Transparency here, transparency there, transparency everywhere. Transparency has become a must in politics, in the financial world, in sport, in fashion, in art, whatever. So it is not all surprising that consumers in the pharmaceutical, health, beauty and well-being spheres are about to gain great benefits from the recent arrival on the market of the highly innovative LIQUID CAPSULE. A liquid capsule is first and foremost a TRANSPARENT CAPSULE. Up to now capsules have been anonymous. A capsule in the palm of your hand may have a shape, a volume and a colour, but one has to read the label on the container or insert to get to know what this capsule really contains. With the liquid capsule a consumer will now be able to see the inside of the capsule. Within this liquid capsule there may be liquid, there may be powder, and yes why not, even another capsule. So we are in for a very revolutionary change with regards to swallowing for health and beauty purposes.
Transparency is now going to become the differentiating element. It is going to give rise to a higher confidence. Many are the customers who dread swallowing capsules; this widespread scepticism may be due to their texture, shape, colour, or, as we said, their anonymity. Now that the content is going to be visible, a psychological break through is going to be achieved. The liquid capsule is bound to become the symbol of naturality. Psychologically the liquid capsule is going to be imagined as softer, easier to swallow and digest than a conventional capsule.
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The Roemertopf with the perfect size for a family of 4. (capacity 2.5 kilograms). Traditionally designed with a grip for one hand use.
Vegetables, fish, meat or sweet dishes taste delicious in the original RÖMERTOPF®.
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Q: Js : multidimensional-array error in nested while half of this still working Can anyone explain why the 4th sub-array isn't working anymore? I believe because input[(i + 1)] is undefined? But it works for another...
I'm a newbie and still learning how to figure out the best option.
function dataHandling(){

    for (var i=0;i < input.length   ; i++){
    for(var j=0; j < input[i].length; j++)
     /*
      if(j === 0){
         console.log("Nomor ID: "+ input[i][j] );
      }
      else if(j=== 1){
        console.log("Name: "+ input[i][j] );
      }
      else if(j=== 2){
        console.log("Birthplace n date: "+ input[i][j] +" " + input[i+1][j+1]);
      }
      else if(j=== 4){
        console.log("Hobby: "+ input[i][j] +"\n" );
      }
      */
     switch(j){
        case 0:
          console.log("Nomor ID: "+ input[i][j] );
          break;

          case 1:
          console.log("Name: "+ input[i][j] );
          break;

          case 2:
          console.log("Birthplace and date: "+ input[i][j] +" " + input[i+1][j+1]);
          break;

          case 3:
         // console.log("birthdate: "+ input[i][j] );
          break;

          case 4:
          console.log("Hobby: "+ input[i][j] +"\n" );
          break;

           default:
        break;
      }

    }

}

 var input = [
                ["0001", "Roman Alamsyah", "Bandar Lampung", "21/05/1989", "Reading"],
                ["0002", "Dika Sembiring", "Medan", "10/10/1992", "Playing Guitar"],
                ["0003", "Winona", "Ambon", "25/12/1965", "Cooking"],
                ["0004", "Bintang Senjaya", "Martapura", "6/4/1970", "Codding"]
              ];

dataHandling(input);

While it works for 1st-3rd arrays, it always errors in the 4th:
Nomor ID: 0003
Name: Winona
Birthplace n date: Ambon 6/4/1970
Hobby: Cooking

Nomor ID: 0004
Name: Bintang Senjaya
TypeError: input[(i + 1)] is undefined <<<

I can understand if since the first i will error but only the 4th of i which not able to read the next sub-array. (Sorry for explaining with a newbie's way, still hard to explain with limited knowledge.)

A: First of all, I'd just like to say that you're doing great so far with learning Javascript. The error is you're trying to access the fifth array when i=4 and you use input[i+1][j+1]. Luckily, that isn't even a problem; what you want to do is access the same sub-array, but the next item, so only j should be increased by 1 (input[i][j+1]):

function dataHandling(){

    for (var i=0;i < input.length   ; i++){
    for(var j=0; j < input[i].length; j++)
     /*
      if(j === 0){
         console.log("Nomor ID: "+ input[i][j] );
      }
      else if(j=== 1){
        console.log("Name: "+ input[i][j] );
      }
      else if(j=== 2){
        console.log("Birthplace n date: "+ input[i][j] +" " + input[i+1][j+1]);
      }
      else if(j=== 4){
        console.log("Hobby: "+ input[i][j] +"\n" );
      }
      */
     switch(j){
        case 0:
          console.log("Nomor ID: "+ input[i][j] );
          break;

          case 1:
          console.log("Name: "+ input[i][j] );
          break;

          case 2:
          console.log("Birthplace and date: "+ input[i][j] +" " + input[i][j+1]);
          break;

          case 3:
         // console.log("birthdate: "+ input[i][j] );
          break;

          case 4:
          console.log("Hobby: "+ input[i][j] +"\n" );
          break;

           default:
        break;
      }

    }

}

 var input = [
                ["0001", "Roman Alamsyah", "Bandar Lampung", "21/05/1989", "Reading"],
                ["0002", "Dika Sembiring", "Medan", "10/10/1992", "Playing Guitar"],
                ["0003", "Winona", "Ambon", "25/12/1965", "Cooking"],
                ["0004", "Bintang Senjaya", "Martapura", "6/4/1970", "Codding"]
              ];

dataHandling(input);

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We are all familiar with the concept of family rights such as a maternity/adoption leave, shared parental leave and time off for dependents but four-legged friends are viewed by many as just as much part of the family as children.
So, is an employee entitled to take time off work to care for their pet? Well the short answer is usually no.
A number of companies have a "bring your dog to work" policy but that is usually as far as employers go. However, one company has gone further and introduced an entitlement to a week of paid time off work to allow their employees to settle a new dog into their home. Will this be a practice that we see other employers adopting?
The decision to become a dog owner, with the myriad responsibilities it entails, is not one taken lightly, but as any dog parent (yes, we said it) will tell you, it's more than worth it. Now one forward-thinking company is according the dog-human relationship the importance it deserves and is offering any new dog owners on its staff a whole week off to spend quality time with their pooches – paid. Recognising the importance of settling a dog, whether a young puppy or an older dog, into new surroundings, craft beer company Brewdog has introduced Puppy Parental Leave so that staff members don't have to take holiday days – and thereafter, staff are also welcome to bring their new pets into the office.


