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#include "bit-u-int.h"

#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

void BitUIntPrint(const BitUInt* this) {
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < this->num_bits; i++) {
    printf("%i", this->bits[i]);
  }
}

void BitUIntBase10Print(const BitUInt* this) {
  char str_buffer[BASE_10_BIT_U_INT_BUFFER_SIZE];
  BitUIntBase10Store(this, BASE_10_BIT_U_INT_BUFFER_SIZE, str_buffer);
  printf("%s", str_buffer);
}

void BitUIntLoad(int buffer_size, char* buffer, BitUInt* this) {
  int i;
  char current;
  this->num_bits = 0;
  for (i = 0; i < buffer_size; i++) {
    assert(i < MAX_NUM_BIT_U_INT_BITS);
    current = buffer[i];
    if (current == '0' || current == '1') {
      this->bits[i] = current - '0';
      this->num_bits++;
    } else {
      break;
    }
  }
  BitUIntTrim(this);
}

void BitUIntStore(const BitUInt* this, int buffer_size, char* buffer) {
  assert(this->num_bits < buffer_size);
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < this->num_bits; i++) {
    buffer[i] = this->bits[i] + '0';
  }
  buffer[i] = 0;
}

void BitUIntBase10Store(const BitUInt* this, int buffer_size, char* buffer) {
  char internal_buffer[BASE_10_BIT_U_INT_BUFFER_SIZE];
  int num_digits = 0;
  int i, power;
  BitUInt reduced_this;
  BitUInt quotient;
  BitUInt remainder;
  BitUInt ten;
  ten.num_bits = 4;
  ten.bits[0] = 0;
  ten.bits[1] = 1;
  ten.bits[2] = 0;
  ten.bits[3] = 1;

  BitUIntDiv(this, &ten, &quotient, &remainder);
  while (remainder.num_bits > 0 || quotient.num_bits > 0) {
    internal_buffer[num_digits] = 0;
    power = 1;
    for (i = 0; i < remainder.num_bits; i++) {
      internal_buffer[num_digits] += remainder.bits[i] * power;
      power *= 2;
    }
    BitUIntClone(&quotient, &reduced_this);
    num_digits++;
    BitUIntDiv(&reduced_this, &ten, &quotient, &remainder);
  }

  assert(num_digits < buffer_size - 1);

  for (i = 0; i < num_digits; i++) {
    buffer[i] = '0' + internal_buffer[num_digits - i - 1];
  }
  buffer[i] = '\0';
}

void BitUIntClone(const BitUInt* that, BitUInt* this) {
  this->num_bits = that->num_bits;
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < that->num_bits; i++) {
    this->bits[i] = that->bits[i];
  }
}

void BitUIntTrim(BitUInt* this) {
  while (this->num_bits > 0 && this->bits[this->num_bits - 1] == 0) {
    this->num_bits--;
  }
}

void BitUIntInc(BitUInt* this) {
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < this->num_bits; i++) {
    if (this->bits[i] == 1) {
      this->bits[i] = 0;
    } else {
      this->bits[i] = 1;
    	  return;
    }
  }
  this->num_bits++;
  this->bits[i] = 1;
}

void BitUIntDec(BitUInt* this) {
  assert(this->num_bits > 0);
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < this->num_bits; i++) {
    if (this->bits[i] == 1) {
      this->bits[i] = 0;
      BitUIntTrim(this);
      return;
    } else {
      this->bits[i] = 1;
    }
  }
}

void BitUIntDouble(BitUInt* this) {
  assert(this->num_bits < MAX_NUM_BIT_U_INT_BITS);
  int i;
  this->num_bits++;
  for (i = this->num_bits - 1; i >= 1; i--) {
    this->bits[i] = this->bits[i - 1];
  }
  this->bits[0] = 0;
}

int BitUIntHalve(BitUInt* this) {
  if (this->num_bits > 0) {
    int low_bit = this->bits[0];
    int i;
    for (i = 1; i < this->num_bits; i++) {
      this->bits[i - 1] = this->bits[i];
    }
    this->num_bits--;
    return low_bit;
  } else {
    return 0;
  }
}

void BitUIntShiftInc(int num_bits, BitUInt* this) {
  assert(this->num_bits + num_bits < MAX_NUM_BIT_U_INT_BITS);
  if (this->num_bits == 0) {
    return;
  }
  int i;
  for (i = this->num_bits - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    this->bits[i + num_bits] = this->bits[i];
  }
  this->num_bits += num_bits;
  memset(this->bits, 0, num_bits);
}

void BitUIntShiftDec(int num_bits, BitUInt* this) {
  assert(this->num_bits - num_bits >= 0);
  this->num_bits -= num_bits;
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < this->num_bits; i++) {
    this->bits[i] = this->bits[i + num_bits];
  }
}

void BitUIntAdd(BitUInt* that, BitUInt* this) {
  int carry = 0;
  int sum;
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < that->num_bits || i < this->num_bits; i++) {
    if (i < that->num_bits && i < this->num_bits) {
      sum = this->bits[i] + that->bits[i] + carry;
      carry = sum > 1;
      this->bits[i] = sum & 1;
    } else if (i < that->num_bits) {
      sum = that->bits[i] + carry;
      carry = sum > 1;
      this->bits[i] = sum & 1;
      this->num_bits++;
    } else if (i < this->num_bits) {
      sum = this->bits[i] + carry;
      carry = sum > 1;
      this->bits[i] = sum & 1;
    }
  }
  if (carry) {
    this->bits[i] = 1;
    this->num_bits++;
  }
}

void BitUIntSub(const BitUInt* that, BitUInt* this) {
  assert(BitUIntLessThanOrEqual(that, this));
  int i;
  int borrow = 0;
  int diff;
  for (i = 0; i < that->num_bits || i < this->num_bits; i++) {
    if (i < that->num_bits && i < this->num_bits) {
      diff = this->bits[i] - that->bits[i] - borrow;
      borrow = diff < 0;
      this->bits[i] = diff & 1;
    } else if (i < this->num_bits) {
      diff = this->bits[i] - borrow;
      borrow = diff < 0;
      this->bits[i] = diff & 1;
    }
  }
  BitUIntTrim(this);
}

void BitUIntMul(const BitUInt* that, BitUInt* this) {
  if (0 == that->num_bits) {
    this->num_bits = 0;
  }

  BitUInt original_this;
  BitUIntClone(this, &original_this);
  int i;
  // Step backwards through that, adding where there is a 1 and shifting for
  // each position.
  for (i = that->num_bits - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
    BitUIntDouble(this);
    if (that->bits[i]) {
      BitUIntAdd(&original_this, this);
    }
  }
}

void BitUIntDiv(const BitUInt* numerator, const BitUInt* denominator,
                BitUInt* quotient, BitUInt* remainder) {
  assert(denominator->num_bits > 0);

  BitUIntClone(numerator, remainder);
  if (BitUIntLessThan(numerator, denominator)) {
    quotient->num_bits = 0;
    return;
  }

  BitUInt multiplied_denominator;
  BitUIntClone(denominator, &multiplied_denominator);
  int num_shifts;
  quotient->num_bits = remainder->num_bits - multiplied_denominator.num_bits + 1;
  memset(quotient->bits, 0, quotient->num_bits);
  while (BitUIntLessThanOrEqual(denominator, remainder)) {
    num_shifts = remainder->num_bits - multiplied_denominator.num_bits;
    BitUIntShiftInc(num_shifts, &multiplied_denominator);
    if (BitUIntLessThan(remainder, &multiplied_denominator)) {
      num_shifts--;
      BitUIntHalve(&multiplied_denominator);
    }
    BitUIntSub(&multiplied_denominator, remainder);
    quotient->bits[num_shifts] = 1;
    BitUIntClone(denominator, &multiplied_denominator);
  }

