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The Invincible Weeds
Location: Blight's Bay
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:59 am Post subject:
Blackjack wrote:
Also...Coral...accessories? ...Why would you do that, you power gamer?
Don't judge me. :( It was for no reason mostly. I had a lot of money at the time for some reason and figured I might as well.
Location: Circle Plateau
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:02 am Post subject:
If you have a lot of money, you're better off pimping out your stellar charts.
Can your science explain why it rains?
YES. YES IT CAN.
"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming." -- Myrna Loy
I totally forgot about that, but I guess I would have figured it out when I started getting higher level spells and nowhere to put them.
Blazing Camp
Ricardo? Rocks my world. In addition to being the most bad-assed party member ever, his skills are amazing. You know how Lucia's Oils had really useful abilities? Now picture the constant HP/MP recovery, and the Third Key effect, and the SP Restoration, and the Ability increases...in a game that is actually difficult. Plus you get a fun little song when you use them.
I agree, he's like a better version of Lucia. And that's saying alot because I hardly used Lucia in Sh:C.
I've yet to do Johnny's as I need to do some major Picture Hunting. Here's a tip for you. Make sure you always have at least one snap card of everything. Even after Trades, you'll want to keep one.
I suggest doing Johnny's sidequests for his other abilities. I find it that "Vacumn" is the key to reducing a enemy's stock guage, especioally useful in a tough boss fight *cough*Delget*cough*. From the side-quests you also get "Panoramic Lens" to make snap cards much easier to get.
Oh, no, dude. I'm talking about the actual sidequest dungeons. Like, the end of the game stuff. I did their ability stuff as they became available.
And I never once, ever used vacuum. I find it much better to just use an attack that has the hard hit type. Also, Delget was a joke. A Mirror Bracelet on Ricardo, a Meteor Shower on everyone else, and his only threatening ability just because a waste of a turn. :P
Oh my bad. I have'nt gotten that far yet.:P
I did'nt like using Hard Hit attacks that much because it takes up som stock from Johnny. I just prefer using the vacumn to get extra stock for him. Great way to rack up combos IMO.
Beethoven4567
Sacred Guards
Location: Crystal Valley
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:53 am Post subject:
What i don't like about Shadow Hearts 3 is that it is too much of a dungeon crawler than a traditional RPG. I mean, in the first two Shadow Hearts games, there was deep character development and an involving storyline. There is also a lot of emphasis put on reading dialogue between the main characters-something that SH 3 lacks. I mean, in SH 3, a lot of the plot and character development focuses on the relationship between Shania and Johnny, and much of the story focuses on these two.
In Final Fantasy VIII, there was many memorable dialogue between the characters, like when Seifer calls Zell a "chicken wuss". In SH 3, there is no such memorable scenes/dialogues between the party members. The storyline is always about Shania chasing after the evil lady and to me, it all semms so rushed. At least in Dragon Quest VIII, it wasn't all about chasing after Dhoulmagus all the time, as there are detours such as helping the Ascantha King.
Lastly, SH 3 lacks what the first two SH games have-a sense of exploration and adventure. No matter what you do in SH 3, it's all about Lady and Co. At least in the first two SH, there are many diversions and plot twists. Anyway, rant over. I hate dungeon crawlers. :(
"In war there is no substitute for victory"
The Flying Duckmen
Location: Valley of the Winds
Beethoven4567 wrote:
What i don't like about Shadow Hearts 3 is that it is too much of a dungeon crawler than a traditional RPG.
Er... aren't traditional RPGs dungeon crawlers?
I agree with you, though; Shadow Hearts: From the New World lacks the chemistry between the characters. It does not have relationships such as Anastasia-Joachim slapsticks nor Gepetto-Yuri pervertness. After Frank, Mao, Hilda and Ricardo joined the party, they were reduced into supporting characters who only commented here and there throughout the story. The Shania-Natan connection was not well exposed, making Natan just like a shadow of Shania. Frank-Mao had many potential but subsided after they joined permanently.
I am truly dissapointed with Hilda who started promising with her being a self-proclaimed heroine/magical girl but not having adequate scenes to emphasize it.
Scrooge McDuck wrote:
Yeah, of all the characters in SH 3, i like Hilda the most simply because she has a fun and quirky personality, unlike Shania who is just a woman obssessed with revenge and consumed with anger towards that particular villain. In my opinion, i would prefer if Hilda is this game's heroine, because Shania focuses too much on vengeance that she forgot the meaning of 'teamwork' and 'friendship'. She walks ahead of the party everytime she sees the villains while completely oblivious to the fact that without her party members/friends, she would be dead in an instant.
In the cutscenes, much of it focuses on what Shania and Johnny have to say, while Hilda only gets a few lines. The storyline in SH 3 seems rushed without any diversions in the plotline. In SH 2: Covenant, the character development is the best in the series, such as the relationship between Yuri and Karin, the love 'crush' that Anastasia has on Kurando, and the humor of Joachim.
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject:
I haven't finished this game yet and I do like it, but some things nag at me, a lot. But first, the likes: Ricardo, the battle system, returning minor characters (ring soul, etc), and the main character, Johnny. But since I cannot obviously dwell upon the positive for too long, goes against my values and all, I must continue on to the bad.
The storyline in SH 3 seems rushed without any diversions in the plotline.
Really? I thought it was just me. I've been playing this on and off since I've gotten back from my trip and I'm currently up to Aito Caves. I still don't quite have a clear picture of what I'm supposed to be doing. It seems to me that I just go through one dungeon after another and at the end, a window opens up and I kill something. Then, I rush off to the next dungeon/hotel/prison. At first, I had it in my mind that I'm after Gilbert, but then I have to save Capone, and then his sister, and for some odd reason I run off to chase a woman and some dude just because my psycho revenge woman wants to. I'm confused. Hopefully that'll clear up. But I'm really saddened that I saw Blackjack say the halfway story point was about at Las Vegas. WTF? You barely start playing and you're at Las Vegas. I hope the storyline isn't leading where I think it's leading or I may be done fairly soon. I hate really short games in general and that would be one tremendous strike against this one.
And now for some sarcasm. I am glad that they traded the perverted, but likeable tortured soul for the revenge focused nearly naked woman. Definitely more character development potential there. Oh, and I love the talking cat (am I the only one who finds the voice to be the snobby, masculine kind rather than feminine feline kind?) and promoting her acting career. I oh so love collecting those coins and fighting Mr. Miagi and the Terminator in the Pagoda of death (or whatever it's called).
Overall thus far, I find the characters lacking and the storyline not making sense while I'm actually playing it. I have to step back and think about it and then realize that the reason for me doing all that stuff in black above was because I was looking for that one guy (...that makes sense all right). I'm still enjoying the game though, don't get me wrong, but I'm a little disappointed with some of the details (and one of the not-so details).
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SNOWFLAKES ONLY LEAVE MEMORIES — The Reluctant Poet
By Charles Robert Lindholm Now is a snowflake of time that lands on your tongue you feel it you taste it it was real but then it is gone
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Sometimes the world's grey
So bring color into it
Make some works of art
William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose, by David Bruce
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David Bruce: Holocaust
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Preben Munch-Nielsen was 13 years old on April 9, 1940, when wave after wave of Nazi bombers flew over Denmark and dropped leaflets saying that German soldiers were going to occupy Denmark to protect its citizens from an Allied invasion. Of course, no one in Denmark had requested this "protection." Preben, like other Danish students, detested the Nazi occupation of their country, and he, like other Danish students, began to distribute underground newspapers that were critical of the Nazis. In 1942, a Danish police officer named Thormod Larsen saw him secretly distributing the underground newspaper and said, "You realize that you can be arrested for having copies of an illegal newspaper and for distributing them." Preben replied, "You can't believe anything the regular newspapers say because they only print what the Nazis want. So we need to print the truth. Why should that be a crime?" Officer Thormod asked, "Is the truth worth you risking the wrath of the Nazis?" Preben answered, "Doing the right thing is always worth the risk, sir." Preben was afraid that he would be arrested, but Officer Preben surprised him by smiling, taking one newspaper to read, and giving back to him the rest of the newspapers. Later, the Danes received word that the Nazis were going to start deporting all Danish Jews to concentration camps. Officer Thorson asked Preben, "Are you still delivering underground newspapers?" Preben admitted that he was, and Officer Thorson enlisted his help in saving Jews: "I have a job for you. There's a Jewish family who needs our help. Within an hour they'll arrive at the train station. Go there and meet them. Take them to Dr. Jorgen Gersfelt's home." Preben did that, and then he was ordered to the Snekkersten Inn, where he met members of the Elsinore Sewing Club. The purpose of the club was not sewing; instead, its purpose was saving Jews. Preben began delivering Jews first to safe houses and then to fishing boats that would take them to Sweden. This was dangerous work. The Nazis confiscated one Danish fishing boat because after it returned from a trip delivering Jews to Sweden, its fishing nets were dry. After that, Danish boats transferred Jews and dry nets to Swedish boats, and Swedish boats transferred fish and wet nets to Danish boats. Soon, Preben began making crossings on the fishing boat of Erling Kiaer. These heroes often paid a price for saving lives. Preben eventually had to go to Sweden to escape being arrested by the Nazis. The Nazis shot Officer Thorson, but he was taken to a hospital where he recovered. The Nazis captured Erling Kiaer on May 11, 1944, and they imprisoned and tortured him for nearly a year, but he lived to be free again. Erling Kiaer's fishing boat is now on permanent display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. That fishing boat carried an estimated 1,400 refugees to Sweden. Why did Preben and other Danes act to save Denmark's Jews, 99 percent of whom survived the Holocaust? Preben once said, "You can't turn your back on people who need your help. It's a matter of decency."
During the Holocaust, Jews were sometimes able to escape being sent to concentration camps by hiding in the woods — and sometimes in caves. In the Ukraine, several Jews (mainly three families — the Stermers, the Dodyks, and the Kurzes) hid for months at a time in two separate caves. Some of the Jews left at night in order to get food and supplies, but some stayed underground the entire time. Esther Stermer and her family were among these Jews hiding from the Germans. She said to her oldest son, "We are not going to the ghetto. We are not going to go to the slaughterhouse. Go into the forest, find a hole, any hole, any place." They did find a hole that led to a cave. Esther and most of the Jews survived, although they had to move from one cave to another after the Germans found them. Her strong spirit and the loyalty of her family and of the other Jewish families kept them alive in the worst times possible. After the Russian army arrived (the Russians and the Americans were among the Allies fighting the Germans), they left the cave. Pepkale Dodyk, who was one of the children in the cave, had forgotten about the sun, and because it was so bright, she asked her mother to put out the light. They entered a Displaced Persons camp. Eventually, the Stermers came to the United States, where Esther wrote a book in Yiddish about their survival. In 1973, the book, We Fight to Survive, was privately printed in English. In this book, she wrote, "The world had turned animal — or worse. Every day conditions became worse. Death stalked each step … But we were not surrendering to this fate. Our family in particular would not let the Germans have their way easily. We had vigor, ingenuity, and determination. Above all our family would stand together."
Marion Pritchard helped save 150 Dutch Jewish adults and (mostly) children during the Holocaust. Once, she hid some children under some floorboards in her house while a Dutch police officer and three Nazis searched her house. After the men had left, she let the children out of their hiding place — and the tricky Dutch police officer returned, alone, and saw the children. She shot and killed him. Karel Poons, a Jewish ballet dancer, came to her aid. Despite the curfew, and although he might have been killed if he had been caught, he walked to the village and spoke to the baker, who agreed to come and remove the corpse of the slain Dutch police officer. Ms. Pritchard took an active role in saving Jewish children, and other people helped in smaller ways. Some people knew that other people were hiding Jewish children, but they kept quiet and did not turn them in. The man who delivered milk to her house guessed that she was hiding Jewish children, and every day he left her some extra milk.
"I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it…" — Elie Wiesel (Night)
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Siegfried Sassoon: In the Pink
SO Davies wrote: 'This leaves me in the pink'.
Then scrawled his name: 'Your loving sweetheart, Willie'.
With crosses for a hug. He'd had a drink
Of rum and tea; and, though the barn was chilly,
For once his blood ran warm; he had pay to spend.
Winter was passing; soon the year would mend.
But he couldn't sleep that night; stiff in the dark
He groaned and thought of Sundays at the farm,
And how he'd go as cheerful as a lark
In his best suit, to wander arm in arm
With brown-eyed Gwen, and whisper in her ear
The simple, silly things she liked to hear.
And then he thought: to-morrow night we trudge
Up to the trenches, and my boots are rotten.
Five miles of stodgy clay and freezing sludge,
And everything but wretchedness forgotten.
To-night he's in the pink; but soon he'll die.
And still the war goes on—he don't know why.
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The 23rd Psalm (King James Version)
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
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Kelly Kessler of Web Development Cohort 49 shares that her passion is well-crafted work, and her focus is full-stack development. When it was time for a career change she came to Nashville Software School to learn how to take her core values of continued learning and teamwork and turn them into a career in tech. "With a background in the music industry, visual arts, education and communications, I have soft skills the size of Wyoming," she laughs.
Why did you choose to attend NSS?
"I chose this school because of its mission, [non-profit] status, engagement with the tech community, and commitment to training folks from underrepresented communities for careers in tech. I chose to become a developer because it's a path where I can flex my curiosity and creative thinking while collaborating with others to build something."
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What advice would you give to current or incoming NSS Web Development students?
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"The Blob" Criterion collection DVD review
"the blob" collection criterion review
Richard W. Haines
· Senior Shackster
"The Blob" became one of the quintessential fifties' sci fi films by the time it was
re-issued in the sixties. It's also one of the movies that inspired me to become
a filmmaker. It's the classic indie dream. Jack Harris produced this low budget
feature for $100,000 starring an unknown young actor named Steve McQueen
and keeping the plot simple and realistic. A meteor lands from outer space with
a red single cell ameoba type of creature that absorbs all life forms and keeps
getting bigger and bigger. The teenagers who find it finally discover it's only
weakness. It's afraid of the cold. They end up freezing the creature before it absorbs
all the lifeform on earth. The story attempts to combine the two popular trends,
monsters from outer space and juvenile deliquency. Except that the 'delinquents'
in this film turn out to be the 'good guys' which was something different for the
era.
Harris showed it to Paramount which offered him a licensing fee three times what
he had spent on the budget so he turned a profit before it was released. The movie
turned out to be a cult hit and the distribution agreement was short term and the
rights returned to the producer who then re-issued it after McQueen had become
a superstar and made even more money on the revival. Then it was sold to syndication
where it played throughout the sixties and seventies on TV.
It's certainly not 'artistic' which is why you're probably wondering why Criterion decided
to release it. Well apparently the company is also concerned with marketing historically
important movies, not just film school classics and they should be commended for their
efforts. This version is certainly the best the movie has ever looked. Although there
is a slight overall grain to the image, that's not surprising considering how cheaply it
was made. The production value and cinematography are fine along with the primitive
but effective special effects.
Of course most of the cast members are much too old to be teenagers but
that's been a Hollywood staple throughout it's history. Who wants to hire minors without
any experience on a low budget picture? Add to that tutors to keep their education going
during the shoot.
McQueen is okay in his first starring role. He always looked about a decade older than he
really was because of a rough childhood but if you can get past his age, you can see some
of the tough guy mannerisms he would adopt for his later roles. The female lead ended up
playing Andy Griffith's wife (Miss Crump) in his show a decade later. The rest of the cast
are character actors who contribute to the plausibility of the improbable premise.
The film became very influential on a number of levels. It's success inspired other indies
like Roger Corman to make interesting low budget features that still had professional
specs (Poe series) as well as later directors like George Romero ("Night of the Living Dead")
In fact the premise of the Zombie film is identical with a space probe landing on earth
causing havoc in a small community.
Perhaps the quirkiest bit in the film is the animated credit sequence. Harris hired a young
songwriter named, Burt Bacharach, to create the campy title tune which became a hit single.
The problem is that it suggests the movie is a comedy or lampoon when it isn't. Still, it's
one of the things the picture is remembered for. The monster at loose in a theater was
later utilized by William Castle in the climax of "The Tingler" the next year.
The DVD case contains a miniature poster which was a nice touch. The commentary tracks include
the producer, a historian and one of the actors. Harris still has a deep resonant voice despite
his age and he gave details of how indie films were distributed back then on a 'states rights'
basis which was very informative. The way it worked in the fifties and sixties is that a booker
could license the rights to show a feature in their territory (a number of states) and it would
be up to them to promote and market it. Back then they tried all kinds of gimmicks to get
people into a cinema and it was probably a lot fun for the participants. Harris was among
the local states rights distributors who thought he could produce a movie as good as the ones
he was already marketing and he turned out to be right. The advantage of states rights marketing
is a booker could cater to an individual city or town. Midnight shows, radio promos and contests
using local DJs and other media to help in the hoopla. Moviegoing was more of an event than it is now
where all movies are released nationally in two or three thousand megaplexes on a hit and run basis
before coming out on DVD and cable shortly afterwards.
He also notes how difficult McQueen was to work with even
on his very first feature. Harris did get one thing wrong. He claimed the release prints of "The
Blob" were done at DeLuxe labs when in fact they did a print run in the dye transfer process
at Technicolor. At least two Technicolor prints are in film collector's hands although Harris
wouldn't know that unless he was familiar with those circles.
This is an expensive disc but if you like the movie or are nostalgic for fifties sci fi/horror
this is the best quality you can obtain on the title, at least until it's released on blu ray.
Don't forget to pop your mouth with your finger during the title tune...
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Q: Rotating the graph of a function I think I have answered the following puzzle:

Rotations
Under what conditions can you rotate the graph of a function about the origin, and still have the resulting graph being the graph of a function? If the graph of a function cannot be rotated about the origin without ceasing to be the graph of a function, might there be other points which could act as centre of rotation and preserve the property of being the graph of a function?

I think the answer is that the function has to be a line. Otherwise we can find an angle which lets us rotate the graph so that one $x$ maps to two $y$s.
Question: Is this correct? And if yes, how can I prove it?

A: For any set of points on the plane $\mathbb R^2$, there's at least one angle by which it can be rotated so that the result is not a graph of a function from $\mathbb R$ to $\mathbb R$.
Specifically, let $A$ and $B$ be any two distinct points in the set, and rotate the set so that the line $AB$ becomes vertical.  Now the images of $A$ and $B$ share the same $x$ coordinate but have different $y$ coordinates, which contradicts the requirement that a function should map each $x$ value to a single $y$ value.
(If the set of points does not contain two distinct points, then it is either a singleton or empty; neither of these can be the graph of a function from $\mathbb R$ to $\mathbb R$ in any orientation.)

However, the question you quote doesn't explicitly say that the graph would have to remain a graph of a function under any rotation; instead, I'd read it as asking about whether, given a function $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ and an angle $\alpha$, the graph of $f$ rotated by $\alpha$ is a graph of some function $g: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$.
This seems a more complicated question, although it's easy to find sufficient conditions: for example, $\alpha \equiv 0 \pmod{2\pi}$ obviously works for any $f$, and, as you note, for functions of the form $f(x) = ax + b$ any value of $\alpha$ except $\alpha \equiv \frac\pi 2 - \arctan a \pmod\pi$ will produce the graph of another function of the same form.
More generally, if $f$ is Lipschitz continuous with Lipschitz constant $K$, then its graph can be rotated by any angle of the form $\alpha + n\pi$, where $|\alpha| < \frac \pi 2 - \arctan K$ and $n$ is an integer, so that the result is still the graph of a function.  In particular, the function $f(x) = \sin x$ mentioned by Henning is Lipschitz continuous with $K = 1$.
In fact, we can generalize this slightly:
Definition: We'll say a function $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ is $(J,K)$ skew Lipschitz continuous if there exist constants $J,K \in \mathbb R$ such that, for all distinct $x_1,x_2 \in \mathbb R$, $$J \le \frac{f(x_1)-f(x_2)}{x_1-x_2} \le K.$$
(In particular, any $K$-Lipschitz continuous function $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ is $(-K,K)$ skew Lipschitz continuous.)
Claim: Rotating the graph of a $(J,K)$ skew Lipschitz continuous function by an angle $\alpha + n\pi$, where $$-\frac\pi2-\eta < \alpha < \frac\pi2-\theta$$ $\eta=\arctan J$, $\theta=\arctan K$ and $n$ is an integer, yields the graph of a $(J',K')$ skew Lipschitz function, where $J' = \tan(\alpha+n\pi+\eta)$ and $K'=\tan(\alpha+n\pi+\theta)$.
(Proof left as an exercise.)
I believe this is getting close to a sufficient and necessary condition, at least for continuous and differentiable functions, although there remain some edge cases to be taken care of: for instance, rotating the graph of a $(J,K)$ skew Lipschitz function $f$ by exactly $\alpha = \frac\pi2-\arctan K$ may or may not yield the graph of a function, even if $K$ is the smallest upper skew Lipschitz constant for $f$; it depends on whether the equality $\frac{f(x_1)-f(x_2)}{x_1-x_2}=K$ is ever actually attained, or only approached from below.

The second part of the question is easy to answer, though: the center of rotation does not matter.  To see why, note that rotation around any point $A$ can be decomposed into translation of $A$ to the origin, rotation around the origin and translation of the origin back to $A$.  And since the graph of a function remains the graph of a function under translation, only the rotation matters.

A: Another interpretation of the question is whether there is some nontrivial angle the graph can be rotated and still stay a graph. This is somewhat more interesting than whether all angles work -- for example the graph of $\sin x$ can be rotated by up to $\pi/4$ and still stay a graph of something.
For the second part of the question note that rotation about a non-origin can always be decomposed into a rotation about the origin and a translation in the plane. Translations clearly don't change whether a set of points is the graph of some function.

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Matsudaira Yoritsune (jap. ; * 5. Mai 1907 in Koishikawa, Stadt Tokio (heute: Bunkyō, Tokio); † 30. Oktober 2001 in Tokio) war ein japanischer Komponist.

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Matsudaira ist der älteste Sohn des früheren Vizegrafen (Shishaku) Matsudaira Yorinari und Enkel des Fürsten (Daimyō) Matsudaira Yorifumi. Er studierte bei Alexander Tscherepnin Komposition und bei Henri Emile Gil-Marchex Klavier. Seine Kompositionen fanden rasch in Europa Anklang, Herbert von Karajan dirigierte 1952 sein Thème et variations in Wien, Pierre Boulez führte 1958 seine Figures sonores in Paris auf. Beim XXVIII. Festival der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (ISCM World Music Days) 1954 in Haifa erhielt er einen ersten Preis für Metamorphoses d'apres Saibara. An den ISCM World Music Days wurden seine Werke 1952, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1980 und 1991 gespielt; darunter die Uraufführungen von Figures Sonores für Orchester 1957 in Zürich, Mouvements Circulatoires in 1972 Graz und Prélude 1980 in Israel. 1962 erhielt er beim Internationalen Komponistenwettbewerb in Rom den ersten Preis für das Werk Bugaku.

Matsudaira gehörte 1930 zu den Gründungsmitgliedern des Shinkō Sakkyokuka Renmei (, dt. "Union der Komponisten neuer Tendenz"). Seit 1953 war er Sekretär, von 1956 bis 1960 Präsident der japanischen Sektion der IGNM.

Matsudaira komponierte eine Oper (Genji Monogatari, Die Geschichte vom Prinzen Genji, 1990–93, Teile davon wurden bei den ISCM World Music Days 1991 in Zürich aufgeführt), Konzerte, Serenaden, Chorwerke und Lieder. Er verwendete teils europäische, teils auch traditionelle japanische Instrumente.
1996 wurde er zum Bunka Kōrōsha, zur Person mit besonderen kulturellen Verdiensten, ernannt.

Auch sein Sohn Yoriaki (1931–2023) wurde als Komponist bekannt.

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Q: how to duplicate openssl_encrypt? I was hoping someone had already implemented this in golang as I am far from even good at cryptography. However in porting a project from php to golang I have run into an issue with porting the openssl_encrypt method found here. I have also dug into the source code a little with no avail.
Here is the method I have implemented in golang. which gives me the output
lvb7JwaI4OCYUrdJMm8Q9uDd9rIILnvbZKJb/ozFbwCmLKkxoJN5Zf/ODOJ/RGq5

Here is the output I need when using php.
lvb7JwaI4OCYUrdJMm8Q9uDd9rIILnvbZKJb/ozFbwDV98XaJjvzEjBQp7jc+2DH

And here is the function I used to generate it with php.
$data = "This is some text I want to encrypt";
$method = "aes-256-cbc";
$password = "This is a really long key and su";
$options = 0;
$iv = "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM";

echo openssl_encrypt($data, $method, $password, $options, $iv);

To me it looks like it is very close and I must be missing something obvious.

A: You were very close, but you had the padding wrong.  According to this answer (and the PHP docs), PHP uses the default OpenSSL padding behavior, which is to use the required number of padding bytes as the padding byte value.
The only change I made was:
copy(plaintextblock[length:], bytes.Repeat([]byte{uint8(extendBlock)}, extendBlock))

You can see the full updated code here.