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In the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation's origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the indigenous and Mexican horsemen who already inhabited the region. The charro-a skilled, elite, and landowning horseman-was an especially powerful symbol of Mexican masculinity and nationalism. After the 1930s, Mexican Americans in cities across the U.S. West embraced the figure as a way to challenge their segregation, exploitation, and marginalization from core narratives of American identity. In this definitive history, Laura R. Barraclough shows how Mexican Americans have used the charro in the service of civil rights, cultural citizenship, and place-making. Focusing on a range of U.S. cities, Charros traces the evolution of the original cowboy through mixed triumphs and hostile backlashes, revealing him to be a crucial agent in the production of U.S., Mexican, and border cultures, as well as a guiding force for Mexican American identity and social movements.
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On the Santa Fe Trail
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in America Through Time
This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Sooner State. Read all about the Trail of Tears in Tahlequah. Find out why George W. McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma in 1950. Try to solve the ...
It Happened in Oklahoma: Stories of Events and People that Shaped Sooner State History
This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Sooner State. Read all about the Trail of Tears in Tahlequah. Find out why George W. McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma in 1950. Try to solve the mystery of Karen Silkwood's suspicious death in 1974.
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In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernandez looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis ...
Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West
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in Latinidad: Transnational Cultures
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A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective
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Responding to shifts in the political and economic experiences of Mexicans in America, this newly revised and expanded edition of Mexicanos provides a relevant and contemporary consideration of this vibrant community. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and often struggling to respond to political and economic precarity, Mexicans play an important role in US society even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. With new maps, updated appendicxes, and a new chapter providing an up-to-date consideration of the immigration debate centered on Mexican communities in the US, this new edition of Mexicanos provides a thorough and balanced contribution to understanding Mexicans' history and their vital importance to 21st-century America.
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Fanaticos, Exiles, and Spies: Revolutionary Failures on the US-Mexico Border, 1923-1930
Borders and boundaries are porous, especially in the context of political revolutions. Historian Julian F. Dodson has uncovered the story of postrevolutionary Mexico's attempts to protect its northern border from various plots hatched by groups exiled in the United States. Such plots sought to overthrow the regime of President Plutarco Elias Calles in the 1920s. These borderland battles were largely fought through espionage, pitting undercover agents of the government's Departamento Confidencial against various groups of political exiles-themselves experienced spies-who were now residing in American cities such as Los Angeles, Tucson, San Antonio, and Brownsville. Fanaticos, Exiles, and Spies shows that, in successive waves, the political and military exiles of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) sought refuge in and continued to operate from urban centers along the international boundary. The de la Huerta rebellion of 1923 and the Cristero War of 1926-1929 defined the bloody religious conflict that dominated the decade, even as smaller rebellions bubbled up along the border, often funded by politically connected exiles. Previous scholarship has tended to treat these various rebellions as isolated episodes, but Dodson argues that the violent popular and military uprisings were not isolated at all. They were nothing less than an extension of the violence and fratricidal warfare that so distinctly marked the preceding decade of the revolution. Fanaticos, Exiles, and Spies reveals the fluidity of a border between two nations before it hardened into the political boundary we know today.
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in Connecting the Greater West Series
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For over a decade, Shane and Jessica Steeves have shared an obsession for searching out and exploring the historic and abandoned locations that are strewn about the vast state of Texas. What started out as a side hobby quickly evolved into a passion for photography, architecture, and history. The two ...
Abandoned North Texas
For over a decade, Shane and Jessica Steeves have shared an obsession for searching out and exploring the historic and abandoned locations that are strewn about the vast state of Texas. What started out as a side hobby quickly evolved into a passion for photography, architecture, and history. The two never expected it to completely take over their lives. Growing up in the Midwest, the Steeves were exposed to abandoned farms, rickety old gold mines, and dank subterranean tunnels. After a decade of living in Texas, their interest in these places was rekindled. What started out as documentary style photography has developed into more of a fine art approach to photography. Now it seems like every spare chance they get, Shane and Jessica are either staring at a map or driving hours on end to find their next location to photograph. Living in the Lone Star State continues to give the pair the opportunity to travel great distances for these locations. It doesn't seem as if there will be a shortage of buildings for this duo to photograph, at least for years to come.
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by Jessica Steeves, Shane Steeves
in Abandoned
After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors-who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives-chose a different way and persuaded the ...
Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School
After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors-who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives-chose a different way and persuaded the local parents and medicine men to allow them to educate their daughters as nurses. The young women struggled to step into the world of modern medicine, but they knew they might become nurses who could build a bridge between the old ways and the new. In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Kristofic's personal connection with the community creates a nuanced historical understanding that blends engaging narrative with careful scholarship to share the stories of the people and their commitment to this place.
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The Argyle of San Antonio
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Land of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry
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by Lucie Genay
Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp.The disciplined Germans tunneled unnoticed through rock-hard, sunbaked soil and crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert. They were heading for Mexico, where there were sympathizers who ...
The Great Desert Escape: How the Flight of 25 German Prisoners of War Sparked One of the Largest Manhunts in American History
Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp.The disciplined Germans tunneled unnoticed through rock-hard, sunbaked soil and crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert. They were heading for Mexico, where there were sympathizers who could help them return to the Fatherland. It was the only large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in US history. Wrung from contemporary newspaper articles, interviews, and first-person accounts from escapees and the law enforcement officers who pursued them, The Great Desert Escape brings history to life. At the US Army's prisoner-of-war camp at Papago Park just outside of Phoenix, life was, at the best of times, uneasy for the German Kreigsmariners. On the outside of their prison fences were Americans who wanted nothing more than to see them die slow deaths for their perceived roles in killing fathers and brothers in Europe. Many of these German prisoners had heard rumors of execution for those who escaped. On the inside were rabid Nazis determined to get home and continue the fight. At Papago Park in March 1944, a newly arrived prisoner who was believed to have divulged classified information to the Americans was murdered-hung in one of the barracks by seven of his fellow prisoners. The prisoners of war dug a tunnel 6 feet deep and 178 feet long, finishing in December 1944. Once free of the camp, the 25 Germans scattered. The cold and rainy weather caused several of the escapees to turn themselves in. One attempted to hitchhike his way into Phoenix, his accent betraying him. Others lived like coyotes among the rocks and caves overlooking Papago Park. All the while, the escapees were pursued by soldiers, federal agents, police and Native American trackers determined to stop them from reaching Mexico and freedom.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-great-desert-escape-9781493038909/
by Keith Warren Lloyd
The realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales-tall or true-of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century's worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women's history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy ...
Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities
The realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales-tall or true-of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century's worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women's history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and innovative way of understanding the past, new generations of scholars are rethinking the once-familiar settings of the past. In doing so, they reveal that women not only exercised agency in otherwise constrained environments but were also integral to the ranching heritage that so many Texans hold dear. Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities explores a variety of roles women played on the western ranch. The essays here cover a range of topics, from early Tejana businesswomen and Anglo philanthropists to rodeos and fence-cutting range wars. The names of some of the women featured may be familiar to those who know Texas ranching history-Alice East and Frances Kallison, for example. Others came from less well-known or wealthy families. In every case, they proved themselves to be resourceful women and unique individuals who survived by their own wits in cattle country. This book is a major contribution to several fields-Texas history, western history, and women's history-that are, at last, beginning to converge.
https://magrudy.com/book/texas-women-and-ranching-on-the-range-at-the-rodeo-and-in-their-communities-9781623497392/
by Deborah M Liles
in Women in Texas History Series
Long known as a place of cross-border intrigue, the Rio Grande's unique role in the history of the American Civil War has been largely forgotten or overlooked. Few know of the dramatic events that took place here or the complex history of ethnic tensions and international intrigue and the clash ...
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846-1876
Long known as a place of cross-border intrigue, the Rio Grande's unique role in the history of the American Civil War has been largely forgotten or overlooked. Few know of the dramatic events that took place here or the complex history of ethnic tensions and international intrigue and the clash of colorful characters that marked the unfolding and aftermath of the Civil War in the Lone Star State. To understand the American Civil War in Texas also requires an understanding of the history of Mexico. The Civil War on the Rio Grande focuses on the region's forced annexation from Mexico in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction. In a very real sense, the Lower Rio Grande Valley was a microcosm not only of the United States but also of increasing globalization as revealed by the intersections of races, cultures, economic forces, historical dynamics, and individual destinies. As a companion to Blue and Gray on the Border: The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail, this volume provides the scholarly backbone to a larger public history project exploring three decades of ethnic conflict, shifting international alliances, and competing economic proxies at the border. The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846-1876 makes a groundbreaking contribution not only to the history of a Texas region in transition but also to the larger history of a nation at war with itself.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-civil-war-on-the-rio-grande-1846-1876-9781623497194/
by Christopher L. Miller
in Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and ...
In the Shadow of the Chinatis: A History of Pinto Canyon in the Big Bend
The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family, sued for freedom in the local legal arena of St. Louis. Her findings open new perspectives on the legal culture of slavery and the negotiated processes involved in freedom suits. As a gateway to the American West, a major port on both the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and a focal point in the rancorous national debate over slavery's expansion, St. Louis was an ideal place for enslaved individuals to challenge the legal systems and, by extension, the social systems that held them in forced servitude. Kennington offers an in-depth look at how daily interactions, webs of relationships, and arguments presented in court shaped and reshaped legal debates and public attitudes over slavery and freedom in St. Louis. Kennington also surveys more than eight hundred state supreme court freedom suits from around the United States to situate the St. Louis example in a broader context. Although white enslavers dominated the antebellum legal system in St. Louis and throughout the slaveholding states, that fact did not mean that the system ignored the concerns of the subordinated groups who made up the bulk of the American population. By looking at a particular example of one group's encounters with the law-and placing these suits into conversation with similar en-counters that arose in appellate cases nationwide-Kennington sheds light on the ways in which the law responded to the demands of a variety of actors.
