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Alberto Gilardino (Biella, 5 juli 1982), is een Italiaans voormalig betaald voetballer die doorgaans in de aanval speelde. Hij kwam van 2004 tot en met 2013 uit voor het Italiaans voetbalelftal, waarvoor hij zestig interlands speelde en negentien keer scoorde.

Clubcarrière
Gilardino debuteerde in het seizoen 1999/00 in het betaald voetbal in het shirt van Piacenza Calcio. Na twee seizoenen bij Hellas Verona maakte hij bij Parma FC vijftig goals in drie seizoenen. Daarmee had hij een aanzienlijk aandeel in het in de Serie A blijven van de club in 2004/05. Gilardino verrkaste na dat seizoen naar AC Milan en scoorde daarvoor 36 goals in de competitie. Wegens tegenvallende prestaties in zijn derde seizoen bij Milan werd hij in mei 2008 verkocht aan Fiorentina, alwaar hij een vijfjarig contract ondertekende.

Na 118 wedstrijden en 48 doelpunten werd Gilardino op 4 januari 2012 voor zo'n acht miljoen euro verkocht aan Genoa. Op 5 januari 2012 tekende hij een contract voor 4,5 jaar. Gilardino speelde in zijn eerste seizoen veertien wedstrijden voor Genoa, dat hem een jaar later verhuurde aan Bologna FC. Na zijn terugkeer werd hij wel basisspeler bij Genoa.

Gilardino verruilde Genoa in juli 2014 voor Guangzhou Evergrande FC, dat circa €5.000.000,- voor hem betaalde. Een half jaar later keerde hij terug naar Italië, waar hij tot het einde van het seizoen op huurbasis voor Fiorentina speelde. Gilardino maakte na afloop van het seizoen vervolgens definitief zijn rentree in de Serie A door een contract te tekenen bij US Palermo, de nummer elf van het voorgaande seizoen.

Clubstatistieken

Interlandcarrière
Gilardino nam met het Italiaans olympisch voetbalelftal deel aan de Olympische Spelen van 2004 in Athene. Daar won de ploeg onder leiding van bondscoach Claudio Gentile de bronzen medaille door Irak in de troostfinale met 1-0 te verslaan. Gilardino debuteerde op 4 september 2004 in het Italiaans voetbalelftal, tegen Noorwegen. Hij maakte deel uit van de selectie dat het WK 2006 won. Tijdens dat toernooi speelde hij vijf wedstrijden en maakte hij één goal.

Erelijst

Zie ook
Lijst van spelers van AC Milan
Lijst van spelers van Piacenza Calcio

Italiaans voetballer
Italiaans olympisch deelnemer
Italiaans voetbalcoach


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I haven't written much about my master thesis, but my friend Jan Ole who is on the same project has. Mostly because he is one year a head. I'm also getting help from him to learn the language my master thesis is supposed to circle around, namely ThingML. I'll get back to this language and my master thesis on a later post. What I wanted to show you here is a post by my friend wrote about the training session we had today.
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Andrea Halley-Wright
Design writer
AD Home Design Show offer AD100 consultations, lectures
| Mar 6, 2012 |
The Architectural Digest Home Design Show, taking place March 22–25, features top home furnishings, accessories, art and antiques, kitchen and bath products, flooring, fabrics, lighting and outdoor products. This year, special events include AD 100 Designer Consultations and special lectures and programs with top names in design.
Members of the new AD100—Architectural Digest's biennial list of the 100 best architects and designers will offer one-on-one sessions in the west wall of Pier 94 in New York City. Twenty-minute sessions are scheduled by appointment with design teams from the offices of AD100 honorees, including John Barman, Elissa Cullman, William Georgis, Alexa Hampton, and Robert A.M. Stern.
Architectural Digest will also host a preview day of programming with seminars geared specifically for the design trade on Thursday, March 22. Admission throughout show hours is complimentary for registered interior designers and licensed architects who pre-register by March 15. Preview tickets are available to consumers for $95.
Trade seminars include:
In a concise, informative presentation, Margaret Russell, the Editor in Chief of Architectural Digest, will discuss the latest in architectural and interior-design photography for n Focus: Trends in Interiors Photography—covering everything from how to prepare your projects for photo shoots to how to effectively promote your work both in print and online. Celebrated photographers Pieter Estersohn and Joshua McHugh, contributors to Architectural Digest, will join Ms. Russell for a brief Q+A, providing exclusive expert insight from the other side of the camera lens.
Interior designers Rela Gleason, Juan Montoya, and Miles Redd discuss the captivating places they have visited and how these journeys have inspired and informed their distinct points of view for Globe-trotting: Inspiration Through Travel.
Chef and cookbook author John "Doc" Willoughby and a panel of kitchen experts including director of La Cornue North America Anne M. Puricelli and kitchen designer Karen Williams from St. Charles of New York will discuss The Evolving Kitchen, an interdisciplinary discussion of the essential ingredients for a 21st-century kitchen.
Moderated by WNYC's Leonard Lopate, a panel of designers from American-based companies, including Lincoln interior design manager Soo Kang and BDDW founder and lead designer Tyler Hays, share insights into what makes Made in America unique in a business climate that's virtually borderless.
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Harriet Lawrie, Junior Web Developer based at Pertemps Head Office, has been shortlisted for a prestigious Graduate Developer of the Year Award.
The Birmingham Silicon Canal Tech Awards 2017 celebrates people in technology and highlights rising stars in the Midlands community. Silicon Canal is a not-for-profit organisation who run voluntarily. They care about building a bigger, stronger tech ecosystem in Birmingham.
Harriet joined the Pertemps family in 2016 after graduating from Loughborough University with a Masters Degree in IT. She is responsible for building over 80 recruitment sites for the Pertemps Network Group and supporting a branch network over 200 offices.
Martin Gunn, Director, said "I'm delighted that Harriet has been nominated and hopeful for the result. She has been a real asset to the web development team since she joined us last year.
The award ceremony takes place at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Thursday 23rd November, where tech talent from across the city will come together to recognise the best in the business.
From everyone at Pertemps, good luck Harriet!


