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Police investigate the scene where an individual used a car to crash into a group of students outside of Watts Hall on the Ohio State University campus on Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. At least nine people were injured when a suspect reportedly drove into a crowd of pedestrians and slashed several people with a knife before being fatally shot by university police. Kirk Irwin/Getty Images
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11:00 AMOur thoughts go out to Brazil's Chapecoense soccer club, whose team was on a plane that went down on its way to a match in Colombia. There are only five survivors as of Tuesday morning. This image is heartbreaking.
A scary scene played out Monday on Ohio State University's campus. What started off as an active shooter report, with social media posts showing students barricading themselves in classrooms and checking in safely on Facebook, turned out to be a very different story. An assailant drove a car into several people, striking them, then got out and started stabbing people. What's crazy is that there's a sense of relief that this person chose not to use a gun. ABC News has the details on what quickly became what's known as a "run, hide, fight" situation.
Beauty pageants typically aren't a place to find progressiveness. Between the very nature of the events, the types of people who choose to be in them, the folks who populate the surrounding industry and those who enjoy watching them, they're not a place where you normally stop and think, 'This is new and exciting.' But in Minneapolis, one woman is changing that. Her name is Halima Aden, and she participated in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant. She's Muslim, and she found a way to make it work.
If you write for a living on the internet, you have thoughts about commenters. There are two main schools: the "never read them" side and the "reader engagement" side. Both have merits and both can be important, be it for maintaining your job or sanity, two things which often are not working in conjunction with each other, alas, in this business. Anyway, there's also the matter of the commenters themselves. Why do you choose to do this? FiveThirtyEight asked 8,500 commenters this question.
College basketball is full of surprises. From time to time you get to see something so bizarre that you're not really sure what you just watched, particularly when you move below the level of teams that have a chance to make it to the Final Four. So, Monday night, when a clip of Bryant vs. Brown crossed my desk, I assumed it was going to be some wild buzzer beater that involved a bunch of kids looking like they were still in high school going buckwild over a game nobody otherwise would know about. Alas, not the case. It was far more unfortunate.
Coffee Break: Old heads love to tell you about why hip-hop back in the day was so much better than it is now. Be it because of the "realness" of the genre then vs. now, or the priority of lyrics over production or whatever. Listen to Questlove explain why that still needs to be a stance that matters.
Snack Time: Are you tired of looking at other people's babies on social media? Well, people have been doing it for years, back before computers were even a concept anyone could fathom. Behold: the baby show.
Dessert: Were you looking for an extended interview with The Weeknd? You're in luck.
Rapper Kanye West performs on World AIDS Day at 'A (RED) Thank You,' presented by (Bank of America) RED on Dec. 1, 2014, in New York City. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for (RED)
Keeping up with Kanye
It's been a rough couple of weeks for the rapper
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Now that we have a better idea of what's going on with Kanye West after his emergency hospitalization, let's take a look at how things shook out over the Thanksgiving holiday. Dealing with one's own family is enough of a pain, and now that we're all back to reality, we'll catch you up.
To begin with, apparently what we're looking at with Yeezy is a mental health issue. Any armchair doctor could have taken that guess, but per TMZ, the situation at the hospital is a pretty stressful one. It started with the robbery in Paris of Kim Kardashian. Then, things spiraled from there and the election found him on stage ranting about Donald Trump and the powers that be in the entertainment industry. Now, he's apparently concerned that people are trying to affect his relationship with his wife.
However, his art is still motivating people and creating spaces for people to succeed. Which is ultimately what he's done better than almost any other rapper of his era not named Gucci Mane. At the Soul Train Awards, Teyana Taylor won an award for Best Dance Performance for her work in Fade, the Flashdance-inspired banger of a video that had people all over the country headed back to the gym well before their New Year's resolutions guilted them into it.
In addition, Lil B has decided that now's the time to come out with that Black Ken mixtape that we've sort of known about for the better part of a decade now, according to XXL. He released the original title track back in 2010, when Mr. West was just hitting the height of his powers. Who knows why, and it's not like it takes much for The Based God to drop new heat, but there's something particularly appealing about where this comes from.
Not to mention that the parallels between Ye's life and the concept of being a black Ken are definitely there. Even if Jay Z did already play the part for Halloween this year, there's no way to really know if the two things would be coincidence or happenstance. Meaning, only the release will tell us how much Kanye might have affected Lil B's creative process. The track Black Ken itself is a throwback beat with a flipped soul beat that West made so famous, so there's a good chance.
I'm excited to announce the purchase of Kanye's childhood home as a community Arts incubator. It will be the first of our Nationwide Lite-Houses. A state of the art recording studio, a curriculum space for @dondashouse and southside music museam. We want to show bright spots in communities thatve been divested from, we know more Lights exist here, they just need to be activated. Please click the link in my bio & Donate to DondasHouse, support our efforts to support our youth. #givingtuesday
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Bringing it all the way home, however, are the goals of Rhymefest. You know him. Yeezus' former co-writer who had a very public split with him back in February, and pretty plainly laid out exactly what was going on. He said in no uncertain terms that mental and spiritual help were what The Life of Pablo creator needed. Not only did he prove to be prescient on that, he's also doing his best to make sure that Ye's latest troubles don't lead to the desecration of his memory overall.
Rhymefest bought Ye's childhood home recently and plans to turn it into an arts center. Many people have long speculated that West was never the same after his mother, Donda West, died back in 2007. For an ex-member of his crew to find a way to repurpose what is effectively a memorial haunt is not only incredibly thoughtful, but also brilliant.
"I'm excited to announce the purchase of Kanye's childhood home as a community arts incubator," Rhymefest wrote on Instagram. "It will be the first of our Nationwide Lite-Houses. A state of the art recording studio, a curriculum space for @dondashouse and southside music museum. We want to show bright spots in communities that've been divested from, we know more lights exist here, they just need to be activated."
While West's wife and family are by his side, his boy has his back.
Workers hang a giant banner with a picture of Cuba's late leader, Fidel Castro, as a young revolutionary, from the Cuban National Library building, in Havana on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016. Cuba's government has declared nine days of national mourning following Castro's death Friday night at age 90. AP Photo/Desmond Boylan
Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies at 90
11:39 AMHey y'all, hope your Thanksgivings went well! We recorded a podcast before the break, if you missed it. Download here or listen here.
Across the globe, Fidel Castro's reputation was infamous. While he was lauded by some people for standing up for what some viewed as his country's people, he was also notorious for the human rights violations his government imposed on them. As a politician, he was obviously a character. But his death marks an interesting point in Cuban-American relations, considering what President Barack Obama has done. Here's a look at Castro's life in pictures over the years and in Havana, and the crowds that are lining up to pay homage to the late dictator.
Donald Trump couldn't make it through the weekend without something. After Jill Stein and others mounted campaigns to potentially recount votes in some states, the president-elect went on a couple tweet storms in which he not only claimed that "the people had spoken" — which, if you understand anything about the electoral college, is not true — but also lobbed the notion that millions of people illegally voted for Hillary Clinton. This is known as doubling down, in the business. ABC News' Katherine Faulder explains.
Today's a great day if you like shopping. The thrill of shopping online is that you can literally not move and outfit your entire place with enough useless junk to make you feel like you're not alone through the holidays. In all seriousness, though, it is pretty fun. Today's the biggest day for that nationally, but there are some downsides. No. 1, always beware the okey doke. There are no shortage of fools who will fall for anything, just because it's on their screen. There's a larger question here, though. With so many early deals, does Cyber Monday matter?
It was a rough day for the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. While they were being handed their 12th loss of the season, courtesy the New York Football Giants, things went awry when Odell Beckham Jr. decided to openly taunt the crowd with a rather famous impression. Instead of his usual kicking net antics, he went full LeBron James, hitting his signature powder toss as well as big shot reaction. All of this happened in Cleveland. Meanwhile, after the game, head coach Hue Jackson legit shed a tear on the podium because he's just had enough of losing.
Coffee Break: Dylann Roof is the kid who shot and killed a bunch of people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, then had a bunch of police officers take him to Burger King after he got arrested, because he might be hungry. Now, he apparently wants to represent himself at trial. A judge has granted him that opportunity. Major wow there.
Snack Time: We've all seen a lot of racist foolishness in our lives, but this one story from Richmond, Virginia, is just beyond insane. Apparently, two men walked into a CVS looking for cheese. What happened next is really odd.
Dessert: Remember those $66 collard greens? Well, someone reviewed them, and it was hilarious.
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By Kurt HelinOct 28, 2010, 1:50 PM EDT
My god Blake Griffin.
This was his first NBA basket, and it wasn't even his best of the night. The guy electrified Staples Center had had people talking about him being the second best basketball player in Los Angeles right now. (Fourth or fifth may be more accurate, which after one game is gigantic.)
Every season there is one team or one player that becomes the buzz guy. The guy that becomes an NBA League Pass favorite. The guy East Coasters stay up to watch. Blake Griffin may be that guy. His game is monster and he's having so much fun. He's just excited to be on the court.
This would be awesome for the Clippers, but they lost again. As expected. To a good Portland squad. If you want to know what held the Clippers back on a night of explosion, check out this line: 3 of 11 shooting, 0-for-3 from deep, 3 assists, 4 turnovers. Bad execution down the stretch.
Meet Baron Davis. The guy with the ball in his hands for the Clippers.
Davis is not the entire problem here. Ryan Gomes started at the three and struggled. Chris Kaman was 4 of 18 shooting. The execution issues during the Blazers 15-0 run in the fourth were team-wide (and include Griffin).
And to his credit, after the game Davis admitted that right now he is not where he needs to be, that he needs to perform better than he did Wednesday night.
But you felt the hope in Clippers Nation during this game. There should be. Griffin and Eric Gordon alone speak to a future of potential. But you watch the same old Davis and you feel an anchor on it. Which is just sad. And very Clippers.
However, it wouldn't be a surprise to see the record fall when LeBron returns to Los Angeles on Feb. 7 or Feb. 9.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid won the battle of MVP candidates with 47 points and 18 rebounds as the Philadelphia 76ers extended their winning streak to seven games with a 126-119 win over Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets on Saturday.
Jokic and Embiid have finished first and second in voting for the NBA's Most Valuable Player award over the last two seasons. Both are among the top candidates for MVP as this season hits the halfway mark, although Embiid was not named among the All-Star starters from the Eastern Conference.
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"I'm used to it and it's not the first time," Embiid said. "I think it's more of a motivation to go out there and try to win the whole thing. That's the only way that I'll get that respect."
Jokic gave Embiid a nod for his play.