  BitUIntTrim(quotient);
}

void BitUIntMod(const BitUInt* numerator, const BitUInt* denominator,
                BitUInt* remainder) {
  assert(denominator->num_bits > 0);
  BitUIntClone(numerator, remainder);
  if (BitUIntLessThan(numerator, denominator)) {
    return;
  }

  BitUInt multiplied_denominator;
  BitUIntClone(denominator, &multiplied_denominator);
  int num_shifts;
  while (BitUIntLessThanOrEqual(denominator, remainder)) {
    num_shifts = remainder->num_bits - multiplied_denominator.num_bits;
    BitUIntShiftInc(num_shifts, &multiplied_denominator);
    if (BitUIntLessThan(remainder, &multiplied_denominator)) {
      num_shifts--;
      BitUIntHalve(&multiplied_denominator);
    }
    BitUIntSub(&multiplied_denominator, remainder);
    BitUIntClone(denominator, &multiplied_denominator);
  }
}

void BitUIntApproximateSquareRoot(const BitUInt* this, BitUInt* root) {
  BitUInt two;
  two.num_bits = 2;
  two.bits[0] = 0;
  two.bits[1] = 1;

  BitUInt remainder;
  BitUInt estimate;
  // Start by using an estimate of just above half of the input.
  BitUIntDiv(this, &two, &estimate, &remainder);
  BitUIntInc(&estimate);

  BitUInt quotient;
  BitUInt next_estimate;
  next_estimate.num_bits = 0;

  int divided_evenly = 0;
  int comparison;
  while (1) {
    BitUIntDiv(this, &estimate, &quotient, &remainder);
    if (remainder.num_bits == 0) {
      divided_evenly = 1;
    } else {
      divided_evenly = 0;
    }
    BitUIntAdd(&estimate, &quotient);
    BitUIntDiv(&quotient, &two, &next_estimate, &remainder);

    comparison = BitUIntCompare(&next_estimate, &estimate);
    if (comparison < 1) {
      if (comparison < 0) {
        divided_evenly = 0;
      }
      break;
    }

    BitUIntClone(&next_estimate, &estimate);
  }

  BitUIntClone(&estimate, root);
  if (divided_evenly == 0) {
    BitUIntInc(root);
  }
}

int BitUIntCompare(const BitUInt* this, const BitUInt* that) {
  if (this->num_bits != that->num_bits) {
    return this->num_bits < that->num_bits ? 1 : -1;
  }

  int i;
  for (i = this->num_bits - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    if (this->bits[i] != that->bits[i]) {
      return this->bits[i] < that->bits[i] ? 1 : -1;
    }
  }
  return 0;
}

int BitUIntLessThan(const BitUInt* this, const BitUInt* that) {
  return BitUIntCompare(this, that) == 1;
}

int BitUIntLessThanOrEqual(const BitUInt* this, const BitUInt* that) {
  return BitUIntCompare(this, that) > -1;
}

int BitUIntEqual(const BitUInt* this, const BitUInt* that) {
  return BitUIntCompare(this, that) == 0;
}

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Hockey game at the Ice Palace: One of the best St Petersburg sports.
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Nevskaya Volna Water Sports Centre
Yubileiny Sport Complex
St Petersburg Stadium
Petrovsky Stadium
Ice Palace
Address: Ul. Dzhona Rida, 8, Bldg 2A St. Pr. Bolshevikov | St Petersburg, 197110 | Phone: +7 812 640-97-07
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The Nevskaya Volna Water Sports Centre not only caters for swimming and water sports but also stages some fabulous shows on water. The building sports complex houses two professional sized pools, one for swimming (54M x 25M) with seating for up to 1000 spectators. The other is for water polo, synchronized swimming and diving and although a smaller pool, the seating accommodates 1500 spectators. A sports school operates from the venue and regular competitions are hosted here.
Location: Admiralty side
Metro: Novocherkasskaya
Website: www.nevskaya-volna.ru/
Opening hours: Mon - Sat, from 6:45 am to 11:00 pm | Sun, from 9 am to 10 pm
Address: Dobrolyubova Prospekt , 18 | St Petersburg, 197198 | Phone: +7 812 702-36-22
"Multipurpose Venue"
Housing over 8,000 seats the Yubileiny Sports Palace is a stadium mainly used for ice hockey and basketball and the ice rink is a prominent training center for figure skating. The venue is multipurpose and hosts rock and pop concerts, and international sports events as well as corporate events and conferences.
Location: Petrograd side
Metro: Sportivnaya
Website: www.yubi.ru/
Opening hours: Mon - Fri, from 9:30 am to 6 pm | Sat and Sun is closed
Address: Futbol'naya Alleya, 1 | St Petersburg, 197110 | Phone: +7 812 244-33-33
"World Cup Football Stadium"
The St Petersburg Stadium, located on the former site of the Kirov Stadium is now variously referred to as Zenit Arena, Krestovsky Stadium and Piter Arena, and has a capacity of over 56,000 people. It is located on the western tip of Krestovsky Island. Although it's quite a walk from the Metro station, the area is dotted with cafes, restaurants, and bars. The stadium was opened in 2017 and is the stadium where the 2018 Football World Cup is held. Not only does the stadium have a retractable roof, but also a retractable pitch, allowing non-football activities to be held on a solid surface.
Metro: Krestovsky Ostrov
Website: www.arena.fc-zenit.ru/
Opening hours: Not available, please check out their website
Address: 2-G Petrovsky Island | St Petersburg, 197110 | Phone: +7 812 232-16-22
"Two in One"
Petrovsky Stadium is located on Petrovsky Island and today the Tosno team plays many of its home games of football here. The stadium was the former home stadium of the Zenit football team, and also hosted the Goodwill Games in 1994. It seats over 21,000 patrons. The complex has two arenas, the second being the MSA or Minor Sports Arena. Entertainment, music concerts, and festivals are also held here. A few cafes are nearby although the city center offers more options.
Website: www.petrovsky.spb.ru/
Address: Pyatiletok Prospekt , 1| St Petersburg, 1973318 | Phone: +7 812 718-66-20
"Home of the SKA"
The 5-story Ice Palace opened in 2000 is an arena that seats over 12,000 patrons, making it the largest and most modern sport and concert venue in the city. Primarily it's used for ice hockey and is the home for the city's top ice hockey team, SKA. This is the place to visit to see an enthralling game of ice hockey, or when it's not being used for hockey it's used for exhibitions, concerts, and as a skating rink (winter only). Several cafes are on the first floor. We've been here a couple of time and it is an interesting fun place to go.
Metro: Pr. Bolshevikov
Website: www.newarena.spb.ru/
Opening hours: Mon - Sun, from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
The easier way to buy tickets for any St Petersburg sports events is online through the official website or via the following sites: bileter.ru or spb.kassir.ru. Alternatively, you can purchase tickets at the official shop of the sports teams like Zenit or SKA if you're going to watch them. If you buy directly tickets from the shop remember to bring your passport and to print the tickets out.
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Q: Java Builder pattern and a "deep" object hierarchy What is the best practice for using Builder pattern in "deep" object hierarchies? To elaborate, I explored the idea of applying the Builder pattern as proposed by Joshua Bloch, to my XML binding code (I am using SimpleXML but this question would apply to any case). My object hierarchy is 4 levels deep, with various  degree of complexity. By that, I mean, in some levels I have just a couple of properties for my objects, whereas at some other levels I have up to 10.
So consider this hypothetical example (I am leaving out the Simple XML annotations for brevity)
public class Outermost {

    private String title;
    private int channel;
    private List<Middle> middleList;