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Look Both Ways: 15 Most Dangerous Intersections in America
Eric Schaal
It can be a jungle out there for American drivers. With cheap gas fueling cars and the Great Recession in the rearview mirror, U.S. drivers traveled a record number of miles in 2015, according to the most recent report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Along with that rise in driving came a bump in crash deaths and a 20-year high for pedestrian fatalities.
The obvious lesson here would be to look both ways before you cross a major intersection in your car or on foot. But in certain cities across the country, you might want to check twice. In a collaboration between Bad Intersections and the Chicago law firm of Rubens and Kress, we got a look at the scariest intersections in every state. (Yes, this information is especially valuable to a personal injury firm.)
Using that list, we dug into the numbers and spotted the places that were positively hellish for drivers and pedestrians. In the worst cases, we found spots where you could realistically expect an accident every day. Here are the 15 most dangerous intersections in America.
15. New Orleans: Canal Street at Carondelet Street and Bourbon Street
Every visitor to New Orleans will likely cross the intersection of Canal and Bourbon. This spot is tricky enough, but if you count Carondelet Street on the other side, we're looking at eight corners in all. There are many chances for cars and pedestrians to collide, and it turns out they do all the time. According to The Times-Picayune, the intersection saw 18 pedestrian crashes over a five-year span, and two involved severe injuries. That was the highest number for any spot in town.
Next: Where Milwaukee drivers need to stay in their lane
14. Milwaukee: Capitol Drive W and 35th Street N
If you want to see a massive intersection, drive down Milwaukee's Capitol Drive West until you come to 35th Street. There, you'll find a place where nine wide lanes meet seven lanes. You can see how drivers would get confused and end up in an accident at this spot, especially when the paint used to draw the lines has faded away. Not coincidentally, drivers got into 136 accidents there from 2010 to 2015. At least 104 of the crashes resulted in injury.
Next: Danger awaits between Salt Lake City and BYU.
13. Provo, Utah: Center Street and Route 114
While the exact number of accidents is unknown at Center Street and Route 114 in Provo, we can say with certainty this spot is incredibly dangerous for motorists. The Utah state government's crash-mapping service counted a whopping 111 wrecks over a three-year period at this intersection. Even compared to treacherous spots in Salt Lake City, this point on the way to BYU ranks as the scariest spot in Utah.
Next: It's a long, dangerous day in Reseda.
12. Los Angeles: Reseda Boulevard at Devonshire Street
"It's a long day living in Reseda; there's a freeway runnin' through the yard," the late Tom Petty sang. Indeed, the intersection of Reseda Boulevard and Devonshire (in Northridge) is close to Route 118 and happens to be among the most dangerous intersections in the country. Over the years, it's racked up hundreds of crashes, and law firm Estey & Bomberger counted 41 injuries from 24 accidents there in 2015 alone. If you're headed to U.S. 101 to the south, proceed with caution.
Next: Chicago's most frightening corner
11. Chicago: Stony Island Avenue at South Chicago Avenue
Scanning the most accident-prone spots in America, you'll find common themes, such as large metropolitan areas, multiple lanes, and faded lines on the roads. The intersection of Stony Island Avenue and South Chicago Avenue in the Windy City features all of the above. According to a look at crash stats by The Chicago Sun-Times, 63 accidents occurred at this location in a single year. In short, pedestrians shouldn't want any part of this crossing.
Next: Arizona's scariest intersection isn't in Phoenix.
10. Glendale, Arizona: 59th Avenue and Olive Avenue
Where Olive Avenue meets 59th in Glendale, drivers encounter multiple lanes, places to shop and eat, and gas stations on either side of the intersection. That variety of entrances and exits makes this location among the most dangerous in recent years. According to AZ Central, law enforcement reported 68 crashes leading to 30 injuries there in 2013 alone. No other intersection in Arizona could match that total.
Next: What Rhode Island lacks in size, it makes up for in crash volume.
9. Providence, Rhode Island: Exit 20 off I-95
When drivers on I-95 reach exit 20 at Point Street in Providence, they encounter an unusual mess of lanes, off-ramps, and crisscrossing arteries. For a long time, this spot was considered the most dangerous of all New England intersections, but in recent years improvements led to reduced accidents. Nonetheless, the location's 217 crashes over a three-year period involved 90 injuries. These numbers kept it among the scariest in the country.
Next: Driving north of Philly can be real scary.
8. Bensalem, Pennsylvania: Knights Road and Street Road
As recently as 2014, the intersection of Knights and Street roads outside Philadelphia held the title of deadliest crossing in America, according to Time's analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data. Years later, it remains among the nation's treacherous due to bad signage, unfriendliness to pedestrians, and aggressive drivers. In the past decade, 144 accidents occurred here (with 170 injuries) over a two-year period.
Next: Never mess with this Texas intersection.
7. Houston: Bissonnet Street and Sam Houston Parkway
The rapidly growing Houston population faces many challenges, including how to navigate certain intersections. One very scary spot sits at Bissonnet Street and Sam Houston Parkway. Here, drivers encounter overpasses, off-ramps, business entrances, and multiple lanes on each roads. Over 300 crashes occurred here over the course of four years, with 252 injuries recorded from the wrecks. It's the most dangerous spot for drivers in Texas, the state with the most crash deaths in 2015.
Next: One Albuquerque intersection actually tops Houston's most dangerous spot.
6. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Montgomery Boulevard NE & San Mateo Boulevard NE
We count at least seven lanes per road at the widest point at this intersection, where 260 crashes occurred over three years in Albuquerque, according to the University of New Mexico. Of that number, 25% resulted in injury or death. As in other frightening spots across the country, the intersection of Montgomery and San Mateo involves cars coming from more directions than drivers can count. What follows should surprise no one.
Next: These mean streets of Columbus averaged 89 car accidents per year.
5. Columbus, Ohio: Cleveland Avenue at Morse Road
There is stiff competition for the most dangerous spot in Columbus. The Ohio Department of Transportation considered Broad Street at James Road to be the most treacherous, but the 268 crashes recorded at Cleveland Avenue and Morse Road over three years ranked it higher for us. Accidents at this location, which has the highest traffic level in the area, claimed the lives of two and left three others seriously injured from 2013 to 2015.
Next: New Haven's alarming crash statistics
4. New Haven, Connecticut: Merritt Parkway at mile marker 46.42
Following improvements to Rhode Island's scariest intersection, the title of New England's worst fell to a stretch of Merritt Parkway in New Haven, Connecticut. According to the state's Department of Transportation, 562 crashes occurred there over a three-year span. In those wrecks, officials counted 125 injuries to drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. The state launched a study to determine what made this area so dangerous.
Next: This intersection has a stunning amount of crashes.
3. West Bloomfield, Michigan: Orchard Lake Road and 14 Mile Road
There's no way the Motor City could be left off this list. The location of Orchard Lake Road and 14 Mile just north of Detroit had a stunning 163 crashes in 2016, with 27 of them resulting in injury. These numbers, supplied to Michigan Auto Law by state police officials, put this spot in a class of its own in the metropolitan area. At a glance, we noticed wide lanes, multi-lane avenues, and inadequate signage as possible reasons for the danger here.
Next: The Big Apple has a big problem in DUMBO.
2. Brooklyn, New York: Tillary Street and Flatbush Avenue
Anyone who drives in New York knows the city can't handle the traffic. Nonetheless, motorists heading for area bridges and tunnels leave each day hoping for different results. Often, they end up dealing with injury and damaged vehicles. Of the many bad spots in the boroughs, the intersection of Tillary and Flatbush in DUMBO ranked as the worst. According to Aleksey Bilogur's study of collision data, this location averaged 180 incidents per year. In the lower 48, you won't find a scarier place.
Next: This part of Honolulu will kill your tropical island mood.
1. Honolulu: 1450 block of Ala Moana Boulevard
If you want to find America's most dangerous intersection, look no further than the 1450 block of Ala Moana Boulevard in Honolulu. Featuring a massive web of parking lots, entrances, and exits, this location presents challenges to every driver. Too often, they fail to get through unscathed. The intersection posted 312 accidents in a single year (2015), making Honolulu's gauntlet the scariest place for motorists and pedestrians in the country.