"He's really talented," Jokic told the Denver Post of Embiid. "Really shifty."
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James Harden had 17 points and 13 assists, and Tobias Harris scored all 14 of his points in the second half after being shut down by Denver's defense in the first half.
"We were able to figure some things out and get some stops," Harris said. "Guys stepping up and making shots was huge for us to cut the deficit in the fourth quarter to try and make something happen."
Jokic had 24 points, eight rebounds and nine assists for Denver, which has lost three of its last four games. Jamal Murray chipped in 22 points and Michael Porter added 20.
"We turned it over and they just turned up the pressure on us," Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. "They got to the basket way too easy with their attack mentality. And we just got way too careless with the basketball."
Embiid has scored 40 or more points nine times this season and 35 times in his career. In addition to the All-Star snub, Embiid was also given a $25,000 fine by the NBA on Friday for an on-court demonstration after-basket celebration during Wednesday night's win over Brooklyn.
"Let's keep offending Joel by fining him and not putting him among the All-Star starters," Philadelphia coach Doc Rivers said sarcastically.
The Nuggets began the day with the second-best team field goal percentage at 50.7% and tops in 3-point percentage at 39.5%. In the first half, they overwhelmed Philadelphia's perimeter defense, shooting 65.9% (29 for 44) from the floor and 10 of 17 (58.8%) from beyond the 3-point line. The hot shooting helped the Nuggets to a 73-58 lead at halftime.
Embiid started to take over toward the end of the third quarter, putting together a 16-point quarter on 5-of-6 shooting that keyed a 14-0 run that allowed the Sixers to close within 99-98 early in the fourth.
In the final quarter, Philadelphia wore down a Nuggets team playing the final game of a three-game, week-long trip. P.J. Tucker– who had switched defenively to Jokic and slowed him down in the second half- followed a Harden missed 3-pointer with a tip-in with over a minute left to stretch the lead to five. Embiid then hit a 3-pointer to restore an eight-point lead.
"I've always like to think I am a closer and I am," Embiid said. "Taking the last shot or taking a last second shot with the clock ticking is fun for me. I love getting into those types of possession where you have to make the plays. That's where you find out who is who and who is made up for those kinds of moments."
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The tale of two cities
Throughout the book, A Tale of Two Cities the theme of sacrifice is used to help the reader realize the cost of life, as well as to develop the plot through the effects of those sacrifices. Through the characters of Sydney Carton, Dr. Manette, and Ms. Pross the theme of sacrifice is developed. The theme of sacrifice brings key aspects of the plot together, and Carton's sacrifice brings the novel to closer in the end.
Sydney Carton paid the highest cost of sacrifice with his life, and in doing so he was very similar to Jesus Christ. Carton laid down his life for a man who had never done anything for him and who in fact had abused his relationship as demonstrated on page 191 when Carton describes himself in Darnay's view as "a dissolute dog who has never done any good, and never will." Similarly Jesus Christ let himself be beaten, abused, and killed for the same people who spit in his face. Other people in both cases thought that Jesus and Carton were not thought to be much more that dogs, while they both sacrificed their lives so these people who treated them like dogs could live. Both Carton's and Jesus' sacrifice was inspired by a deep desperate love for which they were willing to do anything. Carton was willing to die for Lucie because of his desperate, scandalous love for her, just as Jesus showed his love for man when he was willing to give up his life for every man. This level of love makes the sacrifice even more valuable and brings things to closure. Finally, Carton and Jesus both knew that through their sacrifice, others could have life. Carton's death breathed life into Darnay just as Jesus Christ's death breathes life into those who trust in him. The importance of their death is that it brings life. The role of Carton's sacrifice in the plot is that the cost of life is sometimes high. Through his sacrifice the cost and privilege of living can be measured, just as Christians can see the true cost and privilege of life through Jesus Christ's sacrifice.
Dr. Manette also sacrificed much of his life by giving up his own personal goals and agenda for Lucie. On page 125 Dr. Manette says, "any fancies, any reasons, and apprehensions, anything whatsoever, new or old against the man she really lovedthey shall all be obliterated for her sake." Dr. Manette was willing to relinquish his own personal feelings or perhaps "rights" so that Lucie may be happy. He set aside, "anything whatsoever" in order for Lucie to marry the man she loves. Dr. Manette did anything he could to save Darnay from death, even to the point where Madame Defarge mocked him saying, "Save him now, my Doctor save him!" Dr. Manette had always been suspicious about Darnay, but he put aside his doubts in to Make Lucie happy. Deep down he knew that Darnay was an Evermond, but he sacrificed his own feelings for Lucie's feelings. Thirdly, Dr. Manette gave up all of his desires, hopes, thoughts of revenge for Lucie, as demonstrated when he says, "She is everything to me; more to me than suffering, more to me than wrong, more to me." Dr. Manette had years of anger and revenge stored up him from when he was imprisoned, yet he forgot about all of it and only tried to make Lucie happy and make up for the many years he had lost. Dr. Manette's pain was so great that he often reverts to the insanity that was caused from his imprisonment, while he still does everything he can even though his pain is so great that he can not physically control it. Manette laid down his life so that Lucie could fully live.
Ms. Pross sacrificed her life day by day for Lucie to have a better life. Ms. Pross simply devoted her life to Lucie, and her well being which is shown when Mr. Lorry describes Ms. Pross's devotion, "there is nothing better in the world than the faithful service of the heart; so rendered and so free from any mercenary taint" (87). Ms. Pross was sacrificed things everyday by simply being devoted to Lucie. She did everything she could so that Lucie could have the best possible life. Ms. Pross's devotion is demonstrated once again on page 86 when she is described as, "one of those unselfish creatures found only among women who will for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain and to bright hopes that never shined upon their own somber lives." Ms. Pross sacrificed her hopes and dreams so that Lucie might have her own hopes and dreams fulfilled. Ms. Pross did not have all the beauty and fortune in the world, but she lived so that Lucie might someday. Ms. Pross's ultimate sacrifice of devotion was when she put her own life at risk to save Lucie's along with others, as she struggled with Madame Defarge to protect their safety. Because Ms. Pross was diligent enough to make sure that Lucie's trip was safe; Lucie's life was saved, at what could have cost Ms. Pross her life. By Ms. Pross's willingness to do anything for Lucie, Lucie's life was saved.
Ultimately, it was the sacrifices made by people like Ms. Pross and Sydney Carton that allowed people to live. Through their numerous sacrifices, the value of life is measured in A Tale of Two Cities, and their sacrifices give life to a time that was filled with much more death than life. Just as Jesus' sacrifice allowed people to have life, the sacrifices of Dr. Manette, Ms. Pross, and Carton allowed people to live.
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My house is generally a mess, we don't make tons of money, and I'm not great at decorating. My kitchen/ dining room is the color of a bright taqueria. I have shoes lying all over the house. And you'll find empty cups everywhere. And sometimes Jon Farmer and I don't even agree. We all have lives that are so much more complex, nuanced, and human than social media can portray, and that's okay because it's not what social media is for. All I'm saying is, don't be fooled by Instagram. I'm a photographer, so it may seem like everything is beautiful. All flexible hours, coffee shops, and adventures, but it's totally not. There's a lot of planning, paper work, and administrative stuff that happens behind the scenes. Usually I'm at home in my yoga pants, eating cereal because I'm too lazy to make eggs. And then there's emotional baggage cluttered everywhere too.
Like were you ever nervous to throw a party because nobody might show up, and then you'd be embarrassed?
Growing up and making a career as a Creative is like throwing that party over and over again. But I'm not in middle school anymore, and I'm a grown-up. It's not even about, "Will I get enough business?" Sometimes we refer brides we think are better fits with other photographers. But it's this really public "I'm here!" and a really private fear of failure, fear of people's opinions, fear of being boring, fear of not being good enough, fear of rejection. At least for me. I viscerally struggle with that fear, and I have to tell myself to be brave at least ten times a day. Because creating is more important than all those fears combined. And I'm proud of that because it is easier to not do anything, to not try, to let the fear overwhelm. Which if I'm being honest, sometimes it still does.
So when I meet other Creatives, people who are also being brave and dreaming and making beautiful things, it makes my heart sing! I know it wasn't easy to become a brand, tell people their vision, to be known.
And I'm really excited I got to interview and photograph the girls from Owl & Mouse. Cristin and Alice are textile artists and founders of a boutique specializing in hand dyed fabrics. They're amazing. They are passionate about fabric, creating sustainable goods, and making beautiful things. They really inspired me, and hopefully it inspires you as well.
1. What do you think it takes to be a professional creative?
A lot of hard work, a lot of determination, assertiveness, desire to create and evolve. In addition to being creative, you have to also be able to promote yourself/your business. It's easy to get excited to do the fun side of things, but you also have to be responsible and take time to work on the less fun aspects as well (or be in the position to hire someone else to take on those responsibilities).
2. Where did you go to school? And what for?
We attended the Kansas City Art Institute from '04-'08 We both majored in the Fiber Program. Alice is originally from Greenville, SC and Cristin is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
3. How do you think school prepared you for your career?
It taught us the basic fiber techniques, such as dyeing, screen printing and weaving. It was also great for making some close friendships and connections in the art/craft community.
4. How do you think school could have better prepared you for your career?
At that time there wasn't much training for business or career outside of school, so we have had to teach ourselves that overtime. Looking back now, it would have been helpful to learn how to create a brand, manage wholesale accounts, run a website and learn about taxes and filing government forms...basically everything that goes on behind the scenes when running a business.
5. Where did you get the name Owl & Mouse?
We begin by creating original designs that are transferred to silk screens. Next we custom mix colors and dye all of our fabric in small batches. Our scarves are gradation dyed and slowly transition in color from one end to another. Following the immersion dye process we print our designs using thickened dye. This allows the design to integrate into the fabric as opposed to ink that sits on top. After allowing the printed fabric to set for 24hours, we wash, iron and sew each piece. Our current line includes, organic cotton scarves, napkins, pillows, ties and baby items. Our craftsmanship and unique dye process result in extraordinary colors and distinctive surface pattern setting our work apart from other textiles on the market. Our focus is on creating fine and functional accessories for women, men, babies and the home.
7. What are you looking forward to as a company?
We are looking forward to growing our wholesale accounts and attending larger trade shows throughout the country. We feel our products are unique and we look forward to sharing them with a larger audience.
8. What is the best piece of advice anyone has ever given each of you?
Many times opportunities aren't handed to you. You have to ask for what you want....the worst thing someone can say is "no"!
9. What would you like to tell young artists in school?
If you know what you want to do with your future, get started now! While you're in school resources and contacts are readily available and it will make the transition from student to professional much smoother. Also remember, it can take time to build your brand/business, so the earlier you start, the better. Take advantage of the other connections you make in school that have different skill sets than you do!
10. What makes Kansas City a great place to be as an artist?
KC is great for fostering creative people. The community loves to support local talent and there are many great opportunities to show your work and professional programs to get involved in. It's small enough to create great relationships with other artists and entrepreneurs, yet it's big enough to build your name!


