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package org.apache.hadoop.io;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.UnsupportedCharsetException;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.apache.commons.io.Charsets;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Deserializer;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Serialization;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.SerializationFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Serializer;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericsUtil;

/**
 * DefaultStringifier is the default implementation of the {@link Stringifier}
 * interface which stringifies the objects using base64 encoding of the
 * serialized version of the objects. The {@link Serializer} and
 * {@link Deserializer} are obtained from the {@link SerializationFactory}.
 * <br>
 * DefaultStringifier offers convenience methods to store/load objects to/from
 * the configuration.
 *
 * @param <T> the class of the objects to stringify
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Public
@InterfaceStability.Stable
public class DefaultStringifier<T> implements Stringifier<T> {

  private static final String SEPARATOR = ",";

  private Serializer<T> serializer;

  private Deserializer<T> deserializer;

  private DataInputBuffer inBuf;

  private DataOutputBuffer outBuf;

  public DefaultStringifier(Configuration conf, Class<T> c) {

    SerializationFactory factory = new SerializationFactory(conf);
    this.serializer = factory.getSerializer(c);
    this.deserializer = factory.getDeserializer(c);
    this.inBuf = new DataInputBuffer();
    this.outBuf = new DataOutputBuffer();
    try {
      serializer.open(outBuf);
      deserializer.open(inBuf);
    } catch (IOException ex) {
      throw new RuntimeException(ex);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public T fromString(String str) throws IOException {
    try {
      byte[] bytes = Base64.decodeBase64(str.getBytes("UTF-8"));
      inBuf.reset(bytes, bytes.length);
      T restored = deserializer.deserialize(null);
      return restored;
    } catch (UnsupportedCharsetException ex) {
      throw new IOException(ex.toString());
    }
  }

  @Override
  public String toString(T obj) throws IOException {
    outBuf.reset();
    serializer.serialize(obj);
    byte[] buf = new byte[outBuf.getLength()];
    System.arraycopy(outBuf.getData(), 0, buf, 0, buf.length);
    return new String(Base64.encodeBase64(buf), Charsets.UTF_8);
  }

  @Override
  public void close() throws IOException {
    inBuf.close();
    outBuf.close();
    deserializer.close();
    serializer.close();
  }

  /**
   * Stores the item in the configuration with the given keyName.
   *
   * @param <K>  the class of the item
   * @param conf the configuration to store
   * @param item the object to be stored
   * @param keyName the name of the key to use
   * @throws IOException : forwards Exceptions from the underlying
   * {@link Serialization} classes.
   */
  public static <K> void store(Configuration conf, K item, String keyName)
  throws IOException {

    DefaultStringifier<K> stringifier = new DefaultStringifier<K>(conf,
        GenericsUtil.getClass(item));
    conf.set(keyName, stringifier.toString(item));
    stringifier.close();
  }

  /**
   * Restores the object from the configuration.
   *
   * @param <K> the class of the item
   * @param conf the configuration to use
   * @param keyName the name of the key to use
   * @param itemClass the class of the item
   * @return restored object
   * @throws IOException : forwards Exceptions from the underlying
   * {@link Serialization} classes.
   */
  public static <K> K load(Configuration conf, String keyName,
      Class<K> itemClass) throws IOException {
    DefaultStringifier<K> stringifier = new DefaultStringifier<K>(conf,
        itemClass);
    try {
      String itemStr = conf.get(keyName);
      return stringifier.fromString(itemStr);
    } finally {
      stringifier.close();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Stores the array of items in the configuration with the given keyName.
   *
   * @param <K> the class of the item
   * @param conf the configuration to use
   * @param items the objects to be stored
   * @param keyName the name of the key to use
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if the items array is empty
   * @throws IOException : forwards Exceptions from the underlying
   * {@link Serialization} classes.
   */
  public static <K> void storeArray(Configuration conf, K[] items,
      String keyName) throws IOException {

    DefaultStringifier<K> stringifier = new DefaultStringifier<K>(conf,
        GenericsUtil.getClass(items[0]));
    try {
      StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
      for (K item : items) {
        builder.append(stringifier.toString(item)).append(SEPARATOR);
      }
      conf.set(keyName, builder.toString());
    }
    finally {
      stringifier.close();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Restores the array of objects from the configuration.
   *
   * @param <K> the class of the item
   * @param conf the configuration to use
   * @param keyName the name of the key to use
   * @param itemClass the class of the item
   * @return restored object
   * @throws IOException : forwards Exceptions from the underlying
   * {@link Serialization} classes.
   */
  public static <K> K[] loadArray(Configuration conf, String keyName,
      Class<K> itemClass) throws IOException {
    DefaultStringifier<K> stringifier = new DefaultStringifier<K>(conf,
        itemClass);
    try {
      String itemStr = conf.get(keyName);
      ArrayList<K> list = new ArrayList<K>();
      String[] parts = itemStr.split(SEPARATOR);

      for (String part : parts) {
        if (!part.isEmpty())
          list.add(stringifier.fromString(part));
      }

      return GenericsUtil.toArray(itemClass, list);
    }
    finally {
      stringifier.close();
    }
  }

}


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Q: Edit memory address of an initialized .data segment word in MIPS After initializing a word inside the .data segment like this:
.data
base: .word 0

I need to change the address that 'base' is saved into, inside the .text segment. For example if 'base' is stored in address '268501692', I need to change it into '268501700'
How can I do this?

A: From your comment:

I basically want to allocate memory through syscall 9, and write the address of v0 (which is the base of the allocated address space) into a .data segment tag, and also being able to manipulate it afterwards.

In C terms, what you're asking is to modify the address of static int array[] to set it to the return value of malloc.
That's not how symbols work.  When you assemble and link, they become fixed numeric addresses.  There's no symbol-table lookup happening when lw $t0, base($zero) runs: the the machine-code instruction has the address hard-coded as an immediate constant.  See a MIPS ISA reference for the encoding format.

What you should do instead is store that pointer in a register, or in a fixed memory location, i.e. static int *pointer.  Then you only have to modify the value of the pointer, it still has its own address.  This is an extra level of indirection over a static array, but only if you keep the pointer in memory.  With a pointer in a register, it doesn't matter whether it's pointing to a static array or to dynamically allocated memory.
Don't let C syntax fool you: pointer[10] looks the same as array[10], but in the pointer case (with a static or global pointer variable), the compiler has to emit asm that first loads the pointer from memory, then dereferences it.  But in the array case, the address of array is a link-time constant, so the compiler can access array[10] directly because that's also a link-time constant.

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A MAN who pleaded guilty to brewing kwaso (homebrew) at his premises at Fishing Village, east Honiara, has been fined $10,000 on Tuesday.
Henry Saeni Junior admitted guilt to one count of restriction on making liquor. He has until 3.30pm on September 25 to pay up the fine.
Failure will result in six months jail time.
Principal Magistrate Tearo Beneteti also made orders for the forfeiture of the confiscated kwaso and equipment, which Saeni used to brew kwaso, to the state to be destroyed.
She imposed that sentence after considering both the mitigating and aggravating factors of Saeni's matter.
Saeni is a first time offender.
Police prosecutor Tete Tebakota had told the court the total amount of bottles of kwaso confiscated from the accused is worth at $13,330.
And he had asked the court to impose a fine of $10,000 or more for Saeni given that brewing of kwaso is now on the rise.
Sandy Karen Timothy, who is also facing similar charge as Saeni, is currently under a warrant of arrest after she failed to turn up on the last court date.
Her warrant of arrest will be reviewed on September 28.
Two others who were also arrested by police on the same date as Timothy and Saeni were already sentenced last month in the Honiara Magistrates' Court.
They were given six-month jail terms.
Saeni was arrested after police raided his home at Fishing village on 22 August this year and confiscated bottles of distilled brewed kwaso and equipment used to produce kwaso.


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Cinnamon is the brown bark of the cinnamon tree, which when dried, rolls into a tubular form known as a quill.  Cinnamon is available in either its whole quill form (cinnamon sticks), as a ground powder, or distilled as an oil.
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The finding is important as higher quality wines are associated with earlier harvest dates in cooler wine growing regions, like France and Switzerland.


