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Improving Accessibility for Pedestrians with Geographic Information
Mari Laakso
Environments can be made more accessible by offering users information about barriers and objects that might hinder their progress, thus enabling more information about accessible routes. The study delineates the relevant geospatial information needed to describe the accessibility of an environment. Even though laws, acts and regulations give thorough building requirements for creating accessible environments, there is no holistic approach in geospatial data collection to represent the accessibility of geographical spaces. In this thesis, an information model is presented for representing the pedestrian environment. The model allows for accessibility issues and enables the use of geospatial information in pedestrian navigation applications. In addition to data contents and data modelling, this research studies how accessibility can be further increased by way of sound when communicating geospatial information. By communicating the geospatial information via sound the information content can be enhanced and usability improved. Sonic maps create remote access to nature and enhance the accessibility of a place. In this thesis, the fundamental aim was to study the information requirements in particular situations where different kinds of pedestrian users determine which route they might successfully complete.
The results of the thesis will help data providers collect and store geospatial information, while taking accessibility issues into account, and hopefully it will raise awareness about issues pertaining to universal accessibility. Albeit, the main effort should focus on building accessible environments; in certain situations, people face hindrances and geospatial information could enable users overcome them.
Virrantaus, Kirsi-Kanerva, Supervising Professor
Sarjakoski, Tiina, Thesis Advisor, External person
pedestrian navigation
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Thomas L. Friedman popularized the phrase "the world is flat" in his 2005 book explaining that with increased globalization and inter-continental communication, the world has become a level playing field for commerce. Whether you agree that little to no boundaries exist in global business or think that national borders still have a substantial impact on global business relations, there's no contesting that doing business across borders has become commonplace. With the rise of international relations, it's become extremely important to acknowledge cultural differences and abide by cultural norms when doing business in foreign countries.
When meeting with your counterparts, there are many things to consider. How should you greet them? Should you make strong eye contact? When dining out, what kind of etiquette is expected? You may be surprised that in some countries, like New Zealand and Mexico, women are expected to initiate handshakes. In other countries, like the UAE and China, an emphasis is placed on greeting people in order of seniority. Body language is also important. In Japan, gesturing excessively or sitting with your legs crossed is considered rude. In New Zealand, a thumbs-up is taken as an insult. To help you determine what's appropriate in international business settings, we created a guide to global business etiquette with tips on how to shake hands, the proper body language, expected attire, and more.
Now when you're traveling for business, you'll better understand the proper business etiquette. In Asian countries make sure to come prepared with business cards, as exchanging them is an important part of a first encounter. In Europe, remember that people are less inclined to talk about their personal lives than people in the United States, Brazil, or India. Familiarizing yourself with common practices in other countries is relatively easy, and it can really help you make a good first impression and establish long-lasting business relationships!


I have been using my printer and my Brother Scanncut to make some Easter items. You all saw my Easter baskets in one of my other posts. these designs are also from the Brother Creative Center.
You do not need a die cutting machine to do these little projects. A pair of scissors and some glue will work fine. I made a Rabbit and a little bird house.
With that all shown and said. I am not the best at assembling paper design projects. For me the head was a bit of a challenge. I used glue and tape to get it together. origami and macrame were never my friend.
The little bird house however was much easier for me to do.
Here are my latest creations. Little bunny and little bird house with bird.
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Those turned out great cupatea! That rabbit looks like it was a lot of work. The neighborhood kids will love these and keep them forever. You could also shellac the bird house and I bet it would make a great Christmas ornament.
Those are so cute, CupaTea. Great job!
CupaTea those are so cute. Your home must be decorated so nicely for every holiday!! Thanks again for sharing your crafts!!!