A: Others beat me to the answer while I was playing with it, but I have a "better" fixed version of your example code that also takes into account that padding is always required (at least to emulate what the php code does).
It also shows the openssl command line that you'd use to do the same thing, and if available runs it (of course the playground won't).
package main

import (
    "crypto/aes"
    "crypto/cipher"
    "encoding/base64"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "os/exec"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    const input = "This is some text I want to encrypt"
    fmt.Println(opensslCommand(input))
    fmt.Println(aesCBCenctypt(input))
}

func aesCBCenctypt(input string) string {
    // Of course real IVs should be from crypto/rand
    iv := []byte("MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM")
    // And real keys should be from something like PBKDF2, RFC 2898.
    // E.g. use golang.org/x/crypto/pbkdf2 to turn a
    // "passphrase" into a key.
    key := []byte("This is a really long key and su")

    // Make sure the block size is a multiple of aes.BlockSize
    // Pad to aes.BlockSize using the pad length as the padding
    // byte. If we would otherwise need no padding we instead
    // pad an entire extra block.
    pad := (aes.BlockSize - len(input)%aes.BlockSize)
    if pad == 0 {
        pad = aes.BlockSize
    }
    data := make([]byte, len(input)+pad)
    copy(data, input)
    for i := len(input); i < len(input)+pad; i++ {
        data[i] = byte(pad)
    }

    cb, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalln("error NewCipher():", err)
    }

    mode := cipher.NewCBCEncrypter(cb, iv)
    mode.CryptBlocks(data, data)
    return base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(data)
}

// Just for comparison, don't do this for real!
func opensslCommand(input string) string {
    iv := []byte("MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM")
    key := []byte("This is a really long key and su")

    args := []string{"enc", "-aes-256-cbc", "-base64"}
    // "-nosalt", "-nopad"
    args = append(args, "-iv", fmt.Sprintf("%X", iv))
    args = append(args, "-K", fmt.Sprintf("%X", key))

    cmd := exec.Command("openssl", args...)
    // Show how you could do this via the command line:
    fmt.Println("Command:", strings.Join(cmd.Args, " "))

    cmd.Stdin = strings.NewReader(input)
    result, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
    if err != nil {
        if e, ok := err.(*exec.Error); ok && e.Err == exec.ErrNotFound {
            // openssl not available
            return err.Error() // XXX
        }
        // some other error, show it and the (error?) output and die
        fmt.Println("cmd error:", err)
        log.Fatalf("result %q", result)
    }
    // Strip trailing '\n' and return it.
    if n := len(result) - 1; result[n] == '\n' {
        result = result[:n]
    }
    return string(result)
}

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Utacapnia is a genus of small winter stoneflies in the family Capniidae. There are about 11 described species in Utacapnia, found primarily in the Rocky Mountains of North America.  Most species in this genus were first described by Alan V. Nebeker and Arden R. Gaufin.