}

class Middle{
    private int id;
    private String name;
    private boolean senior;
    /* ... ... 10 such properties */

    private Innermost inner;
}

class Innermost{
    private String something;
    private int foo;
    /* ... Few more of these ..*/
}

If I wanted to enforce creation of the Outermost object using builders, what would be the best way to go about it? The most obvious answer is to have inner static Builder classes for each of the above classes.
But, wouldn't that make things as unwieldy as the very problem Builder pattern tries to solve? I am thinking about stuff like - this will enforce an "inside out" approach - meaning that the Innermost object will have to be fully constructed and instantiated before it can be added to the Middle object. But we all know that in practice (especially when one is building XML or JSON), we rarely have "timely" information to accomplish this.
Chances are, one will end up having variables for each and every property - across all levels; and create the objects in the very end. OR, one will end up having Builder for multiple levels floating around in the code, adding to the confusion.
So, any ideas on how to elegantly accomplish this?

A: The description of the Builder Pattern here is I guess what you are referring to; it's a .little different than the pattern described in Wikipedia here, I prefer the former.
I don't see that your concerns about order of construction or loss of encapsulation inevitable follow from the descriptions I read. For me the big question is the structure of your raw data.
Suppose we have
 public OuterBuilder {
     // some outer attributes here

     private ArrayList<MiddleBuilder> m_middleList;

     public OuterBuild( mandatory params for Outers ){
          // populate some outer attributes
          // create empty middle array
     }

     public addMiddle(MiddleBuilder middler) {
              m_middleList.add(middler);
     }
 }

Now we can create as many middleBuilders as we need
 while (middleDataIter.hasNext() ) {
      MiddleData data = middleDateIter.next();
      // make a middle builder, add it.
 }

We can apply the same pattern to the further levels of nesting.
To address your first point, a variable for every property: depends on how we design the builders and where our data is coming from. If we're, say coming from a UI then we pretty much have a variable per property anyway, we're no worse off. If as per my suggestion above we're iterating some data structure, then maybe the builder takes responsibility for iterpreting that data structure. In my example we pass MiddleData instances down. Some extra coupling but it does encapsulate the details.
To address your second point we don't build things as we go, instead we're effectively using the builder as the accumulation point for the data. Eventually we call the "Go and Build" method, but at that point we should have all the data in place so the whole hierarchy just builds.

A: It can be done, but it's arguably not worth doing. The obvious implementation...
class Shape
{
    private final double opacity;

    public double getOpacity()
    {
        return opacity;
    }

    public static abstract class Builder<T extends Shape> {

        private double opacity;

        public Builder<T> opacity(double opacity) {
            this.opacity = opacity;
            return this;
        }

        public abstract T build();
    }

    public static Builder<?> builder() {
        return new Builder<Shape>()
            {
                @Override
                    public Shape build()
                {
                    return new Shape(this);
                }
            };
    }

    protected Shape(Builder<?> builder) {
        this.opacity = builder.opacity;
    }
}

class Rectangle extends Shape {

    private final double height;
    private final double width;

    public double getHeight()
    {
        return height;
    }

    public double getWidth()
    {
        return width;
    }

    public static abstract class Builder<T extends Rectangle> extends Shape.Builder<T> {
        private double height;
        private double width;

        public Builder<T> height(double height) {
            this.height = height;
            return this;
        }

        public Builder<T> width(double width) {
            this.width = width;
            return this;
        }
    }

    public static Builder<?> builder() {
        return new Builder<Rectangle>()
            {
                @Override
                    public Rectangle build()
                {
                    return new Rectangle(this);
                }
            };
    }

    protected Rectangle(Builder<?> builder) {
        super(builder);
        this.height = builder.height;
        this.width = builder.width;
    }
}

...quickly runs into a problem. If you try something like
Rectangle r = Rectangle.builder().opacity(0.5).height(50).width(100).build();

it's not going to compile, because opacity() doesn't know it's returning a Rectangle.Builder, just a Shape.Builder<Rectangle>. So you have to call the attributes in order, from most-derived to least-derived:
Rectangle r = Rectangle.builder().height(50).width(100).opacity(0.5).build();

If you want to get around this, you need to make the attribute methods generic, so that the superclass methods will still return the subclass builders. There's no way AFAIK to make this 100% reliable, but with some self-referential generics you can get close:
class Shape
{
    private final double opacity;

    public double getOpacity ()
    {
        return opacity;
    }

    public static abstract class ShapeBuilder<S extends Shape, B extends ShapeBuilder<S, B>>
    {

        private double opacity;

        @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" )
        public B opacity ( double opacity )
        {
            this.opacity = opacity;
            return (B) this;
        }

        public abstract S build ();
    }

    private static class DefaultShapeBuilder extends ShapeBuilder<Shape, DefaultShapeBuilder>
    {
        @Override
        public Shape build ()
        {
            return new Shape( this );
        }
    }

    public static ShapeBuilder<?, ?> builder ()
    {
        return new DefaultShapeBuilder();
    }

    protected Shape ( ShapeBuilder<?, ?> builder )
    {
        this.opacity = builder.opacity;
    }
}

class Rectangle extends Shape
{

    private final double height;
    private final double width;

    public double getHeight ()
    {
        return height;
    }

    public double getWidth ()
    {
        return width;
    }

    public static abstract class RectangleBuilder<S extends Rectangle, B extends RectangleBuilder<S, B>> extends ShapeBuilder<S, B>
    {
        private double height;
        private double width;

        @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" )
        public B height ( double height )
        {
            this.height = height;
            return (B) this;
        }

        @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" )
        public B width ( double width )
        {
            this.width = width;
            return (B) this;
        }
    }

    public static RectangleBuilder<?, ?> builder ()
    {
        return new DefaultRectangleBuilder();
    }

    protected Rectangle ( RectangleBuilder<?, ?> builder )
    {
        super( builder );
        this.height = builder.height;
        this.width = builder.width;
    }

    private static class DefaultRectangleBuilder extends RectangleBuilder<Rectangle, DefaultRectangleBuilder>
    {
        @Override
        public Rectangle build ()
        {
            return new Rectangle( this );
        }
    }
}

class RotatedRectangle extends Rectangle
{
    private final double theta;

    public double getTheta ()
    {
        return theta;
    }

    public static abstract class RotatedRectangleBuilder<S extends RotatedRectangle, B extends RotatedRectangleBuilder<S, B>> extends Rectangle.RectangleBuilder<S, B>
    {
        private double theta;

