This is the twelfth post in the bloggERS Script It! Series.
Over the past couple of years at the Rockefeller Archive Center, we've digitized a substantial portion of our audiovisual collection. Our colleagues in our Research and Education department wanted to create a clip library using this digitized content, so that they could easily find clips to use in presentations and on social media. Since the scale would be somewhat small and we wanted to spin up a solution quickly, we decided to store A/V clips in a folder with an accompanying spreadsheet containing metadata.
All of our (processed) A/V materials are described at the item level in ArchivesSpace. Since this description existed already, we wanted a way to get information into the spreadsheet without a lot of copying-and-pasting or rekeying. Fortunately, the access copies of our digitized A/V have ArchivesSpace refIDs as their filenames, so we're able to easily link each .mp4 file to its description via the ArchivesSpace API. To do so, I wrote a Python script that uses the ArchivesSpace API to gather descriptive metadata and output it to a spreadsheet, and also uses the command line tool ffmpeg to automate clip creation.
First, the script asks the user for their ArchivesSpace username and password. (The script requires a config file with the IP address of the ArchivesSpace instance.) It then starts an ArchivesSpace session using methods from ArchivesSnake, an open-source Python library for working with the ArchivesSpace API.
The script then starts a while loop, and asks if the user would like to input a new refID. If the user types back "yes" or "y," the script then asks for the the ArchivesSpace refID, followed by the number to start appending to the end of each clip. This is because the filename for each clip is the original refID, followed by an underscore, followed by a number, and to allow for more clips to be made from the same original file when the script is run again later.
The script then calculates the duration of the original file, in order to determine whether to ask the user to input the number of hours for the start time of the clip, or to skip that prompt. The user is then asked for the number of minutes and seconds of the start time of the clip, then the number of minutes and seconds for the duration of the clip. Then the clip is created. In order to calculate the duration of the original file and create the clip, I used the os Python module to run ffmpeg commands. Ffmpeg is a powerful command line tool for manipulating A/V files; I find ffmprovisr to be an extremely helpful resource.
Clip from Rockefeller Family at Pocantico – Part I , circa 1920, FA1303, Rockefeller Family Home Movies. Rockefeller Archive Center.
Now that the clip is made, the script uses the ArchivesSnake library again and the find_by_id endpoint of the ArchivesSpace API to get descriptive metadata. This includes the original item's title, date, identifier, and scope and contents note, and the collection title and identifier.
The script then takes the data it's gathered, formats it as needed—such as by removing line breaks in notes from ArchivesSpace, or formatting duration length—and writes it to the csv file.
The loop starts again, and the user is asked "New refID? y/n/q." If the user inputs "n" or "no," the script skips asking for a refID and goes straight to asking for information about how to create the clip. If the user inputs "q" or "quit," the script ends.
The script is available on GitHub. Issues and pull requests welcome!
Bonnie Gordon is a Digital Archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center, where she focuses on digital preservation, born digital records, and training around technology.
This is the fourth post in the bloggERS Script It! Series.
As the Digital Infrastructure and Preservation Librarian at Washington State University Libraries, I am responsible for helping to ensure the integrity and provenance of all digital files maintained in our archives. Recently a lot of my work has involved processing legacy materials in order to generate or expand upon their associated metadata. As much of this work is specific to certain file formats, I often find myself trying to hunt down all examples of a certain file type spread across thousands of directories representing many terabytes worth of data. To do this I have been using the Bash find command. This allows me to generate lists of file paths which I can then loop through to perform actions as needed, such as file validation and metadata extraction. As I imagine that I am not the only one with vast amounts of legacy files to process, I wanted to write up a quick explanation of this method and hopefully save others some time!
For this example, I will be targeting .wav files, but this process would work on any type of file. The main caveat to this method is that it involves locating files solely by file extension; this means that any files that have non-conforming extensions will not be discovered, and files that have been erroneously changed to the target extension will show up as false positives. If a higher level of certainty is desired for target files, an intermediate step could be to first run a loop verifying all results through a tool such as Seigfried or MediaConch.
My-Folder is the file path, either "absolute" or "relative," to the target directory that will be searched. The "absolute" path is the entire path to your directory from the base of your system and can be quickly found by dragging your directory into your terminal. An example of what this might look like is /home/username/Desktop/myfolder. The "relative" path is a path from where you already are, so for example, if your terminal was open to your Desktop, the relative path to the directory in the preceding example would just be myfolder. The search is recursive, meaning that any sub-folders will also be searched. If . is used instead of a specific directory, then the current directory will be searched. Note that if there are any spaces in your file path, you will have to put it in quotes.
-iname tells the find command that you will be searching for case insensitive terms in the filenames. This helps account for people mixing case, such as .tif and .TIF, over the years.
"*.wav" gives the find command the term that you will be searching for. In this instance, the * is a wildcard, so the results will include any files that end in .wav.
Running this command recursively finds all WAV files (or again, more accurately, all files that have the .wav extension) in the target directory and will spit out their file paths into your terminal. By itself this can be informative, but it really becomes useful when paired with a loop to process those results.
In this example I will show how to use the results of the previous command to batch perform the sample preservation action of embedding MD5 checksums into the discovered WAV files using BWF Metaedit (Download available here).
find "/Path/To/My-Folder" -iname "*.wav" is the find command demonstrated previously. This provides the file paths that will be used by the following commands.
| This is called a 'pipe' and is what Bash uses to send the output of one command to another. In this case, we are sending the output of the find command into a loop. (This is the vertical bar symbol on the keyboard, not a capital I).
while read targetfile ; do This is what starts the loop. What this does is "read" each chunk of information that is coming from the pipe, in this case a file path to each matching file, and then assign each one to the variable "targetfile." The name "targetfile" is an arbitrary name I chose for this example; it could be replaced with anything, such as "x" or "myfile," as long as you are consistent with using the same variable name in the following steps.
bwfmetaedit --MD5-Embed --reject-overwrite "$targetfile" This is the actual preservation action that will be run on every file discovered by the find command. The first part bwfmetaedit --MD5-Embed is the BWF Metaedit command that embeds a checksum into each target WAV file. --reject-overwrite is a safeguard that tells BWF Metaedit not to overwrite any existing information that might already be in the file. The second part "$targetfile" makes the command run on the variable that was created in the previous step, with the result that BWF Metaedit will run on all the WAV files the find command located. It is important not to forget the quotation marks around this variable; otherwise it won't work on any filenames that have spaces in them. Since this variable represents file paths in the loop, it can be used in combination with any command you would want to run on your files!
; done ends the loop once it is done reading the output of the find command.
Since all that needs to be done to use this technique in different contexts is to change the file extension in the initial find command and then change the preservation action that targets the variable in the loop, I find that I am using similar constructions on an almost daily basis! By using find loops I am able to save a lot of time (and pain) when dealing with legacy data. I hope this example will help others to do the same!
Andrew Weaver is the Digital Infrastructure and Preservation Librarian at Washington State University. He is from Seattle, and graduated with an MLIS from the University of Washington in 2015. Previously he has worked in the UW Libraries and at the CUNY TV Archive as part of the NDSR program.


