade. Data analytics firm IHS Markit expects the global business value of blockchain to grow from $2.5 billion in 2017 to $2 trillion in 2030. If the direction of this trend is accurate, Upwork will continue to grow in value. Upwork's decision to go public may also accelerate revenue growth as the public comes to terms with a blockchain-based society.
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Who can make up a short rhyme?
Here is one to get the ball rolling.
I'm still awake this is all wrong.
The window's opened one more slot.
I have to get up quick and stamp.
And this is why I'm still awake!
Yes I know it's bad, but I'm not asking for critique on it.
Dear lord wasn't it you! who invevented the bed?
Pain so sore i ache and ache.
i toss and turn and sometimes yelp.
Then i get cold and it's on me once more.
The hospitals number is like a dare.
Sleepless; I know not why.
A short rhyme share your thoughts?
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Very Short Rhyme about Flowers?
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Option Strict On

Imports System.IO

Public Class Index_aspx
	Inherits Page

	Protected Sub Submit_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Submit.Click
		Dim pixels As Pixel(,)
		Dim maxPixelValue As Integer
		Dim isPpm As Boolean
		Try
			pixels = ParsePnm(Pgm.Text, maxPixelValue, isPpm)
		Catch ex As ArgumentException
			Results.InnerText = ex.Message
			Exit Sub
		End Try

		Dim reader As StringReader = New StringReader(SimplifyOperations(Operations.Value.ToUpper()))
		Dim numTransformations As Integer = 0
		While reader.Peek <> -1
			Select Case Convert.ToChar(reader.Read())
				Case "R"c
					pixels = RotateClockwise(pixels)
				Case "L"c
					pixels = RotateCounterClockwise(pixels)
				Case "H"c
					pixels = FlipHorizontal(pixels)
				Case "V"c
					pixels = FlipVertical(pixels)
				Case "E"c
					pixels = Enlarge(pixels)
				Case "S"c
					pixels = Shrink(pixels)
				Case "B"c
					For Each pixel In pixels
						pixel.Brighten()
					Next
				Case "D"c
					For Each pixel In pixels
						pixel.Darken()
					Next
				Case "C"c
					For Each pixel In pixels
						pixel.IncreaseContrast(maxPixelValue)
					Next
				Case "W"c
					For Each pixel In pixels
						pixel.DecreaseContrast(maxPixelValue)
					Next
				Case "N"c
					For Each pixel In pixels
						pixel.Negative(maxPixelValue)
					Next
			End Select
			numTransformations += 1
		End While

		Dim output As New StringBuilder()
		output.AppendLine($"{If(isPpm, "P3", "P2")} {pixels.GetLength(1)} {pixels.GetLength(0)} {maxPixelValue}")
		For Each pixel As Pixel In pixels
			For Each colour In {"Red", "Green", "Blue"}
				Dim subpixel As Integer = CInt(CallByName(pixel, colour, CallType.Get))
				If subpixel > maxPixelValue Then
					subpixel = maxPixelValue
				ElseIf subpixel < 0 Then
					subpixel = 0
				End If
				output.AppendLine(CStr(subpixel))
			Next
		Next
		Results.InnerText = output.ToString()
		NumTransformationsLabel.Text = CStr(numTransformations)
	End Sub

	Private Function ParsePnm(pnm As String, Optional ByRef max As Integer = 0,
							  Optional ByRef isPpm As Boolean = False) As Pixel(,)
		Dim reader As New StringReader(pnm)

		Dim firstLine As String() = reader.ReadLine().Split(" "c)

		Dim xSize, ySize As Integer
		Try
			isPpm = firstLine(0).Equals("P3")
			xSize = CInt(firstLine(1))
			ySize = CInt(firstLine(2))
			max = CInt(firstLine(3))
		Catch ex As IndexOutOfRangeException
			Throw New ArgumentException("Invalid PNM format", ex)
		End Try

