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Q: Finding slope of tangent line to $y = 2\sin^2(4x) + 3\cos^2(2x)$ at the point $x_0 = \frac{10\pi}{3}$ This is more in regards to substitution. I understand how to find a point, taking the derivative to finding the slope and finding the equation $y=mx+b$. However, I seem to make a repeated algebraic mistake in substitution. I was just wondering if someone could outline this for me.
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Thanks,

A: You got a bit off track from the start by substituting wrongly. Here's my attempt at the first part:
$2\sin^2(4x)+3\cos^2(2x)$ where $x_0=\frac {10\pi} 3$
$=2\sin(4*(\frac {10\pi} 3))^2+3\cos^2(2*(\frac {10\pi} 3))$ (replaced $x$ with $x_0$ here)
$=2\sin^2(\frac {40\pi} 3)+3\cos^2(\frac {20\pi} 3)$
$=2\sin^2(\frac {4\pi} 3)+3\cos^2(\frac {2\pi} 3)$
$=2(-\sqrt3/2)^2+3(-1/2))^2=2*(3/4)+3*(1/4)=9/4$
At the beginning you sort of got mixed up about multiples of pi and the sine of those multiples. $\frac {10\pi} 3$ is not equal to $\frac {4\pi} 3$, but $\sin(\frac {10\pi} 3)$ is equal to $\sin(\frac {4\pi} 3)$.

A: The source of your error is in substituting for $x$, you replaced $x$ with $\sin x$ in the first term and by $\cos x$ in the second term.
Let $f(x) = 2\sin^2(4x) + 3\cos^2(2x)$.  Then at $x = \dfrac{10\pi}{3}$, we obtain
\begin{align*}
f\left(\frac{10\pi}{3}\right) & = 2\sin^2\left(4 \cdot \frac{10\pi}{3}\right) + 3\cos^2\left(2 \cdot \frac{10\pi}{3}\right)\\
& = 2\sin^2\left(\frac{40\pi}{3}\right) + 3\cos^2\left(\frac{20\pi}{3}\right)\\
& = 2\sin^2\left(\frac{4\pi}{3} + 12\pi\right) + 3\cos^2\left(\frac{2\pi}{3} + 6\pi\right)\\
& = 2\sin^2\left(\frac{4\pi}{3}\right) + 3\cos^2\left(\frac{2\pi}{3}\right)\\
& = 2\left(-\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\right)^2 + 3\left(-\frac{1}{2}\right)^2\\
& = 2 \cdot \frac{3}{4} + 3 \cdot \frac{1}{4}\\
& = \frac{6}{4} + \frac{3}{4}\\
& = \frac{9}{4}
\end{align*}
Also, when you made an arithmetic mistake in taking the derivative.  Applying the Chain Rule yields
\begin{align*}
f'(x) & = 2 \cdot 2\sin(4x)\cos(4x) \cdot 4 + 3 \cdot 2\cos(2x)[-\sin(2x)] \cdot 2\\
      & = 16\sin(4x)\cos(4x) - 12\cos(2x)\sin(2x)
\end{align*}
Notice that I used brackets around the $-\sin(2x)$ term to indicate that we are multiplying $\cos(2x)$ by $-\sin(2x)$ rather than subtracting $\sin(2x)$ from $\cos(2x)$.


