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Q: Repeat Pandas data frame based on a value and add the counter back to the data frame let's say you have the following data frame:
item_a item_b
1       123
7       32
4       18

and then you have a constant `PERIODS = 3', how do I repeat the above data frame by 3 times while adding each repetition as a counter.
The desired outcome is:
counter item_a item_b
1       1       123
1       7       32
1       4       18
2       1       123
2       7       32
2       4       18
3       1       123
3       7       32
3       4       18

A: IIUC using reindex, then we recreate the index by using groupby cumcount
s=df.reindex(df.index.tolist()*3)
s.index=s.groupby(s.index).cumcount()+1
s
Out[1349]:
   item_a  item_b
1       1     123
1       7      32
1       4      18
2       1     123
2       7      32
2       4      18
3       1     123
3       7      32
3       4      18

A: Here is another way, which simply concatenates your df however many times you want, setting the index as a progressively increasing constant with each concatenation:
import numpy as np

period=3

new_df = pd.concat([df.set_index(np.repeat(i, len(df))) for i in range(1,period+1)])

>>> new_df
   item_a  item_b
1       1     123
1       7      32
1       4      18
2       1     123
2       7      32
2       4      18
3       1     123
3       7      32
3       4      18

# Or, to have counter as a separate column rather than the index:
new_df = pd.concat([df.assign(counter=np.repeat(i, len(df)))
                    for i in range(1,period+1)]).reset_index(drop=True)

Solution 2
Seeing as, from your comment, you are looking for speedy code execution, this method is faster:
new_df = pd.DataFrame(np.repeat([df.values],period, axis=0).reshape(-1,df.shape[1]),
             index=np.repeat(range(1,period+1), len(df)), columns=df.columns)

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US Edurank: Who's made the top four?
US Edurank
We're halfway through 2018, and the social media content we have seen this year continues to get better and better from Colleges and Universities, all over the US of A. This month we are looking at the big players, the top dogs, the rising elite… ok, you get the idea.
Here's a breakdown of the top four institutions in our US Edurank chart.
Texas A&M University jumped three spaces to top the Edurank charts for June. The University delivered a tweet which generated an impressive 1000 likes and 260 retweets. Texas A&M University shared a news article which outlined the number of former students that worked on The Incredibles 2 movie. This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the success of their alumni, which may attract other students to apply in the fall. The Institution has included the official Twitter handle of the Incredibles movie, as well as using the #TheIncredibles2 hashtag; both are excellent tactics for making sure a Tweet reaches as many people as possible. To top it off, the University has also included a GIF (from the movie) to help the content stand out on a busy feed. With so much content appearing around the clock on Twitter, it's important to deliver something which is going to stand out and catch the user's attention.
25 Aggies working at @DisneyPixar helped bring everyone's favorite super family to life in @TheIncredibles 2!  @vizlabTAMU #TheIncredibles @TAMUARCH → https://t.co/Wlp3zo8CSf pic.twitter.com/sdt91i8a4b
— Texas A&M University (@TAMU) June 24, 2018
Mayo Clinic of Health Sciences
This institution finished in second place for June, with an excellent score on Facebook. The Clinic shared an article from their website, which revealed how they helped a lady who was suffering from a brain aneurysm. The report has been teased in the Facebook post, which will prompt readers to click through and visit the website; a great way to boost traffic figures. The post was shared nearly 400 times, as Facebook users would want to pass this positive story to their own following; perhaps even to others who are suffering from the same condition. This is also an excellent way to show off to prospective students the standard of the Clinic, which could be a deciding factor in whether they apply. Going forward the Institution could look to get involved in the conversations surrounding this post, via the comments. This would help them build up more of an online presence, and perhaps encourage more students to enroll.
Harvard University is one of the most consistent institutions in Edurank, having finished in the top three (or better) for every month this year. The University shared a striking image of summer at the University, to mark the summer solstice. It's great to see that the institution has credited the photographer of the image, which hints to their followers that all photos are created in-house and not outsourced… giving off a real sense of community. These types of posts work well on Facebook as it has sparked a friendly conversation (within the comment section) about the weather, new students and, most importantly, how to apply for a scholarship for one of Harvard's graduate programs. Just like the Texas A&M University, Harvard should also look to comment on their posts themselves; this could be the perfect opportunity to reach out to more prospective students and direct them to any relevant information on the website.
Strayer University has remained in the top four and achieved 100/100 on YouTube. Their top performing video was footage from a commencement speech, which included a guest talk from US sensation, Queen Latifah. This is an excellent opportunity to share inspiring content to prospective, current and former students. Having a famous guest speaker is a unique way for Colleges and Universities to show off their prestige, which might appeal to future first-year students, who have yet to decide where they want to study. Not only that, Queen Latifah fans, in general, would enjoy watching this content too – regardless of their connection to the University.
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Q: How RefreshRemoteApplicationEvent is handled? The documentation says that when spring cloud config server detects configuration chages it fires an RefreshRemoteApplicationEvent. But documentation said nothing about how that event is handled. So is it true that each application which receive such event shoud handle it by itself? E.g it is not required to refresh entire Spring context when such event was received?

A: I think the documentation only talks about the server side, i.e. the Spring application that talks to the git repository and exposes the condensed information to interested clients. In this process, for example using webhooks, the server can be informed about changes in the git repository, and in turn sends out events to applications that might need to be re-configured.
Your question seems to be concerned about the client side. If your application uses Spring Cloud Config, it should automatically request the new configuration data as soon as the event described above arrives at the client. This in turn should mean that the new configuration values are available or some configured behaviour (log level?) changes.
To actually make the server fire an event that arrives at the client, the documentation suggests Spring Cloud Bus. If you create (for example) a RabbitMQ instance, and make this available to both your clients and your server, Spring automatically attaches to this system and is able to process messages. Additionally, the Spring Cloud Config server automatically sends the desired events using this system, and the clients automatically process these.
In short, if you add Spring Cloud Bus to all involved applications (and make the system used by it, e.g. RabbitMQ, available to them), everything works as expected.


