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Why Study at Eastman?
The Eastman Community Music School is located on the campus of and shares rehearsal and performance venues with one of the most prestigious music colleges in the world. See location and parking for more information
ECMS instructors are professional artist-educators who are Western New York's most sought after teachers and performers. ECMS interns are Eastman School of Music students or recent graduates and are among the best and brightest young performers in the world.
Concerts and Recitals
After studio recital May 26, 2012
Concerts and recitals are the lifeblood of any music school. Eastman Community Music School students are welcome to attend hundreds of concerts and master classes at the School each year. All but a few are free of charge. Community Music School students also have numerous opportunities to perform in public recitals and concerts. Many of our graduating seniors are offered the opportunity to perform a senior recital at Eastman before leaving us.
The University of Rochester maintains official transcripts of all our students. At your request, they will be forwarded to the colleges of your choice for a minimal charge. Please allow 7-10 business days for processing your request.
The Community Music School issues identification cards to its students. They are necessary for access to several areas of the campus. They also entitle the bearer to free admission to many Eastman School of Music concerts that are not free to the general public and to Sibley Music Library for checkout purposes.
Extensive Diploma Program and Special Awards
High school and adult students may earn a diploma, representing a comprehensive musical training, encompassing a well-balanced blend of private instruction, performance, and academic coursework. The program allows for individualized flexibility while maintaining a rigorous standard of excellence. Special awards and scholarships are granted to over one hundred students at our graduation ceremony each spring in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the study of music.
Financial assistance for regular academic year study is available to our students for lessons, classes and ensembles. Preference is given to those students enrolled in a diploma program. Assistance is awarded on the basis of merit and financial need. Merit awards recognize demonstrated musical achievement or potential. Financial need is determined by reviewing copies of federal income tax returns supplied with the application form.
Accompanying Service
To encourage all of our students to participate in recitals each year, each student who registers for private lessons for the full semester will be granted two free rehearsal coupons per semester. Furthermore, the School covers the cost for accompaniment for the recital itself, as well as for juries, exams, master classes, and studio recitals.
With a student ID card, our students receive Sibley Music Library checkout privileges. The Sibley Music Library at Eastman is the largest academic music library in the United States.
Studio teachers, in consultation with each student, prepare a Student Progress Report at the end of the fall semester. Students also receive letter grades. Assessment forms are given to the students in their lessons; letter grades are mailed home in the form of a report card. Classroom teachers also give semester grades which are included in the report cards. In addition every student taking lessons in the Community Music School is encouraged to play an annual examination or jury for faculty members other than the student's own teacher. A written report will follow. Students also are asked to write an annual evaluation of their teachers. Each spring forms for this purpose are available to every Community Music School student.
Eastman Community Music School encourages all of its students to participate in the jury process. This is an opportunity to perform for a panel of our faculty members, providing objective feedback about your progress, and also helping prepare you for future auditions. Younger students may instead choose to play for just one teacher. Most exams and juries will be scheduled during May.
Students enrolled in private lessons save money on additional classes and ensembles. Click here for details.


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No Pie for You [✜]
Via Gothamist, word that Pies 'n' Thighs is, as of tomorrow (the 16th), no more. Seems they were unable to withstand the juggernaut that is the Department of Health, and are throwing in the towel.
DOH has been on a rampage ever since those rats showed up in that KFC in the Village - unfortunately, their standards seem wholly incompatible with good esoteric restaurants such as this (and such as Brick Oven Gallery, which lost a lot of business to a DOH closure). At some point, we're going to be left with nothing but industrial food purveyors, and there will be nothing left to eat in this city.
(By the way - its interesting to watch the vigor with which DOH has pursued restaurant food safety since the KFC rat attack incident, and compare that to the Department of Buildings and the rash of worker deaths and adjacent building collapses a year or so ago. But then DOH is there to protect the public, whereas DOB is there to protect development.)

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Robert teaches art at Northwest Arkansas Community College.
"I am a colorist first and foremost, I am fascinated with the interaction of color and its temperature. I find it fascinating that we perceive reflected light as color. Art is an illusion that both the viewer and I create. I make work that plays with depth perception and emotion, this allows me to capture an inner monologue. I abstract some areas and paint others more representational or true to form. I create an interactive piece of art; the eye is confused by color, depth, and of the hidden emotion of the subject."


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Frank Ocean just released a new song, "DHL," and I couldn't help but think it sounded a lot like a cut off an old DJ Screw tape, so I had to make my own (Frank) Ocean of Funk mix out of it. The song is our first taste of new Frank since his appearance on Travis Scott's "Carousel," from the (inter)stellar Astroworld album, a track which serves as an homage to Dallas rap legend Big Tuck's hit "Ain't A Stain On Me," who also christens the intro of the song, and is propelled by a haunting sample of the second movement of the Beastie Boys' "The New Style."
Frank's "DHL" finds our generation's favorite nostalgic crooner doing no singing at all; instead, Frank trades in his trademark wistful harmonies for some faded, shit-talking, it-might-just-be-a-freestyle raps. And that's what inspired this mix: the spirit of the DJ Screw freestyles of old. I was too young to have had a chance to even be there, but, my understanding is that it was just a group of dudes, drunk, leaned out, high, maybe all three, passing a microphone around and trying to make words rhyme– a sonic aesthetic embraced by Solange on her incredible 2019 release, When I Get Home. It's carefree, stream-of-consciousness rap, and that's what "DHL" is. It's hypnotic and psychedelic, just like a Screw tape. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy my Frank Ocean of Funk mix.
Of course, Frank's love for southern hip-hop is nothing new. He detailed his family's seeking post-Katrina refuge in Houston on "Nights," and aligns himself with "Bun B, Pimp C, 8 Ball and MJG" on "Acura Integurl," which itself borrows its opening lyrics from Lil' Wayne & Birdman's "Stuntin' Like My Daddy." This is not even mentioning his coupling of Pimp C and Trayvon Martin on "Nikes."
Frank also just debuted a new track, "Cayendo," with friend of the podcast: Sango. So be sure to check that out as well.
Check out the track below and let me know what you think in the comments.
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New AS/400 Solution Springs Customers from Voice-Mail Jail
Despite the growing popularity of the Internet , the telephone remains the main component of most company's customer service strategy.
Continuing to add features and enhancements to its interactive voice response (ISP) system for the AS/400, RMTi (Nashua, N.H.) has released RVSvoice 2.03, a system designed to provide users, customers and business partners immediate access to AS/400 data via the phone.
"As the market moves forward, people want more and more ways to access information," says Scott Darling, RMTi's manager of sales and marketing. "We've done that with the latest release of RVSvoice."
A 24X7 customer service application, RVSvoice accesses information from an AS/400 when customers call an 800 number seeking information. The AS/400 processes the information and sends it to a voice system, which is embedded into RVSvoice. The voice system digitizes the information and answers all of the customer's questions.
By utilizing the DTMF codes from local phone companies, RVSvoice 2.03 now supports caller ID. The system identifies caller phone numbers and stores them in an AS/400 database. This way, companies can use the phone numbers for future sales calls or as part of the verification procedure.
Another new feature is call out, which allows the AS/400 to initiate a phone call. Once the phone is answered, a pre-recorded message follows and the system then responds to the caller based on their touch-tone key selections.
RVSvoice 2.03 now supports ILE program languages-ILE RPG, ILE C, ILE COBOL and ILE CL-so companies that have applications written in languages other than RPG can integrate voice command into their applications.
The newest version also includes enhancements that allow the user to customize line utilization. This feature, which RMTi says is used primarily by high-volume sites, allows the user to select which lines are dedicated to specific applications.
RVSvoice is focused on the financial, insurance, medical, shipping and transportation industries-all markets that have high customer service needs. The basic system includes four lines, but companies have the option of purchasing other lines. If all of the lines are tied up, the call goes to a customer service representative.
Darling touts the many benefits of RVSvoice. Besides the 24X7 service it provides, RVSvoice also saves time and money. "A typical call lasts between two to four minutes," says Darling. "And typically the system will pay for itself in less than six months and sometimes as little as three months."