alohart wrote: It is true that there is no instantaneous way to measure a capacity of any battery pack (many different capacities exist depending on conditions). So it would be difficult to provide an i3 driver with a definitive pack capacity.
This is a very fair point. It is sad though, that it's true for BMW that there is no instantaneous way to measure a capacity of the battery pack. It is not necessarily true for other brands though. E.g., Nissan LeafSpy provides a very accurate estimate of battery capacity at any moment, and this estimate closely matches the dashboard battery capacity indicator in bars, the latter triggering a battery warranty whenever there's less than 9 bars remaining. All these also match the outcome of battery capacity assessment using more rigorous tests via slow discharging and charging of the battery. And Leaf has had this capability from the onset, it's not that BMW had to invent a wheel.
I doubt BMW don't have algorithms to estimate the battery capacity by voltage range etc. at any given moment, since Nissan has used them since 2011. I just think it's a lot more convenient for BMW to communicate they don't. And to obscure the process of battery capacity verification and its outcomes in every possible way.
Interesting article by an i3 owner, and the formula he uses to track his battery capacity, since both the GOM range and the battery kappa/max aren't reliable measures.
Since BMW claims the car will alert them when the battery capacity drops below 70%, they should not have a problem letting owners know what that trigger actually is.
I suspect it isn't a hidden "number" that can be constantly monitored. More likely something built-in to the battery management system, for example. when cell balancing to or above a set parameter fails.
I find very interesting that there isn't a single member who can share a first hand experience of having the battery replaced under warranty. If you go to a Tesla forum, for instance, you quickly hear from people who did.
It certainly does sound like BMW really, really, really doesn't want to replace the battery. Or the i3 is unusually reliable, which might be true all jokes aside.
MKH wrote: Interesting article by an i3 owner, and the formula he uses to track his battery capacity, since both the GOM range and the battery kappa/max aren't reliable measures.
I also contrast these with Batt.Ladung reading - this is the remainder of kWh in the battery at any given time. One could calculate battery's full capacity if this number is divided by SOC %. This one is not even close. When at or around 100% SOC, it matches Batt.Kapa.max, and at lower SOC it severely underestimates the capacity of the pack. E.g., my winter average estimated SOH using this metric is 15.3 kWh or 81% (I usually take readings in the end of the day at lower SOC).
As far as I understand (I read this in many places), Batt.Kapa.max is calculated on the basis of the amount of kWh that sneaked into the battery during the last charging session. It corresponds with my observations - the number very rarely fluctuates between charges, but often shifts to some new value immediately following a new charging session. Should this assumption be correct, I would use Batt.Kapa as the true indicator of battery health, since the capacity of a bottle is the volume of liquid you could pour into it.
Now, to avoid extrapolation errors, it's best to discharge the battery to zero (this would mean 8% of the true battery SOC), and then charge it to 100% SOC (94% true SOC of a healthy battery) and read Batt.Kapa.max. In this case the indicator will represent the most correct SOH possible, I assume. Well, unless the BMS messes things up due to some reason, actively precluding the battery to be filled up to its full.
My home charger (Chargepoint) gives me the amount of KWH's that was transferred to my i3 during a charging session. Starting at an indicated range of 5 miles, Chargepoint said that about 15.5 kwh's were required to charge my car to 100%. That about matches what kappa.max indicates. I suppose 2nd source of data is a good validation of BMW's number.
We are all experiencing degradation to one extent or another. Degradation happens at an increasing rate so I expect more and more i3's will start to hit kappa.max of 12kwh's or less in the next 2 years. The 2013's and 2014's will be 8 and 7 years old at that point, still within the warranty period.
It would be helpful to all if we continue to report degradation issues and BMW responses. I only hope BMW doesn't stiff us out of a warranty replacement.
If anyone learns of a battery replacement under warranty, please do share it here.
From an engineering teardown (Munroe sp?) they indicated that BMW chose a higher cost, longer lived battery chemistry versus that used in the Tesla...time will tell. Now, whether that is also true on the subsequent capacity increases, I don't know, as the analysis was done on the original battery chemistry/configuration.
JLB2 wrote: My home charger (Chargepoint) gives me the amount of KWH's that was transferred to my i3 during a charging session.
That's not the energy actually used to charge the battery pack due to some of the energy being converted to waste heat during charging. The Idaho National Labs measured a 2014 i3's charging efficiency at various charging powers. The most efficient charging, 93%, was 30 A @ 240 V. Lower charging powers were less efficient.
Whereas, Batt. Kapa. max is the calculated maximum energy that could be added to the battery pack (i.e., excluding wasted energy).
So to make these equivalent, you'd need to correct the Chargepoint energy for energy lost to heat (i.e., at least 7% less than Chargepoint reports).
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And, depending on the ambient conditions, some of that power could easily be used to condition the battery (heat or cool) and not actually get stored in the battery.
Good points regarding Chargepoint. This further proves that my battery is degrading faster. My 2014 i3 is now 5 years old with about 48k miles driven. That's about 80% of original capacity. It degraded by about 5% per year in the last 3 years. In 2 years, it'll probably be down to 70%. I just hope BMW honors the warranty.
I wonder what they will do in 2023 when the 2014's are out of warranty and need new batteries. I'm sure many of the cars will still be functioning perfectly but needing new batteries. Will they allow owners to buy battery replacements?
JLB2 wrote: I wonder what they will do in 2023 when the 2014's are out of warranty and need new batteries. I'm sure many of the cars will still be functioning perfectly but needing new batteries. Will they allow owners to buy battery replacements?
Hopefully they'll let you do a swap for a nice price, though I'm sure "nice price" will be $5000. Perhaps they will let you buy the newer 94Ah and 120Ah battery packs used in the 2017+, and 2019+ respectively. All jokes aside, I'm not sure if I will still be in my '14 in 2023, I'd like to get a '19 i3 sport BEV, or maybe a used Tesla depending on cost of ownership (Tesla has ridiculously high out of warranty costs). A lot of it comes down to how rapidly 2019 models depreciate.