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Kroll Opera House
The Kroll Opera House (German "Krolloper") was an opera building in Berlin, Germany, on the western edge of the Königsplatz (now the Platz der Republik), facing the Reichstag. It was built in 1844 as an entertainment venue for the restaurant owner Joseph Kroll, on a site donated by Friedrich Wilhelm IV. The building was redeveloped as an opera house in 1851 and was used by various owners and directors for opera, operetta and drama. It was redeveloped again in 1895 and re-opened as the New Royal Opera Theatre, operated by the Prussian state opera and drama companies.
1842-1848 Early years
"The Kroll story began in Breslau, where the entrepreneur Joseph Kroll (1797-1848) founded the "Kroll Winter Garden" in 1837. The city of Breslau chose this reputable establishment to entertain the new Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1795-1861) when he visited the city in 1841. He was so impressed by the splendid, flower-decorated rooms that he suggested that something similar should be initiated in Berlin. It was going to become the social hub for the nobility in the Prussian residence.After a consultation with the garden director, Peter Joseph Lenné (1798-1866) and other members of the government, the King presented an order from the cabinet dated 19 August 1842, which specified the building site on the west side of the parade ground in Tiergarten, and laid out the conditions: Kroll was able to use the property without charge, but he would have to return the land and demolish any structures he had built if the project failed.
The parade ground, which had stood since 1730, was outside of the city just to the north west of the Brandenburg Gate. It had long degenerated into a sandy field, and the Berliners therefore derisively called it the "Sahara". Every step on the sandy ground would kick up a cloud of dust on the square. When it rained, the soil would turn into a mass of dirty mud. Yet Kroll took solace in the fact that the greenery of the Tiergarten lay just beyond the property.
The plans for the new building came from the court architect Ludwig Persius (1803-1845), which was a good indicator of the significance that the project had for Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
After a construction period of only ten months, Kroll's enterprise opened on 15 February 1844. Forty waiters were to serve up to five thousand guests in the three halls (the main hall, also referred to as the King's Hall, and two smaller halls), thirteen boxes for at least thirteen people each, and fourteen large rooms (for smaller parties). Sixty musicians provided entertainment. The "Tunnel" was a special attraction and praised as a novelty for Berlin – a hall where one could smoke! A technical innovation was the newly implemented gas lighting, which "consisted of 400 flames".
During the first year Kroll had satisfactory results. The main attractions were the large exhibitions, concerts and balls, which took place around lavishly constructed stage sets. Yet despite its uniqueness in Germany, as noted by the critics, the enterprise became increasingly difficult to sustain. On 15 April 1848, on his deathbed, Kroll regretted that his King had once had breakfast with him."1
1848-1894 Between success and decline
"Kroll's successor was his eldest daughter, Auguste. The "National People's Garden" was opened as soon as May 1848 as part of an expansion. Great attractions were offered first in the garden and later in the great hall, such as performances with wild animals by their tamers and an extensive trade fair (1849). In 1850 Kroll established a permanent summer theatre with open-air performances of operas and other events. Here, among others, Albert Lortzing (1808-1851) directed the first showing of his operas "Undine", "The Armourer" and "The Czar and the Carpenter".
The operation of the new Theatre and Opera Company was suddenly disrupted on 1 February 1851, when the curtains were accidentally set on fire while lamps were being lit. But Auguste Kroll didn't let that stop her, and on 24 February 1852, the theatre already reopened in a completely new building. About a year later, Auguste Kroll married the Hungarian violinist, conductor and businessman Jakob Engel. This successfully expanded the "Kroll Opera Pool" and brought many new comic operas to the stage. But he could not prevent the business from closing its doors on 1 April 1855. Despite all efforts, the earnings were far beneath the costs of operation.
One of the creditors, the entrepreneur Heinrich Bergmann, took over the operation and brought in such luminaries as Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) for one of his first guest appearances in Berlin. In 1862 the "Kroll" was forced into auction, which enabled Jakob Engel to buy it back. Although the company was still weighed down by debt, Engel was beaming with optimism, and attempted to bring the Berliners back into his establishment in droves with a diverse program – albeit only with moderate success. Engel's attempts to sell failed because of the Prussian tax authority and the mortgage that weighed down the business. In addition, the parade ground was renamed "Königsplatz" (King's Square") by 18 December 1864, the gardens were redone, and later plans were made for a series of monuments to honour the Prussian victories from 1864-71. In September 1873 the Victory Column was unveiled in the middle of Königsplatz, while at the same time a long discussion took place at the Reichstag about whether to tear down the Kroll establishment and build a new Reichstag structure in its place. Only in 1876 did these proposals, which were so detrimental to any future investments, get tossed out, so that Jakob Engle was able to proceed with the modernization and improvement of his establishment. In 1885 – the first time in Berlin – the old gas lighting was therefore replaced by the "Edison system" of electric lighting. Two years later, Engel was also able to secure a contract extension for another forty years, but he ran out of time to implement his plans. He died unexpectedly from a stroke on 28 June 1888. His son tried to continue his work, but the "lack of interest from the Berlin public" for the Kroll stage's artistic presentation forced him to sell in 1894." [Reichhardt Hans J., (October 1988). "Bei Kroll 1844 BIS 1957", Landesarchiv Berlin, KalekreuthstraBe 1-2, Berlin 30, ISBN 3-88747-048-6. Page ?]
1895-1957: Decline, seat of the Reichstag, and destruction
In 1924 the building was renamed the State Opera at the Platz der Republik, but was always better known as the Kroll Opera House. During the 1920s its resident conductor was Otto Klemperer. The Kroll Opera House saw the world premières of Paul Hindemith's "Neues vom Tage" in 1929 and Arnold Schönberg's "Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene" in 1930.
After the Reichstag fire in 1933 severely damaged the Reichstag building, the Krolloper became the seat of the Reichstag, by then under the control of the Nazi Party. It was chosen both because of its convenient location and for its seating capacity. On 23 March 1933, the Reichstag session in the Kroll Opera House passed the "Enabling Act" that gave Adolf Hitler virtually unlimited power. The Krolloper was used for sittings of the Reichstag throughout the Nazi regime, and was the site of Hitler's set piece speeches. It was here that Hitler made his "prophesy" speech of 30 January 1939 in which he said that "if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."
The last session of the Reichstag was held in the Kroll Opera House on 26 April 1943, passing a decree allowing Hitler to override the judiciary and administration in all matters.
The building was destroyed by Allied bombing on 22 November 1943. The ruins were demolished in 1951.
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Is there an official record of the pilot with the most logged flight time?
We often hear about pilots with 10 or even 20 thousands hours. So I was wondering how much higher this number can go. Do we know which pilot has the most logged time? Is there any official number?
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$\begingroup$ Most airline pilots I know have about 25,000 hours when they retire. I have been flying for 43 years and currently have just over 23,000 hours. $\endgroup$ – Mike Sowsun Jun 22 '17 at 21:31
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Edward "Ed" Long, Jr
John Edward "Ed" Long, Jr. (1915–July 18, 1999) was an American pilot who is in the Guinness Book of Records for the most flight time by a pilot: over 65,000 hours (more than seven years and four months) at the time of his death.
He began in 1933 at the age of 17, when he took his first and only flying lesson. In September 1989, he broke the previous record, 52,929 hours, set by Max Conrad in 1974. According to his brother, Ed Long's job involved checking power lines, so "most of that was under 200 feet, in a Piper Cub".He died in 1999 at the age of 83.*
Mike SowsunMike Sowsun
$\begingroup$ This brings up the fact that it is really hard to compare what "hour" means. Some pilots, like this one, spend every minute with their hand on the stick, while a commercial pilot on an overseas flight even goes to sleep (and, on the other hand, probably spends more time preparing the flight). $\endgroup$ – Martin Argerami Jun 23 '17 at 13:17
$\begingroup$ That is a good point. Some pilots, airlines, and jurisdictions, may not log flight time while on a break, while others do. $\endgroup$ – Mike Sowsun Jun 23 '17 at 14:35
$\begingroup$ Aerial Patrol sounds about right for setting this record. I flew with a guy that has flown aerial patrol part time for the last 25 years and has averaged over 1000 hrs per year. $\endgroup$ – J Walters Jun 23 '17 at 17:39
$\begingroup$ +1. Adding some dose of irony... In addition of being in the same book than Most-Socks-Put-On-A-Foot-in-One-Minute (Silvio Sabba from Italy) and The-Fastest-Ice-Cream-Scooper (Mitch Cohen, from Flushing, Queens), J. Long is also honored by the Smithsonian museum of Washington which emphasizes that "most of those hours were hand-flown, single-pilot, stick-and-rudder hours flown at about 100 feet above the ground." Not exactly the same than flying a 2017 aircraft. $\endgroup$ – mins Jun 27 '17 at 20:33
