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Blonde Redhead - Blonde Redhead (1995)
Recalling the no wave movement of the late '70s, the self-titled debut of New York City's Blonde Redhead is a glorious piece of dense, art-damaged noise, with songs that move from drifting melodicism to raging aural assaults in the course of a few measures. Taking their cues most directly from Sonic Youth (Steve Shelley produced the album), Blonde Redhead revel in noise and create vast sonic landscapes out of which songs naturally emerge. The focus here tends to be on atmospherics, and yet there is never the feeling of utter chaos; instead, the album functions like a work of controlled mayhem, referencing a wide range of musical approaches. The opening track, "I Don't Want U," starts off like jazz-rock, building momentum until it erupts in a blast of indie rock noise, anchored throughout by a steadily rolling bassline. "Snippet"'s quite-loud-quiet dynamic ... Read more »
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Ruth's Refrigerator was a short-lived collaboration between Leicester, England-based neo-psychedelic guitarist/songwriter Alan Jenkins (formerly of the Deep Freeze Mice and the Chrysanthemums) and the British indie pop band Po! (not to be confused with American alt-rockers P'o). The members were Jenkins, namesake singer/guitarist Ruth Miller, keyboardist Blodwyn P. Teabag (whom Jenkins later married), bassist Terri Lowe, and drummer Robyn Gibson. Ruth's Refrigerator released two fine albums' worth of jangly psych-pop, 1990s Suddenly a Disfigured Head Parachuted and 1991's A Lizard Is a Submarine on Grass, but was never meant to be a full-time project. Miller and Lowe returned to Po!, and Jenkins, Teabag, and Gibson went on to form the Creams.
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Cry it Out
By Molly Smith Metzler.
Product Code: CR7000
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Four months ago, Jessie was a corporate lawyer with a glamorous Manhattan life. Today, she is in dirty yoga pants, covered in breast milk, trying to comfort a screaming newborn. Isolated in a sleepy Long Island suburb while her commuter husband works long hours, Jessie is desperate to talk to anyone besides Food Network. So when she spies a fellow new mom and neighbor, Lina, at the local Stop & Shop, she vaults over the cantaloupe to introduce herself. Happy to have found each other, the two moms agree to meet for coffee during naptime in the sweet spot behind their adjoining yards where both their baby monitors get reception, and a fast friendship is born. Jessie and Lina may be from vastly different financial backgrounds—Jessie is Ivy-educated and of the manor born; Lina has a night-school nursing degree and terrible credit—but they have one huge thing in common: they've been cracked open by the love they feel for their newborns. One coffee quickly becomes a daily coffee, as Jessie and Lina laugh through the highs and lows of motherhood. But their intimacy is punctured when a stranger who lives in the mansion up on the cliff appears in the yard, asking if they would include his wife, a new mom who is having "a hard time," in their coffee klatch. Reluctantly, the duo tries to become a trio, but with very mixed—and surprising—results. After all, this is a town where the haves and the have-nots live in very close company; up on the cliff is Sands Point, one of the most expensive Great Gatsby-esque neighborhoods in the whole country. How could that woman possibly be having a "hard time"? A comedy with dark edges, Cry It Out takes an honest look at the absurdities of being home with a baby, the power of female friendship, the dilemma of going back to work, and the effect class has on parenthood in America.
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"This show was a resounding hit with our audiences, touching parents and non-parents, the comedy sneaks the gravity of the character's lives well, and proved to be a fantastic, mission-fulfilling, process. "
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Review by Carol M. Rice, Rover Dramawerks, Plano, Texas
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"A funny story that weaves together very different but highly meaningful stories from three new mothers." —USA Today
"Whip smart." —USA Today
"While the voices provide different colors, they harmonize well on subjects … including the American economy and women's choices across the country." —USA Today
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"A deeply felt topical drama that takes audiences on an emotional roller-coaster ride that whipsaws through laughs, poignant tears and moments of monumental rage." —LEO Weekly
"In the course of discussing parenthood, postpartum depression, and gender roles, the play offers some extraordinary insights that will send you out of the theater with much to ponder." —LEO Weekly
"Tender, revealing and incisive. … Cry it Out is consistently masterful in creating characters who feel real." —WFPL Louisville
"Presents a more comprehensive picture of the challenges and triumphs of new motherhood." —WFPL Louisville
"It would be a mistake to label Cry it Out as a 'chick play' for women. This play is about broader issues buried deep in our psyches, like parental bonding and self-realization. It's about division of labor, relationships, resentment, and the disruption that a new family member—whether baby or mother-in-law—introduces into our lives." —KONK Life
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"A special kind of show." — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
"Empathetic and enjoyable ... it all rings utterly true." — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
"What impressed me the most about Cry it Out was how compassionately it understands how much the decisions couples make together (or single parents make for themselves) in those early weeks affect the later footprint of their lives. You just don't fully know that at the time." — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
"Often funny, but it's a very emotional show." — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
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Home › The Polar Bear Expedition — The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia 1918-1919
By James Carl Nelson
The Polar Bear Expedition — The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia 1918-1919
Hardcover, 309 pp.
Copyright 2019 by James Carl Nelson
In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not.
An unforgettable human drama deep with contemporary resonance, award-winning historian James Carl Nelson's The Polar Bear Expedition draws on an untapped trove of firsthand accounts to deliver a vivid, soldier's-eye view of an extraordinary lost chapter of American history — the Invasion of Russia one hundred years ago during the last days of the Great War.
In the winter of 1919, 5,000 U.S. soldiers, nicknamed "The Polar Bears," found themselves hundreds of miles north of Moscow in desperate, bloody combat against the newly formed Soviet Union's Red Army. Temperatures plummeted to sixty below zero. Their guns and their flesh froze. The Bolsheviks, camouflaged in white, advanced in waves across the snow like ghosts.
The Polar Bears, hailing largely from Michigan, heroically waged a courageous campaign in the brutal, frigid subarctic of northern Russia for almost a year. And yet they are all but unknown today. Indeed, during the Cold War, two U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, would assert that the American and the Russian people had never directly fought each other. They were spectacularly wrong, and so too is the nation's collective memory.
It began in August 1918, during the last months of the First World War: the U.S. Army's 339th Infantry Regiment crossed the Arctic Circle; instead of the Western Front, these troops were sailing en route to Archangel, Russia, on the White Sea, to intervene in the Russian Civil War. The American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, had been sent to fight the Soviet Red Army and aid anti-Bolshevik forces in hopes of reopening the Eastern Front against Germany. And yet even after the Great War officially ended in November 1918, American troops continued to battle the Red Army and another, equally formidable enemy, "General Winter," which had destroyed Napoleon's Grand Armee a century earlier and would do the same to Hitler's once-invincible Wehrmacht.
More than two hundred Polar Bears perished before their withdrawal in July 1919. But their story does not end there. Ten years after they left, a contingent of veterans returned to Russia to recover the remains of more than a hundred of their fallen brothers and lay them to rest in Michigan, where a monument honoring their service still stands.
In the century since, America has forgotten the Polar Bears' harrowing campaign. Russia, notably, has not, and as Nelson reveals, the episode continues to color Russian attitudes toward the United States. At once epic and intimate, The Polar Bear Expedition masterfully recovers this remarkable tale at a time of new relevance.