Species
These 11 species belong to the genus Utacapnia:
 Utacapnia columbiana (Claassen, 1924) i c g
 Utacapnia distincta (Frison, 1937) i c g
 Utacapnia imbera (Nebeker and Gaufin, 1965) i c g
 Utacapnia labradora (Ricker, 1954) i c g
 Utacapnia lemoniana (Nebeker and Gaufin, 1965) i c g
 Utacapnia logana (Nebeker and Gaufin, 1965) i c g
 Utacapnia nedia (Nebeker & Gaufin, 1966) c g
 Utacapnia poda (Nebeker and Gaufin, 1965) i c g
 Utacapnia sierra (Nebeker and Gaufin, 1965) i c g
 Utacapnia tahoensis (Nebeker and Gaufin, 1965) i c g
 Utacapnia trava (Nebeker & Gaufin, 1965) i c g b (Yellowstone snowfly)
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Academic journal article Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Inflation and Unemployment: A Layperson's Guide to the Phillips Curve
By Lacker, Jeffrey M.; Weinberg, John A.
What do you remember from the economics class you took in college? Even if you didn't take economics, what basic ideas do you think are important for understanding the way markets work? In either case, one thing you might come up with is that when the demand for a good rises-when more and more people want more and more of that good- its price will tend to increase. This basic piece of economic logic helps us understand the phenomena we observe in many specific markets-from the tendency of gasoline prices to rise as the summer sets in and people hit the road on their family vacations, to the tendency for last year's styles to fall in price as consumers turn to the new fashions.
This notion paints a picture of the price of a good moving together in the same direction with its quantity-when people are buying more, its price is rising. Of course supply matters, too, and thinking about variations in supply- goods becoming more or less plentiful or more or less costly to produce- complicates the picture. But in many cases such as the examples above, we might expect movements up and down in demand to happen more frequently than movements in supply. Certainly for goods produced by a stable industry in an environment of little technological change, we would expect that many movements in price and quantity are driven by movements in demand, which would cause price and quantity to move up and down together. Common sense suggests that this logic would carry over to how one thinks about not only the price of one good but also the prices of all goods. Should an average measure of all prices in the economy-the consumer price index, for example-be expected to move up when our total measures of goods produced and consumed rise? And should faster growth in these quantities-as measured, say, by gross domestic product-be accompanied by faster increases in prices? That is, should inflation move up and down with real economic growth?
The simple intuition behind this series of questions is seriously incomplete as a description of the behavior of prices and quantities at the macroeconomic level. But it does form the basis for an idea at the heart of much macroeconomic policy analysis for at least a half century. This idea is called the "Phillips curve," and it embodies a hypothesis about the relationship between inflation and real economic variables. It is usually stated not in terms of the positive relationship between inflation and growth but in terms of a negative relationship between inflation and unemployment. Since faster growth often means more intensive utilization of an economy's resources, faster growth will be expected to come with falling unemployment. Hence, faster inflation is associated with lower unemployment. In this form, the Phillips curve looks like the expression of a tradeoff between two bad economic outcomes-reducing inflation requires accepting higher unemployment.
The first important observation about this relationship is that the simple intuition described at the beginning of this essay is not immediately applicable at the level of the economy-wide price level. That intuition is built on the workings of supply and demand in setting the quantity and price of a specific good. The price of that specific good is best understood as a relative price- the price of that good compared to the prices of other goods. By contrast, inflation is the rate of change of the general level of all prices. Recognizing this distinction does not mean that rising demand for all goods-that is, rising aggregate demand-would not make all prices rise. Rather, the important implication of this distinction is that it focuses attention on what, besides people's underlying desire for more goods and services, might drive a general increase in all prices. The other key factor is the supply of money in the economy.
Economic decisions of producers and consumers are driven by relative prices: a rising price of bagels relative to doughnuts might prompt a baker to shift production away from doughnuts and toward bagels. …
Publication: Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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The 10 Best Law Schools in Canada
When it comes to the great North American law schools, the American Ivy League schools leap to mind.
But future lawyers don't need to limit themselves to Harvard or Yale to pursue their education, nor must they choose a school in the United States.
Canada has a long and proud tradition of providing outstanding legal education to students across the country.
The best Canadian law schools offer all of the resources you would expect. All of them offer pro bono clinics, in which students can gain hands-on experience practicing the law while also helping members of their community.
Many of them publish law journals and house research initiatives that cover everything from family law to international trade.
But these schools set themselves apart with approaches unique to Canada. In particular, many of these law schools reflect the bijural nature of the country, engaging with its French and English history.
Thanks to these unique programs and each school's devotion to scholarly work and legal service, Canada offers a fine selection of law schools.
With so many options, it can be hard to choose. That's why we've put together this list of the ten best schools in the country. Looking at their offerings, history, alumni, and more, we've compiled this list to help anyone looking to study law in the Great White North.
Here are the 10 best law schools in Canada.
10. University of Laval Faculty of Law (Quebec City, QC)
Judicieux, Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, CC BY-SA 4.0
Established in 1852, the Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval at the Université Laval is one of North America's oldest law schools.
The more than 1000 students at Laval Law study the legal complexities surrounding issues such as economics, environmental law, and international trade.
With such a grand history, Laval Law has trained several important figures in the Canadian legal and political systems.
Many justices on the Supreme Court of Canada graduated from Laval Law, including Suzanne Côté, the first woman appointed directly from private practice.
Canadian prime ministers Louis St. Laurent, Brian Mulroney, and Jean Chrétien studied at Laval Law, as did Premiers of Quebec Jean Lesage and Lucien Bouchard.
Despite this vaunted history, Laval Law remains committed to engaging with the public. The school regularly hosts lectures and programs for the community to learn about the law.
Webinars and online conferences give students and community members access to some of the best legal minds in the country.
With all these resources in place, Laval Law continues the work it's been doing for over 150 years: serving the legal needs of the people of Quebec, and Canada as a whole.
9. University of Victoria Faculty of Law (Victoria, BC)
The Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria earns its high rank thanks to its many centers and programs designed to give students specialized training.
For twenty-five years, the school's Environmental Law Centre has supported environmental groups in Victoria and beyond with legal information and assistance.
Working alongside groups such as the West Coast Environmental Law and Probe International, the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, and more, the Centre works to implement sustainability initiatives.
The Environmental Law Centre is part of the school's focus on Canadian Indigenous law issues. Not only does Victoria Law feature an endowed Professorship in Aboriginal Justice and Governance, but it also works to recruit aboriginal students.
At the school's annual Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Camp, students work on local reserves to engage with the concerns and needs of the indigenous community of Victoria.
Victoria Law's co-op education program allows students to gain real-world experience while continuing their studies.
In addition to getting placement in private and public firms, students can also serve worldwide in programs in Mongolia, France, Thailand, and more.
8. Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law (Halifax, NS)
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The oldest common law school housed at a Canadian university, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University has existed since 1883.
Thanks to support such as a $20 million endowment from philanthropist Seymour Schulich, the school has become the largest law school in Atlantic Canada.
With an acceptance rate of only 13%, Schulich Law is one of the most selective schools in the nation.
Only those who have excellent grades and remarkable experience in employment and extracurriculars gain acceptance. Furthermore, the school takes measures to cultivate a diverse student body.
To that end, the Indigenous Blacks & Mi'kmaq Initiative takes active steps to recruit students from underprivileged communities.
Furthermore, the program encourages scholarship regarding legal concerns of the Aboriginal and African Canadian populations.
Third-year students at the school can gain practical experience by working in the Dalhousie Legal Aid Service. Since 1970, the Service has aided those in the Halifax area. Working alongside established lawyers and community leaders, students develop their skills in the Service while improving the lives of the people in Halifax.
With all these initiatives, Schulich Law takes its commitment to the legal needs in Atlantic Canada seriously.
7. University of Montreal Faculty of Law (Montreal, QC)
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More than any other Canadian province, Quebec consists of two cultures, primarily Francophone wrapped around English influences.
To address the needs of its community, the Faculty of Law at the University of Montreal explores both legal traditions, completely embracing its bijural and bilingual context.
Perhaps the most influential element of the Faculty is its law journal, the Revue Juridique Thémis de l'Université de Montréal. Thanks to the contributions of faculty, students, and practicing lawyers, the Revue has become one of the most influential journals in North America.
The Faculty supports the community with initiatives such as the Centre de recherche en droit public (the Public Law Research Centre).
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching and practice of law, the Centre allows students to gain hands-on experience while engaging with the concerns of the day.
The Centre's research focuses on the intersection between law and information technologies, the communal effects of the connections between law and biotechnologies, and the law's effect on new social relationships. The Centre publishes its findings in Lex Electronica, a bilingual electronic law review.
Thanks to these initiatives, Montreal Law serves the legal needs of both of its communities.
6. University of Alberta Faculty of Law (Edmonton, AB)
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The third-oldest school on this list, the University of Alberta Faculty of Law made a name for itself thanks to its rigorous curriculum and the success of its alumni.
Not only does Alberta Law count among its faculty the Right Honourable Beverly McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, and the Honourable Madame Catherine Fraser, the Chief Justice of Alberta, but 95% of its graduates find positions within the field.
