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Stirling Fessenden (29 September 1875 – 1 February 1944), an American lawyer who practised in Shanghai, was the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1923 to 1929 and then Secretary-General of the Council from 1929 to 1939.

Early life
Fessenden was born September 29, 1875 in Fort Fairfield, Maine, United States. The son of Nicholas Fessenden, Judge and later Secretary of State of Maine, and Laura Sterling, he came from a prominent New England family which included Samuel Fessenden, a Massachusetts state senator and US Treasury Secretary William P. Fessenden.

In 1896, he graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A.  (Bowdoin College, in 1932, awarded him an honorary LLD.)  He studied law in the New York Law School, evening department.

Legal practice in Shanghai
Fessenden came to Shanghai in April 1903 to work as a sub-manager with the American Trading Company.  In 1905, he commenced practicing law in partnership with Mr Thomas R. Jernigan.  In 1907, he was admitted to practice in the newly established United States Court for China. He and Jernigan, were, initially, the only American lawyers to pass the strict bar exam introduced by the new judge, Lebbeus Wilfley. Later he formed a partnership with Major Chauncy Holcomb in the firm of Fessenden & Holcomb. He served as Chairman of the Far Eastern Bar Association in Shanghai for many years.

Shanghai Municipal Council

In 1920, Fessenden was elected a member of Shanghai Municipal Council Board of Trustees and in October 1923 he became chairman of the Municipal Council.

Following the outspring on violence in Shanghai from 1925, he re-organized the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. He created the American Mercantile Company, mostly dealing with Shanghai real-estate in 1925 along with Harry Virden Bernard.

In 1929, Fessenden resigned from his post as Chairman of the Municipal Council and took up the post of Director-General (later Secretary-General) of Municipal Council, charged with the administration of the council.

After the Japanese invasion of China, the Shanghai International Settlement was encircled by Japanese troops.  The Japanese authorities claimed that he conspired with the Americans against Japan.

With effect from June 30, 1939, Fessenden retired from his position with the council due to eye disease.  He was succeeded by G. Godfrey Phillips, the secretary of the Council.

Internment and death
In 1941, when Japan occupied the Shanghai International Settlement at the start of the  Pacific War, the Japanese forced Fessenden to be interned with Russian refugees. After he was completely blind, Chinese servants took care of him.

Fessenden was offered a passage out of Shanghai in September 1943 on the Teia Maru to Goa (where passengers would transfer to the MS Gripsholm to take them back to the United States). However, knowing that he had little time to live, he declined.  He died of a heart ailment, in Shanghai on February 1, 1944.  Fessenden had indicated before his death that he wished to be cremated.  There is no record of his burial in Shanghai, so he presumably was.

References

Further reading

 Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers
 The Fall of Shanghai by Noel Barber
 Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943) by Douglas Clark
 My Twenty Five Years In China by John B Powell
 Hunting opium and other scents by Maurice Springfield (Halesworth: Norfolk and Suffolk Publicity, 1966)
 Shanghai and beyond by Percy Finch
 Shanghai and the edges of Empires by Meng Yue
 Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939 by Harriet Sergeant
 Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City, 1842-1949 by Stella Dong
 The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937 by Brian G. Martin
 Shanghai splendor : economic sentiments and the making of modern China, 1843-1949 by Wen-hsin Yeh
 Barney, Journals of Harry Virden Bernard, by Barbara B McGee, 1982

American lawyers
Fessenden family
People from Fort Fairfield, Maine
People from Aroostook County, Maine
Bowdoin College alumni
History of Shanghai
Chairmen of the Shanghai Municipal Council
People of the Northern Expedition
1875 births
1944 deaths
American expatriates in China

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What makes a play a perennial favourite with audiences? Whatever the magic formula, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest certainly has it, as it remains an audience drawcard more than a hundred years after its author's death.
The rules and rituals of Victorian high society are exaggerated and the characters are larger than life but remain recognisably people with whom we can identify and chuckle. The dialogue is extremely clever and we hesitate to laugh out loud for fear of missing the next line. This production, directed by Hedley Thomson, maintains the exceedingly high standards of recent BNT offerings and is sure to provide a thoroughly enjoyable and laughter-packed evening.
Peter Nethercote's elegant sets capture the ambience of Victorian upper-class society with dramatic flair while the costumes are stunning. Even the set changes are part of the entertainment. The accents never falter as an immensely talented cast deliver those well-known lines and remind us of the wittiness for which Wilde was so renowned.
Peter Vanderkley as upright and decent Jack, and Kristopher White as the lovable rogue Algernon, are perfectly contrasted as their secret lives are revealed. Their lady loves played by Laura Hudson as the socially aware Gwendolen, and Petea Stark as deceptively simple Cecily, provide an equally well-balanced contrast. Paul Rose's Canon Chasuble is suitably pompous, Christine Holmes' simpering Miss Prism is a delight and I really enjoyed Lee Taylor's two contrasting man-servant roles. And what of Lady Augusta Bracknell, one of the best known characters in theatre? Jane Gaylor is perfect in the role, bringing fresh life to those wonderful lines and quelling all comers with a single haughty glance.
My companion at the preview performance was an 18- year-old who knew nothing of the play, while I know it very well. We were equally entertained and amused which rather goes to show that Earnest has in no way lost its appeal. A night out here will provide a very pleasant break in this sometimes frantic lead-up to Christmas.


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Video: Startling Cruelty Exposed at Kosher Slaughterhouses
Still-Conscious Cows Shown Cut, Stabbed, and Subjected to Painful Restraint Methods During Primitive 'Shackle and Hoist' Slaughter
Limpio, Paraguay – A new video exposé that was shot in July 2016 at the Frigochaco slaughterhouse in Paraguay—the country that supplies 40 percent of all kosher beef sold in Israel—and released today reveals that workers are still using an archaic "shackle and hoist" slaughter method. Additional whistleblower footage taken at facilities in Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay also shows this cruel practice.
The video shows cows jabbed with electric shock prods to get them into a squeeze box, where their legs are chained before the floor drops out from under them, dumping them onto the kill floor. Workers wrench back the live cows' necks using a sharp, trident-like "devil's fork" and cut their throats. Still alive and kicking, they are then hoisted by one leg—all their massive weight suspended from that limb—and shunted down the processing line, where a worker drives a spike (or puntilla) into the back of their head to sever the spine and paralyze them. Many of the cows remain alive and conscious during this entire process.
"It's an utter betrayal of Jewish law's prohibitions against unnecessary suffering to use painful restraint methods and hack apart still-conscious, petrified cows," says People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. "PETA is calling on the Israeli government and religious authorities to ban imports from facilities that torture animals, and we are reminding everyone that the only way to eat humanely is to go vegan."
Animal behavior expert Dr. Temple Grandin reviewed PETA's footage and condemns the "shackle and hoist" method as "a violation of all industry and international welfare guidelines." She continues, "The highly stressful, cruel methods of restraint must be eliminated. These plants must also stop hanging fully conscious cattle on the rail. … [These practices] cause unnecessary suffering."
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to eat"—and Anonymous for Animal Rights note that up to 80 percent of the kosher meat imported into Israel comes from slaughterhouses that use the "shackle and hoist" method. Argentina and Uruguay currently export beef to the U.S., and although Paraguay isn't currently approved to do the same, that policy may change in the near future. American authorities do not currently prohibit kosher beef from cows killed using this cruel method from entering the U.S. food supply.
Broadcast-quality video footage and photos from the investigation are available. For more information, please visit PETA.org.

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have is one and two.
So, we have one note.
give us a new shape to work with.
So here are our notes one.
[SOUND] in the key of E.
triad notes in E major.
[SOUND] And let's play them.
up, going all the way down back up again.
This one is gonna start with an upstroke.
free notes from our left hand.
So, this, this one is nice.
Left hand does the rest.
and put it in time.
before with our pentatonic shape.
cause we're skipping a string.
[SOUND] Let's see if we can get it.
Then we'll see if we can make it loud.
So, I'm gonna do like this.
your technique to control it.
make sure those notes are nice and clean.
to how the notes sound.
[SOUND] [SOUND] Try with distortion.
All right think we got that one.
[SOUND] two notes, [SOUND] and one note.
[SOUND] So, it's one, two, one.
You can hear that triplet feel.
almost exactly like the one we did.
[SOUND] Earlier in our pentatonic shape.
It's, it's really the same format.
matter which strings are on.
doing, doing them on different strings.
more time in E major.
Just to see it like this.
[SOUND] It's starting with the upstroke.
[SOUND] And then we're doing a pull-off.
make sure it's really, really solid.
Let a nice hold go by.
[LAUGH] [SOUND] There were go.
[SOUND] Driven by that upstroke.
[SOUND] That's a pretty fast triplet.
isn't that fast, we're just going like.
between that's really making this work.
All right, let's add one more note.
I think I want to complete, the lick.
[SOUND] Let's slow that down.
[SOUND] A love leaving that space.
all we have to do now is loop it.
Except the one where we restart.
[SOUND] Let's try it louder.
[SOUND] And play it quiet.
[SOUND] That sounds pretty good.
it even a little quicker.
So, those are some burning E major triads.
tempo and hope you enjoy that one.
[SOUND] One two three four.