The question is looking for an "official" record.
The answer is NO. Nobody tracks this for all pilots.
Skip MillerSkip Miller
$\begingroup$ Do you not accept the Guinness World Records as "Official"? They list John Edward "Ed" Long, Jr. as the record holder with 65,000 hours at the time of his death. $\endgroup$ – Mike Sowsun Mar 3 '19 at 22:58
$\begingroup$ Mike, no record should be considered 'official' unless it is independently verifiable. Since pilots are not required to report their flight times to anyone, we are left with accepting what the pilot says it is. It may sell some books for Guinness... and it may be very entertaining reading... but since there is no verifiable source data, I don't consider the result 'official'. But maybe that is just me... $\endgroup$ – Skip Miller Mar 15 '19 at 21:50
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London! We're excited to announce the launch of Dominique Ansel Treehouse, a new bistro and bakery opening on the heart of Covent Garden in February 2020.
This brand new concept will feature a menu that celebrates and showcases the pastry foundations and artisanal techniques that pastry chefs do best – from flaky puff pastry to delicate handmade pasta, short crusts for pies and tarts, fresh-baked breads, and more. Chef Dominique looked to the pastry kitchen and the techniques that he and his fellow pastry chefs have honed and worked on perfecting for years, and how that could translate into a savoury menu and bistro setting. It's these building blocks of pastry that set the foundation for Dominique Ansel Treehouse.
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Set within a stunning two-storey space on Covent Garden's quaint Floral Street, the modern treehouse design is inspired by exploration and imagination. The ground floor will comprise a takeaway bakery boutique offering plenty of desserts and pastries, Chef Dominique's first-ever bread program with fresh-baked breads made daily, classic French viennoiserie and tarts, while the cosy seated bistro will be located in the "treetop canopy" on the upper floor.
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Vietnam and Switzerland promote job security
Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), in collaboration with the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) organised a dialogue on labour and experience sharing to promote job security between Vietnam and Switzerland on October 26.
At the dialogue, MOLISA Deputy Minister Le Van Thanh said that diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Switzerland have made significant progress in all fields over the past 50 years. Cooperation in labour, employment and social security has also received special attention since the two ministries established cooperative ties in 2011.
MOLISA wants to continue promoting bilateral collaboration in employment through existing effective cooperation mechanisms, and looking for more cooperation opportunities in the future, Deputy Minister Le Van Thanh added.
MOLISA Deputy Minister Le Van Thanh had a speech at the dialogue
Ambassador Valérie Berset Bircher at SECO said that in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, employment-related issues have become a common concern between the two ministries in particular and between Vietnam and Switzerland in general.
The dialogue was an opportunity for the two ministries to discuss issues related to the labour market, job generation and maintenance, as well as effective models and solutions to restore the labour market towards ensuring employment and social security for employees after COVID-19.
Delegates shared information about unemployment insurance policies in response to COVID-19. In the coming time, Vietnam and Switzerland will cooperate more closely in labour and employment through traditional projects such as SCORE, BETTER WORK, and especially policy cooperation with the project on labour productivity ecosystem towards decent work for the 2022-2024 period.
Within the framework of the dialogue, the two sides discussed future cooperation orientations with a focus on partnership in the fields of labour and employment, and meetings on the sidelines of the Annual Meeting of the International Labour Organisation.
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Florida Tribe Re-Creates Daring Escape From The Trail Of Tears
By Greg Allen
Willie Johns holds a photo of Polly Parker, his great-grandmother.
This week, a group of Seminole Indians in Florida is commemorating an important historical event — when a Seminole named Polly Parker organized and led an escape from federal troops more than 150 years ago.
It came at a time when Indians were being deported to the West in what became known as the Trail of Tears. Florida's Seminoles call themselves the "unconquered people" because, through three wars with federal troops, they resisted deportation to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi.
In 1858, at the end of the third Seminole War, Parker was one of a group of Indians held at a federal stockade on Egmont Key, an island in the middle of Tampa Bay.
On Sunday, a small group of Seminoles began a re-creation of Parker's journey. They went first to Egmont Key, where there's a lighthouse and Indian graves — a legacy of the years Seminoles were held there.
History from that time is sketchy, but the island is where the Seminole leader Billy Bowlegs, who led the last uprising against the federal troops, was held. Eventually, along with more than 100 warriors, women and children, he was deported to the West.
It's a story that Willie Johns says is still painful to his people.
"It's kind of like our Holocaust. Our people were held captive here because of a war that was going," says Johns, a community outreach specialist and an informal tribal historian. "It was against the law in those days after 1830 that Native people be east of the Mississippi."
Johns says when the time came for Parker to be deported, she and other Seminoles boarded a ship that would take them west. But when the boat stopped on the Panhandle, she sneaked away. Johns says she traveled through hundreds of miles of wilderness back to tribal lands near Lake Okeechobee.
"When she made her escape, there were like five or six ... other people with her who made that escape, so she's a big part of our community," he says.
At Sunday's kickoff event, Johns and the other Seminoles were greeted at Egmont Key by Florida officials who oversee the state park and nature preserve there. Along with the lighthouse, there's a small museum on the island.
Johns brought along a portrait of Parker to hang in the museum. It's one that he knows very well — a color-tinted photograph of Parker in traditional Seminole garb, wearing perhaps two dozen strings of beads.
"I've seen this picture all my life in Okeechobee on the wall at [a local] hardware store. And they always said, 'That's your great-grandma,' " he says.
Parker lived many more years in South Florida after her escape. She died in 1921. For Seminoles today, her most important legacy is her descendants.
"Her progeny became many of the leaders and medicine people and important figures in the history of the tribe ever since," says Peter Gallagher, who worked with Seminole Chief Jim Billie to organize the commemoration. "The chairman realized that one day when we were talking about it, and he said, 'What kind of tribe would we have if his lady had been either killed or deported to Oklahoma?' "
The Seminoles were continuing their re-creation of Parker's journey on Monday in St. Marks, the Panhandle town where 155 years ago, she made her escape, helping form the modern Seminole tribe.
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With such a young founder, Emily Weiss behind the wheel, whose success began with a career at Vogue before launching the popular blog Into the Gloss, Glossier was always going to do well. What the brand shows us is, that not only do you need products that work, but now we want a brand that has personality too. With so many options out there to choose from, we need a little more than just a good lip balm, we want a brand we believe in.
With millennial pink packaging, it already looked the part but it's Glossier's customer service (dubbed the gTeam) that has won it such a devoted fan base. High engagement on Twitter as well as frequently re-sharing customer images and tweets across social media has created a strong relationship with customers. Ideas and innovative ways of using products are recognised and celebrated across their channels, making the consumer feel involved. Ultimately it's because the company know that their customer's interactions online are what really help to sell their products.
I wanted to write this piece because a friend of mine came home recently to find her dog Bailey had chewed up her Glossier Boy Brow, a modern day tragedy. After my friend tweeted this (like any millennial worth their salt) Glossier responded by giving her €5 off her next Boy Brow purchase! Only a brand that re-tweets memes would be able to relate make-up and dogs in such a way, and they do this without customer service scripts and by just by having warm and personalised conversations with customers.
It's not just reimbursing people for their destructive dogs that people love about the brand, but also how they love any original ways in which their products are used. One, in particular, is the brainwave of hole punching the top of a Balm-Dot-Com so it could attach to keys. They re-tweeted it, and had thousands of responses of others doing the same (myself included).
Possibly the most shared image of all is pictures of sunsets online tagged as 'Glossier sunsets'. They mirror the colours and textures of their famous Cloud Paint blushers, thus resulting in them creating a billboard-sized ad of a 'Glossier sunset' taking inspiration from their customers Instagram feeds, you can't get more engaged with your audience than that can you?
With the brand's popularity showing no signs of slowing down, we really hope they can keep this unique and friendly voice, as this is partly what makes them feel so modern and of the moment. But in the meantime do try and keep your fluffy friends away from your boy brow, ok?