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NANCY ARMOUR
USMNT's Tim Weah accomplishes something his illustrious father never did | Opinion
DOHA, Qatar — Tim Weah can appreciate, better than most, how rare and special it is to play in a World Cup.
Weah's father, George, is considered one of the greatest soccer players ever, winner of both the FIFA Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or in 1995. He won league titles in Italy and France, was the top scorer in the Champions League during the 1994-95 season and helped Chelsea win the FA Cup in 2000.
Yet the elder Weah never played in a World Cup, Liberia coming up a point short of qualifying for the 2002 tournament.
"My Dad wanted to do it with his country, but he didn't have the opportunity to do it. Now he's kind of living through me," Tim Weah said Tuesday. "I think it's a blessing. It's just amazing to be able to represent my family on this stage."
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Having such an accomplished parent – George Weah went into politics after his playing career ended and is now president of Liberia – can be a burden for a young person. Especially when they're following a similar career path.
The comparisons and expectations from outsiders can be crushing. The self-doubt can be relentless. The ever-present shadow can breed resentment.
Tim Weah doesn't seem bothered by any of it, however.
"I don't really talk to Tim about his Dad like that. We have to remember that Tim is his own player. He's doing his own thing as well. That's mostly what I try to focus on with Tim," said U.S. teammate Yunus Musah, who grew up hearing about George Weah from his own father.
Weah said his father never pushed him to play; it was his mother, Clar, who taught him the game and was his first coach. He gamely answers questions about his father because he understands the fascination.
But he long ago figured out how to be his own person and have his own career. It starts with his jersey.
Weah would have been eligible to play for Liberia or Jamaica, where his mother originally is from, as well as France. Being born and raised in New York, however, the idea of playing for another country never crossed his mind.
"I knew nothing else but the States when I was younger, so the choice was very simple for me. I always knew I was going to play for the U.S.," he said earlier this year.
Weah was 12 when he got his first call-up with a U.S. youth team, and eventually played in both the Under-17 and U-19 World Cups. He made his debut with the USMNT in March 2018 – the first player born in the 2000s to make an appearance with the senior team – and scored his first goal two months later.
Though injuries have cost him long stretches with the USMNT – he played in just eight games in 2021 because of a hamstring injury, and a sprained ankle kept him out of two September friendlies – the team is clearly better when he's a part of it.
He isn't as well known as Christian Pulisic or as eye-catching as Weston McKennie. But his smoothness and pace make him difficult to defend, and he brings a sophistication to the U.S. attack like no one else.
He also has surprising versatility. Normally a winger, Weah played right back in his last two games with club team Lille.
"I don't have a problem with helping my team in any way," Weah said. "I'm for the team. Wherever the coach wants to put me – if it's defense, if he wants to put me at goalkeeper."
Because this World Cup is being played in the middle of the European season, injuries have already been a huge factor. France will be without Paul Pogba and N'Golo Kante. Senegal is hoping desperately that Sadio Mane will be able to play. And on Sunday, as Weah was making his way to Qatar, Morocco's Amine Harit suffered a knee injury that will almost certainly keep him out of the World Cup.
The Americans, on the other hand, finally seem to be back to full strength after enduring a rash of injuries during qualifying and over the summer.
Weah said he never worried his sprained ankle would keep him out of the World Cup. His larger concern was being fully fit in time for the USMNT's first game, Monday against Wales. After playing the full 90 minutes in each of Lille's last two games, Weah said he's ready to go.
"I feel like I'm at my best right now," he said.
Weah's father was scheduled to arrive in Qatar on Tuesday, and he plans to stay at least through the USMNT's opener. While watching the World Cup can never be a substitute for playing in one, watching his son play in it will come pretty darn close.
"My goal is to stay positive, put in the work and just enjoy the experience because a lot of great players don't even have the opportunity to play in the World Cup," the younger Weah said. "For me, at 22, it's a blessing. I'm just happy to be here."
For himself, and for his father.
Follow USA TODAY Sports columnist Nancy Armour on Twitter @nrarmour.
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Do you use bandcamp?
Latest releases now available on bandcamp! All TSAS solo music, from 2017 to present (released via Dejitama), is now available on bandcamp! You can download it here: http://dejitama.bandcamp.com Now you can support TSAS directly and download his music in high quality too. Bandcamp is a known platform among independent artists…
TSAS @ Avante 2019 – Photos & Video
Last Sunday, September 8 2019, The Strange Algorithm Series played a show at Festa do Avante 2019. The show was a mix of a live-act and DJ-set, with instruments, samples and effects played in real-time. For instance, it included live vocals in "Nobody Cares" with english, portuguese and japanese rap.…
New show this weekend, at Seixal (PT)
Make sure to attend TSAS show at the festival Festa do Avante, in Seixal Portugal! "Join me on Sep. 8th at Palco Agit, in Festa do Avante, around 20h." What to expect? It will be a near 2h act with originals and some edm & bass music influences as well.…
Lit Up [Single]
New single, Lit Up, is out! "Lit Up" is out since 27th August. It will certainly satisfy all the bass-heads fearlessly looking for new experiences, so make sure to check this one out. It's vital that the bass music of today, especially dubstep, shows a strong attitude to stand out…
Rorschach [Single]
"Rorschach" is out now! Back with some dubstep, TSAS present us 'Rorschach'. "What we see or hear can have different meanings to different people. The way we perceive an abstract image can also change through time. That's what Rorschach is about." You can find it on major stores like Beatport,…
Rorschach – Premiere on BSSDRP
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Hop Out (Music Video)
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#NOBODYCARES EP
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By Craig Daitch . Published on October 06, 2008.
Because to borrow an idea from presidential historian James MacGregor Burns (along with a favorite book of mine), it is simply easier to think short term and transactional vs. long term and transformational. The differences between the two are profound. Where a transactional idea may produce efficacy, a transformational idea delivers affinity and, ultimately, advocacy.
When used in the context of promotions, transactional ideas simply ask for an exchange of one thing for another. It may be a chance to win a free iPod for an e-mail address or a mobile number for a free ringtone. A simple "We can give away a car for consumer information" may have worked five years ago but in today's world of over-sensitization, even luxury items are difficult to give away without context.
And that is the main pain point in transactional promotions: the misconception that the carrots marketers use as bait need to outgrow the previous ones.
Conversely, transformational promotional ideas are the entry point for offering the solutions to your audience's problems. Let's use the travel industry as an example. Say I am desperately looking to fly from New York to Detroit on business and need a flight, hotel and rental car quickly. I may find a promotional coupon online to use when booking my trip, along with relevant, contextual information on my destination. Upon confirmation of my itinerary, I could receive additional discounts on dining, as well as helpful links to travel-related online communities such as Yelp and Dopplr, etc. The tactics I use have supported a larger strategy of creating a relationship between my customer and my brand.
Look, it's difficult to convince clients as well as your own colleagues that by taking the long-term approach to cultivating your audience you could end up saving capital as well as creating an entirely new layer of insights that can be used to optimize future efforts across all facets of your agency's business.
But that, my friends, is transformational.