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Brilliant article, thanks for posting it. It reminds me of a review I read in the Los Angeles Times a few days before the movie came out, saying that many Hollywood films of the present day have lost their ability to give a sense of wonder and awe to the audience. Avatar restores that sense of awe for so many of us. I hope other filmmakers are aware of what you wrote about and plan on making their own movies that involve exploring the unknown. That stuff can be truly exciting.
And perhaps the real genius of having a viewer explore Pandora on the screen is that (s)he becomes interested in exploring Earth off the screen.


As birds return south for the winter, they can face some deadly obstacles, like windows. One report estimates up to a billion birds a year may die from collisions with glass windows in the U.S., and that could be up to 10 percent of the population in the country.
BirdSafe Pittsburgh is a new initiative that enlists bird-lovers to help collect data that could help keep birds more safe. It's a pilot program which kicked off in the spring with the National Aviary, conservancies, and other groups and it's similar to monitoring efforts in other urban areas like New York and Chicago.
At 6:30 in the morning on a recent Sunday, a dozen or so people gather by a fountain in the courtyard of PPG Place—tall glass buildings in Downtown Pittsburgh for training on collecting dead or injured birds for BirdSafe's monitoring program.
Matt Webb is the organizer of this morning's training. He works for the American Bird Conservancy at Powdermill Nature Reserve, doing research on bird collisions with windows, trying to develop bird-friendly glass.
Webb's one of the few people in the country doing this kind of work. But Webb's hoping to track birds in a methodical way, getting data that scientists can use. The information collected could help test popular theories about bird collisions--like whether turning out the lights in skyscrapers at night is really effective for protecting birds.
To get things started this morning Webb's handing out paper bags and little bits of paper as more volunteers arrive.
"These will go inside the plastic bags if you find a bird that's on the ground—a dead bird. The information that's on here will need to be filled out—your name, the species, the date," Webb explains. "And then these paper bags are for live birds that you find. You can put the net over the bird if it's stunned on the ground and grab it and put it in a bag and we'll take it to the rehab center."
The project's volunteers found around 70 birds here in Downtown last spring. Webb pulls out some maps.
"These routes aren't the only place you can do any monitoring this fall," Webb says. "You could set up something where you live. Or even just monitor your home. Just data from your home would be really of use to us because 48 percent of the collisions that happen on peoples' homes."
There aren't many people out at this time on a weekend, and few cars. So as we split up to start the search, it's easier to pay attention to the sidewalk and spot dead birds before cleaning crews get to them.
"It's important to keep in mind that birds hit every single size of windows. Even those windows on this tall skinny building are a danger," Webb says. "And also when a bird hits a window, if it's not immediately killed, it will run and hide, and so corners and little places inside of gates."
Webb says birds see the trees in the window and that's what usually causes the problem.
Traci Cutri and her daughter Katelin are from McDonald, Pa. They woke up at 4:30 a.m. to be here. Traci says she's going to help out on her way to the office on weekdays.
"I'm a bird fan," she says. "I work Downtown and I thought this would be a good way to help. I thought I have to walk anyway, I might as well pick up a body bag and hopefully not see any."
But two members of our group motion to the rest of us to join them at the end of a sidewalk, along a string of office buildings.
"Is that a hummingbird? Wow, that's the first hummingbird that we've found," Webb says.
It's a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, about the size of Webb's finger. He estimates it only weighs as much as two pennies. Webb demonstrates how to scoop up the bird.
"So, you guys could collect birds by inverting the bag, and grabbing it."
Webb hopes to attract more volunteers to monitor routes regularly—Downtown and beyond. He says the data collected will broaden the knowledge of the problem not just in Pittsburgh but nationwide.
Photos by Kara Holsopple: PPG Place in Downtown Pittsburgh; Matt Webb of BirdSafe Pittsburgh; Traci and Katelin Cutri; Ruby-throated Hummingbird sprcimen.