Alberta Law continues to improve its curriculum thanks to new initiatives such as the Launchpad into Law program.
Designed to help first-year Indigenous law students become familiar with Indigenous laws and their relationship to Canadian common law, the program has earned praise from students and observers. The program empowers students to bring their culture to the study and practice of Canadian law.
With this work in place, Alberta Law faculty and students have provided new ways of engaging with Canadian law.
In a 2021 issue of the Canadian Native Law Reporter, Assistant Professor Hadley Friedland and Ph.D. student Naiomi Metallic published the article "Judicial Tales Retold: Reimagining Indigenous Rights Jurisprudence."
The article reimagines the relationship between Canadian common law and Indigenous law by rewriting Supreme Court decisions from the perspective of a fictional Indigenous Nations Court.
These initiatives build upon the work done by Alberta Law's existing institutes and centres. The Alberta Law Reform Institute works to make Canadian law more just and equitable by providing policy briefs and examining assumptions built into current laws.
5. Queen's University Faculty of Law (Kingston, ON)
Although the Faculty of Law was established only in 1957, the law has been a primary subject at Queen's University since 1861. Its professors continue to shape Canadian legal life, as they regularly receive citations in decisions across the country.
But despite the school's respected academic pedigree, Queen's Law is known for its emphasis on practical experience. Students have the opportunity to apply their learning in one of any number of institutions and centres.
Low-income residents of Kingston and the surrounding areas benefit from Queen's Legal Aid.
Working alongside experienced lawyers, student caseworkers take on problems experienced by citizens. Cases include everything from Small Claims Court disputes, Social Benefits Tribunal Hearings, arguments before the Landlord and Tenant Board, and more.
The Queen's Elder Law Clinic offers free legal counseling and services to low-income seniors throughout southeastern Ontario. Students work at the clinic as part of a two-semester course in public service. Under the guidance of their faculty mentors, students receive hands-on training and the opportunity to serve their community.
With these and other clinics, students take their studies from the classroom to the real world, where they become real parts of everyday life.
4. York University Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto, ON)
Home to the Law Commission of Ontario, the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University is one of the most respected law schools in the world.
That reputation partly stems from the work published by the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Since 1958, the Osgoode Journal has been the site of some of the country's most influential legal scholarship.
But Osgoode also earned esteem with its unique approach to the teaching and practice of Law.
That approach can be seen in initiatives such as the school's Art in Law project.
Since 2011, Osgoode has worked to integrate artistic works into its buildings. Approaching art as a medium to explore the complexities of the law, the project approaches paintings, sculptures, and more as a means to humanize law.
Current initiatives include the Aboriginal Art Project. Osgoode commissioned a pair of works from Gitxsan First Nations woodcarver Ya'Ya (Charles) Heit to represent the ability of law to offer healing and recognition.
3. University of Toronto Faculty of Law (Toronto, ON)
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In addition to coming in at number three on our list, the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto regularly receives top rankings as the best Common Law school in Canada, and one of the nation's most selective.
In addition to training four out the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, more than any other law school, Toronto Law has graduated a number of influential people in the country.
Fourteen total Supreme Court Justices studied at Toronto Law, as well as two Toronto Mayors, two Ontario Premiers, and former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Part of the reason that Toronto Law students have gone on to such success is that they study under esteemed faculty.
Professor Mohammad Fadel is a leader on Islamic law in Canada, has published in many major journals, and served at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics. Professor Kent Roach focuses on criminal law and won a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship in 2013.
The school's Distinguished Visitors program brings in experts worldwide, including Tsinghua University Dean Zhenmin Wang and Supreme Court of Israel President Aharon Barak.
2. McGill University Faculty of Law (Montreal, QC)
Jeangagnon, McGill University downtown campus, CC BY-SA 3.0
Considered by many to be the best university in Canada and one of the most impressive in the world, McGill University's Faculty of Law is our pick for the number two law school in the country. Canada's oldest law school and one of the most selective, McGill Law only sends offers of admission to 11% of the applicants.
The McGill Law Journal, published at the school since 1952, is the publication most cited by the Canadian Supreme Court.
Every four years, the Journal also publishes the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation. The Guide establishes guidelines for citation and resource use, accepted by all other law schools and institutions across the country.
McGill Law is renowned for the Nahum Gelber Law Library, which houses over 220,000 volumes of books, journals, and other legal materials. It's one of the most impressive collections in the country, housing records of Canada's legal history.
In addition to protecting the country's legal history, McGill Law also influences Canada's future. The school's many research institutes engage with and study the effects of Canadian laws.
The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy blazes new trails in intellectual property. The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism supports research and innovation in the issues of human rights and legal pluralism.
1. University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard Law School (Vancouver, BC)
Martin Dee, UBC Law at Allard Hall, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Peter A. Allard Law School is not only one of the top law schools in Canada, but throughout all of North America.
Those credentials include the publication of several law journals, such as the UBC International Law Journal and Masks: The Online Journal of Law and Theatre.
The school's flagship journal, The University of British Columbia Law Review, is operated by J.D. students and is peer-reviewed by partner professors. The Canadian Journal of Family Law is an innovative academic journal that crosses disciplinary lines to engage with the changing nature of Canadian family law.
The school's research and service centres focus on similarly pressing issues. At the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, scholars come together for teaching and research devoted to legal issues affecting women across Canada.
With these dedicated initiatives and impressive reviews, it's easy to see why BC Law outdoes Canada's other remarkable law schools.
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Probation granted on Joplin man's burglary, weapon, drug offenses
Jeff Lehr, The Joplin Globe, Mo.
Dec. 6—A 28-year-old defendant was granted suspended sentences and probation when he entered an Alford plea Monday on three of five felony counts that he was facing.
Tanner L. Enochs entered the plea in Jasper County Circuit Court on counts of possession of a controlled substance and unlawful use of a weapon in connection with an arrest on July 31, 2020, and to second-degree burglary related to a break-in Jan. 6, 2020, at Sutherlands Building Material business in Joplin.
Felony counts of attempted theft of a motor vehicle and property damage related to the Sutherlands burglary were dismissed in the defendant's plea deal. An Alford plea admits no guilt but acknowledges the probability of a conviction if the matter were to proceed to trial.
Judge Dean Dankelson accepted the plea agreement and assessed Enochs terms of five years each on the possession and burglary counts and four years on the weapon conviction with execution of the sentences suspended and the defendant placed on supervised probation for five years.
Enochs was also ordered to pay $2,802 in restitution for items stolen and property damaged in the Sutherlands break-in.
Police arrested him on the drug and weapon charges when an officer and a detective attempting to serve bench warrants on him located him in his backyard on North Oak Avenue in possession of a loaded handgun and 12.5 grams of methamphetamine.
Bobby Duffy of Christian Brothers Academy wrestling proves seeds do not matter
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Golden Dragon Lunar New Year Parade draws thousands in Chinatown
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Kentucky basketball vs Kansas: How they match up, how to watch, betting odds, live updates
Kentucky and Kansas are heading in opposite directions as the teams prepare to tussle in the Big 12/SEC Challenge at Rupp Arena on Saturday.
Sidney Crosby with a Goal vs. San Jose Sharks
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State Public Education Secretary Steinhaus announces retirement
Jan. 28—It's almost as if Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's Cabinet has sprung a leak. Three Cabinet secretaries have said they were departing within the past week — the most recent being Public Education Secretary Kurt Steinhaus, whose retirement was announced Saturday in a news release from the Governor's Office. Steinhaus follows John Garcia and Dr. David Scrase, who last week said they were ...
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Reflector readers: Time for some new blood
Jan. 28—NORWALK — Is it time for some new blood in the White House? Yes, according to Norwalk Reflector readers. According to an unscientific poll of 855 people who responded, 66 percent of those who voted said it's time for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to retire. Trump has already announced he is running again in 2024. Biden has not officially announced. Here is the ...
Latta named chair of energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology
Jan. 28—WASHINGTON, Dc. — Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH5) was named Chair of the Energy and Commerce (E&C) Subcommittee on Communications and Technology for the 118th Congress by E&C Committee Chair, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA05). "I would like to thank Energy and Commerce Committee Chair, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, for selecting me to lead the Communications and Technology ...
Palmer is happy to be home in Monroeville
Jan. 28—MONROEVILLE — Monroeville High School will hold its Hall of Fame induction Saturday. The program begins at 4:30 p.m. in the cafeteria and the doors open at 4. Tickets are $20 and include dinner. They can be purchased in the athletic office during school hours. Tickets must be purchased by 3 p.m. Wednesday. Being inducted this year are: —Elizabeth Tyler — alumni —Richard L. Palmer — ...
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The entire collection of Ellis Island New York Passenger Arrival Lists from 1820 to 1957 is now available online at FamilySearch.org and the Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation. This online database contains family connections for more than 100 million Americans living today.
Originally preserved on microfilm, 9.3 million images of historical New York passenger records spanning 130 years were digitized and indexed in a massive effort by 165,590 online FamilySearch volunteers. The result is a free and searchable database containing 63.7 million names, including immigrants, crew and other passengers traveling to and from the United States through Ellis Island, the nation's largest port of entry.