        @SuppressWarnings( "Unchecked" )
        public B theta ( double theta )
        {
            this.theta = theta;
            return (B) this;
        }
    }

    public static RotatedRectangleBuilder<?, ?> builder ()
    {
        return new DefaultRotatedRectangleBuilder();
    }

    protected RotatedRectangle ( RotatedRectangleBuilder<?, ?> builder )
    {
        super( builder );
        this.theta = builder.theta;
    }

    private static class DefaultRotatedRectangleBuilder extends RotatedRectangleBuilder<RotatedRectangle, DefaultRotatedRectangleBuilder>
    {
        @Override
        public RotatedRectangle build ()
        {
            return new RotatedRectangle( this );
        }
    }
}

class BuilderTest
{
    public static void main ( String[] args )
    {
        RotatedRectangle rotatedRectangle = RotatedRectangle.builder()
                .theta( Math.PI / 2 )
                .width( 640 )
                .height( 400 )
                .height( 400 )
                .opacity( 0.5d ) // note attribs can be set in any order
                .width( 111 )
                .opacity( 0.5d )
                .width( 222 )
                .height( 400 )
                .width( 640 )
                .width( 640 )
                .build();
        System.out.println( rotatedRectangle.getTheta() );
        System.out.println( rotatedRectangle.getWidth() );
        System.out.println( rotatedRectangle.getHeight() );
        System.out.println( rotatedRectangle.getOpacity() );
    }
}

Note the @SuppressWarnings annotations; if a subclass breaks the convention that FooBuilder always extends FooSuperclassBuilder<Foo, FooBuilder>, the system breaks down.
And you can see how ugly the code gets. At this point maybe it's better to abandon Item 2 and instead meditate on Item 16: Favor composition over inheritance.

A: If you generate code from an XML schema with JAXB, the "fluent-builder" plugin from jaxb2-rich-contract-plugin will help you. It generates a deep builder pattern where you can chain builders together, and use an "end()" method to finish building a nested object and return to the builder context of its parent.
However, writing this by hand for a given Java class seems a bit tedious...

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Mongolia: Civil Aviation
Country Study > Chapter 3 > The Economy > Transportation > Civil Aviation
In the late 1980s, Mongolia had 38,300 kilometers of air routes serviced by Mongolian Airlines (MIAT). MIAT was run by the Civil Air Transport Administration under the Council of Ministers. The directorate was headed by a military officer, and MIAT pilots had military rank. MIAT aircraft were used for crop dusting, for forest and steppe fire patrols, and for air ambulance services, in addition to carrying passengers, freight, and mail. Mongolia had eighty airfields, of which thirty were usable, and ten with permanent-surface runways. MIAT's air fleet included 22 major aircraft -- 19 An-24s and 3 Il-14s -- and an assortment of smaller aircraft, particularly An-2 biplanes for local service. MIAT offered international service from Ulaanbaatar to Irkutsk and Beijing. Aeroflot also connected Ulaanbaatar with Moscow, Washington, and New York. Regular air service between Ulaanbaatar and Moscow, on the Soviet airline Aeroflot, had begun in 1945. Mongolia coordinated international air operations with other Comecon countries under an agreement signed in 1966. The Civil Air Transport Administration also cooperated with the Soviet Ministry of Aviation. Domestic routes offered service to all towns, cities, and aymag centers. In 1985 civil aviation carried 11.6 million tons and 6.4 million ton-kilometers, or 0.1 percent of freight turnover. Air transport carried 600,000 passengers and 293.1 million passengerkilometers, or 20.7 percent of passenger turnover. Efforts to modernize the civil aviation system during the Eighth Plan included building a new air terminal and reconstructing the runway at the Ulaanbaatar airport, providing modern air traffic control equipment to airfields, and improving air safety.


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class RestaurantsController < ApplicationController

  def index
    narrowed_restaurants = []
    Restaurant.all.each do |restaurant|
      if restaurant.dishes.count > 0
          narrowed_restaurants.push(restaurant)
      end
    end
    @restaurants = narrowed_restaurants

    # still not sure which one we need
    # neighborhood = params[:neighborhood]
    # @restaurants = Restaurant.find_restaurant(neighborhood).flatten
    # render 'index'
  end

  def create
  end

  def show
    @restaurant = Restaurant.find(params[:id])
  end

  private

  def restaurant_params
    params.require(:restaurants).permit(:name, :location, :category)
  end

end


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July takes top spot for number of Delta Air Lines' customers flown
Any way you slice it, July has been a busy month for Delta Air Lines.
The airline flew more people in a single month than it ever has in its history and on July 20, a total of 6,087 Delta mainline and Delta Connection flights departed to destinations around the world — the most scheduled this year.
For the month, Delta flew nearly 18.3 million customers, more than half a million more than the previous record of 17.7 million set in June of this year. Looking back at Delta's 89-year history, of the top 10 busiest days by customers carried, eight of them occurred in July in which Delta people handily flew in excess of 640,000 customers — that's like flying the population of Portland, Ore. each of those days.
Passenger boarding peaked at nearly 662,000 on July 26 — the highest single-day record for the airline.
Meanwhile, and despite the high customer volumes, Delta saw a 99.31 percent completion factor for July across its mainline and Delta Connection system — a near record.
"Our employees are obsessed with serving our customers and providing a safe and reliable operation across our global system," said Gil West, Delta's Chief Operating Officer. "Month after month, Delta has been shattering records while still delivering on our promise to be the best airline for the hundreds of millions of customers we fly each year."
Delta Air Lines, Inc., commonly referred to as Delta, is a major United States airline, with its headquarters and largest hub at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline, along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves an extensive domestic and international network that includes 319 destinations in 54 countries on six continents, as of October 2016. Delta is one of the four founding members of the SkyTeam airline alliance, and operates joint ventures with AeroMexico, Air France-KLM, Alitalia, Korean Air, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia, and WestJet. Regional service is operated under the brand name Delta Connection.
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Ian McKellen Will Please Sherlock Fans as 'Mr. Holmes'
Ian McKellen Will Please Sherlock Fans as 'Mr. Holmes'
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created an inexhaustible source for filmmakers with his seminal character Sherlock Holmes. The cool, cerebral detective appeared in only four novels and 56 short stories, but IMDb shows 267 movie and TV adaptations, and the Guiness Book of World Records has listed Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character," starting with a 1900 Mutoscope film. Two television shows are currently running, both set in contemporary times: "Sherlock," starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and Martin Freeman as his friend and chronicler Dr. John Watson, which began in 2010 and arguably initiated Cumberbatch's stardom; and "Elementary," created in 2012 and set in New York, with Jonny Lee Miller as the sleuth and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson.
The latest entrant in the crowded field is "Mr. Holmes," based on the 2005 novel "A Slight Trick of the Mind," by Mitch Cullin, which finds Holmes in his retirement and expands upon the thin hints left by Conan Doyle: that Holmes moved to a farm upon the South Downs of Sussex and kept bees, writing a book called "Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen."
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But the plot is not the point. There's real pleasure in watching the assured work of director Bill Condon and McKellen, who last worked together in 1998's "Gods and Monsters," also based on a novel, in which McKellen incarnated the aged version of a character, the real-life director of Frankenstein, James Whale. Mr. Holmes will please both the Holmes aficionados and those new to the seemingly inexhaustible study of Holmesiana.
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Recently, I wrote an article about how gratitude and looking for things to be thankful for has become such a big part of my life, but I didn't mention how looking for the good has also changed my perspective.
In April of this year, I was in Los Angeles reading a book inside a rose garden outside of a museum. I didn't finish it (my bad...), but I was reading The Diary of Anne Frank (Diary of a Young Girl). My favorite quote is from Anne Frank, and it says "Think of all the beauty still left around you, and be happy." This quote has become a motto that I strive to live by every day, although it isn't always easy.
My school had its Christmas Banquet on Saturday, December 10th. There was a misunderstanding of sorts about who I was going with, and this past Monday it became clear that I would be going alone. Don't get me wrong, I am not the kind of person who feels the need to have a date to things like this, but I was still disappointed, especially considering all the people in the group I was originally going with had dates. I spent the next two days debating whether I should even go at all.
On Thursday, I had three girls invite me to join the groups that they were going with, and since I had eventually decided to go after all, things weren't looking as grim as they had seemed three days earlier. On Saturday, I put on my favorite red dress and curled my hair. I put on my gray coat, and walked down the hallways of my school. For the first five or so minutes, I found myself standing alone by a punch bowl, because I tend to be early to everything even when I try to be late (it's a blessing and a curse). Eventually, I was invited over to a table, and sat with a couple very nice girls who I had been wanting to get to know better anyway.
The second part of the banquet included going to a fairground that had been decorated for the holidays. This place, entitled "Winter Wonderland", was covered with Christmas lights and Frank Sinatra's voice could be heard even above the shouts of happiness from people on rides. Personally, I'm not a big fan of rides simply because I don't like heights or fast speeds, but when I saw the Ferris wheel I knew that was one thing I really wanted to do. Another girl and I spent the ride trading off who was terrified and who was trying to calm the other one down, which we laughed about later. During one of the moments when my fear had subsided, I took the picture below.
I rode on a spinning teacup with a girl I didn't know very well and we both almost threw up after. I went on a merry-go-round in my fanciest dress and jumped like a child into three large puddles. I drank hot chocolate while looking at Christmas lights, and I got to know more people I didn't know very well. I was reluctant to go in the first place because I was slightly heartbroken. I didn't want to put myself in a position where that heartbreak could be stretched even further, but I'm glad I talked myself into going anyway. Before leaving, I told myself not to dwell on the things that made me upset, but instead to look for the many good things. I had a good time not only because I was surrounded by lovely people, but because I had made the conscious decision to find reasons to be happy.
I hope that you all can find good things this week, and hopefully you find things to be thankful for as well.