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Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain in The Frick Collection
In 1965 Childs Frick, son of Henry Clay Frick, left by bequest 220 pieces of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain that he and his wife had purchased over many years. They had chosen the pieces as birthday and Christmas presents and displayed them in thier home in Roslyn, Long Island. A selection later decorated the offices and upstairs staff rooms of the Collection.
An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections
May 20, 1992 to August 23, 1992
An exhibition composed of watercolors illustrating more than sixty nineteenth-century interiors, from cottages to palaces. Just as proud owners today might wish to preserve the appearance of their homes on film, polaroid, or video, the householders of the last century frequently engaged artists to record their dwellings.
Italian Art at the Close of the Quattrocento: Pollaiuolo and Hercules
February 3, 1992 to March 29, 1992
A focused exhibition placing a Hercules attributed to Antonio del Pollaiuolo in the collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin side by side with the Frick's own bronze Hercules attributed to the same artist. Questions of the authorship and dating of both pieces were considered. The Collection also borrowed, for comparison with the bronzes, one painting and several prints and drawings, all by or closely related to Pollaioulo.
Vincent van Gogh, Flowering Garden
Vincent van Gogh's luminous landscape, Flowering Garden, executed by the artist at Arles in the summer of 1888, was placed on loan by a private foundation for a two-year period. Flowering Garden is a large vertical canvas depicting the flat expanse of a field of flowers, framed on the right by the wall of a farmhouse and trees, and at the high horizon by a line of low farm buildings with red-tiled roofs.
Nicolas Lancret, 1690–1743
The first exhibition devoted entirely to the work of this long-neglected French Rococo master who during his lifetime was one of Europe's most celebrated artists. The prolific Lancret was a favorite of Louis XV and Frederick the Great as well as of international nobility, but during the nineteenth century he fell under the shadow of his mentor Antoine Watteau. Lancret in fact had a singular and brilliant talent of his own, as this exhibition demonstrated.


I could install a 64-bit Slicer on a 32-bit Windows XP. I could even start it and the splash window appeared. But the application didn't start. It took me a while to realize that I'm on a 32-bit system. Would it be possible to detect this situation and let the user know that there is an incompatibility of platforms?
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This free practice test contains 14 questions and answer explanations covering the file ownership and permissions objectives of the LPI Linux Essentials. These practice questions are excerpted from the LPI Linux Certification All-in-One Exam Guide by Robb H. Tracy (McGraw-Hill, 2013) with permission from McGraw-Hill.
You need to change the owner of a file named /var/opt/runme from mireland, who is a member of the users group, to dnelson, who is a member of the editors group. Assuming you want to change both user and group owners, which command will do this?
Which permission, when applied to a directory in the file system, will allow a user to enter the directory?
A file named employees.odt has a mode of rw-r- -r- -. If rtracy is the file's owner, what can he do with it?
A. He can open the file and view its contents, but he can't save any changes.
B. He can open the file, make changes, and save the file.
C. He can change ownership of the file.
D. He can run the file if it's an executable.
A file named employees.odt has a mode of rw-r- -r- -. If mhuffman is not the file's owner but is a member of the group that owns this file, what can he do with it?
A file named employees.odt has a mode of rw-r- -r- -. If mireland is not the file's owner and is not a member of the group that owns this file, what can she do with it?
A. She can open the file and view its contents, but she can't save any changes.
B. She can open the file, make changes, and save the file.
C. She can change ownership of the file.
D. She can run the file if it's an executable.
A file named myapp has a mode of 755. If dnelson doesn't own this file and isn't a member of the group that owns the file, what can she do with it?
A. She can change the group that owns the file.
D. She can run the file.
You need to change the permissions of a file named schedule.odt such that the file owner can edit the file, users who are members of the group that owns the file can edit it, and users who are not owners and don't belong to the owning group can view it but not modify it. Which command will do this?
You just created a new script file named myapp.sh. However, when you try to run it from the command prompt, the bash shell generates an error that says -bash: ./myapp.sh: Permission denied. Which command will fix this problem?
Your Linux system's umask variable is currently set to a value of 077. A user named jcarr (who is a member of the users group) creates a file named mythoughts.odt. What can users who are members of the users group do with this file?
A. They can view the file, but they can't modify or save it.
B. They can open, modify, and save the file.
C. They can open, modify, and save the file. They can also execute the file if it is an executable.
D. They have no access to the file at all.
An executable file has the SUID permission set. If this file is run on the system, who owns the file?
A. The user who created the file remains the owner.
B. The user who ran the file becomes the file's permanent owner.
C. The user who ran the file becomes the file's temporary owner.
D. The root user becomes the file's owner.
A. The file's owner is set to the user who created the file.
B. The file's owner is set to the user who owns the directory.
C. The owning group of the file is set to the owning group of the directory.
D. The owning group of the file is set to the primary group of the user who created the file.
E. The file's owner is set to root.
F. The owning group of the new file is set to the root group.
Which special permission can't be assigned to a file?
D. None of the above. All special permissions can be assigned to a file.
A directory is owned by the users group and has a mode of rwxrwxr- - permissions assigned to that group. It also has the Sticky Bit permission set. What effect does this have on files within the directory?
A. Users who are members of the users group can only delete files within the directory for which they are the owner.
B. No user is allowed to delete files in this directory.
C. Users who are members of the users group can delete any file within the directory.
D. Others can enter the directory and delete files within the directory for which they are the owner.
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Kasper Goski  was a Polish doctor, astrologer and the mayor of Poznań.

Kasper Goski was born the son of a burgher in Sochaczew. He began his studies at the Lubrański Academy before continuing at the Kraków Academy from 1541–1547. After earning his magister, he taught at the university, as well as that the parochial school attached to the Church of St. Anne in Kraków, where he also served as rector.

He returned briefly to Poznań in 1547, leaving two years later for Padua where he earned a medical degree in 1551. Back in Poland he was the doctor of primate Mikołaj Dzierzgowski until the latter's death in 1552, at which point Goski set up his own medical practice in Poznań.

As an astrologer, Goski achieved some fame for having correctly predicted the victory of the Holy League over the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

Gorski served as  mayor of Poznań in 1555–1557, 1563, 1565, and 1574–1575, and as wójt in 1569 and 1573. In 1556-57 he represented the city at the Warsaw sejm, and again at both of the elections sejms in 1572–1576. A wealthy man throughout his life, he owned a house on the Old Market Square (Stary rynek) in Poznań Old Town.

Kasper Gorski died in Poznań on 25 November 1576.

Bibliografia
 Gąsiorowski, Antoni, and Jerzy Topolski, eds. Wielkopolski Słownik Biograficzny, p. 215. Warsaw; Poznań: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1981.

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Q: How do I split up a large Git branch into lots of smaller branches? I have imported from SVN into Git, now I have one big branch, like this:

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*work on feature C

*work on feature B

*work on feature C

*work on feature C

*work on feature B

*work on feature A

I want separate feature branches, for A, B, C. I'm cherry picking commits to new branches but this doesn't remove them from the original branch so I have to manually track which ones I have pulled out.
There are around 800 commits to split up, and maybe 50 features/bugfixes.
It would be nice to have the ones I have pulled out reflected this way somehow in the git log, so I know which ones I have already done. Is this possible?
I can rebase the entire branch, skipping the commits I have pulled out, but I'm worried this will cause lots of conflicts. I don't want to resolve 500 conflicts every time I pull a commit out.
What's the best method of pulling out commits from one uber branch onto smaller feature branches, whilst keeping track of your progress?

A: Just to simplify willoller's answer further,
make the feature branches, and backup, in case
git branch feature-a
git branch feature-b
git branch feature-c
git branch backup-before-rebase

then checkout a feature branch and do an interactive rebase from the commit you want them to start from
git checkout feature-a
git rebase -i <safecommit>
enter code here

If you want some feature branches to share some commits to keep your tree clean, don't create the later feature branch at the start, but once you've got a rebased feature branch and then use the shared commit reference as your next safecommit
#on branch feature-a
git checkout -b feature-d
git rebase -i <sharedcommit>

A: What I do in this case is use interactive rebase.
At your HEAD, create your branches A, B, and C. Also create a "backup" branch (you could name it backup) in case things go wrong and you need your original HEAD back.
git branch feature-a
git branch feature-b
git branch feature-c
git-branch backup-before-rebase

Then, create a branch at the commit you want them to start from, maybe at a convenient stable commit. Call it new_trunk or something.
git checkout HEAD~50       ## this will be the new tree-trunk
git branch new_trunk

Then, do interactive rebases and pick out the commits you want to keep in that branch. Used this way, it's basically like cherry-picking in bulk.
git checkout feature-a
git rebase -i new_trunk    ## -i is for "Interactive"

When you're done, you should have 3 branches with separate histories starting from new_trunk and a backup branch reflecting the old HEAD if you still need it.