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Q: Solving SDE system to reobtain geometric Brownian motion I have peacefully derived geometric Brownian motion by applying Ito's formula to the process $Y(t) = e^{\alpha B(t) - \frac{t}{2}}$ and letting $\alpha = 1$.
The differential form of $dY$ is clearly equal to
$$dY = \alpha YdB + \left(\frac{\alpha^2}{2} - \frac{1}{2}\right)Ydt \qquad (1)$$
and I understand this to be the SDE that governs a geometric Brownian motion with drift.
I'm now trying to look at the issue from another perspective.
Say I have the following system of SDEs
$$\left\{\begin{matrix}
dX(t) = Y(t)dB^{(1)}(t)\\
dY(t) = Y(t)dB^{(2)}(t)
\end{matrix}\right.$$
where $B^{(1)}(t),t>0$ and $B^{(2)}(t),t>0$ are two standard and independent Brownian motions. I also have the following initial conditions
$$X(0) = 0 \qquad Y(0) = 1$$
I would like to obtain $Y(t)$ as a solution to this system and eventually find out also $X(t)$, but I'm having a hard time.
I can see that the second equation is exactly equal to $(1)$ for $\alpha =1$, however I would like to actually see how the initial conditions play a role.
My attempt was the following.
I take the second equation and treat as follows
$$dY(t) = Y(t)dB^{(2)}(t) \iff \\ \frac{dY(t)}{Y(t)} = dB^{(2)}(t) \iff \\\ln(Y(t)) = \int_0^tdB^{(2)}(t) = B^{(2)}(t) - B^{(2)}(0) \iff \\ Y(t) = e^{B^{(2)}(t)}$$
since $B^{(2)}(t)$ is a standard Brownian motion. Nowhere near the wanted result. And applying the initial condition only gives me a triviality.
What am I missing? I clearly need to reobtain $Y(t)$ to then solve $X(t)$...

A: I think you forgot to use Ito's lemma.
You can show that $$ d(\ln Y_t) = \frac{dY_t}{Y_t} - \frac{1}{2}dt $$
So we can write:
$$ dY_t = Y_t\, dB_t \;\;\;\implies\;\;\; \frac{dY_t}{Y_t} = dB_t
\;\;\;\implies\;\;\; d(\ln Y_t) = dB_t - \frac{1}{2}dt $$
Thus, we get:
$$
\ln Y_t = B_t - \frac{1}{2}t\;\;\;\implies\;\;\; Y_t
= \exp\left( B_t - \frac{1}{2}t \right)
$$
which is the solution to geometric Brownian motion with $\mu=0,\sigma=1,Y_0=1$.