		Dim result(ySize - 1, xSize - 1) As Pixel
		For y As Integer = 0 To ySize - 1
			For x As Integer = 0 To xSize - 1
				result(y, x) = If(isPpm,
					New Pixel(CInt(reader.ReadLine()), CInt(reader.ReadLine()), CInt(reader.ReadLine())),
					New Pixel(CInt(reader.ReadLine())))
			Next
		Next

		Return result
	End Function

	Private Function SimplifyOperations(operations As String) As String
		Dim bonus2operations As String = String.Empty

		For Each operationPair As Char() In New Char()() {({"E"c, "S"c}), ({"B"c, "D"c}), ({"C"c, "W"c})}
			Dim netOperations As String = SimplifyInverseOperations(operations, operationPair(0), operationPair(1))
			operations = operations.Replace(Convert.ToString(operationPair(0)), String.Empty)
			operations = operations.Replace(Convert.ToString(operationPair(1)), String.Empty)
			bonus2operations += netOperations
		Next

		Dim grossNegatives As Integer = New Regex("N").Matches(operations).Count
		operations = operations.Replace("N", String.Empty)
		If grossNegatives Mod 2 = 1 Then
			bonus2operations += "N"
		End If

		Dim reader As StringReader = New StringReader(operations)
		Dim stateMachine As New BasicOperationState()

		While reader.Peek <> -1
			stateMachine.Transform(Convert.ToChar(reader.Read()))
		End While
		Return stateMachine.OperationString + bonus2operations
	End Function

	Private Function SimplifyInverseOperations(operationsToPerform As String, operation1 As Char, operation2 As Char) As String
		Dim regex1 As New Regex(operation1)
		Dim timesToPerformOperation1 = regex1.Matches(operationsToPerform).Count

		Dim regex2 As New Regex(operation2)
		Dim timesToPerformOperation2 = regex2.Matches(operationsToPerform).Count

		Dim netOperation As Char = If(timesToPerformOperation1 - timesToPerformOperation2 > 0, operation1, operation2)
		Dim netTimesToPerform As Integer = Math.Abs(timesToPerformOperation1 - timesToPerformOperation2)

		Return New String(netOperation, netTimesToPerform)
	End Function
End Class


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What is a Model Village ?
Most of India's population lives in villages. Villages in India will have somewhere between 50-200 households depending upon which state they are in. They are mostly in remote areas with issues of connectivity and telecommunication. A significant portion of the households will be dependent on agriculture or allied activities. The literacy is pretty low and the health indicators are bad. Inspite of all this shortcomings, the villages are rich in natural resources. They are closer to the idea of raw nature. The idea of Sustainability is actually sustainable here and not in cities which are mostly concretised. Therefore, it is important that we do not miss this opportunity. With villages, we have got a landscape which can be moulded either way. By Transforming them into model villages, we can ensure that we have chosen the right mould.
A Model Village is a village which is Energy surplus, has abundant water, has a community reserve forest, where every household has a livelihood source and where the residents are healthy & educated.
Components of Model Village
Abundant Water – There is no life possibility without water. For any habitation, it becomes the first priority to have a stable and sustainable source of water. The village must have a stable water source and it must tap into all the possibilities like rainwater harvesting and watershed management to ensure this dimension. Water availability should also be ensured for all kinds of livelihood activities.
Healthy Residents – The biggest health concern in the villages is the high rate of maternal and infant deaths. Most of the maternal deaths which occur in rural areas are due to home deliveries and improper diet of expecting women. This can be mostly eliminated by ensuring that they are monitored starting from the first trimester and that they go for Institutional delivery to the nearest health facility. In rare cases where the expecting women cannot travel to the nearest health centre, the home delivery must be assisted by a Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA). The infant deaths can also be significantly reduced by ensuring proper diet and nutrition.
Basic Minimum Education – Education is the foundation for any kind of growth. Without the basic minimum education, any step forward will not be feasible. It must be ensured that all residents are literate and that all children at least clear Standard 8. Awareness of rights, duties and schemes should also be ensured.
Energy surplus – In this age, energy availability is a key component and a pre-requisite for any kind of sustainable development. It should be preferable to have renewable source of energy for the entire village. Solar or Hydro-electric potential should be utilised to ensure that enough energy is generated to power the houses and the community institutions in the village. Solar power can also be used to power the street lights. Efforts should be made to make the village off-the-grid. Energy should also be available for any kind of livelihood activities being undertaken by the residents.
Livelihood – Every household of the village should have a livelihood source. Without a stable income, proper education, health and nutrition cannot sustain. Moreover, it makes the household more independent and eventually the village will become self-sufficient in all regards.
Connectivity – In this age of information, digital and cellular connectivity is important. They play an important role in health and education. Intra-village connectivity must be ensured for smooth day-to-day transactions. Road connectivity to nearest health facility and market is crucial too.
Sustainability – We need to ensure that the balance with nature is maintained in the community. And therefore efforts should be made to make the community carbon neutral. Every village must have a community reserve forest wherein the land is donated by the community for the purpose of having a forest reserve which will be looked after by the community. This will inculcate a sense of responsibility and sensitise people with the idea of sustainable living. This will offset the carbon footprint of the village and offer a possibility of conceptualising a SDG compliant eco-system. The waste generated in the village should also be recycled there itself.
Contribute in any way possible to help us to make such Model Villages. We are starting with a pilot project in Daribokgre village of East Garo Hills, Meghalaya. You can volunteer in any field, help us to renovate the school or anganwadi, train the villagers in skills, make them aware about their rights and government schemes etc. The possibilities are endless. Basically anything to help us make it into a Model Village. Let the work begin!
You can reach out to us through email at contact@modelvillage.org.in