https://magrudy.com/book/in-the-shadow-of-the-chinatis-a-history-of-pinto-canyon-in-the-big-bend-9781623497354/
by David W Keller
in The Texas Experience, Books made possible by Sarah '84 and Mark '77 Philpy
Filled with adventurous writing, sharp scrutiny, meticulous and audacious use of language, North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara: A Little Further into the Nebraska Sand Hills winds around its subjects the way the rivers and creeks of the Great Plains twist around humps of prairie grass, ranches and ...
North of the Platte South of the Niobrara: A Little Further into the Nebraska Sand Hills
Filled with adventurous writing, sharp scrutiny, meticulous and audacious use of language, North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara: A Little Further into the Nebraska Sand Hills winds around its subjects the way the rivers and creeks of the Great Plains twist around humps of prairie grass, ranches and rock outcroppings. The ambitious goal of author Bryan Jones was to create a fresh understanding of the Nebraska Sand Hills from the inside. Surely he has done that, and more. He reflects with almost unbearable poignancy on war and its consequences, and with fierce advocacy on two beloved Nebraska poets. He brings humor and occasional cynicism to reflections about the metaphysical and metaphorical aspects of the Sand Hills, Ted Turner and other newcomers, the Sandoz family and other old-timers and a considerable chunk of Western history.
https://magrudy.com/book/north-of-the-platte-south-of-the-niobrara-a-little-further-into-the-nebraska-sand-hills-9781936205837/
by Bryan L. Jones
A Texas sports legend, Dave Campbell started his annual fall football preview magazine, Dave Campbell's Texas Football, in 1960. Widely referred to as the bible by coaches, fans, and sportswriters, the magazine's July arrival in supermarkets, convenience stores, and sporting goods suppliers across Texas is a yearly event eagerly awaited ...
Dave Campbell's Favorite Texas College Football Stories
A Texas sports legend, Dave Campbell started his annual fall football preview magazine, Dave Campbell's Texas Football, in 1960. Widely referred to as the bible by coaches, fans, and sportswriters, the magazine's July arrival in supermarkets, convenience stores, and sporting goods suppliers across Texas is a yearly event eagerly awaited by thousands of high school and college football players and their families, friends, and fans. In Dave Campbell's Favorite Texas College Football Stories, Campbell has gathered columns and articles about those college contests he considers the all-time greatest over the course of his career, from 1953 and continuing through 2016. Accounts of storied players, classic rivalries, revered coaches, and unforgettable games are illustrated with historic photographs of athletes, teams, and on-the-field action. Readers will relish this guided tour of Texas collegiate football history, presented by a writer who is a walking trove of Lone Star sports lore. Dave Campbell's Favorite Texas College Football Stories, which also features full-color reproductions of more than five decades of magazine covers, is sure to become a collector's item for Texas football fans of all ages. Seasoned enthusiasts will delight in reliving their favorite pigskin memories, and younger readers will enjoy experiencing this press-box view of the state's gridiron greats.
https://magrudy.com/book/dave-campbells-favorite-texas-college-football-stories-9781623497255/
by Dave Campbell
in Swaim-Paup Sports Series
For more than one hundred years, Jewish women and men of the Dallas area have responded to Tikkun Olam, the religious challenge to heal the world. Repairing Our World: The First 100 Years of the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Dallas Section is a history of this passion to ...
Repairing Our World: The First 100 Years of the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Dallas Section, 1913-2013
For more than one hundred years, Jewish women and men of the Dallas area have responded to Tikkun Olam, the religious challenge to heal the world. Repairing Our World: The First 100 Years of the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Dallas Section is a history of this passion to create a more humane society. Organized by decades from the group's beginnings in 1913, the book identifies both leadership and accomplishments of the NCJW. Its content is richly enhanced with personal essays from the organization's members, historical highlights, and graphics. Through education, community service, advocacy, and collaboration, members work to address the needs of all peoples and faiths within the community. Advocacy efforts aim to correct the root causes of current social problems. More than one thousand members devote countless volunteer hours to advance NCJW's mission. Leaders dare to have a vision of what is possible.
https://magrudy.com/book/repairing-our-world-the-first-100-years-of-the-national-council-of-jewish-women-greater-dallas-section-1913-2013-9780875657028/
by National Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section
Even before Pancho Villa's 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the following punitive expedition under General John J. Pershing, the U.S. Army was strengthening its presence on the southwestern border in response to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Manning forty-one small outposts along a three-hundred mile stretch of the ...
The Old Army in the Big Bend of Texas: The Last Cavalry Frontier, 1911-1921
Even before Pancho Villa's 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the following punitive expedition under General John J. Pershing, the U.S. Army was strengthening its presence on the southwestern border in response to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Manning forty-one small outposts along a three-hundred mile stretch of the Rio Grande region, the army remained for a decade, rotating eighteen different regiments, primarily cavalry, until the return of relative calm. The remote, rugged, and desolate terrain of the Big Bend defied even the technological advances of World War I, and it remained very much a cavalry and pack mule operation until the outposts were finally withdrawn in 1921. With The Old Army in the Big Bend of Texas: The Last Cavalry Frontier, 1911-1921, Thomas T. Ty Smith, one of Texas's leading military historians, has delved deep into the records of the U.S. Army to provide an authoritative portrait, richly complemented by many photos published here for the first time, of the final era of soldiers on horseback in the American West.
https://magrudy.com/book/the-old-army-in-the-big-bend-of-texas-the-last-cavalry-frontier-1911-1921-9781625110527/
by Thomas Ty Smith
From the supernal peaks of sacred temples to the depths of roaring river rapids, author/photographer/adventurer John Annerino takes us off the Grand Canyon's tourist grid to retrace the footpaths and rough-water passages of its earliest explorers. Spectacular photographs and stories of Annerino's own dicey expeditions in the canyon and on ...
In the Chasms of Water, Stone, and Light: Passages through the Grand Canyon
From the supernal peaks of sacred temples to the depths of roaring river rapids, author/photographer/adventurer John Annerino takes us off the Grand Canyon's tourist grid to retrace the footpaths and rough-water passages of its earliest explorers. Spectacular photographs and stories of Annerino's own dicey expeditions in the canyon and on the Colorado River are juxtaposed with historical tales, illustrations, and black-and-white images taken by pioneering photographers. Annerino visits the ancient sites of native peoples who roamed the far corners of this otherworldly abyss, and in vivid prose provides firsthand descriptions of the hidden landscapes explored by Spanish missionaries, scientists, National Geographic Society parties, and women river runners. These trailblazing treks tested their endurance in extreme conditions and, for some, yielded rare plant and animals specimens that were collected for scientific study. Join Annerino on this wild adventure in what National Geographic called the greatest and most spectacular canyon system on earth .
https://magrudy.com/book/in-the-chasms-of-water-stone-and-light-passages-through-the-grand-canyon-9780764357602/
by John Annerino
At a time when Friday night lights shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University Interscholastic League, which excluded ...
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
At a time when Friday night lights shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University Interscholastic League, which excluded black schools from membership until 1967) created an exciting brand of football that produced hundreds of outstanding players, many of whom became college All-Americans, All-Pros, and Pro Football Hall of Famers, including NFL greats such as Mean Joe Green (Temple Dunbar), Otis Taylor (Houston Worthing), Dick Night Train Lane (Austin Anderson), Ken Houston (Lufkin Dunbar), and Bubba Smith (Beaumont Charlton-Pollard). Thursday Night Lights tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of African American high school football in Texas. Drawing on interviews, newspaper stories, and memorabilia, Michael Hurd introduces the players, coaches, schools, and towns where African Americans built powerhouse football programs under the PVIL leadership. He covers fifty years (1920-1970) of high school football history, including championship seasons and legendary rivalries such as the annual Turkey Day Classic game between Houston schools Jack Yates and Phillis Wheatley, which drew standing-room-only crowds of up to 40,000, making it the largest prep sports event in postwar America. In telling this story, Hurd explains why the PVIL was necessary, traces its development, and shows how football offered a potent source of pride and ambition in the black community, helping black kids succeed both athletically and educationally in a racist society.
https://magrudy.com/book/thursday-night-lights-the-story-of-black-high-school-football-in-texas-9781477318300/
In these pages, you won't find a single damsel in distress. There are no dance hall queens or saloon floozies, either. The sixteen women profiled here validate the importance of ordinary lives and offer new insights into the reality of the frontier West. --Victoria Advocate Over the past several decades, ...
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
In these pages, you won't find a single damsel in distress. There are no dance hall queens or saloon floozies, either. The sixteen women profiled here validate the importance of ordinary lives and offer new insights into the reality of the frontier West. --Victoria Advocate Over the past several decades, historians have acknowledged women's contributions to the history of the west and to cattle drives across the United States. But what separates this book from other publications is that it offers specific names, faces, and stories of an assortment of women who took to the Texas cattle trails between 1868 and 1889. --East Texas Historical Journal Readers will find it hard to resist becoming fascinated by the risks that these women took and the degree of market savvy they possessed. --Western Historical Journal
https://magrudy.com/book/texas-women-on-the-cattle-trails-9781623497866/
in Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life
In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach-one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the ...
A Study of Southwestern Archaeology
In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach-one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology confined itself, how it can break out of those confines, and how it can proceed into the future. Lekson suggests that much of what we believe about the ancient Southwest should be radically revised. Looking past old preconceptions brings a different Chaco Canyon into view: more than an eleventh-century Pueblo ritual center, Chaco was a political capital with nobles and commoners, a regional economy, and deep connections to Mesoamerica. By getting the history right, a very different science of the ancient Southwest becomes possible and archaeology can be reinvented as a very different discipline.
https://magrudy.com/book/a-study-of-southwestern-archaeology-9781607816416/
by Stephen H. Lekson
American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern California describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war on the population of Northern California, as well as the impact of the people of Northern California on those imprisoned there. Providing detail on the care and employment of prisoners of ...
American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern California
American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern California describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war on the population of Northern California, as well as the impact of the people of Northern California on those imprisoned there. Providing detail on the care and employment of prisoners of war according to the Geneva Convention of 1929, the lives of POWs in this region is illustrated, along with the details of camp locations in Northern California and the deaths and burials that occurred among them. Some prisoner names are included, as well as references to source materials at various repositories. Historical photographs serve to provide depth to the story.
https://magrudy.com/book/american-prisoner-of-war-camps-in-northern-california-9781634990936/
by Kathy Kirkpatrick
An Abundant Arboretum
https://magrudy.com/book/an-abundant-arboretum-9781733935906/
by Sylvia Houston Lee
Grand Canyon National Park Est. 1919 Journal: Blank Lined 6 X 9 Notebook
https://magrudy.com/book/grand-canyon-national-park-est-1919-journal-blank-lined-6-x-9-notebook-9781099766480/
by Victoria Logan