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Mount Prospect Police Chief on Leave from Top Law Enforcement Job — Latest Stress on Human Resources
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Mount Prospect Police Chief Tim Janowick was placed on administrative leave Friday July 28, 2017, but Village President Arlene Juracek is not commenting. There is no reason to believe any scandal is involved, but village officials are not commenting, and Village President Arlene Juracek is hinting that health matters are involved.
"I'm not at liberty to say." There are certain HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and privacy rules that come into play."
— Village President Arlene Juracek
Juracek also stated the HIPAA rules prevent her from revealing whether the situation is expected to be prolonged, permanent, temporary or brief.
Police Chief Janowick is a 23-year veteran of the Mount Prospect Police Department. He was promoted to Sergeant in February 2003, Commander in May 2007, and Deputy Chief in September 2010. Janowick graduated from Northwestern University's Center of Public Safety, Executive Management Program in August 2012. Janowick was promoted to Mount Prospect Police Chief in June 2014.
In 2015, Janowick was embroiled in a controversial proposal to include permanent resident (noncitizens) in the Mount Prospect police hiring process. Although approved in some other northwest suburbs, the proposal was withdrawn in Mount Prospect in July 2015.
Deputy Chief of Field Operations Mike Eterno had been appointed interim police chief during Janowick's absence beginning July 28, 2017.
Mount Prospect has had a rough time period recently in the human resources department, and recent scandals in involving top village management have been met with a hush from Mount Prospect village leaders.
Village Manager Janonis
In December 2014, Mount Prospect Village Manager Michael Janonis, who served as Mount Prospect's Village Manager since July 1992, began a leave of absence with no explanation from Village President Arlene Juracek.
Regarding the leave of absence of Michael Janonis, Village President Arlene Juracek said she could not comment further because she is prohibited by the Family and Medical Leave Act.
"Village Manager Mike Janonis is taking an eligible leave of absence in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act. The duration of this leave is currently unspecified.
In the interim, the village board is voting tonight to designate Assistant Village Manager David Strahl to assume the duties and responsibilities of the village manager in Mr. Janonis' absence."
Janonis had previously been convicted on June 21, 2010 of DUI following a traffic stop (for speeding), observations of slurred speech, a positive field sobriety test, and arrest by McHenry police on June 5, 2010. After the traffic stop, Janonis had a blood-alcohol measurement of .218 – almost three times the legal threshold (0.08) for DUI. In an interview with the Daily Herald, Janonis denied having a drinking problem.
On May 19, 2017, former Mount Prospect Village Manager Michael Janonis pleaded guilty to DUI and leaving the scene of a crash without giving aid, during a court hearing in Rolling Meadows Cook County Circuit Court. Janonis did not face jail time, but was ordered to provide 240 hours community service and attend Alcoholics Anonymous three days per week. On August 10, 2016, Prospect Heights police had found the former Mount Prospect village manager in his vehicle with an open bottle of vodka, a few blocks away from the 7-Eleven at Wolf Road and Camp McDonald Road, where he had allegedly struck a parked car and left the scene.
Mount Prospect and Janonis had separated ways in April 2015, when he received a severance package of over $200,000 from the Village of Mount Prospect.
Janonis reached a base salary of about $184,000 after a raise from $175,000 in 2014 — his second raise in Mount Prospect after the 2010 McHenry DUI conviction.
Assistant Village Manager Strahl
In April 2016, Mount Prospect Assistant Village Manager David Strahl was abruptly separated from his 22-year career with the Village of Mount Prospect. No specific reason was given by Mount Prospect officials for an expected "amicable separation agreement" at Strahl's last day as Mount Prospect Assistant Village Manager was April 8, 2016. Strahl had served as Acting Village Manager until current Village Manager Michael Cassidy took over as Village Manager in October 2015. Strahl was earning an annual base salary of $150,000.
In less than two years, Mount Prospect taxpayers paid over $300,000 for severance agreements to break ties with Janonis and Strahl.
Firefighter Miller
On May 24, 2017, the five-member Mount Prospect Board of Fire and Police Commission (BOFPC) unanimously agreed to terminate 12-year firefighter/paramedic Lloyd Miller from his position as firefighter/paramedic for Mount Prospect. He allegedly made threats about co-workers, saying January 13, 2017 that he was upset about the department's lieutenant testing process. Miller had allegedly told a firefighter that if he did not make the next lieutenant's list, he would "kill some people," "literally kill," and would "line them up."
Additional Leaves & Losses
In March 2017 a Mount Prospect police officer died suddenly from an unexpected medical event.
In December 2016 a Mount Prospect police sergeant was acquitted of a July 2015 aggravated battery and resisting arrest charge. Following unpaid leave, the Mount Prospect police sergeant returned to the force demoted as a patrol officer in recognition that the incident brought negative attention to the Mount Prospect community, police department and himself.
In July 2015, a Mount Prospect police commander was placed on paid administrative leave during in internal investigation after he was allegedly involved in a scuffle with United Center security at a U2 concert he was attending with his son. The police commander allegedly became intoxicated and was approaching his car when confronted by security. Chicago police responded to a call for assistance and took the Mount Prospect police commander into custody, but he was later released and not formally charged.
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Scheme To Protect Second Largest Rainforest Threatened By Corruption, Politics
Children of a logger in the wait to be transported along the Lomami River, a tributary of the Congo River. Approximately 40 million people in the DRC depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter. (Photo: Greenpeace/Jiro Ose)
A UK-backed deal to protect the world's second largest rainforest is struggling, just over a year since it was signed and amid rising concerns over deforestation, corruption and political instability.
Back in April 2016, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a landmark deal to protect its vast rainforest.
Stopping deforestation there is seen as key to the future of many indigenous groups, numerous animal, and plant species and to preventing catastrophic climate change.
The Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), saw the Norwegian government – backed by the European Union, the UK, France, Germany and, more recently, the Netherlands and South Korea – pledge hundreds of millions of dollars to aid development in the countries that are covered by the Congo Basin rainforest. The UK has not put up any money for the project but is supporting it.
If all went to plan, DRC, which has 155m hectares of forest, more than the size of the UK, Ireland, France and Spain combined, would receive a stream of development aid over the next few years, in exchange for preserving its rainforest.
The other African countries involved in the scheme – Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of Congo – would also get support.
But with DRC bogged down by political upheaval, corruption, and violence, can the $200million initiative to protect the world's second largest rainforest survive? We spoke to some of the project's key decision makers to try and find out.
The Walikale territory is low lying un-populated jungle in the Congo rain forest basin. (Photo: Julien Harneis/flickr)
"DRC is a very complex country to operate in," says Berta Pesti, head of the Cafi secretariat for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The last few months makes Pesti's point sound like an understatement.
The country has been in political turmoil since last September when Joseph Kabila refused to stand down after the end of his second five-year term as President.
In December, 20 people were killed in violent confrontations between security forces and protesters as demonstrations took place in the capital Kinshasa at the turn of the year, and in February, the country budget minister said the country "could not afford" to hold an election in 2017.
The unrest has also been marked by a clampdown on foreign NGOs in the country.
Last summer, two researchers from Global Witness were expelled from the country. Weeks later, Human Rights Watch Africa expert Ida Sawyer, was barred from DRC, in what the organisation described as "a brazen attempt to muzzle reporting on the government's brutal repression of those supporting presidential term limits."