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Q: Swift - Optional Binding doesn't show UIAlertController I have created a helper function to check the values of NSUserDefaults by using optional binding. I want to use this function to confirm values exist before executing any code in an IBAction.
    func checkProfile() {
    //optional binding to confirm that some strings (even empty string values), have been saved to user defaults. Will not face error when unwrapping the optionals on webView or MFMailComposer. Checking Title, FirstName, SecondName

    if let titleString: String = userDefaults.stringForKey("title") {
        //confirmed that there is a string value for titleString
        println("there is a string value for titleString \(titleString)")

        if let firstNameString: String = userDefaults.stringForKey("firstName") {
            //confirmed that there is a string value for firstName

            if let secondNameString: String = userDefaults.stringForKey("secondName") {
                //confirmed that there is a string value for secondName

            } else {
                //secondNameString missing, show alert
                var alert: UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title: "Profile data incomplete", message: "Please provide your 'Profile' data to continue.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
                    alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: {
                    //"action in" casts this closure as a type of UIAlertAction which is required by the addAction property.
                    action in self.navigationController?.popToRootViewControllerAnimated(true)
                    //"return" provides the -> Void return type, as not including would return a type of closure (above)
                    return
                }))
                self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
            }
        } else {
            //FirstNameString missing, show alert
            var alert: UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title: "Profile data incomplete", message: "Please provide your 'Profile' data to continue.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
            alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: {
                //"action in" casts this closure as a type of UIAlertAction which is required by the addAction property.
                action in self.navigationController?.popToRootViewControllerAnimated(true)
                //"return" provides the -> Void return type, as not including would return a type of closure (above)
                return
            }))
            self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
    } else {
        //titleString missing, show alert
        var alert: UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title: "Profile data incomplete", message: "Please provide your 'Profile' data to continue.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: {
            //"action in" casts this closure as a type of UIAlertAction which is required by the addAction property.
            action in self.navigationController?.popToRootViewControllerAnimated(true)
            //"return" provides the -> Void return type, as not including would return a type of closure (above)
            return
        }))
        self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

As you can see, it's a fairly straight forward check for 3 stored string values, that return a UIAlertController if any of them are missing.
When implementing this function at the beginning of an IBAction (user clicks on a button), it exhibits some strange behaviour.
Depending on an unrelated value stored in NSUserDefaults, the IBAction will either perform a segue to another ViewController; or it will implement an instance of another class, and perform a function that will generate a PDF file.
When the value is set so that the IBAction will eventually perform the segue, I can see that the optional binding works as expected and returns the UIAlertView if one of the 3 stored values = nil (prior to performing the segue).
However, when it is set so that the PDF will be generated, it seem's to ignore the checkProfile() function completely. (will not even println to console at any point).
This is resulting in a run-time error later as I find nil when unwrapping the optional value I am wanting check in checkProfile() - Are there any reasons why this function will run correctly prior to performing a segue, but not before implementing a class instance? I see no logical reason for this behaviour at the moment.
Thanks
EDIT
Here is the IBAction where the function is getting called:
@IBAction func claimButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject){
//Saves more values to userDefaualts
userDefaults.setObject(dateOfJourneyTextField.text, forKey: "dateOfJourney")

checkTickets()
checkProfile()

//if function to check the ticket type
if userDefaults.stringForKey("ticketType") != "Annual" {
    //calls the function to create the PDF prior to attempting to load the Mail Composer View where it will be an attachment
    let composePaperClaim = ComposePaperClaim()
    composePaperClaim.generatePDF(self)

    //loads MFMailComposeViewContoller...

} else {
    //Does not require PDF, perform Segue to take to the WebView
    performSegueWithIdentifier("showWebViewSegue", sender: self)
}

}
It is in the call to composePaperClaim.generatePDF(self) when I see the error as this tries to unwrap userDefaults.stringForKey("title")! which I had tried to establish already had a value through optional binding.

A: You're calling this checkProfile() function but doing nothing with the result. That function should be returning a boolean or something to prevent the calling function from proceeding any further. What you're going to get is a mess of pushed view controllers on top of presented view controllers and then into some strange state.
At the moment you'll be calling that PDF generation function whatever happens in your checkProfile, as long as the type isn't annual. This presumably presents another view controller on top of the alert, which you don't see, and then you're probably assuming a value is present in one of the things you're checking for in the checkProfile function.