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Israeli police clash with Palestinians as tensions mount over Jerusalem evictions
The situation in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood was aggravated by the arrival of a far-right Israeli legislator
A firefighter tackles a burning car belonging to Jewish settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, on May 6, 2021. Tension is rising over a bid to evict Palestinian families from homes on land claimed by the settlers. Reuters
Rosie Scammell
Riot police clashed with protesters in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday as tension mounts over eviction orders hanging over Palestinian families, who may lose their homes to Israeli setters.
At least 15 people were arrested as police used rubber bullets and a "skunk truck", which sprays foul-smelling liquid, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood close to Jerusalem's Old City.
As Palestinians gathered to demonstrate against court orders that could lead to dozens of residents being evicted, far-right legislator Itamar Ben-Gvir arrived to support Israeli settlers.
The appearance of Mr Ben-Gvir, widely regarded as a disciple of the late ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane, aggravated the situation on a street that has become the focal point of protests and violence.
"This is our home," said the legislator, a resident of a Hebron settlement in the occupied West Bank. "The bullying will not win. Jerusalem is our home."
After clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians, who set up tables to break the Ramadan fast, police closed off the street and drove the demonstrators across the neighbourhood.
A Palestinian woman and an Israeli policeman scuffle during a protest against the planned evictions of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. AP
The Israeli police, who chased protesters on foot and horseback, said those detained were suspected of disorder and assaulting officers. Some Palestinians threw rocks at police.
A car was engulfed in flames, which Palestinians at the scene said was owned by Israeli settlers.
Police officers and Palestinians tried to put the fire out as it spread to a house, before firefighters arrived.
The violence in East Jerusalem escalated in recent weeks, initially around the Old City's Damascus Gate after police prevented Palestinians from gathering there during Ramadan.
After days of protests in which Palestinians clashed with police, Jewish extremists marched towards the gate on April 22 chanting: "Death to Arabs."
More than 100 Palestinians and 20 police officers were injured that night.
While relative calm returned to Damascus Gate, after Israeli authorities reversed restrictions at the plaza, the unrest shifted to Sheikh Jarrah.
Dozens of Palestinians face eviction this month from homes in the neighbourhood, which were built for their families in the 1950s, when East Jerusalem was governed by Jordan.
After Israel took control in the 1967 war, new laws were enacted that allowed Jews to reclaim land or property their descendants owned in East Jerusalem before the creation of Israel in 1948.
Meanwhile, Palestinians whose families fled or were forced from their homes in 1948 have no right to return to those properties under Israeli law.
The legislation is at the centre of the latest legal battle in Sheikh Jarrah, whose residents are lobbying politicians in the US and Europe for support.
The latest violence in East Jerusalem came after a Palestinian child and man were killed this week by Israeli forces, in separate incidents in the West Bank.
An Israeli, 19, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Sunday in the West Bank, reportedly by a Palestinian gunman, while two of his friends were wounded.


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Majestic Theater
45 E 2nd St.
Chillicothe, OH 45601
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Show times and ticket prices vary. See Notes for Travelers.
Admission: For Tours: Individual tours $5; groups of 15 or more $3 each
Masonic Lodge to Theater
Once a Masonic Lodge, the Majestic Theater in Chillicothe has a long history as a destination for entertainment.
Once a Masonic Lodge, the Majestic Theater in Chillicothe has a long history as a destination for entertainment. Originally built in 1853 the two-story brick building contained a theater, dance hall, and lodge rooms upstairs. Entertainers and stock companies would stay for months putting on plays for the community. In 1876 the building was expanded to add more space and updates to the stage area, dressing rooms and ticket booth. Mr. E. B. Hough, a scenic artist from Syracuse, New York, was hired to decorate the interior by adding frescoes and other artistic elements to the walls and ceiling. The building became known as the Masonic Opera House with drama, comedy, minstrel shows, and operas being performed on a nightly basis. The early twentieth century brought more improvements to the building, and a movie screen and projector were added. Finally, in 1990 private investors bought and updated the theater with modern movie equipment. The Majestic Theater still shows movies today, making it one of the oldest continuously operating theaters in the country.
Showtimes and ticket prices vary. Check Here (http://www.majesticchillicothe.net/tickets/) for event schedules. To schedule a tour please contact the Majestic Theatre office at (740) 772-2041 or via email at info@majesticchillicothe.net.
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Latest stories / The future from a designer's perspective with Jin Kuramoto
The future from a designer's perspective with Jin Kuramoto
Our designers are up to date on upcoming trends and one step ahead in designing furniture. Offecct has therefore sent five questions to three of our designers to get their views on the future and what lays ahead. Following is Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto's thoughts on how the latest situation will change the way we live.
What future challenges do designers face?
Until now, the world has considered economic growth expressed in terms of GDP as social development, but now it is time to pay attention to the quality of life. It has nothing to do with economic growth, but to feel the richness of individual lives. Designers should play a part in spreading this new perspective to the world.
How is design affected and how should we act in the ongoing global collapse and environmental debate?
After the Industrial Revolution, the role of designers was born at the beginning of mass production, and ideas and concepts were spread through products distributed to many people. Because it is a mass-production activity, the impact on nature and society is also enormous. If we can feel and image that all of us are part of the symbiosis of society and nature, many people will confront social issues with their specialties, which will be a big movement. I believe that the power of design can help people to have a concrete image for a sustainable world…
In what direction will the next generation be, in terms of behaviors that will influence the design of the future?
How do designers look and act on new trends, and where are you at?
I think there is a combined answer to these two questions.
Our thinking is greatly influenced by the natural environment, culture, society, and religious currents. It's like putting ourselves in the flow of a big river, and it's a powerful force that's hard to resist. We have no choice but to keep our sensors sensitive, feel natural movement with our bodies, cooperate with each other in a positive way, and gradually change the direction in the current. A trend is like this big current, and if you live carefully, it will accumulate in your body little by little unconsciously in your daily life.
Today, social trends are starting to become skeptical of the ever-expanding human for-profit movement. They are looking away from physical material satisfaction and towards spiritual richness. It may seem retrogressive in the past, but the role of alarms in swapping perspectives is what designers should do. Whether a diamond is valuable or not depends on our perspective.
For Offecct, Jin has designed the Maki easy chair, Wind table and Wind room divider.


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Reviewing Kashiyama, the Super-Affordable "Smart Tailor" from Japan About Take the United States by Storm
by Jake | March 15, 2019
While you may have not heard much about affordable custom suit brand Kashiyama the Smart Tailor before, you're likely to hear a lot more in the coming months thanks to a major push by the Japanese brand into the U.S. market. Keep reading for Modern Fellows' review of Kashiyama, which offers made-to-measure suits for men as low as $300, and take a glimpse inside their WeWork studio in Washington, DC.
About Kashiyama, the Smart Tailor
The Onward Group, a Japanese conglomerate dating back to 1927 that also owns iconic American brands including J.Press and Jil Sander, launched Kashiyama the Smart Tailor in Japan in 2017.
Kashiyama offers made-to-measure suits for men for an eye-popping $300, a price point below other competitors like Alton Lane, Blank Label, Hall and Madden, Knot Standard, Lanieri and Oliver Wicks, and promises delivery to your door in as little as 10 days. Since its opening, Kashiyama has suited up more than 200,000 men.
The company subsequently pushed into the United States, opening a flagship store in New York, followed quickly by two other NYC locations and showrooms in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Kashiyama is about to blanket the globe with up to 100 stores over the next several years, including upcoming showrooms in Arlington, VA; Tysons Corner; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco, as well as additional locations in China and Japan.
Kashiyama keeps costs low and appeals to entrepreneurs by opening showrooms in WeWork locations. While many entrepreneurs and millennials don't need to wear a suit everyday, Kashiyama is betting that everyone needs at least one or two nice suits in their wardrobe.
Reviewing Kashiyama suits and options
Before you get too excited about $300 custom suits, the intro-level suits feature basic fabrics, including some that are wool-polyester blends.
Leaf through the company's fabric books and you'll see much more appealing options for between $500-$800, including luxury fabrics from the likes of Italian mills Loro Piana and Vitale Barberis Canonico. While I'm not much interested in a wool-poly blend suit at any price, a well-fitting suit made from Loro Piana fabric for $800 is something to get excited about.
The company currently owns factories in Japan and China, but is in the midst of expanding its capacity to produce suits in Japan. This is important because the customization options differ widely between Kashiyama's Japan and China factories and because, currently, all U.S. suits are produced at the Chinese factory.
Currently, suit options are more limited for U.S. customers, who are currently served by the Chinese factory. Kashiyama expects its Japanese factory to serve U.S. clients by the end of the year, which will unlock additional customization options such as thinner lapels.
How to order a Kashiyama suit
The only way to buy a suit from Kashiyama is to schedule an appointment to visit one of their showrooms, most of which are located in WeWork spaces on the East Coast of the United States. Unlike companies such as Black Lapel or Indochino, you cannot opt to take your own measurements and order a suit online.
Once you arrive at WeWork, you'll be guided up to Kashiyama's space, where you will meet a representative who will greet you, take your measurements and guide you through fabrics and suit details.
After that, Kashiyama will custom-make the suit at its factory and ship it directly to the customer's door using its "Pack-Runner technology" that minimizes wrinkles. If the suit doesn't fit as it's supposed to, customers can bring it to the local showroom for a consultation and alterations.
Inside the Kashiyama showroom at WeWork in Washington, DC
The company tapped Aaron Goode, a DC menswear entrepreneur who has worked with innovative brands including Charles Tyrwhitt and Ledbury, to launch its DC showroom.
Since opening in February 2019, Aaron has seen a steady stream of a cross-section of the DMV into the Kashiyama space that is tucked into WeWork near the White House, including students and interns, federal employees, WeWork tenants and the United States Secret Service.
The space itself, which is similar to Kashiyama's other installations at WeWorks across the United States, is small but functional. It consists of a couple of couches, a fitting room, racks of jackets and pants to try on, and boxes filled with fabric swatches.
Keep an eye on Kashiyama the smart tailor. It will be interesting to see how the brand evolves in the coming months following its expansion in the United States and new factory in Japan, which will bring many more options to American men in search of a custom suit.