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Apple, Google, Microsoft, NFL: suicide by greed
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The old movie line, "Stop me before I kill again," comes to mind. In this case, however, it's "Stop me before I kill myself."
PandoDaily has uncovered a wide-ranging scandal among tech giants. It's basically an illegal scheme to limit wages by agreeing not to lure employees away from each other with the promise of higher salaries.
Companies involved? At first, just a few. But Pando has found evidence that many giants are in on the scheme, and "all told, the combined workforces of the companies involved totals well over a million employees."
The companies? Google, Apple, Microsoft, Pixar, Intuit, Lucasfilm, IBM, Dell, eBay, Comcast, Clear Channel, Dreamworks, Adobe, Genentech. That's quite a list.
Obviously, these corporations fear dents in their bottom-line, because prior to wage-fixing agreements, they were engaged in escalating bidding wars to grab employees from each other.
"They're only paying you X over there? We'll offer you X plus 100!"
Well, whose fault is that? Who created the problem in the first place? The companies themselves, through their willingness to pay wild amounts of money to prospective talent.
It was nobody's fault but their own.
You see the same problem in pro sports. The National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball. Bidding wars for players. Salaries through the roof.
So the team owners agree to various wage-fixing schemes, including paying fines, "luxury taxes," for excessive payrolls.
Television networks have gotten into the act, too. In their competition to sign contracts to broadcast the games, they're paying out billions to these sports leagues.
And therefore, the networks have to turn around and charge outlandish prices to corporations who want to advertise during the games. Some of of these corporations are now opting out of sponsorship. They can't afford it.
For those who can, for example, cough up $4 million for a single 30-second ad during the Super Bowl, there is yet another level of insane competition: who produced the most creative commercial?
Yes, there are post-game rankings of these ads published every year. In a final irony, Communicas has published a study showing that only one out of five Super Bowl ads results in the sale of a product.
It's apparently the "creativity" of the ad that makes the TV viewer fail to associate the ad with the brand name of the sponsor. Beautiful.
Escalating greed eventually has consequences.
Meanwhile, a McDonald's tries to figure out how little they can pay their employees and keep them alive enough to show up for work.
Selling a trillion toxic burgers a day doesn't quite result in sufficient profits.
I don't want to get into the pharmaceutical cartel, because I'll be here all day. But as I recently wrote, Gilead Sciences' new blockbuster-selling drug, Sovaldi, costs $84,000 for a 12-week treatment. That's a 1000 dollars a pill.
Sovaldi treats hepatitis C. The late ABC News reporter, Nick Regush, one of the last true mainstream investigative medical reporters in America, offered evidence that the virus "causing" hepatitis C was a complete fake. It had never been isolated and identified as existing at all.
Regush challenged researchers to a public debate. No one took him up on it.
A thousand dollars a pill to kill a virus that doesn't exist. Now, that's a business strategy for the ages.
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These words drift through my mind as I reflect on the recent works of Garvin Tieseler.
R.A. Bowen: Did you study art or self-taught?
Garvin: I never studied art. I've just felt compelled – since I was a kid – to draw whatever I see in my head. I'm inspired by artists who depict a surreal world – I'm interested in art that takes the viewer into a new place.
How long have you been creating the pieces for your show in October?
The pieces for the show in October at 'The Kennedy Gallery' are a combination of new and old. Most have been made this year.
Although you're not formally trained – You're clearly talented. Did you receive support or encouragement as a young artist?
My mom always supported my creative efforts in music, painting or drawing – Allowing me to be comfortable expressing myself at a young age. Today my parents are still very supportive.
Your work definitely has a Dark, Surreal and in my opinion – A Visionary quality. Do you spend a lot of time reflecting before you are able to create?
I do think about the human condition on many levels before I start a piece. I try to isolate a truth. A narrative fueled by isolation, sadness, rejection, desperation, or fear. Subconscious drivers (buried inside) but shaping the individual's life philosophy.
"Harnessing a dream" is a great piece. The surreal – barren landscape in contrast with the absolutely brilliant Horse – amazing! Was this something you actually had a dream about or is it meant to symbolize the difficulties of life?
I imagined I was him. What did I see? How did I perceive myself standing there? The vision – The hallucination – Beautifully speaking to me – The Horse. How impermanent are the laws of nature? How every man's current state transforms into something else when self-directed. The horse alive with color shatters & dematerializes over and over again showing the patterns of transformation.
Wow. Great answer! Love to hear the journey – step by step. Are all the pieces in the show created in the same way and medium? Please describe the process.
Yes. All the current pieces are created in the same way. The process is borrowed from 20 years of only creating music. I write songs in pieces and recorded them in pieces – The strings, flute, drums, vocals, etc. Then I edit all the parts together to create a finished piece. Recently returning to my artwork – I use the same process. Working each piece separately – then bringing them together at the end.
I draw each character with a mechanical pencil on a separate piece of paper. Each drawing is scanned and digitally cut out in Photoshop. After a few characters are drawn, cut and scanned – I begin to arrange the layout I've imagined.
Next: I photograph, draw or paint landscapes for backdrops. Sometimes it's a mix of all three – blended together to get the feeling / environment I want. Then I digitally paint each character to give the black and white figures color.
After I digitally color all the drawings and finish creating my background – I color grade the whole picture. Once satisfied, I print the image as a large – Hi resolution giclee print on watercolor rag paper. This paper print is then mounted on birch box. The final step is to coat the image and box with epoxy resin to seal and protect it.
I noticed that horses are a recurring theme in your work. Are they symbolic of something or do you just like them?
For me, the wild horse is a metaphysical symbol of liberation and rebellion from man's desire to control everything.
Another fantastic piece is "Judgement Hour" – can you describe the inspiration behind it?
'Judgement hour' depicts how individuals wear a mask of moral authority and persecute those who live by nonconformist beliefs instead of judging them by the fruits of their labor and character.
"Miscarried reality" is a provocative piece. One of my favorites! Is this intended to represent the desperation linked to the human experience?
It's about confusion and misdirected blame. A wife miscarried and the child is dying – The husband screaming and blaming god – The woman screaming and blaming the husband – The stresses of life leading to a miscarried reality.


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This is the first alpha release.
It is around 20-30ish minutes of content with melee combat with about 6 weapons and a looping track with a bunch of different difficulty settings and traffic situations.
Melee weapons in this release include the metal bat, the tire iron, the sword, the sledge hammer, the pipe, and the shovel. These aren't final versions of the weapons, especially the shovel.
There are three vehicles in the alpha because only these three have complete damage models in place. We will be adding many more in the coming weeks.
You drive against 7 other bikers in a race to unlock the next level. If you don't get first place you do not advance.
We have the standard traffic situations, but all the vehicles have real physics and a damage model so there are also some more intense modes where the vehicles are constantly having head on collisions and you are driving a race through this hectic situation where vehicles are upturned and rolling and having these crazy collisions that you have to avoid. This starts happening around level 6 or 7 and may cause slowdown if you have a much older computer or laptop.
The graphics quality scales from very low, which allows almost any computer to play Road Redemption, all the way up to high graphics, where only high end computers will be able to get 60 fps.
In the last few levels there is a mode where all the vehicles hate you and try to run you over. These levels are quite difficult.
You can freely roam over the entire level, but you may experience buggy or experimental game behavior if you stray too far off the course.
Local Multiplayer - 2 to 4 players in splitscreen mode.
Deflection Move Added to AI and Players. Deflecting an AI has a high probability of disarming the enemy. It still needs a lot more balancing to increase its utility.
New Weapons - nail bat, police baton, C4, Pipe bombs, possibly more that I am forgetting.
Added a bunch of graphical flourishes and effects.
I am definitely leaving stuff out. There have been a lot of changes.