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Ethical Investment
The new European fund structure for social business
JAMES CAMPBELL, SHEARMAN & STERLING LLP
Originally published in the February 2013 issue
The European Parliament is due to vote upon the draft Regulation on European Social Entrepreneurship Funds on 12 March 2013. The Regulation proposes to create a new EU-wide investment fund framework for investment in "social businesses", which aims to address obstacles – both regulatory and practical – to investors wishing to invest in social businesses, and to social businesses who need investment to grow. EU members are keen to capitalise on the ability of social businesses to contribute to social cohesion, employment and to reducing social inequalities.
Social business (SB) refers to the wide class of undertakings who aim to achieve social objectives as their primary purpose. SBs may take a variety of legal forms, including limited company and charity, and operate in areas such as access to housing, healthcare, assistance for the disabled and access to employment and training. An example of a SB might include, for example, a company which relies on a range of income sources including sales of products and grants to provide work-based training for youth in an area of high unemployment. Theability of SBs to distribute some profits – albeit secondarily to their primary objective – coupled with rapid growth of the sector in recent years has led many investment funds to identify SBs as a target for investment.
The regulatory environment, however, has long been described as unfit for the needs of SBs and investors. Firstly, investors who wish to raise cross-border finance must negotiate complex and inconsistent national rules on private placements. Secondly, existing fund structures do not take into account the unique characteristics of SBs. For example, most SBs are unlisted and many funds, such as funds designated under the Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) regime, are restricted to a relatively limited investment in non-listed shares. Further, existing fund structures often come attached with onerous requirements with respect to diversification and eligibility of assets which were not drafted with SBs in mind. Thirdly, confusion in the market as to what a SB is, and how to separate it from other businesses, has undermined confidence and inhibited investment in the sector.
The Regulation – creating a bespoke financial regulatory framework for SBs – appears to tackle these issues directly.
The Regulation creates a voluntary regulatory regime for fund managers who choose to market funds investing in SBs, under the European Social Entrepreneurship Fund (ESEF) label. To qualify for the regime, ESEF managers must have less than €500 million of ESEF-qualifying funds under management, and may market ESEFs across the EU to sophisticated investors who are either "professional investors", or who otherwise commit to invest a minimum of €100,000. ESEFs are defined in the Regulation as collective investment undertakings which invest at least 70% of their aggregate capital contributions and uncalled capital in "qualifying investments". The key type of qualifying investment is an equity instrument, such as a share, that is issued by, or in limited circumstances on behalf of, a qualifying portfolio undertaking. Qualifying portfolio undertakings – which may be read to mean "social businesses" – are non-listed undertakings which have an annual turnover of no more than €50 million or an annual balance sheet total of no more than €43 million, and whose primary objective is to achieve measurable, positive social impacts.
ESEF managers may not increase the exposure of the ESEF and may not borrow, issue debt obligations, provide guarantees or engage in derivative positions at the level of the fund. For defined short-term liquidity purposes, a carefully circumscribed exception exists for non-renewable borrowings of no longer than 120 calendar days. ESEFs are supervised by competent authorities of the member states in which they are based – in the UK, this will be the new Financial Conduct Authority – with oversight by the European Securities and Markets Authority. Once the ESEF is registered at member state level, the registration is valid for the entire EU and the manager may market the fund immediately.
Firstly, the absence of a list of specified "social business" or detailed criteria, save that they must have a "positive social impact" is to be welcomed. An inclusive approach is necessary to capture the variety of social business at both national and local level. Subjectivity as to what constitutes a "positive" social business is tempered by the requirement that the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU must be respected – an avowedly "anti-immigration" charity which seeks to market itself as a SB would not be able to gain the benefit of ESEF designation.
Secondly, eligibility requirements for managers (such as the €500 million cap on investment in ESEF assets), investors (who must be either professional investors or have more than €100,000 to commit), and SBs (who must have a €50 million annual turnover or less) – while arguably sufficient for the vast majority of SBs which resemble small and medium enterprises – may not adequately take into account expectations for growth in the sector and a need for bigger investment in the future.
Thirdly, the creation of a trusted brand is central to the Commission's objectives. There is a danger that this may be undermined by marketplace confusion caused by the unquestionably high 30% element of the ESEF portfolio which may be applied to another, non-SB, purpose. However, various requirements for reporting achievement of social objectives on an ongoing basis, such as in the annual report, may – subject to appropriate enforcement of the Regulation by national regulators – successfully mitigate this risk.
Finally, the proposals allow investors to extract some profits from the ESEF – albeit in a way which is consistent with the primary social objective. There are, however, few rules as to how this is achieved. The main principle is that, where profits are distributed to shareholders, "pre-defined procedures and rules" are agreed. Investors must not misinterpret the spirit of the legislation by imposing onerous investment terms on SBs – the spirit of the primary social objective will need to be complied with.
Notwithstanding the risks outlined above, it is clear that the Regulation goes a long way towards creating a distinct investment brand for SBs. Despite initial compliance costs, fund managers will benefit from easier marketability of SB-focused funds. Crucially, the Regulation is not mandatory – if the requirements do not suit, fund managers may choose an alternative regime. As noted above, the state has an interest in promoting investment in SBs – the Recitals to the Regulation note the ability of SBs to offer "innovative solutions to social problems". Fund managers will hope that the existence of a tailored regulatory framework for SBs may influence the choices of investors who would not otherwise consider SB investment. At the very least, SBs will welcome the potential for a leveling of the playing field with more traditional business structures as more sources of funding become available.
James Campbell is an Associate in the Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory Team at Shearman & Sterling LLP.


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Policies are documents which define the operations of APSA and can be changed by the Board of Directors. This gives the board the flexibility and opportunity to have organizational practices that are important to APSA members that can be modified when the need arises. This is often referred to as "governing by policy" and includes:
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Судома () река је на западу европског дела Руске Федерације. Протиче преко територије Бежаничког и Дедовичког рејона на истоку Псковске области. Лева је притока реке Шелоњ у коју се улива на 178 километру, те део басена реке Неве и Балтичког мора.

Настаје у источним деловима Судомског побрђа као отока маленог глацијалног Наверешког језера. Укупна површина сливног подручја је 480 km², док је дужина водотока 65 km. Ширина корита ретко прелази 20 метара, док су максималне дубине до једног метра.

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 Псковска област
 Дедовички рејон
 Шелоњ

Референце

Спољашње везе

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Photos from the Childrens Day activities.
These are our tuition students who participated in games, competitions and fun activities for Children's Day. Each group had prepared a special presentation also--dance, song or poem.
Looks like a fund day out for all.


With a title like 'Yarn: The Movie', it is not difficult to discern what Compass Films' latest documentary is going to be about. So let's start with what it is not about. 'Yarn' is not a historical piece. The filmmakers came up with the idea during a discussion over "what would be the next 'trend,'" director Una Lorenzen explains. 'Yarn' is not territorial. The film focuses on four artists, was shot in eleven countries and has had screenings in eight countries, so far. And finally, 'Yarn' not a film about your grandmother's inspiring doily collection. The film is steeped in pressing social issues, especially regarding femininity and the role of females in the art world.
Read the full article, with insight from the director and co-producers, here.
Yarn premiers at Bío Paradís at 18:00 September 8. It will run until September 13.
Next: Uncommon Threads: What's the connection between needlework and revolution?