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In New Orleans, You Should Follow the River
By Sarah Goodyear
A city determined by the Mississippi. (Google photo composite: Leto A. via Flickr)
Today on the Streetsblog Network, there's a lovely post about the geographic idiosyncrasy of New Orleans, from NolaCycle Bike Map Project.
This is the blog of a group whose mission is "to create a high quality cycling map of New Orleans" by collecting data from real people who ride the streets of the city, then digitizing it. Print maps are also in the works.
The post reveals just how tricky it is to figure out optimal bike routes in New Orleans, a city whose shape and street plan and very existence are determined by the Mississippi River. And as the state of Louisiana faces environmental crisis, it also touches on how respect for the river's natural power might be the best hope for the city's future:
The first lesson…is to forget your compass and follow the River. Uptown is the direction Upriver; Downtown is the direction Downriver. Don't move north and south, but to the River or away from the River. While you are in the city, away from the River always means toward to the Lake, Lake Pontchartrain.
You can blame all of New Orleans on the Mississippi River, because it built the soggy land we ride on. It built the streets crooked to confuse Midwesterners. It built it flat so that you won't wear your knees out pedaling that beat-up cruiser bike. It built it wet, so that the pavement sinks, settles, and slides at different rates, making potholes, sinkholes, and buckled pavement. It built it low so that you have take bridges to get out of town. And when we stopped it from building New Orleans, we started to lose it to the Gulf of Mexico.
Re-establishing the ecological function of the river is the only way to stave off coastal land loss and the destruction of New Orleans.… The river is the cyclist's ally in the fight against fossil fuels.
Being mindful of the river and its curve can get you where you're going faster.
The entire project illuminates just how vital on-the-ground knowledge of a community is for creating navigational tools. Google's recently launched bike mapping feature has come in for some criticism because it doesn't always incorporate such human knowledge; it remains to be seen if it improves as people alert the company to problems with suggested routes. There's really no substitute for the advice of people who know which way the river lies.
More from around the network: Urban Velo on the fight to create better cycling conditions in Asheville, N.C. Urban Milwaukee writes about how a street in that city was narrowed and the world did not come to an end. And Seattle's Orphan Road cites Boston's Big Dig cites the greenway built over Boston's Big Dig as a cautionary tale.
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Nola Gets Protected Bike Lanes Almost Overnight
By Angie Schmitt | Sep 20, 2018
A three-month demonstration will add 4 miles of protected bike lanes connecting bike facilities across the center city.
The Country's Newest Biking Boomtown Looks to the Next Level
By Michael Andersen | Apr 3, 2017
Bike transportation in New Orleans has doubled in the last few years.
New Orleans' Lafitte Greenway: A Community Link, Not a Barrier
By Michael Andersen | Aug 4, 2017
The city is finding that the impact of a linear park is the opposite of a freeway.
New Big Easy Mayor Hopes to Make Biking, Well, Easier
By Aaron Short | May 7, 2019
New Orleans hopes to become one of America's friendliest cities under new its new mayor, Latoya Cantrell.
DC and New Orleans Closing the Bike Commute Gap With Portland
Growth in bike commuting has slowed in Portland and Minneapolis, while some less well-known biking cities are making gains. Graph: Bike Portland New Census numbers are out, providing fresh data on how Americans are getting to work, and Michael Andersen at BikePortland has noticed a couple of trends. The mid-size cities best-known for biking haven't […]
9 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Transit Still Struggling to Recover
Next month will mark nine years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, flooding nearly 80 percent of the city. In the wake of disaster, the city has demonstrated remarkable resilience. Its population has rebounded to about 86 percent of where it stood before the flooding. But a new report from transit advocacy group Ride New […]