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Q: Search XML file using Linq for ID and return name In the following dummy XML file, I have to find search string in the stepContent node and return the ElementID and stepID. I am using Linq in C#, while I am able to find the search string and return the entire node, I am unable to figure out how to return the stepID and ElementID of searched node. Please note this is dummy XML and depths of these ID nodes may vary, so I need something to query them on names in the returned values.
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Root>
    <Elements>
        <Element>
            <ElementID>A001</ElementID>
            <Detail><![CDATA[

              For top candidates

              Discount upto 50%

]]></Detail>
            <Steps>
                <Step>
                    <stepID>S001</stepID>
                    <StepHeading>Prepare for top candidates</StepHeading>
                    <stepContent><![CDATA[

Some dummy text

Plan some dummy items.

]]></stepContent>
                </Step>
                <Step>
                    <stepID>S002</stepID>
                    <StepHeading>Invite top candidates</StepHeading>
                    <stepContent><![CDATA[

Dummy text for invitation.

Dummy text for 2nd invitation.

]]></stepContent>
                </Step>
            </Steps>
        </Element>
        <Element>
            <ElementID>A002</ElementID>
            <Detail><![CDATA[

              For next set of top candidates

              Discount upto 30%

]]></Detail>
            <Steps>
                <Step>
                    <stepID>S003</stepID>
                    <StepHeading>Prepare for next set of top candidates</StepHeading>
                    <stepContent><![CDATA[

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]]></stepContent>
                </Step>
                <Step>
                    <stepID>S004</stepID>
                    <StepHeading>Invite next set of top candidates</StepHeading>
                    <stepContent><![CDATA[

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                </Step>
            </Steps>
        </Element>
    </Elements>
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"I have to find search string in the stepContent node and return the ElementID and stepID"

As long as relative depth of ElementID and stepID from stepContent is consistent, you can do this way :
resultNodes.Select(o => new YourModelClass()
            {
                stepId = (string)o.Parent.Element("stepID"),
                elementId = (string)o.Parent.Parent.Parent.Element("ElementID")
                //alternatively :
                //elementId = (string)o.Ancestors("Element").First().Element("ElementID")
            });

A: You could do this way.
var doc = XDocument.Load(filepath);

var steps = doc.Root.Descendants("Step")
    .Where(e=> ((string)e.Element("stepContent").Value).ToLower().Contains("dummy text for "))
    .Select(s=> new
            {
                StepId = s.Element("stepID").Value,
                StepHeading = s.Element("stepID").Value
            });

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We pride ourselves on offering an affordable, quality independent education where pupils are challenged to reach their full potential in small classes and a nurturing environment.
Pupils currently in Year 6 at Deepdene perform at a considerably higher level than pupils of the same age in other schools.


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from django import forms

from crits.core import form_consts
from crits.core.forms import add_bucketlist_to_form, add_ticket_to_form
from crits.core.handlers import get_source_names, get_item_names
from crits.core.user_tools import get_user_organization
from crits.raw_data.raw_data import RawDataType
from crits.vocabulary.relationships import RelationshipTypes

relationship_choices = [(c, c) for c in RelationshipTypes.values(sort=True)]

class UploadRawDataFileForm(forms.Form):
    """
    Django form for uploading raw data as a file.
    """

    error_css_class = 'error'
    required_css_class = 'required'
    filedata = forms.FileField()
    title = forms.CharField(required=True)
    tool_name = forms.CharField(required=True)
    tool_version = forms.CharField(required=False)
    tool_details = forms.CharField(required=False)
    data_type = forms.ChoiceField(required=True, widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'no_clear'}))
    description = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'cols':'80',
                                                               'rows':'2'}),
                                                               required=False)
    source = forms.ChoiceField(required=True,
                               widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'no_clear'}),
                               label=form_consts.RawData.SOURCE)
    method = forms.CharField(required=False, widget=forms.TextInput,
                             label=form_consts.RawData.SOURCE_METHOD)
    reference = forms.CharField(required=False,
                                widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size': '90'}),
                                label=form_consts.RawData.SOURCE_REFERENCE)
    related_id = forms.CharField(widget=forms.HiddenInput(), required=False)
    related_type = forms.CharField(widget=forms.HiddenInput(), required=False)
    relationship_type = forms.ChoiceField(required=False,
                                          label='Relationship Type',
                                          widget=forms.Select(attrs={'id':'relationship_type'}))

    def __init__(self, username, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UploadRawDataFileForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['source'].choices = [(c.name,
                                          c.name
                                          ) for c in get_source_names(True,
                                                                      True,
                                                                      username)]
        self.fields['source'].initial = get_user_organization(username)
        self.fields['data_type'].choices = [(c.name,
                                             c.name
                                             ) for c in get_item_names(RawDataType,
                                                                       True)]
        self.fields['relationship_type'].choices = relationship_choices
        self.fields['relationship_type'].initial = RelationshipTypes.RELATED_TO

        add_bucketlist_to_form(self)
        add_ticket_to_form(self)