Last night, as part of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce's Awards of Excellence gala, I had the privilege of presenting Mayor's Awards to five Guelph citizens who are making a difference. Click here to read about the winners. You can also read about them in the Guelph Mercury here.
When I call Mayor's Awards winners to let them know they have been chosen, they tend to react with surprise (and often say that someone else should be the one to be recognized). They don't seek out the spotlight, but I'm glad to have the chance to shine one on them for one night at the awards gala!
Thank you to all of this year's winners. You are what makes Guelph the city that makes a difference.


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Discovering Dalton by Nicole Colville
Angel of Darkness by Tyler May
First by K.C Wells
New Years Dream by Tyler May
The Making Of Matt by Nicola Haken
Deliver Me by Faith Gibson
Grif's Toy by Joseph Lance Tonlet
Homepage > Archived Reviews > Reviews 2015 > November 2015 > First by K.C Wells
Tommy was finally living the life he thought he wanted.
He knew he was gay and decided that when he went away to college he would finally meet someone.
His friend Ben saw it as his mission in life to help Tommy do just that.
On a night out at a club they decide to separate and Tommy finds himself at a gay bar, being underage with fake ID, he tries to sit quietly with his cherry coke and just observe.
When he spots Mike, the older and rugged bartender, the things he starts to feel are nothing he has ever experienced before.
Mike Scott or Scott Masters as he is known in the industry, has been a porn star for 20 years.
At the age of 43 he was getting a little weary of it all but while the work and demand were still there, who was he to say no.
Following his first time in the bar, Tommy started to visit every weekend while he was staying with Ben's family.
Anything for a glimpse of the man who had captured his attention.
What he hadn't realised was that Mike had noticed him too!!!!
While Mike is out of town on a shoot, the other bartenders get to know Tommy a bit better and work out that he doesn't know what Mike actually does as his day job.
On a visit home to his parents house, Tommy decides it's time to come out, after all they are his family and no matter how religious they are, they would never turn their backs on him right!!!!!
Little did he know just how bad things would get.
He ended up being cast out and told never to return.
Luckily Ben's family took him under their wings and gave him hope.
New Years Eve was a massive night in the club.
Tommy had been styled ready to go and Mike was wearing a leather jock strap and harness, they could hardly keep their eyes off each other.
When they end up having breakfast together, neither of them realise how their lives are going to change.
Mike doesn't realise just how innocent Tommy is and when he does he decides to keep the fact about his career a secret, after all it has caused him problems in the past and for some reason he doesn't want to risk losing Tommy.
What will happen when the truth is revealed?
Can Tommy get over the fact that his older,more worldly boyfriend is actually a porn star, can he cope with the fact that he will be sleeping with other men?
He would never ask Mike to give up his life for him, will Mike prove to him he's worth it?
I loved this story. It was well written and made you want things to work out. You could actually feel the angst the characters were going through and felt for them.


The main added value in Optimus resides in the Model to Model transformations orchestration. The purpose of this document is to describe the related API and implementation.
As the orchestrator is in charge of executing unitary & independant transformations, it needs a mean to transfer information across the execution. This is the role of the Transformation Context, which acts as a session. This transformation context should implement the ITransformationContext interface and Optimus proposes a default implementation (based on maps) named DefaultTransformationContext To know more about the API and features around this context, the dedicated documentation is available here. This is the aim of the first parameter.
The third one uses the same adapter technology to notify the orchestrator when objects are modified/added as inputs, so transformations can be applied on them too.
When called, the engine will then resolve all the elements that is should consider during the transformation process, taking all children and direct parents, as per the example below. Such elements are called the eligible elements.
Finally, the last step is to call the transformation process, using the execute() method proposed by the engine.
ITransformationContext context = new DefaultTransformationContext(); // To use the default Optimus one.
In Optimus, transformations are registered under transformation sets (see document here). As it relies on extension points, it natively uses all the transformations from all the transformation sets available through Extension Points, in the Eclipse instance. In case you are developing a transformation engine that should only focus on some very transformation sets, you can call this method, to pass the transformations set to consider.
Also, it is possible to define transformation sets as private ones. These ones will never be considered in a transformation proces, unless you register them specifically. This is the mean, in Optimus, to partition processes, even when dealing with extension points.
This method proposes a filtering process, with a lower granularity than the transformation set limitation. Indeed, a transformation mask will hold information about which transformation should be executed or not… One can be contributed programmatically (Java API) or through extension points. See the dedicated documentation for more information (COMING SOON).
At first, and according to the transformation set limitation and/or the applied transformation mask, the engine will locate all the transformations that are enabled.
For each object located, Optimus will create a transformation instance for each eligible reference… and executes it !