Fisher MetaTrader indicator — is a quite simple histogram indicator that detects direction and strength of the trend and signals trend changes. It doesn't use any standard MT4/MT5 indicators in its code. Fisher bases its calculations on the maximum and minimum price levels from the previous periods, applying some advanced math calculations to the relations between the current price and the max/min prices. The indicator is available for both MT4 and MT5. This is a "repainting" indicator — it recalculates previous bars when the new bar has arrived.
period (default = 10) — the period in bars, on which to calculate the maximum and minimum. The higher is the value the less false trend change signals occur but the more this indicator lags.
On the chart example you see that the upward trends are marked with the green histogram lines, while the downward trends are marked with the red line. It's easy to trade with this indicator. You can close short positions and go long when the lines' color change from red to green. You can close long positions and go short when the lines' change from green to red. With the default period setting (10) it was very accurate on EUR/USD H1 chart.
Do you have any suggestions or questions regarding this indicator? You can always discuss Fisher with the other traders and MQL programmers on the indicators forums.


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Ahead of his first gig in Dublin since taking on 20 shows in Berlin over the summer, I interviewed Berlin- based Dublin singer Rhob Cunningham. Rhob spoke to me of his internet 'win', how the Dublin and Berlin live scenes weigh up against each other and how he can't wait to hear Jennifer Evans' upcoming LP.
Rhob will launch his album The Window & Day on Thursday 18th September at The Button Factory in Dublin. You can stream The Window & Day here.
Originally published by Entertainment Ireland. To read the original, please click here.
Berlin- based Dubliner Rhob Cunningham launched The Window & Day, his new album, at The Button Factory.
What's been the highlight of your year so far?
Singing a new song in a handmade Berlin canoe and the video getting on the front page of Reddit! I won The Internet that day.
When did you first realise you wanted a career in music?
I don't like to think of music in those terms. If I did, I'd have to seriously consider another profession. I'd like to be a writer when I'm older.
In three words, describe the five minutes before you walk on stage.
On my way!
How do you wind down after a gig?
It differs from gig to gig. When a gig goes well, I'm already unwound.
In three words, describe the live scene in Ireland.
Still. Going. Strong.
In three words, describe the live scene in Berlin.
Twenty. Four. Seven.
Whose career do you envy and why?
I'm not driven enough to maintain envy for very long. I know too many talented feckers, if I dwelled on it, I'd never get out of bed.
Vinyl or digital downloads?
I'm a big fan of Digital Pre-Orders which facilitate the future printing of Vinyl. Let one medium pay for the other. Cough cough. Hint hint.
What is your favourite record shop anywhere in the world?
Anywhere that can still be found. Any record store that has found a way to keep it's head above water.
Name one rare record you don't own, but you want more than anything.
Jennifer Evans won't let me hear her record because it's not being released 'til later this year. I want to own that, but we all have to wait, I guess. For now.
Name one piece of music memorabilia that you wish you owned.
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti driver's licence. (Fela Kuti's mam, the first woman to be granted a driver's licence in Nigeria.)
What is the one thing in your life that you couldn't go without?
GPS technology.
Name one record, one book and one film that everyone should hear / read / see.
-Shel Silverstein's A Light In The Attic,
-The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman
-Baraka
Pick the director and lead actor for a biopic about your life.
David Lynch. Tilda Swinton.
Describe the perfect night in.
Owning a place. Owning a front door key and a door. Maybe a room. Being "In" somewhere that you didn't have to pay someone for, in some regard. That would be perfect.
Where did you grow up and what are the best and worst things about that place?
Donaghmede and then Dun Laoghaire. The worst thing is trying to spell those words. The best thing is being from anywhere at all.
That fear leads to anger.
Who is the person in your life without whom your life wouldn't be the same?
Una Molloy of Turning Pirate, we've been friends since college and she's always had my back. Her whole family are rather inspiring.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you, so far?
T.S. Elliot – "You are the music while the music lasts."
If you could give one piece of life advice it would be…
You'll know more tomorrow if you ask today.
Rhob Cunningham's The Window & Day is streaming here.
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Chris taught Eleanor to say "Go Tribe" this basketball season and now she says it all the time...at home, at a game, at church, whenever. Here's a short video of her at senior day saying "Go Tribe" when they were presenting awards.
GoTribe from Katie Stratton on Vimeo.
Love her enthusiasm! So sweet!
Oh my golly, that is just too cute!! What a fan!
Teach 'em young! I absolutely love this; so adorable! Love seeing her and Hannah together.


Past mountains, around bogs, across broad plains of dry scrub that could easily cut you, he went. Hanging from his neck was an ancient thing, from their past world, and he didn't know how it worked but it did work. It was a Navigator. When he held it up to the shape of Ckiqs in the sky, then Ckiqs was there, it told him what direction he was going and how far away he was from where they landed several generations ago, the place they started. It told him in a whisper, it was a gentle voice that he could even hear in the areas where great winds roared or even in the middle of a storm. For him the voice was reassuring, and in the times when he felt anxious it calmed him.
He'd traveled across a large amount of the wild places — the places in the far north or the far south, away from the crisscross of train tracks and towns and the overhead buzz of Skimmers. Far above themselves satellites pinged mercilessly back to the towns and cities and trains telling everyone where everyone was. But not like the Navigator, not with poetry.
His walking was like a story. Except for the Navigator he relied on the skills taught to him by his mother and father. Their great-greats brought this knowledge with them from Aok. They didn't land with the others — because of some error they landed far away from the others. It was a long time before they found the villages that sprung up in the meantime. They tried to settle down like the others, they tried for a generation, but there was nothing for them in the villages except noise and interruptions and Councils and arguments.
He was born in the small space under a boulder, sheltered from a rain storm. When he came of age he bid his mother and father goodbye, they walked one way, he another. Later, when he passed through a small remote town, he stopped for a while and he met his wife. She was reluctant to live as a wanderer since she had grown up in the village, but she loved him, and she knew he couldn't stay.
Their first season was easy, the weather was good and there was plenty of food. She became pregnant and they found a nice area by a lake to have the child. They would stay there until the child was strong enough to travel, like his parents had done with him. He built a shelter with trees he cut, he put traps out and he fished, collecting as much food as he could.
When it came time for her to give birth he knew something was wrong. The baby wasn't in the right position, and he tried everything he could, that he'd been taught, but it went badly and he didn't have enough experience to know what to do. For two days his wife struggled, but the baby was stillborn. His wife didn't stop bleeding. He put them together in a pyre somewhere that had a nice view of the mountains, so that they would always see.
He regretted things now, he regretted his nature, he regretted not staying with her in town. But he also knew it would've been impossible.
Then for months he rode the trains that went between the wide areas that used to be jungle. He thought of the trains as great serpents, winding their routes along the ground and under hills, and up and over them too. And the trains slinked across the soil and they sometimes rested in huge yards with one another to keep warm. And he watched these monsters and thought that he should get back to walking the places that were forgotten, away from this, but he found solace in the speed of the trains and in the particular nighttime skies of the spaces between stations.
One day he noticed a young man following him, hanging back, but working his way across the same trains and through the same train yards. Equ hid and waited for him.
"Why are you following me?" He confronted the man.
Startled, the man said "I'm not, I'm not following you… I'm studying you." The young man explained he was an academic, that he was studying wanderers.
"Studying? What for?" Equ asked.
"For when you're gone, when your kind of people are gone, when we don't wander any more, so that we'll have a record, so that we'll understand," the man said.
"If you really want to understand then you'll have to travel with me. I cannot tell you, not with words."
The young man balked at this, he said he couldn't just leave, that he had responsibilities. How can you understand if you can't sacrifice anything, Equ thought. But he didn't ask him this because he thought it would be tiring and futile. Then Equ wondered if he too was unwilling to sacrifice, because all he knew was the Navigator, that if he wanted to understand the young man he too would have to sacrifice something.
"But why do you want to understand? Why does it matter?" Equ asked.
"So that we don't forget, so that we know how people used to live." The young man said.
"I live this way now, I am not yet dead. If you want to understand, walk into the world." And Equ reached around his neck and removed the Navigator. He handed it to the young man and he said "this will tell you the words you want to know."
That night was the quietest night Equ had ever known.