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Man diving SUV struck seven children on a Sydney sidewalk, killing four
Photo: Gettyimages
Published Monday, February 03, 2020
An alleged drunk driver has been charged with multiple offenses including manslaughter after a SUV struck seven children on a Sydney sidewalk, killing four and seriously injuring a fifth.
The children were walking to buy ice cream when they were struck before 8 p.m. on Saturday by a vehicle driven by Samuel Davidson, police said.
Three of the children killed were siblings and their brother was taken to a hospital in serious conditions. The fourth child killed was the daughter of their father's cousin.
The father, Danny Abdallah, told reporters on Sunday he was heartbroken.
"I don't know what to say. I'm numb," Abdallah said. "All I want to say is: please, drivers, be careful."
"These kids were just walking innocently, enjoying each other's company ... and this morning I woke up and I have lost three kids," he added.
His children Antony, 13, Angelina, 12 and Sienna, 9, were killed. Their 10-year-old bother was in serious but stable condition.
Abdallah and his wife Leila had had six children. He said his cousin had also lost an 11-year-old child in the tragedy, Veronique Sakr.
Another two girls, aged 10 and 13, suffered minor injuries, authorities said.
Davidson, the alleged driver, was arrested at the scene on Saturday and remained in custody.
The 20 charges against him, including four of manslaughter, were read in a Sydney court on Sunday. He did not appear in court and was refused bail until his next court appearance on April 2.
He has not entered any pleas. Manslaughter carries a potential maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
Davidson allegedly recorded a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.15% - three-times the legal limit in Australia.
Acting Assistant Police Commissioner Jason Joyce said the driver remained at the scene until the police arrived and there were indications his 24-year-old male passenger tried to help some of the children. Neither the driver nor the passenger was injured.
Abdallah said all seven children injured were related and were staying at the Abdallah house.
"They were all coming over to get babysat. I told them: 'Just go for a walk, little walk, stay together. You should be OK,'" he said.