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Q: Flickering horizontal lines in full screen Tried disabling either Intel HD Graphics or Nvidia card -- same result, so it seems to be a monitor problem, not a graphics card problem:

Apparently related to slight color changes on the vertical line on the extreme left side of the screen.
Any idea? Thanks.
EDIT: the problem is predictable, the lines follow the mouse cursor when it spills on the edge of the screen, like this.

A: Go to your graphic properties in device manager and change the DPI settings to suit you either higher or lower if this doesn't work it means it's either the cable or if you are using a splitter it might be the problem .

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Research carried out by the University of Reading's Professor Suzanne Graham has had an impact on initial teacher education in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) in England, the practice of MFL teachers in secondary schools and universities, and on curriculum and materials development, at both a national and international level. The focus of the research is the strategies (mental processes) that underpin successful listening in a foreign language, how these can be developed in learners, and how teachers can improve learners' motivation for and attainment in language learning in this way. The dissemination of these research findings to practitioners and teacher educators has been delivered in such a way as to improve both pedagogical understanding of teachers and teacher educators, as well as classroom practice.
Graham's PhD (awarded in 1994) focused on issues of transition between GCSE and A level in MFL. Part of this work outlined the link between effective strategy use, listening comprehension and motivation/self-regulation within post-16 MFL study, and produced important findings regarding the role of metacognition/self-regulation and combinations of learner strategies in successful language learning at this level. Issues of motivation, uptake and transition are key to foreign-language education in the UK, which in turn has implications for the country's ability to interact and trade with other nations, as well as for language teacher supply.
This PhD research was followed by a project undertaken at the University of Reading (2001-2003, funded by the Reading University Research Endowment Trust Fund), which explored further certain aspects of motivation among over 600 learners of French in the 16-19 age range (with a focus on listening in a foreign language). The study provided evidence of the extent to which learners' metacognitive awareness, their understanding of how to improve their own learning and their self-efficacy (belief in their ability to complete tasks successfully) are related to their decision and motivation to continue language study after the compulsory phase (reported in Graham, 2002, and more fully in Graham, 2004, 2006a and b). The joint focus on listening strategies and motivation/self-efficacy made a unique contribution to the field of second-language learner strategy research.
The findings led to Graham being invited to be part of a collaborative, ESRC-funded project with the University of Oxford which sought to demonstrate how teachers can improve post-16 learners' self-efficacy for and attainment in listening and writing in French through an intervention study, working with 19 schools, over two years (2003-5). Graham was responsible for the listening and motivation aspects of the project, with Dr Denise Santos (Research Assistant 2003-2005, Lecturer 2005-2007, Independent researcher 2008- ). The intervention involved the explicit teaching of listening strategies to learners, combined with approaches to improve their motivation and self-efficacy. In addition, the first phase of the project explored the ways in which listening strategies develop over time and the relationship between these strategies and motivation, resulting in a number of publications.
These findings and publications have fed into two further research projects, which have also served as impact-generation mechanisms. The first, undertaken in collaboration with Santos, has been funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. In its first phase, it has investigated teachers' conceptualisation of second-language listening, how they teach it in secondary schools and how it features in textbooks. In the second phase, it has explored ways of improving language teachers' understanding of how to teach second-language listening comprehension at Key Stage (KS) 3, involving materials development and tracking of teachers' development. The second project is an ESRC-funded follow-on study, entitled `Professional Development Consortium for MFL', carried out by Graham and the University of Oxford's Professor Ernesto Macaro, which has explored the extent to which the principles from Graham and colleagues' previous research can be embedded in classroom practice at KS3.
Overall, the research has contributed to changes in curriculum guidelines for MFL in England. While other authors (e.g. Grenfell and Harris) have published on language-learner strategies, Graham's work is novel in its focus on listening strategies and on the link between strategy use and motivation within the context of MFL learning at English secondary schools. This is reflected in how the author of the first version of the KS3 Framework for MFL cites Graham (2002) as a study underpinning the thinking behind the Framework as regards learners' strategies and motivation1. Although published in 2005, this initial Framework was the forerunner to the later one (2009).
The most powerful and extensive impact of the research has been achieved through the two impact-focused projects described in Section 2, one funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the other supported by ESRC Follow-On funding secured by Graham.
In the Esmée Fairbairn project, Graham and Santos wrote continuous professional development (CPD) materials and held workshops for teachers and teacher educators showing how the listening research (Graham et al., 2008; Graham & Macaro, 2008) can be translated into classroom practice. Emails, teacher interviews, classroom observations and CPD reflective journals from teachers involved in the project show how the initial research has had an impact on teachers' understanding of effective listening pedagogy, and how they develop the listening skills of their learners. One teacher commented on the `seismic shift' in her teaching approach that the CPD had brought about. A Higher Education Academy-funded seminar for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and Higher Education (HE) tutors, to disseminate the Esmée Fairbairn work further, has contributed to changes in how these tutors teach listening pedagogy to trainee teachers, and how HE language tutors teach listening to language students, covering at least 12 Higher Education Institutions (including Bristol, East London, Manchester, Chichester, Liverpool John Moores, and others) and future language teachers throughout the UK. Feedback emails confirm this impact. The listening work was also disseminated to more than 50 ITE tutors and MFL teachers at Language World, March 2013, the major UK conference for language practitioners.
In the ESRC-funded project, the Professional Development Consortium (PDC) group, working with teachers from local schools, created videos and other materials to show how the researchers' findings, formulated into a number of `Principles' of language teaching (including those concerning listening, self-efficacy and motivation, from Graham's work), can be used in practice in the classroom. These are housed on a blog (see http://pdcinmfl.com/) that has received circa 14,000 hits internationally and were disseminated at seven workshops around the country attended by approximately 240 teachers from 144 schools in 33 English counties, and 34 teacher-trainers from 28 universities2. The Education Endowment Foundation has a link to the blog as part of its promotion of evidence-based practice3.
In addition, there is evidence that Graham's work is cited in practitioner guidelines in other countries (e.g.in a Europe-wide guide for teachers4, reaching thousands of teachers internationally), and impacting on teaching practice (e.g. in Academic Language courses in Japan and the US5). The work on metacognition and self-efficacy, as well as listening, is cited as evidence for the need for curriculum changes in the US and has informed debate about ML curriculum design there6.
Graham's publications on listening and motivation have been widely downloaded from the University of Reading's research repository, by readers from over 58 countries. They appear on ITE MFL reading lists (e.g. London Metropolitan, Cardiff and Chichester), reaching hundreds of trainee language teachers, and inform practice-based investigations (e.g. Yan, 2012, based on Graham, 2007) into how to improve language learning in international contexts such as China and the US. Graham's research has also fed into In-School Training Services she delivered to Guernsey schools (3-4 sessions a year in 2006-2011), as MFL Advisor there, and into a lecture tour at the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, for language teachers and lecturers (2011), where the research has underpinned changes to teaching on their Speaking and writing as a Scientist course. A leader of that programme comments in an email that they now pay more attention to developing students' listening strategies and `to the link between strategy use and learning outcomes in our course'.
ITE/PGCE MFL Lecturer, University of Nottingham — impact on the training of teachers across England.