The tumult has had an impact on Cafi.
Funding for projects, which had been approved at the start of the year, has been frozen since February after Greenpeace and a host of other international and local NGOs revealed that the country's former environment minister Robert Bopolo Mbongeza signed documents pledging logging concessions in northern Congo to two companies.
The move breached the country's long-standing moratorium on new logging concessions.
Three months after the existence of those concessions was made public, little has changed.
As Pesti explains, the Cafi executive board presented the Congolese government to comply with three conditions to unfreeze funding.
According to Pesti, the first two conditions – which looked to create an action plan on how the breaches could be prevented in the future and establish internal controls to stop breaches occurring from within the environment ministry in the future – have been met, but the third, to cancel the concessions, has not.
With the government in a state of flux, the DRC environment ministry says it has been unable to get the authority to cancel the concessions.
"We have yearly disbursements," says Pesti. "We have funding allocated for the rest of the year and we hope that this funding will come through because these concessions will be canceled."
Norway environment minister Vidar Helgesen said the Norwegian government, which is the major funder of the initiative, was "aware of the political situation in DRC".
"We anticipate that the next government will follow up on the existing government`s public commitment to cancel these illegal logging licenses. In general, the risks associated with having an active engagement with the DRC is mitigated by working through international delivery partners like the UN and the World Bank, where we rely on their due diligence and performance standards to protect our investments and interests."
Jules Caron, a campaigner at Global Witness, is less optimistic.
"The fact that DRC has violated its moratorium and violated the letter of intent which was signed by the DRC government and the Norwegian government brings into question the ability of the DRC government to act as an honest broker in this deal," he tells Energydesk.
Caron's comments are echoed by Simon Counsell, executive director of the Rainforest Foundation UK.
He suggests that while the project is hampered by the political situation in DRC, he also bemoans what he describes as Norway's "bungled" approach to preventing deforestation and a lack of knowledge about what he call the "realities of the forests in Congo".
"The entire CAFI program in DRC is based on a fundamentally flawed analysis of what is causing deforestation in the Congo and what is needed to stop it," he says.
"Perhaps the Norwegian government has been stung by deserved criticism of its dismally slow spending in most of its other forest and climate programs, but in CAFI the sole priority seems to be to get the money out of the door quickly. It is turning into a case study of how not to protect forests with international funding."
Logging ban
A logging truck departs a forest-logging camp in the Central African Republic. (Photo: JG Collomb/World Resources Institute)
With DRC's logging moratorium approaching 15 years since it was created, it is likely to come under scrutiny in the coming months.
Ostensibly created to prevent a mad dash for natural resources as the country emerged from civil war in 2002, the logging moratorium has survived just about intact to this day.
The current labour minister Athys Kabongo Kalonji pledged to honour the moratorium during his brief spell in the environment ministry earlier this year. He told Voice of America in February he intended to be a "defender of forests".
"It's ultimately a decision for a sovereign government," says Pesti, when discussing the future of the ban. ""As expressed in the letter of intent, Cafi expects the lifting of the moratorium to comply with the legal requirements – this is a milestone that will be subject to independent verification whose result will trigger the disbursement of the second tranche of the Cafi funds."
Corruption remains another threat to the success of Cafi, something Helgesen is mindful of.
"Obviously, corruption is a major obstacle to development in general and the fight against deforestation and climate change in particular," he writes.
"Norway and other donor countries, together with the international community at large, is committed to improve the governance situation and we have taken necessary steps to protect our interests. Our partnership with DRC is therefore designed to manage and minimise these risks. For instance, the DRC National REDD Fund is managed by the UNDP Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, and only internationally recognised agencies are accredited as implementing agencies. In addition, improved governance is featuring prominently in several program areas of the partnership, with one separate program area dedicated exclusively to improving the governance situation."
With forest conservation, a major part of the international plan, outlined in the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, conserving the Congo Basin has perhaps never been more important.
As Oxford University professor Yadvinder Mahli told Energydesk at the end of last year, the rainforest plays a major role in shaping global weather systems.
"The entire global weather system is driven by hot spots near the equator where moist air rises up and condenses at high latitudes and that's the engine of the entire global weather circulation. The three strongest hot spots that drive that are the Pacific Ocean, the Amazon rainforest and the Congo Basin. It's difficult to model, but as with the Amazon, deforestation in the Congo Basin is likely to have a global impact."
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CCP Games is looking at more ways to sell real-life products to players in exchange for in-game money.
The developer-publisher of popular PC MMO EVE Online – which has over 360,000 subscribers worldwide – recently offered gamers 100 Nvidia graphics cards in-game. They sold out in less than two minutes.
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It was an interesting experiment and one we're going to follow up," EVE Online senior producer Jon Lander (pictured) told MCV.
As it was more successful than I was hoping, there's obviously quite an appetite out there to doing this sort of thing.
We're certainly hoping for EVE merchandise. We need to just look at what the right opportunities are now. We've got lots of people beavering away trying to work out what the right thing to do is."
CCP also said that around a quarter of EVE Online subscribers play for free. Players are charged a monthly fee, but the virtual Plex currency can be used to pay for the subscription.
EVE is one of few MMOs that still require users to pay a monthly fee, along with Blizzard's World of Warcraft and EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic. Many others have gone free-to-play, such as Lord of the Rings Online, which is free but charges gamers for extra items and content.
Unless you're in trouble or you actually build a game from scratch specifically for a free-to-play model, it'd be incredible damaging to EVE if we went free-to-play," added Lander. There's no need for us to do it."
CCP says EVE has grown in terms of subscribers every year. The latest EVE expansion pack, Inferno, was released on May 22nd.
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Don Agrati was a third season replacement cast member on The Mickey Mouse Club. Unlike other cast members, who stayed with the Disney company after leaving the show (at least for a while), Don immediately jumped into other acting projects, and is best known for an eleven-year stint on the TV show, My Three Sons. This is Don's unique story.
Don Louis Agrati was born June 8, 1944, in San Diego, California. His parents were Mary B. Castellino, a talent agent, and Lou Anthony Agrati, a sausage maker. He had a sister named Latina who became an actress going by the name of Lani O'Grady. Don was raised in Lafayette, California before he was signed by the Disney Company to be on The Mickey Mouse Club, which led to him moving closer to the Disney studios in Burbank, California. He graduated from Burbank High School in 1962.
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On the show, Don's singing talents were often put to use, though his dancing skills were not used much. The area of performing in which he excelled the most, acting, was the most on display, as he was cast as the lead in several skits. When he sang, he was usually paired with Linda Hughes, who was also a third-season replacement cast member on the show. While they didn't get to be in the roll call or closing segment, as those bits had been recorded before they joined the show, Don and Linda were the most used of any of the third season replacement cast on the show.