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Women's council critical of garda's three-month sentence for domestic violence
The sentence has attracted widespread criticism, the NWCI said. Photo: PA
The imposition of a three-month sentence on a then-serving garda who choked his ex-partner and broke her fingers will discourage other victims from coming forward, the National Women's Council of Ireland has said.
The man, who is aged in his 30s, was "off his face" on cocaine when he illegally entered the woman's home in 2018. She and her children returned home to find him in the sitting room.
Dublin District Court heard she suffered "massive" bruising to her face and had two broken fingers. Judge John Hughes imposed a six-month sentence with the final three months suspended.
The accused, who left the Garda after the incident, was also ordered to pay €1,000 to his former partner and have no contact with her unless he has a court order.
Following a request from the prosecution, the judge ordered that the former garda cannot be identified because the victim's children were witnesses.
Widespread criticism
The sentence has attracted widespread criticism, according to Orla O'Connor, the director of the National Women's Council of Ireland.
"People have been in touch all day saying they feel the sentence was appalling given the violence involved," she told The Irish Times.
"It signals sentencing is going in the opposition direction of where we expect things to be going, given that we have better legislation now on things like coercive control.
"We think we have a better understanding of domestic violence and then you see a sentence like this."
Ms O'Connor said domestic violence can be extremely difficult for victims to report. "So when sentences like that come out, it's really negative in terms of encouraging and supporting people to report domestic violence.
Former garda receives three-month jail sentence fo...
"It sends absolutely the wrong message in terms of how seriously the courts are taking this."
In sentencing the accused, Judge Hughes said the fact that he was a serving garda was an aggravating factor.
"If it was an aggravating factor, and this is the sentence he got, it just beggars belief, to be honest," Ms O'Connor said.
"He seems to have got a lower sentence than the norm. It does raise serious questions about that judge's understanding of the impact of domestic violence and the seriousness of it."
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Q: How do I solve the linear programming relaxed MKP? I am studying about Knapsack problem. So I do not understand one thing here.
The profit/pseudo-resource consumption ratios

Uj = Pj / Wj with Wj = Rji * Aj

I hope so you people know this equation thus I think no need more explanation.
I wanted to calculate Aj here. What is that LP relaxation . How they are calculating using total capacity and weight (size of item). If i have n item and m capacity it means i should  to have  m LP relaxation variable. Is it right ?
Some one saying like
One of the simplest methods to obtain reasonably good multipliers is to solve the linear programming (LP) relaxed MKP in which the variables xj may get arbitrary values from the interval [0, 1] and to use the values of the dual variables as the surrogate multipliers.
In other words, aj is set to the shadow price of the jth constraint in the LP relaxed MKP.
How they are calculating shadow price of jth constraint in the LP relaxed MKP. I am searching from Google for while but there is not so much clear. Does anyone know to understand by easy way?
Thank you to read until here :)


Polyimide Resin-15 (PMR-15) is classified as a polymerized monomeric reactant and is used in the preparation of carbon fiber reinforced composites. It offers greater strength to weight in the extreme range of operating temperatures typically experienced by aircraft engine components. Methylene dianiline (MDA) is a component of PMR-15 that is a known carcinogen and liver toxin. This has generated concern with worker safety and occupational exposure hazards and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is pursuing new standards and regulations for MDA exposure. Among the international communities, the European Union REACH organization has listed MDA as a substance of very high concern. Although the domestic and international communities are reconsidering MDA regulations, there is currently no legislation in place that addresses the replacement of PMR-15, MDA, or other alternatives.
SERDP has funded several research and development efforts on the topic of MDA alternatives as well as efforts aimed at sustainable PMR-15 alternatives. WP-2442 is a limited scope effort led by Dr. Jason Lincoln at Performance Polymer Solutions, Inc. that aims to develop a patented, low-toxicity polyimide to serve as a PMR-15 alternative. Dr. Teddy Keller ( WP-2440) and a project team at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are focusing on developing a new phthalonitrile based resin that will exceed MDA performance standards and serve as a low-cost MDA alternative. At the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Dr. John La Scala and project team ( WP-2402) are working to identify an MDA replacement from petroleum-derived and renewable/bioderived monomers.


A useful durable plastic leg shield luggage basket that increases storage capacity for the Yamaha Y15ZR/Jupiter MX King/Spark/Exciter/Sniper T150 motorcycles. Carry your groceries, takeaways and small children with this very useful basket! Location of basket behind the legshield helps to protect cargo and it gives the rider some confidence with something to straddle between the legs. Supports about 8kg of stuff.
*If you are searching for more OEM/stock parts for this model, we are eager to help you. There are many items not listed here that we can supply for it.