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Operation Reinhard Transit Camps: They Were Death Camps
How do we know the Operation Reinhard camps were extermination camps and not transit camps?
The Operation Reinhard death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec were not extermination camps. These camps were just transit camps where the Nazis processed Jews for transport to the East as forced labor.
For example, Mark Weber, an American Holocaust denier, writes: "The balance of evidence indicates that Treblinka II—along with Belzec and Sobibor—was a transit camp, where Jewish deportees were stripped of their property and valuables before being transferred eastwards into German-occupied Soviet territories."[1]
Nazi documents show that Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor were extermination camps. At these camps, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered some 1,400,000 Jews from all across Europe.
The German railway system:
The Reichsbahn (Nazi German railway system) was one of the largest organizations in Nazi Germany. In 1942 it employed 900,000 workers and 500,000 civil servants, who managed 850,000 freight cars every day. The entire railway system was controlled from Berlin with three regional offices, many sub-regional offices, and a vast number of local railway stations across Europe. The complicated arrangements for deportation trains began in Berlin and required the coordination of several departments. The rolling stock—locomotives, boxcars, and passenger cars—had to be requisitioned and assembled into trains. The timetables had to be to the minute. Regional offices and local stations along the route to the final destination had to be informed.[2]
The trains also needed police to guard them. Police escorts—one officer and at least 12 men—were comprised of either Germans or collaborating militiamen from the lands where the transports crossed. Paper trails followed the men formally assigned to guard trains on their journey. Nazi German guards who accompanied a train also usually sent reports to Berlin about the trip. Some of our evidence of mass murder comes from these sources of bureaucratic red tape.[3]
The Nazis were not always consistent in their documentation of the Jewish transports. In Poland, the Nazis did not list the names of individual deportees on a transport. This practice was in direct contrast to Nazi operations in some Western European occupied countries, such as France and the Netherlands. Many transports from Western Europe listed Jewish individuals by name. Regardless, the monetary result was actually the same; since the SS was charged one-way fares for every Jew transported, and round-trip fares for the guards, the Nazis had to make exact calculations of passengers, even in Poland. Despite the time it required to keep close tabs on the numbers, the Nazi transportation system grew in its efficiency over time. At his trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Adolf Eichmann called the whole Nazi transportation process a "science in itself."[4]
What we know about the transports to the Operation Reinhard camps?
From surviving railway documents, the Nazis clearly labeled Jewish deportation transports as 'Sonderzug' ('Special Trains') and they developed alphabetical codes to make such transports easy to identify. The Soviets discovered some of these railway records, including many relating to Jewish transports, and took them back to the Soviet Union, where they have still not been fully studied. However, the Americans and the British captured others transportation documents and correspondence about the trains. These primary documents show that the three Operation Reinhard camps were not transit camps, but were the final destination for a large number of the Jews from Poland and Western Europe. Some of the documents are as follows:
From July 27, 1942: A letter from Transport Ministry Secretary Albert Ganzenmüller to Karl Wolff, chief of Himmler's personal staff. The letter notes: "Since July 22, a train load of 5,000 Jews has departed daily from Warsaw via Malkinia to Treblinka, and in addition a train load of 5,000 Jews has left Przemysl twice a week for Belzec…"[5] There are no documents or addenda stating any further locations where the Nazis might send anyone.
On September 26-28, 1942, the German Ministry of Transport held a conference in Berlin. Documents from that meeting include the topic of the"Evacuation of the Polish-Jews." The notes read:
2 trains daily from the Warsaw district to Treblinka.
1 train daily from the Radom district to Treblinka.
1 train daily from the Cracow district to Belzec.
1 train daily from the Lvov district to Belzec.
And, after repairs had been completed on the Lublin-Chelm line, there was going to be:
1 train daily from Radom district to Sobibor.
1 train daily from the north Zullon district to Belzec.
1 train daily from the central Lublin district to Sobibor.[6]
There is no mention of further transports from these places to the East. These documents show that Nazi transportation officials saw Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec as the end of the line for Jewish deportees.
Belzec-SS staff (1942) See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Even more damning, a document entitled "German Reich Railways," with a subheading of "Special trains for resettlers," listed transports from January 13 to February 28, 1943. The transports in question went to Auschwitz and Treblinka, among several other ghettos and camps. The document lists the date, the special train code, place of origin, time of departure, destination, and time of arrival. The list contains five transports from Bialystok, Poland to Treblinka from February 9-13, 1943. Each day, a train was scheduled to leave Bialystok at 9:00 a.m. and arrive at Treblinka at 12:10 p.m. After being unloaded and cleaned, the train left Treblinka about eight hours later and returned to Bialystok by 1:30 a.m. The same train was used again for the next day's 9:00 a.m. transport.[7] Like the other primary documents, none of the documents on the trains from Bialystok to Treblinka mention anything about transporting Jews any further east than this destination. Instead, the trains made repeated trips only between Bialystok and Treblinka during that time—leaving full and returning empty. It is also important to note that sending deportees from Bialystok to Treblinka is actually sending them west, not east. In other words, the Nazis were sending Jews to a location in the opposite direction of supposed resettlement. Bialystok was on the border of German-occupied Soviet territory. If resettlement or forced labor further east was at stake, it was much easier to send the Jews of Bialystok east directly from that city itself. The Jews from Bialystok were going in the wrong direction, contrary to what Holocaust deniers say. These transports headed toward the heart of Poland because the Nazis placed a conveniently located killing site there.
Another document from March 26, 1943: A railway time table headed "Transportation Schedule No. 567" detailed a "special train" transporting 2,000 Jewish "resettlers." The destination was, again, Treblinka. For the Jews on these transports, there was nowhere farther east than that location.[8]
April 12, 1943: The German military police compiled a detailed report on the transport of 2,400 Jews from Yugoslavia to Belzec. The places and times the train stopped during the journey are listed with extreme precision. The report itself concludes: "The final destination, Treblinka (the camp), was reached on April 5, 1943 at 07:00…"[9]
It does not get any clearer: "Final destination, Treblinka."
Corroborating evidence:
As mentioned above, many transports containing Jews from Minsk, Vilna, Lvov, Hrubieszow, Stanislawow, and Zamosc (just to mention a few towns) traveled west, heading for specific locations in the Polish interior. Cities like Minsk, Vilna, Lvov, Hrubieszow, Stanislawow, and Zamosc were already on the border of territories once held by the Soviet Union. When the Nazis could have easily sent the Jews of these cities just a few miles further east, in order to reach former Soviet territory, the Nazis instead transported them westward by train, sending them a hundred miles or more back into the heart of Poland.
Jürgen Stroop, the SS general who quelled the Warsaw Jewish uprising (April 1943), sent a series of detailed daily reports to Berlin. On May 24, 1943, he sent his final report, in which he added up his successes in the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. He claimed:"Of the total 56,065 Jews apprehended, about 7,000 were destroyed directly in the course of the grand operation in the former Jewish quarter. 6,929 Jews were destroyed via transport to T II, making the total number of Jews destroyed 13,929. In addition to this figure of 56,065, an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 Jews were destroyed in explosions or fire."[10] By saying "Jews…destroyed via transport to T II," Stroop is signaling that almost 7,000 Jews from the uprising were killed at Treblinka, designated by code as'T II'. It is clear that the Jews who Stroop sent to Treblinka were "destroyed"; they were not transported further east.
Absence of documents or eyewitnesses on Jews sent further East:
There is no testimony from German perpetrators, Jewish survivors, and local bystanders suggesting that the Nazis sent Jews further east once they stepped foot in the Operation Reinhard camps. No trace of some 1,400,000 Jews who were allegedly sent to the Soviet Union has ever been found. Where were they sheltered? How were they fed? Were camps built for them? Were they forced into ghettos or thrust into contact with local populations? Why would they not need the things the Nazis stole from them to survive and/or work—their clothing, eye-glasses, and other necessary belongings? Not one single document or one single Russian citizen has spoken about the resettlement of some 1,400,000 naked, destitute Jews—including over a hundred thousand Jews from countries in Western Europe and Central Europe. Jews from countries like France, the Netherlands, and Germany would have constituted a sizable (and noticeable) sub-community; many of them would have been quite distinct from the surrounding Eastern European Slavic populations, differentiated both linguistically and culturally. No report of such a thing exists.
By comparison, in fall of 1938 the Nazis expelled some 17,000 Polish Jews living within the Reich's borders. These expelled Jews, having had their citizenship rejected by the Polish government as well, lived in a no man's land on the Polish border. They took refuge in nearby Polish border towns or hastily established refugee camps. The forced migration and forced resettlement of Polish Jews from Germany had thousands of eyewitness, including journalists, Polish locals, the Polish Jews themselves, government officials, international aid organizations, police forces, and more. Though war certainly obscures communication, it is still an absolute impossibility that over a million supposedly relocated Jews, as Holocaust deniers claim, would produce no firm documentation, no verifiable news report, and no eyewitnesses (from locals or from Jews themselves).
The assertion of deniers—that Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor were transit camps, where the Nazis processed Jews for labor camps deeper in the Soviet Union—is false. The paperwork of the Nazis themselves shows that they saw these camps as a "final destination" for the Jews sent there. The idea that the Nazis relocated a million Jews to the Soviet Union is an absolute fiction of the highest degree.
[1] Mark Weber and Andrew Allen, "Wartime Aerial Photos of Treblinka Cast New Doubt on "Death Camp" Claims" at http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p133_Allen.html.
[2] Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, Volume II (Holmes & Meier, 1985), pp. 411-416.
[3] Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Indiana University Press, 1987), p. 145.
[4] Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, Volume II (Holmes & Meier, 1985), p. 416.
[5] Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Indiana University Press, 1987), p. 51.
[7] Raul Hilberg, editor. Documents of Destruction: Germany and Jewry 1933-1945 (Quadrangle Books, 1971), pp. 106-111.
[8] Stephen Potyondi, "Ziel Treblinka/'Final Destination Treblinka'" at https://ia600300.us.archive.org/12/items/ZielTreblinkafinalDestinationTreblinka/MicrosoftWord-Document1.pdf. See also John C. Zimmerman, Holocaust Denial: Demographics, Testimonies and Ideologies (University Press of America, 2000), p. 19 citing Janusz Gumkowski, Poland Under Nazi Occupation (Warsaw, 1961), pp. 64, 65.
[10] Sybil Milton, translator. The Stroop Report: The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More! at http://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-history.org/short-essays/index.html