While on The Mickey Mouse Club, Don used his real surname. After leaving the show, he began using the stage name Don Grady, because it seemed more Irish, and he wanted an Irish-sounding surname for his professional name. At the time, in Hollywood, he thought an Irish surname would open more doors to him than an Italian one would
While Don was only on the show for one season, he went on to bigger and better show business projects quickly. Sidney's intuition about Don was correct. He was a natural star. Don quickly racked up acting credits, including in several western films and TV shows in that genre. Don also did some period pieces, such as a Civil War film that did well at the box office. He worked with some famous actors while he was still a kid.
In 1960, Don was cast in the TV role for which he is best known today, that of the middle son, Robbie Douglas, on the TV show My Three Sons. Don was on this show for eleven years and gained national and international fame for it. The show debuted on ABC, then moved to CBS in 1965. While on the show, he started his own band called The Greefs, and this band appeared in a fictional capacity on the show and even wrote two original songs for the show.
These songs were called "A Good Man to Have Around the House" and "Leaving it Up to You. Don also recorded a single for the Palace Guard while on the show, with the songs on the single being "Little People" and "Summertime Game." Don joined a band called The Yellow Balloon, and was their drummer; this band's self-titled song was a minor hit in 1967. Don did all of this while appearing on My Three Sons, and also attended Los Angeles City College for a while during his time on the show. He was a busy guy, doing a TV show full-time, being a part-time musician, and also going to school, yet he managed to do it all and to do it well.
In addition, Don did other acting projects while on My Three Sons, including appearances on such shows as The Eleventh Hour, The F.B.I., and Mr. Novak.
Don was eventually frustrated with the limited character development of Robbie on My Three Sons. Cast changes in the show in later seasons remedied those frustrations. The actor playing the eldest son left the show, and the fictional family adopted a new youngest son, leaving Don in the position of the eldest son on the show. This expanded his role and character development by quite a bit.
After My Three Sons ended in 1971, Don pursued a career in music. He did some composing on films and tv shows, such as the film Switch and the theme song for The Phil Donahue Show. He also did some composing for a Las Vegas multimedia show that starred Michael Crawford, David Cassidy, Tommy Tune, and Rick Springfield.
Don performed, as well. He was in a touring production of Pippin and performed in non-touring versions of Damn Yankees and Godspell. Don released an album in 2008 called Boomer: JazRokPop, which was a collection of songs that were written for and about his own Baby Boomer generation. This was his first album release since his first original album, Homegrown, which was released by Elektra Records in 1973.
As far as his personal life goes, Don married a woman named Julie Boonisar, but they divorced in 1979. They did not have any children together. He later married Virginia "Ginny" Lewsader in 1985, after meeting her at Disneyland. They had two children together, a son named Joey and a daughter named Tessa. Don and Ginny were married for twenty-seven years, with their marriage ending only with Don's crossing to the other side in 2012 of myeloma at the age of sixty-eight. By all accounts, this marriage was a loving, happy, and fulfilling one for both of them. Don crossed over in Thousand Oaks, California. He is buried at the Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.
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Know How Coffee Could Cost More At Groceries, Cafes
Sugandh chetry Published Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 11:09 EDT
A cup of coffee was already expensive enough, many of the factors are driving up farmers' costs to grow the beans. And it could begin filtering down at your local cafe before the end of the year.
After sticking for years near in $1 per pound, coffee futures. The price large-volume buyers have now finally agreed to pay for coffee upon delivery months down the road. In late July, the heights weren't reached since 2014. Though prices have eased a bit, they remain elevated at about $1.90 per pound.
Coffee lovers are already paying $8 or more for a bag in the supermarket. Or up to $5 for a cup might even be over the higher prices. But we see that an incredible spike in coffee prices on the international futures market. And it doesn't always settle down well with the consumer.
Let us have a brief look at some factors that could determine whether Americans will be paying more for their morning jolt in the near future.
A sustained drought followed by two July touches of frost blew a hole in Brazil's coffee output. Immediately sending wholesale prices for the popular Arabica bean to more than $2 per pound. The frost will significantly affect the 2022-23 harvest, said Carlos Mera. Who analyzes the coffee markets at Rabobank.
The Brazil frosts followed COVID-related supply chain snarls, a dearth of shipping containers, labour shortages and other production hiccups. Add in rising costs for virtually everything and you have a bitter cup brewing for coffee drinkers.
"This is unprecedented," said Alexis Rubinstein, the managing editor of Coffee & Cocoa for commodities brokerage StoneX Group. "It's never been this perfect storm before. It's usually just been a supply-and-demand scenario. "We've never been dealing with a supply and demand issue on top of a logistics issue. And on top of labour issues, on top of a global pandemic."
RETAIL PRICES RISE?
While it's difficult to determine the size of the crop loss in Brazil. Mera said estimates vary between 2 million and 6 million fewer bags of coffee. That's about 12% of the output from the world's largest producer of Arabica. The bean used for most coffee sold around the world. Lower supplies almost always mean higher prices.
Grace Wood, an industry analyst for market research firm IBISWorld, said if consumers don't see coffee prices rise by the end of this year, they almost certainly will in 2022, as per capita demand is expected to increase.
"That is just going to contribute to more demand that is going to further disrupt operations and make it more difficult for operators who are already experiencing supply issues," Wood said.
Mera said that people who buy coffee beans in the grocery store will likely see a more noticeable increase in prices because about half the cost of that bag on the shelf comes solely from the bean itself. However, in large coffee shops, he added, the cost of the bean only represents about 5% of your cup of hot coffee, so roasters "may not need to carry over the increases right away."
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Higher Shilstone - Memories of a Medieval Farmstead on Dartmoor
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Dartmoor Society member Tony Hill writes:
"Just in case you haven't already seen, the Government has given more details of the process for bidding for the £500 million "Beeching Reversal Fund" which is intended to fund studies to investigate which lines it is worth reopening.
The process is to be initiated by MPs and the deadlines are pretty tight. The first call is for expressions of interest for the "Ideas Fund" by Friday 28th February, with at least one more round to follow.
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Birthdate: 1941
Webpages: blackmesapress.com
Used These Alternate Names: Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D., Donald Burleson
Author Tags: horror (2)
Flute Song (1996)
Four Shadowings (1994)
Beyond the Lamplight: Stories from the Dark (1996)
Wait for the Thunder: Stories for a Stormy Night (2010)
H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study (1983)
Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe (1990)
Begging to Differ: Deconstructionist Readings (1992)
Short Fiction Series
Herbert West: Reanimator Universe
Herbert West—Reanimated (1989) with Peter Cannon and Charles Hoffman and Will Murray and Robert M. Price [only as by Donald R. Burleson and Peter H. Cannon and Charles Hoffman and Will Murray and Robert M. Price]
The Challenge from Below
The Challenge from Below: Part Three The Horror at the Lake (1996) also appeared as:
Variant: The Horror at the Lake (2011)
The Last Supper (1980) also appeared as:
Translation: L'ultima cena [Italian] (1988)
An Encounter (1982)
The Shape in the Room (1983)
The Ingredient (1983)
A Little Two-Chair Barber Shop on Phillips Street (1984) also appeared as:
Translation: Der Friseurladen in der Phillips Street [German] (1985)
Night Bus (1985)
The Terminator (1985)
Connections (1986)
Mama's Boy (1986)
Milk (1986)
The Cryptogram (1986)
Classified Ads (1987)
The Pool (1987)
Family Dentistry (1987)
English 303 (1988)
Lemon Drops (1988) [also as by Donald Burleson]