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Inside the Mind of a Bully
Ali Chunovic
A student pushes his classmate on the playground. An employee makes rude comments to a coworker. One sister pulls the other sister's hair. We've all experienced or witnessed bullying in our lives, but what makes someone bully? What are the effects of bullying?
The theme of the 2017 public lecture at Mount Sinai, sponsored by The Friedman Brain Institute and Mentoring in Neuroscience Discovery at Sinai, was "Resilience in the Face of Fear and Aggression: A window into neuroscience research." Panelists Scott Russo, Ph.D., Daniela Schiller, Ph.D., and James Murrough, M.D., spoke about their basic, translational, and clinical research on the topic.
Russo, an associate professor of neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, studies stress and how we cope with it. He investigates what makes a person prone to social stress, defined as "a situation which threatens one's relationships, esteem, or sense of belonging within a dyad, group, or larger social context." All animals exhibit this type of behavior, even Zebrafish, said Russo.
What drives aggression and bullying? A study he participated in used a test done to examine addiction in mice. A mouse was placed in two rooms. In one room, the mouse received addictive drugs. Once conditioned, the mouse would spend all their time in that room, and not in the other drug-free room. The same experiment was performed on mice under different conditions. A large, aggressive, retired, breeding mouse, or bully mouse, was placed in the two-room environment. Drugs were replaced with the opportunity to bully another smaller, stress vulnerable mouse, or victim mouse. Once conditioned, the bully mouse exhibited similar behavior to the other experiment, spending all their time in the "bullying room." The victim mouse, on the other hand, developed an aversion to the "bullying room." While this suggests that mice bully for pleasure, it does not address territoriality, said Russo.
To address territoriality, he described another experiment. A bully mouse was placed in an environment where it could pull a lever, then put its nose in a hole, to receive a victim mouse to bully. The bully mice in the experiment would perform these tasks, further suggesting they were motivated by biological factors to bully. Brain reward circuits encourage the behavior, meaning bullies feel rewarded for bullying.
How does bullying affect bullies and victims? Another study Russo participated in used mice to look at aggressive behavior, or bullying. Bully mice were put in an environment with victim mice. Chronic social defeat caused anxiety, which made the victim mice experience an unwillingness to venture out into open spaces; difficulty sleeping and circadian issues; high levels of cortisol, a stress hormone also found in humans; metabolic syndrome, which caused the mice to gain weight; addiction; profound social avoidance; and anhedonia-like symptoms, which create a decreased interest in pleasurable activities. These symptoms, especially anhedonia and social avoidance, are all typical for human patients with depression and suggest bullying increases risk for depression.
Depression is not the only side effect of bullying. Evidence shows bullied and bullies alike are at an elevated risk for psychiatric outcomes. In a study on human participants, both bullies and victims reported elevated levels of depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, and agoraphobia. Victims also reported higher incidence of suicidality, while bullies reported higher incidence of antisocial personality disorder, alcohol disorders, and marijuana disorder.
The data on antisocial personality disorder is especially interesting, as it was four times as prevalent in bullies as those who had been neither a bully or bullied and eight times as prevalent than those who had been bullied. Some studies show as many as 64 percent of inmates also have antisocial personality disorder, said Russo. There are very few treatments for aggressive behavior. While sedatives, antipsychotics, and SSRIs help, researchers are looking for other ways to combat bullying. It is important to understand the science behind aggression to treat people with these disorders, and to better protect victims against the effects of being bullied.
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Bethesda and Beyond
We had a three day weekend that turned into a six day trip in August.
It was centered on Saturday night, August 23, at the Bethesda Theater, in Bethesda, Maryland. Sunday afternoon was a show in Clifton Forge, Virginia, where we played last summer.
A third gig was a family deal: Doug Cumming, brother of WannaBeatle Bryan, cooperated with our schedule and hired us to play at his house in Lexington, Virginia on that Friday night.
So we had those three days booked. It looked like a long day of driving the first day, three and a half hours from Lexington to Bethesda the next day, then about four hours to Clifton Forge for the next day.
It was not ideal, but it was feasible.
Then we got creative, teaming up with a company in Washington DC, to help promote our show in Bethesda, which is just north of Washington.
They secured us a television spot on Fox 5 morning show that Friday at 10 am, to promote the Saturday night concert.
That was a great opportunity to reach thousands of people, but the only way to do it was to drive up on Thursday instead of Friday.
The next wrinkle came when David suggested that we look into playing at Walter Reed Hospital while we're there. It didn't seem like we could fit another performance into our travel schedule, but after speaking to Dr. Micah Sickel at the hospital who was receptive to the idea, we worked out a plan to leave Nashville a day earlier, on Wednesday, in order to play at Walter Reed on Thursday.
Coordinated with this plan was Nathan's job of helping his daughter Eliza move back to her dorm room at American University, which meant taking her, with her furniture, along with us into DC.
So there were some logistics to work out.
For stage clothing, we took four separate outfits, which were necessary because there was no time to clean clothes between shows.
The good news was that we could spend the first day driving, then get a good night's rest and have energy for the next day's work. But that plan got unexpectedly disrupted with an injury the first night we arrived.
We left Nashville Wednesday Aug. 20. In addition to our usual gear, and Eliza's dorm furniture, we were also carrying Dennis's small PA system, to use at the gig Friday night at Doug's house.
Because Lexington, the site of our Friday night gig, is located right off of Interstate 81, it made sense to stop there, see Doug's house, unload the PA system, and figure out where in their rambling Victorian house to set up the band for their party.
Here's the brotherly reunion in their living room,
where The WannaBeatles decided to set up.
Then we continued up the road to Bethesda.
We pulled into the American Inn in Bethesda around 11 pm, tired and glad to get rooms. The van and trailer could be parked in a lot a block away.
We were pleased to see that our show was being
advertised with this poster on the desk in the hotel lobby.
Nathan's Injury
As part of our security plan, the WannaBeatles had purchased a wheel-locking mechanism which we could install on the wheel of the trailer for its overnight parking.
The device was still new in its package when we arrived. The plastic moulding around the device was extremely strong.
Nathan, attempting to open the package by cutting through the plastic, used his Swiss Army knife, applying much of his strength to pull the blade towards his other hand. David, watching, was just about to yell out a warning about how unsafe that looked, when the knife slipped and cut into Nathan's left forefinger.
We had an injury in the parking lot. With blood. Plenty of it. Nathan wrapped his finger to stop the bleeding, and considered his options: would a bandage would be enough to hold it or was a trip to the hospital necessary? Considering his role as keyboard player, it was wise to give his finger the best care available.
It was serious enough for the emergency room. Nathan's wife Sally is a doctor, and she confirmed on the phone the wisdom of that decision, along with a dry reminder of the expected financial impact: "Well, there goes your profit for the trip."
With a temporary bandage around his finger, Nathan went with David and Dennis to a local hospital, where he waited over an hour, before getting treated. He received three stitches and some pain medication.
Temporary bandage on the hurt finger
The injured finger
Doctor Dennis takes the pulse and calms the patient
(Thanks to WannaBeatle David for photos from the hospital)
Fortunately, the injury would not prevent Nathan from playing. Hopefully, it reminded him to be more careful around knives.
So much for our good night's rest. Nathan and his stretcher bearers came in at 3 am.
The next day was our performance at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
The sign at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
The statue of Walter Reed, 1851-1902, Bacteriologist
The tower and the entrance to the America Building
Here's the entrance lobby,
where our sound man was setting up for us to play
David setting up on the carpet in the lobby
David made friends with a veteran,
whose name was George Lightfoot
Here we are in the black shirts and red ties
After our lobby show, we toured various floors to sing for patients, taking requests, and occasionally finding some spirited singers in the hospital rooms.
WannaBeatles Dennis, David, and Bryan,
ready to entertain in the hallways of Walter Reed
The WannaBeatles are grateful to Dr. Micah Sickel, director of Stages of Healing at Walter Reed, who organized the day for us, and secured us a fine lunch in the fancy cafeteria downstairs.
That afternoon we drove over to American University campus, where we helped Eliza move into her dorm room. She was secretly proud to be the only student with a team of men wearing matching black shirts to help her move in.
That evening we could relax. WannaBeatle Bryan visited his cousin Oliver, whose wife, daughter and son would be attending the Bethesda show. The other three WannaBeatles found a nice Thai restaurant and enjoyed the time off.
The next morning was our visit to Fox 5 TV for an appearance on "Good Day DC" morning show.
David setting up his drums
David ready to go
Nathan does the weather
We did a pretty good interview with their host and sounded pretty good on a brief medley of Sgt. Pepper and Little Help from My Friends. We also did a version of "Good Day Sunshine" substituting the name of their show, "Good Day DC" as the title, which was a serendipitous opportunity.
We also got to meet Brian Chofer and Skip Kelly from the agency/label that booked us on the show.
Skip, Dennis, Bryan, David, Brian, and Nathan
Then we loaded up to drive to Lexington. We arrived at Doug and Libby's house, and set up in their living room. After eating a barbecue supper they served, we had just enough time to drive to the local motel to change clothes (this time it was short sleeved black turtlenecks) before returning for our 8:00 start.
Part of the fun of this evening was my brother Doug and me reuniting, since we used to have a band together back in the 60's, which was our own Georgia-based version of getting inspired by The Beatles. Doug was looking forward to this opportunity, not only to hear these songs again, but to "jam," to play together the same way we did back then.
And so our first set flowed naturally into a jam session, where Doug brought out his saxophone and we played the funky harmonized horn parts on "Watermelon Man," our signature song back in high school.
In addition, Dennis, thinking ahead to this night and knowing my parents would be there, brought along our big band arrangement of "In The Mood," the classic Glenn Miller hit from the 40's. Doug joined me on sax for that one, and Mother and Daddy danced their socks off.
Doug also had some of his local bluegrass musicians join the fun, playing other classic songs during our break, with Doug and me joining in.
It was a very personal WannaBeatles show, and very enjoyable in that way.
Here's a little family portrait,
Mother, Bryan, Doug and Daddy,
taken at Doug's house two days later,
on our way back to Clifton Forge.
Saturday we were up early to get back to Bethesda for our big show at the Bethesda Jazz & Supper Club. I say "big show" because Dennis had been talking for weeks about it, not only with the managers of the club but also with Brian and Skip from Entertainment DC, who were using the show as a way to introduce us to other folks in the area.
And so, during the drive back to Bethesda, Dennis was on his laptop, analyzing the set list, and instructing us on ways to smooth out transition sections of the show.
It was a rainy afternoon.
Putting up sign at Bethesda Theater in the rain.
And the marquis with lights later that evening
There were more family connections in Bethesda. Nathan's daughter Eliza brought several of her friends from American University.
I got to see my cousin Oliver, his wife Anne, and their daughter Elizabeth and son Andrew. And at the table next to theirs were Stephen and Mary Preston, with their daughter Julia (a huge Beatles fan). Stephen is my sister's brother-in-law, another relative in Washington.
Anne, Bryan, Oliver and Andrew
Elizabeth in her WannaBeatles tee shirt
Elizabeth was our chief volunteer at the merch table in the lobby...
where Dennis caught up with his dear old friend Nadine.
We learned some history of the theater from Rick Brown, its current owner. It was built in 1938, and hosted numerous musical stars like Count Basie during its early years. Rick Brown bought it a year and a half ago, and restored its classic musical identity, as a jazz supper club.
Rick told us about his musician father and talented mother.
Here's the tribute to them he installed in the dressing room.
They served us a full meal in the dressing room, which was located down a small spiral staircase, connected to half a dozen other dressing rooms down the hall, like a classic old theater. These rooms emanated history - the accumulated show biz flavor of thousands of actors getting ready before their moment onstage.
Our show didn't go exactly the way we planned. What happened is that listeners gathered at the front of the stage and started dancing. And then they kept dancing, throughout the set. My energetic relatives Elizabeth and Julia were out there among them, bouncing most of the show.