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Robert Hindle, B.Sc. (Hons), P.Eng., FEC
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For two decades, Bob Hindle has devoted time, energy and passion to improving one of the core facets of PEO's regulatory mandate, through a PEO committee whose workload is one of the heaviest.
Despite the responsibilities and time commitments that come with being a senior executive of a major, global engineering firm, Bob has been a leading influence as a member of the Complaints Committee (or COC) since 1993. The COC investigates and considers complaints about the actions and conduct of PEO licence and Certificate of Authorization holders, to ensure the public interest is served and protected.
Respected for his careful, reasonable and sensible judgment, Bob served as lead reviewer on some of the more difficult complaint files, and led the committee through some challenging transitions in the way it conducts its business.
Throughout his time on the COC, Bob has been committed to continually examining and improving its processes to make them as efficient and thorough as possible. Under his leadership as chair from 2009 to 2012, the handling and consideration of complaints was significantly improved, which has reduced the time taken to review cases, present the lead reviewer's assessment, and reach decisions.
"The committee takes [its] work very, very seriously," he told Engineering Dimensions magazine in 2010. "We fully understand that we are dealing with people's livelihoods, careers and reputations and so I would say we bend over backwards to make sure we've got all the information that's relevant before we make a decision."
"As a self regulating profession, it is vital that members of the profession step up and contribute to the organization. Without volunteers, we risk losing our ability to self-regulate. My career has been interesting, exciting and rewarding, and I believe strongly in giving back to the profession that has given so much to me," Bob says of his reasons for being a PEO volunteer.


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Q: LARAVEL Payload is invalid error but decrypted data is correct Recently i made new project with composer and added very basic authentication with make:auth - nothing fancy.
Next i wanted to encrypt name and email columns on my database so i changed their types from VARCHAR(191) to LONGTEXT and added some very basic mutators to Users model
public function setNameAttribute($value) {
    $this->attributes['name'] = Crypt::encryptString($value);
}

public function getNameAttribute($value) {
    return Crypt::decryptString($value);
}

public function setEmailAttribute($value) {
    $this->attributes['email'] = Crypt::encryptString($value);
}

public function getEmailAttribute($value) {
    return Crypt::decryptString($value);
}

But when im testing with my very simple route i get Payload is invalid error even though i see in error contents that fields has been decrypted properly.
Route::get('user',function(){
$user= \App\User::find(3);
//dd($user->name);
dd(Crypt::decryptString($user->name));
dd(Crypt::decryptString($user->email));

});
Screenshot link
https://ibb.co/deBPpR

A: Payload is invalid is also the response I get when I try to decrypt a null value. Make sure to catch null values before decrypting.

A: The error is because you are calling Crypt::decryptString on an already mutated (and decrypted) name property. i.e your getNameAttribute decrypts the encrypted string and when you call
Crypt::decryptString($user->name); // this is causing the error

You basically pass a decrypted string for decryption again.
Just do:
echo $user->name;

and you will get the decrypted name.
If you really want to see the raw value then use:
echo $user->getOriginal('name'); //get original value from DB bypassing the accessor


Yesterday was National Selfie Day. I ran into some snags getting my selfie posted on Instagram, so I'm posting it now. Lately, I've been accompanying pictures on Instagram with the backstory. The backstory for this picture got too long to post there, so here are the selfie and the story.
She seemed to be helping. Took some time, but she did.
From August, 2011: Exciting times. Months of saving, waiting, and jealousy had finally given way to owning my first iPad, the iPad 2. I bought it as my birthday present to myself that year. I had never owned an @apple product and the last time I'd used one was way back in high school at @citycollegian: the venerable Quadra and PowerPC, both of which were the computer teachers' computers, inside their office behind the 3rd floor computer lab. Mr. Rosskopf and Mr. Morrow would let a few of the more engaged students back there to experience some real, mid-1990's computing power. We weren't doing much more with them than ClarisWorks, but the power and prestige those computers represented then, was palpable, much like buying a Mac Pro these days. Sixteen years later, I was stepping into the world of the cool kids, the more affluent kids, or so the stories even back then, went.
Working in IT, I was expecting this was going to change how I computed, at the office, but moreso, I was hoping to enhance how I wrote. I loved my laptop, but it was bulky and I welcomed using lighter, more portable devices. I researched and discovered so many apps that could help me get work done. I couldn't wait to get started. The only thing missing was the one thing most of the iPad 1 owners had told me I needed: the Apple wireless keyboard.
I still have no clue why they were hard to find where I was, but they were. I went around to a bunch of places and nobody had one. This went on for weeks. But lo, and behold, one day, a Walmart in Philly had one, I discovered online, and I ordered it. Then, I gassed up and hit the road to go claim my prize, the missing piece to complete my whole new world of productivity, and probably, coolness, and the cachet that Apple products were supposed to give you.
When I got to the store, their pickup desk didn't have the keyboard ready. They couldn't find it, for some reason. The lady in the picture said she'd help me find it. It took a good, long while, but she eventually did. While I waited for this to happen, I snapped this picture.
The keyboard did help me turn my iPad 2 from a consumption-only device to a creation device better suited for my workflow, especially when it came time to type up a scene or an essay, even if file sharing, even for files you're sharing with yourself, wasn't nearly as advanced as it's become in the last several years. Unfortunately, my original keyboard ran into some physical complications and it had to be replaced. But, I still have the replacement and I've used it with my iPad Air 2, which replaced my iPad 2, as well as my Samsung tablet, which I was talked into purchasing one day while paying my cell phone bill, and has served me well, just the same. I do have to say, though, that once I got my Chromebook (another months-long saving and planning process), I started to use my iPad less for creation (plus there was the issue of my dropping it). It takes far less time to open my Chromebook and fire up Evernote than it does to turn on bluetooth and connect the keyboard.
Also, I really miss these glasses. Those were nice glasses.