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Q: Spark join hangs I have a table with n columns that I'll call A. In this table there are three columns that i'll need:

*

*vat  -> String

*tax  -> String

*card -> String

vat or tax can be null, but not at the same time.
For every unique couple of vat and tax there is at least one card.
I need to alter this table, adding a column count_card in which I put a text based on the number of cards every unique combination of tax and vat has.
So I've done this:
val cardCount = A.groupBy("tax", "vat").count

val sqlCard = udf((count: Int) => {
  if (count > 1)
    "MULTI"
  else
    "MONO"
})

val B = cardCount.withColumn(
          "card_count",
          sqlCard(cardCount.col("count"))
        ).drop("count")

In the table B I have three columns now:

*

*vat -> String

*tax -> String

*card_count -> Int

and every operation on this DataFrame is smooth.
Now, because I wanted to import the new column in A table, i performed the following join:
val result = A.join(B,
       B.col("tax")<=>A.col("tax") and
       B.col("vat")<=>A.col("vat")
     ).drop(B.col("tax"))
      .drop(B.col("vat"))

Expecting to have the original table A with the column card_count.
Problem is that the join hangs, getting all system resources blocking the pc.
Additional details:

*

*Table A has ~1.5M elements and is read from parquet file;

*Table B has ~1.3M elements.