A: Another method I have just found out about, is using "git notes".
http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/11/git-tip-of-week-git-notes.html
This feature allows adding comments to existing commits without actually changing the branch / requiring a rebase. One method of tracking which commits have been pulled out is to add a git note to each one:
Cherry-picked to features\xyz 925a5239d4fbcf7ad7cd656020793f83275ef45b
This could help in a largely manual process - you could write a little script to cherry pick a commit to a particular branch then add the relevant git note back to the original commit.
Alternatively, if you want to get really funky, you could automate the whole process, by:

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*Add a git note to every commit, saying which feature branch you want it cherry-picked to: TOCHERRYPICK: features\xyz

*Write a script to scan all the git notes, and automatically create all the feature branches and cherry-pick the correct selected commits. It could then change the git note to CHERRYPICKED: features\xxx at 925a5239d4fbcf7ad7cd656020793f83275ef45b to allow the tool to be re-run later to pick out more commits.

*If you are really keen to make it prominent when a commit has been cherry picked, you could also automate the creation of a tag with a similar name: CHERRYPICKED:<branch>:SHA

A: I honestly wouldn't do this unless you have a huge list of commits that need to split up and they are very independent features, i.e. not altering the same line where there would be conflicts to resolve.
As others have suggested, create a new branch for each feature and use git rebase --interactive to include the desired commits.
To ensure none go astray, create the contents of the git-rebase-todo files by

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*editing a list of all the desired commits and classifying them by feature

*separating the list of commits into separate files

You can create the list of commits by using a command like
git log --oneline --reverse  44e19^... > log.txt

to display commit 44e19 onwards. This will give you a file like this
44e1936 dSRGratuities (SummaryRecord)
67fedda Receipt Report HEADER: 20! multiply by Paym_FieldCount
69d70e2 Receipt Report: Payment
....

which when edited (to add classification: feature a,b,c etc) might look like my sorted.txt
c 44e1936 dSRGratuities (SummaryRecord)
a 67fedda Receipt Report HEADER: 20! multiply by Paym_FieldCount
b 69d70e2 Receipt Report: Payment
c abea7db Receipt Report: Cashback
a cf96185 Receipt Report: Gratuity
c 70e987a Receipt Report: use amount tendered for printing
a 7722ac8 Receipt Report: use amount tendered for calculations
c 47f1754 Receipt Report: store amount tendered
b b69a73f Receipt Report: Use enum Paym_FieldCount
a 9a0b471 Receipt Report HEADER: enum PaymentEntries (with Paym_FieldCount)
c ad67e79 Use SharpReport enum
b 3c510c6 enum SharpReport
a e470e07 m_Gratuities m_dSSGratuities (SalesSummary)
b 4e0c3e4 m_Gratuities m_szGratuities (SalesSummaryRecord)
b bd054f7 _gx_fn_Cashback

Then script in your favorite scripting language to turn the sorted list into a collection of git-rebase-todo files. Your script might resemble the one I just wrote.
foreachline text sorted.txt {
    set fields  [split $text { }]
    set branch  [lindex $fields 0]
    set commit  [lindex $fields 1]
    set comment [string range $text 10 end]
    set command "echo pick $commit $comment"
    exec cmd /S /C $command >> $branch.txt
}

The script reads the commit sorting file line by line and splits by a space character { } to get the two fields branch and commit, and takes a substring (characters 10 onwards) for a description of the commit. The description isn't required but it's useful for us humans to check for mistakes.
It then puts a line into the appropriate git-rebase-todo file, creating one file per feature. I hacked this by executing a very ugly Windows echo string >> file command.
This creates a number of files, e.g. my file a.txt
pick 67fedda Receipt Report HEADER: 20! multiply by Paym_FieldCount
pick cf96185 Receipt Report: Gratuity
pick 7722ac8 Receipt Report: use amount tendered for calculations
pick 9a0b471 Receipt Report HEADER: enum PaymentEntries (with Paym_FieldCount)
pick e470e07 m_Gratuities m_dSSGratuities (SalesSummary)

The whole thing is ugly. I don't recommend it unless you have to do it and are good at writing scripts.

I wrote the text above some time ago, and I have had a little rethink about things. Above I implied that this is a lot of work and not worth doing, but I have since seen situations where it looks like someone has done the above and it has been very worthwhile.
I remember releases of Visual Studio for MFC/C++ where each new release would have compiler changes, IDE changes, MFC improvements, and run on a later version of Windows. This meant that if you wanted to get your compiler away from VS6 and Windows XP you might have to make language changes to satisfy the compiler, and function call changes to satisfy MFC, etc.
Now suppose that Microsoft had taken weekly backups as they developed Visual Studio, and someone methodically took the old backups and committed the code changes into a version control system like Git. Then they started classifying the changes ...

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*a. = compiler changes

*b. = library changes

*c. = IDE changes

*d. = security improvements
etc.
Microsoft could create branches for each of these, and start to have the latest and greatest IDE (c included), running on the newest Windows and still capable of compiling old legacy programs using the language (no a) and libraries (no b) they were written for.
Developers previously locked into legacy software could then make improvements in a logical and incremental fashion, e.g. language changes and library changes independently of each other, and do it on the latest and greatest Visual Studio without having to pass through all the intermediate versions.
Example
  <LanguageStandard>stdcpp14</LanguageStandard>

Now I am not saying this is what has happened, but it seems to me that the recent versions of Visual Studio are far better at allowing legacy programs to be updated, rather than thrown away and (never?) rewritten, and it appears to me to be due to version controlling and organizing old software changes into logical branches: compiler versions, DLL/library versions.
So, I can see occasions where splitting a huge number of old commits into distinct branches may be worthwhile.
On Visual Studio 2019 I can add the line
<PlatformToolset>v141_xp</PlatformToolset>

to a configuration file and manage to compile and run an old windows program which failed to compile and link with VS 2015, and VS 2017. It looks very much like someone at Microsoft has rebased performance and security improvements onto some old software while leaving out the breaking changes that often come with modernization.

A: Personally I would really consider pros and cons of such large changes (once more if you've already done this). If you run into conflicts (which is in large rebase/cherry-pick annoying and hard-to-solve by itself) you will probably have tough times when merging features back to your "master" branch.
Wouldn't be better/easier to freeze your big-branch, get it "done" (or "good enough") and make new feature-branches on it? (Or exclude only some branches?)
But to your question:
If you want to track changes/missing commits automatically use git cherry command.
git cherry featureBranch bigBranch

If there were no conflicts while cherrypicking or rebasing your feature branch you can use previous code with some additional pipes:
git cherry featureBranch bigBranch | awk '{ print "pick " $2 }' | tee remaining

This will print (and save to file called "remaining") commits missing in featureBranch. You can add this to interactive rebase on bigBranch to throw away commits you don't want anymore. (Maybe you can script it even more with "ed" editor as git editor and passing commands to standard input of interactive rebase but I didn't tried it.)