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Home » Blogs » Debunking Myths About "Boosting" Immunity For A Pandemic
Debunking Myths About "Boosting" Immunity For A Pandemic
Not too long ago, we published an article offering suggestions on how to strengthen your immunity during the Coronavirus pandemic. The wording for this article was purposefully chosen -- we know from heeding science that "boosting immunity for a pandemic" is a false claim. On the other hand, a choice for a healthier diet, staying in touch with family and friends during the lockdown, and performing an act of service by baking and cooking are all valid examples of ways to strengthen one's immunity during this time.
The difference goes beyond semantics. "Boosting immunity for a pandemic" may make it sound like you can super-charge your immune defence and fight the Coronavirus simply by popping a magic pill or munching on a super food. To be immune is to be resistant to a particular infection.
We will bust the myth head-on: There is no such thing as a boosted immunity.
Unfortunately, a lot of consumers have fallen to the frenzy of the "pandemics pantry." Aside from hoarding supplies like face masks, alcohol and food, people also went panic-buying food supplements like Vitamin C, D, and Zinc, especially after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic.
In February, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has cautioned the public against health products sold locally or online that claim to prevent or treat Covid-19. Health supplements, herbs and "clip-on" products that are claiming to prevent or treat COVID-19 have proliferated the market at that time.
The HSA said, "Currently no evidence that any health supplement, Chinese proprietary medicine, traditional medicine, herb or "clip-on" product can boost the immune system specifically to help prevent, protect against or treat COVID-19." It added that scientific claims that these products could kill viruses, including the Coronavirus, cannot be verified.
To clear some air, we've asked Palate Sensations Culinary School's guest chef and dietitian Leonard Yap in Kuala Lumpur to bust myths about boosting immunity for a pandemic.
Watch the video he prepared or read his interview below:
Q: What do people need to understand about products that claim to boost immunity for a pandemic?
Chef Leonard Yap
A: To really get a handle on the situation, people need to understand that clinically, immunity in the body is an amalgamation of many systems in the body, and for a company or party to claim a particular supplement "boosts" the immunity because it strengthens one out of several complex components in the immunity system, is not clinically accurate or correct.
That is, vitamin D Boosts immunity because it increases white blood cell count when there's no context if you're deficient of vitamin D or white blood cell count in the first place; it is akin to saying that to boost the success of a restaurant, we should just add an extra 10 chefs with no context of whether there's enough capacity for those chefs, and whether there is sufficient demand or need for those chefs.
Q: Is there a basis for doctors prescribing food supplements to boost immunity especially at this time?
A: When doctors prescribe multivitamins, it is after assessing that a patient has a deficiency for some of these vitamins.
In that sense, to really boost one's immunity, similar to the restaurant analogy, one has to assess whether is there any lacking to support the current demand, for example, if after a review of a restaurant, that the issue is a lack of tables to support the customer demand, one should increase the seating capacity and not just add on extra chefs. Similarly, our peak immunity performs when there's no deficiency in our nutrition first and foremost and if we have sufficient physical activity.
3. What can people do to strengthen their immunity during Covid-19?
A: With that said, here's what the clinical evidence suggests:
1) Aim for a balanced meal with minimally processed foods, more whole foods, fruits and veggies.
Photo by Ola Mishchenko on Unsplash
During this time, many will be tempted and dependent on easy to prepare, fast foods or highly processed meals like instant noodles, these provide minimal amount of nutrition for the same amount of calories.
When having whole foods like brown rice, whole meal bread, quinoa, vegetables, you get a high nutrition bundle for the same amount of calories; this nutrition is much better absorbed as compared to supplements in the body.
2) Portion your meals
Do not over-eat, a simple guideline is 1 quarter carbohydrates (whole or high fiber preferentially), 1 quarter protein (plant protein and lean protein should be regular staples), and 1/2 or more of fruits and vegetables (more emphasis on vegetables).
Eat until you're about 80% full and take your time, do not rush.
Rushing your meals can lead to over-eating; and while you may have more nutrition per see by eating more, the excess calories alongside a sedentary lifestyle will cause weight gain, which can dampen your body's natural immune response.
3) Have some exercise
It most likely is suffice to say that exercising this time can be rather difficult. But try to incorporate some body weight or resistance exercise when possible.
If not in a sick or ill condition, resistance training or exercise can increase your body's immune response.
Having 20-30 minutes of an exercise a day is ideal, but try to do it at least 3x per week.
4) Supplement only when necessary.
Before you click "add to cart", ask yourself, are you deficient?
If you've already been portioning and eating a lot of whole foods, chances are you have sufficient nutrition.
However in times like this with the pandemic, it's likely that you may not have sufficient sunlight exposure, but instead of dosing with more vitamin D, just try to get some sunlight from the working out nearest to your sunlight source if possible.
If you want to be of the safe side however, a multivitamin would do.
And no, there's no clinical evidence that supports consumption of turmeric, ginger, and many others that it would increase your immune response. It doesn't mean that you can't take it, if you enjoy it, go ahead, but do not douse yourself in heaps of it just because you read an article that it may help, especially if you don't enjoy it.
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Lol seriously need to sleep. When looking at the bike which side is low beam?
Both my bikes are for sale.
Looking at it from the front left, when sitting on it right, same side the front brake lever is on.
Thanks for this. Sorry for late response.


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Matsumoto's Shave Ice is Serving Up a New Twist on an Island Classic
By Andy Beth Miller
Take any heavenly Hawaii day and drive down the main thoroughfare of Haleiwa town, and you will most assuredly see a loooooooong line of people, the excited and anxious looks on their faces revealing their ravenous desires for something delicious—cravings that only one thing can quel—a heaping bowl-full of shave ice. But not just any shave ice, these folks are staking out the cool selections at Matsumoto's Shave Ice.
Photo courtesy of Sandi Sakaguchi.
A Hawaii landmark, now famous for its delicious niche of novelty shave ice, Matsumoto's Shave Ice has been a steadfast staple of Haleiwa town for 64 years. Proud to be a locally owned, family-run business, the shave ice shoppe has a rich history, deeply rooted in its belief in family values, community spirit and serving the highest quality shave ice.
The company's patriarch is Mamoru Matsumoto, who came to Hawaii aboard a ship from Hiroshima-ken in order to make a life for himself. Matsumoto worked hard, laboring on sugar plantations, the railroad and even in retail, all while attending night school to conquer English and Math. After marrying Helen Momoyo Ogi, the couple worked diligently (Helen was a seamstress), sharing the dream of one day opening their own business.
Left: Helen Momoyo (Ogi) Mastumoto and Mamoru Matsumoto. Right: Noriko and Stanley Matsumoto. Photos courtesy of Matsumoto Shave Ice.
The hard work and dedication paid off, and the M. Matsumoto Store Inc. finally came to fruition, tucked on the main strip of Kamehameha Highway in sweet and sleepy Haleiwa town on Oahu's North Shore. Having begun as a grocery store, the couple soon saw their ideal locale as perfect for serving shave ice, and added a stand in the store.
It was as if someone had lit a match in a truckload of dynamite, and business exploded—doors opening each day to an onslaught of curious customers eager to have their first experience with this newest sensation of shave ice (or "snow cones" as some called it).
Crowds gathered outside for a refreshing shave ice in 1981 as they still do today. Photo courtesy of Star-Advertiser archives.
Business continued to boom, and now, under the husband-and-wife team of Stanley (Mamoru Matsumoto's son) and Noriko Matsumoto, the family establishment still flourishes, and is excited to enter a new chapter in an already sweet success story.
Having successfully converted the groceries that accompany its popular shave ice to T-shirts, souvenirs, and snacks, Matsumoto's Shave Ice is rolling out yet another new and exciting addition: edible bowls!
Edible bowl. Photo courtesy of Matsumoto Shave Ice.
"I remembered when I was young in Japan, and having shave ice—they had these bowls you could eat after you were done!" excitedly recalls Noriko Matsumoto.
According to Noriko, these bowls (which are loosely comparable to the Japanese rice cracker, senbei) are wildly popular in Japan, where the shave ice store has them shipped in from directly. Noriko wanted to use that memory of her childhood, but "adapt that, as I remember the older one [bowl] became soft…so we wanted to make it better….even testing them, with textures, different flavors, everything," she explains.
The outcome of that experimentation and improvement is an absolute win. Curious fans can have their chance at a taste-testing soon with the store's Ichiban Special, where they can choose any flavor shave ice, ice cream and azuki beans, condensed milk (if desired) AND mochi—all served in one of the new, edible bowls.
Edible bowl filled with strawberry shave ice and all toppings – ice cream, azuki bean, condensed milk and mochi balls. Photo courtesy of Matsumoto Shave Ice.
And if the delicious taste isn't enough to sway you (believe us, though, it is!), Noriko also points out that, "It helps with the waste—always we are wanting to be as eco-friendly as possible."
So after spending a sun-dappled day on Oahu's North Shore, nothing sounds better than bee bopping over to Matsumoto's Shave Ice to sample its new Ichiban Special in an earth-friendly edible bowl.
See also: Matsumoto's Shave Ice – with map
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function [ ] = match_events(expt,allevents,newEventInfo,missingTrialsSpeak,missingTrialsListen)
%MATCH_EVENTS  Match experiment trials with MEG events.
%   MATCH_EVENTS(EXPT,EVENTS,NEWEVENTINFO)

if nargin < 4, missingTrialsSpeak = []; end
if nargin < 5, missingTrialsListen = []; end

nwords = length(expt.words);
eventnames = {allevents.label};

% find speak and listen event indices
speak_inds = zeros(1,nwords);
listen_inds = zeros(1,nwords);
for w=1:nwords
    %    speakstim_inds(w) = find(strcmp(eventnames,num2str(w)));
    %    listenstim_inds(w) = find(strcmp(eventnames,num2str(w+nwords)));
    speak_inds(w) = find(strcmp(eventnames,sprintf('speak%d',w)));
    listen_inds(w) = find(strcmp(eventnames,sprintf('listen%d',w)));
end
speak_events = allevents(speak_inds);
listen_events = allevents(listen_inds);