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Couch Potato: We've seen the future and it's cricket
Rick Broadbent
June 18 2011, 1:00am, The Times
But is live coverage of a Middle England bender actually sport?Richard Pohle for The Times
England v Sri Lanka Today, 10.30am, Sky Sports 1
Football could learn from cricket. One has Hawk-Eye, the other a Russian lino. Cricket also shuffles its commentating line-ups, health and safety decreeing that no one should listen to Geoffrey Boycott for more than 20 minutes at a time. It's the future.
Royal Ascot Today, 2.20pm, BBC Two
The climax to a week of dressing up as you would for a royal wedding, marinating yourself in a vat of champagne and feigning an interest in horses. Couch remains undecided as to whether live coverage of a Middle England bender is actually sport.
US Open Tomorrow, 6.30pm, Sky Sports 2
For Kevin Costner in Tin Cup, read Rory McIlroy in tin hat. By imploding at Augusta, the…


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Q: Spring Batch - Save "onSkipInRead" throwable message in EXIT_MESSAGE of batch_step_execution table I want which records were skipped during reading and insert that in "EXIT_MESSAGE" of batch_step_execution. So, this is my "SkipListener" class.
public class IntroductionSkipListener {

private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(IntroductionSkipListener.class);

@OnSkipInRead
public void onSkipInRead(Throwable t) {
    LOG.error("Item was skipped in read due to: " + t.getMessage());
}

@OnSkipInWrite
public void onSkipInWrite(Introduction item, Throwable t) {
    LOG.error("Item " + item + " was skipped in write due to : " + t.getMessage());
}

@OnSkipInProcess
public void onSkipInProcess(Introduction item, Throwable t) {
    LOG.error("Item " + item + " was skipped in process due to: " + t.getMessage());

}

I want the following throwable message to be saved in the table.
    2019-01-30 15:37:53.339 ERROR 10732 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] c.s.a.b.config.IntroductionSkipListener  : Item was skipped in read due to: Parsing error at line: 2 in resource=[URL [file:E:/survey-data-repo/Web/Source_Code/survey_v0.12/survey-data/1546580364630/1.Introduction.csv]], input=[fa1e9a60603145e3a1ec67d513c594cb,as,1,4,4,New Salmamouth,Chauncey Skyway,53566,27.216799:75.598685,Aglae Rice,580242662,2,12/2/2001 10:01]

And make the EXIT_STATUS as "SKIPPED" or something like that. Is it possible ?
P.S. I am new in Spring Batch.

A: Yes, you can cast the Throwable parameter of your onSkipInRead method to FlatFileParseException and use that exception to get the raw line that was skipped and its number.
Now in order to change the ExitStatus to SKIPPED, you need to add a callback method after the step (@AfterStep) and set the exit status if some lines were skipped, something like:
@AfterStep
public ExitStatus checkForSkips(StepExecution stepExecution) {
    if (stepExecution.getSkipCount() > 0) {
        return new ExitStatus("SKIPPED");
    }
    else {
        return null;
    }
}

You can find an example in the SkipCheckingListener.


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Physicians May Soon Say Goodbye to the Stethoscope, as Digital Devices Take Over the Job of Monitoring Patient Bodily Functions
May 22, 2015 | Instruments & Equipment, Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment, Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Operations, Laboratory Pathology
One device that uses computer algorithms to analyze bodily sounds has undergone clinical trials and is awaiting clearance by the FDA
Is technology poised to render the iconic stethoscope passé? For centuries, doctors have used stethoscopes for listening to functions in different parts of the body. However, new devices now exist that employ electronic biosensors to "listen" in on those same sounds and analyze them with computer algorithms. The devices then deliver assessments to attending physicians.
The concept remains the same. Place a device against the body, listen for sounds, and use those sounds to identify a patient's symptoms. Since the goal is to monitor sounds, it is not likely that "digital stethoscopes" will impinge on the clinical laboratory testing services provided by pathologists and medical laboratory scientists.
Biosensor More Accurate than Stethoscope, Shows Clinical Trial
One company developing this type of technology is GI Logic of Pasadena, California. Its device is the AbStats, which is designed to help physicians make evidenced-based decisions about which patients can be fed following abdominal surgery.
The biosensor in AbStats is the brainchild of Brennan M.R. Spiegel, M.D., MSHS, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; the Department of Health Services, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; and an attending physician in the Division of Gastroenterology, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System. Additionally, he is a member of the CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center.
A team of interdisciplinary experts from UCLA's Wireless Health Institute, under the direction of William J. Kaiser, Ph.D., UCLA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of the institute, worked with Dr. Spiegel to develop a disposable, non-invasive acoustic gastro-intestinal surveillance (AGIS) biosensor that is more accurate than the stethoscope for monitoring post-abdominal surgery patients for malfunction in intestinal motility.
Dr. Spiegel believes that his team has invented "a way to monitor a new vital sign—one to go along with heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. This new vital sign, intestinal rate, could prove to be important in diagnosing and treating patients," he stated in the UCLA press release. (Photo copyright Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education.)
AbStats Succeeds During Clinical Trials: Awaits FDA Clearance
A clinical trial evaluated the accuracy of the AGIS biosensor technology in detecting patients at risk for Postoperative Ileus (POI), a post-surgical condition that can lead to severe abdominal pain and distention, nausea, vomiting, and other undesirable outcomes. AGIS successfully distinguished POI patients from non-POI patients and healthy controls with 100% sensitivity and 97% specificity, according to the JOGS article.
"After surgery, the bowels shut down under stress as the body is focused on keeping the brain, heart, and lungs alive," Dr. Spiegel explained. "We also give patients narcotic medications for pain that can cause the bowels to freeze up. The way doctors currently monitor for POI is putting a stethoscope on the patient's belly for 15 seconds, briefly listening for sounds of intestinal awakening, and asking about flatulence. It's all very rudimentary and inaccurate," he continued. "With this new [AGIS] vital sign, the team can now monitor the intestines empirically and make more informed decisions."
The full results of the UCLA team's study were published in an October 2014 Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (JOGS) article.
The AGIS biosensor serves an unmet need in the field of gastroenterology, stated Dr. Spiegel. AbStats "listens" to the abdomen, detects signals, classifies them, and then provides a measure of the current digestive state. (Video and caption copyright GI Logic.)
AbStats Monitors Bowels Post-Surgery
AbStats, which employs Dr. Spiegel's AGIS biosensor, is a disposable plastic device embedded with a microphone that attaches to the abdominal wall and connects to a computer that measures acoustic event rates. During a POI event, bowels shut down and the intestinal track becomes quiet, moving just a few times per minute versus 10 times per minute in patients with healthy bowel movement. Bowel movement makes a "clicking" noise that the AGIS biosensor picks up and sends to a computer for analysis, explained a UCLA press release.
AbStats (pictured above) is an acoustic gastro-intestinal surveillance (AGIS) biosensor device that listens for clicking sounds made when there's movement in the bowels and then reports them to a connected computer. A computer algorithm uses information from the biosensor to measure acoustic event rates. (Photo copyright UCLA.)
AGIS May be Useful in Diagnosing Other Bowel Ailments
The AGIS biosensor may be useful in diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. There is even the potential for this device to be used in patient self-monitoring. It was suggested that obese patients could be taught how to use AbStats to monitor sounds emanating from their gut to determine when they should or should not eat, which could help them lose weight, pointed out the UCLA press release.
"The role of wearable sensors in healthcare has reached mainstream consciousness and has the capacity to transform how we monitor and deliver care. Yet, there are very few biosensors that are supported by any peer-reviewed evidence," Dr. Spiegel noted. "This study represents peer-reviewed evidence supporting use of a biosensor; a device born and bred out of UCLA multidisciplinary research."
Other Digital Devices Also Use Sound to Aid in Diagnosis and Monitoring
AbStats is not the only digital audio device developed to aid physicians at the point of care. Some doctors like Eric Topol, M.D., Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego, have embraced other technologies that replace traditional manual devices. Known as the digital doctor, Topol carries GE's Vscan, a portable ultrasound device that enables doctors to "see" inside patients during exams.
And in the UK, researchers have developed a portable device that when attached to the surface of the knee identifies and records sounds emanating from within the knee caused by Osteoarthritis, as was reported in an article in The Engineer Magazine.
Implications for Pathologists and Laboratory Managers
These examples are a result of advances in health information technology (HIT). Physicians will continue to use stethoscopes in a traditional manner. Probably more interesting for medical laboratory managers and pathologists is the implication of this research. Improved computer algorithms that can diagnose sounds in the body and deliver actionable information to physicians could create a new channel of information that pathologists might find useful to incorporate into a full clinical pathology consultation in response to a request from an attending physician.
—Patricia Kirk
To Eat or Not to Eat
Validation of an Acoustic Gastrointestinal Surveillance Biosensor for Postoperative Ileu
Abdominal Acoustic Monitoring Can Identify Post-Op Ileus
mHealth Masters: Predicting the End of the Stethoscope
The Wireless Revolution Hits Medicine
Device Monitors Noisy Knees to Diagnose Osteoarthritis
Stephen Richards	on February 4, 2016 at 6:23 pm
How do I stop people from nerve-wracking me just to make new drugs based on my own relaxing dietary food choices versus my own anxiety levels, that is, wireless heart-rate monitor readings?