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In this talk we'll start with an overview of the functionality provided by Bleve. Next we'll look at some examples of how you can integrate Bleve with your Go applications. Finally, we'll talk about Scorch, the latest index scheme used by Bleve, and how it fits into the future of the project.


I love completing a project. It's probably one of the reasons I ventured out to be my own boss. Completion isn't a problem. I love how it feels when I send a project off and check it off the list. When we purchased a home, we were excited about the process of making it our own with all sorts of projects. We had never had a space to make entirely our own, so it was exciting to think about making a list, room by room. What I never expected was the amount of work it takes, the number of decisions that have to be made, and, on the flip side, what the reward feels like once it's done. When you finish a home project, it feels like you conquered all the hardest things. I am not always great at communicating my ideas and bringing them to life. This is why I shared my strategy for making home dreams into a reality in our previous post with Behr when we came up with the vision for our master bedroom.
Over the last month, we have pulled the room together. We chose paint colors, updated the fan, selected bedding, purchased a bed frame, picked artwork, painted the room (including trim), hung drapes, got a rug, and did a lot of rearranging of furniture in our home. All the decisions are now made, our room is complete and though a few things came together a little differently from our original plan, we LOVE it. The light, airy, southwest feel mixed with a little laid back lifestyle is exactly what we wanted in our bedroom.
There are a lot of favorite parts of our updated room, but the main focus is on the paint color. Making a paint color decision was the hardest of all. We began with four colors painted in large swatches on the walls around the room on every wall since light shifts so much in our room. After about a week, we decided on BEHR's Snowbound and Ultra Pure White for the trim and ceiling. The white previously in the room had far too much yellow in it. Choosing a white is very important to us, and BEHR knows how to make a great pure white. Snowbound was the right color for the room. At night, the color feels soothing and calm. In the morning, the light that streams in through our drapes reflects the most beautiful light onto the blue walls. There is no way you can have a bad morning in the light that fills that room every day. I wanted a space that inspired me first thing and pushed me out of bed ready to face the day. This room does that.
1. We went for a flat woven rug that stayed close to the floor.
2. We chose a minimal bed frame such as this one from West Elm.
3. Replaced a large and low-hanging fan, though good quality, it visually overtook our ceiling. We replaced it with this minimal white fan, which now has a remote!
4. Removed the blinds and replaced with lightweight drapes that help to open the room with more light.
5. Removed our mirror (now in the hall to help extend the hall) and placed a dresser into our closet. This way we kept as much floor space as possible.
We framed the image of Joshua Tree from our friend, Michael Newsted with Framebridge in the Marin frame. Since it is the focal point in the room and our inspiration, we chose textures, rugs, and accessories that played on that Southern California life. We pulled in our favorite cactus, a kilim stool (vintage from Father and Son in Raleigh), and a large palm to bring the feeling of outside into our room.
The space next to our bed is incredibly small. We searched the Internet for a side table option to fit in our less than 13-inch width space and ultimately decided to move our side tables from our guest room into our bedroom. The wood fit the feeling of the room, and they are just the right size. We love the look, and it helps us keep our bedside space tidy and minimal.
We put a lot of weight in deciding on bedding for the room. I have always wanted to invest in great sheets. It seems so adult to have that kind of luxurious feeling when you slip into bed at night, doesn't it? So, we began researching, and we discovered In Bed Store based in Australia. Not only is their branding beautiful, but the colors are the perfect complement to nearly any room color you may choose. Each piece of the bedding is purchased individually so you can choose any combination. We chose, Indigo, Peach, and White as our combo and I honestly couldn't be happier with it. The linen is the perfect texture in the space, and the best part is it looks best when undone rather than perfectly made. You cannot complain about that, right?
There are still a couple small things we want to figure out for the space such as side lamps and dog beds that fit well in the room. Those minimal pieces right now don't feel like that big of a deal because the room as is in its simplest form is perfect. The natural, undone, relaxed, and bright space is a dream for us as we finally nail down our second space in the home.
What do you think? How close did we come to our mood board in our last post? I would love to hear your thoughts!
Ive been looking for the perfect color to paint my bedroom and stuMbled upon behr's snowbound, however i swatched A bit of it onto my wall and it didnt turn out Nearly as beautiful as yours. It's extremely white with just a light tint of a mint toothpaste.
I was just wondering if you had the color altered, or if you have an tips on gEtting the color to turn out its true color?
Hi Jeralyn, so the color in our room sometimes shows up bluer than it actually is. We tried to make sure the photos captured the color as best as we could but it is hard. Paint colors are tricky and sometimes it takes a deep long hunt and lots of swatching the find the right one. One color can look one way in one room and another in another room. If you aren't happy with the color. I would highly suggest taking it back to the paint story and seeing if they can help mix in more the chroma from a blue and green to give it the color you want.