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It's Like Donnie Baseball All Over Again…
"I've been thinking about things this offseason, and I just kind of wonder sometimes, 'Is this still the place for me? It's just something I'm just thinking about." (per the Houston Chronicle)
It was a gut punch to all Texans' fans. The words of the most powerful player in franchise history reached into our bodies and pulled out our souls. The heart of the Houston Texans wants out.
If you don't know, I am a diehard Texans' fan. When you take a look at my profile picture, you will notice I am in a number 80 jersey. That is because Andre Johnson is not just the greatest Texan ever, he is my favorite football player to ever step on the field. Andre Johnson isn't just the Texans' best wide receiver… Andre Johnson is the Texans.
Johnson was drafted third overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. It was the Houston Texans' second year, and they must have felt that they had their future locked up. They had passed on Julius Peppers the year before to draft their franchise quarterback in David Carr and now they had his go to man. Boy, were they wrong. Since Andre Johnson has been drafted, the Texans have mustered a 75-101 record. They have seen just three winning seasons in Johnson's 11-year tenure and have made it to the playoffs in a mere two of those years. Were it not for the Cincinnati Bungles, we Texans fans may have never seen a playoff victory. Thank God for Marvin Jones, huh?
Johnson has played under two awful head coaches in Dom Capers and Gary Kubiak and has never been given much to work with on offense. Matt Shaub proved to be a great game manager, but he was never in the conversation of the elite NFL quarterbacks. Johnson also never had a serious threat opposite him at wide receiver to take any pressure off of him. Kevin Walter was serviceable, but every Texans fan knows that Walter was one of the elite blocking receivers in the NFL. He was there to take pressure off of Arian Foster, not Andre. And despite taking throws from David Carr, Matt Shaub, Sage Rosenfels, TJ Yates, Case Keenum, Tony Banks, and a few other forgettable names, Andre Johnson still managed to lead the NFL in receiving yards twice and receptions twice as well. Simply put, Johnson gave everything he had for the lowly Texans. Want further proof? Look at his performance in the Texans' first playoff game ever. Coming back from an injury, he totally dismantled the Bengals' secondary, grabbing five receptions for 90 yards and a touchdown to help TJ Yates win Houston its first playoff game 31-10.
Andre is also a big part of Houston. The Andre Johnson Foundation has been giving the youth he encounters a happier life. He continually dishes out close to twenty grand every Christmas on toy store sprees for lucky children. He is a major face in the community.
As hard as it is for a player of Andre Johnson's caliber to stay loyal to the Texans, it is equally as hard to be a Texans fan. Rick Smith stuck with Kubiak for so long when every beat writer and fan was pleading to take control away from him. That has set the Texans and Andre Johnson's chances of winning in Houston backwards. I get it that Bill O'Brien is rebuilding this team his way, and that is a step in the right direction. I also think the Texans had an amazing draft. However, we still didn't get the stud quarterback we needed. The Texans nabbed Jadeveon Clowney with the first pick, which I wanted, yet passed on Derek Carr when he was gift wrapped to them with the first pick in the second round. Bill O'Brien sees something special in Tom Savage and Xavier Su'a-Filo (the guard taken over Carr) is amazing, but there is no way we return to a winning team this season with Ryan Fitzpatrick at the helms.
So can you blame Andre for wanting out? He's a seven time All-Pro, a two time NFL First Teamer, and has the 17th most yards receiving of all time. Doesn't he deserve a chance to win?
I've lived through this before. When I was a kid, I had to watch some of the worst years in the Yankees' storied history. And while they continued to lose and seemingly get worse and worse with each passing season of the late 80s, I had to watch one of our legends flounder at the expense of his surroundings.
Am I biased? 100%, but from 1984 to 1987, you would be hard pressed to convince me otherwise that Don Mattingly wasn't only the best Yankee, but the best player in baseball. He was an All-Star every one of those years, won the Gold Glove all four of those years, earned the Silver Slugger Award three of those four years, had one MVP in 1985, and was a legitimate threat to win the Triple Crown all four of those seasons. Unlike Andre Johnson the Yankees never saw the playoffs during Mattingly's best seasons. They sat back and finished as low as fourth place in some of those years.
Much like Andre, Mattingly did all he could do to lead his team to greatness, and much like the Texans, the Yankees never surrounded him with the most important aspect of his sport: good pitching. Where Andre has never had an elite QB throwing him the ball, Mattingly had to sit by and watch the Dennis Rasmussens, Joe Cowleys, and the mid-40s Niekro brothers pitch while Roger Clemens, Bruce Hurst, and Oil Can Boyd were tearing things up in Beantown. The Yankees continually spent their money on aging big bats while keeping faith in their mediocre pitching, just as the Texans have continually overpaid for the Ahman Greens and Eric Moulds over the years.
Mattingly stayed through it all right up until he could barely walk. He was able to hang on and see one playoff series in his final year, the year before the Yankees would win four out of the next five World Series'. Talk about a slap in the face.
So, do I blame Andre for wanting out? No, his frustration is well merited. But do I think he should hang around and finish his career as a Texan? Of course I do. Our generation has certainly seen its fair share of lovable losers. Baseball had Tony Gwynn and Donnie Baseball. The NBA had Patrick Ewing and Sir Charles. The NFL had Barry Sanders, and Sanders had way less to work with than Andre ever had. Scott Mitchell? I'd take Shauby one million out of one million times before I'd watch Scott Mitchell in a Texans' uniform!
But I get what Andre is saying. He is the consummate professional and the ultimate team player, just as Donnie Baseball was. When it comes to team players, stats don't matter and trophies do. As I already said, there is no way I think this Texans team can compete for any trophies with Ryan Fitzpatrick at the helms.
Inevitably, Andre is amid the ludicrous contract extension he signed through the next two seasons. Not many teams can afford to take on his contract, and most of those that can aren't contenders. If Andre were to jump ship to someone like the Browns who have already been mentioned, Johnson would lose a lot of credibility. When the Patriots come knocking, and you know they will, it will be interesting to see what the Texans negotiate. The thought of Johnson catching balls from Tom Brady is both exciting and sickening.
So, Andre, if somehow you are reading this, remember the old adage: good guys finish last. The Texans and Houston need you to stick around for a little longer. Crazier things have happened in the NFL. Last season was supposed to be a Texans and Falcons Super Bowl and they COMBINED for six wins. Who's to say the Texans can't win the division this year? Their defense is going to be so good that I could probably quarterback the team. Arian Foster will be healthy (we think). And we play the Jaguars and Titans twice a year.
Andre, in the words of the illustrious pop band Double You: "Please don't go, please don't go. Don't goooooooooooooo. Don't go away."
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This is a powerful question, and if you're a fan of the Serial podcast or a House of Cards addict, you know the strong feelings attached to this question -- the anticipation, the flurry of thoughts, the rundown of different scenarios. You hunger to know the answers and the ending.
Now, how many advertisements leave you asking this question?
Most ads wrap up the story in a nice bow in 30 or 60 seconds. The story comes full circle -- problem and solution -- and ends with a smiling consumer.
Brands and agencies are obsessing over the idea of storytelling in marketing and advertising. But they need a few lessons in the craft from one of the most innovative ad man in the industry -- Howard Luck Gossage.
Gossage, who coincidentally hated advertising, ran an agency in the 1950s and 60s in a converted firehouse in San Francisco. While rarely spoken about in the company of other legends of the same era, such as Bill Bernbach and David Ogivly, Gossage created some of the most interesting advertising of the time.
Specifically, his serialized print advertisements should be read, reread, and studied.
If you want to learn how storytelling can be applied to advertising, study the work of the man known as the "Socrates of San Francisco."
Nobody likes to go to gas stations; having your car service is about as much fun as getting your pants pressed while you wait.
You can save yourself an awful lot of time and trouble, and you can save us money, if you won't waste it in ordering people to always drive in to one of our stations.
If you're driving down the road an you see a Fina station and it's on your side so you don't have to make a U-turn through traffic and there aren't six cars waiting and you need gas or something, please stop in.
Meanwhile, we'd like to be able to give you a better idea of what the air in your tire will look like on P.A. Day, May 12th, 1966. And right now we're trying to make up a few experimental batches of Pink Air. By the time our next ad comes out we'll be able to mail you a sample if we can just figure out how to keep it from leaking out of the envelope.
Gossage also created an "interactive" element by asking people to send in for a free sample of Pink Air. Another ad promoted a contest where people could win pink asphalt.
Then somebody in Trucking said: "How about painting a few of our trucks pink so people will know we're ready to transport the Pink Air from our Fina refineries in case the Pink Air Pipeline** isn't completed by P.A. Day?" And so we did.
Meanwhile back in the Asphalt Department people were feeling Left Out. It isn't an ordinary little old stick-in-the-tar asphalt department either; we are one of the country's big manufacturers of asphalt. And it is good stuff, sort of an asphalt man's asphalt. But only in basic black -- until our boys made some revolutionary experiments.
Which is why we now have 15 yards of very high-quality Pink Asphalt to give away to the one who can think up the best way to use it. (15 yards is a whole heap of asphalt; pink or otherwise it weighs about 30 tons and, if you win it, it'll take us two double-dual wheel dump trucks or semi-trailers to haul it to your house.) After we roll it out for you, it'll cover around 270 square yards which is enough to pave a pink driveway plus a pink badminton court plus a pink patio. Or about 7/8ths of a doubles tennis court; O.K., O.K., we'll pave the whole court.
These ads appeared in The New Yorker exclusively.
When an ad failed to appear one week, people wrote to ask: Where is your ad?
The creation of a craving on the part of the audience to see the next ad is what brand storytelling is all about. And Gossage was a master at both this and creating a dialogue between the brand and its audience.
We'll not pretend that we [The Whiskey Distillers of Ireland] weren't the pleased ones when Irish Coffee became the darling of the Western World. We still are. There are few things more enjoyable than standing on the quay seeing the great ships off to American with golden cargoes of matchless Irish Whiskey. And yet, have we sold our birthright for a mess of coffee pottage? And money? It may well be. For while Irish Coffee is admittedly a luscious drink the fact remains that the Whiskey is somewhat obscured by the coffee, frothy cream, and sugar cube.
Do you begin to see the shape of this bittersweet quandary? There's much, much to be said. You will fathom how much when you recall the Joyce's Ulysses took over three-hundred-thousand words to deal with just twenty-four hours in a tiny corner of Dublin and not one of the very best tiny corners of Dublin at that.
Our subject covers several years and a hundred and twenty degree of longitude. So it's not likely this one page will do it justice. Still, advertising costs the earth and when we reach the bottom, we'll just have to stop wherever we are and continue over to next week.
Still, there's not denying that, thanks to Irish Coffee, any number of the Americans have taken Irish Whiskey without having truly tasted of it and that's a fact. What happens is the fragrant coffee and the sugar cube and the cool, frothy cream on top all but drown out the principal ingredient! At no monetary loss to us, mind. It has been a real treat to watch the dear sales curve soaring.
But Profit is not all in all; Pride has its innings. We are an enormously Prideful lot when it comes to the elegant, burnished, emphatic flavor of our whiskies. This is why we should like you to buy them, to drink them, to cherish them for themselves alone.
"Ah! but there are nine grand brands of Irish Whiskey," you say, "Which to choose?" You've stated the problem well, we think, if floridly. Look, why don't you ask the man at the whiskey store for his recommendation. He will be overjoyed at your humility.
Now you've grasped our dilemma you'll no doubt be wishing to take your stand for Pride or Profit as the case may be. You'll appreciate the we must remain neutral ourselves, can't afford to do otherwise. But don't let our shilly-shallying prevent you from being forthright.
To this end we are issuing badges which we trust you will wear openly and diligently. They are quite attractive and are sure to draw admiring glances from one and all. You may obtain either the Pride Badge or the Profit Badge at no cost to yourself, that is to say, absolutely free for the asking.
Readers even took it upon themselves to organize events suggested in Gossage's "Shall It Be the Boston Coffee Party?" ad that includes an agenda. The event was held for three years.
Qantas Airways "Win a Kangaroo"
For $15,000, Gossage created a campaign to highlight Qantas Airways and its flights from the U.S. to Australia.
Gossage wrote in his essay Is There Any Hope for Advertising? that "an ad ideally ought to be like one end of an interesting conversation."
So we will be much obliged if you will fill out the attached entry blank and sen it to us. Neatness and legibility will count for next to nothing, but please try to spell Qantas without a "u". You pronounce it but you don't write it.
These ads are more than interactive or what advertisers like to call "engaging." They have you on the edge of your seat. They have you wondering what happens next -- and that's a powerful reaction.