*System is a 8 thread and 30GB of RAM

Let me know what I'm doing wrong

A: At the end, I didn't found out which was the issue, so I changed approach
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Horror Films: Unnecessary Scare or Relieving? Essay Sample
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In a theater filled with an enthusiastic audience with all their eyes glued to the big screen in front of them. Suddenly there appears a group of zombies from the bushes behind a home in a deserted area. The home belongs to a family of five, a mother, father and their three daughters, who are having a good time at the dinner table. Suddenly the group of zombies breaks in the house and seizes the father, mother, and two daughters. Fortunately one of the daughters has just gone to the kitchen to get a glass of water. The zombies are starving, and with no hesitation, they break their captives and start feeding on them. The other girl sees this and frightened to her spine manages to hide into one of the cabinets. The audience is as quiet as a grave except for the noises made by the zombies in the movie. The scene is scary, but the people are still glued to the screen. This is the reality of horror films. As scary as they are, theatres will be filled with audiences growing larger each day, all eager to experience the thrill of horror. To the people who do not enjoy horror movies, this seems ridiculous. The position of this essay is that horror films are a thrilling and a mind-blowing experience that provides its lovers with multiple perspectives in real life situations.
The demand for horror films is growing with every passing moment. Horror movies which initially had only a niche audience have with time become increasingly popular with mainstream audiences flocking theatres to get the horrifying experiences (Hall and Bracken, 2011). The number of female fans has also risen, unlike the old times when this genre was associated with the male gender. Why the increase in demand? In her article Horror Movies: Why People Love Them, Leslie Fink says that one of the reasons that people enjoy horror movies is the pure suspense that they create. The different sounds employed in these movies add to the suspense making audiences come for more (Leslie, 2013). She adds that theres an excitement that comes with watching scary situations, yet at a distance, knowing that you are safe from the harm. Eduardo Andrade, in his article, Why Do People Enjoy Horror Movies? They Enjoy Being Scared, explains that lovers of horror films enjoy the excitement and the sense of relief they feel after the movie is over and there is a better outcome (Andrade and Cohen, 2007). He also claims that the audiences get to feel happy and unhappy simultaneously throughout the movie. The underlying argument is that horror movies allow people to experience the thrill of being scared without the events happening to them.
With the trend that horror genre has taken, together with the diversity that film makers in this industry have applied, the industry has the potential to secure a top rank in the film industry in future. The benefits of watching a horror movie supersede the terrors of the horror associated with it by critics and non-lovers of the genre. As indicated above, one of the benefits is the thrill that the experiences bring. The rush of adrenaline improves alertness. Second, the horrifying scenes and sounds increase the degree of repression to the viewers. This repression arouses emotions and, therefore, stirs up our capacity to feel and respond. The movies also address issues that occur in the human society and across different cultures. For instance, some films depict emotions such as vengeance, which according to Park Chan-Wook, is one of the most common of human emotions. Other films carry themes of bloody events that have happened in the past, to explain the history of a certain group of people represented in the film, for instance, the Spanish and Korean horror films. Finally, horror films assist viewers in overcoming the dark moments of their lives especially by drawing examples from the protagonists in these films. A good example is the mother in Babadook who overcame the monster and drove it behind closed doors.
Critics have criticized this genre giving different views that seem to question the benefit of watching scary and gore scenes. The aftermath of watching a horror film is associated with anxiety, fear, sleeplessness, behavioral change, and mental trauma. Critics argue that horror films provoke anxiety-related behaviors more than positive long-term effects. While this is true, the experiences encountered by these viewers develop a behavior in them that enable them to be less shaken by tough and scary situations from the movies. In other words, the films toughen them up. To avoid being overcome by fear, a person can apply an attitude that what is happening in the scenes is not real. This way, they can sit back and enjoy the thrill of the movie.
To sum up, horror films are as exciting as any other film in the industry. Their benefits supersede the negativity, and their effects can be a life changer for viewers. The genre is drastically growing, and demand is increasing, placing it at a higher notch in the film industry.
Balmain, C. (2008). Introduction to Japanese horror film. Edinburgh University Press.Eduardo B. Andrade and Joel B. Cohen (August 2007). Why do People Enjoy Horror Movies? They Enjoy Being Scared.
Fink, Leslie. Horror Movies: Why People Love Them (2013)
http://www.livescience.com/7949-horror-movies-people-love.html.
Hall, A. E., & Bracken, C. C. (2011). I really liked that movie. Journal of Media Psychology.Heller-Nicholas, A. (2014). Found footage horror films: fear and the appearance of reality. McFarland.Hutchings, P. (2014). The horror film. Routledge.Lazaro-Reboll, A. (2012). Spanish Horror Film. Edinburgh University Press.
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Married, 53. 2 grown daughters- one in Oklahoma and one at Pacific University here in Oregon. One world wise dog and 2 cats. My favorite thing to do is read. Sometimes I think Google is my best friend as I have an insatiable quest for knowledge.
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Both my daughters have severe ADHD. I ended up homeschooling most of their primary and ms school grades. I learned a lot about education and advocacy for alternative education. CMASAS' mission of reaching.
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That personalized education is a real thing here. We have students from all backgrounds and each student is highly valued. Our personalized education coaches create a course plan for EACH student.
Knowing that I have a part in giving the student a reason to enjoy school and learning.
What inspired you to want to work at an online school that emphasizes personalized education vs a site-specific traditional school?
Personal experience with my own children. Being an advocate for alternative schooling is a natural fit for me.
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Canadian Cycling Magazine July 30, 2020
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This episode is a rebroadcast of our look at the 1980 Olympic boycott. It happened 40 years ago, but contains some lessons for what athletes are facing today. On this day, BMX competition was originally scheduled to begin in Tokyo. But in March, as rising COVID-19 cases sent nations scrambling, the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee announced that Canadians would not go to the 2020 Games. Two days later, the IOC said it would postpone the 2020 Olympics for a year.
Recently, as we passed the one-year-to-go-until-the-rescheduled-Olympics date, talk of cancelling the 2021 Games started up. On July 22, the president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee Yoshiro Mori said to Japanese media that if the pandemic continued has it had been so far, the Games could not go ahead in 2021. A few days before that, the Kyodo news agency released the results of a poll that showed that only 23.9 per cent of the people surveyed throughout Japan thought the Olympics should be held. A segment as large as 36.4 per cent thought the Games should be postponed again. From the survey, 33.7 per cent said the Games should be cancelled.
With the threat of Olympic cancellation creeping in once again, let's listen to track cyclists Gordon Singleton and Steve Bauer, and road cyclist Louis Garneau as they discuss the time, 40 years ago, that the Olympics didn't happen for Canadian athletes.