Duce's real name is Ari Seppä and he's from Finland. His works date back to 1990. Duce is a member of BlackLight Inc. and Extend.
I started playing around with pixels in 1990 with Amiga500 & DeluxePaint. First attempts were ugly as hell and hopefully I've lost em somewhere during the years. No one should ever see those. really. I got my skills improved when I started to know demoscene a bit better and met bunch of sceners in 1991. Actually Argon/Extend happened to be my room-mate when I entered high school.
And then I met Electric/Extend and saw him doing crazy pixelling with KoalaPainter & joystick. I was truly amazed! Beside pixelling, Electric also astonished me with his drawing/inking skills, and from all the way back those days he has been some kind of an idol for me.
But at that time I was more interested in pixelling with Amiga and inking disk-covers, and somehow though C64-format could be way too difficult for me. Didn't tried out C64 pixels until 1993, and for unknown reasons I never finished it. Then after years of inactivity, Electric convinced me to start pixelling again and especially on C64. And I was hooked! Sounds bizarre, but I really enjoy all the restrictions and fixed palettes and all that "push that limit even further"-mentality. Like, there has to be some sort of challenge and then you really have to get focused on every single pixel on the image, and for me it's like being on a Zen-mode.
While pixelling my adaptation of Ffffuuu-meme, I had some kind of an epiphany that you actually can put lot of colors together in HiRes-mode. After that enlightenment I've pretty much kept my pixels in HiRes-mode only, and getting $d016-tweak aboard has brought some more twist on it (literally).
Well, really I've been in the Commodore 64 scene since the '80s in the very beginning was just swapping and enjoying games etc. But I was really amazed by the intros and demos, so I wanted to be part of that so I start pixeling. I've done pixel arts in the Spectrum, MSX, Amiga and of course mainly in Commodore 64. Really Commodore 64 is part of my life and it always was. For me is very relaxing and fun pixeling and creating stuff in a machine that makes you think a lot to achieve a very nice final result. I like topic ideas from movies, magazines etc. And I try to do some kind of experimentation also inspired in other scene artist and stuff to get very different results.
Valsary is an artist from Poland. His works date back to 1994. Valsary is a member of Elysium and Booze Design.
redcrab is an artist from Sweden. His works date back to 2011. redcrab is a member of Goin' Sideways and Genesis Project.
Pixel graphics, and 8bit music has always fascinated me! I thought for very long that I loved games, but now I know that I often played them just to be in that universe!
For me creativity always comes from restrictions -no matter what I'm up to. The c64 is all made up of quirky restrictions and I love it! I think making graphics like this is more like solving a puzzle. I always hunt for some new way of going around the limitations or even use them in my favour! I just can't stop making petscii just for this reason.
Rail Slave is an artist from Wales, UK. His works date back to 2016. Rail Slave is a member of Hokuto Force and EXclusive ON.
I'm a bit of a late starter to pixel art and not entirely comfortable in this hall, among the all time greats of the scene.
Most of my pieces have been very ambitious vehicles and themes with which to learn and essentially "fast track" myself to where I should be; As such, I like to have a variety of things that I'm currently studying in them, such as material's or ambitious lighting arrangements.
I was introduced to the scene itself by Ptoing who was always encouraging and taught me take a bit more time with everything at the pixel level and well as introducing me to the greats like ILKkke, Electric, Joe, Mermaid, Carnivius, all for different reasons.
Out side of the scene I have been very influenced by Music, particularly the attitudes to hidden expression of the 50'S Avante jazz scene, 80's underground punk and allegorical Christian writings of the early Church.
Prowler is an artist from Sweden. His works date back to 1993. Prowler is a member of Nectarine.
The Amiga and the C64 were central computers in my life when growing up and learning about drawing and design. Whenever doing pixel art I often end up with a strong influence from those childhood memories - early games, cracktros and demos. It might explain the general "retro"-feeling. I always seem to end up, in most pixel art pieces, with something that isn't a problem when working with other media. Pixel art has always been the playing ground where the abstract meets reality. Pixel and colour limitations set a unique and clean look that gives pixel graphics it's special look. I still very much enjoy it!
My story starts back in 1997. The only computer I had was ZX-Spectrum and I was more interested in demoscene than playing games. Adventurer e-zine started a contest "The best cover for the magazine". And not that I was good at art, it's just my coding abilities were quite poor and my music was even worse. So I decided to give it a try just to test myself. My entry was nothing special. Still it wasn't that bad - I got the next issue's cover. I am an artist, a pixelartist! Well, to be honest - all the contestants entries were on the next cover. But that's how it started.
In pixel art, mastering the technique is necessary, but it's not enough. For me, the most important thing is the mood and atmosphere. I like when the image gives a pause for thought. I'm not sure why, but the darker sides of life always seemed more inspiring to me. Transience, isolation, loneliness, the fragility of human existence, the futility of human endeavor or inability to understand another human being.
Isildur is an artist from Poland. His works date back to 1991. Isildur is a member of Samar Productions.
My first computer was a C64 bundled with a datasette and some pirated tapes full of games. Before every game there was an intro of a group of crackers like Fusion, Ikari + Talent or Fairlight. At this point I realized I wanted to be amongs the people who make these small, beautiful pieces of art called intros. I didn't realize how long it will take me to join this extraordinary community. Since then I knew that Scene will always stay with me, like my best friend.
STE'86 's real name is Steve Day and he's from United Kingdom. His works date back to 1986. STE'86 isn't currently a member of any group.
In January 1986 came the life changing day, when a friend of mine gave me a copy of KoalaPainter [...] and suggested that I had a go at doing some artwork on the C64. I had been aware of the work of Bob Stevenson, Mat Sneape, Tony Crowther and others from Compunet since the latter part of 1985, so I knew what was out there in the UK and decided to have a go. I was totally blown away by this new media, the colour, no mess, no clean ups after work and the ability to experiment and undo when it went wrong.
Carrion is an artist from Poland. His works date back to 1991. Carrion isn't currently a member of any group.
For me art is doing common things in not common manner. We have the same rules/limitations/possibilities in C64 graphics world like we had 20 years ago. Maybe we have some new graphics formats but the main rules are the same.
ptoing's real name is Sven Ruthner and he's from Germany. His works date back to 2004. ptoing is a member of Funkentstört.
I like restricted pixelart in general, but I think that the C64 has an amazingly fun set of restrictions. The palette has a good and fairly even range of lumas, a good amount of variety (yes, I like the browns and greys), and you got neat tricks like the PAL-blending. On top of that you can do neat stuff with the hardware sprites and borders as well as raster bars and flickering (both with or without d016), which allows for a lot of possibilities for intetresting hack modes. That combined with the base restrictions of 3 colours + fixed background per 4x8 in MCOL (my favorite mode), or 2 colours per 8x8 in hires, makes for a really nice set of directions. When working with restrictions there is something you could call "dialogue between machine and artist" going on. You have an idea, but the machine does not always let you do it exactly how you wanted, so you have to find a compromise. That is what I find most interesting about restricted pixel art.
Joe's real name is James Svärd and he's from Sweden. His works date back to 1987. Joe is a member of Wrath Designs and EXclusive ON.
There is something lovely about the restrictions and the 16 colours. They make you think differently about how to compose an image, compared to when you draw by hand, paint etc. It makes you focus on the economy of an image.