You might have heard it called by different names: Dissociative Fugue, Psychogenic Fugue. But the name isn't as important as the mess it creates: a complete loss of identity, past, and livelihood. While it might be rare to come across a person affected, the fugue state is a serious disorder that requires urgent attention. We will explore what is the fugue state, symptom and causes of the fugue state, diagnosis of the fugue state, is it fact or fiction and what can be done to treat this crisis of identity.
This morning, I woke up in my familiar bed, reached over to where my phone always lies to check the time. Did a few sit-ups just to shake off the sleepiness. After that, I brushed my teeth, turned on the shower as I opened my work email to look for any last-minute updates and remind myself of the agenda for the day. I waited the appropriate time I knew it took for the water to heat up, then stepped inside so I could get on with my work day. A typical weekday for me. A scheduled routine that I am accustomed to, and a part of my life that I take for granted.
So, it would be pretty unnerving if the next morning, I woke up and not be in my normal bedroom, with no memories or idea of what I am doing. Identity is so important to our lives, and dissociation disorder means losing that life as we know. In studying the fugue state, mental health experts want to learn more about this bizarre condition that has such a mysterious origin and outlook. A fugue state may be something that can affect all of us, so it helps to gain a better grip on what it is.
Fugue comes from the Latin word for "flight." Pretty fitting, as this disorder leads people to "fly," drive, or wander away. Those in the fugue state experience a form of amnesia in which they not only forget who they are but suddenly travel-sometimes literally flying miles and miles away. There is no set parameter for how far those in the fugue state will travel, not for how long this episode lasts. In fact, the more one reads up about this disorder, the harder it is to find anything specific about it which can be highly stressful for someone who suffers it.
So, what we do we know? The "fugue state" was first coined in 1901, from a French publication entitled Mental State Hystericals. Fugue also being a French word for "running away" it was a "fugue" that the publication used to describe a woman who would enter a state of hysterics, running off and acting like a completely different person. The woman would only be able to recall her strange behavior under hypnosis. In time this disorder became part of mental health terminology, first labeled as "psychogenic fugue" and more currently as a fugue state. Still, in popular culture, the term entering a "fugue state" tends to be used more often (like how multiple personality disorder tends to be a misnomer for dissociative identity disorder).
Therefore, a fugue state is a dissociative disorder and a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality.
Fugue state is, in fact, part of a group of dissociative disorders listed in the DSM IV. Dissociative Disorders include Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative amnesia, and Depersonalization Disorder. Fugue is a sub-type of the Dissociative Amnesia.
Let's take a step back to better understand why fugue is different from amnesia. In the DSM-V, dissociative disorders are problems with memory, identity, emotion, and sense of self. When we "dissociate" it means we are disconnecting with our normal thoughts, memories, or feelings in life. For a "normal" individual, this can mean simply daydreaming while in traffic, getting so lost in a book or movie that we imagine ourselves in the scenario of the protagonist, or maybe just for a moment losing touch of our surroundings.
With the disorder though, this behavior is so pervasive and severe that it affects daily life.
Countless works of fiction have depicted this: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Fight Club, the classic animated feature Anastasia. Because of this, it's easy to accept that these circumstances don't happen in real life. But psychiatrists would caution that these cases have been documented and while rare, are very real for the people who have suffered from them.
In the case of dissociative amnesia, some sort of stressful event usually provokes the individual to forget large amounts of information about oneself such as name, address, or family ties. A fugue state is a specific form of this amnesia that is usually precipitated my running away from home and making up a new identity. As with the recorded case in 1901, some people may not be able to recall what they were doing during this fugue state until some sort of treatment is provided.
Confusion about one's name or identity, sometimes leading to the person adopting a whole new persona.
It is because of this, that people in the fugue state will present an appearance of normalcy until they are especially questioned about their past or previous whereabouts. Clinicians trying to diagnose the disorder will have to ascertain if the symptoms mentioned are present and run brain imaging and blood tests to rule out the possibility of physical illness. From there, patients are referred to a psychologist or psychiatrist to complete mental health assessments specifically tailored to evaluate dissociative disorders.
A bump on the head during a traumatic wartime escape for the little Anastasia.
Extreme depression has been linked to dissociative disorders. Suicide thoughts can be a risked factor. This is because depression and emotional disturbances can be caused by trauma such as abuse which in turn can provoke the fugue state.
A 2014 study showed that a high level of sleep disturbances was associated with participants who have dissociative disorders. Indeed, those with fugue state symptoms tend to experience waking dreams and extreme nightmares, possibly linked to trauma.
Those who abuse drugs and alcohol often experience blackout episodes akin to fugue state, sometimes even resulting in an unexplained travel. Whether such instances constitute an actual fugue state is unclear.
The famous writer entered what might have been a fugue state in the winter of 1926. She disappeared without a trace from her house and was eventually found to have checked into a health spa under a false name. She never explained her behavior.
In 2004, a man who came to be known Benjamin Kyle was found by the side of a Burger King in Georgia, badly beaten and naked. Waking up in the hospital, he had no memories of his last name, his past, or how he ended up at the Burger King. Interestingly, Ben did exhibit innate knowledge of food preparation techniques- a hint that he may have been in the restaurant business before his memory loss.
Probably of the most recent cases. A paper published by Igwe in 2017 documented an extraordinary case of a 28-year-old Nigerian medical student who went missing for 10 days before he had to give a class presentation. He was discovered to have made an eight-hour road trip from his school, with no memory of how he traveled or where he had spent the night before. The investigation into the student's life prior to his disappearance yielded clues linked to the fugue state: he had been under great academic and financial stress and was exhibiting mood swings and sleep disturbances characteristic of depression. He also reported suicidal ideation because of all the pressure from school.
Is the Fugue fact or fiction?
As you can see from the cases above, people affected by fugue state vary in gender, ethnicity, and just about everything else. What could a 20th-century mystery writer have in common with a present-day Nigerian med student? This is a puzzling question that we have trouble reconciling before we move on to possible treatment. It should be mention that some of the popular cases of fugue state have drawn suspicion as to the validity of the disorder.
People in the fugue state make a genuine effort to recall their lost memories.
Clinicians and non-clinicians have often wondered whether this escape is a concerted effort by some to gain attention or escape responsibility. It probably doesn't help that the fugue-like behavior is so frequently depicted in media that we may have trouble separate what is a real problem from what someone might be trying to copy from that movie.
To be clear, a true diagnosis of dissociative amnesia (which fugue state is a subset of) requires the individual to truly lose memory of their identity and are unable to recall details despite their best efforts. Individuals who feign amnesia to escape tax problems, be absolved of a crime, or just gain the attention of the media (it happens) would be classified as maligners.
Fortunately, we have great experts who can administer tests to pinpoint those who may maligner: neuropsychological assessments can often show that a person is deliberately faking impairment in memory. A clinician will also assess the effort that the person is putting in to recall their past, or if they may be other motives for exhibit fugue behavior.
Still, it is a hard case to present when the underlying cause is mental, rather than physical symptoms. Some people want to find neurological correlates that identify those with dissociative amnesia. Some neuroimaging studies have found that the brains of those with dissociative disorders had hyperactivity in the frontal cortex and less activity in the hippocampus. The hippocampus is known to be our storage center storing memories so it would support the idea that the fugue state leads to an observable imbalance in the brain. The more facts we have on fugue, the better it will be to confirm.
Possibly the most common treatment. In hypnosis, the patient will be put in a deep state of relaxation and focused attention on exploring alternative thoughts and emotions. Patients with dissociative disorders are often put under hypnosis in the hope to recover memories that may be key to explaining how triggered the episode. Such memories might often be painful reminders of abuse suffered or trauma experience, and therefore they become repressed but trigger unusual behavior such as a fugue state. The use of hypnosis is often controversial in science so it may not be used all the time.
Another common treatment. Practitioners will encourage patients to communicate thoughts and challenge dysfunctional thinking that might trigger the fugue behavior. This is considered a type of cognitive therapy because the emphasis is for the patients to actively look within themselves to understand why they behave the way they do or feel the way they do. Usually a lot less controversial than hypnosis.
Patients are encouraged to pursue an artistic outlet such as painting or music, particularly after a fugue episode. This often allows fugue patients to express complicated thoughts or stress in a safe and understandable way.
Often, the use of drugs isn't directly used to treat fugue, but the co-morbidity of depression and anxiety. Because trauma is so linked to dissociative disorders, administering anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medications may help mitigate the problems that trigger fugue episodes.
While disturbing, the fugue state can usually go away on its own, as suddenly as it first appeared. With the use of treatment, there is usually a good chance that the affected person will recover memories prior to the fugue state. To truly prevent the episode from occurring, it would behoove clinicians to address the actual trauma that most likely triggered the dissociation.
Trauma from is not an easy topic to discuss, let alone deal with. It not only affects the person who experienced it but creates a ripple within the family and friends unit. We must understand that the fugue state is a specific type of dissociative disorder, and most of the time these disorders have root in wanting to escape or forget about very difficult experiences. This might be evident to spot for people who we know were exposed to traumatic events, and so PTSD counseling should always be considered for those exposed to events like war and terrorist attacks.
However, the trauma might have come from abuse from childhood that has been suppressed, or never truly addressed. It is for that reason that intervention is key to helping those who have or at a risk to experience a fugue state. One must be prepared to talk about some potentially unsettling issues, and for that reason, it helps to have a therapist who can foster productive discussion.
Family therapy is an effective tool for an affected person; being surrounded by loved ones who may know the person will help to jog or uncover lost memories. But having a frank discussion, a person who has suffered from the fugue state may feel comfortable enough to discuss a painful past that triggered the episode. Because fugue is can be complicated with other mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, drug abuse, and suicidal thoughts, you should immediately contact a professional is any such signs are exhibited.
Nana is a new collaborator for CogniFit. When not writing he works as a University research specialist, focusing on clinical assessment of brain injury. He received his BA from Dartmouth College and recently completed his Master of Public Health degree at the University of Ghana. His MPH dissertation was on cognitive impairment in Africans living with HIV. His interests are in neuropsychology, abnormal psychology, and cognitive disorders. Feel free to provide feedback on the articles he shares.