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Sean Harding is an Associate in the firm's General Litigation Group where he focuses his practice on commercial litigation and insurance defense and coverage. Prior to joining PK Law Mr. Harding was a litigation associate representing insurers, boards of education, small businesses, and a Fortune 500 company in contractual disputes, personal injury matters, alternative dispute resolution, employment matters and business tort litigation.
Mr. Harding graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2016. While in law school he was a Litigation Award recipient on the National Trial Team, an articles editor on the Journal of Business and Technology Law and was a student attorney for the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic. After receiving his juris doctorate he clerked for The Honorable Melanie M. Shaw Geter of the Court of Special Appeals where he conducted in-depth legal research on various issues, including corporate taxation, employment law, zoning, public benefits, evidence, and constitutional law.
Mr. Harding has been an assistant coach for the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law National Trial Team since 2016.
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Smiley Smile
At a recent conference, one of the audience members asked me, "Are you always this cheerful and upbeat?" My first thought was, "Are you mad? I'm mostly unpleasant." The question should not be surprising to me, however. For twenty-five years I have been described with these words: friendly, clean, all-American, and Southern California. I've never contradicted this message. In fact, I reinforced it. But I now find it odd that regardless of age, what I do, and how my work evolves, those words still follow me. I'll just look on the bright side.
As designers, we strive for a well-communicated, pure message. Our goal being to reinforce the brand and create proprietary value. Consider the Carpenters. Now some of you may be thinking, "Oh, I love them." and others, "Really, the Carpenters? Really?" But the Carpenters were packaged and branded with a clear and specific message, one that, at times, was contrary to reality.
From 1970 through 1976, every Carpenters single was a number one or two on the charts. They had five top ten albums and sixteen consecutive top twenty hit singles. The Carpenters are one of the most successful musical brands of the second half of the twentieth-century. Their image was relentlessly upbeat, clean, and sweet. The press described them as Pepsodent-smiling, sticky-sweet, and pleasant. These are valuable attributes for your son or daughter's prom date but minimized the Carpenters musical talent or success.
The Carpenters brand communication illustrates the success of a commercially viable image at the expense of diminishing relevant artistic value. Regardless of their musical value, innovation, and talent, the message defined them as acceptable, non-threatening, and less than serious.
Offering (1969) Art director: Tom Wilkes. Photographer: Jim McCrary.
At the onset, A&M Records didn't have a sharp image in mind for the group. The Carpenters released their first album, Offering, in 1969. The cover presents a photograph of Karen and Richard Carpenter in a rustic non-specific setting. The message is unclear, having something to do with nature, sunflowers, and autumn.
LEFT: Close To You (1970) Art Direction: Tom Wilkes. Photography: Kessel/Brehm Photography. RIGHT: The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (1971) Art Direction: Craig Braun. Photography: Billy Name.
The next album, Close To You (1970), begins to craft the image more definitively. The southern California ocean background conveys a natural and west coast attitude. The clothing portrays them as innocent and clean. These are people who would be acceptable as dates, in contrast to the person on the cover of The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (1971). The nostalgic art-deco typeface and photographic border communicate the warmth of a vintage photo-book. But, most importantly, we now see Richard and Karen Carpenter straight on with broad smiles. Again, these are friendly people. They will not trash a hotel room.
TOP LEFT: Carpenters (1971) Carpenters Logo: Craig Braun and Associates, Art Direction: Roland Young. Photography: Guy Webster. BOTTOM LEFT: A Song For You (1972) Art Direction: Roland Young. Photography: Jim McCrary. RIGHT: Advertising (1972) Art Direction: Roland Young.
Carpenters (1971) is the first usage of the Carpenters logo. The art-nouveau typographic-expressionist letterforms on a cream background reinforce sentimentality and nostalgia. The absence of a photograph tells the audience that the group is now successful enough to be represented only with their logo. They are not individuals. They are now a product. The following album, A Song for You, continues the theme, adding a sweet Valentines red background and heart.
Now & Then (1973) Art direction: Roland Young. Photography (front cover): Jim McCrary. Illustrations: Design Maru (front cover); Len Freas (inside cover).
The renowned art director, Roland Young, shifted the message away from the saccharine with the three-panel fold-out cover for Now and Then (1972). The photograph continues to reinforce the southern California image. But, the duo is now obscured in the red Ferrari, driving past the family house in the Los Angeles suburb, Downey. One has the sense of a transition and change in direction (no pun intended).
Young recalls the experience, "When I was at A&M Records, I thought the Carpenters' songs were so powerful. You couldn't help seeing Karen and Richard in your imagination by listening to We've Only Just Begun. The Now And Then cover captured them with an elusive cinematic image. They are cruising in their car, driving by their mom and dad's home in Downey, composing and arranging. I wanted an illustration, not a photograph. Notice the missing shadow on the garage door, no street lamps. It's not real, but so real." He continued to explain the structure, "The cover is one third of the image. It's a three-panel package. Only by buying the album would the listener get the whole picture. I didn't have to explain anything to A&M. They loved everything."
With the exception of Lou Beach's Passages (1977), Young's unique approach is abandoned and the album covers revert to the formula of Karen and Richard's smiling faces for most of the subsequent albums.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Passages (1977) Design: Lou Beach. A Kind Of Hush (1976) Photography: Jim McCrary and Bill Hennigar. Made In America (1981) Art Direction: Chuck Beeson, Jeff Ayeroff. Design: Lynn Robb. Illustration: David Willardson.
Like the Beach Boys, Olivia Newton-John, The Jackson 5, and The Osmonds, the Carpenters image was crafted to sell records as an alternative to the "dangerous and counter-cultural" element at the time. It was safe and benign. In a world of riots, Watergate, the Vietnam War, and the energy crisis, these groups provided a safe retreat.
The Beach Boys, Surfin' Safari (1962) Olivia Newton-John, Let Me Be There (1973) Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 (1969) The Osmonds, One Bad Apple (1970)
The happy smiles, bright photography and illustration, natural colors, and the hint of nostalgia repeatedly reinforce the communication. There is little room for the audience to accept any of the individuals with three-dimensional, complicated, or contradictory natures. We prefer the easy to identify: the Carpenters are friendly, the Rolling Stones are nasty, Bjork is alternative. In a 1974 Rolling Stone cover story, Karen Carpenter tried to remove some of the squeaky-clean perceptions, "The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just normal people."
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Sean Adams is the Executive Director of the Graphic Design Graduate Program at ArtCenter, and founder of Burning Settlers Cabin studio. He is the only two term AIGA national president in the organization's history. In 2014, Adams was awarded the AIGA Medal, the highest honor in the profession. Previously, Adams was a founding partner of AdamsMorioka.
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What makes a graphic designer strange? Is it the obsessive attention to kerning on street signs, arguing whether PMS 172 is orange or red, or collecting odd scraps of paper on every European vacation?