Music festivals are one of the best parts of summer in New York City. There are places in all five boroughs that play host to some of the freshest music festivals around. We spent the weekend at Panorama NYC and as we speak…we are trying to recover. It all started Friday afternoon, went through Saturday, and came to a screeching halt on Sunday evening. We were in the building (or should we say on the island) for some of the most epic performances. One of those being the soulful sounds of Solange.
Solange was the perfect accompaniment to the Friday night sunset over Panorama NYC on Randall's Island. She came equipped with a full band, back-up singers, and one of the freshest sets we'd seen in a while. The red hue of the outfits and stage lighting were the perfect accessory for the evening. Her carefully choreographed performance was detail-oriented and kept the Panorama crowd engaged the entire time. She ran through some of her "A Seat At The Table" hits like "Don't Touch My Hair" and "Cranes In The Sky". She even took it back to the old school with a lil "Proud Family" theme song action.
We've been jamming with Solange for quite some time and it is a beautiful thing to see her on the stage. You can check some of the recap images below or hit out Instagram for recap vids. Look for her on the AfroPunk and Made In America stages later this summer.


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Dr. Makris is originally from Los Angeles, CA and received her medical training at the George Washington University Medical Center followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Drawn to both Rheumatology and Geriatrics, Dr. Makris completed her fellowship in Rheumatology at Yale University with a clinical research focus on degenerative, musculoskeletal conditions that affect older adults. She is particularly interested in elucidating the epidemiology of back pain in older adults and developing effective multi-component behavioral interventions with the goal of, ultimately, improving outcomes of back pain in this population. Dr. Makris brings to UTSW and the Dallas VAMC a strong background in general Rheumatology clinical practice and a unique clinical research interest that bridges Geriatrics and Rheumatology. Outside of medicine, Dr. Makris enjoys spending time with her husband and daughters, traveling to visit extended family, outdoor activities, and nature.
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is a Prefectural Natural Park in western Nagano Prefecture, Japan.  Established in 1952, the park's central feature is Mount Ontake. The park spans the borders of the municipalities of Kiso and Ōtaki.

See also
 National Parks of Japan

References

External links
  Map of the parks of Nagano Prefecture

Parks and gardens in Nagano Prefecture
Parks and gardens in Gifu Prefecture
Protected areas established in 1952
1952 establishments in Japan
Kiso, Nagano (town)
Ōtaki, Nagano

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• A cast of powerful characters - In the final chapter of the Banner Saga, guide more than 40 heroes to survive against the toughest odds yet, many old and familiar faces, and some new allies you've never met before, including powerful menders and, for the first time, playable dredge. Just remember that nobody is safe.
• Decisions matter - Determine the fate of your travel-weary allies with a multitude of outcomes truly tailored to the decisions you make- not just here, but carried over from previous games in the trilogy as well. Nothing is unimportant. Nothing is forgotten.
• Finely-tuned tactical combat - in a series known for innovative combat, this chapter delivers more unique and custom battles than ever before, from disturbing new warped enemies and multi-wave combat to unique and powerful heroic titles for allies that can turn the tide of battle.
• A timeless art style - the gorgeous landscapes and animation of the Banner Saga are at their best in Banner Saga 3. Explore unimaginable vistas warped in strange and beautiful ways by the Darkness, and more fully-animated story moments than both the previous games combined.


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Q: I am consuming events from IBM MQ topic using Spring JMS. When I deploy application(same artefact) more than one pod it is giving following error ERROR:

Cause: JMSCC0111: WebSphere MQ classes for JMS attempted to set a pre-existing client ID on a Connection or JMSContext.

It is durable consumer. I understand that this error comes when more than one consumer tries to consume with same clientID. But my requirement is to have multiple consumers for same topic. Same events should not be consumed by both consumers.

A: The code relating to the comments becomes:

import org.springframework.jms.config.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory;
import org.springframework.jms.config.JmsListenerContainerFactory;
import org.springframework.jms.connection.SingleConnectionFactory;

    @Bean
    public JmsListenerContainerFactory<?> myPubSubContainerFactory(SingleConnectionFactory scf) {
        DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory factory = new DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory();

        scf.setClientId("ABCD");;
        factory.setConnectionFactory(scf);

        factory.setPubSubDomain(true);  // sub
        factory.setSubscriptionDurable(true);
        factory.setSubscriptionShared(true);

        return factory;
    }

Note the use of SingleConnectionFactory to set the ClientID. If you set it on the DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory factory, you will get an error telling you to set it on SingleConnectionFactory.
The listener then is :
    @JmsListener(destination = "${topic.value}", containerFactory = "myPubSubContainerFactory")
    public void subscribe(String message) {
       ...
    }

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The members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have seized 215 tons of rice and wheat meant for open market sale (OMS) from Tejgaon and Krishi Market of Mohammadpur.
The grains were smuggled out from a government silo, Sarower Alam, executive magistrate of RAB-3, said yesterday. Two people including the manager of the government silo, Humayun Kabir, were detained, he added.
According to the executive magistrate, the grains were meant to be sold from 141 trucks at a reduced price for low-income people but instead a syndicate was selling off the grains in the black-market.
He also said the elite force members carried out a drive in Tejgaon on Saturday night when eight truckloads of rice and wheat weighing around 115 tons were being smuggled to Chuadanga, Srimangal and Maona.
Executive Magistrate Sarower Alam said another 100 tons of grains were seized from Krishi Market in Mohammadpur yesterday morning.