The Walker (1988)
An Evening with Charlie (1989)
Snow Cancellations (1989)
Walkie-Talkie (1989)
The Benevolence of Aunt Charlotte (1990)
The Room Down the Hall (1990)
Someone Who Needs You (1991)
Imitations (1991)
Stopping at Crazy Frank's (1992)
Ziggles (1992) also appeared as:
Translation: Ziggles [German] (1996)
Now You Know (1992)
Reflections (1992)
A Little Place Off Elm Street (1993)
Dark Brother (1993)
The Eye of Hlu-Hlu (1993) also appeared as:
Translation: L'œil de Hlu-Hlu [French] (1998)
Translation: El ojo de Hlu-Hlu [Spanish] (2001)
Together Again (1993)
The Pedicab (1993)
School Closings (1993)
A Student of Geometry (1994)
Blue Luke (1994)
Mulligan's Fence (1994)
One-Night Strand (1994)
The Wind at the Top of the Tree (1994)
Gums (1994)
Olfactory Mucous on the Attic Window (1994)
And to See Him Smile (1995)
Brownie (1995)
Gramma Grunt (1995)
Sheets (1995)
Uncle Neddy's Chair (1995)
The Daemon-Sultan (1995)
Ghost Lake (1995)
Hopscotch (1996)
Mian-Mar (1996)
Leaves (1996)
Christmas Carrion (1996)
Down in the Mouth (1996)
Fitting Rooms (1996)
Frosty (1996)
Hair of the Dog (1996)
Hopkins House (1996)
Kokopelli (1996)
Leftovers (1996)
Melons (1996)
Mikey Joe (1996)
P.O. Box 108 (1996)
Peripheral Vision (1996)
Sunflower (1996)
The Missing Book (1996)
The Treehouse (1996)
Connect the Dots (1997)
The Temple of Yig (1997)
Tumbleweeds (1998)
Callahan's Coat (1998)
Good Dog (1998)
Snowman (1998)
Crayons (1999)
Pump Jack (2001) [also as by Donald Burleson]
Spider Willie (2002) [also as by Donald Burleson]
Lujan's Trunk (2003)
Wait for the Thunder (2003) [also as by Donald Burleson]
The Watcher at the Window (2003)
The House on Warren Street (2004) [only as by Donald Burleson]
Tummerwunky (2004)
Country Living (2005)
Papa Loaty (2005)
Up and About (2006)
Blessed Event (2010)
Desert Dreams (2010)
Fwoo (2010)
Grampa Pus (2010)
Jack O'Lantern Jack (2010)
Sheep-Eye (2010)
The Weeping Woman of White Crow (2010)
Boxcars (2011)
Mandy-Lu (2011)
Entrée (2011)
Shelf Life (2014)
Dimply Dolly Doofy (2014)
Seed of the Gods (2016)
Into the Moonlight (2016)
The Shadow Over Lear (2016)
The Thing in the Silo (2017)
The Mummy's Transit (2018)
High Tide (1984)
What Lingers (1984)
Beyond the Lamplight (1996)
A Symposium on 'The Tree on the Hill'
Lovecraftian Branches on Rimel's "Tree" (1983)
Humour Beneath Horror: Some Sources for "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1980)
The Mythic Hero Archetype in "The Dunwich Horror" (1981)
"The Music of Erich Zann" as Fugue (1982)
Lovecraft, Mathematics, and the Outer Spheres (1982)
Some Comments on the Dunsany-Lovecraft Influence (1983)
Letter (Crypt of Cthulhu #28) (1984)
A Note on Lovecraft and Rupert Brooke (1985)
Zen and the Art of Lovecraft (1985)
Fra Mosigius (1985)
Lovecraft and Chiasmus, Chiasmus and Lovecraft (1986)
Symmetry in Henry James's "The Altar of the Dead" (1986)
The Fictive World View of H. P. Lovecraft (1986)
The Terrible Old Man (1987) only appeared as:
Variant: "The Terrible Old Man": A Deconstruction (1987)
Aporia and Paradox in "The Outsider" (1987) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Notes on Lovecraft's "The Bells": A Carillon (1988)
Iranon and Kuranes: An Intertextual Gloss (1988)
Lovecraft and the World as Cryptogram (1988)
On Lovecraft's "The Messenger" (1988)
On Lovecraft's "The Wood" (1988)
Letter (Crypt of Cthulhu #61 1/2) (1988) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Letter to the Editor (1989)
Lovecraft and Romanticism (1989)
Swan Songs: Lovecraft and Yeats (1989)
Algernon Blackwood's "The Listener": A Hearing (1989)
Lovecraft and the Death of Tragedy (1989) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Why (Not) Deconstruct Lovecraft? (1989) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Letter (Crypt of Cthulhu #70) (1990) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Arthur Machen's "N" as Allegory of Reading (1990)
On Lovecraft's "Nemesis" (1990) [only as by Donald Burleson]
On Lovecraft's "Harbor Whistles" (1990) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Identity and Alterity in Henry James's "The Jolly Corner" (1990)
Lovecraft's Humankind: Orphans in the Cosmos (1990)
On Lovecraft's Fragment "Azathoth" (1990)
Lovecraft's Cheshire Cat (1990) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
On Dunsany's 'Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men (1991) [only as by Donald Burleson]
Prismatic Heroes: The Colour Out of Dunwich (1991)
Scansion Problems in Lovecraft's "Mirage" (1991)
Lovecraft: An American Allegory (1991) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
An Anthology for All Seasons (1991)
Connings: Bradbury/Oates (1992) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Lovecraft and Gender (1992) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Lovecraft's "The Unknown": A Sort of Runic Rhyme (1992)
Strange High Houses: Lovecraft and Melville (1992) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
L?vecr?ft: What's in a Name? (1992)
Bierce's "The Damned Thing": A Nietzschean Allegory (1993)
On Lovecraft's "The Ancient Track" (1993) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Reviews (Lovecraft Studies, Fall 1992) (1993) with Franklin Hummel and Steven J. Mariconda and Marc A. Michaud [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D. and Franklin Hummel and Steven J. Mariconda and Marc A. Michaud]
Sabbats: Hawthorne/Wharton (1993) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Lines of Verse Evoking Close Reading: Acrostic-Formulated Text (1993)
Lovecraft and Adjectivitis: A Deconstructionist View (1994)
On Mary Elizabeth Counselman's "Twister" (1994)
Universe Enough (1994)
"Midnight Express": Alfred Noyes at the Borderland of Self-Reference (1995)
Irony and Self-Difference in Robert Bloch's "Beetles" (1995)
Lovecraft: Textual Keys (1995)
The Thing: On the Doorstep (1995)
Lovecraft and Chaos (1995) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
A Textual Oddity in "The Quest of Iranon" (1996)
Lovecraft's "the Colour Out of Space" (1996)
Lovecraft and Interstitiality (1997)
A Note on Metaphor vs. Metonymy in "The Dunwich Horror" (1998)
Open to Criticism (1998) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
A Note on "The Book" (2001)
A Remarkable Intellectual Figure (2007)
Ambrose Bierce's Moral Art (2007) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
The Supernatural in Prose and Verse (2009)
Presence and Absence in Poe's "The Imp of the Perverse" (2010) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Genomic Criticism: A Lovecraftian Introduction (2017) [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Through the Gates of the Prepositional Phrase (2018)
On Dunsany's "Probable Adventures of the Three Library Men" (2019)
"Memory" Re-membered (2019)
Uncollected Prose and Poetry (1979) by H. P. Lovecraft and S. T. Joshi
H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (1980) by S. T. Joshi
Lovecraft's Providence & Adjacent Parts (1980) by Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr.
Reader's Guide to H. P. Lovecraft (1982) by S. T. Joshi
Autobiographical Memoir (1985) by Frank Belknap Long
The Collected Poems of Donald Wandrei (1988) by Donald Wandrei and S. T. Joshi
H. P. Lovecraft (1989) by Peter Cannon (co-reviewed with S. T. Joshi and Frank Belknap Long and David E. Schultz )
H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (1990) by S. T. Joshi
In Search of Lovecraft (1991) by J. Vernon Shea
Black Water 2 (1991) by Alberto Manguel
Decoded Mirrors: 3 Tales After Lovecraft (1992) by Steve Rasnic Tem [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
The Innsmouth Heritage (1992) by Brian Stableford [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) by Joyce Carol Oates
A Dreamer and a Visionary: H. P. Lovecraft in His Time (2004) by S. T. Joshi
Collected Essays (2007) by H. P. Lovecraft
The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce: A Comprehensive Edition (2007) by Ambrose Bierce [only as by Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.]
Classics and Contemporaries: Some Notes on Horror Fiction (2009) by S. T. Joshi
Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry (2009) by S. T. Joshi
The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos (2009) by S. T. Joshi
Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales (2009) by Kenneth Hite
H. P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2010) by S. T. Joshi
Interviews with This Author
What Is the Cthulhu Mythos? A Panel Discussion (1987) by S. T. Joshi (co-interviewed with Will Murray and David E. Schultz and Robert M. Price )
Dark Voices (Horrorstruck, September/October 1987) (1987) by David B. Silva (co-interviewed with Joe R. Lansdale and Bentley Little and Ardath Mayhar and F. Paul Wilson and Douglas E. Winter )
Dark Voices (Horrorstruck, May-June 1988) (1988) by William J. Grabowski (co-interviewed with Charles de Lint and Richard Christian Matheson and Gordon Linzner and Douglas E. Winter and Steve Rasnic Tem and Al Sarrantonio and Peter Straub and Gary L. Raisor and William F. Nolan and Stephen King and Les Daniels and Ramsey Campbell )