That meant that slower songs and specialty numbers, like our Simon and Garfunkel parody, were not needed. We stayed with the uptempo energetic songs, and everybody was happy.
WannaBeatles onstage, dancers up front
Brian and Skip from Entertainment DC were pleased with the turnout and response. They said we could probably come back in another six months and do another show there.That sounded great.
The next day we drove back through Lexington to play our second annual concert at nearby Clifton Forge, Va.
In Clifton Forge, we were treated to another Italian meal at Vic's, presented by resident New Yorker Steve Greenblatt, who impressed us last year with his expert touch with authentic Italian pizza and pasta.
WannaBeatles David and Nathan talking with Steve
Steve showing his muscle at the door
We were back at the uniquely designed Masonic Amphitheater.
David setting up at Masonic Amphitheater
Nathan setting up
Dennis setting up merchandise
WannaBeatle Bryan's setlist, lyrics & music
It was a treat to have family there.
Doug (who played clarinet with us on "When I'm 64"),
his wife Libby, their friend Sharon Massie, our Daddy,
our cousin Janet, and our illustrious Mama
The WannaBeatles were delighted to stay again at the nearby Red Lantern Inn, where our host JoAnn even ironed our shirts.
Three WannaBeatles on the steps of the Red Lantern Inn
just before the show
It was another fine time in Clifton Forge, and then back home to Nashville the next morning - having survived our longest short summer tour.
-Bloggin' Bryan 26 Sept 2014
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The WannaBeatles love playing the Library. It's a beautiful place, and a beautiful setting, bringing music to the lunch time crowd downtown in the open air plaza nestled onto the second floor of the Library.
We usually draw about 700 people, and that includes infants with moms, and kids playing in the fountain.
This year, we can tell the story in pictures, thanks to photographer Ray Jones, who gave us access to his disc.
Here's Elaine Wood, who books us at the Library, reaching into the box to pull out a winning ticket for the day, assisted by her loyal volunteer Judy.
Announcing the winner
And here we are, singing in our "Shea Stadium" shirts.
Here's another front shot with Nathan on bass.
And another with Dennis on acoustic guitar...
This shot was probably during "You Can't Do That"
Here's David singing at the drums, side view.
And the front view, including his arsenal:
a small keyboard and two bottles of water.
Dennis and Nathan sharing the mic.
Here's Dennis on maracas,
which would have been during "Let It Be"
Here's Dennis looking left, with a view of the trees
next to our "stage," making our "Shea Stadium" shirts
look more like safari suits.
In this picture we know Dennis is being funny
because David's laughing. The song is probably
"Creme Brulee," our parody of "Yesterday."
Here's Dennis on acoustic guitar...
and on harmonica
and rockin' with two-fisted percussion
One extra treat for the day, for us as well as the entire audience, was the appearance of Evelyn Ford, who played the part of the Betty White lookalike in our "Oh Betty!" video. She's a great sport.
Evelyn with her Betty fan, and Nathan singing "Oh Betty"
Dennis, Betty, and Evelyn, all smiles
There's also a sax solo in "Oh Betty."
Thanks to Evelyn for making "Oh Betty" such a fun song.
Here's our WannaBeatles flute section,
during "Fool on the Hill"
The song also includes a penny whistle solo,
played on the recorder
Here's david's lovely daughter Gabrielle
at our merch table, explaining the CD label.
Here's another wild guitar solo.
(do not try to reorient the photo...)
Here's Nathan at his keyboard.
and on bass
and rocking at the keyboard
while wearing the bass like a gunslinger
Here are Bryan and Dennis
doing their background parts
on the chorus of "Hello Goodbye"
This is not trick photography.
There really was a tree branch right next to my head.
(This is probably during "When I Get Home.")
Here's our lovely audience.
Here's a view that includes the red umbrellas in the plaza
And another view with more greenery
And another view toward the side
Here we are, just rocking
The whole day was made even more pleasant because of the skill and support we received from Matt Coxey and the audio team. They even helped load in our gear from the parking garage - that's way beyond the call of duty.
Thanks to Elaine for treating us so well and making the Library such a great event, and thanks to Ray Jones for all the photographs, and thanks to all our friends who came out to see us!
We had a great time.
Bloggin' Bryan 8sept2014
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Tech journalism's 'on background' scourge
By Brian Merchant
One of the most pernicious tools that Silicon Valley uses to control the flow of information to the public is decidedly low-tech: briefing reporters "on background."
According to the Associated Press, an on background arrangement with a reporter means that "information can be published but only under conditions negotiated with the source. Generally, the sources do not want their names published but will agree to a description of their position."
The AP also recommends that its reporters "object vigorously when a source wants to brief a group of reporters on background" and that they "try to persuade the source to put the briefing on the record." It laments that "these background briefings have become routine in many venues, especially with government officials."
I've been a tech journalist for a decade. I was a senior editor at Motherboard for about four years, and have written and edited stories for outlets including Wired, The Atlantic, and Gizmodo. "On background" has been a scourge throughout my career. Every single conversation I have had with a big-five tech company representative this year has been on background. It has become the default method by which Silicon Valley disseminates information to reporters.
This is a toxic arrangement. The tactic shields tech companies from accountability. It allows giants like Amazon and Tesla an opportunity to transmit their preferred message, free of risk, in the voice of a given publication. It leaves no trace of policy that might later be criticized—that could form part of the public record to be scrutinized by regulators, lawyers, or investors. If the company later reverses course or modifies its position, the egg is on the reporter's face, not the company's.
Corporations such as Apple, Google, and Uber have become infamous for their secrecy and unwillingness to comment on most matters on the record. And tech reporters, myself very much included, have not done enough to push them to do otherwise.
A recent YouTube controversy, however, presented signs that the ground could shift. For years, the right-wing YouTube personality Steven Crowder had harassed Vox Media's Carlos Maza, often using homophobic slurs. In the face of criticism, YouTube, which has a hair-trigger sensitivity to the accusation, made by conservatives, that it is anti-conservative, declared that Crowder was not in violation of its harassment policies. But the company refused to address the issue on the record. It sought instead to brief reporters on background.
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The Verge's editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel, tweeted that he had chosen to ignore YouTube's explanation to his team because the spokesperson refused to be quoted on the record about how and why they had chosen not to enforce their harassment policies in this case.
Meanwhile, at Gizmodo, YouTube responded to reporter Tom McKay's request for an explanation with a note that included, "Further info on Background (okay to paraphrase, according to YouTube)." Because McKay had made no such agreement with the company beforehand, he published the statement in full. (Note that YouTube was so predisposed to on-background arrangements that it simply assumed McKay would automatically honor this one.)
Both moves were the right ones. I hope they might help build momentum to blunt the dominant and long-held expectation in Silicon Valley that tech companies can dole out information about their most important policy decisions—regarding platforms and products that impact hundreds of millions of people—on terms that they alone dictate.
It's about time we object more vigorously to the normalization of this tactic.
SILICON VALLEY WASN'T ALWAYS SO HOSTILE to reporters. It used to be relatively open. Apple, probably more than any other company, snapped it closed. In my book about the history of the iPhone, The One Device, I dedicate a chapter to the company's marketing prowess. Keeping the press at arm's length was a key part of its strategy.
The most significant change was Steve Jobs' return to Apple in the '90s. At this time he began to methodically clamp down on press access. Reporters such as John Markoff and Brendt Schendler have documented how Jobs restricted the flow of information from Apple—only select executives, himself included, were permitted to speak to select media outlets, and engineers and higher-level employees were forbidden from going on the record.
This controlled access strategy was in force when Apple released the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and rose to become the most powerful consumer technology company on the planet. (One former executive told me that the secrecy around the iPhone was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.) It created such a booming demand for this scarce information that a cottage knowledge industry sprang up, with reporters and bloggers competing to break news about items like product update announcements and leaked supply chain specs. Apple learned that it wouldn't have to open its doors to critics to get its message out—most of the blogging was done by superfans, after all, and Silicon Valley was still enjoying a halo of public goodwill.
Other tech companies followed suit. And as Silicon Valley found itself in an ever-expanding position of power, journalism was contracting. Even some of the most prestigious publications grew desperate. If one outlet wouldn't agree to onerous terms, another, keen for the web traffic new information brings, would. The usual method for combating this—deeply sourced reporters who have the time and trust to miss a few news breaks in order to focus on independent reporting—required too much confidence to sustain. As such, de facto on background stipulations were free to proliferate.
Here are two recent examples of what this looks like in practice. Tesla's Autopilot, the semi-automated driving software that ships with its vehicles, has been under serious scrutiny after it was found enabled during fatal crashes—in one case, Autopilot steered its driver into a white truck it did not detect; in another, the car collided with a concrete highway lane divider. In the wake of those incidents, I wrote about Tesla's decision to promote their vehicles as equipped with "full self-driving hardware."
Dr. Jack Stilgoe, a Turing Institute fellow and senior lecturer at University College London, told me at the time that the language was irresponsible and misleading—it was unethical to lure customers in with promises of cars with "full self-driving hardware" when Autopilot in reality enabled only semi-autonomous steering, and required hands placed on the wheel at all times. I asked Tesla to respond.
The PR team agreed to talk, but only on background; I could not quote anything said in the conversation. They denigrated Stilgoe's work and offered me a test-drive so I could see how safe their cars were. None of this, of course, addressed the issue at hand—that their marketing materials, and statements on TV from the company's founder Elon Musk, were dangerously misleading. They did say that salespeople made the distinction clear on the dealership floors, but would not allow me to quote that.
The conversation was essentially a targeted sales pitch—albeit one with strange tactics, as they spent a lot of time basically yelling at me—that was aimed at convincing me that Autopilot was safe. At one point, they told me, "it sounds like you need to rethink your story."
In hindsight, I regret including any of the information from that tortured conversation in the final piece. If Tesla wants to issue a statement contesting the analysis of a technology scholar that concludes their language is misleading they should do it on the record or they should walk back their marketing materials. (Months later, in fact, they quietly did exactly that.)
Another example. Recently I wrote a story which showed that Amazon, which has made a commitment to powering its operations with clean energy, had stalled on those commitments while also aggressively pursuing deals and partnerships with oil and gas companies.
The company ignored my request for a comment until the story ran, then announced two new clean energy projects and offered to speak, on background, about the development. To me, it seemed that they had used my request as a heads-up to announce something that would make my story appear off-base. Of course, I can neither confirm nor deny this, because Amazon only offered to speak on background—and I refused.
These companies are too big and too influential to be allowed to negotiate the nature of truth with journalists out of sight of readers. After my experience with Amazon, I decided that on all matters of importance, I am no longer going to listen to a public relations representative try to change my mind on background with unquotable statements attributable to no one. No reporter should, not when the stakes are as high as they are. If an actual source—an engineer, or a policymaker—wants to go on background for protection, that's one thing. But a spokesperson should either go on the record or get off the phone.
Good, aggressive reporters are regularly pushing back against these ossified norms. We all should join them, and now. Tech PR shops exist solely to paint their employers in a flattering light; they can do so on the record.
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Brian Merchant is a science and technology journalist, the author of the One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone, and the former senior editor of Motherboard. He currently runs the Automaton project at Gizmodo, and his next book, Blood in the Machine: The First Rebellion Against Automation, is forthcoming from Little, Brown.