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Q: Validation metrics (R2 and Q2) for Partial Least Squares (PLS) Regression I'm attempting to validate my  Partial Least Squares (PLS) -regression model. From documentation and other readings regarding PLS regression I've come to understand that there are generally two metrics used to evaluate the performance of the algorithm. $R^2$ is calculated as 1 - residual sum of squares(RSS) and the total sum of squares(TSS):
$$
R^2 = 1 - RSS/TSS
$$
$$
RSS =\sum(y-\hat{\mathbf{y}})^2
$$
$$
\ TSS = \sum(y - \bar{\mathbf{y}})^2
$$
While $Q^2$ is calculated as 1 - Predictive residual Error sum of squares(PRESS)/ TSS:
$$
\ Q^2 = 1 - PRESS/TSS
$$
$$
\ PRESS = \sum(y-\hat{\mathbf{y}})^2
$$
The Calculation for $R^2$ and $Q^2$ are almost identical, with the only difference being that RSS is calculated from the data on which the algorithm is trained and PRESS is calculated from held out data.
My question:
In the view of training/test splits of data, is it appropriate to call $R^2$ a metric of how the algorithm fits the training data and $Q^2$ a metric of algorithm performance on test data?
Side question: Is it good practice to scale Y in the same manner as X in PLS regression?

A: I was also looking for information on these parameters and found a good explanation in the book Eriksson et al. Multi- and Metavariate Data Analysis Principles and Applications.
In general, I think you have the right idea. According to Eriksson et al, the fit tells us how well we are able to mathematically reproduce the data of the training set. The $R^2$ parameter is known as the "goodness of fit", or explained variation. The $Q^2$ parameter is termed "goodness of prediction", or predicted variation.
The following points are emphasised:

*

*In PLS, the terms $R^2$ and $Q^2$ generally refer to the model performance of the Y-data, the responses, rather than that of the X-data, the predictors.

*The two parameters vary differently with increasing model complexity. $R^2$ is inflationary and rapidly approaches unity as model complexity (number of model parameters) increases. Therefore, it is not sufficient only to have a high $R^2$. $Q^2$, on the other hand, is not inflationary and at a certain degree of complexity will not improve any further and then degrade.

*There is a trade off between fit and predictive ability, so it is the zone where we have a balance between good fit and predictive power that we wish to identify.

For your side question, I find no specific recommendations and no particular reason to scale the Y variable (I'm assuming there is only one). X-variables are scaled to give them the same variance and thus equal weight in the model. The model should be mathematically equivalent whether the response is scaled or not. If there is more than one Y-variable, a more important issue would be to test whether they correlated and whether to fit one model or separate models for each predictor.

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The most memorable part of my Galapagos trip, without question, was the snorkeling. Initially, I was a little scared of this element of the trip because I'm not exactly a fish in the water, but the instruction of the expert guides, safety equipment in the water, and buoyancy of the wetsuits made the experience stress-free.
The underwater world of the Galapagos blew me away, as the diversity and concentration of marine life is almost unparalleled. Schools of beautiful damselfish gracefully swimming as a single unit, penguins darting through the water, sea lions playing, sea turtles feeding, marine iguanas whipping their tails to propel themselves forward, and birds from above diving down into the water to catch their lunch.
We had a surreal moment when we came to one area that had more than 15 giant sea turtles. It's hard to describe the feeling of being so close to a six-foot sea turtle underwater, as they're just floating by without a care in the world. It was so different from anything I'd experienced before—it was as if I had been transported to this mystical world of underwater magic.
Then, as if that wasn't enough, along came a sea lion who wanted to swim with us. When you're swimming with a sea lion, it becomes clear within a few seconds that you're a visitor in their natural habitat. They swim with an elegant effortlessness, forwards-backwards-sideways-upside-down, spinning and twirling as if they're putting on a show for you. They're very playful animals, so the more you engage, the more they'll play. They twirl around in the water so quickly, it's often hard to keep sight of them!
Not to be outdone by the sea lions, the rest of the marine life made sure to have their time on the stage—Galapagos penguins speeding by, schools of fish floating along, and even a stingray nestling into the sand beneath us.
What struck me most is that the majority of our perceived world is above ground—the sky, trees, grasses, birds and land animals. But in the Galapagos, you get to see this whole other world beneath the surface that is as active as (in many ways more active than) the life we perceive every day above ground. It's almost as if the entire world we perceive every day has a mirror image hidden behind the curtain of the water's surface. This experience definitely inspired me to go for my diving certification so I can go back to the Galapagos Islands and spend more time in the magical world underneath the surface.
This guest post was written by Nat Hab Vice President, Adventure Strategy & Finance Dain Lewis.