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Driverless Car Pulled Over By Cops Flee Scene To 'Safe Location'
San Francisco police found themselves in a pickle when they stopped a Cruise autonomous Chevrolet Bolt EVs for not having its headlight on, only for one of them to scream "There ain't nobody in it" as the vehicle drove off.
In the incident, captured on film, an officer remarks that there "ain't nobody in it" before the car took off to what Cruise said was a safer location.
The company said the headlights issue was a result of human error. https://twitter.com/llsethj/status/1512960943805841410
Cruise, which is owned by General Motors and develops self-driving technology, has been testing autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the US.
Earlier this year it started allowing members of the public who join a waiting list to hail free night-time rides.
Cruise tweeted: "Our AV yielded to the police vehicle, then pulled over to the nearest safe location, as intended. An officer contacted Cruise personnel and no citation was issued."
The company has produced a YouTube video for law-enforcement and other "first responders", setting out how they should interact with AVs.
It says in the video that the vehicles have microphones that can identify the sounds of sirens. The "AV can detect lights and sirens so it will come to a stop".
The video explains that officers should call a dedicated phone number to reach the company's "escalation team" before approaching a vehicle.
"For example, the escalation team can do a number of tasks remotely, including unlocking the vehicle… and ensuring that the vehicle remains in a safe stationary position."


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Ian Lake (Nacido el 9 de marzo de 1982 en San Cristóbal y Nieves), es un futbolista profesional e internacional con la selección absoluta de su país, se desempeña en el terreno de juego como delantero y su actual equipo es el CRKSV Jong Holland equipo que participa en la Liga de Curazao Primera División.

Trayectoria
 Newtown United  1998-2004

 Sabah FA  2004-2005

 Tobago United  2005-2006

 Newtown United  2007-2013

 CRKSV Jong Holland  2013-Presente

Enlaces externos
En inglés:
 National Football Teams

Lake, Ian


Ruth Taylor's training as a textile designer has been an influence and is evident in her work. Ruth's paintings are inspired as much by a love of colour and texture as by the English countryside, the moors and estuaries as well as the South Downs landscape of her childhood.
She loads the canvas or board with paint, moving it around with brushes, combs, and even her hands, looking to capture a particular light or the effect of the weather and the seasons on the land.
Whether they may be small intimate works or large canvasses, each painting for Ruth must be complete in itself with its own specific title.


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package com.transloadit.sdk;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Base class for objects that use steps and send options to Transloadit.
 */
public class OptionsBuilder {
    protected Transloadit transloadit;
    protected Steps steps;
    protected Map<String, Object> options;

    /**
     * Adds a step to the steps.
     *
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     * @param options {@link Map} extra options required for the step.
     */
    public void addStep(String name, String robot, Map<String, Object> options){
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    }

    /**
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    }

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        this.options.putAll(options);
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     *
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     */
    public void addOption(String key, Object value) {
        this.options.put(key, value);
    }

    /**
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     *
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     */
    public Transloadit getClient() {
        return transloadit;
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Q: Parsing string from nested brackets I have a string with the following format
[KEY=VALUE, KEY2=VALUE, KEY3=VALUE, KEY4=VALUE_COMPLEX_CHARS, KEY={KEY=VALUE, COLLECTION[KEY][KEY]=VLAUE, COLLECTION[KEY][KEY][KEY]=VALUE}, KEY=VALUE] [TEXT] [CAN BE TEXT OR KEY=VAL]

And I want to parse it using Python, mapping it into dictionary or a list.
I'm able to parse it with the following code:
lst1 = [x[0] or x[1] for x in re.findall(r'\[(.*?)\]|\((.*?)\)', str)]
print(lst1[0])

But the problem is that the code above will break if the string contains nested brackets like the above one. It works normally when the input is simple:
[KEY1=VALUE, KEY2=VALUE, KEY=VALUE, KEY=VALUE_COMPLEX_CHARS KEY=VALUE] [TEXT] [CAN BE TEXT OR KEY=VAL]

The out put is a list contains everything between each bracket
list[0] = [...]
list[1] = [...]

Please help the code above so it can parse complex string with nested brackets.
Thank you very much for your help.

A: I don't think this is exactly what you're looking for, but this shows how to handle nested structures like this.
s = "[KEY=VALUE, KEY2=VALUE, KEY3=VALUE, KEY4=VALUE_COMPLEX_CHARS, KEY={KEY=VALUE, COLLECTION[KEY][KEY]=VLAUE, COLLECTION[KEY][KEY][KEY]=VALUE}, KEY=VALUE] [TEXT] [CAN BE TEXT OR KEY=VAL]"

def parse(s):
    accum = []
    last = ''
    key = ''
    nested = 0
    while s:
        c = s.pop(0)
        if c in '[{':
            if last:
                last += c
                nested += 1
            else:
                accum.append( parse(s) )
        elif c == ' ' and not last:
            continue
        elif c == '=':
            key = last
            last = ''
        elif c == ',':
            if key:
                accum.append( (key, last) )
            else:
                accum.append( last )
            key = ''
            last = ''
        elif c in ']}':
            if nested:
                last += c
                nested -= 1
            elif key:
                accum.append( (key, last) )
            elif last:
                accum.append( last )
            return accum
        else:
            last += c
    return accum

s = list(s)
accum = []
while s:
    accum.extend(parse(s))

print(accum)

Output:
[[('KEY', 'VALUE'), ('KEY2', 'VALUE'), ('KEY3', 'VALUE'), ('KEY4', 'VALUE_COMPLEX_CHARS'), [('KEY', 'VALUE')], ['KEY'], 'VLAUE'], ['KEY'], ['KEY'], 'VALUE', '', ('KEY', 'VALUE'), ['TEXT'], [('CAN BE TEXT OR KEY', 'VAL')]]