class UploadRawDataForm(forms.Form):
    """
    Django form for uploading raw data as a field in the form.
    """

    error_css_class = 'error'
    required_css_class = 'required'
    title = forms.CharField(required=True)
    tool_name = forms.CharField(required=True)
    tool_version = forms.CharField(required=False)
    tool_details = forms.CharField(required=False)
    data_type = forms.ChoiceField(required=True, widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'no_clear'}))
    description = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'cols':'80',
                                                               'rows':'2'}),
                                                               required=False)
    source = forms.ChoiceField(required=True,
                               widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'no_clear'}),
                               label=form_consts.RawData.SOURCE)
    method = forms.CharField(required=False, widget=forms.TextInput,
                             label=form_consts.RawData.SOURCE_METHOD)
    reference = forms.CharField(required=False,
                                widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size': '90'}),
                                label=form_consts.RawData.SOURCE_REFERENCE)
    data = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'cols':'80',
                                                        'rows':'2'}),
                                                        required=True)

    related_id = forms.CharField(widget=forms.HiddenInput(), required=False)
    related_type = forms.CharField(widget=forms.HiddenInput(), required=False)
    relationship_type = forms.ChoiceField(required=False,
                                          label='Relationship Type',
                                          widget=forms.Select(attrs={'id':'relationship_type'}))

    def __init__(self, username, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UploadRawDataForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['source'].choices = [(c.name,
                                          c.name
                                          ) for c in get_source_names(True,
                                                                      True,
                                                                      username)]
        self.fields['source'].initial = get_user_organization(username)
        self.fields['data_type'].choices = [(c.name,
                                             c.name
                                             ) for c in get_item_names(RawDataType,
                                                                       True)]
        self.fields['relationship_type'].choices = relationship_choices
        self.fields['relationship_type'].initial = RelationshipTypes.RELATED_TO

        add_bucketlist_to_form(self)
        add_ticket_to_form(self)

class NewRawDataTypeForm(forms.Form):
    """
    Django form for uploading a new raw data type.
    """

    error_css_class = 'error'
    required_css_class = 'required'
    data_type = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput, required=True)

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Are You Positioned For Permanent Advertising Contraction?
Thanksgiving has passed and the holiday season is in full swing. It's time to sit back, relax and reflect on the year that was! One of my favorite things to do this time of year is reflect on all the news items related to our industry that were overhyped, over-discussed and way over-publicized. Let's call it "The Year in Re-Re-Re-Review" (or also known as the "You've been bitten by a Werewolf/Zombie/Whatever-Application-Is-Hot-On-Facebook" Awards)!
When it comes to social media, forget the concept of advertising to a captive audience and instead focus on creating branded content that people want to see and would choose to share with others: brand advertising as social media content.
Is Anyone Getting A Boost During The Writers' Strike?
Well, you know the writer's strike has been going on for about a month now. For those of you who don't, I'll give you the quick overview. The Writers Guild of America went on strike Nov. 5. The major issue fueling the strike is residuals to writers for new media. The producers (major studios and networks) say there is no way to predict the future and determine success. The writers think DVDs.


Google Maps adds Streetview Navigation to Detroit.
Funny: The ONLY block of Woodward they didn't photograph is the block with CPOP, the Majestic and The Magic Stick.
This clearly wins 'Best use of a bizarre theme in a How-To video': Screaming throughout the duration of every step.
Nice comic strip about the role of a video game in the life of the author's homebound mother.
Touches on the weird interaction of saved video game worlds with real life after a loved one passes away, something I can directly relate to.