A: // on develop branch
git diff develop your/branch > diff.patch
git apply diff.patch

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Matthew 12 is meaty; so much to chew on like the verses about mercy over sacrifice, or a tree being known by it's fruit (something we've already considered in Matthew), or having to give an account for every idle word (EVERY?!), or the story of the unclean spirit leaving a man and coming back with seven more (EEKKK!). So which one stood out to you in your Bible journaling today?
Don't you love that! St. Bede explains tropologically (the use of figurative language in speech or writing) this is about us, as we read and meditate on the Scriptures until we find "the marrow of love." He also states this POWERful practice is displeasing to fools. The world is filled with a bunch of fools right now.
And just as I typed that, I was quickly reminded of another verse in this chapter, verse 36, "I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter." I just called a bunch of people in the world fools…and they call me a fool…and we each will have to answer for that.
P —I look back over my day Lord and I think, what fruit did I bear for Your Kingdom. This question of being a fruit bearer keeps coming up so I want to pay close attention to it.
O –The disciples of Jesus dealt with the same problems the disciples of Jesus deal with today: judgment and people wanting to see some sort of sign from this God we believe in.
W —vs 37…for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
Share your POWERful reflections in the comments.
E- I really need to work on seeing others with compassion for I don't know their story. And I need to remember to bite my tongue more often than not!!!
R- dear Lord help me to learn to bridle my tongue and to see You in all those I meet!!!
Whoa! Lots to think about there as I shake my guilty head.
I have been reflecting on my many words. I am comforted to know that Christ will stand with me at Judgement as my lawyer. By his life, I will be acquitted.
Which is harder for me? Great sacrifices of penance or mustering the courage to use my words in a life giving way to tell someone how they have angered/hurt me thus giving them an opportunity to apologize. It will help me to be merciful toward them. If they choose not to, well then when I'm ready, I simply must forgive them like Jesus forgives me. Although it may be exceedingly difficult, I can do all things….
verse For I desire mercy did not sacrifice.And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Yes! The whole point of daily Bible journaling is to learn Who God is!


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posted Aug 6, 2012, 1:56 AM by Douglas Sun [ updated Aug 6, 2012, 2:03 AM ]
Originally posted: March 15, 2009
From Rumic World, the über-fansite dedicated to Queen of Manga-ka Rumiko Takahashi, comes news that Takahashi-sensei's new series will debut in Shonen Sunday late next month, less than a year after she brought Inuyasha to its conclusion. No word yet on the title, or a description of the premise and characters.
I'm sure the news comes as a bit of a relief to the gentlemen who run Rumic World. They do wonderful work, and there is not a richer or more useful anime/manga fansite anywhere in cyberspace, but they've seemed somewhat at sea since Inuyasha ended. Now they and the rest of us who are Takahashi fans know what we'll be doing for the next eight years.
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Elton John is a beloved musical artist, with more hits than can be counted and more head-turning fashion choices than the Met Gala. The tagline for Dexter Fletcher's Rocketman reads, "Inspired by a true fantasy," and that fantasy is on full display in this film, which depicts Elton's life in musical style. The man who finished 2018's Bohemian Rhapsody, the divisive Queen biopic, has full control of this story, and the result is a fun, lively, and joyous trip.
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Dexter Fletcher, who has previously directed 2016's Eddie the Eagle and was famously tapped to finish 2018's Bohemian Rhapsody after Bryan Singer departed, is back for another musical odyssey with this film, and his full control really shows. Fletcher imbues the life of Elton John with color, humor, and a sense of grandiosity that feels bold in an era of generic and plain biopics. Scenes move with verve and energy, with Elton's music carrying us through both quiet life events and loud concerts alike with plenty of showmanship. Most interestingly, Fletcher gives much of the film a hallucinogenic or trippy bend, bringing new dimensions to scenes and injecting plenty of life into unexpected places. I was very impressed with how he steers this ship, and his passion clearly shows throughout.
If there's one place this film stumbles a bit, it's in the plot department. The narrative follows Elton's life from childhood to super-stardom, along with everything in-between. And while it's framed in an interesting, non-linear style that keeps the film from being overly straightforward, the actual narrative itself is fairly standard biopic material. Many of the big story beats feel very familiar (rise to fame changing the star, addiction, cutting ties, etc.), but are often redeemed by their larger-than-life presentation. The film also does not shy away from Elton's homosexuality, and in fact makes it a large part of the narrative, which is exciting to see from a release as major as this one. Otherwise, it's a totally serviceable plot, but does not bring much new to the table.
ACTING | CHARACTERS | DIALOGUE:
Everyone in this movie brings their very best to the table, but none more so than Taron Egerton as Elton himself. Portraying him across many years and eras of his life, Egerton is never anything less than believable, bringing plenty of soul, charisma, and showmanship to a role that necessitates them in large doses. He sings his heart out on every track, and easily does Elton's legendary songs justice. In short, he's an absolute triumph. Elsewhere, Richard Madden plays Elton's lover/manager John Reid, Bryce Dallas Howard his mother, and, most notably, Jamie Bell as his best friend and collaborator, Bernie Taupin. Bell is often the emotional center of the film, with his relationship with Elton anchoring much of the spectacle and extravagance of the film. The cast is roundly superb.
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MUSIC | SCORE | SOUND DESIGN:
This was never going to be anything less than stellar. After all, Elton John has created some of the most iconic songs of all time, so naturally a film featuring those songs will be lively and enthralling. Every song is larger than life and sounds terrific, with many featuring new arrangements and the cast's voices to guide them. Unlike Bohemian Rhapsody, the cast are all singing these songs themselves, and it's a gambit that works wonderfully. The soundtrack does enough differently to be consistently interesting, and will have you wanting to sing along the whole runtime.
Egerton is fully transformed into Elton John, and the makeup & design departments deserve full credit for their work. From his hair down to the gap in his teeth, he's the spitting image of the legendary showman himself. Likewise, the many surreal effects that this film utilizes are well-done, and often elevate performances to higher, more epic levels. Everything about this film just looks great.
It would have been easy for Rocketman to be just another biopic, full of songs you love and not much else. However, Fletcher and the wonderful cast bring a more unique, flamboyant, and daring vision to the proceedings, resulting in a satisfying musical adventure that is much more bold and experimental than many anticipated. If you're a fan of Elton John's music, musicals, or just artistically adventurous blockbusters, don't wait a long, long time to catch this one. Rocketman is a pure delight.
CONCLUSIVE VERDICT:
"People Don't Pay To See Reg Dwight! They Pay To See ELTON JOHN!"
Written By Jeff Zoldy
Published: 05.22.19
MPAA: R
Ediited By McKayla Hockett
Release: 05.31.19
Genre: Biography. Drama. Music.
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In case anyone is interested I've been playing around with getting a splash/launch screen to show on Android to ease the load transition.
We've found in some cases, when your application gets to be a decent size, that the AIR activity can take a while to show, leaving your user with a blank screen for a few seconds, so we wanted to show some content while this loads.
Did you modify the files in the same AIR SDK as the one you are using to package your application?
Trying to get a background color + custom icon setup that doesn't look too bad but haven't found a good android:gravity setting yet.. center scales the icon to full screen, creating a horrible pixellated mess.
That's the first method I've gone through in the link.
@neuronix You should be able to follow the "Centered Application Icon" to use an xml drawable resource with a centered bitmap. It shouldn't scale the image at all. Perhaps post the resources you are using and I'll have a look over them?
@Klug76, thanks, that is the method Michael exposed.
@Michael, indeed, with the application icon (@mipmap/icon), it works fine, but with any other custom image, it does not display the splash screen with the device's native resolution but seems to stretch it out. I managed to get something working by using a pretty low resolution for the custom image (200x200), it's a little blurry but about decent.
Are you providing the different dpi versions of the image or just the one resolution?
Thanks for sharing, Michael. Did you also experiment with using Vector drawables instead of bitmaps for the splash screen?
Yeah vector drawables work too, however I did notice some oddities with centering in the layered list in API < 23 (which I think was a known issue) and the advice seemed to be to use bitmaps instead. So I think using multiple bitmaps for each dpi is still the simplest solution.
I'm going to give this a shot, before I spend the time to try it can anyone confirm this still works, and is there anything I should be aware of before I do it? Thank you.
edit: Works fine, but on some devices the icon seemed very tiny. Is it supposed to use the correct icon based on device resolution or is it using the same one all the time? I have the standard icon_48,57,72,114,512,2028 in the icons folder. Should I have any others?
This is working only for portrait mode. What about landscape?
Under the res folder, create a folder called "layout-land". In that folder copy the splash_background.xml you already have from Michael's guide. Change the file "splash_image_land" and add your landscape image, as you did for portrait.
This should work without any other changes. I have tried it to Android 7, but didn't tried it again on later updates.
@leokan23 - Does the resulting image automatically scale to the device screen if it is smaller or larger? Thx.
You should use different sizes depending the ppi target. In most apps, i pack an ane with all my different density assets with the proper folder names.
@leokan23 - Yepper... but..just for clarity.. if I only included one size would the resulting image scale to the device size? Thx.
No, if you have just one image, it doesn't scale. For example if you use a full hd splash (1920x1080), you will get black background on 1080 x 2280 phones. I am not sure how it will behave on lower resolutions, but I guess it will be cropped.
If you use the icon method though, this shouldn't be an issue.
I need a full splash screen for this project, so I will giving this a shot. Thx for your help!