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Nancy W. Ho - Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Diversity in Engineering
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Industrial Advisory Council
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Nancy W. Ho
Emeritus Research Professor of Chemical Engineering
POTR 1295
Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering
480 Stadium Mall Drive
nwyho@purdue.edu
Joined Purdue in 1971
B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1957
M.A. Organic Chemistry, Temple University, 1960
Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Purdue University, 1968
2016 National Medal of Technology and Innovation from the President of the United States of America (The highest honor given by the U.S. government for Technology and Innovation)
2007 July 6, 2007, this video was shown on national television in Brazil - viewed by millions in South America.
2007 June 11, 2007, the Wall Street Journal published a special column by Christopher John Farley, "A Tireless Hunt for Energy", on Dr. Ho and her work on developing the ideal recombinant yeast for cellulosic ethanol production.
2007 A letter, dated January 31, from President Bush thanked Dr. Ho for attending his State of the Union Address and thanked her for her commitment to fostering the development of renewable sources of energy. The President said "your hard work and dedication are helping to build a safer more secure future for our Nation".
2007 January 23, 2007, Dr. Ho was invited to attend President Bush's State of the Union Address in honor her work for cellulosic ethanol.
2006 September 2006, Dr. Ho was named by Senator Dick Lugar as an Energy Patriot. Since August 2006, Senator Lugar has nominated an individual who has demonstrated leadership and initiative in taking concrete action to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil as his "Energy Patriot". Dr. Ho was the second person bestowed with this honor.
2006 "Beyond Corn: Ethanol's next generation - Scientists seek cheap, plentiful alternative". The Chicago Tribune published an article by reporter Micheal Oneal on Oct 13, 2006. Dr. Ho's yeast for cellulosic ethanol work was the centerpiece for this article.
2004 "Efficient Recombinant Yeast Yields Ethanol from Straw Residues" by Carol Potera, published in ASM News, vol. 70(10), 2004, as the feature article in the Newsletter's Current Topics. This article reported that Iogen was using the yeast developed by Dr. Ho, Purdue University, for the production of ethanol from wheat straw and that Dr. Ho's yeast was the most effective microorganism for such a purpose.
2004 Since April 2004 , Iogen, a Canadian company, has used the engineered yeast developed by Dr. Ho at Purdue University to produce ethanol from wheat straw in the world's first production plant of its kind. Purdue University issued a news release on June 28, 2004 entitled, "Purdue yeast makes ethanol from agricultural waste more effectively", to mark this special event. Many newspapers and magazines have also reported upon this exciting development.
1999 The genetically engineered Saccharomyces yeasts developed by Dr. Ho were also honored by Discover Magazine as one of 27 of the most important technological innovations of 1999 selected from more than 4000 technological innovations worldwide. Dr. Ho was honored by Discover Magazine as one of the 27 finalists of the Discover Award for that year.
1998 R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine for her successful development of the genetically engineered Saccharomyces yeast that can effectively co-ferment both glucose and xylose from cellulosic biomass, which has made biomass-to-ethanol technology closer to commercialization. The Chicago Tribune has called this award "The Oscar of Invention." Others have referred to the award as "the Nobel Prize of Applied Research."
Mosier, N., Hendrickson, R., Ho, N. W. Y., Sedlak, M., and M. R. Ladisch, "Optimization of pH controlled liquid hot water pretreatment of corn stover," Bioresource Technology, 96, 1986-1993, 2005.
Xie, Y., Phelps, D., Lee, C. H., Sedlak, M., Ho, N.W. Y., and L. N. H. Wang, "Comparison of Two Adsorbents for Sugar Recovery from Biomass Hydrolyzate," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 44: 6816-6823, 2005.
Mosier, N. S., Hendrickson, R., Brewer, M., Ho, N. W. Y., Sedlak, M., Dreschel, R., Welch, G., Dien, B. S., Aden, A., and M. R. Ladisch, "Industrial Scale-up of pH-controlled liquid hot water pretreatment of corn fiber for fuel ethanol production," Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 125, 77-85, 2005.
Sedlak, M. and N. W. Y. Ho, "Characterization of the effectiveness of hexose transporters for transporting xylose during glucose and xylose co-fermentation by a recombinant Saccharomyces yeast," Yeast 21:671-684, 2004.
Sedlak, M. and N. W. Y. Ho, "Production of ethanol from cellulosic biomass hydrolysate using genetically engineered Saccharomyces yeast capable of co-fermenting glucose and xylose," Appl. Biochem. Biotech. 113-116: 403-416, 2004.
Ho, N. W. Y., "The logical design and development of genetically engineered yeast for effective conversion of plant cellulosic biomass to ethanol," Chinese Americans in Science and Technology 85-132, Outer Sky Press, New York, 2003.
Sedlak M, Edenberg H.J. and N. W. Y. Ho, "DNA microarray analysis of the expression of the genes encoding major enzymes in ethanol production during glucose and xylose co-fermentation by metabolically engineered Saccharomyces yeast," Enzyme. Microbial. Technol. 33:19-28, 2003.
D. Sliva, C. Labarrere, V. Slivova, M. Sedlak, F. P. Lloyd Jr., and N. W. Y. Ho, "Ganoderma lucidum suppresses motility of highly invasive breast and prostate cancer cells," BBRC. 298, 603-612, 2002.
Sedlak, M., and N. W. Y. Ho, "Expression of E. coli araBAD operon encoding enzymes for metabolizing L-arabinose in Saccharomyces cerevisiae," Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 28 , 16-24, 2001.
Ho, N. W. Y., Chen, Z., Brainard, A. P., and M. Sedlak, Chapter 12 in ACS Symposium Series 767, "Genetically engineered Saccharomyces yeasts for conversion of cellulosic biomass to environmentally friendly transportation fuel ethanol," Amer Chem Society, 142-159, 2000.
Ho, N. W. Y., Chen, Z., Brainard, A. P., and M. Sedlak, "Successful design and development of genetically engineered Saccharomyces yeasts for effective cofermentation of glucose and xylose from cellulosic biomass to fuel ethanol," Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, 65 , 163-192, 1999.
Ho, N. W. Y., Chen, Z., and A. Brainard, "Genetically Engineered Saccharomyces yeast capable of effective cofermentation of glucose and xylose," Appl Environ. Microbiol, 64 , 1852-1859, 1998.
Toon, S. T., Philippidis, G. P., Ho, N. W. Y., Chen, Z., Brainard, A., Lumpkin, R. E., and C. J. Riley, "Enhanced cofermentation of glucose and xylose by recombinant Saccharomyces yeast strains in batch and continuous operating modes," Appl. Biochem. and Biotech., 63-65 , 243-255, 1997.
Moniruzzaman, M., Dien, B. S., Skory, C. D., Chen, Z. D., Hespell, R. B., Ho, N. W. Y., Dale, B. E., and R. J. Bothast, "Fermentation of corn fibre sugars by an engineered xylose utilizing Saccharomyces yeast strain," World Journal of Microbio & Biotechno, 13 , 341, 1997.
Cao, N. J., Krishnan, M. S., Du, J. X., Chen, Z. D., Gong, C. S., Ho, N. W. Y. and G. T. Tsao, "Ethanol production from corn cob pretreated by the ammonia steeping process using genetically engineered yeast," Biotechnology Letters, 18, 1013-1018, 1996.
Ho, N. W. Y., and S. F. Chang, "Cloning of yeast xylulokinase gene by complementation of E. Coli and yeast mutations," Enzyme Microb. Technol., 11 , 417-421, 1989.
Stevis, P. E. and N. W. Y. Ho, "Construction of yeast xylulokinase mutant by recombinant DNA techniques," Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol., 20 (21), 327-334, 1989.
Chang, S. F. and N. W. Y. Ho, "Cloning the yeast xylulokinase gene for the improvement of xylose fermentation," Appl. Biochem. and Biotechnol., 17, 313-318, 1988.
Rosenfeld, S., Stevis, P., Tsao, G. T., and N. W. Y. Ho, "Genetic characterization of the xylose utilization genes of E. coli ," Mol. Gen. Genetics, 410-415, 1984.
Stevis, P. E., Huang, J. J., and N. W. Y. Ho, "Cloning of the Pachysolen tannophilus xylulokinase gene by complementation in Escherichia coli," Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 53(12), 2975-2977, 1987.
Stevis, P. E. and N. W. Y. Ho, "Overproduction of D-Xylose isomerase in E. coli by cloning the D-Xylose isomerase gene," Enzyme Microbial Technology, 7, 592-596, 1985.
Rosenfeld, S., Stevis, P., Tsao, G. T., and N. W. Y. Ho, "Genetic characterization of the xylose utilization genes of E. coli," Mol. Gen. Genetics, 410-415, 1984.
Patents Related to Genetic Engineering of Yeasts for New Industrial Applications
Ho, N. W. Y. and M. Sedlak, "Development of Stable Genetically Engineered Yeast for Industrial Conversion of Sugars from Glucose-Based and Glucose-Xylose- Based Feedstocks to Lactic Acid", patent pending.
Ho, N. W. Y, and Z. D. Chen, "Stable Recombinant Yeasts Capable of Effective Fermentation of Both Glucose and Xylose." Patent Application, #60/016, 865, May 6, 1996. PCT Patent No. WO97/42307, November 13, 1997. This application has been allowed in Australia before March, 2001 but pending everywhere else including US.
Ho, N. W. Y and G. T. Tsao, "Recombinant Yeasts for Effective Fermentation of Glucose and Xylose," PCT Patent No. W095/13362, (1995); the patent was allowed in the US on Aug. 4, 1998, patent No. 5,789,210.
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Americans prefer letting tax cuts expire for the country's top earners, as President Barack Obama insists, while support has declined for cutting government services to curb budget deficits, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows. Fewer than half the Republicans polled favor continuing the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans prefer letting tax cuts expire for the country's top earners, as President Barack Obama insists, while support has declined for cutting government services to curb budget deficits, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows. Fewer than half the Republicans polled favor continuing the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.