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Pahrump Justice of the Peace Kent Jasperson dies after battle with cancer
He was first elected as justice of the peace in 2007, not long after the Pahrump Justice Court added a second department.
August 11, 2022 - 12:31 pm
Justice of the Peace Kent Jasperson presides during the preliminary hearing for brothers Michael Wilson and Dakota Saldivar in Pahrump Justice Court Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. The teen brothers are accused of fatally stabbing and beating their mother, Dawn Liebig. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
After battling cancer for quite some time, Pahrump Justice of the Peace Kent Jasperson died on Wednesday, Aug. 10.
Arrangements are pending.
Roughly two years ago, Jasperson won his re-election to retain his seat on the bench.
Prior to being elected to the bench, Jasperson was a deputy with the Nye County Sheriff's Office since 1980.
In an interview with the Pahrump Valley Times in October of 2020, during the final weeks of his campaign that year, Jasperson said he served more than three decades working in several different capacities within Nye County.
"I worked here in Pahrump and I worked out at the Nevada Test Site and I also worked up in Tonopah," he said at the time. "I even worked in areas such as Round Mountain, Gabbs and the Smoky Valley area. I came to Pahrump in 1980 when I started with the sheriff's office, except for the 10 years that I was up in Tonopah and the northern end of the county. I came back and finished up my law enforcement career here in Pahrump. It's been a total of 37 years that I have been with the county now."
During his time on the bench, Jasperson has presided over countless court hearings and proceedings.
He spoke about some of the more challenging aspects of being a Pahrump justice of the peace.
"I think one of the toughest parts is the wide range of cases that you handle because you don't really specialize in any one thing," he said. "You have to have a good working knowledge of felony crimes, gross misdemeanor crimes, misdemeanors, and you have to know your civil law because you do protection orders, small claims and you do civil actions."
Fellow judge's remembrance
Nye County Fifth District Court Judge Robert Lane said that he first met Jasperson about 29 years ago, when Jasperson was a sergeant with the sheriff's department in Tonopah.
"He and I worked together on a number of cases for about seven years," Lane told the Pahrump Valley Times. "We became acquaintances and friends and enjoyed working together and we moved down to Pahrump and he became JP. I became a district court judge so we would work together on occasion. Sometimes citizens would take appeals of his up to me and Kent always did a good job and we always had a good time together, joking and teasing each other and he was a good guy to work with. I really liked him."
Additionally, Lane said Jasperson's death did not come as a surprise.
"Everybody at the courthouse, and maybe in the community had heard for some time that he had been ailing," Lane said. "Whenever I would talk to people in the courthouse about how he was doing, they always gave me the impression that he was doing fine and that he would come in and hold court on occasion. Nobody gave me the impression that he was close to dying whenever I talked to him. When I learned from my secretary that he had passed, it was a surprise to me. I'm still at a loss of words because I'm still in the shock phase of having learned of his passing."
A friend's thoughts
Longtime local resident and PVT columnist Dan Simmons knew Jasperson for many years.
"I met Kent 24 years ago when we started the Mt. Charleston Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation," Simmons recalled. "He was my friend and my hunting pal. He was tough when he hunted, tough when he worked and tough 'til the end of the trail, but always with a smile and a kind heart."
While discussing the duties of justice of the peace, Jasperson said that the position was not your regular 9-to-5 profession, as he was continuously on call where sheriff's office deputies may need him to sign off on search warrants and such.
Rewarding career
Conversely, Jasperson talked about some of the more gratifying aspects of the job.
"I think that the most rewarding part of being justice of the peace is when you see people that you have put through the system, or put through the drug court and they have actually got back on the right track," he said. "They will come up to you from time to time and thank you for helping them get their lives straight. That's probably the most rewarding part."
Always prepared
Further, Jasperson spoke about how his time as a deputy sheriff helped to prepare him for his duties as justice of the peace.
"I learned a lot about court procedures and evidence," he noted at the time. "I also learned a lot about testifying in court and all of those things have come into play now that I am on the other side of the fence so to speak. I know what's going on when I have officers testify in my courtroom or there's something to do with the handling of evidence, I know what needs to be done and how it should have been done and whether or not it was done right without having to second guess things like that."
Judge Lane conveyed a message to his late friend and colleague.
"I'm a man of faith, so I believe that we'll see each other again and be friends for a long time, so that's very comforting."
Simmons, too, provided a final thought on Jasperson's passing.
"We will hunt or fish together the next time our paths cross and he'll be with us as well as his many friends to remember the things we all did together," he said.
Contact reporter Selwyn Harris at sharris@pvtimes.com. On Twitter: @pvtimes