% get time of each event
% speak
speak_eventtimes = [speak_events.times];
speak_eventsamples = [speak_events.samples];
speak_eventorder = [speak_events.eventind];
speak_fileinds = [speak_events.fileind];
[speak_eventtimes,inds] = sort(speak_eventtimes);
speak_eventsamples = speak_eventsamples(inds);
speak_eventorder = speak_eventorder(inds);
speak_eventorder = speak_eventorder - speak_inds(1) + 1; % convert to 1,2,3
speak_fileinds = speak_fileinds(inds);
for t=1:length(missingTrialsSpeak)
    tr = missingTrialsSpeak(t);
    speak_eventtimes = [speak_eventtimes(1:tr-1) NaN speak_eventtimes(tr:end)];
    speak_eventsamples = [speak_eventsamples(1:tr-1) NaN speak_eventsamples(tr:end)];
    speak_eventorder = [speak_eventorder(1:tr-1) expt.allWords(tr) speak_eventorder(tr:end)];
    speak_fileinds = [speak_fileinds(1:tr-1) speak_fileinds(tr) speak_fileinds(tr:end)];
end
% listen
listen_eventtimes = [listen_events.times];
listen_eventsamples = [listen_events.samples];
listen_eventorder = [listen_events.eventind];
listen_fileinds = [listen_events.fileind];
[listen_eventtimes,inds] = sort(listen_eventtimes);
listen_eventsamples = listen_eventsamples(inds);
listen_eventorder = listen_eventorder(inds);
listen_eventorder = listen_eventorder - listen_inds(1) + 1; % convert to 1,2,3
listen_fileinds = listen_fileinds(inds);
for t=1:length(missingTrialsListen)
    tr = missingTrialsListen(t);
    listen_eventtimes = [listen_eventtimes(1:tr-1) NaN listen_eventtimes(tr:end)];
    listen_eventsamples = [listen_eventsamples(1:tr-1) NaN listen_eventsamples(tr:end)];
    listen_eventorder = [listen_eventorder(1:tr-1) expt.allWords(tr) listen_eventorder(tr:end)];
    listen_fileinds = [listen_fileinds(1:tr-1) listen_fileinds(tr) listen_fileinds(tr:end)];
end

% check that order matches expt file
if length(expt.allWords) ~= length(speak_eventorder)
    warning('Word and speak event lists do not have the same number of elements. Checking for earliest mismatch.');
    figure; plot(speak_eventorder,'ro-')
    hold on;
    plot(expt.allWords,'g'); % ground truth
    legend({'triggers in event order','presented words'});
    % find first mismatching element
    len = min(length(expt.allWords),length(speak_eventorder));
    mismatch = find(expt.allWords(1:len) ~= speak_eventorder(1:len));
    if isempty(mismatch), mismatch = len+1; end
    axis([max(0,mismatch(1)-5) min(mismatch(1)+10) .5 3.5]);
    set(gcf,'Position',[0 50 650 450]);
    %ax_pos = get(gca,'Position');
    %axes('Position',ax_pos,'XAxisLocation','top');
    error('First mismatch found at %.1f seconds (trial %d)',speak_eventtimes(mismatch(1)),mismatch(1));
elseif length(expt.allWords) ~= length(listen_eventorder)
    warning('Word and listen event lists do not have the same number of elements. Checking for earliest mismatch.');
    figure; plot(listen_eventorder,'ro-')
    hold on;
    plot(expt.allWords,'g'); % ground truth
    legend({'triggers in event order','presented words'});
    % find first mismatching element
    len = min(length(expt.allWords),length(listen_eventorder));
    mismatch = find(expt.allWords(1:len) ~= listen_eventorder(1:len));
    if isempty(mismatch), mismatch = len+1; end
    axis([max(0,mismatch(1)-5) mismatch(1)+10 .5 3.5]);
    set(gcf,'Position',[0 50 650 450]);
    error('First mismatch found at %.1f seconds (trial %d)',listen_eventtimes(mismatch(1)),mismatch(1));
elseif expt.allWords ~= speak_eventorder
    error('Word and event lists are the same length but do not match!')
elseif speak_eventorder ~= listen_eventorder
    error('Speak and listen event lists do not match!')
else
    fprintf('All %d events match experiment file.\n',length(speak_eventorder))
end

% for w=1:nwords
%     if length(speakstim_events(w).times) ~= length(speak_events(w).times)
%         warning('Speak event mismatch')
%     end
%     if length(listenstim_events(w).times) ~= length(listen_events(w).times)
%         warning('Listen event mismatch (%s)',listen_events(w).label)

% create new event structs
for f = 1:length(unique([speak_fileinds listen_fileinds])); % for each file to write
    events = struct;
    for e = 1:length(newEventInfo)                          % for each condition
        events(e).label = newEventInfo(e).name;
        events(e).color = newEventInfo(e).color;

        if strncmp(events(e).label,'speak',5)
            trialinds = intersect(newEventInfo(e).trialinds,find(speak_fileinds==f));
            events(e).epochs = ones(1,length(trialinds));
            events(e).samples = speak_eventsamples(trialinds);
            events(e).times = speak_eventtimes(trialinds);
        elseif strncmp(events(e).label,'listen',6)
            trialinds = intersect(newEventInfo(e).trialinds,find(listen_fileinds==f));
            events(e).epochs = ones(1,length(trialinds));
            events(e).samples = listen_eventsamples(trialinds);
            events(e).times = listen_eventtimes(trialinds);
        end

        events(e).reactTimes = [];
        events(e).select = 1;
    end

    % remove empty elements from struct
    for e0 = length(events):-1:1
        if isempty(events(e0).times)
            events(e0) = [];
        end
    end

    % save each event file
    dataPath = getMegSubjPath(expt.name,expt.snum);
    savefile = fullfile(dataPath,['events_' newEventInfo.name '_' num2str(f-1) '.mat']);
    bSave = savecheck(savefile);
    if bSave
        save(savefile,'events');
        fprintf('Event file saved to %s\n',savefile);
    end
end

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Karla uses VA health care to live independently with multiple sclerosis.
Air Force Veteran Karla received VA benefits to better cope with multiple sclerosis. She received a front-door ramp, custom wheelchair, an assistant, and much more to help her live more independently.


After stopping for a social call at The Apartment, you may never look at any apartment the same way again. You and seven other "guests" will have to look past the escape room's intimate and cozy setting to uncover clues to earn your freedom in under 60 minutes..
A small group of 10 excavators has been called to the deep and harrowing depths of the Earth. The Dig is one of our most exhilarating rooms where you'll have the opportunity to solve a mystery as you make your way to salvation and the upper surface. Can your ideas help light the way out in under 60 minutes?


"I hit my head," Darren groaned, rubbing at his scalp. His eyes were screwed up in pain. "What... happened? Did it not work?"
Setting: A quiet afternoon at the Grand Neopian Lodge. There is a circular table surrounded by four chairs three feet from the check-in counter.
Do you feel underappreciated? These Yooyus do.


Ticket Costs:- Ranging from 60 Thai Baht – 200 Thai Baht depending on Seating and Overhead Cover. Season Tickets are available for 2000 Thai Bhat for all of the home games. Available at the club shop at the CMFC academy near Airport Plaza. The Price includes a choice of this years home or away shirt plus other extras.
Directions:- The Stadium is on Canal Road (Highway 121) on the outskirts of the city. Follow the signs for the 700 year Stadium.
Any visiting football fans or Chiang Mai residents that want to meet up before a game. We will be meeting up 2 hours before Kick-off on the day of the game at the Red Lion Pub on the Night Bizzare. If you need a lift to the game this is usually not a problem. The Red Lion is on the Street between Mc Donalds and Burger King, 100 yards on the Left Hand Side. Kevin The Owner will make you feel welcome and point out the CMFC fans.
Where to stay:- Many hotels in the center of Chiang Mai. Prices and Standards for all pockets available.
The Red Lion Pub Chiang Mai is the offical home of www.chiangmaifootballclub.com and the Chiang Mai F.C Ex-Pats Supporters Club.