Weddings can go one of two ways.
Either you're tight like twins with the bride or groom — a sibling maybe, college roommate, or grandmother. You're on The Inside, recommending photographers, hosting showers, renting tuxes, giving toasts. For you, the wedding is a great day, a proud moment, a chance to recognize and celebrate someone you love dearly.
If you're on The Inside, the entire wedding is great for you. You tear up during speeches, take two hundred pictures, and dance until the lights come up, your hair sweat-glued to your forehead, big toes popping through fresh holes in your nylons at two in the morning.
If you're on The Outside, you're scoping out bridesmaids, eating other people's wedding favor chocolates, and ordering off the menu at the bar.
When you're on The Outside there is no greater wedding high than being the first table to get called up to the dinner buffet. Suddenly you're on The Inside, honorary winner of the prestigious Gets To Eat Before Everyone Else award, dipping your ladle into Alfredo sauce before it films over, toothpicking meatballs before they congeal into sugary meat pyramids, surgically removing the perfect first triangle of cheesecake before the serving dish gets all gummed up with clumpy graham cracker paste and marischino cherry glue.
Yes, you walk back to your table a newly crowned king, sitting down at your chair-facing-the-bathroom-at-Table-#31 throne, lord and ruler of your much-too-loaded plate buried in rolled up salami cold cuts, potato salad, and gherkins.
Oh, the simple pleasures. This post reminds me of the late eighties prom scene also….
This is just the most wonderful thing that could happen in life. The buffet line has a choice of either turkey, lamb, or beef, and you REALLY want that turkey, and your table gets called up first… and you take two slices instead of one! Sure, it means that the kid on the other table won't get any turkey at all, but that's his fault for being on the wrong table.
Or…the company Christmas Party…where your table of superiors is still waiting as you parade by with a happy grin!
Not only was I at the first table to go through the buffet, but our table was the big winner(s) of cash at our Christmas party!
I love the 80s prom; especially how champagne doesn't stain the taffeta.
Oh, and the big hair…sweet!
You know what's even better? Not being the first table called, but sneaking in with them anyway.
Never happened to me, but I'd imagine how awesome it probably is!
Cheers for the superb material included throughout your site, below is a small test for your blog site subscribers. Who actually cited the following quotation? . . . .Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Now adays it seems games are played, especially bride and groom trivia, and "some" people are just not that good at trivia, or too shy to speak up in front of a crowd, resulting in wedding hunger starvation or dry stale buns because even all the slabs of butter are gone!!!
Whatever happened to keeping others in mind AND the biblical teaching's of the fish and loaf of bread which fed….???!!!…how many was that?
told you I wasn't good at trivia!
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IBM Kenexa Talent Frameworks contain over 3,000 unique jobs and over 2,000 competencies specific to functions in the corporate area (for example, human resources, finance, legal, sales), in customer services, IT, banking and financial services, construction, consulting, education, energy, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, media and publishing, high-tech software and hardware, pharmaceutical, real estate, retail, and telecommunications industries.
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Model your Organisation: model the organisational structure and who validates the skill assessments of each employee.
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You probably remember this article where I described in details how to work with Maya Modules and integrate your files and plug-ins in Maya. This time, I am going to explain what changes were made in Maya to support the Autodesk Exchange Store.
To submit an application / content package on Autodesk Exchange Store, you need to follow few but important rules. The application should be self-contained and easy to install for example. Self-contained means that all files should go in one single directory structure and outside the host application directory structure. In the past, I know, many people were copying their files directly into 'c:\Program Files\Autodesk\MayaNNNN' or '/Applications/Autodesk/MayaNNNN', but for Exchange this is not allowed and unacceptable.
The Exchange approach is that you now put your application in one common place, and describe your application. Any Autodesk software watch that folder and if the application says 'I am for Maya 2014', Maya 2014 will load the application. If it says 'I am for Maya 2014, AutoCAD 2014 and 3ds Max 2014 & 2015', these 4 app/version will load the application but not the others.
The 'ApplicationPackage' and the first 'RuntimeRequirements' tags are the ones all Autodesk Application are watching to determine if the package if something they should eventually consider loading. The OS, Platform, can contain multiple values.
Nothing really new for Maya, but no more user profile text file to tell where to find a module on disk. For 3ds Max this is a completely new way for plug-ins to work with 3ds Max and would recommend using that approach instead of copying into the 3ds Max directory structure.
One new thing for Maya is that Maya will now call a <moduleName>_load.mel/.py file as soon as a module is detected. Is that _load script, it is your chance to initialize menus, shelves, or anything you want. Note this _load script is source'd right before the userSetup.mel script which gives you a chance to setup your application environment and let the user to change it if he needs to.
But, Maya will also load modules at runtime. That means you would not need to restart Maya if you decide to install an Exchange compliant application (this can be turned off if you unload the 'autoLoader' plug-in in the Plug-in Manager).
Because the files are self-contained, and we got an XML file which describe the application, it is very easy to create installers for the 3 platforms in few minutes. The MSI, PKG, and Shell script installers for Maya are entirely automated and takes only 5 minutes once you got your application working. There is no additional work to do - you give the path where to find the files, and the AppPacker tool reads the XML file and directory structure to produce all the installers. The ADN team will create these installers for you and will help you to make changes in your application for a better Exchange Store integration.
You got plug-ins for year without installer and interested to have one without knowing where to start? I got the scripts and tools on GitHub and willing to share them with individuals. If interested, drop me a line with your GitHub account name. In future, I'll make them in public repository, but at this time, I am still testing couple of more complex scenario.
Thanks for the explanation Cyrille, I've been meaning to bust apart what you did in the Red9 installer xml for me, think I'll go take another look.


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Q: React array how can i have access to all positions i've just started with coding and right now i'm fighting trying to understand arrays. Now i'm trying to create a table from a multidimensional array:

 {
                      this.state.food.map(function(item, key) {
                          return (
                            <Table.Body key={key}>
                              <Table.Row>
                                <Table.Cell>{item}</Table.Cell>
                              </Table.Row>
                            </Table.Body>
                          )
                      })
                    }

this code renders something like "chickenfishpotato"in a single cell.I want them to be separated in several cell, like:

     <Table.Cell>{item[0}</Table.Cell>--->chicken
     <Table.Cell>{item[1]}</Table.Cell>--->fish

but dinamically, i don't want to insert the position of each item. I tried to do that but it doesn't work:
{
                      this.state.food.map(function(item, key) {
                          return (
                            <Table.Body key={key}>
                            <Table.Row>
                            {
                              for(let i = 0; i < item.length; i++){
                                return(
                                <Table.Cell>{item[i]}</Table.Cell>
                                )
                              }
                            }
                              </Table.Row>
                            </Table.Body>
                          )
                      })
                    }

i can't understand what's wrong. Could you explain me?

A: Since for-loops can't be used inside JSX elements, so instead of using for loop inside render, you would use map. Assuming item is an array, you could loop over it directly,
{
                  this.state.food.map(function(item, key) {
                      return (
                        <Table.Body key={key}>
                        <Table.Row>
                        {
                          item.map(data => (
                            <Table.Cell key={data}>{data}</Table.Cell>
                            )
                          }
                          </Table.Row>
                        </Table.Body>
                      )
                  })
                }

incase item is an object , you need to loop over its keys like Object.keys(item).map() or values like Object.values(item).map()

A: As Shubham Kharti answered, you can use map instead.
Better to name this variable as items for readability, so it would be
items.map(item => <Table.Cell key={item}>{item}</Table.Cell>)
As for your code, you tried to return from for statement, but for statement doesn't create new functional scope for you, that means that when your jsx will be converted into React.createElement statements, there will be for statement that jsx doesn't know.
On the other hand Array.prototype.map will return the new array with the values you return from a passed function (first parameter)
If you would like to use for, it's possible, but with something like this
var rows = [];

for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
    rows.push(<Table.Cell>{items[i]}</Table.Cell>)
}

return rows


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<?php
namespace Phonon\Transducers\Into;

use Phonon\Transducers\IntoInterface;
use Phonon\Transducers\Transducers;

class ArrayInto implements IntoInterface
{
    public static function into($empty, $xf, $coll)
    {
        $f = function($arr, $x) {
            $arr[] = $x;
            return $arr;
        };
        return Transducers::transduce($xf, $f, $empty, $coll);
    }
}

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Did you know the Aztecs first created guacamole? The Aztecs called what we know as guacamole – "ahuaca-mulli." Ahuaca-mulli roughly translated means avocado sauce or mixture. The Aztecs' concoction was similar to the guacamole recipe we love to prepare and eat today.
Guacamole is a favorite in Mexican cuisine. Americans love to eat guacamole as a dip with tortilla chips; a condiment with tacos, fajitas or other dishes; or as a salad ingredient. In fact, Americans love guacamole so much, it's a fun dish to prepare at cooking contests.
The Yeager Office Suites of Greenwood hosted its First Annual Yeager Guac Off on February 27, 2017. In addition to the cook-off, Yeager Office Suites members socialized during the event. The competition was also organized as a charity event. The winning team of the Guac Off won $500. The money was donated in their name to their choice of one of these three charities: Boys and Girls Club, David's Well Ministries, or Paws with a Cause.
WalkEZStore Owner Kathy Carandang and Director of Customer Care Services Julie Shadinger participated in the Guac Off. They were thrilled to come in second place. Elise Hannemann, a WalkEZStore client and friend of Julie's, provided her guacamole recipe for the competition. She also contributed all the fresh ingredients.
Avocados are a New World food. They were first cultivated from South Central Mexico to as far south as Peru. The Spaniards who came to the New World loved avocados. The Spaniards considered avocados an aphrodisiac. The Spaniards liked to eat avocados with salt, with sugar or with both.
While you may think avocados are a vegetable, they're actually a fruit. More specifically, they're a single-seeded berry. In the early 1900s, avocados were often called alligator pears.
Avocados have the highest fat content of any fruit. They also have four grams of protein, the highest amount in a fruit. It's no wonder that avocados were highly regarded by the Aztecs and an important ingredient in their diet.
Today, the Hass avocado is a favorite among Americans. Most avocados grown in the U.S. come from California or Florida. Avocados grown in California are mainly the Hass variety (80%). However, six other types of avocado varieties are grown in the U.S.: Gwen, Pinkerton, Bacon, Fuerte, Reed and Zutano.
Many guacamole recipes can be found online and in cookbooks. However, good, ripe avocados are the trick to making a perfect guacamole. Then salt, lime or lemon juice, and chopped cilantro, onion, tomato and chiles are added. But, the secret to good guacamole is in the amount of ingredients and the preparation. For this reason, guacamole cooking competitions are so much fun – and yummy when it comes to tasting the competition's recipes.
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Låpsley Explores Tbilisi's Emerging Club Scene
The British producer and singer takes us behind the scenes of the booming clubs of the Georgian capital in our latest doc, presented by YouTube Music.
by THUMP Staff
Dec 14 2016, 3:00pm
Låpsley is a rising British producer and singer, who released her debut album Long Way Home earlier this year on XL. In our latest documentary, presented by YouTube Music, the talented musician demonstrates a different skill set: she's also an intrepid music journalist, taking us into the heart of the blossoming electronic music scene in Tbilisi, Georgia. There, electronic music has become a powerful force among a younger generation who crave space to be themselves. We meet the DJs, promoters and producers responsible for crafting a new environment of tolerance and political action on dance floors hidden within the city's towering Soviet architecture. We go to clubs under football stadiums and in cafes, and the city's only record store; we meet fearless techno producers and promoters who risked it all to dance. Come with us as we explore one of the world's most exciting scenes.
Lapsley