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Gypsy punks Gogol Bordello celebrate with a victory lap
Tuesday 10th, November 2015 / 15:17
in • BC - Features, • British Columbia, • Rockpile, CITY, FEATURED, MUSIC
By Joshua Erickson
Front man Eugene Hütz is excited to revisit the band's breakthrough album Gypsy Punks.
VANCOUVER — The story of Gogol Bordello front man Eugene Hütz is one of the more fascinating, complex and deep stories in contemporary music, but it is one that tends to be overshadowed by the band's reputation for wild, crazy, party-like shows. To understand Hütz's backstory, you have to understand the rich, complex history of Eastern Europe and the struggles of the Romani people—also known as Roma Gypsies. Hütz himself has Roma ancestry on his mother's side and it is his Ukrainian and Roma heritage that went on to influence his lifestyle and sound that eventually formed the basis of Gogol Bordello.
Born in the Ukraine in 1972, Hütz and family fled after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. His family lived in Russia for a short while, but were forced to leave and ended up travelling between temporary homes in Poland, Hungry, Austria, and Italy, before him and his family were accepted as political refugees into the United States in 1992. From a very young age, Hütz lived a gypsy lifestyle and found life in the United States hard to adjust to. He struggled to find an identity or a sense of "home" in the U.S. and eventually turned to his Roma gypsy roots to ground himself. After settling in New York, Hütz found acceptance and a sense of belonging in the punk scene there, and eventually the sense of "home" he had been longing for was found, a desire Hütz feels many people around the world share.
"I think that's kinda how people want to feel. Whats the opposite? Anxiety? Paranoia? Whats the other alternatives? No, it's to feel home, y'know," say Hütz with his thick Ukrainian accent while speaking over the phone during a cab ride in Rio De Janeiro.
This then spurred an idea in Hütz's mind. Why not mix the worlds of gypsy and punk together and see what happens. "I was feeling pretty home in New York. And now that we are home, lets turn it into a real fun house. It's like, now that we are home in New York, lets get on a table and blast The Stooges Fun House at full volume and see what we can do on top of that," says Hütz with an energetic laugh.
And thus, Gogol Bordello was born. The band performed their first show in 1998 as a two piece, and Hütz had it in his mind that he was going to sneak Eastern European/ Gypsy culture into North America through punk music. Looking back on it now though, he sees the pieces were all set up for him to knock down.
"I think the tendencies were already there. It was sort of a spring time in people's minds. People were hungry in all parts of the world to get to know [Eastern Europe/ gypsy culture] better. Everybody was sick of Cold War. And they kind of warmed up to us."
Over the years, the band grew in size (typically between 7-10 members) and recognition and in 2005 released their seminal album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike. Now, 10 years later, Hütz is taking the band on the road, performing the album in its entirety this fall and bringing a few old friends along for the ride.
"It's really about the creative chemistry of that bubble of a particular time. Two of the original members from that time are back on this tour. Pamela Racine [percussion, vocals, dancing] and Elliot Fergusson [drums]… When we started it was just a singer/ songwriter situation. Then it became a trio. Then it took us up until, like, 2005 to have a full line up. It was becoming. It was becoming what it is…" Hütz trails off as he begins arguing with the cab driver over cab fare. He apologizes after getting out of the cab and continues, "So, it was becoming! And for Gypsy Punks we all looked at each other and went 'it became!'" he says beaming with laughter.
The success of Gypsy Punks brought Gogol Bordello to the world's stage and the band quickly found themselves playing much larger venues and on the main stage at some of the world's biggest music festivals. As the band travelled the world, Hütz fell in love with Brazil and in 2008, made the permanent move to Rio De Janeiro. With the band's success though, people began looking to Hütz as a sort of cultural ambassador. A role he has never been comfortable with.
"I don't have any role! I'm largely disinterested in playing any role. It's just me. It's who I am. And y'know, we all have a certain tragic story in life and—look, I was born in Ukraine. New York City is my home home home. And I've been living in Rio De Janeiro for the past seven years. So—it's like, all these places are very important. I might as well go back to Ukraine and be the ambassador for Brazil," he explains with a laugh. "Chronologically, it's the way story goes but really its all just colours of the rainbow. The most important thing in life is not to play any role, but just do your own thing. Whatever it is. Find your track. Follow your track but don't get into any 'role,' or people will try to hand you over."
While Hütz's origin story may not be given the full attention it deserves in the press, their live show really is a spectacle you must witness in person. They are only doing this Gypsy Punks tour once as well, so don't miss out. And make sure that you are wearing purple!
Gogol Bordello performs at the Commodore Ballroom on November 21 & 22.
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Lead Generation Services for Business Markets Lead generation is a specialist activity carried out by experts who use a variety of web technologies to search out prospective customers, engage, motivate and finally steer them to the seller.
In effect, lead generation companies become the marketing arm of a business, whether localized or global in scale. FindSture Solutions Digital is a lead generation company in India, where experts constantly comb the web world, finding out targets who are interested in their client?s products or services.
Making use of the latest technologies, we generate leads for our clients for the business development purpose.
An enterprise frees up valuable resources, saves on time and manpower costs and can focus on its core business.
By reducing costs a business becomes more competitive and can pass on such savings to customers.
At FindSture Solutions Digital we implement a variety of strategies in our lead generation services implementation process. We tap the vast resources of the net employing our knowledge, know-how, experience and skills. We supply leads that are genuine and charge only on lead basis. We initiate a whole range of tactics that will result in a cascade of ever increasing business on a continuing basis.
SEO activities that will return leads in one stream.


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This is a list of Slovak football transfers in the winter transfer window 2012–13 by club. Only transfers of the Corgoň Liga and 2. liga are included.

Corgoň Liga

ŠK Slovan Bratislava

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Out:

FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce

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FK Senica

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MFK Košice

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MŠK Žilina

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AS Trenčín

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MFK Ružomberok

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1. FC Tatran Prešov

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Spartak Myjava

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FK Dukla Banská Bystrica

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FC Nitra

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FC Spartak Trnava

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2. liga

ŽP Šport Podbrezová

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FK DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda

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ŠK SFM Senec

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FK Slovan Duslo Šaľa

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Partizán Bardejov

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MFK Dubnica

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MFK Zemplín Michalovce

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FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín

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MFK Dolný Kubín

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MŠK Rimavská Sobota

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MFK Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš

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FK Baník Ružiná

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See also
 2012–13 Corgoň Liga
 2012–13 2. liga

References

External links
 Official site of the SFZ
 Profutbal.sk
 Sport.sk

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2012-13
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Vice Chief, CMSAF visit 386th AEW
Gen. Stephen W. Wilson, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, talks with Airmen from a 386th Air Expeditionary Wing aircraft maintenance unit at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia April 9, 2017. After their all call, Wilson and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright visited several units around base to interact with Airmen in their workplace. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Andrew Park)
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright talks with Airmen from the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing force protection unit at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia April 9, 2017. Wright and Gen. Stephen W. Wilson, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, toured the base and visited various units after their all call. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Andrew Park)
SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- The Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen W. Wilson and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright visited the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia, April 9, 2017.
They held an all call during their visit where they discussed the Air Force's priorities for improving Airmen's lives, and then held a question and answer session at the end so they could hear firsthand some of the issues Airmen are currently facing.
Both leaders focused especially on building resiliency in Airmen throughout the Air Force.
"One of the things about being a senior leader is you get to see and celebrate the greatest of our Airmen," said Wright. "But you also get to see the worst, and so if there is anything that keeps me up at night, it's being concerned about tying it right back to one of my key focus areas: are we doing enough to build resiliency to make our Airmen strong, to put them in a position to be able to manage what we ask them to do?"
Wilson discussed the importance of taking care of service members' families as well as the service member in order to build resiliency.
He introduced this idea by asking how many of those in attendance were currently serving their first deployment. Many hands went up. He then asked how many had served more than three deployments. Several more hands went up. Most surprisingly, he asked how many people had served ten deployments, and a few still had their hands up. This concerned Wilson as he recognized the toll deployments take on Airmen and their families.
"We need to do everything we can to help develop Airmen," explained Wilson. "But we need to spend more time, in my view, talking about the family. Being deployed five or six times, six months at a time, that's hard, I get it, so that's why people insist on getting this part right."
During the question and answer session, both Wilson and Wright addressed concerns ranging from the lack of certain services in forward-deployed locations to future possibilities for enlisted members to fly unmanned aircraft.
After the all call, the two leaders embarked on a tour of the base, which provided them more detailed knowledge of the wing's mission. They also had the opportunity to visit a few squadrons on this tour so they could meet and talk with Airmen in their workplaces.
Returning to their focus on resiliency, Wilson and Wright discussed improving the Air Force's ability to retain Airmen.
Wilson ended the all call by highlighting the importance of taking care of people so they can complete their important mission.
"Of all the things we've talked about, the most important thing we've got is our people – that's where airpower happens," explained Wilson. "Today, what I see is unbelievable Airmen. On behalf of the chief, secretary, and our 18th chief master sergeant of the Air Force, thank you again for what you do in this important place here at The Rock, making the mission happen at a really important time in our nation's history."
CMSAF deployment care southwest asia resiliency families visit VCSAF 386th AEW Develop


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Q: HIVE: Replace empty results by 0 in group by statements I'm a new Hive user, and need to aggregate the sum of amounts for a given table. Consider the simplified example below:
SELECT day, sum(amount) FROM tableX WHERE columnA = 'RareValue' GROUP BY day;

Suppose that it's possible that there is no row entry which matches the condition in the WHERE clause for some dates. And so the query result will skip those days.
For example, this is the result I get:
date       amount
2018-01-15 230
2018-01-13 210
2018-01-12 140
2018-01-11 222

But this is the desired result:
date       amount
2018-01-15 230
2018-01-14 0
2018-01-13 210
2018-01-12 140
2018-01-11 222

I tried this to generate a sequence of dates and then use LEFT JOIN and COALESCE to fill empty dates by zeros. However, the performance was terrible slow. What is the best approach for this?