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end

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Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good's statement on President Trump's visit to North Carolina to view Hurricane Florence damage
NOTE TO EDITORS: Today, President Trump came to North Carolina to inspect the recovery effort in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, which caused historic death and destruction in the region. Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good participated in a briefing to update the president and other federal officials on the company's work to restore power to 1.6 million customers, with another 140,000 remaining.
The following statement can be attributed to Lynn Good, chairman and CEO of Duke Energy:
"The president's concern for the people of the Carolinas, some of whose lives have been upended by Hurricane Florence, is deeply appreciated.
"I was honored to share the very strong progress we have made to restore power throughout our service territory – but our most challenging work remains as we focus on those communities devastated by this storm, particularly in the coastal areas.
"Federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency, along with Gov. Cooper and his administration, have been great partners. Their leadership and cooperation are invaluable to our work.
"We've assembled our largest restoration force ever in the Carolinas – over 20,000 workers – to help customers in the wake of Florence. In addition, thousands of employees across our company have volunteered and thrown themselves into helping restore power as fast as conditions allow. Helping customers in times like these brings out the best in our company and employees.
"We've seen firsthand the historic impact this storm has had on our customers and the communities we're proud to serve, and we will not rest until every one of them is restored."
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) is one of the largest energy holding companies in the U.S., with approximately 29,000 employees and a generating capacity of 49,500 megawatts.
The company's Electric Utilities and Infrastructure unit serves approximately 7.6 million retail electric customers in six states – North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.
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Twilight in New Orleans
Posted by Lee on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 · Leave a Comment
offBeat :: Fresh :: Twilight in New Orleans
Former Afghan Whigs front man and part-time New Orleanian Greg Dulli is one whose heyday shined so brightly that the rest of his life's output might inevitably seem less important. Dulli may not produce as many perfect songs as back when SubPop Records signed the Afghan Whigs as the label's first non-Seattle band — his masterpiece remains his simultaneously tender and macho major-label debut, Gentlemen. But the new Powder Burns, by his Twilight Singers, features some of Dulli's strongest successes.
Powder Burns' slamdunks don't come during the Whigs-ish, bashing rock crescendos. Dulli's trademark vocal strain (courtesy of Camel cigarettes) now seems to symbolize tough emotion. Calm, melodic vocals, mysterious ambient sound and far away breakbeats (courtesy of New Orleans producer Mic Napolitano) elevate Dulli's familiar lyrical fixations to fresh greatness. When he finally ditches the guitar and his rasp altogether for "Candy Cane Crawl," and fellow semi-New Orleanian Ani DiFranco layers softly bizarre backing vox, Dulli finds a whole new perfection. On Powder Burns, the less Dulli sounds like the Whigs, the stronger his creativity and emotional impact.
OffBeat spoke with Greg Dulli about Powder Burns, curfew dodging and "class A's" in New Orleans, and the Twilight Singers' upcoming performance at One Eyed Jack's on June 7..
How did you compose the new songs? It doesn't sound like you sat down with a guitar.
I usually start with a beat. I'd start on the Rhodes with a loop. Mic [Napolitano] is really, really good at making loops. This is my third, maybe forth record with Mic. But this is different than Blackberry Belle, which was also done in New Orleans. That one was just me and Mic in a room, then we would call in other guys once we'd built a skeleton of a track. This one was a little more live. There was a rhythm section there with me in an apartment above Checkpoint Charlie's, where you have to watch out for the bleed from the uh, magnificent music coming from underneath.
Going into the album, did you intend to make different music? Do you care about mining yourself for ideas?
I do. But it happens accidentally. On [Powder Burns' lead track, 'I'm Ready'] in particular, I wrote and laid down the guitar, drum machine and synth in Italy after listening to Evil Heat by Primal Scream for about a month solid. The guitar sounds cold. I wanted the song to sound kind of detached, kind of like how you are when you're uh…doing Class A drugs. I loved that sound. I'd stumbled onto some kind of fresh sound for me. Trying to reproduce or re-record it in New Orleans and make it sound warmer would've defeated the purpose. I make records in New Orleans, but not New Orleans sounding records.
Your press kit says that while your music evolves, lyrically you're still exploring themes of self-loathing, self-love and guilt. Are you actually "exploring the same themes" or just making the same decisions and mistakes, and having the same life regrets?
I don't think any of that is true. I'm a constant, yet slowly evolvingindividual. Am I the same guy I was when I was 27? No. And I don't think I sound like that guy either. This record in particular, I've certainly come to some conclusions in my life and am passing them on.The last thing I'm going to do is preach. And if I had learned to moderate and behave myself a little more, I might not be in the position I am now — but I will say that New Orleans hastened my way down that road.
When did you first move here?
1997. I rented Peter Buck's house in the Marigny.
Why'd you first move here? Was it just a great tour stop?
I'll say this. New Orleans was not the greatest tour stop at first. Ask any New Orleans rock band — they're all up against it, with the tourist industry. Everybody wants to hear brass, and there's just so much going on down there.
But I willedit to be a good tour stop. I came there the first time in '88, then around '90 I hooked up with a girl down there. So I started going there all the time. She worked at The Dungeon and uh, [laughs] that was kind of my hang for a while.
I heard you initially moved away because New Orleans had its way with you? How do you pull off living here now? Please advise the thousands of New Orleanians who haven't figured that trick out.
Well, what I had to do was to, well…uh…cut out some of the more damaging aspects of my…uh…extracurricular life.
You mean certain drugs.
The Class A's were the first to go. That allowed me to keep drinking and smoking weed. Once I cut out the Class A's — it financially killed a couple guys, but… (laughs) I'm a much more happier, wealthier and well-rested human being. Scully [from Morning Forty Federation, whose recent liner notes Dulli penned] asked me "When do you know when you're ready to quit?" I told him, "Dude, you know. Because there's nowhere else to go. It's going to be a painful and dark, scary place when that day comes, and I feel for you when you get there. Just start swimming upward immediately."
And New Orleans right now is the worst place in the world to be if you're in a position to be asking yourself whether you should quit hard drugs.
Yeah, I've talked to a few people down there — it's become a culture in itself. And I don't want to say where exactly it goes down. I don't want to be outingany establishments but… let's just say that when I walk home through the Quarter, if I'm a little too uh, tempted, I take Chartres Street. (laughs) I do Royal.
You split your time now between here and the other LA.
I usually come to New Orleans in the summer.
In black long sleeves and all…
I have short black sleeves. (laughs) But black nonetheless — and two showers later… It's brutal. But I've spent the last five Julys and Augusts in New Orleans.
This year though, my friend Daveand I met down in New Orleans in October, five weeks after Katrina went down. He lives in the Marigny, and a tree fell in his yard, and on part of his roof. But the roof wasn't damaged; just his pool was damaged. I told him, "Dude, whatever you do, don't bitch about your pool getting damaged.
When anybody asks you what happened, just say you're fine."
That being said, when I first got down there it was such a fucking surreal ghost town, with the guards running around, and checkpoints.
And Halloween ending at 2 a.m.!
Not since the Civil War! But I still got home at 5a.m. on Halloween. I just said fuck it, I didn't care. Corey [from One Eyed Jacks] and I went out to Metairie, which didn't have a curfew. But then we had to come back into New Orleans the back way, through St Bernard. We had to kill the headlights a couple times so the cops wouldn't see us. They were the last people we wanted to talk to, coming home at 6 a.m. But I drank with some of the National Guard though, at One Eyed Jacks. They would come down to the after hours jams we were having at One Eyed Jacks.
Last time y'all played at One Eyed Jacks, I don't remember any electronics at all.
The live band covers my material. Using electronics live gets too tricky for me, or I'm just too lazy. We actually did have programming on the first record and brought that with us on tour, a lot of triggers and MIDI action. But to me, it was holding back the surge that you want to have live. When you're locked in with a machine, you can't go anywhere, so that's why I uh…kicked the drum machine out of the live band. But not the studio band.
Do you bring lots of singers with you to replicate the layers?
Everyone in the band sings, but they're having to cover the Joe Arthur parts. We spent two days with the live band just nailing the Joe Arthur parts. Hopefully Ani DiFranco will get up and sing with us in New Orleans, so we'll dodge that bullet.
We're also going to shoot the show. Rio [Hackford, One Eyed Jacks co-owner, and son of Oscar-winning director, Taylor Hackford] is directing it. I know he's done all the Supagroup videos, and a couple other ones, but I think this is the first show he's directing. I can only hope it's good.
So, you're known to slip a lot of — not really covers but musical appropriations into your live shows.
So, I'm just guessing: you're gonna learn that Gnarls Barkley song, aren't you?
You know I am dude! (laughs) We got it down and it's already in the show! You're the only one to ask me that, Michael!
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/*
 * Copyright © 2011,2012,2013  Google, Inc.
 *
 *  This is part of HarfBuzz, a text shaping library.
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without
 * license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
 * software and its documentation for any purpose, provided that the
 * above copyright notice and the following two paragraphs appear in
 * all copies of this software.
 *
 * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR
 * DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
 * ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN
 * IF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
 * DAMAGE.
 *
 * THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING,
 * BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS
 * ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS NO OBLIGATION TO
 * PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
 *
 * Google Author(s): Behdad Esfahbod
 */