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Q: Scipy Newton-CG not accepting my hessian matrix? I'm running a minimisation routine and I'm struggling to get Newton-CG to accept my hessian matrix. The hessian was calculated using numdifftools.Hessdiag
I define the function to be minimized;
def energy(x0, L, N, U, t, mu):

    mu = mu.reshape(L, L, N)
    x0 = x0.reshape(L, L, N, 2)
    ff = x0[:, :, :, 0] + 1j*x0[:, :, :, 1]

    nn = np.array(range(N))  # [0, 1, ..., N-1]
    norm = np.zeros((L,L))

    for i_x in range(0,L):
        for i_y in range(0,L):
            norm[i_x,i_y] = np.sum(np.abs(ff[i_x,i_y,:])**2)
    norm = np.repeat(norm, N)
    norm = norm.reshape(L, L, N)

    E = np.abs(np.sum((np.abs(ff)**2/norm * (U*nn*(nn-1)/2 - mu*nn))))

    return E

And then calculate the Hessian matrix for the minimization routine. If I print the hessian matrix for some given coordinates it evaluates like I'd hoped.
Hfun = nd.Hessdiag(energy)
x0 = np.tile(guess, (L,L,1,1))
x0 = x0.reshape(L*L*N*2)

print Hfun(x0, L, N, U, t, mu)

x_min = scipy.optimize.minimize(energy, x0, method='Newton-CG', jac=energy_grad, hess=Hfun, args=(L, N, U, t, mu))

The minimization routine gives me a value error though (I've checked the jacobian is fine).
ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()

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Q: Import takeUntill from Rxjs Angular 13 and allowedCommonJsDependencies array I have a problem with rxjs (v6) and commmonJsDependencies.
I try to import takeUntil and append JSDependeciy to angular.json allowedCommonJsDependencies array.
All the time I see an error:
Error [ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT]: Directory import '/Users/d/angular/node_modules/rxjs/operators' is not supported resolving ES modules imported from /Users/d/angular/node_modules/@angular/core/fesm2015/core.mjs
Did you mean to import rxjs/operators/index.js

I have tried with:

*

*import { takeUntil } from 'rxjs';

*import { takeUntil } from 'rxjs/operators';

*import { takeUntil } from 'rxjs/operators/index';
and allowedCommonJsDependencies:

*

*rxjs

*rxjs/operators

*rxjs/operators/index

what should be in .ts file and in the config .json file?
edit:
I use es2015
src/tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": "",
    "declaration": false,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "lib": ["es6", "dom"],
    "mapRoot": "./",
    "module": "es6",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "outDir": "../dist/out-tsc",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "target": "es2015",
    "typeRoots": [
      "../node_modules/@types"
    ]
  }
}

"@angular/animations": "13.1.0",
"@angular/cdk": "^13.0.3",
"@angular/common": "13.1.0",
"@angular/compiler": "13.1.0",
"@angular/core": "13.1.0",
"@angular/forms": "13.1.0",
"@angular/platform-browser": "13.1.0",
"@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "13.1.0",
"@angular/platform-server": "13.1.0",
"@angular/router": "13.1.0",
"rxjs": "6.6.7",
"typescript": "4.4.4"
even if I got rid off every rxjs/operators, I still have the same error: rxjs/operators' is not supported resolving ES modules imported from ...
(I replaced rxjs/operators with rxjs/internal/operators)

A: The only solution in my case was to upgrade RXJS to 7.4.


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The binge-watch reign of terror is back on schedule.
If you thought keeping up with the Netflix Original Series this year was daunting, you ain't seen nothing yet. Chief content officer Ted Sarandos says that in 2016 the streaming service has plans for 31 scripted shows (including new seasons of returning shows) nearly doubling the 16 shows they aired in 2015. So go ahead and cancel your weekend plans. All of them.
According to the Verge, Sarandos said the service is also working on 10 new feature films, 30 kids' shows, 12 documentaries, and 10 stand-up specials. "It's not just a lot of volume," Sarandos promised. "This is quality stuff." Anyone who watched Master of None, Jessica Jones, With Bob & David, over the past few weekends can tell you that the Netflix brand is currently delivering on that promise, but will a vastly expanded field possibly be able to sustain that track record?
According to the Verge, Netflix's rapid expansion is due to the fact that networks are more hesitant to license their own shows to a service that is now one of their major competitors. Lack of deals with the networks means Netflix is forced to produce even more of its own content. It's a vicious cycle, really, and it means all your weekends now belong to Sarandos.
Flaked: A love triangle romantic comedy starring Will Arnett, Ruth Kearney, and David Sullivan centers on Chip (Arnett) who falls for the object (Kearney) of his best friend's (Sullivan) affection.
Fuller House: The Full House reboot. You know the drill.
The Get Down: Baz Luhrmann's long-simmering musical about 1970s New York and the hip-hop and punk scene.
Love: Judd Apatow's first TV series in over a decade is a modern love story starring Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust.
Untitled Winona Ryder Project: From the creators of Wayward Pines, this show is set in 1980s New York and has a supernatural vibe.
Marvel's Luke Cage: The indestructible love interest from Jessica Jones is getting his own show. Mike Colter will be joined by Alfre Woodard, Mahershala Ali, Theo Rossi, and returning favorite Rosario Dawson. Contrary to rumors of its demise, Marvel's Iron Fist is also coming and they're all leading up to a Defenders team-up event.