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Characterization of stink bug saliva proteins opens door to controlling pests
Brown marmorated stink bugs have caused millions in crop losses across the United States as a result of the damage their saliva does to plant tissues during feeding. Researchers at Penn State have developed methods for extracting the saliva of these insects and have identified the major protein components of this saliva.Image: Nick Sloff/Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Brown marmorated stink bugs cause millions of dollars in crop losses across the United States because of the damage their saliva does to plant tissues. Researchers at Penn State have developed methods to extract the insect saliva and identify the major protein components, which could lead to new pest control approaches.
"Until now, essentially nothing was known about the composition of stink bug saliva, which is surprising given the importance of these insects as pests and the fact that their saliva is the primary cause of feeding injury to plants and crop losses," said Gary Felton, professor and head of the Department of Entomology. "Other than using synthetic pesticides, there have been few alternative approaches to controlling these pests. By identifying the major protein components of saliva, it now may be possible to target the specific factors in saliva that are essential for their feeding and, therefore, design new approaches for controlling stink bugs."
The team reported its results in today's (Feb. 26) issue of PLOS ONE.
According to Felton, stink bugs produce two types of saliva that are required for successful feeding. Watery saliva helps stink bugs to digest their food. Sheath saliva surrounds stink bugs' mouthparts and hardens to prevent spillage of sap during feeding. The hardened "sheath" remains attached to the plant when the insect is finished feeding.
"Unlike a chewing insect, which causes damage by removing plant tissue, stink bugs pierce plant tissue and suck nutrients from the plant," said Michelle Peiffer, research support assistant. "During this process, stink bugs also deposit saliva onto the plant. The interaction between this saliva and the plant is what causes the cosmetic and physiological changes that make crops unmarketable."
To extract the two types of saliva from brown marmorated stink bugs, Felton and Peiffer first collected adult bugs from homes and fields in central Pennsylvania and maintained them in their laboratory.
The researchers chilled the insects on ice. As the insects returned to room temperature, their watery saliva was secreted from the tips of their beaks. The team collected this saliva, processed it and analyzed it for protein content.
To collect sheath saliva, the scientists placed organic grape tomatoes in the cages. After two days of stink bug feeding, they removed the tomatoes from the cages and used forceps to extract the hardened sheaths from the surfaces of the tomatoes. They then processed and analyzed the sheaths for protein content.
"We found that the watery saliva and the sheath saliva have distinct protein profiles," Felton said. "In other words, we did not find any proteins in common between the two."
Consistent with a role in digestion, the team found that watery saliva contains several digestive proteins, including amylases, proteases and an esterase.
In the sheath saliva, the researchers found peroxidase, suggesting that this protein could be involved in sheath formation. In addition, they found a large number of proteins from tomato.
"These results reveal that the protein composition of the sheath is a mixture of insect- and plant-derived proteins," Felton said. "We used extraordinary precaution to avoid disrupting tomato tissues during the collection of the sheaths, so we do not believe that the composition of tomato proteins in the sheath material is a spurious artifact of our collection methods, but rather it represents the natural coalescing of insect- and plant-derived proteins that occurs during formation of the sheath and subsequent feeding. These initial findings suggest that sheath saliva may elicit a plant self-protection response."
According to the scientists, the methods they developed to extract the saliva and to analyze the proteins should be generally applicable for any species of stink bug.
In the future, the team plans to use a genetic approach to test the function of individual proteins in the saliva to determine their function and essentiality to the feeding process.
"By understanding the specific details of feeding and the damage it causes, researchers can begin to develop targeted control methods for these pests," Peiffer said.
Support for this research was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture specifically, the Coordinated Agricultural Project of the Specialty Crop Research Initiative. The Coordinated Agricultural Project includes more than 50 researchers from 10 institutions and is led by Tracy Leskey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.
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Business Trends: Millennials Rejecting the Default
We all know that Millennials are challenging our traditional work environments. But the big question is "why?" Why are Millennials challenging the system rather than assimilating like earlier generations? I struggled with finding an explanation other than demographics until I read a sentence written by professor Adam Grant in his recent book: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
"The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better operation exists." – Adam Grant.
Millennials are rejecting the default and it's disconcerting, but necessary and in my view, a very good thing. When it comes to the work environment, Generation X, Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation don't just represent the default … we are the default. This might be why so many of us take this personally. Why are Millennials so eager and able to reject a default that has been in place for generations?
Two reasons: technology and societal shift.
Technology. Millennials are digital natives. They grew up with technology and view everything through a technological filter. They look at our daily lives and think "there's got to be an app for that." It's ingrained in them to use technology to question, dismantle, and reconfigure processes. They are rejecting the default option in search of a better way.
Societal shift. Generation X and Baby Boomers actually know people who worked 40 hours a week for 40 years at the same company, earned that gold watch and retired at 65 to play golf in Florida. We also know of people who had pensions; who were protected by unions; and for whom a single breadwinner could support a family even while working for a minimum wage. This is the default.
But, Millennials are not part of that default. Retire at 65? Not if they are still paying off their college loans. Pensions, funded 401ks, or a home with equity for retirement? Not likely. Even if we set aside monetary limitations, people are living longer. Retiring at 65 is no longer that appealing or feasible for most. The default no longer works, and this is why Millennials are forcing us to re-examine everything about our work culture.
One example of this came out of our recent SVN Millennials Career report (How Commercial Real Estate Firms can Attract and Retain Millennials) around the topic of flexibility in the workplace. According to our survey, flexibility of hours and location for work was a top five "must have" for Millennials and in fact, more men than women cited it as an important factor when choosing companies. This is quite a switch from 5-10 years ago when flexibility was a "woman" or "parent" issue. To even mention the word back then would set you on the Mommy track.
But, what is driving this new quest for flexibility? Part of it goes back to the technology filters. If technology allows us to work wherever and whenever we want, why can't we? If culturally no one is racing to retirement and the other default rewards don't exist, why do we have to stick to a 9-5, 5 days per week schedule? Flexibility does not mean Millennials want to work less. In fact, most want to work more, but they also want to work smarter… and to avoid rush hour. When the default is sitting an extra 30 to 60 minutes in traffic, when you don't actually have to… why do we?
It's not about a different work ethic. It's about a different work style.
That's an important distinction to make; especially because that different work style benefits more than just Millennials. Opening up the flexibility conversation beyond women and parents is a benefit to all employees, whether it's the single employee who doesn't have anyone to help them drop off a car for repairs or wait for a furniture delivery; the Gen X'er dealing with aging parents; or the Baby Boomer who wants to take a brief career pause or sabbatical.
If you look around, the default no longer works for the majority of us, and this is why the Millennials' rejection of the default is a very good thing.
Please visit our SVNICorp YouTube page to see my recent keynote to learn more about the how Millennials are challenging and changing how and where we live and work.