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Contacts Maria da Graça Carvalho
Maria da Graça Carvalho
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Causes Industrial Transition
Working together for a more sustainable and competitive Europe
For the first time in its history, the European Parliament has in the present legislature an intergroup dedicated to the themes of industry and the competitiveness of the economy, of which I have the honor of being co-chair.
Causes Science and innovation
Science and Innovation at the service of people and the planet
My training and professional experience as an engineer always involved me in the subjects of Science and Innovation.
Causes Energy and Climate
Clean energy for all.
At Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), with which I maintain the link of full professor, my classes focused on the areas of Energy, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development. It was also to these themes that I preferentially dedicated my activity as a researcher.
Causes Digitalization
A more humanized digital society.
In my lexicon, "digitalization" is synonymous with "democratization", in terms of empowering populations and accessing information around the world. I see digitalization and Artificial Intelligence as powerful tools for building a more prosperous, more sustainable, and more just society.
Causes Consumer Rights
Consumers at the center of political decisions.
The common market is one of the foundations of the project that brought us to the present European Union. However, its potential is still far from being achieved, especially with regard to the "empowerment" of consumers in the different member states.
Causes Women's Rights
Women's rights, gender equality.
When I arrived at Instituto Superior Técnico, I was one of two women to enter the Mechanical Engineering course, among about a hundred men. Several decades later - in Portugal and in most European countries -, women definitely affirmed themselves in higher education, even becoming the majority among new graduates in several areas, from the Judiciary to Medicine.