A: Supposing that you are trying to exclude the whole day in case when your where condition is true, you can do something like
select
day,
if(max(mycondition) = 0, sum(amount), 0) as mysum from
(
select day, amount,
if(columnA = 'RareValue', 1, 0) as mycondition
FROM tableX
) t GROUP BY day;

I did not have the chance to test it :)

A: If I correctly understood you all needed days are presented in tableX table. So, I advise first select all rows where columnA is not equal 'RareValue' and that UNION it with your query.
SELECT day, 0 FROM tableX WHERE columnA != 'RareValue'
UNION
SELECT day,sum(amount) from tableX WHERE columnA = 'RareValue' GROUP BY day;

if the days from the first select repeats you can add 'distinct'

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Shopping for a First Aid kit can seem like a mine field to the untrained or uninformed, with every chemist, sports store, outdoor or camping shop having their own version.
Marketers would have you believe, there should be a difference between a basic first aid kit, a comprehensive first aid kit, a car first aid kit, a sports first aid kit or off road 4x4 first aid kits. This is simply not true.
Make sure your kit is packed in a way that single items can by accessed without having to pull all of the items out. A grabber bag system works best. This way your bandages can be separated from your medications, burn dressings or plasters. This prevents all of your kit ending up in the dirt or blood during and emergency.
Quantity will depend on the amount of space you have available. A mountain biker, off road motorcyclist or hiker may need a considerably smaller First Aid Kit than someone who may be doing a six week Trans African 4x4 trip. DO NOT sacrifice equipment for space. Murphy's Law will almost certainly guarantee the item you leave behind will be the one you need. The trick is to pack everything with only a change in quantity and understanding from your training which items can double up for more than one application.


ATHENS — Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm likes what he sees from his receivers, but he made it clear the Bulldogs are very much a work in progress.
"We're still installing a lot of the offense, starting to minimize mental errors on the field," Fromm said following Tuesday's practice, the 10th of 15 the team is allowed by NCAA rules.
Georgia's G-Day game is at 2 p.m. on April 20. Coach Kirby Smart put his team through the first of two closed scrimmages last Saturday.
Fromm, a third-year starter, is working with a made-over receiving corps. Four of the top five pass catchers from 2018 have departed for the NFL draft.
There are no shortcuts to getting on the same page. Plenty of work has been going on, and much more is ahead.
Fromm said he's seen a stepped-up performance from Demetris Robertson, along with Tyler Simmons and J.J. Holloman this spring.
The post WATCH Georgia QB Jake Fromm: 'We're fighting our tails off right now' appeared first on DawgNation.


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Q: Can I ionise an atom purely optically? Can I remove the outermost electron of an atom just by shining an EM wave? Or will this just go in a crazy high excited state that is so weakly bound it will be removed by any kick / external potential difference?

A: If the intensity is high enough, optical radiation will certainly ionize atoms via multi-photon ionization.


I am tomocarl from the sound department of AMATA K.K. Once again, focusing all on Chihayafuru.
Ever since the announcement that it would be made into a film in April 2015, I'd been following it relentlessly, but amidst the great happiness I feel a tinge of loneliness.
Have you heard of Chihayafuru before?
It's a manga about high school students who spend their days playing "competitive karuta".
*¹Competitive karuta is a competitive version *²Hyakunin Isshu karuta, a game which draws on poems from the poem collection of the same name. It's a more intense game than you might expect, with cards flying all over the place! It's like BAM , POW!
If you've never had the chance to see it before, go check out a video of it on *³NicoNico Douga. If you have the time, do it. Now! You'll find that it's basically martial arts on a tatami mat, isn't it.
This essentially-sports manga, Chihayafuru, was adapted into two films: Chihayafuru: Kami no Ku and Chihayafuru: Shimo no Ku. After two years, there is now a sequel – this article's featured work, Chihayafuru: Musubi.
Following the competitive Karuta Queen Match held at the beginning of the year, karuta star player Arata Wataya professes his love to his childhood friend, and our story's protagonist, Chihaya Ayase.
The winter passes and Chihaya moves on to her 3rd year of high school.
The Mizusawa Karuta Club, which she is a member of, has managed to welcome two new members and avoiding the closure of the club due to lack of members.
However, Club President Taichi Mashima still seemed rather sullen. The pressure to do well for his university entrance exams, is taking its toll.
Taichi also had feelings for Chihaya since childhood. She was his motivation for continuing karuta at the expense of his studies. He and he finds himself wondering what Arata said to Chihaya after the Queen Match.
As the Tokyo Preliminaries for the high school tournament approach, a new member, Sumire Hanano, grows tiresome with Taichi's lovesick behaviour, and lets it slip that Arata has already confessed to Chihaya.
When he heard this, Taichi quits the karuta club.
Arata, currently living in Fukui, greatly admired the karuta club founded by Chihaya and Taichi, and eventually founded one himself at his own school. Members included the *⁴Quasi-Queen, Io Wagatsuma, and others from the area's karuta association familiar with Arata. A team of Quasi-Queen veterans proves to be quite strong, and proceeds into the nationals with little difficulty.
Taichi, having left the karuta club, is introduced by a former opponent to a master of karuta, Hisashi Suō, and becomes his student. Taichi believes that by learning the reason behind why Suō continues to play karuta despite publicly stating that he does not like the game, he can discover his own path.
How will Chihaya continue the Mizusawa Karuta Club without Taichi?
Can they go up against Arata's team at the nationals?
Where will Taichi's new path of karuta lead to?
Yep, that summary was written by yours truly.
That was just the introduction and the main plot of the story.
However, Chihayafuru: Musubi does a great job in introducing new characters and wraps up all foreshadowing nicely all within a little over two hours. I'm impressed!
Ah, I just said "wraps up all foreshadowing nicely", but actually, Kami no Ku and Shimo no Ku from two years ago, are their own complete story. There shouldn't even be any foreshadowing to follow up on.
Yet it's almost like they planned for it to be a trilogy from the very start!
Now that, is something else.
I'll summarize all the interesting points here.
☆You'll be sure to find a quote that will change your life from the Chihayafuru series!
There are a lot of memorable lines.
I think it would be very cool if someone found a quote from Chihayafuru and changed their lives because of it.
☆Rich story development based around Hyakunin Isshu karuta.
The meaning behind the poems and their history spanning over a thousand years is used to represent and tie into the character's feelings and relationships in a big way.
The climactic match scenes that use the Japanese poetic culture to its full extent are very thrilling!
"Who is it? Who won?!", you exclaim, drenched in the sweat of excitement.
☆A bright story of youth for all ages!
Looking at the cast of the film, you might think that it was made for a younger audience. To that I say, nay, no, nein!
It's a story for anyone. After all, can you find any junior high or high school students who can't relate to the characters' ages?
Everything is all there put into the movie, friendships, to rivalries, to romance…this film has all of it!
I'd like everyone to go see it, reminisce about their youth, and hopefully shed a tear or two.
It's a fantastic film, so do go see Chihayafuru Musubi !
Also if you can, beforehand you should watch, Kami no Ku and Shimo no Ku as well!
If you've read the original manga, or have some familiarity with the Hyakunin Isshu poems, I'm sure you can enjoy it even more!
Yes, now is the prime time to get deep into the swamp that is the Chihayafuru series; after all, the anime's third season has already been announced for 2019!
※Next time, I'll be presenting you the full "Chihayafuru Pilgrimage"!
*¹ Karuta are Japanese playing cards. Competitive karuta uses a specific deck of playing cards called uta-garuta. The cards in the uta-garuta set have a piece of classic poem (called waka) written on each card.
*² Hyakunin Isshu is the name of a classical Japanese anthology that contains one hundred waka by one hundred poets. It is the standard collection of poems used in competitive karuta.
*³ Niconico Douga is a Japanese video sharing website, similar to Youtube.
*⁴ Quasi-Queen is the term given to the runner-up winner for women at competitive karuta tournaments, Queen being the winner.


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Mob Town is a 1941 Universal film starring the Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys.

Plot
A man is convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the crime.  His brother, who idolized him, meets a cop, Sgt. Frank Conroy, who attempts to stop the boy and his gang of friends from ending up the same way as his brother did.  He enrolls them in a recreational program and helps them get jobs. However, things change when the kid finds out that Conroy was the cop who arrested his brother, which resulted in his execution.