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Especially in the context of competition issues, the European Union has become one of the main decision-making centres in the world. Be it a state aid complaint of the European Commission forcing a corporation to pay back all funding, be it a merger or cartel decision – these matters affect industries on a global scale. As a result, businesses, organizations and individuals must play an active role in the decision making process in Brussels to protect their interests internationally. Stakeholders must stay vigilant of legal and economic concerns that exist or may arise in that process.
Whether the challenge is a merger between international companies that is threatened to be blocked by the European Commission or the national antitrust authorities or whether it is about anticipating legislation that impacts policymaking, the team of Alber & Geiger applies legislative and political skills to help clients implement their policy agendas in all decision making bodies.
The legal arguments for M&A have to be communicated effectively. In working closely with the administrative bodies and antitrust authorities of the EU and its single Member States we are able to do so. We provide all necessary political and legal information to the involved bodies to get our clients' deals through.
Alber & Geiger assists its clients in competition issues on a European level and in the European Member States to achieve the desired business objectives. We have experience in strategic counseling and advocacy before EU regulatory bodies, agencies and institutions.
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On Tuesday, New York's Bryant Park will be filled with Pokémon fans as Nintendo will host the Pokémon 10th Anniversary Party of the Decade 10 a.m.-5 p.m. EDT. Hosted by professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, the festivities will be broadcast live online. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proclaimed Tuesday "Pokémon Day" in the city.
Admission to the party, located on Sixth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, will be free and open to the public. A live Web cast of the events will begin 10 a.m. EDT at the official Pokémon Web site, Pokémon.com.
Taking place at the party will be the Pokémon Video Game Nationals, a tournament to determine the top Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed and LeafGreen players in the United States. It will be held on stage, and highlights will be made available throughout the day on Pokémon.com.
Fans at the event will be able to test play the newest Pokémon games for Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, set for release in the United States Sept. 18. Those with the abovementioned games may bring them and their Game Boy Advances to download one of 20 most fan-requested Pokémon, including a promotional Pikachu that knows Fly. A list of the 20 Pokémon follows at the end of this article.
Costumed Pokémon characters, guests, announcements and musical performances will also be featured.
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Today's Operating Systems are heavily bloated and try to be everything for everybody. Spurred by a false notion that an OS must be omnipotent and should try to handle any kind of task that the user fancies, including toasting a bread slice. But do we really need such monoliths?
Twenty yeas from now a new generation of computer users will look back on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look back at the cars of the late 1950s and early 60s. They had huge fins, were the size of a small yacht and burned up just about as much gas.
That's right, I'm comparing Apple OS X 10.5, or Leopard, and Microsoft's Windows Vista to those old behemoths — big and flashy and totally unnecessary.
Instead our grandchildren will be using discreet, unobtrusive operating systems that will be invisible to the naked eye.
They will, if you want to think about it like this, almost be a return to the concept of a command line, only in this case they will respond to either a typed command or a voice command or perhaps a gesture to open, join, find, save or close a file.
Most likely they will be embedded in the system that you buy or in the network.
"etc." - A sign to make others believe you know more than you actually do.