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Adobe Photoshop set off a revolution in digital image processing 30 years ago, and Adobe's breakthrough applications continue to move forward because money can buy (preferably rent) the best photo editing software. If you need layered image editing (including printing, 3D modeling, and drawing), you need Photoshop. Designers and photographers can find the most and most advanced tools for their handicrafts in this application. AI-driven portrait selection, automatic font download, and better control of original camera file conversion appear in the latest update.
Multitude of photo correction and manipulation tools
Slick interface with lots of help
Tools for mobile and web design
Rich set of drawing and typography tools
3D design capability
Synced Libraries and Cloud Documents
No perpetual-license option
Premium assets aren't cheap
Interface can be overwhelming at times
Start with Adobe Photoshop
To get the latest version of Photoshop, you need a Creative Cloud subscription. This means you need to log in with your existing Adobe ID or create a new Adobe ID. The photography plan costs $9.99 per month, and it also gives you access to Photoshop Lightroom, editing options for photo workflow software, and 10 Adobe Stock images.
You can no longer simply buy a one-time payment license for Photoshop, which will annoy some users who don't like the software-as-a-service model. Those who feel this way might want to consider options such as Corel's surprisingly powerful PaintShop Pro, CyberLink PhotoDirector or even Adobe's own Photoshop Elements, all of which can be purchased directly. If you don't want to pay anything, you can use the free and open source GIMP software, although doing so is a painful and counterintuitive experience.
The Photoshop Interface
Adobe has been making the Photoshop interface more customizable and usable. You can choose from several target workspace layouts, including 3D, graphics and web, sports, painting and photography, or create your own custom layout of panels and windows. You can even rearrange the program's toolbar button bar for tasting.
Photoshop's New Document dialog offers helpful document types and templates to get you started (Image Source: Google.com)
Selecting a new document will display a dialog box that provides templates such as textured geometric masks, instant film mockups, and photo collage layouts. The category filter at the top allows you to limit the suggested templates to "photo", "print", "art and illustration", "web", "mobile" and "movie and video". If you have copied the image to the clipboard, the option to open a new image with its exact size will be displayed.
The Adobe Photoshop Welcome screen (Image Source: Google.com)
You can choose from thumbnails of recent files and access presets and libraries from the start page. This page displays personalized tutorial content at the bottom. Those who are willing to continue using the old version to start the experience can switch back to the original experience, but I find that the start page makes it easier to understand the content I am interested in, such as recent projects.
Search Integration
The search magnifying glass icon is always displayed on the upper right, allowing you to find program features, your own images, tutorials or Adobe Stock images. I think it's a good idea to use the search function in complex desktop applications, and some major league software developers agree: for example, Microsoft introduced it to Office 2016 very helpfully. For context-sensitive help, the light bulb icon is always ready to quickly demonstrate how to perform editing.
The interface can also be adapted to current purposes. A typical example is the "select and mask" workspace, which is available as long as you activate the selection tool. This only shows the tools that are useful during selection, such as "Refined Edge", "Lasso", "Brush", "Hand" and "Zoom", as well as the related Properties panel. The color theme of the interface also provides a pleasant, context-sensitive consistency. If the window border is set to light gray, all dialog boxes will also be gray.
For devices such as Microsoft Surface Pro and now the Apple iPad, Photoshop keeps pace with the times in touch input. Not only can you use touch to pan and zoom an image, but Adobe Photoshop can also recognize gestures, such as swiping with two fingers to undo operations, and swiping with three fingers to scroll through images. Larger tabs and Shift, Ctrl and Alt buttons can all help touch screen users. However, you cannot yet use touch for finger painting. For this, you can try Adobe's Fresco application.
New Selection Tool
The Select and Mask interface (Image Source: Google.com)
Selecting objects and people in photos is one of the most important things in the app – and one of the biggest problems. In the last few releases, Adobe has added the Select Objects, Select Theme, and Select & Mask workspaces just mentioned, as well as the Refine Edge option.
Select Subject uses an artificial intelligence (known as Adobe Sensei) to automatically identify and select the main object in an image. Selecting objects is on the same toolbar button as the Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools. When any of them are active, the Choose a topic button appears in the options bar at the top of the program windows. In testing, pressing this did an extraordinary job of selecting people when the background was relatively uniform. More complex backgrounds left some ill-chosen areas.
With the June 2020 update to Photoshop, there's an improvement to the Pick a Theme tool that solves one of the most common selection tasks and problems. Picking people's hair has long plagued photo editors – even with tools like Refine Edge. Adobe says it finally fixed this problem once and for all with an update.
Adobe Stock, which was created after Adobe acquired Fotolia in 2015, is a repository of over 40 million images, vectors, illustrations, and video clips. Non-Creative Cloud members can still purchase assets from Stock. Creators can also sell their assets and get a 33 percent drop in all sales. That's not bad considering the industry standard is 25 percent.
You can work in any Adobe desktop application that supports Adobe Library, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. Selecting Search Adobe Stock opens a website where you can search for content and download it or sync it with your Creative Cloud Library. But you can also search the Stock directly in the Library panel and insert it into your image, where it will be watermarked until you purchase a license. After obtaining the license, it keeps any changes made.
You can apply all modifications to Photoshop's still image – including exposure, cropping, and filters – to video clips. Photoshop can even handle multiple paths and keyframes using the same fast rendering engine that Adobe Premiere Pro video editor supports. There are only a few transition options available, but all of them are transition options. Each video track you add becomes a Photoshop layer that can be individually customized.
You also get all the standard digital video editing tools to combine, split and trim your clips. The audio tools are minimal, but you can set the percentage of the soundtrack volume, increase the volume, mute, or mute. Movie files are saved as PSD files, but by selecting File / Export / Render Video, you can create a video file with H.264, QuickTime or DPX encoding. You also get a decent selection of resolutions designed for both large screens and mobile devices, including 720p, 1080p, and 4K options.
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Adobe Photoshop makes it easy to do amazing things with digital images: every time I research its features to review a new version, I discover new possibilities, so great is the depth of the program. Integrated photography, advanced writing tools, and organizational and synchronization features such as cloud documents and libraries are unique to the application.
Outside of photography, you won't find a better, fuller or more precise drawing and typography tool that is constantly being improved. Adobe understands the move towards mobile and web design, along with the need for 3D tools. Photoshop's position as the premier image editing tool remains secure.
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Q: Python arguments in function For context, I have a function that is used to generate a button. The last two arguments of the function are used to fun another function when the button is pressed.
Im having problems with a button such as this, when Im trying to call the function (and arguments) createWorksheet(sheetTitle,sheetDate,sheetFilename) when the button is pressed.
I aimed to do it using this code:
button("Create Sheet",200,500,200,50,GREEN,BRIGHTGREEN,createWorksheet,sheetTitle,sheetDate,sheetFilename)