For any of you who know me personally, you will have gathered that from the start of uni my go-to meal has always been pesto pasta. It's literally the quickest meal to make as you only need to boil the pasta, fry some veg then stir in a bit of pesto! But recently I've inevitably gotten a bit bored of this classic meal and I wanted to see if I could shake up this pasta meal that makes a weekly appearance.
Note: My mum and sister came up to visit me and we went on a food shop which explains the extravagance of the smoked salmon! If you're parents aren't visiting you and want a cheaper alternative I would recommend adding feta cheese/goats cheese instead as a tasty veggie alternative.
Drain the pasta, drizzle a little olive oil (this will help the cream sauce coat the pasta) and add the cream sauce.
Enjoy! Let me know if you try out the recipe in the comments section below and add any alterations you make!


To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail... Ever since seeing the hand-fabricated hairpin legs offered by the web store of a machine shop in Ohio at hairpinlegs.com, I've been thinking about building a coffee table for our new place with them. I just have to start hunting for a decent piece of recovered wood or the like to use as the top.


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Sandow organized the first bodybuilding contest on September 14, 1901, called the "Great Competition". It was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Judged by Sandow, Sir Charles Lawes, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the contest was a great success and many bodybuilding enthusiasts were turned away due to the overwhelming amount of audience members.[4] The trophy presented to the winner was a gold statue of Sandow sculpted by Frederick Pomeroy. The winner was William L. Murray of Nottingham. The silver Sandow trophy was presented to second-place winner D. Cooper. The bronze Sandow trophy — now the most famous of all — was presented to third-place winner A.C. Smythe. In 1950, this same bronze trophy was presented to Steve Reeves for winning the inaugural NABBA Mr. Universe contest. It would not resurface again until 1977 when the winner of the IFBB Mr. Olympia contest, Frank Zane, was presented with a replica of the bronze trophy. Since then, Mr. Olympia winners have been consistently awarded a replica of the bronze Sandow.
Personal health also depends partially on the social structure of a person's life. The maintenance of strong social relationships, volunteering, and other social activities have been linked to positive mental health and also increased longevity. One American study among seniors over age 70, found that frequent volunteering was associated with reduced risk of dying compared with older persons who did not volunteer, regardless of physical health status.[58] Another study from Singapore reported that volunteering retirees had significantly better cognitive performance scores, fewer depressive symptoms, and better mental well-being and life satisfaction than non-volunteering retirees.[59]
Another text which teaches yoga with an Advaita point of view is the Yoga-Yājñavalkya.[262] This work contains extensive teachings on ten Yamas (ethical rules) and ten Niyamas (duties), and eight asanas. It also discusses a theory of nadis and prana (vital breath), and follows this with instructions on pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (sense withdrawal), meditation on mantras, meditative visualizations and Kundalini.
The first Hindu teacher to actively advocate and disseminate aspects of yoga, not including asanas, to a western audience, Swami Vivekananda, toured Europe and the United States in the 1890s.[204] The reception which Swami Vivekananda received built on the active interest of intellectuals, in particular the New England Transcendentalists, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), who drew on German Romanticism and philosophers and scholars like G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831), the brothers August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845) and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), Max Mueller (1823–1900), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), and others who had (to varying degrees) interests in things Indian.[205][206]
The practice of awakening the coiled energy in the body is sometimes specifically called Kundalini yoga. It is based on Indian theories of the subtle body and uses various pranayamas (breath techniques) and mudras (bodily techniques) to awaken the energy known as kundalini (the coiled one) or shakti. In various Shaiva and Shakta traditions of yoga and tantra, yogic techniques or yuktis are used to unite kundalini-shakti, the divine conscious force or energy, with Shiva, universal consciousness.[278] A common way of teaching this method is to awaken the kundalini residing at the lowest chakra and to guide it through the central channel to unite with the absolute consciousness at the highest chakra (in the top of the head).[279]
The origins of yoga are a matter of debate.[44] There is no consensus on its chronology or specific origin other than that yoga developed in ancient India. Suggested origins are the Indus Valley Civilization (3300–1900 BCE)[45] and pre-Vedic Eastern states of India,[46] the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE), and the śramaṇa movement.[47] According to Gavin Flood, continuities may exist between those various traditions:
In the last week leading up to a contest, bodybuilders usually decrease their consumption of water, sodium, and carbohydrates, the former two to alter how water is retained by the body and the latter to reduce glycogen in the muscle. The day before the show, water is removed from the diet, and diuretics may be introduced, while carbohydrate loading is undertaken to increase the size of the muscles through replenishment of their glycogen. The goal is to maximize leanness and increase the visibility of veins, or "vascularity". The muscular definition and vascularity are further enhanced immediately before appearing on stage by darkening the skin through tanning products and applying oils to the skin to increase shine. Some competitors will eat sugar-rich foods to increase the visibility of their veins. A final step, called "pumping", consists in performing exercises with light weights or other kinds of low resistance (for instance two athletes can "pump" each other by holding a towel and pulling in turn), just before the contest, to fill the muscles with blood and further increase their size and density.
According to Geoffrey Samuel, our "best evidence to date" suggests that yogic practices "developed in the same ascetic circles as the early śramaṇa movements (Buddhists, Jainas and Ajivikas), probably in around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE." This occurred during what is called the 'Second Urbanisation' period.[9] According to Mallinson and Singleton, these traditions were the first to use psychophysical techniques, mainly known as dhyana and tapas. but later described as yoga, to strive for the goal of liberation (moksha, nirvana) from samsara (the round of rebirth).[78]
Yoga may have pre-Vedic elements.[45][46] Some state yoga originated in the Indus Valley Civilization.[51] Marshall,[52] Eliade[10] and other scholars note that the Pashupati seal discovered in an Indus Valley Civilization site depicts a figure in a position resembling an asana used for meditation, Mulabandhasana. This interpretation is considered speculative and uncertain by more recent analysis of Srinivasan[10] and may be a case of projecting "later practices into archeological findings".[53]
^ The Pāli and Sanskrit word bhāvanā literally means "development" as in "mental development." For the association of this term with "meditation," see Epstein (1995), p. 105; and, Fischer-Schreiber et al. (1991), p. 20. As an example from a well-known discourse of the Pali Canon, in "The Greater Exhortation to Rahula" (Maha-Rahulovada Sutta, MN 62), Ven. Sariputta tells Ven. Rahula (in Pali, based on VRI, n.d.): ānāpānassatiṃ, rāhula, bhāvanaṃ bhāvehi. Thanissaro (2006) translates this as: "Rahula, develop the meditation [bhāvana] of mindfulness of in-&-out breathing." (Square-bracketed Pali word included based on Thanissaro, 2006, end note.)
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Virtual gastric band uses hypnosis to make the brain think the stomach is smaller than it really is and hence lower the amount of food ingested. This brings as a consequence weight reduction. This method is complemented with psychological treatment for anxiety management and with hypnopedia. Research has been conducted into the use of hypnosis as a weight management alternative.[16][17][18][19] In 1996 a study found that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was more effective for weight reduction if reinforced with hypnosis.[17] Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ACT, a mindfulness approach to weight loss, has also in the last few years been demonstrating its usefulness.[20]


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Ministry and activists protest the use of bushmeat in Masterchef Ecuador
On the night of January 3, in the cooking reality show that is broadcast on Teleamazonas , Masterchef Ecuador, the participants had to face a 'creativity challenge'. They had to use venison, capybara, alligator and shark meat, all wild animals. Tollo meat was even used, a small species of shark that is in danger of extinction.
The consumption of wild meat is a sanctioned crime in Ecuador.
Given this fact, the reactions of animal organizations did not wait. On January 4, they expressed their rejection of what they consider promoting the consumption of these species and have requested appropriate sanctions from the relevant authorities.
The National Animal Movement of Ecuador, for example, issued a statement on its social networks, where it cites various articles of the CODA (Organic Code of the Environment) and where it is explicitly stated that the meat of wild fauna can be consumed only in survival situations.
Additionally, they asked the show's filmmakers and producers to provide an explanation.
For its part, the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition published a statement rejecting the consumption of wild meat in Ecuador and recalling that it is a criminal offense.
"We call on citizens to respect and protect the extraordinary biodiversity of the country and urge the media to support the strengthening of the national environmental policy," said the Ministry.
In the statement issued by the Environment Ministry, stressed that the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP), article 247, indicates that crimes against wild flora and fauna are punished with imprisonment of one to three years. In addition, article 318 of the Environmental Organic Code (COA) sanctions up to 200 unified basic salaries.
The channel through which the 'Masterchef' program is broadcast has not yet issued a statement regarding these complaints.
https://www.expreso.ec/actualidad/ministerio-activistas-saltan-carne-animales-silvestres-masterchef-ecuador-118803.html
The US studies carrying out works on the Coca river
Ecuador calls for a Latin American meeting on bananas on January 12


Dorothy is a female given name from Greek meaning "God's Gift", from, "gift" + "god". The earliest form of the word δῶρον is the Mycenaean Greek do-ra, meaning "gifts", written in Linear B syllabic script. Although much less common, there are also male equivalents in English such as "Dorie" from the Greek masculine Δωρόθεος Also, the given names Theodore and Theodora are derived from the same two Greek root words as Dorothy, albeit reversed in order.
Dorothy was a less common variant of Dorothea, until it became one of the most popular girl's names in the United States between 1904 and 1940. It was ranked among the top 10 most popular names given to American newborn girls. The name remained among the top 100 most popular names for American girls until 1961. It then declined in popularity and was last ranked among the top 1,000 most popular names for American newborn girls in 2006, when it was ranked in 986th position. There were 235 newborn American girls given the name in 2010. Just 20 American girls were given the variant name Dorothea in 2010.