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Q: How to find out that I have called Child.parent_funcn through Child but not through Parent class? Here is an example in easy form what I am trying to achieve.
class Parent:
     def abc():
         pass

class Child(Parent):
     def pqr():
         pass

Child.abc
<function Parent.abc()>

Child.abc.__qualname__
'Parent.abc'

figure_out_class_from_class_func(class_func):
   ...
   derive class from class_func.__qualname__
   return class

figure_out_class_from_class_func(Child.abc) returns -> Parent.
Actually I want it to return Child as actually I am passing Child class.

So basically __qualname__ is not my friend here. Is it anyhow possible to figure out actual class rather than the parent class(where function is implemented) using Class.function ?
EDIT:
bit better example:
class Parent():
     def __init__(self):
         print(self.x)
     def parent_func1(self):
         pass

class Child(Parent):
     x=1

     def __init__(self):
         print(self.x)

     def child_func1(self):
         pass

def special_function(class_func):
     func_module = inspect.getmodule(class_func)
     class_name = getattr(class_func, "__qualname__", None).split(".")[0]
     class_obj = getattr(func_module, class_name)
     class_obj()

Now calling special_function(Child.child_func1) is fine-> print 1

But special_function(Child.parent_func1) gives error:

ERROR:root:Internal Python error in the inspect module.
Below is the traceback from this internal error.

      1 class Parent():
      2      def __init__(self):
----> 3          print(self.x)
      4      def parent_func1(self):
      5          pass

AttributeError: 'Parent' object has no attribute 'x'

Is there any way to find out that I have called Child.parent_funcn through Child but not through Parent ?


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BAD weather cruelly curtailed the annual Crewe and District Junior Schools Athletics Association's Town Sports but it didn't stop 22 schools shining when they competed at the Barony Park in Nantwich.
00:00, 6 JUL 2005
Large crowds witnessed the opening day's field events last week, where seven- to 11-year-olds competed in high jump, long jump and javelin before the track events took place two days later.
Despite the weather, the evening witnessed some excellent sport before the rain came down and the event had to be abandoned, 12 races short of completion.
A Town Sports committee spokesman said: 'A lot of hard work is put into organising this event throughout the year by a dedicated committee made up of teaching staff and fully supported by Keith Hancock, Geoff Beadle and Nyle McGregor from Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council.
'But at the end of the day we are always reliant on the British weather being kind to us. This year we were just half an hour short of finishing, which is a pity.
'We felt very sorry for the Years 5 and 6 relay teams which didn't get to race but the safety aspect had to be taken into consideration.
'The borough has some talented athletes and we will all be back next year.'
Haslington Primary School went home happy with a number of trophies including the Group A winners; Wistaston Junior School came out on top of Group B and collected the Year 5 trophy while St Mary's pipped another successful school, Beechwood, to the Group C Field and Year 6 winners trophy.
Hungerford was joint winner along with Haslington for the Year 3 prize.
Haslington Primary teacher Dave Farmer said: 'It is nice to win trophies but the most important thing about Town Sports is getting children taking part and enjoying it.
'Judging by the faces of those involved over the two nights, they have done just that.'
Crewe FC
Network RailJail for Network Rail worker who stole £10k of cable from Crewe depotA Network Rail employee who stole more than £10k of copper cable from a Crewe rail depot has been jailed for one year following a British Transport Police investigation. Brendan Moloney, aged 36, of Thornton Road, Manchester, pleaded guilty to theft from the Network Rail depot at Carillion in Gresty Road, and was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment.