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Xbox Two: what we want to see out of a new Xbox
March 22, 2018 By discountbonus_sd3n3h
In short number of years, Microsoft has managed to really turn things around for the Xbox platform. After a difficult Xbox One launch, the company's decision to listen to its fans and communicate its plans has been a good one. Now, almost five years after the original Xbox One, Xbox One S consoles are the most reasonably priced they've ever been and selling better than ever as a result. And with the 4K power play that is the Xbox One X now on shelves, we can't help but wonder what the future looks like for Xbox.
The recent trend towards iteration suggests that Microsoft's next console may not be as large a leap forward as we usually expect from a new console generation. Microsoft's own Head of Xbox Games Marketing said in an interview with Engadget in 2016 that for Microsoft "the future is without console generations," and that "We think of this as a family of devices."
Yes, rather than seeing a new console that's leaps and bounds better than the last every 5 or 6 years, we may have to get used to regular incremental improvements to hardware which will remain capable of supporting older games to prevent a consumer schism.
This doesn't mean there aren't new console designs in the works, though. Windows Central's Jez Corden recently revealed on his Twitter profile that the next Xbox console is already being designed and that work is well underway, to the point where it even has a codename (although he neglected to share what this is).
That said, work hasn't gone so far that we can expect to see the console any sooner than 2019. According to Corden, 2 years would be too soon to expect the new console but it would likely still be backwards compatible with the rest of the Xbox family. Interestingly, this is around the time that analysts are predicting Sony will launch the PlayStation 5. We think it's unlikely that Microsoft would let Sony launch a brand new console without answering with its own within a year, perhaps even trying to beat its competitor to the finish line.
This makes sense since Microsoft's first foray into true 4K gaming has only just hit store shelves.
That won't, however, stop us from thinking ahead to the next Xbox and what it'll bring.
What will it be called?
The hardest part of this future-gazing is actually trying to guess what the console might be called, given the naming progression that's come before. Microsoft isn't going to abandon the Xbox brand anytime soon, surely, but the subtitle is a little harder to pin down.
If it's a brand new console generation it'd make sense to call it Xbox Two, but Xbox 720 made a retrospectively perplexing amount of sense at one point so let's not be too confident in that.
If we're going to really get our tinfoil hats on, looking at the naming progression we can see the latest console is the Xbox One X. If X were to be read as ten, the next console would be the Xbox One II or Xbox II (2). Okay, we're just kidding. Regardless,Microsoft is a hard company to predict when it comes to console naming.
What will it be capable of?
What's slightly easier is predicting the features that are likely to appear in this new Xbox.
The Xbox One X is a huge step forward for Microsoft, bringing native 4K gaming and near-PC power into a console. It's currently the most powerful console on the market so where can Microsoft go from here?
We can only imagine. So that's exactly what we're going to do; join us won't you?
A powerful console focused on games
We like to think Microsoft has learned a lot of lessons from the difficult launch of the Xbox One. The Xbox One didn't have the advantage of being the only HD console option on the market like the Xbox 360 did, and additionally its launch ended up being marred by a Kinect bundle that pushed its price way higher than it should have been.
As a result, the PlayStation 4 took (and has maintained) a commanding lead in terms of market share.
Microsoft has definitely addressed a lot of these issues with the Xbox One X. It's a piece of hardware that's almost entirely focused on games, and it's not bundled with any superfluous hardware. In fact, Microsoft's gone so far as to drop the Kinect port entirely. We imagine this focus will continue into the future.
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Budget and premium options
With the One S and the One X Microsoft is embracing both an iterative and a tiered model. The company is not only launching incrementally better pieces of hardware over time, but it's also supporting previous versions of the console and allowing them to exist as budget options.
As a case in point, the One X is still expensive (much more so than the PS4 Pro), but the Xbox One S is still being presented as a worthy and attractively priced 4K upscaling alternative that will still be capable of playing all the same games, not just from this generation but the previous generation too.
However, after each console has had its chance at being the budget model, they've each fallen away into obscurity. We've already seen this with the original Xbox One, and it's likely that the Xbox Two will eventually have the same effect on the Xbox One S.
We imagine Microsoft may want a certain degree of market saturation for the Xbox One X (or at the very least 4K TVs) before launching the Xbox Two but when the console does launch it's less likely to feel like the same leap that moving from Xbox 360 to Xbox One did.
Trial and error, rather than a jump into the unknown
In some senses we feel that it's reasonable to assume we'll be slowly drip-fed a lot of the technology that will end up in the Xbox Two.
This has the big advantage of allowing Microsoft to establish what works and what doesn't work over time rather than having to take a big leap of faith with a brand new piece of hardware.
VR and AR support is likely
We've learned that certain things are unimportant for consoles this generation, like motion-sensing and touch-screen, but the new technologies like VR and AR are proving to be very exciting fields for developers.
Microsoft has already confirmed that the Xbox One X will support Windows 10 virtual and mixed reality headsets but it's not being forceful with pushing them. They were notably absent from the console's presentation at E3 2017 and we still have plenty of questions.
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If PlayStation VR continues to grow in strength we expect Microsoft will be more clear about the Xbox One X's stance on these headsets and much more active about developing the technology for its successor. Xbox Two could very well be the HoloLens console. If the technology flops, Microsoft can easily phase it out from its next generation plans like the Kinect but much more neatly and less to the detriment of initial sales.
Meanwhile, if the Xbox One X's 4K visuals fail to make the console appeal as much as Microsoft hopes they will, we don't doubt they'll still be a feature of the Xbox Two, but they may be less of a focus in the overall marketing.
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Recently Microsoft has been really keen on integrating the latest audio visual technologies into its consoles – Dolby Atmos support, 4K and HDR are all here. This is something we can see continuing into the next generation.
It's clear Microsoft wants gaming on Xbox to be a full sensory experience and it's possible that the next console will include some kind of projection system similar to Project Ariana that Razer showcased at CES 2017 whereby gaming environments were extended beyond the screen and into the player's room. With something like this, Xbox Two has the potential to be an immersive gaming machine and we already know technology of a similar ilk was being considered in the Illumiroom project from back in 2013.
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An increasingly cross-platform ecosystem
In the way that Nintendo is bridging the gap between its handheld and home console divisions with the Switch, we can see Microsoft moving its PC and console users closer as we move onto the Xbox Two.
Cross-platform play, accounts and digital purchases are being encouraged in the Windows 10 and Xbox stores and this is something we can see Microsoft continuing to push into the new generation, particularly if it's going to continue to manufacture consoles that boast near-PC specs.
Learnings from the PC
It's likely that the new Xbox will likely have more of a Steam-esque interface that puts games first and doesn't confuse the customer. A system with a more indie- and mod-friendly focus is also important (we're already seeing this with Indie@Xbox), and if the console consumer base doesn't jibe with mid-lifecycle console upgrades, perhaps a more PC piecemeal approach with more swappable parts will be in order.
When will we see it?
So we can agree we're almost certainly going to get another console but will we have to wait eight years like we did between the previous generation and this one? It might end up that way, actually, but thanks to iteration it certainly won't feel like it.
Though it won't come as soon as two years from now, we think it'd be reasonable to expect the Xbox Two in three years, perhaps releasing in 2021. This would be eight years after the release of the original Xbox One and a good time, perhaps, to move onto the new generation. It'd also be around the time, or one year after, analysts are expecting Sony to release the PlayStation 5.
With the steady and considered steps Microsoft is making and the way the company seems to be listening to feedback from its users more than ever, we anticipate that the Xbox Two could be its most considered launch yet. In the meantime, a lot hinges on the Xbox One X.
We've also done some speculating about the future of the PlayStation, check out everything we want to see from the PlayStation 5.
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