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'Community' concludes a shockingly great sixth season, and probably the series
By David Youngblood June 2, 2015 June 2, 2015 Media Rare
Somewhere out there in the multiverse is a timeline where Community never got made. There's a timeline where it only ever got made in a sterilized, more traditional fashion, and every year was a gas leak year. There are surely several timelines for it getting canceled at various points in time — after early seasons, or during seasons. There might even be a timeline in which the show is a massive commercial success, killing it in the ratings and running for 10 years without anyone ever needing to stop and consider what a fucking miracle this show has been. But we, happily, live in the brightest timeline of all.
We live in the timeline where Community struggled for every scrap of existence it has ever had. We live in the timeline of constantly low ratings and nervous cancellation watches. We live in the timeline where the show got bumped at the last second to a midseason replacement option, forcing it to air a Halloween episode in February. We live in the reality where the show's creator had very public feuds with the show's most famous cast member and got fired. We live in the reality where fans held their breath through a gas leak that stole a year of greatness. We live where that creator was stunningly re-hired for a season, only to see the show canceled. We live where an online streaming service that no one knew existed gave the show a final gasp of life.
We live in the timeline where cast members left us, one by one. We live with their replacements who did such admirable jobs. We live with the tragedy of departures and the thrilling victories of the episodes that triumphed over them. We live in the world where Community lasted for six tumultuous but inspiring seasons and managed to somehow leave us wanting more.
Yahoo! Screen released the 13th episode of Season 6 today, concluding the season and, almost definitely, the series itself. The online views haven't been released during the season, but from creator Dan Harmon's public comments, they've supposedly been surprisingly good — his voiceover in the finale indicated tens of millions of views, and even if that's an overstatement, it may indicate a stunning turnaround in viewership for a show that peaked in viewers with the series' pilot way back in 2009 (7.89 million, according to Nielson) and fell steadily from there. Given the need for Yahoo! Screen to get any viewers it can in order to take off as a competitor in a noisy marketplace of original content offerors, one could imagine an interest on its part in a Season 7.
And yet this feels like we've reached the final ending. The Season 6 finale, appropriately titled "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television," was the fourth straight Community season finale to at least partially double as a potential series finale — but it was also the best one, with the strongest sense of a real finale. The episode's central conceit revolved around the various characters' ideas for a "Season 7" in their shared lives, with ideas ranging from environmental activism to bringing back Shirley (a VERY welcome cameo by the wonderful Yvette Nicole Brown) and even adding a third black character (gasp!). But it was the way the show mocked even the most sensible contrivance (making the characters all become teachers at the community college) that showed the mindset of the series. This is a group that's done their part and is ready to move on.
So allow me to give a well-earned kudos to the probably final installment of that run and praise the surprisingly wonderful Season 6. When I watched the season's first two episodes, which Yahoo! released on the same day, I wasn't sold. They certainly had their moments, but the humor wasn't top-notch, and I couldn't help feeling like maybe the show was starting to wear thin. But against all odds, things turned around. The new group found its rhythm, and things started to pick up. The episodes became funnier. The chemistry became stronger. The show managed to make me forget about who wasn't there and just enjoy how delightfully committed everyone was who was still around.
With three members of the original cast gone, Community added two new series regulars. Keith David played Elroy Patashnik, formerly a 1980s technology wiz who reluctantly becomes the Greendale IT expert — a role he's not really qualified for, except, of course, at Greendale. Paget Brewster came on as Frankie Dart, the somewhat uptight specialist who tries to save Greendale, and basically ends up doing all the Dean's real work. Both additions eventually gelled despite some early uneasiness. Brewster, in particular, hit her stride as a superb straight (wo)man in a lot of bits; I was also happy to see her prominently in another show I love after fond memories of her excellent part in Andy Richter Controls the Universe, another underappreciated sitcom whose lifespan was far shorter.
The second half of Season 6 often reached near the levels of the show's first three seasons, including an all-timer for the series (episode 8, "Intro to Recycled Cinema"), the first paintball episode since Season 2 (episode 11, "Modern Espionage"), and a great mockery of the study group's self-image as the cool kids (episode 12, "Wedding Videography"). There were, of course, a couple duds or mild disappointments along the way, but such is life, and, perhaps more importantly, such is TV.
Abed summed it up best in making the speech about television that was the greatest moment in today's emotional finale:
"There is skill to it. More importantly, it has to be joyful, effortless, fun. TV defeats its own purpose when it's pushing an agenda, or trying to defeat other TV, or being proud or ashamed of itself for existing. It's TV. It's comfort. It's a friend you've known so well, and for so long, you just let it be with you. And it needs to be okay for it to have a bad day, or phone in a day. And it needs to be okay for it to get on a boat with Levar Burton and never come back. Because eventually, it all will."
Community had bad days. It had days where it seemed to phone it in. Donald Glover got restless, so Troy left on a boat with Levar Burton and never returned. But all along, it was pushing that manifesto in Abed's speech. Entertainment can be such a tricky and challenging thing, with all the money and attention at stake, and god knows I've often made too much of the industry in all its forms. But there's something that feels pure and blissful about just surrendering yourself to such an inventive series like Community. Let the show be a comfort. Let it be your friend, and accept its flaws and revel in its successes. Let it be what it is, and if you can, just love it for that.
I love Community for its actors and writers. I love it for its meta references. I love it for its originality, and how even elaborate homages bring out more of that creativity. I love it for its paintball. I love it for being self-aware and even self-deprecating. I love it for being honest with itself, almost angrily so at times. I love it for flaunting against expectations and tropes. I love it for being joyful, for being effortless, for being fun. I love it for giving me some of the greatest hours of television of my life, and for defying so many odds on its way to 110 episodes over six glorious seasons.
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