Purandar Fort | Trek, Images & Information!
Purandar fort is one of the important hill forts in Maharashtra. It is located near Pune & is popular with trekkers. Fort information, trekking route and images are given in this article.
Location: 1.5 kms west to Saswad, Pune district, Maharashtra.
Purandar fort is one of the prominent forts in Maharashtra. This popular fort is situated closed to Saswad near Pune. This fort was and still a very strong hill fort ever built. This fort has witnessed important events in the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. He won this strong fort only at the age of 15. Birth of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj (Son of Shivaji Maharaj) took place in this fort. This was the place where the loyal commander of Maratha Empire- Murar Baji Deshpande took his last breath while protecting his great king.
The fort is located at a height of 4472 feet above mean sea level. There are two routes from base to reach the top of the fort. One of them will take you to the Sar Darwaja. Another route is 100 meters long secret doorway to the north side of the Purandar fort. It is situated on the same mountain range of the Sinhgad fort. Purandar and Vajragad stand on the Indranil mountain. Nowadays, National Cadet Corps Academy has their base at this fort. Paragliding is frequently performed by the army from here.
The location of the Purandar fort is very unique. It is elevated very high amidst the great Sahyadri Mountain Range. The height of the highest peak of this fort is 1475 meters. Trekking to this fort gives an unforgettable experience. One can see beautiful views of the nearby Sahyadri mountain range while trekking. Peaks of Torna, Sinhagad, Rajgad & Raireshwar can be spotted from Purandar.
Trek Difficulty Level: Trek to Puranadr from Narayanpur has a medium difficulty level. About 3 hours are required to reach up to the top from Narayanpur. A good motorable path is present till Purandeshwar temple which is halfway to the fort (from there it takes about 45 minutes to reach atop). Hikers can also start trekking from the base village. Villagers allow parking vehicles nearby their homes.
Purandar fort is one of the oldest fort ever built in Maharashtra. The fort was built during Yadav era and handed over to many other rulers. Before Maratha kingdom, this fort was ruled by Bahamani, Nizamshahi, Adilshahi rulers. Now, the Indian army has a strong army base stationed at this fort.
The Bahmani King-Hasan Gangu first fortified Purandar fort in 1350 AD. During its early times, the used to control directly by the concerned government authorities instead of estate holders (Jahagirdar in Marathi) of that region. During the times of Bedar kings between 1347 to 1490, this fort was surrounded by enemies many times. So to prevent the defeat, a man and a woman were buried alive under one of the bastions of the fort. It is believed that this act was done to satisfy their god.
Bahamani Sultans strengthened the fort in the 14th century by constructing bastions & walls. Nizamshahi rulers had control over this fort for about 100 years from 1484 AD. Later in 1596 AD, the fort was awarded as Jahagir (Estate) to Maloji Bhosale, who was the grandfather of Shivaji Maharaj. Maratha Empire had this fort till 1646 AD. However, in 1665 AD, Mughal won Purandar fort under the command of Jai Singh and Dilir Khan. In this historical fight between Marathas & Mughals, the brave commander of Marathas- Murar Baji Deshpande was assassinated. He did not surrender the fort to Mughals till his last breath. But in the end, the fort to surrender in order to protect the people in the fort.
Purandar fort is built on the Indranil Mountain. According to Hindu legends, this mountain was generated when Lord Hanuman was carrying the Dronagiri mountain and some part of that range fall down from his hand. The construction of this for was gigantic. It was well designed and strongly built fort. The fort has many bastions (buruz) and gates (Darwaja). Hatti buruz, Konknya buruz, Shendri buruz, Nishana buruz and Fatteh buruz are the worth seeing spots on the fort.
All these buruz played a vital role in the defense of the fort. Konknya buruz was used to imprison the criminals. The Sar darwaja is next gate followed by the Bini Darwaja. Kedar darwaja is situated south of the Fatteh buruz. After that, Dilli Darwaza is situated at the at the eastern end of the fort. Purandar fort has many reservoirs for the supply of water. There are about 50 small and large water reservoirs on the fort. Various temples of Lord Kedareshwar, Ganesh, Mhasoba, Hanuman & Narayan are there on the fort. Temples of goddess Laxmi and Padmavati are also present on the fort.
This fort is among the highest forts in Maharashtra. Purandar fort is divided into 2 levels: Ballekilla (Upper Part) and Machi (Lower Part). The lower part of the fort has a plain portion of about 300 meters. Several abandoned monuments like bungalows, churches & military structures are there on the north side of the lower part. The sculptures of 2 lions on each side are carved northern gate of the fort.
Best Time To Visit: June to February is an ideal time to visit this fort. Visit during summers makes you exhausted due to high temperature. There are no facilities to take rest except under few trees.
How To Reach: Tourists can take personal or hired vehicles from Pune till base village (Narayanpur) of the fort. There is an east trek path from a base village up to the fort top. You can reach Narayanpur by taking a road to Saswad via Hadapsar.
By Train: Pune railway station is the convenient railhead to reach the fort. Pune is well connected to all important cities in Maharashtra. Cabs & other hired vehicles are also easily available from Pune till the fort.
By Road: Purandar is located 40 kms south of Pune by National Highway-4. Buses are available from Pune to These buses stop at the base of the Purandar fort. You can also reach Narayanpur village via Saswad-Bhor route.
By Air: Nearest airport to this fort is situated in Pune city.
Eating Stuff: Carry your own food and sufficient amount of water with you. There are no hotels or eateries on the way to the fort. As the trek route is quite long (3 hours from the base village), you will definitely need more amount of water.
Stay: Trip to Purandar can be achieved in 1 day from Pune. As there are many varieties of hotels in Pune so staying in Pune is a good option. One can also stay in Saswad or Narayanpur.
Have you ever done any trek in Sahyadri mountain range? How was your experience?