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Alan Tudge stood down pending outcome of investigation, Stuart Robert to stand in
Less than 12 months after his appointment to the role of Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge has been stood down from his position whilst an investigation is conducted into allegations made by his former media advisor, Rachelle Miller, in relation to his conduct during an extramarital relationship.
In response to the allegations being raised Prime Minister Scott Morrison referred the matter to an investigation, to be conducted by Vivienne Thom, former inspector-general of intelligence and security.
For the duration of the investigation, responsibility for Minister Tudge's portfolio will sit with Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Stuart Robert, who assumed his position in March this year.
It is understood at this stage that Minister Tudge will continue to contest in the upcoming Federal Election, which must be held on or before 21 May 2022.
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Founded by the renowned educator John Dewey in 1896 and located in Hyde Park, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools are among the nation's best.
Being part of the University of Chicago means that the importance of intellectual life—of thought and exploration—infuses everything we do across all aspects of our curriculum. Families who choose Lab care deeply about curiosity, inquiry, and creativity. All are attracted to a diverse community and an environment that creates and nurtures the habits of expansive thinking and complex problem-solving.
Virtually all Lab alumni go on to graduate from a four-year college. They gain acceptance to outstanding colleges around Chicago and the country: from the University of Chicago, University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign, Northwestern, and DePaul, to Harvard, Emory, University of Southern California, and many more.
And Lab grads find each other wherever they go—their Lab relationships last for years after graduation, turning into unexpected opportunities over and over as they pursue any number of different fields: medicine, law, education, banking, finance, theater, and the creative arts.
Students attend performances at the Court Theater and have special access to the Oriental Institute and Smart museums.
Lab's Summer Link program places qualified U-Highers into paid internships in University laboratories and with professors and businesses around the city.
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Targeted to youth in grades 4-6, Waypoints - A Guide to Boating Safely, was written in partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers.
Its look and reading style, as well as the "One Minute Mysteries," which foster discussion, appeal to the 10-12 year old age range.
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PayPal to Acquire Money Transfer Firm Xoom Before eBay Split
07/03/2015 Sujata Sangwan
The online payments company PayPal is acquiring San Francisco-based digital money transfer provider Xoom, for $25 per share in cash at an approximate $890 million enterprise value. The development comes less than three weeks before PayPal's planned split with eBay, which is expected to happen on July 17.
Xoom helps its 1.3 million active customers in the United States send money to and pay bills for family and friends in 37 countries around the world in a cost-effective way, using their mobile phone, tablet or computer. It helped customers send approximately $7 billion to loved ones around the world during the 12 months ended March 31, 2015.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2015, and after the deal closes, Xoom will operate as a separate service within PayPal.
For PayPal, acquiring Xoom will allow it to offer more services to its global customer base and will help in accelerating its expansion in key international geographies, including Mexico, India, the Philippines, China and Brazil. For Xoom, joining PayPal will help it to expand into new markets and accelerate the ways the company can innovate for customers. PayPal will also help Xoom grow by offering Xoom's services to 68 million active U.S. customers.
Founded in 2001 by PayPal investor Kevin Hartz and serial entrepreneur Alan Braverman, Xoom went public in 2013 and is backed by Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, SVB Capital and Fidelity Ventures.
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