Opticians give free sight tests and glaze up those goggles in style!
A pair of trained optometrists, who had their 'eyes' focused on a dilapidated building in Bradford, have renovated it completely, fitting it with highly sophisticated technology and designer branded eyewear.
The intrepid husband and wife team, Eram Quesar and Mohammed Ahsar, decided to start up their own venture after being successful locum and resident opticians in various practices.
After months of hard work, the run-down Royal Hotel pub, on Great Horton Road, is no longer recognisable and has been transformed into a "glasses palace".
They've been pulling in business thanks to free eye tests and state-of –the-art on-site digital retinal photography that takes detailed pictures of the back of your eye.
If you order your glasses on the day, it will take between seven and 10 working days to get your specs and customers will be informed over the phone if they are ready before or after this time.
A large selection of free NHS glasses are on offer, with as much specs appeal as the 'higher end' glasses which cost up to £110.
"NHS glasses have stylish frames and include standard single vision, 1.5 bifocal or Star Price 1.5 varifocal lenses with a scratch-resistant treatment," Eram said.
Varifocal lenses combine three different prescriptions in one clear lens, allowing patients to see comfortably at all distances.
As we age, the crystalline lens at the front of our eye loses elasticity, making it harder to focus on things close up, such as reading. The eye also struggles to focus quickly between near and distant objects, a problem which varifocals quickly solve.
Eye Clinic has a range of top brands such as Ray Ban, Ozzie and Avanglion. For kids there are free Batman vs Superman glasses, as well as Super Girl, Barbie and No Fear.
To keep children happy, Eye Clinic also stocks 'Blinx', an eyewear accessory range which features colourful charms which can be attached to spectacles for added fun.
NHS services are available on site and the family-run business even offers free contact lens assessments and a second pair of glasses for half price, so you'll always have a spare.
So head down to Eye Clinic and frame your eyes with super stylish specs.


Based in Melton Street, Leicester, Auto Advan is a car importer.
Auto Advan is in Melton Street, Leicester. You can view a list of neighbouring businesses by going to the Melton Street page.
Note: the pin is positioned at the postcode centre, and may not correspond with the precise location of 5 Melton Street.


Add cottage charm to your dining or entertaining space with this stylish pantry cabinet. It features two full extension drawers with English dovetail joinery, a reversible and removable wine bottle shelf, one adjustable shelf and a corkboard on the inside of the pantry door. The brushed nickel pulls and light finish give this maple wood pantry a fresh look that suits any country palette.


Nice to see someone is observant. Way down the back of the fuselage there is a 2.5mm od brass tube fitted each to guide the pull, pull wires for the rudder. The red snake tubes you can see in the photos are only temporary. They fit over the ends of the brass tubes and run all the way to the rudder servo space and will guide the rudder wires through the fuselage so they dont take any wrong turns as i feed them in from the back end. After the wires are in place the red snakes will be pulled out. Fuselage is all sheeted now so i will post some more photos sonn.
Now its on to the wings. As designed, each wing panel is 2.6 mtrs long which is a bit to big for me to transport and not to easy to store away, so after a lot of thought and a few emails to Jilles i have decided to join the wings just outboard of the gull section just where the ailerons start. It makes for a bit more work and a bit more weight but for me it will be worth it in the long run. The timber stringers you can see on the bench are of Hoop Pine which is a local timber to Queensland with very similar qualities to spruce. The are full length, 12mm * 6mm and taper from the clamp you can see down to 3mm at the tip. I also pre bend them by soaking over night and bending into a jig and left to dry for a few days. While this was happening i was busy pre fitting the ribs to the ply spars, some were a bit tight, and also the front ply spar needed chamfering to match the contour of the ribs.The ply spars have build tabs on them to stand up on so i spent quite some time making sure the bench was nice and straight and no twists.
Once that was done i could then start to dry fit the ribs to spars standing things up as i worked along the wing, which is as you see it now. The whole structure just sitting there on the bench. I will now fit jig supports to the build tabs to hold everything straight. Each rib can the pulled of in turn and glue applied where needed and slipped back into place. Sheeting the top and bottom of the wing back to the main spar will be an interesting exercise.
The left hand wing continues to come together. Top timber spar, trailling edge and leading edge are all glued up and work started on the air brakes.
Fitting all those balsa blocks at the leading edge took some but i think is a good way to end up with an accurate profile for the airfoil shape.
When i built the Ask 18 last year it has one long piece of balsa shaped to profile and even though i made a couple of templates to get the shape it left me wondering if i did'nt get the radius correct all the way along the leading, what effect would it have on the rest of the airfoil shape????
This week has seen me preparing the top of wing for sheeting with .4mm ply, and then the last couple of days fitting and glueing the sheeting into place. This morning i put the saw through the spars to separate the two halves, and now it will be on with the incidence pins and preparation of the bottom of wings for sheeting.
Some more progress at last. I have been busy doing other things,(I had forgotten there are other things in life apart from building scale gliders, B****r).
Anyway, I have made and fitted the wiring looms in each wing panel and checked and double checked the servos working about a dozen times so all is good there which has enabled me to finalize the joining of the wing panels. Air brakes are going together and this afternoon I got the aileron pieces out of storage and on to the bench.
Definitely a labour of love is this one, and looking forward to seeing it finished and flying.How is the canopy going. Im still some way off needing it, but if it was here i would be taking time out to admire it and it would inspire me to make the canopy frame.
Canopy will not be long!


With a ruined castle looming on the horizon of our SOBH campaign, I picked up a hot wire cutter off Amazon. I made two very simple test pieces to get a feel for how it works.
It's a very handy tool with loads of terrain-building potential. Nasty fumes aside, it cuts 1″ and 2″ insulation foam like a dream, and now that I've got some mistakes out of the way, the next batch will be that much better. Now I get to hunt down inspiration for the Storm Crag Keep – a very cool problem to have.
Next SOBH adventure Tues eve: "The Desecration of St. Cuthbert's Abbey." Have a great weekend.


Nubra is a tri-armed valley located to the north east of Ladakh valley. Diskit the capital of Nubra is about 150 km north from Leh town, the capital of Ladakh district, India. Local scholars say that its original name was Ldumra.
One of the extremely popular prayer festivals of the Nubra Valley, is Dosmoche or Desmochhey festival. It is also known as the 'Festival of the Scapegoat' which is celebrated at the Diksit Monastery. This festival is also celebrated in Likir, Leh, in the month of February when the Khardon peak covered with snow. The locals gather at the Diksit Monastery for the celebration.
The masked dance performed by the Lamas dressed in a dramatic manner is the major attraction. It is an attraction of the victory of good over bad. The dance is also done to avoid any ill- fortune over the valley.


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Management & Careers
Up Against Tesla, a Pandemic and Lagging Share Price, Mary Barra Steers GM Forward
The CEO of America's largest auto maker discusses GM's strategy for electric vehicles and how Covid has changed the workplace
Mary Barra, chief executive of General Motors, at an event last year at the GM Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich.Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg News
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Sept. 4, 2020 11:01 am ET
General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra was hoping this year would mark an inflection point for the U.S.'s largest auto maker after a tumultuous 2019, when she took heat from lawmakers over plant closures and a 40-day U.S. factory strike wiped out the company's fourth-quarter profit.
But less than a month into 2020, the 58-year-old electrical engineer found herself in scramble mode again. As the pandemic spread globally, GM began idling factories, first in China and eventually in North America, where it closed all its U.S. plants for nearly two months and laid off workers temporarily. Tens of thousands of salaried employees were asked to work from home. The toll hit immediately, draining about $9 billion in cash.