Cast

Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys
 Billy Halop as Tom Barker
 Huntz Hall as Pig
 Gabriel Dell as String
 Bernard Punsly as Ape

Additional Cast
 Dick Foran as Sgt. Frank Conroy
 Anne Gwynne as Marion Barker
 Darryl Hickman as Butch Malone aka Shrimp
 Samuel S. Hinds as Judge Luther Bryson
 Victor Kilian as Uncle Lon Barker
 Truman Bradley as Officer Cuttler
 John Butler as Rummell
 John Sheehan as Mr. Loomis
 Emory Parnell as Captain Harrington - Police Chief

References

External links

1941 films
1941 crime films
American black-and-white films
American crime films
Films directed by William Nigh
Universal Pictures films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films


I realized the amazing women in my life. Women that are more than what meets the eye. So easily we are boxed into an ideal. We must break this pattern and reveal the dimensions of ourselves that make us great.I asked a few of them to come together and tell me how they were "more". The result, with the help of Ashley Cox of Nine23Boudoir was an epic photo shoot,and life changing experience.
This is just the beginning of I AM MORE. Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing the names of the women below, and telling their stories, in their words. Read their stories. Relate to their experiences. Then, write to me and tell me how you are MORE, for a chance to be featured on the blog and other platforms!


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displayName: "Guide: Getting Started (CLI)"
description: "Hit the ground running with create-patternplate"
tags:
 - Guide
options:
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> :information_source:
> You don't want/need to use the CLI?
> [Check out our app and let the machine deal with Node.js and GIT](./getting-started-app?guides-enabled=true).

# Your kickstart into patternplate

> :timer_clock: **Time invest**: 5 Minutes ––– :woman_student: **Level**: Beginner

## What to expect

Setting up a new component library can be a tedious task - but `patternplate` has you covered!
Let's have a look at how patternplate can help you to get started in 5 minutes, max.

We will …

* … learn how to use the `create-patternplate` command line tool to initialize a new project
* … start the `patternplate` dev server to visualize components and documentation

## You'll need

* :computer: Terminal (MacOS: `Terminal.app` or [iTerm](https://www.iterm2.com/) | Windows: [cmder](http://cmder.net/))
* :turtle: Node.js `>=6` ([Install](https://nodejs.org/en/))

## 1. Create a project on the CLI

Open your terminal emulator and enter the following command.

Type the following command into your terminal. You can also
copy and paste it directly. Press `Enter` to execute the command.

Don't worry if you did not install `npx` explicitly, it is installed with Node.js automatically.

```bash
npx create-patternplate --out my-patternplate --guide
```

This will create a project for you and install the relevant dependencies.
Depending on the quality of your network connection this may take a while.

<!--  ![](https://patternplate.github.io/media/casts/cast-create.svg) -->

## 2. Start patternplate via CLI

Type the following command into your terminal.

```
cd my-patternplate
```

This will navigate your terminal into the `my-patternplate` directory.

Let's spin up a `patternplate` dev server:

Like `npx`, `npm` is available if you installed Node.js.

```bash
npm start
```

You should see a small loading spinner in your terminal.
`patternplate` prints the following when it started successfully:

```bash
✔ Started on http://localhost:1337
```

## 3. Access the web interface

You can access the web interface of your patternplate project at `http://localhost:1337/?guides-enabled=true`.

If everything worked `patternplate` greets you with this screen:

![](https://patternplate.github.io/media/images/screenshot-hello-world.svg)

## Take aways

* There is `create-patternplate`, a command line program that helps with boostrapping patternplate quickly.

* `patternplate` provides a command line interface. The default command is `start`, which brings up the web interface on `http://localhost:1337/?guides-enabled=true`.

## Up next

* [Guide: Build a component](./add-component?guides-enabled=true)

## Related topics

* [CLI](../reference/cli?reference-enabled=true&guides-enabled=true)

## Shortcut

If you want to get the result of the getting started guide without
typing all commands you can use the ready-made git repository

```bash
git clone git@github.com:patternplate/getting-started.git
cd getting-started
npm install
```