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E-commerce in Pandemic Times
A runaway train, or a leisurely ride into profitability?
By Jana Manolakos
Fuelled by the pandemic, e-commerce has exploded onto the Canadian food industry. Social distancing, stay-at-home protocols and restaurant closures drove consumers to shop for their food online, and triggered unprecedented growth in virtual grocery stores and unique direct-to-consumer strategies – from boxed meals like Hello Fresh and Pepsi's bundled pantry and snack shops, to home delivered groceries and artisanal foods. The phenomenon shows no sign of stopping, carving out a starring role for e-commerce in Canada's food landscape.
A lead authority in the Canadian food industry and senior director of Dalhousie's Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says that even this far into the pandemic, the food industry is struggling to predict what people will want, how they will live, where they will eat and what they will eat. "We still don't know what the market will actually look like, which is both scary and exciting at the same time," he explains. "There's a great deal of speculation how the industry will emerge at the other end of the pandemic."
Among the churning, however, major players are betting on e-commerce. According to a report released by Charlebois' lab last year, an estimated $12 billion will be invested by Canada's food industry players into online interface services for the next five years – much of it triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Continued growth is a sure thing if you consider how shopping behaviours have changed. According to the 2021 Canada's Food Price Report, one-quarter of Canadian shoppers are currently, or are strongly considering, ordering groceries online for delivery. Of these shoppers, 86 percent would like their groceries delivered directly to their homes. Charlebois, who led the project, estimates that over the last six months, 4.2 million more Canadians are ordering food online at least once a week than before the pandemic.
So what foods do Canadians buy online, and why do they buy them? A survey of 7,000 Canadians, conducted by the Agra-Food Analytics Lab, found that fast food was the most popular online purchase (33.1 percent), followed by fruits and vegetables (22.0 percent), dairy products (21.5 percent) and baked goods (20.6 percent). A smaller number (8.7 percent) purchased alcoholic beverages online in the last six months. While it came as no surprise that convenience was a major factor in online purchases, concerns over COVID-19 and mandatory self-isolation also led to more Canadians ordering online.
Lacking faith in Canada's food supply chain
During the pandemic, what took Charlebois aback was how people lost trust in the food supply chain. "A great number of people were concerned about food access, with reports of shortages. That, to me, was just surprising," he says, "because I've always believed that Canada was well-resourced. The food industry is quite resilient and able to serve the market well. I was not ready to see the number of Canadians doubting our industry's capacity to deliver."
What stands out for Charlebois is that until the pandemic, Canadians were not concerned so much over where and how their food arrived on store shelves – they were more concerned over whether it was safe to eat. "Before the pandemic, a lot of people were wondering how food supply chains can become more transparent, but with COVID, I think it got people to try to better understand how food supply chains actually work," he explains.
Our relationship with food has changed
Along with working from home, more people are spending time in the kitchen. "As soon as you do that, your relationship with food completely changes," Charlebois notes.
Last summer, a study released by the University of Guelph looked at the impact of COVID-19 on health behaviour, stress, financial and food security among middle- to high-income Canadian families with young children. It found that 60 percent of Canadians reported making more meals from scratch, 70 percent spent more time cooking, 55 percent ate more meals with children and 50 percent involved their children in meal preparation more often. Participants also reported changes in eating behaviours like eating more food overall, eating more snack food and eating less fast food or takeout.
There also has been considerable growth in the consumer market for fresh delivered meal kits in 2021, such as HelloFresh, Chef's Plate and GoodFood. Along with lockdowns, this has been a hard hit on the restaurant industry, explains Charlebois. "There's been a huge shift away from the food service industry, with restaurants suffering the greatest hit from the pandemic. Before the pandemic, 35 percent of our money for food was spent on food consumed outside the home. It went down to nine percent at the beginning of the pandemic. Now we're up to about 24 percent. That represents billions and billions of dollars not spent in restaurants." To survive, some restaurants chose to partner with online delivery apps, like Uber Eats, Door Dash and SkipTheDishes.
Will restaurants bounce back after the pandemic? Charlebois believes it will take some time. "I don't think it's going to happen over the next couple of years. It's going to take a while."
Smaller grocers are determined not to be left behind
According to Mark Juhasz, research associate at Dalhousie's Agri-Food Analytics Lab (also the author of the article on p.14), efforts to adapt to the new realities have significantly reshaped e-commerce. Businesses hoping to succeed in the sector will need to understand shoppers' wants and overcome some challenges to meet their expectations. "Labour markets, products and consumer sentiments have changed how people are eating, and this requires important attention across the supply chain," he says.
Juhasz points to Amazon, which responded to a surge in online purchases by allowing consumers to reserve a "virtual" spot in line during demand spikes when production runs low. He adds, "Pepsi launched direct-to-consumer platforms in 2020 to allow purchase bundling."
But not all e-commerce newcomers have the infrastructure in place to deliver a world-class customer experience. It isn't easy for smaller grocers who need to invest in new infrastructure, such as websites, inventory management, staffing and delivery capacity, to fulfil online orders. There's also the spectre of ongoing consolidations in the Canadian grocery retail landscape, explains Juhasz. In March, Canada's second-largest grocery retailer, Empire, announced its purchase of a majority share in Longo's and its Grocery Gateway e-commerce business. Empire operates Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, Farm Boy, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods and Voilà.
Around the same time, Empire announced it was working with Food, Health and Consumer Products of Canada on a proposed grocery code of practice designed to address unfairness in the market.
Juhasz notes that while large grocer consolidations can lead to improved customer experiences, at the same time, "there's an upward pressure on costs for smaller grocers. The bigger companies can invest in advanced technology, but it puts pressure on smaller food companies to find digital platforms to help them keep up with these changes."
An answer, he says, lies in banding together. For example, 2020 saw the creation of Best of Calgary Foods, a new owner-operated collaboration between 24 of the city's chefs and food artisans. "Initially, members of the group tried to go it alone," Juhasz explains, "with the associated third-party logistics and delivery costs, but they then combined forces under one banner, and now deliver bundles of products to customers.
"What is interesting about this is that they don't necessarily have the volume or ability to list in large grocery chains. They found that selling to buyers as individuals was cost prohibitive. So, they combined forces and now have a suite of options consumers can buy if they want to buy from local artisans and producers. It's a solution for smaller companies and allows them to deliver to people in the Calgary area using a direct-to-consumer business model, which is more feasible for these smaller companies. By teaming up, they have better economies of scale."
Digitizing the Saturday morning farmers' market
E-commerce also works for farmers who are looking to sell directly to consumers. The pandemic led to a surge in direct field-to-consumer online sales of boxed meats and produce, with some farms reporting up to 400 percent increases in sales. User-friendly e-commerce platforms like Local Line are making it easier to set up digital farmers' markets.
But in the virtual world, the vibrancy and ambience of a bustling Saturday morning market is lost – presenting a hurdle for e-commerce, explains Juhasz. Researchers at the Agri-Food Analytics Lab found that when shopping online for groceries, Canadian consumers felt uncomfortable about purchasing food without seeing it first and had concerns over food quality. "Not being able to see their food before they buy it online means savvy grocers will need to improve their website presentations with detailed product descriptions and superior photographs.
"All of these brands across the sector need to be thinking about the e-commerce platform and how they represent themselves to consumers, whether it's direct-to-consumer or online – more so now, as the pandemic has really accelerated the need."
Timing of food delivery also was a concern that led retailers to rethink how they can get their products out quicker, notes Juhasz.
Rising food prices and the low-income consumer
With food prices expected to rise by five percent, well ahead of Canada's inflation rate, Charlebois says, "Engaging in e-commerce will also put some pressure on food prices. Food affordability is going to be an issue." For 43 percent of Canadians, price isn't so critical, according to Canada's Food Price Report. They're able to pay extra for online food retail services, delivery services, meal kits and the fees many of them charge. The report cites apps like Instacart, an online grocery delivery service, which includes delivery fees, service fees and tip options. As grocers increasingly invest in e-commerce platforms, consumers also can expect to see fewer food bargains and discounting.
Juhasz explains that's going to be hard for lower income earners, among whom "there is a sensitivity to the cost of service and delivery fees." Research from the Agri-Food Analytics Lab found that delivery and service fees are a big barrier for many Canadians when using online services, with almost half not willing to pay any fee. Another consideration is those consumers who do not have online banking access or credit cards.