clark + lois | armor.
clark + lois | what are 당신 willing to risk for love?
if 당신 could turn any clana season into a clois season what would it be and why?
Clois 팬 What do 당신 think of Clark and Lana's relaship?
What do 당신 think would happen if Lana found out Lois and Clark were going to get married?
Wrost momment in season 8?
Lois: I'm impressed, Smallville. Of all the seniors skipping the last 일 of school, I didn't expect to see you.
Clark: I'm on lunch break.
Lois: Right, right. Because why would 당신 do anything like any other normal teenager in America?
Lois: How cliche, an abandoned warehouse.
Clark: 당신 know maybe there's another way in around the corner. Why don't 당신 go check? I'll see if I can find a key for this lock.
Lois: [Doubtful] Keys? Well, I highly doubt they're under the welcome mat, but, uh, 당신 knock yourself out.
Clark: What do 당신 mean again?
Lois: Well, at least this time 당신 got clothes on.
Lois: Yeah, just leave Mr. Memory Reboot to me. I'm getting to be a pro at this. [To Clark] But 당신 know what? You're gonna have to put up with PB and J because that's the extent of my culinary skills.
Lois: Looks like one 더 많이 thing 당신 don't remember. 당신 usually hide all those emotions. I came to ask if 당신 were doing okay. But it looks like I got my answer.
Martha: [To Clark] So, this is your little secret. You're taking her to the Prom, aren't you?
Lois: Mrs. Kent, a lot of things are possible in this world, but there will be a man on Mars before Clark and I go to Prom together.
Martha: So what, 당신 two just get together and mack, but keep it on the down-low in public?
Lois: I don't mean to be rude, Mrs. Kent, but, uh, did 당신 crack open the cooking sherry?
Martha: Of course not! I'm just super-pumped about Prom.
Clark: Lois, what's going on?
Lois: What do 당신 mean?
Clark: 당신 made us breakfast, you're offering to do chores. 당신 want something.
Lois: No. It's called being nice.
Clark: Yeah, well, if 당신 were any nicer, we'd starve.
Lois: Um… meet my sister Lucy. She was kind of hoping she could crash here for a couple days.
Lucy: I know it's last minute, but I had this school break, and I'm willing to sleep in the barn.
Clark: No, that's okay. Lois can sleep in the barn.
Lois: Actually, I kind of… hit him.
Clark: 당신 hit him? With your car?
Lois: [Sarcastic] No, with my fist.
Chloe: She's bringing 집 strays now, huh? [Chloe gets back to her feet] How is the new tenant?
Clark: Lois? Well, she, uh, re-recorded our answering machine, uses all the hot water, oh, and she took over my bedroom. She's doing great.
Clark: Just playing with Skippy here.
Lois: We're not gonna call him Skippy.
Clark: Okay, Lois, what would 당신 like to call him?
Clark: Hey, Lois. What are 당신 doing here? Why aren't 당신 at school?
Lois: We're having a surprise party for Chloe's 18th birthday in your barn, remember?
Clark: No. I remember telling 당신 당신 couldn't have it here.
Lois: [Handing the box to Clark] Too late now. Everyone's already been invited, and 당신 really don't want it getting back to Chloe that 당신 rained on her shindig. That would hurt her feelings.
Lois: Then I'd have to hurt you.
Clark: That wouldn't be the reason. Thanks, I don't really consider myself a geek.
Lois: So… what do 당신 see yourself as?
Clark: I don't know. An outsider, I guess.
Lois: [She laughs.] That's a recipe for wedgies if I've ever heard one.
Sam: Not to worry, though. I'm sure that Clark will be happy to show 당신 around.
Clark & Lois: [Worried.] Around where?
Sam: Bright and early tomorrow morning. [He turns back to them.] 당신 start 스몰빌 High.
Lois: Okay, Commando, I don't get you. Half the time, you're all meek "Yes, Ma" and "Yes, Pa", and the other half, 당신 are the most overconfident guy I've ever met.
Clark: It doesn't happen to 당신 much, does it? Not being able to peg someone right away?
Lois: Oh, get over yourself. 당신 are not that complicated.
Lois: Nothing like a little North 의해 Northwest action to get the blood pumping, huh?
Clark: [Embarrassed.] Um… we usually take turns in the bathroom.
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When the right girl comes into your life, 당신 will know.
She's allready in front of you...Hello?!
I'm the right girl Clark!
When the right girl comes into your life, she will tell 당신 she's the one.


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Without proper motivation, even simple things can be dull, difficult, and frustrating. Conroy offers three compelling motivations to serve God with all our heart. Each of us can choose the motivations of the flesh, or of the Spirit. Which will you choose?
Some of His greatest temptations were experienced when He was alone.
He was faced with these temptations when he was spending time in prayer.
The temptations came prior to great spiritual events.
Jesus taught the importance of saying no to the flesh and saying yes to God.
Jesus overcame by holding to the truth of God's words and not believing a lie.
Even though the struggle was very real and difficult, He was never given more than He could handle and He received strength from the angels that came and ministered to His needs.
Temptations always come from the devil, the enemy of God.
Jesus endured the temptations to the end and always came out with victory.
The most basic truth for Christians is that we need Jesus. But even this is sometimes forgotten in the monotony of daily life. With Biblical and historical examples, Conroy encourages us to renew our desire for Jesus' presence in our lives.
Click below to see Conroy's presentation to accompany his message.
Godly examples – to show life to each other.
Love – both giving and receiving this hallmark of Christ's disciples.
Our conscience – that basic understanding of right from wrong – is designed to draw us after what is good, but sometimes we can get confused. Conroy shares from Scripture and personal experience about what it takes to have a clear conscience, and the dangers of ignoring it.