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Q: scope and class method with the same name I'm trying to use the Mailboxer Gem and I ran into problems when creating a conversations controller.
Now when I call current_user.mailbox.inbox I get the following:
You tried to define a scope named "new" on the model "Mailboxer::Conversation", but Active Record already defined a class method with the same name.

I have removed my conversations controller and actions but this is still showing.
Is it possible that a Gem Scope and method are clashing? perhaps the rails g controller added files else where?
Below is the model where the scope is defined. (This is from the Mailboxer Gem)
    class Mailboxer::Conversation < ActiveRecord::Base
  self.table_name = :mailboxer_conversations

  attr_accessible :subject if Mailboxer.protected_attributes?

  has_many :opt_outs, :dependent => :destroy, :class_name => "Mailboxer::Conversation::OptOut"
  has_many :messages, :dependent => :destroy, :class_name => "Mailboxer::Message"
  has_many :receipts, :through => :messages,  :class_name => "Mailboxer::Receipt"

  validates :subject, :presence => true,
                      :length => { :maximum => Mailboxer.subject_max_length }

  before_validation :clean

  scope :participant, lambda {|participant|
    where('mailboxer_notifications.type'=> Mailboxer::Message.name).
    order("mailboxer_conversations.updated_at DESC").
    joins(:receipts).merge(Mailboxer::Receipt.recipient(participant)).uniq
  }
  scope :inbox, lambda {|participant|
    participant(participant).merge(Mailboxer::Receipt.inbox.not_trash.not_deleted)
  }
  scope :sentbox, lambda {|participant|
    participant(participant).merge(Mailboxer::Receipt.sentbox.not_trash.not_deleted)
  }
  scope :new, lambda {|participant|
    participant(participant).merge(Mailboxer::Receipt.trash)
  }
  scope :unread,  lambda {|participant|
    participant(participant).merge(Mailboxer::Receipt.is_unread)
  }
  scope :not_trash,  lambda {|participant|
    participant(participant).merge(Mailboxer::Receipt.not_trash)
  }

  #Mark the conversation as read for one of the participants
  def mark_as_read(participant)
    return unless participant
    receipts_for(participant).mark_as_read
  end

  #Mark the conversation as unread for one of the participants
  def mark_as_unread(participant)
    return unless participant
    receipts_for(participant).mark_as_unread
  end

  #Move the conversation to the trash for one of the participants
  def move_to_trash(participant)
    return unless participant
    receipts_for(participant).move_to_trash
  end

  #Takes the conversation out of the trash for one of the participants
  def untrash(participant)
    return unless participant
    receipts_for(participant).untrash
  end

  #Mark the conversation as deleted for one of the participants
  def mark_as_deleted(participant)
    return unless participant
    deleted_receipts = receipts_for(participant).mark_as_deleted
    if is_orphaned?
      destroy
    else
      deleted_receipts
    end
  end

  #Returns an array of participants
  def recipients
    return [] unless original_message
    Array original_message.recipients
  end

  #Returns an array of participants
  def participants
    recipients
  end

  #Originator of the conversation.
  def originator
    @originator ||= original_message.sender
  end

  #First message of the conversation.
  def original_message
    @original_message ||= messages.order('created_at').first
  end

  #Sender of the last message.
  def last_sender
    @last_sender ||= last_message.sender
  end

  #Last message in the conversation.
  def last_message
    @last_message ||= messages.order('created_at DESC').first
  end

  #Returns the receipts of the conversation for one participants
  def receipts_for(participant)
    Mailboxer::Receipt.conversation(self).recipient(participant)
  end

  #Returns the number of messages of the conversation
  def count_messages
    Mailboxer::Message.conversation(self).count
  end

  #Returns true if the messageable is a participant of the conversation
  def is_participant?(participant)
    return false unless participant
    receipts_for(participant).any?
  end

    #Adds a new participant to the conversation
    def add_participant(participant)
        messages.each do |message|
      Mailboxer::ReceiptBuilder.new({
        :notification => message,
        :receiver     => participant,
        :updated_at   => message.updated_at,
        :created_at   => message.created_at
      }).build.save
        end
    end

  #Returns true if the participant has at least one trashed message of the conversation
  def is_trashed?(participant)
    return false unless participant
    receipts_for(participant).new.count != 0
  end

  #Returns true if the participant has deleted the conversation
  def is_deleted?(participant)
    return false unless participant
    return receipts_for(participant).deleted.count == receipts_for(participant).count
  end

  #Returns true if both participants have deleted the conversation
  def is_orphaned?
    participants.reduce(true) do |is_orphaned, participant|
      is_orphaned && is_deleted?(participant)
    end
  end

  #Returns true if the participant has trashed all the messages of the conversation
  def is_completely_trashed?(participant)
    return false unless participant
    receipts_for(participant).new.count == receipts_for(participant).count
  end

  def is_read?(participant)
    !is_unread?(participant)
  end

  #Returns true if the participant has at least one unread message of the conversation
  def is_unread?(participant)
    return false unless participant
    receipts_for(participant).not_trash.is_unread.count != 0
  end

  # Creates a opt out object
  # because by default all particpants are opt in
  def opt_out(participant)
    return unless has_subscriber?(participant)
    opt_outs.create(:unsubscriber => participant)
  end

  # Destroys opt out object if any
  # a participant outside of the discussion is, yet, not meant to optin
  def opt_in(participant)
    opt_outs.unsubscriber(participant).destroy_all
  end

  # tells if participant is opt in
  def has_subscriber?(participant)
    !opt_outs.unsubscriber(participant).any?
  end

  protected

  #Use the default sanitize to clean the conversation subject
  def clean
    self.subject = sanitize subject
  end

  def sanitize(text)
    ::Mailboxer::Cleaner.instance.sanitize(text)
  end
end

A: As you can see you have:
  scope :new, lambda {|participant|
    participant(participant).merge(Mailboxer::Receipt.trash)
  }