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Rare hurricane 'Otto' bearing down on Nicaragua, Costa Rica
Posted 7:46 PM, November 22, 2016, by CNN Wire
The Atlantic hurricane season may be coming to an end, but not before one last storm brings some rare and significant impacts.
Hurricane season officially ends on November 30, and while the month of November can have named storms, the season is generally winding down. Impactful storms are infrequent occurrences, especially this late in November.
Otto formed in the southern Caribbean early this week as the National Hurricane Center closely monitored the area. The storm has steadily strengthened and on Tuesday afternoon became the 7th hurricane of the season in the Atlantic basin. Otto is developing later in the season than any Atlantic basin hurricane since Hurricane Epsilon in 2005.
Additional strengthening is expected, and Otto could become a category 2 storm before making landfall near the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border on Thursday. While the Caribbean is one of the few areas with warm enough water to support a hurricane this late in the season, a storm making landfall this far south is extremely rare.
Otto is expected to be the southernmost hurricane landfall since Irene hit Nicaragua in 1971. If it makes landfall in Nicaragua it will be the first hurricane to do so since Ida in 2009.
And most impressively, if Otto makes landfall in Costa Rica, it will be that country's first hurricane landfall in recorded history (since 1851).
This portion of Central America is unaccustomed to hurricane landfalls. It also has steep terrain, which makes the area prone to flooding and landslides from a slow-moving storm.
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The Hyderabad India Stake, the first LDS Stake in India, was organized last Sunday.
A significant moment in the international expansion of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints occurred last Sunday when Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles presided over the creation of the Hyderabad India Stake.
Elder Oaks was assisted in this action by Elders Donald L. Hallstrom and Anthony D. Perkins of the church Quorums of the Seventy.
The new stake — a church administrative unit similar to a Catholic diocese, consisting of a number of individual congregations, which are called wards or branches — is India's first and one of nearly 3,000 similar units worldwide. It will serve the needs of approximately 10,000 Latter-day Saints who are currently living in India.
Although LDS Church leaders made several attempts through the years to establish the church in India beginning in the mid-1800s, it wasn't until 1981 when government regulations allowed an LDS missionary couple to establish a branch of the church there. While most missionary teaching at that time was done in English, the Book of Mormon was translated into Telegu in 1981.
The first mission in India, the India Bangalore Mission, was created in 1993 with Gucharan Singh Gill, a native of India who joined the LDS Church as a student in California and who later taught mathematics at BYU, as president. At that time there were 1,150 Latter-day Saints in India in 13 church branches. Within five years that number grew to 2,000 members in 18 branches.
In 2007 a second mission in India — the India New Delhi Mission — was organized to provide ministry in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.


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Kayenta II is a true ski in/out condominium complex located in the Mountain Village core. The Village Bypass Lift, Lift #4, and the Gondola are just steps away from this complex. Several shops and restaurants can also be found nearby. Complex amenities include a common hot tub, ski in/out access, and some units have off-site parking.
Kayenta II is located ski-in/out at the perfect location in the Mountain Village core. Just steps from the gondola, ski school, shops, and restaurants.
This condo is located on the ground floor (down 1/2 flight of stairs) and there is one level to the condo. You enter the condo into the foyer. Down the hall to your left are the living room, dining room and kitchen. The living room has a gas fireplace, 40 inch flat screen TV and spectacular views of the ski area base. Right off the living room is a deck which faces the lift 4 base area and Mountain Village Core. The kitchen has stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, and the washer/dryer. The dining room area has seating for 6 people.
From the foyer to your right is the first bedroom with a king bed (can be two twins) and a 18 inch flat screen TV. Attached is a bathroom with a steam shower that can also be accessed from the hall. At the end of the hallway is the master bedroom which has a king bed, 40 inch flat screen TV and private bathroom with a shower/tub combo.
Complex amenities include a ski locker and common outdoor hot tub. Parking is available in the Blue Mesa garage, spot #11. Additional parking is available at the intercept lot for $25.00 per night.
Bedding: King bed, King bed, Double and a Twin bunk bed, Twin day bed.
Walk into the condo on the top (3rd) floor and enter into a small mud room with hardwood floors and ski storage. To the right are two bedrooms. The first bedroom has a king bed, 20 inch flat screen TV and a private bathroom with a jetted shower/tub combo. The second bedroom has a double bed and a twin bunk bed, as well as a private bath with a steam shower that can be accessed from the hallway. The full kitchen and living room are located down the hall from the bedrooms. The kitchen has stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, 4 bar stools at the counter, and the washer/dryer. The living room has a 42 inch flat screen TV, DVD/CD players and a table with seating for 6 people. The fireplace in the living room does not work per owner request. There is also a shared deck by the living room with a BBQ grill and great views of Mountain Village and lift 4.
Upstairs is the master bedroom with a king bed, 20 inch flat screen TV, private balcony with views to the West and a private bath with a jetted shower/tub combo. There is also a small loft open to the living room with a twin day bed and small 13 inch TV.
Kayenta II has a common outdoor hot tub overlooking the ski slopes by lift 4 and a private ski locker for each condo. It is located at prime ski-in/out access to lift 4 in the Mountain Village core, just steps from ski school, restaurants and the gondola station. This condo has a designated parking spot for 1 vehicle in the building next door, Dakota Place. It is the first parking space on the right. Additional parking is available at the intercept lot for $25.00 per night.


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Susanne Langer, nascida Susanne Katherina Knauth (Nova Iorque, 20 de dezembro de 1895 — Nova Iorque, 17 de julho de 1985) foi uma filósofa, escritora e educadora norte-americana, mais conhecida por suas teorias sobre a influência da arte na mente humana. Ela foi uma das primeiras mulheres acadêmicas dos Estados Unidos e a primeira mulher a ser reconhecida popularmente como uma autêntica filósofa norte-americana. Langer é mais conhecida por seu livro publicado em 1942, intitulado Filosofia em Nova Chave. Em 1960, Langer foi nomeada "Fellow" da Academia de Artes e Ciências dos Estados Unidos. No Brasil, exerceu grande influência no movimento neoconcretista de autores como Ferreira Gullar.

Biografia
Susanne Katherina Knauth era filha de Antonio Knauth, um advogado, e de Else M. (Uhlich) Knauth. Seus pais migraram da Alemanha para morar em Manhattan. Ela se formou em escolas particulares e tocava muito bem piano e violoncelo. A música irá ser fundamental em seu sistema filosófico. Graduou-se no Radcliffe College em 1920, onde estudou com Alfred North Whitehead, recebendo seu doutorado em 1926 em Harvard. Em 1921 ela casou-se com William L. Langer, professor de história em Harvard, de quem se divorciou em 1942. Langer ensinou filosofia em Radcliffe de 1927 a 1942. Ela também ensinou na University of Delaware, Columbia University (1945) -(1950), New York University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, University of Washington e University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Em 1954 ela foi indicada para ensinar filosofia no Connecticut College em New London, Connecticut.

Obra

Como Cassirer, Langer define que o homem é essencialmente um animal que usa símbolos. O pensamento simbólico é profundamente enraizado na natureza humana, e o elemento central nas questões da vida e do conhecimento. Langer define a Arte como sendo a criação de formas simbólicas do sentimento humano. Distingue entre os símbolos discursivos da linguagem e os símbolos abertos apresentados ou "presentacionais" da obra de arte. O símbolo e o objeto simbolizado tem uma lógica formal comum.

As obras artísticas não expressam diretamente a experiência emocional do artista, mas uma "ideia" de emoção. A música cria uma aparência de tempo, um "tempo virtual", na pintura um "espaço virtual" é a primeira ilusão, poetas criam aparências de acontecimentos, pessoas, reações emocionais, lugares, etc, "semelhanças poéticas". Langer afirma que as formas musicais ostentam uma estreita lógica de semelhança com as formas de sentimentos humanos. A música é um "símbolo apresentado" do processo psíquico e as suas estruturas tonais ostentam uma lógica estreita de semelhança com as formas de sentimento ", formas de crescimento e de atenuação, de fluxo e de arrumação, de conflitos e de resolução, a rapidez, a detenção, a excitação, a calma". O símbolo e o objeto simbolizado tem uma forma lógica comum.