The e-commerce boom
Even before the pandemic, grocers were responding to consumer demand for convenience by launching online delivery services like Longo's Grocery Gateway, which was Canada's first in 2004. And while there was some interest in the Longo's strategy, the real wakeup call for the industry came in 2017, according to Charlebois, when Amazon bought Whole Foods. But even after this, "most grocers really didn't want to embrace e-commerce until COVID happened. COVID created a market that really needed e-commerce, and so grocers needed to adapt."
The shift from food service to food retail also impacted food distributors. For example, surplus food initially intended for restaurants was redirected to retailers; foods were repackaged for food retail rather than food service; and there was reduced bulk demand.
"Right now, Sobeys is ahead of the curve with Voilà, and Walmart is trying to find its e-commerce footing. Walmart is deploying a very aggressive strategy along with Costco as well," says Charlebois.
So how will e-commerce in the food industry change in the next decade? "It's going to grow," Charlebois predicts. "We don't know to what extent, but it is going to grow because there are two things going on. There's tremendous investment in e-commerce, for one. And secondly, I think that grocers are starting to better understand, or better appreciate, how to make money with e-commerce."
With the data that's out there, and the investments made by industry, Charlebois believes that even after the pandemic subsides, Canadians will continue to appreciate the convenience of shopping for their food online. Most likely, we can consider this a permanent part of the new normal.
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New Rochelle Nailbiter
Spike Vrusho
Ohio U cagers fall to Iona on a Ragtime Saturday afternoon.
It was my first trip to New Rochelle and already I felt like Coalhouse Walker. I was simply there to see my alma mater play Division I mid-major basketball against the Iona Gaels, and I was suddenly sprayed with ketchup and almost denied a bag of popcorn by a gormless vendor. I was not driving a turn-of-the-century Ford, nor did I offend any local firemen trying to collect a "toll" from the out-of-towner.
The Ohio University Bobcats ventured from Athens, Ohio, the southwestern Ohio town where I had my first beer (a bottle of Stroh's) as a freshman in 1982, to the bowels of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime Westchester County. It was the least I could do but trek the hour and half south from Rhinebeck, NY, to check out this year's squad that will, as they have since I departed the old Rust Belt, get me through the long winter with basketball adventures, follies and a possible March Madness bid. I was hoping the Bobcats would be undefeated as they opened this campaign in strong fashion, but a loss to Marshall University's Thundering Herd in Huntington, WV, spoiled all that the previous week. And, like my freshly laundered Carhartt trousers splattered with ketchup and my stinging hunger for popped corn briefly denied, the Bobcats would also suffer at the hands of their non-conference foes wearing the maroon and gold.
I'd just settled into my courtside aisle seat, which the Iona athletics ticket website erroneously claimed to be the last one available, when someone bounding up the stairs stepped on a ketchup packet which then burst and unloaded a spray of Heinz product over 30 percent of the right side of my body. Later, while chatting with an OU alum in the lobby, I hand a vendor $2 for a bag of popcorn in a striped bag and he took the money and just walked away, back toward the gymnasium with halftime antics going down. We had to flag him quickly to get the bag and there were laughs aplenty but it was still kind of odd. I wasn't decked out in Hunter green Ohio gear or facepaint of any kind, so his unintentional grift lacked any obvious motivation.
The 5-1 Bobcats led most the ballgame, but were victims of their own lousy shot selection and lackluster execution in the final seven minutes of the tilt, which Iona (6-3) won 79-75 in front of a slightly-moribund Saturday afternoon "crowd." The cramped Iona campus has a few buildings seemingly lifted from the Georgian brick sprawl in Athens, Ohio, jokingly called "Harvard on the Hocking." Iona's campus is skirted by houses with plantation-style front porch columns on plots of land set at odd angles like somebody bumped the Monopoly board. It's fraught with official vehicles and overly speed-bumped mini thoroughfares. Maybe it was the pre-Christmas Saturday blahs or the weight of end-of-semester exams that brought a pall over the Hynes Athletic Center, a pathetic gym with a capacity of 3000 or so and no seats under either basket, thus robbing the room of any interactive atmosphere or student body chicanery vis-à-vis distracting the foul shooters.
The Iona "Pep Band" was an afterthought Jazz Club combo so timid the PA announcer could shut them down and the Gaels mascot looked chagrined as the musicians sat silent during most of the time outs. OU fans and alumni in attendance are more accustomed to the cacophony of the Convocation Center back in Athens, the 13,000-seat "roundhouse" which gets quite loud with a lively band and student cheering section known as the "O Zone." Perhaps New Rochelle has a noise ordinance governing the Hynes Athletic Center area? The building has an unusual spider web of white rafters on its ceiling and two enormous video scoreboards at either end of the court looming way out of scale with the rest of the room.
Iona made the March Madness tournament last year earning the bid with a win over Monmouth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament final. The Gaels and Bobcats look evenly matched as they careen toward the new year transition part of their schedules. Both were picked second in their respective conferences in preseason polls, and last Saturday it was the Jordan Washington vs Anthony Campbell Big Guys in the Paint Main Event. Campbell is OU's lumbering 6-foot-9 forward out of Cincinnati who plays with a calm, steady demeanor. Meanwhile, Iona's Washington is a hot-headed senior out of Queens who wears his emotions all over his 6-foot-8 frame, including an Anthony Perkins' Psycho-style grin after he performs well on the court. It was fun watching Campbell and Washington entwine arms and stuff tattooed shoulders into each other's faces. The Gaels gave the Bobcats plenty of space in the first half and then turned on a full-court press for most of the second half. Washington had a superb game (even though he was way too jacked up after scoring with his team down 16-4), and a three-point assassin teammate from Pilsen, Czech Republic (junior Jan Svandrlik) simply couldn't miss from beyond the arc.
My tomato-scented seat was directly behind ESPN 3 web broadcasters John Brickley and Vin Parise who were all business all the time in their charcoal suits and sturdy headsets. It was, as most mid-major NCAA basketball games tend to be, an entertaining contest of back-and-forth runs, and-one drives to the hoop and deft head-fakes by energetic point guards. Iona's Jon Severe stepped right out of the 1970s, befitting a Brooklyn native and transfer student from Fordham. There is also UConn transfer grad student Sam Cassell Jr. bringing the ball down the court for the Gaels. Yes, he is the son of Sam Cassell Sr., the former Houston Rockets standout and current assistant coach for the L.A. Clippers.
In any case, it was good to see the Ohio lads up close. They've got four more non-conference battles before submerging themselves in Mid-American Conference action against the likes of the University of Akron Zips and Eastern Michigan Eagles. There will be lots of ESPN 3 coverage, but the hope on this end is to see the Bobcats on national TV next March for their 14th appearance in the Big Dance.
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Focus on offenders' health
Adam Horner
Many nurses working in UK prisons are being offered help to mentor offenders thanks to a new course called Navigating Health in Justice.
The Care UK and University of Lincoln course will be open to Care UK staff, including the 358 nurses who support detainees at the 22 young offender institutions and prisons where the company provides health care for the Ministry of Justice.
The course offers an introduction to working in health care in the criminal justice system. It examines the specific health needs of people in criminal justice settings, including women, life-sentence prisoners, foreign nationals and prisoners with disabilities (see box).
Public health issues in prison, such as communicable diseases.
Preparing prisoners for release in terms of their physical and mental health.
Management of long-term conditions, such as diabetes or anxiety.
Ensuring health while in prison, a session led by a serving prisoner.
The course helps nurses to mentor offenders so they take charge of their own health and plan for a successful rehabilitation once they are released.
Care UK provides health care in the justice system and the course is open to clinical staff such as doctors, nurses, therapists and pharmacists. Administrative staff can also participate to help them understand the patient's journey.
Care UK believes that by improving the understanding of the issues prisoners face in the criminal justice system, it is possible to increase each individual's chance of good physical and mental health, as well as increasing the prospects of a successful rehabilitation.
Jodi Schofield, project development manager at the Centre for Professional Development at the University of Lincoln, explains: 'The induction course includes the core skills that healthcare team members need to deliver health services in the justice setting, while offering an opportunity to further themselves educationally. The partnership with Care UK ensures staff receive training that is relevant to the service and based on current research'.
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RESEDA, LOS ANGELES
There were no explosives found, officials said.
The barricade situation involved a man who was wanted for assault. It started around 8 p.m. Wednesday on the 6900 block of Wystone Avenue and lasted for about five hours.
The man surrendered after officers fired tear gas into the home.
The immediate area was evacuated, but no injuries were reported.
The incident remains under investigation.