Which is already defined in ActiveRecord::Base
Mailboxer::Conversation.new

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"Fille d'Ève" by Emmanuel Villanis
A stunning late 19th Century French Art Nouveau bronze bust of a beautiful young woman holding an apple representing the Biblical character of 'Eve', partly clothed in elegant classical attire with long flowing hair. The surface of the bronze having very fine rich brown multi-hued patination. Signed E Villanis, titled to fore and with Societé des Bronzes de Paris seal.
Condition: Excellent Condition
Page No: 82
Villanis Fille D'Ève
Emmanuel Villanis was an industrious man. He is believed to have created some 200 to 250 pieces. His oeuvre pre-eminently consisted of busts and full body statues. Most of these were manufactured in bronze, but there are also models in white metal and terra cotta. Different patinas were used. The bronzes were mainly cast by the Societé de Bronzes de Paris and can be recognised by the round stamp (cachet) at the back of the statue. In addition, reliefs, vases, lamps, clocks and ink stands are recorded . Vases and lamps were mostly made of tin, and there are also marble statues. Pieces in which ivory is used are as rare as silver statues.
Villanis was inspired by women. He dedicated almost his complete works to them. One model in particular was portrayed many times by him. His portrayals of children may be less known, but are nevertheless wonderfully done. His statues are always in perfect proportion and are full of expression: dreamy-eyed, happy, sirene, indifferent, cheeky, serious, sad, detached, melancholy.
His style can always be recognised by his use of hollowed out eyeballs. The name of the statue can usually be found on the base in scrolled script and the signature of Emmanuel Villanis is always visible and legible.
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"He is an artist, a master of his craft. He follows a thread of an idea or a small personal moment, and creates music that's thoughtful, sometimes whimsical, but always beautiful. His concerts touch hearts, bringing joy and comfort to our audiences, who are always eager for more."
Todd DeGarmo, Founding Director, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY
Quotes for the Bob Warren & Joy MacKenzie duo
"You can hear the excitement of new beginnings in the music Bob Warren is creating with Joy MacKenzie. His intimate and poignant lyrics are perfectly suited to the spare orchestration of a folk duo. Their voices blend intuitively and tenderly in rich harmony that makes the songs dig deep, and then soar."
Sarah Craig, Booking and Management, Caffé Lena
"Bob Warren & Joy MacKenzie's recent performance at WAMC's The Linda, broadcast live, blew the socks off those who were there, let alone the thousands in the radio listening audience."
Andrzej Pilarczyk- Nippertown
Full Review: All the Days of the World
"Greenwich-based tunesmith Bob Warren is certainly one of the North Country's most prolific singer-songwriters, and his new 10-song album stands with the very best of his work.
"The follow-up to last year's You Taught Me Something New Today (a duet album with Joy MacKenzie), All the Days of the World opens up with "It's for You," a poignant, straight-up song of unconditional love, followed by "A Boy, a Glove, a Ball and Bat," a wistfully nostalgic ballad that isn't really about baseball at all, but rather the power of memory.
"Throughout the disc, Warren mixes pitch-perfect word-play, keen observations, evocative insights and the influences of such A-list songsmiths as Randy Newman and Lyle Lovett, particularly on the bluesy swing of "Contact Low" and "Writer's Block," a jaunty, upbeat finger-pickin' ode to the curse of writers everywhere that name-checks Shakespeare, Harper Lee and J.D. Salinger along the way.
"But the highlight of All the Days of the World is the haunting soul ballad, "There's No Turning Back," with bassist Tony Markellis and organist Matt Donnelly underpinning Warren's best vocal performance, which slips gracefully into a John Hiatt-like, heartache-filled falsetto."
Full Review: You Taught Me Something New Today
"Veteran acoustic performer Bob Warren, from the mountains of northern New York, has teamed up with a relative newcomer, singer Joy Mackenzie, from the mountains of northern California, for a starkly beautiful collection of songs called You Taught Me Something New Today.
"Along with bassist Tony Markellis, the two sing finely crafted songs that were composed by Warren, and brought to breathtakingly beautiful life by all three.
"It starts off with the formidable "Lonely Tonight," a deep and dark place where Warren sings, "I feel lonely tonight, not because I'm alone," the chemistry between the players is uncanny.
"The simply gorgeous, well-constructed "Home" follows, and you start to feel the depth of their vocal blend. With the haunting, dark "One Day," Joy takes the reins with stunning results; the insightful title track "You Taught Me Something New Today" is a highlight, as is the bluesy ode to changes "He Don't Live Here Anymore.""
"Although this is billed as a "bare bones" record, there's nothing missing or lacking here. The voices are heavenly, the blend out of this world, and the understated but well-played stringed instruments are just enough, and not a note too many, as it should be."
David Malachowski, The Times Union
Full Review: Bob Warren
"North country singer-songwriter Bob Warren has been mighty busy during the past several years.
"He wrote "Passages," a dance-music-narrative about the Underground Railroad. He wrote and recorded "Greenwich the Musical," a stage musical about his hometown. He wrote and recorded "Only the Message Mattered," a song cycle about the life of Susan B. Anthony.
"He also wrote and co-produced Mallory O'Donnell's debut album, "Joy," and also produced albums for Gary Moon and Cara Satalino.
"In fact, he's been so busy that he didn't seem to have time to record an album of his own since 2002's "Clear Connection."
"Fortunately, "Bob Warren" corrects that oversight. As he explains in the liner notes, "Along the way, a bunch of other songs got written, my authorship being the only common denominator, and so, well ... here I go again! Here is a collection of songs that a sensible person would not put in the basket."
"And while it is a mighty diverse batch of songs, the variety only enhances Warren's stature as one of Nippertown's most astute and versatile songwriters.
"Co-produced by Warren and bassist Tony Markellis, the 11 songs were recorded at Edie Road Recording Studios and Hilltop Recording Studios in Greenwich with an array of musicians including Danny Whelchel, Don Warren, Paul Asbell, the late Richard Bell, Peg Delaney, Monica Wilson-Roach and others.
"Overall, the album's songs probably fit best in the folk-rock category, but Warren seems to draw inspiration from some of the best. "Better Than to Pray Like That" is a wry, gospel-influenced ditty that drips with Randy Newman-like insight. Warren Zevon's influence seeps into the harmonica-wheezing stomp of "Pitiful Man." And Lyle Lovett should consider covering the kiss-off, "He Don't Live Here Anymore."
"There's the bent-but-not-broken folk ballad, "Prove Me Wrong," looking back at the we-can-change-the-world idealism of the '60s. There are a couple of fine songs that pay homage to the joys of North Country living ("The Battenkill" and the jaunty, jazzy, Harry Nilsson-like "And to Live Right Here"). And then there's the horn-fueled jazz-blues of the album's closer, "Life, Love & the Pursuit of Happiness," that simply celebrates life.
"And Warren takes a wholly expected turn with "Patio Set," transforming a mundane suburban noise complaint into a raging, arena-rock anthem. Too funny ..."
Nippertown
"Bob Warren is a musical child of the 60s. His brilliant self-penned songs and stellar performances are beyond great because of their simplicity of form. They evoke the melodies of The Beatles, the early Stones, Jefferson Airplane and a host of other bands of that era. But what makes Warren unique and not a clone of that time is his musical honesty. His truthfulness to the art form of song-writing goes beyond mimicry of any sort, he creates within a continuum of a style. It has the feel and texture of the past, but pulled up into the contemporary now. You walk away humming several of his songs after his concerts.
"Just think about it: Bob Warren lives in Greenwich, New York; few from out of the area know where that is. He privately teaches music to hopefuls that want to make it some way, some how; however, the world of contemporary music comes to him. For real!
"Country superstar Hal Ketchum, Jam-band God, Trey Anastasio (Phish), and many others have lent their talents to a Bob Warren recording or two. His handful of CDs are all filled with gargantuan talent from those in his band or those who guest on a song or two.
"And there is another thing, Bob Warren has a nose for sniffing out incredible female vocal talent. His newest find Joy MacKenzie is a songbird to be reckoned with. Their recent performance at WAMC's The Linda, broadcast live, blew the socks off those who were there, let alone the thousands in the radio listening audience.
"Last, but not least, I was scheduled as a photographer-reviewer to see and shoot Bob Warren and his band at the famed Caffé Lena's. Both shows were sold out, and I couldn't make it for health reasons. I've missed hugely popular groups (The Moody Blues, Carrie Underwood and Santana, among others, due to scheduling difficulties), but missing Bob Warren and his current group hit me as a loss. No joke — he and his compatriots on the band-stand are that good!"
Andrzej Pilarczyk, Nippertown


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Maj Hemberg (* 12. September 1906 in Stockholm; † 22. Dezember 1992 ebenda) war eine schwedische Malerin und Grafikerin.

Leben und Werk
Maj (eigentlich Marta Ester Laurentia) Hemberg war die Tochter des schwedischen Journalisten Oscar Hemberg (1881–1944) und dessen erster Frau Clara Laurentia, geb. Antonsson (1883–1955). Sie hatte zwei Schwestern.

Sie studierte an der Hochschule für bildende Künste Weimar und der Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Danach arbeitete sie in Dresden als freiberufliche Malerin. Sie wohnte mit ihrer Schwester Ann-Lis Ebba Laurentia Hemberg (1905–1975) in der Struvestraße 23.