We use round tables that can seat 6-10 people each. This room also has a private bar, offering cocktails, multiple wines, draft beer, and bottled beer. There is a buffet in the back of the room and a fireplace in the main area. A wireless microphone is available (no charge) that is connected to speakers throughout the room. Perfect for a celebratory toast or a sales presentation. The Gathering Room is on the main floor, in the back past the bar.
Depending on the type of event, The Gathering room will hold a maximum of 80 or 90 people.
We use square or rectangular tables that can seat 6-10 people each. There is a side board buffet and stereo system in the room. The Boarding Room is upstairs on the second floor.
We use square or rectangular tables that can seat 4-8 people each. Or, the room itself is long and rectangular so we can put the tables together to form one long table seating up to 26 people, as seen above. There is a side board buffet and stereo system in the room. The Wine Loft is upstairs on the second floor.
We use a square table that can expand or contract to fit 12-16 people. This room is perfect for a small group for dinner or lunch, or a small business meeting. The Green Room is upstairs on the second floor. There is a small sideboard to the right of the large table. For events in the Green Room, you and your guests order from our regular menu, not the Private Event menus.


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The 1972–73 Chicago Black Hawks season was the Hawks' 47th season in the NHL, and the club was coming off their third consecutive first-place finish in 1971–72, as they finished on top of the West Division with a 46–17–15 record, tying a club record with 107 points. The Hawks defeated the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers in the postseason before falling to the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup final.

During the off-season, the Black Hawks lost Bobby Hull to the Winnipeg Jets in the newly created World Hockey Association, who signed him to the first $1 million contract in hockey history. The NHL also expanded once again, as the New York Islanders joined the East Division, while the Atlanta Flames were placed in the West.

Chicago, dealing with the loss of Hull, got off to a quick start of the season, winning their first four games, before sliding into a slump that saw their record fall to 7–7–2. The club broke out of its slump, won 14 of the next 18 games, and took hold of the top spot in the West Division.  The Hawks then cruised to their fourth-straight first-place finish, as they had a record of 42–27–9, earning 93 points, which was their lowest point total since missing the playoffs in the 1968–69 season.

Offensively, the Black Hawks were led by Jim Pappin, who had a career season, scoring 41 goals and 92 points.  Pit Martin earned 61 assists and 90 points, while Dennis Hull scored 39 goals and 90 points.  Stan Mikita earned 83 points despite missing 21 games due to injuries.  Bill White lead the defense, registering 47 points, while Pat Stapleton scored 10 goals and 31 points.  Rookie Phil Russell had a team-high 156 penalty minutes, and had a +31 rating, which tied him with Mikita for the team lead.

In goal, Tony Esposito led the club with 32 victories and a 2.51 GAA, along with four shutouts while appearing in 56 games.  Backup goaltender Gary Smith won 10 games while having a 3.54 GAA.

The Hawks opened the playoffs against the St. Louis Blues, who had a record of 32–34–12, earning 76 points, while placing fourth in the West Division.  The series opened with two games at Chicago Stadium, and the Black Hawks easily defeated the Blues in the series opener, winning 7–1, before shutting out St. Louis, 1–0, in the second game to take an early series lead.  The series shifted to the St. Louis Arena for the next two games; however, Chicago took a 3–0 series lead, winning 5–2 in the third game, but the Blues avoided the sweep, winning 5–3 in the fourth game.  Chicago returned home for the fifth game, and easily took care of St. Louis, thumping the Blues 6–1 to win the series.

Chicago's next opponent was the New York Rangers, who had finished the season with a 47–23–8 record, earning 102 points, and a third-place finish in the East Division.  The Rangers defeated the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Boston Bruins in their first playoff series.  Since the Black Hawks won their division, they were given home ice advantage in the series.  The series opened up with two games at Chicago Stadium, but it was the Rangers who struck first, winning the series opener by a 4–1 score.  The Black Hawks rebounded in the second game, holding off New York for a 5–4 victory to even the series.  The series moved to Madison Square Garden for the next two games, and it would be the Hawks who took control of the series, defeating the Rangers 2–1 and 3–1 to take a 3–1 series lead back to Chicago for the fifth game.  The Black Hawks stayed hot, and easily beat the Rangers 4–1 to win the series and advance to the Stanley Cup finals for the second time in three years.

The Hawks opponent in the 1973 Stanley Cup finals was the Montreal Canadiens, who were the best team in the league during the regular season, as they had a 52–10–16 record, earning 120 points.  The Canadiens had defeated the Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers to earn a spot in the finals.  The series opened at the Montreal Forum, and the powerful Canadiens easily won the first game by an 8–3 score, followed by a 4–1 win in the second game to take a 2–0 series lead.  The finals shifted to Chicago Stadium for the next two games, and the Hawks cut into the Canadiens series lead with a 7–4 victory in the third game.  Montreal rebounded in the fourth game though, shutting out Chicago 4–0 to take a 3–1 series lead.  The fifth game returned to Montreal; however, the Black Hawks stayed alive with a wild 8–7 victory, cutting the Canadiens lead to 3–2 in the series.  In the sixth game back in Chicago, Montreal rebounded, defeating the Hawks, 6–4, to win the Stanley Cup.

Season standings

Game log

Regular season

Chicago Black Hawks 4, St. Louis Blues 1

Chicago Black Hawks 4, New York Rangers 1

Montreal Canadiens 4, Chicago Black Hawks 2

Season stats

Scoring leaders

Goaltending

Playoff stats

Scoring leaders

Goaltending

Draft picks
Chicago's draft picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.

References

Sources
Hockey-Reference
Rauzulu's Street
Goalies Archive
HockeyDB
National Hockey League Guide & Record Book 2007

Chicago Blackhawks seasons
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Most of the largest US voting districts are vulnerable to email spoofing
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker / 3 years
Only 5% of the largest voting counties in the U.S. are protected against email impersonation and phishing attacks, seen as a key attack method by hackers who officials say want to disrupt the upcoming presidential election.
The findings come less than a year before millions of Americans are set to go to the polls to vote for the next U.S. commander-in-chief, amid fears that Russia is preparing to disrupt the upcoming presidential election with tactics to manipulate voters, as the U.S. intelligence community found in 2016. U.S. officials aren't only concerned about the spread of foreign-led disinformation — or "fake news" — to try to alter the outcome of the tally, but also threats facing election infrastructure, like hackers breaking into election websites to dissuade or disenfranchise voters from casting their ballot — or even stealing voter data.
Researchers at Valimail, which has a commercial stake in the email security space, looked at the largest three electoral districts in each U.S. state, and found only 10 out of 187 domains were protected with DMARC, an email security protocol that verifies the authenticity of a sender's email and rejects fraudulent or spoofed emails.
DMARC, when enabled and properly enforced, rejects fake emails that hackers design to spoof a genuine email address by sending to spam or bouncing it from the target's inbox altogether. Hackers often use spoofed emails to try to trick victims into opening malicious links from people they know.
But the research found that although DMARC is enabled on many domains, it's not properly enforced, rendering its filtering efforts largely ineffective.
The researchers said 66% of the district election-related domains had no DMARC entry at all, while 28% had either a valid DMARC entry but no enforcement, or an invalid DMARC entry altogether.
That could be a problem for six swing states — Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — where their largest districts are not protected from impersonation attacks. These states are critical to both Democrats and Republicans, as their historically razor thin majorities have allowed either parties' candidates to win.
The worry is that attackers could use the lack of DMARC to impersonate legitimate email addresses to send targeted phishing or malware in order to gain a foothold on election networks or launch attacks, steal data or delete it altogether, a move that would potentially disrupt the democratic process.
"It does not require a stretch to imagine attackers impersonating election officials via spoofed domains in order to spread disinformation, conduct voter misdirection or voter-suppression campaigns, or even to inject malware into government networks," said Valimail's Seth Blank, who authored the research.
"DMARC at enforcement is a crucial best practice for stopping the largest attack vector into any organization," said Blank.
"It's time to get it done," he said.
Only a few 2020 US presidential candidates are using a basic email security feature


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Faris – Mississippi to Sahara (2015)
in blues, folk, world
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320 kbps | 123 MB | UL |
On this album, Faris brings 12 rural Delta blues songs back home to Africa, revisiting them in the guitar style known as assouf and showing how close the souls of these two worlds are to each other.
'Mississippi to Sahara' was born as the intitiative of Sedryk, founder of the French label Reaktion, which had already collaborated with some of the most prominent Saharan artists (Tinariwen, Terakaft), and often contributed in making them known to a western audience (Bombino, Tamikrest, Aziza Brahim). His idea: to interpret the term "Desert Blues" literally by asking a Tamasheq musician to replay and adapt the old rural blues of the Mississippi in a Tuareg style.
Faris was the natural choice of artist for such a project. In fact, his mixed race status (Italian via his father, Algerian Tuareg via his mother) and his dual culture, Western and Saharan, makes him unique on the Tuareg scene. It was the discovery of Jimi Hendrix in his adolescence that brought him to the guitar, before he rediscovered his maternal culture via the world success of Tinariwen. A moment in his life that he describes as a 'revelation': "When I played Jimi Hendrix, or the blues, it always seemed like I was imitating something. But when I began to play this music, asssouf music, it was something that came very easy."