Langer também distingue a arte como símbolo - a obra de arte como um todo indivisível - a partir de símbolos da arte, que são elementos de trabalho e, muitas vezes, têm um significado literal. A particular utilização nada convencional do termo "símbolo" por Langer tem sido criticada por alguns filósofos, como George Dickie, entretanto Monroe C. Beardley, em seu livro Estética da Grécia Clássica para o Presente (1966), nota que os conceitos de arte como símbolo e seu desenvolvimento feitos por Susanne Langer "são realizados com grande sensibilidade e concretude".

Influências posteriores

Um exemplo claro de sua influência no século XXI pode ser encontrada no quinto capítulo do livro do neurocientista Howard Gardner Arte, Mente e Cérebro (Artmed 1999), dedicado exclusivamente a seu pensamento. A abordagem cognitiva da criatividade feita pelo neurocientista é fundamentada no pensamento de Langer. Como a neurociência começa a distinguir o funcionamento especializado de zonas cerebrais, responsáveis por determinadas áreas de nosso comportamento, a emoção torna-se essencial como mediação das distintas áreas ou zonas de conhecimento. O trabalho de Susan Langer fundado nas artes como produtora de emoções e conhecimento, evidencia que ela estava à frente de seu tempo.

Em seu livro mais conhecido, Filosofia em Nova Chave: um estudo no simbolismo da razão, do rito e da arte (1942), ela procura distinguir os símbolos não discursivos da arte, daqueles da linguagem científica. Em Sentimento e Forma (1953) defende que a arte, especialmente a música, é altamente articulada com as formas de expressão simbólica ou com o conhecimento intuitivo que a linguagem não consegue expressar. Em seu Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967, 1972 e 1982), Langer traça um esboço do desenvolvimento da mente (3 vols.).

Ela foi uma figura chave no pensamento filosófico da metade do século XX. O foco primário de sua obra principal (Filosofia em Nova Chave, Sentimento e Forma, Mind) foi estabelecer uma base sistemática para o entendimento da arte e de sua criação, seu valor para a consciência humana.

Para Langer a obra de Arte é a criação das formas simbólicas do sentimento humano ("Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling"). Ela discernia entre os símbolos presentacionais abertos da Arte e os símbolos "discursivos" da linguagem, que não consegue expressar o aspecto subjetivo da experiência humana. Visão próxima à teoria lógica de Ludwig Wittgenstein desenvolvida em seu Tratado Lógico-Filosófico (1922), mas quando Wittgenstein parou ao definir o indizível, Languer acrescentou que a música e as artes articulam o que outras linguagens não conseguem, mostrar o que não pode ser dito.

O esforço do exame da linguagem simbólica da arte centra-se em um exame rigoroso de sua estrutura simbólica, comparando sua estrutura simbólica com as formas discursivas da linguagem e da matemática. Ela procura examinar as formas simbólicas da arte em relação com as formas naturais, inclusive aquelas que incorporavam o processo biológico.

Langer, embora tendo formação musical, também se interessou pelo teatro. Em Sentimento e Forma ela escreve que o teatro é uma especial forma poética e que o dinamismo da ação dramática não é tanto o resultado de uma ação visível que espelha a experiência concreta, mas sua localização na intersecção de dois grandes reinos da imaginação, passado e futuro. Langer escreve que um elemento-chave do drama é a criação de uma "história virtual", que é transparente para a audiência, e que pode ser obliquamente, mas totalmente, apreendida em cada momento de ação. A ação dramática contém uma "forma latente", que é sugerida ou desenvolvida em uma peça, e que é entendida plenamente apenas ao final, quando ele é entendida como o cumprimento do Destino. Em suma, o drama é processo de uma "história acontecendo", mais que uma "história em retrospecto", motivação e não causalidade.

No Brasil, Langer influenciou o movimento artístico neoconcretista desenvolvido por intelectuais como Ferreira Gullar, Amílcar de Castro e Franz Weissmann.

Embora ela não seja constantemente citada por filósofos profissionais, sua influência é enorme, principalmente com respeito a atividade simbólica presentacional, que tornou-se parte do conceito de inconsciência coletiva de pessoas preocupadas em explicar a produção da música e a arte na vida humana.

Bibliografia
 Português
 Filosofia em Nova Chave. Ed. Perspectiva, 2004. Primeira edição 1971.
 Sentimento e Forma. Ed. Perspectiva, 1980.
 Ensaios Filosóficos (Philosophical Sketches). Ed. Cultrix, 1971.

 Espanhol
 Introduccion a La Logica Simbolica. Ed. Siglo Veintiuno, 1969.
 Los Problemas del Arte: Diez conferencias filosóficas. Ed. Infinito, 1966.

 Inglês
 The Cruise of the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales (1923) (illus. Helen Sewall), uma coleção de contos de fada.
 The Practice of Philosophy (1930). Prefácio de Alfred North Whitehead. Ed: H. Holt. 223 pgs.
 An Introduction to Symbolic Logic (1937). Ed: H. Holt.
 Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art (1942). Harvard and Oxford University Press. Mentor Books, 1948.
 Language and Myth (1946), tradutora, de Sprache und Mythos (1925) de Ernst Cassirer.
 Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (1953).
 Problems of Art: Ten Philosophical Lectures (1957) Richard Field.
 Reflections on Art (ed.) (1958).
 Philosophical Sketches (1962).
 Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967, 1972, 1982) três volumes.

Publicações sobre Langer
 Innis, Robert E. Susanne Langer in Focus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009 (inglês).
 Schultz, William. Cassirer and Langer on Myth: An Introduction (2000) (inglês).
 Martin Seymour-Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens World Authors 1900-1950, vol.. 2, (1996) (inglês).
 G.L. Hagberg. Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aestehtic Theory (1995) (inglês).
 E. Devine Thinkers of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical and Critical Dictionary (1983) (inglês).
 R.K. Ghosh Aesthetric Theory and Art: A Study in Susanne K. Langer (1979) (inglês).
 Rita LaPlante Raffman Susanne Langer's Theory of Music as Symbol of Feeling: A Critique (1978) (inglês).
 Richard Jackson Bremer Harmony Through Resolution (1975) (inglês).
 George Dickie Aesthetics: An Introduction (1971) (inglês).
 H. Stoddard Famous American Women (1970) (inglês).
 Beverly Wayne Shirbroun Music and Human Feeling in Susanne Langer's Aesthetic Theory (1964) (inglês).
 Fred Blum Susanne Langer's Music Aesthetics (1954) (inglês).
 Morris Weitz Symbolism and Art in Review of Metaphysics, VII (1954) (inglês).
 Ernst Nagel Philosophy in a New Key in Journal of Philosophy, 40 (1943) (inglês).