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News Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 4Matic: prices, specs and release date
Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 4Matic: prices, specs and release date
Padraig Mallett
This is the new Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 4Matic – and it's as fancy as Mercedes SUVs get. Keep reading for all you need to know about this uber-luxurious flagship SUV.
Chrome styling upgrades
12.3-inch infotainment screens
Ultra-posh interior
Twinturbo mild-hybrid V8
558hp & 730 Nm of torque
0-60mpg in 4.9 seconds
Price from £150,000
Compare the best luxury SUVs
Pricing for the Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 4Matic has been announced almost a year after the car made its first public appearance. This is the first SUV from Mercedes' Maybach luxury division and is an alternative to the likes of the Bentley Bentayga and the Rolls-Royce Cullinan.
You'll need to part with more than £150,000 to get your hands on a new Mercedes-Maybach GLS.
New Mercedes-Maybach GLS price and release date
In the UK, you'll need to part with £150,000 to get your hands on a Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 – and that's before you've added a few optional extras. Fully kitted-out, a new GLS 600 could end up costing you around £250,000. The first customer deliveries are expected in late 2020 or early 2021.
The Maybach gets more presence than a standard GLS thanks to its huge vertical-runged grille and lashings of chrome.
New Mercedes-Maybach GLS design
The Maybach GLS is based on the normal Mercedes GLS but its exterior has been treated to some serious bling. The standard Mercedes grille with the three-pointed star has been ditched and replaced with a huge chrome grille with vertical slats. The lower plastic air intakes from the regular GLS have been swapped out for chrome surrounds with a mesh-style cover.
22-inch wheels come as standard, but you can pay extra for the 23-inch chrome alloys.
From the side view, the car looks fairly similar to the standard GLS, apart from the chrome Maybach badging and a new 22-inch chrome wheels. The Mercedes-Maybach GLS also has side skirts with a built-in running board that automatically swings out to help you step in and out gracefully. At the back, you'll spot an additional chrome strip runs the full width of the car beneath the boot lid, along with some new exhaust surrounds and a chrome diffuser.
You can't get this two-tone paint job, or the extra chrome, on a standard GLS.
Two-tone paint finishes with pinstriping above the door handles are available in a range of colours, but these paint jobs cost as much as a cheap hatchback.
The individual rear seats feature an extra airbag that stops you slipping under the seatbelts in an accident.
New Mercedes-Maybach GLS interior and infotainment
This flagship GLS has been given the Maybach treatment inside too. The rear seats, for example, are finished in quilted Nappa leather and sit 120 millimeters further back than in the Mercedes-Benz GLS to give you even more legroom. They also have calf supports and an exceptionally wide backrest that can be reclined up to 43.5°.
In the front, there's plenty of high-gloss or open-pore wood, that's supposed to remind you of vintage yachts (which you obviously own) and, unlike in the regular GLS, the Maybach's air vents are made from solid metal.
The Maybach's interior adds a herd's worth of extra leather to the GLS's already plush interior.
The Maybach GLS gets the same infotainment system as the standard GLS, which isn't quite as modern as the vast dual-screen system you get in the new Mercedes S-Class. It still looks great, though, and can be controlled using touchpads on the steering wheel, via the scroll wheel between the two front seats or by using the 'Hey Mercedes' voice activation system.
The Maybach's rear seat has a touchscreen tablet as standard with the option to add two more screens on the backs of the front seats.
Naturally, you also get infotainment screens in the back. There's a single seven-inch tablet display as standard so you can control everything, with the option to upgrade to a pair of additional 11.6-inch infotainment screens.
You can also spec your Maybach with a rear seat fridge and storage for champagne flutes.
A Burmester premium surround-sound system comes as standard and it can amplify the voices of front and back seat passengers – making it easier to hear each other. If you want more music-playing power, you can upgrade to a Burmester 1,590-watt 3D surround-sound system with 27 speakers and 24 separate amplifier channels.
The Maybach GLS gets a mild-hybrid twin-turbo V8 petrol engine.
New Mercedes-Maybach GLS engine
The Mercedes-Maybach GLS is powered by a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre petrol V8 with mild-hybrid technology. It produces 558hp and 730Nm of torque, with an extra 22hp and 250Nm of torque available from the built-in electric motor. Power is sent to all four wheels through a nine-speed automatic gearbox. As a result, this SUV can propel itself from 0-60mph in an impressive 4.9 seconds. Top speed is limited to 155mph – that's about as fast as you'd want to go in a mansion, after all.
Two types of adaptive suspension are available – think comfortable, and uber comfortable…
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A Tribute to Ronnie James Dio
By D'Monic Boris Lee
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Once upon a silver mountain, while talking to strangers, crossing a Rainbow in the Dark to enter the Gates of Babylon, I was the Last in Line at the record department of K-Mart (formerly TSS/Tower Records) on Metropolitan Avenue in Queens, New York. Within my grasp, I held a tape I never saw before this evening. The smoking angels on the album followed by the words, "Heaven and Hell," drew me to the cassette immediately. You see, I was on a mission this day to purchase my first ever Black Sabbath cassette tape (not my first to own, first to purchase with my own cash), and though when I grabbed the album I expected Ozzy on the record (I was still new to the Sabbath library at this time and not aware of who sang on what record), when I got home and played the tape to hear an unfamiliar voice flowing through my speakers, this new divine sound entranced me.
Black Sabbath connected with me on levels I need not explain, and as with many other teens of my generation listening to Metal Music, I owe my mentality surviving those confused years of adolescent adventures to Sabbath. Sabbath fronted by Ozzy touched my darker side and gave me reasonable understanding that I was not the only one to think the world was dark, or see that it disguised the real evil about us as the righteous messages our parents were programmed to believe.
Then the day I was introduced to Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio at the vocal helms, not only was my darker side intrigued and comforted, a new energy flowed through me. My story telling creativity was born. The spark of my imagination to write, open my mind to reading, and finally find strength in feeling cool about digging dragons and mystical things, was set free. I was lost in the voice, the musical energy, and the totality of this transition Sabbath had gone through. To have my favorite band split into two-separate entities was like giving me a second slice of pizza from a fresh pie, but it was just as delicious as the first slice because the cheese was just as good. (Poor analogy, but you can dig it.)
For several days I played the first Sabbath album with DIO over and over in my double cassette boom-box. Each song on the record was a shot of adrenaline to my desire to create. It was a new meditation for my soul, and ignition for my pursuit to want to sing someday. I don't recall very many things with an intricate detail from that point in my life much anymore, as other things over the years have replaced said memories with more prominent shit, like "Did you pay the fucking phone bill this morning?" or, "Why does she always have to drag out telling me what's up her ass this time? Can't she just come out and say, 'I don't like how you were paying more attention to breathing than me last night,'" meanwhile I had a severe head-cold and found breathing sort of important. Fellas, you hear me? Anyway, I digress.
With my memories fading, I can sit here and say I recall playing the Heaven and Hell album over and over like I just played it for the first time tonight. It was the only album I was listening to once I tore it out of the cellophane wrapper. Each song hitting a different chord within my mind. The two tracks that received the most rewinds from my cassette player were, "Lonely is the Word," and the title track to the masterpiece of Sabbath's rebirth, "Heaven and Hell." To this day, arguably my favorite Sabbath songs of all time, with "I," being in the mix, "Falling off the Edge of the World," and really to save typing time and run-on-sentences, I like everything in the DIO era Sabbath library with the exceptions of "Over and Over," and "Eating the Cannibals." (Leave the "That's not Sabbath, it's Heaven and Hell," argument at the door. It's Sabbath with a marketing separation so fans understood they were not playing anymore Ozzy era tunes while DIO was at the front of the band and finally doing the Dio Years the justice it always deserved.)
Black Sabbath with DIO, or as I call them, "The One True Sabbath," is my favorite Metal Band of all time. That line-up influenced more than just my creativity. DIO influenced my taste in vocalist, and soon after my discovering him with the Sabs, I would embark on listening to his solo career works, eventually traveling back in time to his Rainbow days. For every time I opened up a new cassette tape with the words Dio on the album cover, or any band he was involved with, I felt that same creative, energetic pulse forge into my mind and soul. Thus I deciphered it was not just Sabbath that was such an influence on my imagination, but it was indeed the Holy Diver himself, DI0.
New York City, 1991. I spent many a night here with my good friends, Joe, Anthony and Brian, playing a game called RIFTS. 95% of the time I was the Game Master, and 100% of the time there was some Black Sabbath, Danzig, Ozzy, Led Zeppelin, or GOOD Metallica, playing on my previously mentioned radio. And of course, there was DI0. This was a time where my imagination was opened to new things like Science-Fiction post-apocalyptic worlds that were created by Magical Rey Lines, transforming all that was known into all that should not be. A perfect accompaniment to being lost in the "DIO-verse," of Dragons, Kings and Medieval things. I truly enjoyed sitting there with these three guys creating a world I developed from my imagination (with the help of the game itself, but I used what was there in the game to formulate the scenarios my mind came up with) where sword yielding werewolves battled "Juicer" snipers, Cyber Knights (sort of Jedi Knight), Techno-Wizards, Glitter Boys, and Coalition Patrols in the middle of a traveling Vampire Circus, or in dark enchanted forest where a 10,000-year-old dragon reigned supreme. All those game missions playing out to the soundtrack of DIO era Sabbath, is why I ended up being a writer today. DI0's musical influence on my imagination while creating stories for my friends to walk through themselves, is really the starting point for my fictional works and even this column. Without DI0, I may not have used abandoned church's as often as I did for scene settings, or would I have had Gargoyles and Demons steadily appear in campaigns. These early days of creation for me have never been lost, and there is not a time that I don't listen to the Heaven and Hell album and recall a glimpse of those days with Joe, Anthony and Brian, as they chowed down microwaved popcorn and we all took a break to eat Domino's Pizza (who had opened in our neighborhood) while I conjured up the next destructive Daemon they would face. Great times.
With time passing comes change, and in that change my creative taste moved on from creating a world of Kings and Queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams, to music. I was playing guitar more in the late 90s and again, DIO was there to influence my creative direction. At this point in my life, I was getting good enough on the guitar to learn to play songs "By ear." Of course the Ozzy era of Sabbath would be my first venture into breaking down riffs by listening to them, but not long after that I followed up with all things DIO. I recall learning the riff to Holy Diver, and thinking how cool it was to play something from his solo works, as I had already learned the main riff to Heaven and Hell, and a decent enough version of Children of the Sea. These were times when random friends gathered and guitars ended up in hands, strings strummed and a "DIO Circle, was spawned. A riff would be played, somebody would start signing, and we were jamming. Funny thing to this is at the time I was playing a Kramer Focus guitar (my favorite guitar to date) and the stripped off paint job looked a great deal like that of guitarist Tracy G, who was DIO's riff writer at the time.