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I feel like I have been waiting so long for this sequel to come out. Although, let me just say, Candyman (2021) is definitely worth the wait.
Directed by Nia DaCosta, Candyman picks up thirty years after the first Candyman film. We are introduced to an artist, Anthony McCoy, and his girlfriend, art gallery director Brianna Cartwright. Anthony, in trying to come up with some new work, decides to dive deep into the troubled past of Cabrini-Green and the legends that surround the area. He realizes, only too late, that he has brought back the fabled Candyman, but not even he could anticipate what was going to happen.
Much like the original Candyman, this 2021 sequel has main themes of race relations, gentrification, and systemic racism and its effects. Those arguing that this film had too much to say about our current cultural climate, I invite you to rewatch the original 1992 film and then we can talk. Nia DaCosta had something to say and she fucking said it.
With the screenplay being by DaCosta, Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfield, it is no surprise to me that they "Hitchcocked" us. They Macguffined us. There was clear inspiration, not only from the original Candyman, but also from classic horror and some of Clive Barker's other works. The beauty of DaCosta being writer and director, however, was that she really could make this film her own, with her own visual style. The constant use of mirrors and disorienting establishing shots only contributed to the plot and the overall message. It was, obviously, also a play on how important mirrors are to the overall plot of the story, which was a nice touch.
Candyman is a self-aware film, but in a good way. All the acting was great, particularly from Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris, the aforementioned artist and art gallery director. Both performances relied on the audience connecting with both characters, so that was a major feat, considering that, for a moment at least, one was "bad" and one was "good".
The music, composed by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, kept what made the score to 1992's Candyman so good, and added just enough to update the sound. It was truly beautifully composed.
The entire film was tense. There was not a single moment where the tension let up and that was impressive. Candyman's release date was delayed several times. But, honestly, I think the timing turned out to be perfect.
If anybody were to ask me what my favorite part of the film was, it would be the part where William Burke, the character who runs the laundry mat and is Anthony's insight into the Candyman legend, states "Candyman is the whole damn hive". Because, when you break it down entirely, the legend of Candyman is just the way an entire neighborhood of people cope with senseless violence, that is almost exclusively committed by the police. There's not just one "Candyman". There are many. And it's the only way so many can explain away the senseless killings of innocent people. Because, without the legend, the reality of the situation would destroy everyone.
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