#include "hb-ot-shape-complex-myanmar-private.hh"

/*
 * Myanmar shaper.
 */

static const hb_tag_t
basic_features[] =
{
  /*
   * Basic features.
   * These features are applied in order, one at a time, after initial_reordering.
   */
  HB_TAG('r','p','h','f'),
  HB_TAG('p','r','e','f'),
  HB_TAG('b','l','w','f'),
  HB_TAG('p','s','t','f'),
};
static const hb_tag_t
other_features[] =
{
  /*
   * Other features.
   * These features are applied all at once, after final_reordering.
   */
  HB_TAG('p','r','e','s'),
  HB_TAG('a','b','v','s'),
  HB_TAG('b','l','w','s'),
  HB_TAG('p','s','t','s'),
  /* Positioning features, though we don't care about the types. */
  HB_TAG('d','i','s','t'),
  /* Pre-release version of Windows 8 Myanmar font had abvm,blwm
   * features.  The released Windows 8 version of the font (as well
   * as the released spec) used 'mark' instead.  The Windows 8
   * shaper however didn't apply 'mark' but did apply 'mkmk'.
   * Perhaps it applied abvm/blwm.  This was fixed in a Windows 8
   * update, so now it applies mark/mkmk.  We are guessing that
   * it still applies abvm/blwm too.
   */
  HB_TAG('a','b','v','m'),
  HB_TAG('b','l','w','m'),
};

static void
setup_syllables (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan,
		 hb_font_t *font,
		 hb_buffer_t *buffer);
static void
initial_reordering (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan,
		    hb_font_t *font,
		    hb_buffer_t *buffer);
static void
final_reordering (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan,
		  hb_font_t *font,
		  hb_buffer_t *buffer);

static void
collect_features_myanmar (hb_ot_shape_planner_t *plan)
{
  hb_ot_map_builder_t *map = &plan->map;

  /* Do this before any lookups have been applied. */
  map->add_gsub_pause (setup_syllables);

  map->add_global_bool_feature (HB_TAG('l','o','c','l'));
  /* The Indic specs do not require ccmp, but we apply it here since if
   * there is a use of it, it's typically at the beginning. */
  map->add_global_bool_feature (HB_TAG('c','c','m','p'));

  map->add_gsub_pause (initial_reordering);
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < ARRAY_LENGTH (basic_features); i++)
  {
    map->add_feature (basic_features[i], 1, F_GLOBAL | F_MANUAL_ZWJ);
    map->add_gsub_pause (nullptr);
  }
  map->add_gsub_pause (final_reordering);
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < ARRAY_LENGTH (other_features); i++)
    map->add_feature (other_features[i], 1, F_GLOBAL | F_MANUAL_ZWJ);
}

static void
override_features_myanmar (hb_ot_shape_planner_t *plan)
{
  plan->map.add_feature (HB_TAG('l','i','g','a'), 0, F_GLOBAL);
}

enum syllable_type_t {
  consonant_syllable,
  punctuation_cluster,
  broken_cluster,
  non_myanmar_cluster,
};

#include "hb-ot-shape-complex-myanmar-machine.hh"

static void
setup_masks_myanmar (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan HB_UNUSED,
		   hb_buffer_t              *buffer,
		   hb_font_t                *font HB_UNUSED)
{
  HB_BUFFER_ALLOCATE_VAR (buffer, myanmar_category);
  HB_BUFFER_ALLOCATE_VAR (buffer, myanmar_position);

  /* We cannot setup masks here.  We save information about characters
   * and setup masks later on in a pause-callback. */

  unsigned int count = buffer->len;
  hb_glyph_info_t *info = buffer->info;
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    set_myanmar_properties (info[i]);
}

static void
setup_syllables (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan HB_UNUSED,
		 hb_font_t *font HB_UNUSED,
		 hb_buffer_t *buffer)
{
  find_syllables (buffer);
  foreach_syllable (buffer, start, end)
    buffer->unsafe_to_break (start, end);
}

static int
compare_myanmar_order (const hb_glyph_info_t *pa, const hb_glyph_info_t *pb)
{
  int a = pa->myanmar_position();
  int b = pb->myanmar_position();

  return a < b ? -1 : a == b ? 0 : +1;
}

/* Rules from:
 * http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/myanmar/intro.htm */

static void
initial_reordering_consonant_syllable (hb_buffer_t *buffer,
				       unsigned int start, unsigned int end)
{
  hb_glyph_info_t *info = buffer->info;

  unsigned int base = end;
  bool has_reph = false;

  {
    unsigned int limit = start;
    if (start + 3 <= end &&
	info[start  ].myanmar_category() == OT_Ra &&
	info[start+1].myanmar_category() == OT_As &&
	info[start+2].myanmar_category() == OT_H)
    {
      limit += 3;
      base = start;
      has_reph = true;
    }

    {
      if (!has_reph)
	base = limit;

      for (unsigned int i = limit; i < end; i++)
	if (is_consonant (info[i]))
	{
	  base = i;
	  break;
	}
    }
  }