Maj Hemberg gehörte zu einem Kreis linksgerichteter Dresdner Intellektueller, die sich in ihrer Wohnung trafen, darunter Otto Dix, Annelies Hager, Will Grohmann, Eric Johansson, Edmund Kesting und Wilhelm Lachnit.

Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ging sie 1945 nach Schweden zurück und arbeitete weiter künstlerisch.

Maj Hemberg schuf vor allem expressive Holz- und Linolschnitte. Beim Bombardement Dresdens wurde 1945 ihre Wohnung mit allen ihren Arbeiten von 1922 bis 1945 zerstört.

Maj Hemberg ist im Familiengrab der Großeltern auf dem mittleren Friedhof Malmö Sankt Pauli begraben, wo auch ihre Mutter und eine Schwester ruhen.

Holz- und Linolschnitte von Maj Hemberg sind auf dem aktuellen Kunstmarkt präsent.

Darstellung Maj Hembergs in der bildenden Kunst

 Eric Johansson: Portrait der Malerin Maj Hemberg (Öl auf Holz; 61 × 45 cm)

Ausstellungen

 1932: Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein Dresden, Brühlsche Terrasse (1. Ausstellung der Dresdner Secession 1932; Beteiligung als Gast)
 1965: Leipzig, Internationale Buchkunstausstellung

Weblinks

 https://schmidt-auktionen.de/12_katalog_online.php?&kue=4750
 https://auktionsverket.com/arkiv/online/827802

Einzelnachweise

Maler (Schweden)
Grafiker (Schweden)
Schwede
Geboren 1906
Gestorben 1992
Frau


Spend an afternoon in the beautiful new workshop space, Gather and Mill, learning how to create your own unique version of the traditional holiday wreath or swag. Angie Tomey of Little Boy Flowers, will guide you through the process of designing your favorite version of wall hanging using locally available materials. All materials included as well as refreshments.


What in the World is a Carnegie Unit?
For most people, the words "Carnegie Unit" cause a blank stare. Yet, these words have meaning for the every day lives of high schoolers all over America. You see, the Carnegie unit is a reference referring to time. It is used to measure educational attainment for secondary school education. Historically, the Carnegie Unit is "120 hours of class or contact time with an instructor over the course of a year at the secondary (American high school) level." (Wikipedia) This, in reality, is an hour per day five days a week for 24 weeks, or as most high schools do, 50 minutes per day 5 days a week for 30 weeks. A two semester course will yield 1 whole Carnegie Unit while a one semester course will yield the student ½ Carnegie Unit.
These units were designed as a way to standardized the educational process. This enabled schools across the country to give the same amount of education over the course of the year for the same amount of high school "credit." Charles W. Eliot organized this idea, and in 1894 the National Education Association endorsed this standardization.
So, how does this translate to homeschoolers? If we look at this literally, then it should mean that we must spend 180 days of study in a particular subject at the rate of 50 minutes per day, five days per week, and thirty weeks per year. For many homeschoolers, their particular state requires a 180 school day calendar. However, the amount of time spent on each subject per day can get rather subjective. With that in mind, we all know that high school courses have interruptions, discipline problems, and many other things that take away from the full 50 minutes of instruction per day. In reference to the example from Georgia, that state is expected somewhere between 135 and 180 hours of instruction for each Carnegie Unit granted. The purpose of the Carnegie Unit is to streamline and standardize the educational process for college entry.
It is very important that homeschoolers find out their state's guidelines. This will give guidance as to how many hours of instruction are required for each Carnegie Unit the student earns. So, following your state's guidelines, and keeping in mind what the Carnegie Unit consists of – homeschoolers can wisely grant student's credit where credit is due!
In this and many other websites, I easily get the definition of Carnegie Unit as it applies to public school. But how does it apply to home school? Are we assuming that public schools assign home work in addition to the 120 hours classroom time? I have been told to figure 200 hours for a home school high school English credit. Is that number a little high? My state does not require Carnegie units, but I would like to know what I am shooting for when I make English plans for my student.
Great article. I'd heard of Carnegie Units, so this article pulled everything together for me.


If not for the candles and statue of the Virgin Mary, the slick and menacing room into which José Gutierrez (Roberto Urbina) is thrust—blindfolded and bloody, a rope (possibly a bootlace) gagging his mouth—could have been leased out to the young man's kidnappers by Jigsaw. (Even the view-askew shots of poor José on the floor—the type of shorthand that means to convey his disorientated state by disorienting the audience—are cribbed from Saw.) As for the skeleton of this most allusive film, it's a sturdy beast whose sense of urgency recalls 24 and whose reliance on flashback feels indebted to Lost: The story of José's kidnapping and his parents' efforts to save him without involving police is lined with arcs that cast far-reaching shadows on each other, and as such the film evokes the stickiness of a tangled web.
This is a well-made film, even admirable given that it avoids the histrionics of the vile Secuestro Express and the pretense and remove of Send a Bullet, but writer-director Antonio Negret only alludes to the seriousness of his volatile social setting. Through José's relationship to Luiza (America Ferrera), the film's strongest angle, Negret grapples with the baggage of people straying from their native cultures (his kidnapping may be seen as a repercussion of sorts), but the story of a former C.I.A. man's search for José is a distraction, beginning as empty spiel on the different government organizations butting heads within Colombia post-9/11 and devolving into pap when its revealed why the agent is so gung-ho about saving José, though it mostly functions as an advisory of the suckitude of being stuck in traffic. This is to say nothing of the guerrillas who also attempt to rescue José, an angle that allows for overhead shots of Colombia's lush forestland but casts light on nothing else, or the story of José's kidnappers and what led them to their crime, which doesn't grapple hard enough with their desperation or delve deep enough into lower-class malaise.
Negret attempts to balance the graceful with the heavy-handed, so it's not uncommon for a sensitive evocation of familial dynamics (like José's father acknowledging his child's photography, or his mother jokingly admonishing him for drinking beer before taking a sip herself from his bottle, then—after he's been kidnapped—glancing sadly at a pair of jeans he left behind, no doubt contemplating the beers they may never share again) to follow an intense car chase through winding streets. But the scales, more often than not, tip toward the fatuous, as in the repeated appearances by Mary and her son Jesus, and a naughty angel sitting atop a tomb that doesn't harbor a dead boy, only an arsenal of weapons. This succinct but nonetheless easy expression of how the political, familial, and religious cross paths in Colombia exemplifies how Towards Darkness only scratches the surface of the things.


The bomber jacket–an effortless outerwear style. It is a popular transition piece during a time of awkward transition phase from fall-winter when you're stuck in deciding if you should wear something light or heavy.
The bomber jacket (or varsity/flight jacket) was a military flight jacket that was used in WWI when pilots were required to wear something durable and warm. Now it has become a popular trend for both men and women. Here are some ways to style your bomber jacket.
The popular green bomber jacket goes well with everything–can't decide what to wear? Throw on the army greens and some avi's and you're set! This look can "un-basic" a basic outfit.
There are some days where you want to wear that cute dress, but it looks way too formal for casual wear. Sporty that posh look with a bomber!
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This event will bring together scholars, artists and activists to discuss the presence and absence of black and minority ethnic Britons on the UK's National Curriculum and seek to celebrate the contributions of Britons, of all backgrounds, to the history of the United Kingdom. A panel of contributors will discuss ways that BME British experiences have been marginalised from the histories taught in schools, and how teachers, scholars, community leaders, and politicians can work to ensure that these stories and experiences are taught and understood as British History. How can we make the teaching of history more inclusive and less Eurocentric? Is it time to teach the British movement for civil rights? What are the implications of the ways we teach and understand British history for public history, memory and policy making?
Rather than following a standard panel format, this event will also include space for the audience to experience black and Asian British cultural contributions. The evening will include special contributions by poets and performers, including Momtaza Mehri, the Young People's Laureate for London, and Hannah Lowe.
This event is presented in partnership by the Runnymede Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
Time: Doors and drinks at 18.00, 18.30 start. Ends 20.15. Drinks until 20.45.


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ZX Spectrum emulator for Orange SPV C500 and C550.
An emulator for the gameboy colour system.
You'll need roms of the games you want to play and please don't ask for them here because it is illegal to trade game roms.
An emulator of the SNES console for smartphones.
This program runs pretty slowly, it is almost acceptable speed for non-action games on a C500 or better spec phone.
You will need roms of the games and please don't ask for them here as trading rom files is illegal.
It's a bit rough and ready, but runs a fair amount of programs.
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Please don't discuss copying spectrum software here because of copyright issues.


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