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Grandchildren of former Israeli President Shimon Peres lay a wreath on the grave of their grandfather during the burial ceremony at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Shimon Peres funeral joins Israeli, Palestinian leaders — briefly. By Jeffrey Heller and Jeff Mason
Israeli and Palestinian leaders shook hands during a brief chat and U.S. President Barack Obama gently reminded them of the "unfinished business of peace" at the funeral Friday of Shimon Peres, the last of a generation of Israel's founding fathers.
SHIMON PERES: Israeli nationalist first, peacemaker second, by Maria Holt Analysis
Shimon Peres, often described as "the last of Israel's founding fathers", was popular in Israel and abroad, but his record in office was by no means unblemished. His reputation as one of the 20th century's great peacemakers needs to be put in perspective.
Putin, Grand Master of the Great Game, awaits next opponent, by Jonathan Manthorpe Column
When the new United States president moves into the Oval Office early next year, at the top of her foreign policy priorities will be what to do about Vladimir Putin.
Trump's tribe and an absence of poetry, by Tom Regan Column
When did the men in America – white men in particular – lose their sense of poetry? When did they stop being aware of the ebb and flow of life all around them, and lose that spark that separates those who are merely alive from those who are actually living? When did they settle on violence, brutality, and a nasty churlishness?
The Canadian roots of the indigenous equality rights declaration, by Penney Kome Column
Article 44 of the 2001 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The wording closely echoes Section 28 of Canada's 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms: "Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms referred to in it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons."
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Toxic Indian lake is cost of cheap drugs, by Zeba Siddiqui Report
Centuries ago, Indian princes would bathe in the cool Kazhipally lake in Medak. Now, critics say, hundreds of drug firms, lax oversight and inadequate water treatment has created a giant Petri dish for anti-microbial resistance in the storied waterway.
Rosetta completes space mission with a bang, by Victoria Bryan Report
The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic mission, crashing on the surface of the dusty, icy comet it has spent 12 years chasing in a hunt that has provided insight into the early days of the solar system and captured the public's imagination.
Reporting on child deaths leads to Indian mica mining crackdown, by Nita Bhalla and Jatindra Dash Report
Authorities in India have raided mica mines, arrested traders and begun steps to regulate the underground industry, local officials said, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation expose revealed a cover-up of child deaths in illegal mica mining.
On Capitalism and "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber Essay
In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that technology would have advanced sufficiently by century's end that countries like Great Britain or the United States would achieve a 15-hour work week. There's every reason to believe he was right. Why did Keynes' promised utopia never materialise?
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More Food No Answer to Africa's Hunger. Above, a Malawian subsistence farmer surveys her maize fields in Dowa near the capital Lilongwe, February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
Fresh works on Facts and Opinions this week:
Bush's War on Terror Unending, by Jonathan Manthorpe Column
Fifteen years ago George W. Bush launched the "War on Terror." It was an incalculable strategic mistake, and there is no end in sight.
Rage over Racism: America Asked For It, by Tom Regan Column
Many years ago, I was waiting in Boston's Park Street T-station on my way to Cambridge, when a group of African-American teenagers came down the stairs. They were a swarm of loud, boisterous kids. I had a white person's reaction. I felt myself tense. I moved away from the group. I gripped my luggage bag tighter. Honestly, I was a bit afraid. Then suddenly I caught myself.
Healing the Divide: Israelis help ill Palestinians, by Shaul Adar Magazine
Every day, hundreds of Israeli volunteers drive ill Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to hospitals in Israel. Shaul Adar joins them on the road and learns why they see their neighbourly help as a step on the journey to peaceful coexistence.
More Food No Answer to Africa's Hunger, by Alex Whiting
Thousands of people in Belgium demonstrate against new trade deals on September 20, 2016. Reuters/Eric Vidal
As a young university student of agriculture, Edie Mukiibi believed the latest hybrid seeds which promised bumper crops were the answer to improving the lot of maize farmers in his part of Uganda. But the consequences were "terrible", he said.
EU Bids to Seal Canada trade Pact as US Prospects Dim, by Philip Blenkinsop and Tatiana Jancarikova Report
EU ministers took steps to approve a contentious free trade deal with Canada, while France and Austria demanded that talks towards a similar agreement with the United States should stop. Both deals have triggered demonstrations.
Is the Environment Stuck in US Journalism's Basement? by Peter Dykstra Analysis
Environmental journalism has reached a certain maturity: Decades of quality, often courageous and ground-breaking reporting on life-or-death issues, an imperfect-but-enviable record of accuracy, and at least a dozen Pulitzer Prizes to show for it in the U.S. But some see another view.
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Here's a photo essay that no one should miss: Ethiopia, Albania, Australia, Finland, Peru and Spain are portrayed in a stunning production in Sunday's New York Times Magazine.
British Guardian writer George Monbiot takes on car culture this week in a piece titled, Carmageddon Beckons. Excerpt: "Global car production has almost doubled in ten years. The number of cars on Earth is expected to rise from 1.2bn to 2bn by 2035. Carmageddon beckons: a disaster for the climate, public health and our quality of life. Yet it is still treated as an indicator of economic success. We are told that this is about choice. But surely there should be a hierarchy of choice: the choice of whether or not to suffer a premature death should take precedence over our choice of transport …."
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Our regulars at F&O are taking a breather this Labour Day, to savour the last of summer and brace for the passage into fall and winter — a snowy and cold one, if the Farmer's Almanac has anything to say about it.
Our journal is a trove of thoughtful, informative and sometimes delightful stories — as those who browse our Dispatches and Commentary and Features well know. But when you're done here, for now, we have some recommendations elsewhere:
The Hive, a current installation at London's Kew Gardens, was inspired by scientific research into bee health and designed by Wolfgang Buttress for the UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo.
The lattice effect is created with thousands of pieces of aluminium and hundreds of LED lights that glow and fade as a unique soundtrack hums and buzzes. Watch the video below, and read about it in a Toronto Star piece, here. Photo: Kew Gardens
For the Big News file, the Guardian reports on the announcement by the United States and China — the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases — that they'll formally ratify the Paris climate change agreement. This is significant because, as the Guardian notes, "If the Paris agreement comes into force this year as hoped, it means the nearly 200 governments party to it will become obliged to meet emissions-cutting pledges made before the deal last December."
Frances Bula's piece, Miner to missionary: The Ross Beaty story Ross Beaty, is a good tale about someone who, instead of resting on their laurels (and millions), is trying to make a difference. Beaty, writes Bula, " was one of mining's giants before taking a green turn eight years ago to become the face of British Columbia's alternative energy sector. He's finding both his new industry–and his controversial new message for a "no-growth" way of life–a tough sell."
American Indians are gathering from throughout the country in rural North Dakota, to protest construction of a $3.7 billion pipeline on the plains. As the New York Times points out in a useful who/what/where/why, a web of 2.5 million miles of pipelines crisscrosses the country. This one has become a flash point, especially for aboriginal people. Perhaps, as High Country News writes, it's because "social media and broad anxieties over climate change are bringing more publicity."
As regular readers may have observed, F&O strives to avoid giving the oxygen of publicity to one unspeakable American presidential contender. I'll break that tradition, briefly, to suggest anyone watching the cage fight of American politics might almost find pity in their hearts for He Who Should Not Be Named after reading this pithy work by author and radio personality Garrison Keillor, in the Chicago Tribune, "When This if Over, You Will Have Nothing That You Want." Indeed.
Last but not least: as the Paralympics proceeds in Rio, shamefully unsung compared to the massive attention bestowed on the Olympics , have a read of this thoughtful plea by Olympian Deidra Dionne: The Olympic model is broken: An open letter to Thomas Bach. 'You understand that a $900 per diem is not the norm,' right?" Dionne writes. Well, no. If he understood, the IOC would be a different beast.
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Bed, seat and chaise lounge. Versatile and passepartout, it occupies very little space too. An object for the house which, as suggested by its name, hides a surprise inspired by a traditional concept of multifunction. With Ori Tami, Giulio Manzoni (2007) drew his inspiration from multifunctional tatami, the Japanese floor bed that is folded away every morning. This tatamihowever features Italian materials and technology. We are surprised to see how its original foldaway feature enables it to be converted with the elegance of an origami.
A convertible chair bed easily becomes a chaise lounge or a queen size bed. The frame is in steel and is padded in foamed polyurethane and polyester fibre. The fully removable cover is in coloured Lycra. The external part is covered in fabric coated with grey polyurethane.