With time comes change, and not too far down the road from these days of jamming DIO tunes on the guitar or belting out my own renditions of Children of the Sea, Stargazer, or Neon Knights, I found myself writing a book about the New York City Vampyre culture, which I was an active participant within. It was here that I found many a Rock-and-roll Children, and raising horns to DIO. With my writing about this culture, I also started my first trek into fictional writing. The soundtrack to these early fictional works, DIO. The album of greatest writing influence, Magica.
Magica was the album that reunited DIO with his fans in creative totality, as he released what I feel is one of best conceptual records ever made. The stories told by the music of Magica, coupled by DIO's own 20 minute long Magica narrative at the end of the album, took me back to the days I played RIFTS with Joe, Anthony and Brian, sparking the Mental Magician living within my mind to create again. If there was ever a quintessential DIO album that showcased his career's creative course in one spell cast serving, Magica is it. There are elements of Rainbow, Sabbath, DIO's solo work, and even Elf if you listen hard enough. Magica would also be the creative soundtrack to several stories I wrote during college, one of which ended up in my top ten best-thriller finalist of 2020 book, The Shadows of Insanity (which you can buy HERE via my shameless plugging link).
The album released in the year 2000 and ironically, that would be a year that I ended up living in both New York City and Las Vegas, setting me up to see DIO on tour twice that year in both cities. Point of fact, the DIO performance I saw in April 2000 at the House of Blues in Vegas, was the best show I have ever been to. It was enjoyable from the opening song, "Sunset Superman," to the closing encore, "We Rock," with DIO interacting with the audience, while he basically played Magica in its entirety, minus one song. Having Jimmy Bain and Craig Goldy back in the band helped the music return to the formula that made DIO famous, and he has gone on record to say the album would not have been possible without the musicians he had working with him in its creation.
Then in December 2020, I would see DIO perform again in New York City at the Roseland Ballroom, along with Doro and Yngwie Malmsteen. Another great gig, where DIO seemed to rush through the song set, but still put on an intense performance of the Magic album, now two songs shy of the entire album, and the edition of "Heaven and Hell" brought into the set instead. During this brief return to New York City where I saw DIO, I began writing the sequel to my previous book, Planet Vampyre, and yes, this was in part to DIO's music motivating my mind to create, create, create.
DIO and I would cross paths one more time, March 2001, in Springfield, Oregon, at the Hollywood Taxi on North Main Street. DIO played a show in this venue, which was literally the size of the now defunct Loaded on Hollywood Blvd. I met Wendy Dio outside of the bar/venue, as I was one of the first handful of fans to be there, so I could ensure a suitable spot to watch the show from. Wendy was plugging the show, and I asked her, "Who lied to Ronnie to get him to play a gig in this place, which is the size of a living room?" I recall her saying it was being done as a favor to a friend since he had a free night on the tour before heading up to Portland for the next show. I also met Craig Goldy, Jimmy Bain, and Scott Warren. The three of them all came to the bar at one time or another prior to the show to get a drink and talk with fans. I did not know who Scott Warren was then, so when he started talking to me, I thought he was just a random roadie. Cool guy, as were Jimmy and Craig for the hello and goodbyes we had.
Though I never completed that book, I would later go onto take portions of what the book would be, and join that with the previous book, Planet Vampyre, creating a re-edited version of the tome. When would I write and edit this book? In 2009, while listening to the re-united DIO era of Sabbath, under the moniker, Heaven and Hell. The song I played into the grave while working on the editing, "Bible Black." A song I consider one of DIO's best songs, and a classic Sabbath tune equal to anything they released on their earlier albums.
The Devil You Know, from The One True Sabbath reunited, reunited me with playing guitar, singing, and as I mentioned writing. To hear new music from a band I never thought was going to do more than the follow up tour they embarked on to support Black Sabbath: The DIO Years, invigorated me just my much as my first listening to "Neon Knights" so many years prior. Unfortunately, The Devil You Know would be the final studio album for DIO.
For a final album, it was classic metal music, with a modern feel. The One True Sabbath did something on this record they never did before… wrote songs that fit the classic traditional metal sound like on their first release, Heaven and Hell, heavier more brooding riffs like those from Dehumanizer, and even put out tunes that had a modern metal mosh to them that the kids of today could bond with their parents with over. "Hey dad, this band is great! You should check 'em out! I think that DIO dude you like so much is signing!," kind of bonding.
Over the course of my life, DIO's music has been the most influential force behind my creativity outside of my imagination. It all started in my garage, running RPG campaigns over 30-years ago as Neon Nights played, which metamorphosed into writing a Top-Ten-Finalist for Best Thriller of 2020, and the column you are reading now. There will always be Kings and Queens, Dragon and mystical things, evil and divine, running through my mind, and a DIO tune subtle heard when they draw near.
Though DIO is gone from this realm, his music left behind a legacy that truly is Magick at its core. The little man with the big voice. Let's all raise our horns in salute to the Man on the Silver Mountain, and sing along….
"It goes on and on, on and on, it's….. Heaven and Hell."
Once upon a silver mountain, the Holy Diver spoke to the Children of the Sea about Fever Dreams, and how One Night in the City, they would find a Lady Starstruck by Voodoo, who would Stand Up and Shout before turning Invisible, leaving them Hungry for Heaven. Only The King of Rock-and-Roll and his Neon Knights could help them solve the Mystery of the Sacred Heart, and set them free of the Night People, to Catch the Rainbow and cross over Strange Highways, passed the Snake Charmer, and into The Temple of the King. There they'd locate the Bible Black, to read the Letters From Earth, and learn it was not Too Late to defeat the Computer God. After All, they had a Time Machine, and with the Push of a button, it would be time to be Killing the Dragon again.
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XP 150 vs Arctic Blast which is Deadliest?
General questions and discussions on water warfare regarding tactics and strategies.
Post by marauder » Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:52 pm
Ok... so this should be pretty easy, but my neighbor Brandon is gonna have a battle with me and I let him have a pick out of my arsenal and he chose the Arctic Blast. I chose an XP 150. Report to follow.
Re: XP 150 vs Arctic Blast which is Deadliest?
Brandon is track fast and he likes to hide a lot so this made for a very interesting battle. I had to stalk him for 15 minutes and when I'd almost catch him by surprise he'd take off to hide again. If I was using my CPS 2000 I could have definitely shot him two or three times. I stalked him through the gardens on campus but didn't go too far in as that would have been a death trap. I laid down in a grassy sheltered area and watched the entrance/exit of the gardens for a while.
Eventually he took off back towards our apartments and I followed suit. He was hiding no one of his friends' porch who yelled out his location to me. He turned around the corner of the building and hid somewhere. I did my best at quietly making my way around the corners of the building, crouching and sticking close to the bushes as I did. I made a sharp left at the back of the apartment complex/dorm/whatever and saw him about 10 feet to my left. We opened fire at about just the same time but I hit him and his shot went over my head as I had been crouching.
After that a soakfest ensued. I obliterated him from long range. Although the guns had about equal range I was a bit more accurate and each hit I made with my XP 150 caused about twice as much soakage as his Arctic Blast shots. Once he figured this out he ran up to me and we toe to toed it. I would say that I won simply because the 150 shoots out more but the Arctic Blast can also pump and shoot and has a nice CPS sting to it. He didn't figure out how to use the FF nozzle until after the fight.
Even with the FF nozzle I think that I would have to go with the 150. The 2.5x nozzle is nice, and it's even better when combined with such a large tracked pump. I could pump and shoot a 2.5x nozzle and keep up almost 100% pressure as long as I want. That practically negates the Arctic Blast's CPS advantage as I could fire at near "constant pressure" as long as I wanted to. The only disadvantage to this is that pumping and shooting is usually less accurate than regular firing as pumping tends to move the gun a bit. We plan on getting our roommates involved next time.
Some dumb kid colored on it
Post by Silence » Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:42 pm
Sounds like a fun and balanced fight. I'd have expected the XP 150 to be significantly more dangerous, though. And I didn't know about the Arctic Blast's riot blast, actually.
The coloring on the the XP 150 isn't too obvious.
Post by HBWW » Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:19 am
Given the AB's main nozzle is drilled and the flood screen removed, it would be pretty effective and is also more compact. I'm a bit surprised that he didn't know how to use the flood attack though, since it's advertised everywhere and there's a huge nozzle on top of the gun too. Then again, when I first used the FF 3 years ago, I didn't know how to use the quick fill cap.
However, the XP 150 has more PC capacity and is probably capable of being effective through a larger nozzle. I've never tried a 150, but it seems to be more efficient; easier pumping, faster charging, and bigger streams. The detatchable reservoir however, appears awkward. Still, its a Larami gun, which are generally better designed.
Post by marauder » Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:33 pm
Question to you guys. When you remove the screen on the Arctic Blast does it shoot as far as your FF with the screen removed? Does it even shoot as far as the FF with the screen not removed? I have one Arctic Blast with the screen removed and one not, same goes with my Flash Floods. My FF with the screen removed shoots around 48-49 ft and is the only thing that comes close to my CPS 2000 mk1. Unfortunately the Max D nozzle broke. My other FF I found in the attic... I don't ever remember having an orange one... and I'm selling that one on ebay right now.
The FF nozzles on the Arctic Blasts don't shoot nearly that far for me. If I remember right it's some where around 35-36 feet, which is probably documented on Hydrowar. I don't remember there being much of a difference in performance between the screen and no screen for the Arctic Blast. Either the one Flash Flood I have is truly an exception to the norm, or it's just greatly superior to the Arctic Blast.
If Flash Floods weren't prone to breaking I would consider them one of the best soakers... ever... 48 feet is ridiculous.
Post by HBWW » Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:58 pm
Funny thing is, the FF is intended for close range. At farther ranges, you'll get a splattered shot at best, and you can't tap shoot due to how the valve works. (it generally won't close if you try to, so the whole shot must be dumped out)
Post by DX » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:06 pm
They're hamstrung by capacity, IMO. Without backpacks, FF's run out way too fast. At Ridgewood, Flash Flood users on both sides had to fill from bottled water - there was no way to last through long engagements without a quick and mobile method of refilling.
I love these duels btw - very interesting selections. The AB has an output advantage, but the XP 150 is faster. The pump and trigger repetition is why I own 4 of them. There's nothing quite like it except the smaller XP 75. I would like to see that duel with refilling though, cause the 150 reservoir can be awkward if you're trying to get it on/off and filled while under fire.
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