  /* Reorder! */
  {
    unsigned int i = start;
    for (; i < start + (has_reph ? 3 : 0); i++)
      info[i].myanmar_position() = POS_AFTER_MAIN;
    for (; i < base; i++)
      info[i].myanmar_position() = POS_PRE_C;
    if (i < end)
    {
      info[i].myanmar_position() = POS_BASE_C;
      i++;
    }
    indic_position_t pos = POS_AFTER_MAIN;
    /* The following loop may be ugly, but it implements all of
     * Myanmar reordering! */
    for (; i < end; i++)
    {
      if (info[i].myanmar_category() == OT_MR) /* Pre-base reordering */
      {
	info[i].myanmar_position() = POS_PRE_C;
	continue;
      }
      if (info[i].myanmar_position() < POS_BASE_C) /* Left matra */
      {
	continue;
      }
      if (info[i].myanmar_category() == OT_VS)
      {
	info[i].myanmar_position() = info[i - 1].myanmar_position();
	continue;
      }

      if (pos == POS_AFTER_MAIN && info[i].myanmar_category() == OT_VBlw)
      {
	pos = POS_BELOW_C;
	info[i].myanmar_position() = pos;
	continue;
      }

      if (pos == POS_BELOW_C && info[i].myanmar_category() == OT_A)
      {
	info[i].myanmar_position() = POS_BEFORE_SUB;
	continue;
      }
      if (pos == POS_BELOW_C && info[i].myanmar_category() == OT_VBlw)
      {
	info[i].myanmar_position() = pos;
	continue;
      }
      if (pos == POS_BELOW_C && info[i].myanmar_category() != OT_A)
      {
        pos = POS_AFTER_SUB;
	info[i].myanmar_position() = pos;
	continue;
      }
      info[i].myanmar_position() = pos;
    }
  }

  /* Sit tight, rock 'n roll! */
  buffer->sort (start, end, compare_myanmar_order);
}

static void
initial_reordering_syllable (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan,
			     hb_face_t *face,
			     hb_buffer_t *buffer,
			     unsigned int start, unsigned int end)
{
  syllable_type_t syllable_type = (syllable_type_t) (buffer->info[start].syllable() & 0x0F);
  switch (syllable_type) {

    case broken_cluster: /* We already inserted dotted-circles, so just call the consonant_syllable. */
    case consonant_syllable:
      initial_reordering_consonant_syllable  (buffer, start, end);
      break;

    case punctuation_cluster:
    case non_myanmar_cluster:
      break;
  }
}

static inline void
insert_dotted_circles (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan HB_UNUSED,
		       hb_font_t *font,
		       hb_buffer_t *buffer)
{
  /* Note: This loop is extra overhead, but should not be measurable. */
  bool has_broken_syllables = false;
  unsigned int count = buffer->len;
  hb_glyph_info_t *info = buffer->info;
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    if ((info[i].syllable() & 0x0F) == broken_cluster)
    {
      has_broken_syllables = true;
      break;
    }
  if (likely (!has_broken_syllables))
    return;

  hb_codepoint_t dottedcircle_glyph;
  if (!font->get_nominal_glyph (0x25CCu, &dottedcircle_glyph))
    return;

  hb_glyph_info_t dottedcircle = {0};
  dottedcircle.codepoint = 0x25CCu;
  set_myanmar_properties (dottedcircle);
  dottedcircle.codepoint = dottedcircle_glyph;

  buffer->clear_output ();

  buffer->idx = 0;
  unsigned int last_syllable = 0;
  while (buffer->idx < buffer->len && !buffer->in_error)
  {
    unsigned int syllable = buffer->cur().syllable();
    syllable_type_t syllable_type = (syllable_type_t) (syllable & 0x0F);
    if (unlikely (last_syllable != syllable && syllable_type == broken_cluster))
    {
      last_syllable = syllable;

      hb_glyph_info_t ginfo = dottedcircle;
      ginfo.cluster = buffer->cur().cluster;
      ginfo.mask = buffer->cur().mask;
      ginfo.syllable() = buffer->cur().syllable();

      buffer->output_info (ginfo);
    }
    else
      buffer->next_glyph ();
  }

  buffer->swap_buffers ();
}

static void
initial_reordering (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan,
		    hb_font_t *font,
		    hb_buffer_t *buffer)
{
  insert_dotted_circles (plan, font, buffer);

  foreach_syllable (buffer, start, end)
    initial_reordering_syllable (plan, font->face, buffer, start, end);
}

static void
final_reordering (const hb_ot_shape_plan_t *plan,
		  hb_font_t *font HB_UNUSED,
		  hb_buffer_t *buffer)
{
  hb_glyph_info_t *info = buffer->info;
  unsigned int count = buffer->len;

  /* Zero syllables now... */
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    info[i].syllable() = 0;

  HB_BUFFER_DEALLOCATE_VAR (buffer, myanmar_category);
  HB_BUFFER_DEALLOCATE_VAR (buffer, myanmar_position);
}

/* Uniscribe seems to have a shaper for 'mymr' that is like the
 * generic shaper, except that it zeros mark advances GDEF_LATE. */
const hb_ot_complex_shaper_t _hb_ot_complex_shaper_myanmar_old =
{
  nullptr, /* collect_features */
  nullptr, /* override_features */
  nullptr, /* data_create */
  nullptr, /* data_destroy */
  nullptr, /* preprocess_text */
  nullptr, /* postprocess_glyphs */
  HB_OT_SHAPE_NORMALIZATION_MODE_DEFAULT,
  nullptr, /* decompose */
  nullptr, /* compose */
  nullptr, /* setup_masks */
  nullptr, /* disable_otl */
  nullptr, /* reorder_marks */
  HB_OT_SHAPE_ZERO_WIDTH_MARKS_BY_GDEF_LATE,
  true, /* fallback_position */
};

const hb_ot_complex_shaper_t _hb_ot_complex_shaper_myanmar =
{
  collect_features_myanmar,
  override_features_myanmar,
  nullptr, /* data_create */
  nullptr, /* data_destroy */
  nullptr, /* preprocess_text */
  nullptr, /* postprocess_glyphs */
  HB_OT_SHAPE_NORMALIZATION_MODE_COMPOSED_DIACRITICS_NO_SHORT_CIRCUIT,
  nullptr, /* decompose */
  nullptr, /* compose */
  setup_masks_myanmar,
  nullptr, /* disable_otl */
  nullptr, /* reorder_marks */
  HB_OT_SHAPE_ZERO_WIDTH_MARKS_BY_GDEF_EARLY,
  false, /* fallback_position */
};


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Massive solar power project will be 100 times larger than any in the world
200 gigawatts. $200 billion.
By Shannon Connellan 2018-03-29 02:13:26 UTC
The world's biggest solar power project is coming to Saudi Arabia.
And it comes with a high price tag: around $200 billion. The venture, a partnership between Saudi Arabia and Japanese tech giant SoftBank, was revealed Tuesday, according to Bloomberg.
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Expected to be completed by 2030, the project will reach a colossal capacity of 200 gigawatts, SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son told reporters.
At 200 GW, the Saudi project would be approximately 100 times larger than the next proposed project, according to Bloomberg. That'd be Australia's proposed Solar Choice Bulli Creek PV Plant, which will have a capacity of 2GW.
Currently, China's Tengger Desert Solar Park is considered the biggest solar farm in the world, with the capacity to produce 1,500 MW.
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud and Masayoshi Son sign a memorandum of understanding in New York on March 28.
Image: Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Kingdom Council / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
It's a significant move for oil giant Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter of petroleum. This large-scale investment in solar power would reduce Saudi Arabia's reliance on oil, which is part of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 3030 plan to diversify the country's revenue sources. (He's long criticized Saudi Arabia's oil addiction.)
According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia has a total power capacity of 77 GW (two-thirds natural gas, one third oil), which means 200GW would be way too much solar power for the country to use by itself. Hello, stored power exports.
And that $200 billion? Seems a hefty sum, but it'll reportedly cover the solar panels and battery storage, along with a manufacturing plant to make said panels. The first $5 billion 7.2 GW phase will be driven by $1 billion from SoftBank's long-term investment Vision Fund, then the rest by what Son referred to as "project financing."
The first of the two solar parks will begin construction this year, and will start rolling out electricity by 2019.
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Topics: energy-generation, Saudi Arabia, Science, solar power