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20 years later, Hanson's "Middle of Nowhere" stands the test of time
Bubblegum-pop, classic rock and power-pop influences make the preternaturally mature trio's major label bow endure
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2017/05/05/20-years-later-hansons-middle-of-nowhere-stands-the-test-of-time/
Annie Zaleski
May 6, 2017 2:59AM (UTC)
Music was in a transitional period in 1997. Grunge and Britpop had petered out, leaving alternative music to embrace an eclectic grab bag of sounds and styles. The Spice Girls were leading a new pop revolution that eventually bloomed into a boy-band and teen-pop movement. Nu-metal was lurking in the background, poised to take over the rock scene. And sentimental tributes — led by Elton John's Princess Diana-honoring "Candle in the Wind 1997" and Puff Daddy and Faith Evans' homage to the Notorious B.I.G., "I'll Be Missing You" — dominated the charts.
In other words, 1997 had plenty of openings for sounds that were (comparatively) a little more unorthodox. Enter Hanson, a trio of fresh-faced Oklahoma brothers who stormed the charts with "Mmmbop." The affable, bubblegum-pop tune spent three weeks at No. 1 in the U.S. and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Its nonsensical but irresistible chorus — lots of "doo wop," "duba dop" and "ba doo" sounds — also confounded linguists. The band's record company saw opportunity in the gibberish, however: In a 1997 People interview, Mercury Records' Steve Greenberg pointed out that the chorus "means the same thing in every language," which aided its global success.
"Mmmbop" was only one part of Hanson's world domination, however. On May 6, 1997, the band released its major label debut record, "Middle of Nowhere," which peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. album charts, spawned five worldwide hits and eventually went quadruple platinum.
On some level, the record represented a can't-fail proposition. Songwriting contributions come from Mark Hudson (who had collaborated closely with Aerosmith and Ringo Starr, among others), '80s hitmaker Desmond Child and the husband-wife musical powerhouse Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The record was also co-produced by the Dust Brothers, who were known for their work on Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" and Beck's "Odelay."
Thanks to this combination of players, "Middle of Nowhere" smartly toes the line between modern flourishes and timeless influences. "Speechless," for example, adds tasteful, DJ-like scribbles to soulful funk grooves and horns, while "Mmmbop" has whimsical-sounding programming underneath its gleeful pop surface. The album sounds contemporary without resorting to trend hopping, which is a tough thing to do.
Yet its embrace of timeless influences also helps "Middle of Nowhere" stand the test of time.For example, the joyful funk-rock songs "Where's the Love" and "Madeline" are comparable to the oeuvre of The Jackson 5. The record also touches on gauzy '70s soft rock ("Lucy") and pop-leaning '70s classic rock ("Thinking of You"), however, while power-pop signifiers saturate the sugar rush of "Man from Milwaukee" and the XTC-like "A Minute Without You." And "I Will Come to You" is the kind of epic, warm-and-fuzzy ballad that exudes sincerity without reservations.
In hindsight, "Middle of Nowhere" feels like a modern reproduction of a retro T-shirt — one with the iconography and intent of the original, only made with sturdier material. That's not a knock: At the time of its release, the record's vintage vibe felt like a refreshing breath of fresh air, and today it sounds both un-self-conscious and self-assured — a combination that's not that easy to sustain.
"Middle of Nowhere" isn't perfect, of course. Taylor Hanson's vocals haven't always matched the adult tone of the music. For example, on "Yearbook," his voice strains to match the somber grandeur of the strings. And the treacly tone of the record's ballads haven't aged well. But the brothers' harmonies are earnest and on point, and it never feels like the band is trying to be anything but itself.
It helps that the members of Hanson had a preternaturally mature outlook. "We used to always tease that we write happy sad songs," Isaac Hanson told Vulture last year. "Maybe some of that came from listening to a lot of old R&B and rock and roll." In the same interview, Taylor Hanson remarked that "Mmmbop" is "not exactly sunshine and rainbows, but it's packaged in a way that it's looking for the moral to the story" and is "optimism that's framed with realism."
Twenty years ago, the adult "Middle of the Road" collaborators in the band's orbit also respected the band's insights and didn't want the musicians to pander to the lowest common denominator. If anything, the young musicians helped older collaborators tap into different wells of emotion. Desmond Child, who co-wrote "Weird" with the band, once told Rolling Stone that the song is meaningful to him "because it's about being different — and I grew up poor, I grew up being Latin, I grew up being gay, and now I'm fat!"
Fans of course responded to the album and band. And critics saluted the record's complexities: A 1997 Entertainment Weekly review graded the album an A- and praised the band's "lack of guile," while a vintage Addicted to Noise review started off with the reviewer proclaiming that the record is "so far, my pick for 1997 Album Of The Year."
The recognition of Hanson's talent is remarkable. Bands with extraordinarily young musicians are often praised simply because the performers are young — a condescending move if there ever was one, as it undermines the caliber of their talent. Debbie Gibson, for example, wrote, performed and produced a No. 1 hit, "Foolish Beat," before the age of 18. Youth is often associated with novelty acts: Witness the 4-year-old French phenom Jordy, whose "Dur dur d'être bébé!" was a curio of the early '90s. Hanson could have easily been dismissed as a fluke — and "Middle of Nowhere" could have become a dated relic gathering dust in the dollar bin, like so many other popular '90s records.
But 2017 marks Hanson's 25th year as a band. The group is celebrating this milestone with a new Christmas album, a new studio record and tour dates, as well as participating in the fourth-annual Hop Jam Beer and Music Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Hanson has its own beer, an American pale ale called — wait for it — "Mmmhops" that Beer Advocate has given a score of 76.) This flurry of activity isn't even out of the ordinary: The members of Hanson keep a busy road and recording schedule and do an abundance of charity work. Although hard work, as well as loyal fans, has buoyed Hanson over the years, it's undeniable that "Middle of Nowhere" is ground zero for the band's fruitful career.
Annie Zaleski is a Cleveland-based journalist who writes regularly for The A.V. Club, and has also been published by Rolling Stone, Vulture, RBMA, Thrillist and Spin.
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Comedienne Sarah Silverman proves nothing's off limits with VILE 'jokes' she made in front of kids
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Comedienne Sarah Silverman was vile and repulsive… in other breaking news of the day, it was Monday.
It's hardly news that Silverman crossed normal lines of decency, after all, when talent is in short supply, shock value is at a premium, but what set her latest "performance" apart is that there were teen students in the room — not that she's likely to give a damn.
Silverman's offensive routine took place this week at the ArtsConnection 2016 Benefit Celebration, which is a charity gala for arts education in public schools, according to the New York Post's Page Six.
In an audience that included teenage students, Silverman talked about the smell of sperm and included "gags mentioning abortion, sexual assault, her dead dog and sex with boyfriend Michael Speen," the Post reported.
Students from MS 266 Park Place Community Middle School in Brooklyn also performed at the event.
Page Six seemingly made light of Silverman's crude act, which was described as "considerably dirty and outrageous," referring to the raunchy comedienne as "Sassy Silverman."
"At the end of the night, Silverman seemed to shock even the most hard-core New Yorkers with her limit-pushing new material," said a guest.
As for any push back from ArtsConnection, forget it.
"When you invite Sarah Silverman, you get Sarah Silverman," a representative said, according to the Post. "She was as brilliant and provocative as she always is."
As for the minors in the room, the rep took solace in the fact that they were seniors.
"The remaining students in the room during Sarah's performance were high school seniors," she explained.
Considering the event raised more than $900,000, don't expect any changes… looking on the bright side, at least she's not denigrating Jesus Christ this time.
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As a greatest-hits album, this awkwardly titled compilation features incarnations of Deep Purple so dissimilar that one could easily mistake this album for a various-artists collection. After all, singer Rod Evans isn't singer Ian Gillan and certainly not David Coverdale, whose appearance for "Burn" takes the band to the end of its dominance. "Kentucky Woman," "Hard Road," and "Hush" feature the earliest looks at the group, while "Space Truckin'," "Woman from Tokyo," "Smoke on the Water," and "Highway Star" feature the hard rock ensemble that became one of the early influences on heavy metal. Taken track for track, this is an excellent album; for a brief summary, it does the trick. Fan of the 45 single need this album. However, much of Deep Purple's charms were its excesses. People who love the musical chemistry between Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice should also own Machine Head and Made in Japan at minimum, while fans of the original band should focus on Shades of Deep Purple.


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Jackass Flat is  a suburb of the city of Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia. Jackass Flat is in the City of Greater Bendigo,  north of the Bendigo central business district.

History
At the 2006 census, Jackass Flat had a population of 224.  At the , Jackass Flat had a population of 1,141.

Ecology
Jackass Flat Nature Conservation Reserve, a  reserve was established in 1980.  It contains the rare Star-hair (Astrotricha linearis) and Shrub Violet (Hybanthus floribundus).

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Artist lineup announced for 2020 Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational
Award-winning artist Jane Hunt from Colorado will be painting Maui for the first time at the invitational.
LAHAINA – February will mark Maui Arts League's 15th year of staging the Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational. The 2020 draw of 24 award-winning landscape artists guarantees a high level of fine art for the community to enjoy.
Esteemed Hawaii landscape painters Mark Brown, Carleton, Mike Carroll, Michael Clements, Joe Fletcher and Ronaldo Macedo will be here to celebrate this milestone.
Nationally acclaimed artists back by "collectors' demand" are Suzie Baker of Texas; Greg Barnes of North Carolina; Hiu Lai Chong of Maryland; Ken DeWaard of Maine; James McGrew of Oregon; Morgan Samuel Price of Florida; Michele Usibelli of Washington; Leon Holmes of Perth, Australia; and Mark Fehlman, Calvin Liang, Terry Miura, David Savellano, Randall Sexton and Jim Wodark of California.
Acclaimed nationally but new to the event are California artists Danny Griego, Jeff Horn and Randall Stauss, and Colorado painter Jane Hunt.
For more information on these celebrated artists and their works, visit www.MauiArtsLeague.org/events.
The Plein Air Painting Invitational kicks off Saturday, Feb. 15, with a "Paint Out" at Lahaina Harbor. All 24 artists paint harbor scenes from 7:30 to 11 a.m. Visitors can watch artists create a finished artwork in under four hours; immediately, fresh originals go on sale at 11:30 a.m. in the Pioneer Inn courtyard. This family-friendly, educational event is inspirational for art lovers of any age.
The public will have five more opportunities to see original paintings of Maui by some of America's best outdoor landscape artists, including a ticketed gourmet banquet Friday, Feb. 21, and a free public gallery at Royal Lahaina Resort all day on Feb.22 and 23.
The Pioneer Inn will also host a public art history lecture by Jean Stern, executive director of the University of California's Irvine Museum Collection of the.
Maui Arts League is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to encourage art appreciation in the community and found a fine art museum on West Maui. MAL also provides art books for Maui schoolchildren, scholarships for graduating seniors pursuing higher art education and a free plein air workshop for Maui keiki at Campbell Park in Lahaina.
Maui Plein Air was founded by a group of Hawaii artists called "The Islanders," who wanted to showcase their works.
In 2005, Ronaldo Macedo of Lahaina and Saim Caglayon of Kauai spearheaded the first invitational, which took place at Village Galleries and ended with a bonfire party at the beach. Macedo still participates every year and provides guidance for the event.
Lois Reiswig was an early Maui Plein Air volunteer who offered to set up the nonprofit organization. Since then, with the help of a dedicated band of volunteers and community support, the weeklong event has developed the national prestige and draw it enjoys today.
In 2017, Tom Bell of Royal Lahaina Resort offered their ballroom space for this community art event. This 4,000- square-foot gallery allows art enthusiasts to view paintings both at a distance and up close. The space also accommodates a luxurious banquet, community art lectures, discussions and live demonstrations by artists.
"As we celebrate 15 years, we want to thank all the people who have attended and supported the Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational through the years," said Bryant Neal, 2020 event coordinator.
"Our sponsors, donors, collectors, volunteers and vendors share our love of art and understand how much it means to our community. Maui Arts League is grateful to be able to connect West Maui residents to the beauty of art."