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Q: Why eclipses are not periodic? From mathematics, we know that if any two or more functions are periodic in nature, their combination would also be periodic in nature with some exceptions.
Since motions of the sun, the moon and the earth are periodic in nature, all events associated with that should also be periodic in nature (or close to periodic). It looks like they are eventually in periodic in nature except for the eclipses, why?

A: Eclipses are in fact periodic, and can be predicted accurately years into the future.


Ok So long story short, my laptop running an updated windows 7 64 bit (updated from windows vista 64 bit) died yesterday morning.
When I plugged in the enclosure containing the windows 7 OS hard drive to the new laptop running windows 10, i couldn't open the home folder in the windows 7 to get to the desktop where all the application short cuts were. It asked to give it permanent permission, but it never did work. but after a couple of reboots, it finally gave me access to the home folder today.
So I double clicked on virtualdub which is an application installed on windows 7 hard drive but not on windows 10, it started up as if it was a new install, but all the old plug in for the application was there.
And when I double clicked on musecore 2 whichis also an application on my wondows 7 but not on windows 10, it worked fine.
But then adobe after effects installed on windows 7 hard drive and was working fine on it, did not load at all from windows 10 off the enclosure.
So I guess my question is how do I set up this enclosure such that I can run the application that were installed on my windows 7 off the enclosure from windows 10 laptop which the enclosure is plugged into via usb?
Is there a name for this process? someone suggested sysprep and I'm very confused.
You would have to provide the Windows 7 Admin permission to access the Disk.
Generally speaking, you would have to re-install your old programs on the Windows 10 computer, for them to work properly. There are some exceptions to this, and these programs are called portable programs, as they can be run without any prior systems installation.
If you cannot easily re-install your programs on Windows 10, then you could try converting your Windows 7 disk to a virtual disk, and run the virtual disk from within Windows 10.
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Will doing it your way allow me to run the application on the windows 7 hard drive without having to install them on my windows 10 laptop?
Also will dual boot slow down my computer at the start up?
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"There is a lot to look forward too," Promised by Organizers of Dakar Rally 2018
About a month ago the organizers of the jubilee 40th edition of Dakar Rally disclosed the route of the race. Yesterday Mr. Marc Coma, the sport director of the most famous long-distance race of the planet, visited Prague. His press conference made clear that there is a lot to look forward to indeed.
"We work hard on the new edition. Especially the vision of the return to Peru is very attractive. The crews will enjoy there enough of racing in dunes, missed a little in the recent editions. The opening part of the competition will certainly be very interesting," said Marc Coma, the fivefold champion in the motorcycle category (of 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2015). "The Czech Republic will be largely represented, as always, and so it is only a question of time when a major success arrives."
The top Czech candidate for the desired Bedouin award is Martin Kolomý, the winner of two Dakar stages of the recent editions. "I consider the return to Peru one of the most positive news. I have always supported the principle that the more demanding the route the better for us. Marc Coma has presented a number of very interesting ideas. I hope they will be successfully implemented. There is enough time for that."
Jan Kalivoda, the Buggyra Racing team manager, believes that the situation from this year´s edition will not repeat. "I like action movies but this January was rather a horror film. The changed route and Marc Coma in Prague prove that the organizers have realised they made a mistake and strive to avoid such mistakes in future. The return to Peru should be a return to the good old Dakar times."
Photogallery from Dakar 2018 press conference - https://flic.kr/s/aHskVwmX3g
Petr Bosnakov - 14.01.2022
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April 2019 marks the first time that London Luton Airport (LLA) has served 17 million passengers over a 12 month period.
This comes as the airport experienced its busiest-ever April as 1.5 million passengers travelled through the airport, a 10.4% increase on the same time last year.
New figures also show the airport has seen a growth in the number of local people using the airport. CAA data for 2018, shows that 5 million passengers passing through the airport were from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire – accounting for around 30% of total passengers numbers for the year. Growth from the local areas was particularly driven by passengers from Hertfordshire where passenger numbers increased 11% in 2018.
Tel Aviv remained in the top five most popular destinations with April also marking the tenth anniversary of Israeli airline EL Al operating from the airport, who welcomed its one millionth passenger from LLA. Other popular destinations over the Easter period included Budapest, Bucharest and Amsterdam.
Alberto Martin, CEO of LLA, said: "April marks a real milestone for the airport given we have served 17 million passengers over the last 12 months. We are also delighted to have welcomed a record number of local residents – we're aware of the important role which we play in the local community and are always working to ensure that the benefits of our transformation are felt by everyone."
London Luton Airport (LLA) is one of the UK's largest airports and carried 16.6 million passengers in 2018, an increase of 5% on 2017. The airport indirectly employs over 9,400 staff and is a key economic driver for the region.
easyJet, Wizz Air, Ryanair, Tui, EL AL, Blue Air, SunExpress, Iberia (Air Nostrum) and Vueling currently operate from the airport. The airport's route network serves 150 destinations in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The airport is operated and developed by a consortium of which the majority shareholder is AENA, the world's largest airport operator, and AMP Capital, a specialist global investment manager.
LLA has invested over £160million to transform the airport and increase capacity to 18 million passengers per year by 2020. The redevelopment includes a complete redesign of the terminal, bringing in new and exciting shops and restaurants and major upgrades to transport links, including better road access to the M1, new car parking facilities, a remodelled bus and coach interchange and improved rail links to Luton Airport Parkway station. In addition, work is well underway on a £225 million light rail system linking the airport with Luton Airport Parkway station and is anticipated to be completed by 2021. The project is being delivered by the airport owners, LLAL – a company owned by Luton Council.
LLA is the only London airport without a direct express-style rail service. LLA is therefore calling on the government to introduce four trains per hour as part of the refranchising of the East Midlands rail line. Doing so would require little to no capital expenditure, and would accelerate the economic benefits of the current transformation project which is set to increase LLA's economic contribution by 77% from £1.3 billion in 2013 to £2.3 billion per annum by 2030.
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