but this gives the error
button() takes from 7 to 9 positional arguments but 11 were given

Instead I tried with the arguments in a tuple (as below)
button("Create Sheet",200,500,200,50,GREEN,BRIGHTGREEN,createWorksheet,(sheetTitle,sheetDate,sheetFilename))

but this throws an error:
createWorksheet() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'date' and 'filename'

Any ideas please?
This is the button code to generate the function
def button(text, posX, posY, width, height, inactiveColor, activeColor,action=None,actionArgs=None):
    global buttonDown

    mouse = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
    click = pygame.mouse.get_pressed()

    if posX + width > mouse[0] > posX and posY + height > mouse[1] > posY:

        pygame.draw.rect(displays, activeColor, (posX,posY, width, height))

        if click[0] == 1 and not buttonDown and action!= None:

            if actionArgs is not None:
                action(actionArgs)
            else:
                action()

            buttonDown = True

        elif click[0] == 0:
            buttonDown = False
    else:
        pygame.draw.rect(displays,inactiveColor,(posX,posY,width,height))

    textSurf, textRect = text_objects(text, smallfont)
    textRect.center = ( (posX + (width/2)), (posY+(height/2)) )
    displays.blit(textSurf, textRect)

A: I think that the second invocation, i.e. using a tuple for the args, is correct. However you need to pass the arguments to the action function as positional arguments, not as a tuple.
You don't show the definition for createWorksheet() but assuming that it takes the 3 arguments from your example, you would call it like this:
        if actionArgs is not None:
            action(*actionArgs)
        else:
            action()

This unpacks the tuple into separate values, and passes these to the function. The difference is this:
args = (sheetTitle, sheetDate, sheetFilename)
action(args)    # passes a single argument of type tuple

vs.
action(*args)   # passes each element of the tuple as a positional argument.

The second case is the same as:
action(sheetTitle, sheetDate, sheetFilename)

If you have only one argument to pass, you still need to pass it as a one element tuple to button(), like this:
button("Create Sheet",200,500,200,50,GREEN,BRIGHTGREEN,createWorksheet,(sheetTitle,))

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When I was a young volunteer officer the internet became a huge thing. Now we could interact with people all over the world, I could play a video game with someone in not just another state but another country! No longer did you have to write letters to someone and wait for the reply, you could send them an email and get feed-back faster than ever before.
Not only that, our equipment was improving. The belt mounted regulators and elephant tubes I learned on were getting replaced by mask mounted regulators, thermal imagining cameras had begun to become as common as the irons in a fire ground tool compliment, and now fire apparatus had airbags!
About this time my dad who was and still is very old school in everything he does (although even he has a smart phone today) began to question the effectiveness of email and how it was disappointing how that was replacing actual face to face communication. At the time I thought he was just failing to change with the times. The ramblings of the older generation that could not see the potential in technology, and what it could do for us. Today a little older and wiser I think he may have been right.
Think about your average day now, how much true human interaction do you truly have. How many of your "friends" on facebook are truly your friends? How often do you check your phone for that next email, or social media post? How many misunderstandings have been had over a 140 character tweet, or an email that just didn't quite hit the mark? Even our apparatus and equipment have become so sophisticated that firehouse fixes and mechanical reasoning have away in favor of spread sheets.
Please do not get me wrong, we as a society and fire service have benefitted greatly from technological advances. Our gear is safer than ever, our apparatus is safer than ever, and we have been aided by research to have actual proof on what does and does not work on the fire ground.
However we have lost that human connection to one another, and I am just as at fault as anyone. As few years ago as a recently promoted Lieutenant I thought it would be a good idea to email my new shift my expectations for them. I thought this will help them get to know what I am all about prior to me arriving and it will allow us to hit the ground running. WRONG!!!!! It was awful, it pissed people off and it made my job as a new officer that much harder. We laugh about it now but it was a critical leadership failure, because it affected culture and people's lives. It was changing their normal, but due to my excitement I could not see it.
Hearts and minds, buy in, change for your organization do not happen through email. They happen through true face to face communication, so that explanations can be clear, emotions can be understood, and conversations can be had. Sure emails, memos, etc. can be great for certain things. If a road is closed, hydrant is out of service, even if you adding a unit to a response plan. However when you are dealing with true cultural change or affecting people's lives, those things should be shared on a face to face basis. This may be difficult for large organizations, and may extend completion time for certain projects or objectives, and in the end you will still have members who do not agree and will never agree. However they will not be able to say these policies where handed down electronically, without the ability to comment on them, or without the message being distorted by trying to interpret and email, or memo.
Let's make leadership more human again. Let's actually talk to the people we work with, who work for us, and who we work for. It may take time, and you may lose some sleep some nights, but I think it will be worth it.


A bankrupt and bed-ridden merchant of Prague, who was for a time a partner of the Jew Stephen Trendellsohn. The children of the two partners fell in love, and met opposition from both families. Josef was at first heartbroken at the thought of the marriage, but before his death became reconciled to it.