 Ver também
 Ernst Cassirer
 Alfred North Whitehead

 Ligações externas
 Biografia e obra de Susanne Langer
 Ensaios de e sobre Langer em AnthonyFlood.com
 Susan Langer - estética do cinema um trecho de Sentimento e Forma'' (1953)
 Pequena biografia
 Innis, Robert E. Susanne Langer in Focus Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009
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Q: flex 4 - wait for load complete without freezing I was wondering if it is possible to implement any logic to wiat for the image to complete load without freezing.
For the sake of my app, I created a class which takes image url in constructor and loads the mx.controls.Image using the "load()" function.
See the class below
package com
{
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.*;
//import flash.net.URLRequest;

import mx.controls.Alert;
import mx.controls.Image;
//import mx.utils.OnDemandEventDispatcher;

public class SpriteImage extends Sprite
{
    //Pass the source path or url here.
    private var imageUrl:String;
    private var ready:int = -1;
    private var img:Image;

    public function SpriteImage(imgUrl:String)
    {
        //imageUrl = imgUrl;
        loadImage(imgUrl);
    }
    private function loadImage(imgUrl:String):void
    {

        img = new Image();
        img.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onCompleteHandler);
        img.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,onErrorHandler);
        //img.source = imgUrl;
        img.load(imgUrl);

    }

    private function onCompleteHandler(e:Event):void{

        img.x = -(img.width/2);
        img.y = -(img.height/2);
        this.addChild(img);
        ready = 1;
    }

    private function onErrorHandler(e:IOErrorEvent):void
    {
        ready = 0;
        //Alert.show("Can't load :" + e.toString());
    }

    public function prepare():Boolean{

        while(ready == -1){
            trace(0);
        }
        return ready;
    }
}

}

Now, I use this class from main app like this
var img:SpriteImage = new SpriteImage(e.imageUrl);
img.prepare(); // just waits till image is loaded but freezes
var obj:DisplayObject = img;

Now the problem is that the app never comes out of the prepare() method. It freezes the browser and I have to kill the plugin process to unfreez the app.
The main criteria here is that I need to wait for the image to complete loading so that I can access the image in the next steps. How can I do this.? Please help

A: Looks to me like you're creating the freeze yourself with that while(ready == -1) Why don't you just disable the ability for a user to go further in your "steps" until the image is loaded?
You don't have to synchronously wait for the image to load the way you do now. Once the image is loaded, you'll get the notification by the complete event that its loader dispatches. Then you can enable whatever depends on that image being loaded.
One straight forward way is to bind the enabled property of the navigation controls in your application to a boolean property. For example in your SpriteImage add
[Bindable] public var isImageLoaded:Boolean = false;

and set it to true once the onCompleteHandler is called. You can bind to that property's value. Another way is to dispatch an event from your class to notify others that the image is loaded and that something can happen :]
Blaze

A: A ProgressBar could spice up your UI in a way that it's not freezing when you load the image.
Have a look at the Adobe docs for the ProgressBar control. The paragraph titled Creating a ProgressBar control has an example which shows how to display a ProgressBar while the image is being loaded.


This course focuses majorly on parts which are significant for every Human Resource department. The aim of this course is to create awareness among the students who are directly or indirectly associated with the HR domain and make them familiar with practical orientation derived from Marg Payroll HrXpert Software. This course entails complete payroll package information, maintaining and calculating Salary and Provident Fund (PF) and Employee State Insurance (ESI) records and other significant options. Facility to generate online PF & ESI Challans.


The first phase of the Peru Main Street project will go out to bid for a third time in the coming weeks.
PERU | The Peru Main Street project will go out to bid for a third time.
After the first round garnered zero bids and the second a single, over-budget bid, the Peru Town Board on Monday directed Community Development Coordinator Adele Douglas to put out a request for bids again for the first phase of the beautification project.
In this round, the scope of the project will be pared down in an effort to bring costs below the state grant-funded $150,000.
Instead of revitalizing and landscaping a half-mile stretch of North Main Street, the project will be scaled back a few hundred feet in an effort to reduce costs, according to Town Supervisor Brandy McDonald.
Town Engineer Peter Gibbs told the town board last Monday that the over-budget price in the single bid garnered may have stemmed from uncertainty surrounding the amount of gravel that would need to be removed from North Main Street before the landscaping detailed in the project plans can take place.
As part of the grant funding the state has required that the town remove all of the gravel by the roadside before moving ahead with planting trees along the main strip, Gibbs said, and it's unclear how much gravel exists.
McDonald told The Sun that he expects the project, which is expected to take around 3-4 weeks to complete, will go out to bid again in the next few weeks.
The project must be completed by the end of this construction season in February, Douglas told the board. If it isn't, the state funding will be lost.


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Q: Databinding to checkbox in wpf I have a WPF window with a few checkboxes. I want to bind these checkboxes to boolean properties in my object, so changes in data will be reflected in view, and changes in view will be reflected in data.
Do I have to derive this object from INotifyPropertyChanged?

A: As the documentation suggestes, you will have to do so. You must provide properties and inside those properties fire the PropertyChangedEvent.
Here is an example from the documentation:
public string PhoneNumber
    {
        get
        {
            return this.phoneNumberValue;
        }

        set
        {
            if (value != this.phoneNumberValue)
            {
                this.phoneNumberValue = value;
                NotifyPropertyChanged();
            }
        }
    }

You will need to make this fit to your needs, though. Please have a look at MSDN on how to implement the interface properly.

A: Yes, otherwise when you change values in your object, the checkboxes' bindings won't update properly.


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Telling Old Stories in New Ways: "The Watch that Ends the Night"
bethkjacks / 2017-02-16
I am starting this project with The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf. It is a shocking 430 pages long with a lengthy "Notes" section that addresses everything from source material to a primer on Morse Code.
I came across this book during a project at work. We've been systematically pulling every children's book off the shelf to look up Accelerated Reader levels and points, which are then recorded on a small label on the inside cover, directly across from the barcode we use to check the books in and out. Part of this on-going project requires a good deal of exploration and negotiation: looking for books that don't have labels and finding a place to put them while we look up the necessary information and log it on a spreadsheet to be printed out on labels. This means that the job is often long and tedious and has a tendency to suck up a lot of what little space we have behind the Children's Desk at the library…all for the sake of reference and making the customer experience as pain-free as possible.
One of the advantages of this project is that I spend a significant amount of time flipping through the collection, exploring the books that are often left behind for the sake of the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book or the millionth copy of Harry Potter to be checked out in a week. I'm often in awe at how little attention is paid to the selection of children's books, particularly by adults. I'm also starting to realize how skewed a library's circulation can get in the wake of a literary trend. At one point, it was Harry Potter; then it was Percy Jackson; then, it was Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries; next, the popular check-out will be something completely different. My mom calls this the Beanie Baby effect: there's always a trend that sparks mass hysteria for the briefest of interludes, only to fizzle out months later and become completely worthless in the realm of cultural capital. This is true for Adult Services as well. Patrons browse the new book shelves and look for the most recent Oprah's Book Club selection or the new hot-ticket title that someone is making a movie out of. Once the movie is made, and the book has been exhausted by all the major news outlets and people start to donate used copies to public libraries and Good Will, it will be forgotten. I guess that's what differentiates the truly great literary masterpieces from the flash-in-the-pan bestsellers: permanence. But I digress…Let me tell you about this book!
On first approach, I was struck by how much The Watch that Ends the Night is like Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology in that it presents a story of a town or group of people through a series of monologues. In Spoon River's case, it's a fictional town presented through the lens of the epitaphs found in the town's cemetery. In the case of The Watch, it's poems from the perspectives of actual passengers and crew members on board the Titanic. Jaded though I may be about literary devices and obvious ploying schticks, I was intrigued by this format. In a genre saturated by one-plot narratives, punctuated by dates and times, Mr. Wolf chose to present an all-too-well-known story in a way that suggests a populism to the Titanic that many fail to acknowledge. He depicts a world of characters from JL Smith (captain) all the way down to the resident ship rat and in doing so, calls to mind the fact that most victims of disaster had plans and lives beyond what we know them for. He gives voice to the quiet struggle experienced by the third class passengers, populated by refugees and immigrants while poking holes in the pompous society of first class with routine choruses from the first, second, and third class promenades. These routine choruses sing of the daily life on the Titanic, presenting a kind of social stasis that begins to crumble and fall apart as the iceberg scrapes the side of the ship. Eventually, the chorus degrades into a jumble of desperate voices and the same word in many languages: cold.
More intriguing, however, is the story itself. As one blurb on the book's back cover ponders, "how do you tell a [story] when you know that everyone knows the ending?" (Helen Frost). An insightful query, to be sure, it gets at the heart of writing powerful historical fiction. Perhaps this is why historical fiction rarely becomes groundbreaking best-sellers. It would have been so easy for Mr. Wolf to package The Watch that Ends the Night as standard, plot driven, dramatic literature. And he didn't. In truth, the book itself is rather quiet in its delivery. As an older millennial, my first contact with the Titanic was the eponymous film that sparked so much outrage over a simple door. Thus, I approached this book with the expectation of drama, high stakes, and a lightning fast pace. I anticipated hearing screams in my head from page one. And yet, the screams were not the central focus of the book. It was hardly a feature film, more like an experimental play, using little scenery or action, relying heavily on the characters' words, thoughts, and emotions. At this point, I come to an impasse with myself. The theatre geek in me does backflips at the thought of a staged reading of this book; I'm sure it might be the longest staged reading ever, but intriguing all the same. However, I can't shake how stilted the book feels as it switches from perspective to perspective, voice to voice. It's unnerving. Though I wonder if it wasn't meant to be unnerving in some way, disorienting. But that's a conversation "serious" literary scholars cannot have, as it broaches the subject of authorial intent, which is verboten and often beside the point.
As I read this book, I kept asking myself if I'd recommend it to my patrons, and I think I might. There's a bizarre life stage that I see most children go through where they become fascinated by disasters and wars and conspiracies and this book truly appeals to this mindset. However, I feel like maybe this book is a trifle more refined and detailed than most children's books about disasters, so I think I'll push it. Who knows, some ambitious kid might like the look of it and get their mind expanded just a bit more. Wouldn't that be nice?
Current reading list:
Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful.
E.B. White, La toile de Charlotte.
Checked-out because I like to put things on hold when I'm bored:
Herb Boyd (ed), Autobiography of a People: Three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it.
Book that I might end up putting back on my shelf, because I have no time for it and think my brain really isn't in a place to read it just yet anyway:
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way.
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Q: Counting the length of JSON in Android I recently asked this question on SO: Grabbing JSON works from one link, not from another
I got an answer basically saying that getContentLength is optional by the server, so I would have to manually count the length myself. Well, it took me some time but I came up with some code that seems to get the right count, but I'm not sure if it's the "right" way to do it. Mostly because of my while(0==0) statement.
The exact answer I got was:

content-length is a header set by the responding server. It is
  optional, and google chooses not to send it for dynamically generated
  content (most servers don't). So you'll have to read the stream until
  you're out of bytes, rather than doing it in one go.

So this is my code that I came up with:
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
int contentLength=0;
int cur;
while (0==0){
cur = reader.read();
if (cur == -1) {
break;
} else {
contentLength++;
}
}

Does that seem like a viable solution for counting the content length when the server doesn't provide you with one?

A: You can easily count the byte length of InputStream content sent by server in 2 lines:
ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(inputStream);
int length = bias.toByteArray().length;

Related to your approach:
int contentLength=0;
while (reader.read()>0){
contentLength++;
}

But what happens with the answer proposed in the question refered:
int contentLength = connection.getContentLength();
That one is perfectly reasonable and viable.


I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.


Works of art housed in museum collections are often pieces of a larger whole—removed, stripped, chiseled, ripped, and cleaned into presentable and aestheticized objects. This exhibition explores fragments acquired in the mid-twentieth century, when modern taste and art historical pedagogy combined to require authentic and beautiful objects for museum collections.
Curated by Meredith Fluke, Kemper Curator of Academic Exhibitions and Affairs, and Amanda Gilvin, Assistant Curator. Presented with generous support from The Mary Tebbetts Wolfe '54 Davis Museum Program Fund.


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"I'm overweight, overbearing and over forty. What am I doing leading a youth movement?" In the 1970s, Moishe Rosen marveled that God would use an ordinary Jewish guy to spread His extraordinary gospel to a new generation of Jews and Gentiles.
Moishe Rosen was an unlikely hero to pioneer a new strategy for Jewish evangelism. He was raised in a religiously orthodox Jewish family. He married his childhood sweetheart. Then, she stunned him with news that she had placed her faith in Jesus, Israel's Messiah. Moishe was at first confused and infuriated by her insistence that belief in the Messianic Savior was consistent with her Jewishness. His resistance against the truth eventually gave way to his own fervent belief in the Savior Yeshua (Jesus).
From then on, he took lessons from every life experience he could apply to his passion for communicating the gospel among his own Jewish people. Marriage relationships, raising children, business practices, and even social activism were evangelism tutorials. He was a reflective introvert, gifted with a supple mind and great creativity. He was also capable of applying his formidable will to implement innovative strategies for gospel communication. I was blessed to learn the craft of Jewish evangelism from him.
You can read his ideas for communicating Jesus to Jewish people in Witnessing to Jews: Practical Ways to Relate the Love of Jesus. I'd like to share four valuable lifestyle lessons that I picked up from Moishe's example.
First, life is all about making disciples. I will have to paraphrase something he often said. "Doing a good thing is not the same as doing the right thing." Moishe wielded himself so his life could be an influence for the gospel. That meant he worked to build a trusting relationship with anyone who had an open heart and was honestly seeking truth. Good and worthwhile pre-evangelistic efforts are not the same as when we are permitted to present the gospel. The good news is about sin, salvation, and the Savior. That's the right focus of our life's work if we are to make disciples.
Second, Moishe never backed away from the truth that Jesus is the only way for Jewish and Gentile people to know God. Well-meaning Christians sometimes wrongly assumed that Jewish resistance to the gospel must mean that God has another salvation plan for them. Moishe liked to reference Jesus' own words about the uniqueness of salvation in Him: "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me" (John 14:6). Who could argue with that?
Third, Moishe urged Jews for Jesus missionary staff to aspire toward an apostolic (note: the small "a") lifestyle. He asked us to be available to the Lord, vulnerable to our contacts, and mobile in serving the cause of Christ. In spite of his own reclusive and introverted nature, Moishe did whatever he could to model a "do-so love" for the Lord, not just a "say-so love." He spoke about being vulnerable to antagonism and insults from others in order that some might hear and be saved. He asked his staff workers for the willingness to go where God was calling us to spread the gospel. We found that worthwhile even if it might be personally uncomfortable and, in some cases, even a little dangerous. An apostolic lifestyle is an adventure with the Lord.
Last, he taught that spiritual fruit (people coming to faith in Christ) was always the work of God's Holy Spirit. Moishe could be a strategic thinker and a shrewd, even imaginative, tactician. He empowered others to write provocative and thoughtful gospel material in print, music, and online. Within all of those tools was his conviction that the power for evangelism is derived from the word of God, and the fruit of evangelism comes through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Moishe referred to the whole process as like being a "spiritual midwife." In life, we actually show up for God's delivery of the spiritually new-born.
Knowing Moishe, I must add that he would probably be ticked that anyone would call him a "hero of the Christian faith." He was an ordinary person, like any of us, who viewed himself as privileged to have a part in the extraordinary things of the Lord's doing.
Tuvya Zaretsky is Lausanne senior associate for Jewish evangelism and a Jewish-Gentile Couples ministry specialist with Jews for Jesus.
God uses ordinary people to do His greatest works. He used Moishe because he made him self available "Here am I Lord send me". It is a privilege to be praying for the work of Jews for Jesus, that God used Moishe to start. All we do is for the Glory of God.