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Melissa Foulger is the Artistic Director of DramaTech, Georgia Tech's student run theatre. Ms. Foulger has directed throughout the Atlanta area at theatres such as 7 Stages, Actor's Express, Theatre in the Square, Aurora Theatre, and Dad's Garage. Her productions of Wolves, Suddenly Last Summer and Far Away have garnered Top Director nods from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing and The Sunday Paper.
Her productions of Wolves, See What I Wanna See and Clybourne Park received a Suzi Award for Best World Premiere Production, Best Ensemble – Musical and Best Ensemble – Play, respectively. She was nominated for a Suzi Award for Best Director for Wolves at Actor's Express.
She has guest lectured on topics such as "Improvisation and Technology", "Theatre as a Form of Game", and "Ritual and Play" and is a member of the Digital Performance Initiative, which researches the intersection of performance with the latest technology.
Ms. Foulger attended The George Washington University where she received a B.A. in Theatre and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education. She also received an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Memphis. She was a recipient of the TCG New Generations Program: Mentoring the Leaders of Tomorrow from 2002-2004 and has participated in both La Mama ETC's International Directing Symposium held in Umbria, Italy and the Dah Teatar's International School for Directors and Actors held in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
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Computers are only as fast as their components, and one key component is about to get a serious shot of adrenaline.
Solid-state drives marked a huge step forward in device memory, capable of reading and writing data at speeds far greater than any disc-based hard drive. SSD technology still uses electronic chips to move data though, which introduces a number of factors that limit the speeds at which data can be transferred. A revolutionary new type of memory chip being developed by researchers at Oxford University and Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has completely eliminated those speed-limiting issues, and it could lead to storage solutions that outperform SSD drives by a staggering margin.
Photonic memory chips are not new. Researchers began working to create light-based storage chips decades ago, and some promising solutions have been developed over the years. The problem with all of these solutions, however, is that they have been volatile, requiring continuous electricity in order to function and store data. This obviously eliminates any possibility of using these solutions as a means of storing data permanently.
For the first time ever, a team of researchers claims to have developed a light-based memory chip that overcomes this substantial barrier.The team, led by Oxford's Harish Bhaskaran and Wolfram Pernice of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, used the same technology that enables rewritable CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs to create non-volatile photonic memory chips. The new solution uses waveguide technology to move light from lasers to and from a germanium, tellurium and antimony (GST) alloy nanocoating.
GST is the same material used in rewritable discs, and its structure is altered in predictable patterns when blasted by beams of light from a high-intensity laser. A second low-power laser can then read the patterns created by the GST and translate it as data. What's more, this solution is far more efficient than binary electronic storage; researchers have been able to store 8 bits of data in a single location.
"Implementing on-chip non-volatile photonic memories has been a long-term, yet elusive goal," the team said while discussing its paper that covers the new solution. "Photonic data storage would dramatically improve performance in existing computing architectures by reducing the latencies associated with electrical memories and potentially eliminating optoelectronic conversions. Furthermore, multi-level photonic memories with random access would allow for leveraging even greater computational capability. However, photonic memories have thus far been volatile. [Our solution demonstrates] a robust, non-volatile, all-photonic memory based on phase-change materials."
There are still some hurdles that must be overcome before a solution based on the team's technology reaches market. For one, their prototypes have thus far been hundreds of times larger than commercial memory chips. Bhaskaran and Pernice say the technology needed to commercialize their solution already exists though, and they also say that pairing their solution with photonic logic chips will lead to computers that are 100 times faster than currently available machines.
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Hello and welcome to another wonderful week at Our Creative Corner! Anne Marie Hile here as your hostess this week and I can't wait to share our challenge with you.
Before we get to that, each and every one of us at the OCC Design Team want to say a big thank you to everyone who participated in Irena's Butterfly Challenge last week. So many beautiful projects were shared. Don't forget to stop back and visit us on Wednesday, May 2nd to see who will take home the Top Talent Award for their beautiful butterfly creation.
A big "thank you" to everyone that graced our gallery with your beautiful cards for our "Our Boys and Their Toys " challenge. We had a total of 48 entries and .... was it tough to narrow it down to just one winner, but we did … and I am proud to announce that our Top Talent for this week is: LeAnne of 'Wee inklings'.
Fabulous, masculine card!! Great use of the colours! Excellent work.
I love the texture, embossing, I am sure your BIL will love it, too.
I am very impressed with this work.
Congratulations LeAnne on being our choice for Top Talent!
Feel free to take our badge to display on your blog!
It's not too late to still play along with this weeks challenge, Butterflies. We've seen some beautiful creations so far, and we'd love to see more! We'll be back on Saturday with a new challenge, so please come back again!
Hello! I am Irena "Rudlis" Kowalczyk, of Love Life and Crafts, and your hostess again this week. This week's challenge is based on this inspiration photo of "Butterflies". Make a project, card, or tag inspired by the photo. Then tell why you love butterflies.
In Your Easter Bonnet Winner!
Happy winner Wednesday everyone! I'm Marcy Kaminski, here again to announce the winner for last week's "In Your Easter Bonnet" challenge and take home the Top Talent Award! We appreciate all the amazing work from the entrants for this really fun challenge! LOTS of gorgeous frills and flowers and SO much inspiration. Thank you all for your creations!
Our winner is Daniele Haddon, who had a gorgeous card full of all the flowers, lace and pearls you would see on a beautiful Easter bonnet! SO vintagey and beautiful colors!
Congratulations Daniele, on being our choice for TOP TALENT! Feel free to take our badge to display on your blog!
Hi there and welcome to another fun weekly challenge here at Our Creative Corner! Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's 'In Your Easter Bonnet' challenge. So many wonderful entries were shared. Please stop by on Wednesday, April 18th to see who will take home the Top Talent Award for that challenge.
I'm Irena Kowalczyk aka Rudlis from "Love, life and crafts" and I am really excited to be your hostess this week. My challenge for you is a theme "Men's passion, hobby, interests ". Show us the hobby or interest of a man in your life – husband, father, son, brother or another male member of your family. Maybe he likes sports or cars or models. Make a paper craft project that depicts that passion – and be sure to explain what it is in your post write up.
Now let's see what interests the men in our design teams' lives have.
Happy winner's Wednesday everyone! I'm Marcy Kaminski, here to announce the winner for last week's "How Green is Your Spring" challenge and take home the Top Talent Award! We appreciate all the amazing work from the entrants for this really fun challenge! LOTS of green for Spring and SO much inspiration. Thank you all for your creations!
Our winner is Lin Brandyberry, whose amazing card was a standout, with gorgeous stamping, inking and fussy cutting while using a clean, crisp white and green color palette! So well deserved!
Congratulations Lin on being our choice for TOP TALENT! Feel free to take our badge to display on your blog!
Happy Easter weekend and welcome to another fun Saturday challenge here, at Our Creative Corner! My name is Marcy Kaminski from En Papillote Arts and I am really excited to be your hostess again this week.
I would like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge, "How Green is Your Spring." All the entries were amazingly creative!
My challenge for you this week, is to design a card/project that is inspired by a frilly Easter bonnet. Use elements that you would put onto your own bonnet, such as lace, flowers, pearls, etc. Please stop by on Wednesday, April 11th to see who will take home the Top Talent Award.
We also want to extend a BIG Our Creative Corner welcome this week to our Guest Designer, Lisa Minckler from You Made Me Ink! We are so excited to have her with us this week! Be sure to stop by and visit her blog to see all of her beautiful creations. Please take inspiration from our fabulous and talented Design Team who have really outdone themselves!


First conceived by Dieter Roth in the early 1980s, "the bar" is a dynamic and changing installation, and is a continuing element in the Roths' cross-generational practice. As a condition for him to exhibit with Hauser & Wirth, Dieter Roth insisted that a bar form part of his first show in 1997. Along with his son Björn, Dieter Roth installed the functional 'Bar 2′ (1983 – 1997) around the corner from the gallery in Fabrikstrasse in Zurich. Every beer bottle served became a part of the bar installation and visitors' conversations were recorded and archived. Nearly 20 years after this event, another bar—entitled "Roth Bar"—will now inhabit the gallery, bringing reality and art even closer together.
The bar, comprised of scavenged materials, embodies a central motif found throughout Dieter Roth's work. "Roth Bar" (2004 – 2013) was first unveiled in the exhibition "Dieter Roth: Lest / Train" at Reykjavik Art Museum in 2005, before continuing on to "Dieter Roth, Martin Kippenberger" at Hauser & Wirth Coppermill and, most recently, the bar was installed as part of "Dieter Roth Björn Roth. Islands" (HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy, 2013). The bar has gradually evolved during this period, as for each exhibition site-specific materials have been incorporated into the installation.
As both bar and studio were central concepts and locales for the work of Dieter Roth, the exhibition will also focus on "The Studio of Dieter and Björn Roth, Ackermannshof, Basel" (1995 – 2008). In this piece, Roth's St. Johanns Vorstadt studio in Basel becomes a site of intervention—following his father's death, his long-time collaborator and son, Björn, decided to preserve the space where they worked together from 1995. Upon leaving the locale, he kept every single object—including furniture, books, pens as well as personal items—as part of the installation. Through art, objects and atmosphere, the studio transmits the energy of his father and becomes an active cosmos again.
Recapturing the spirit of Dieter Roth, the visitor is invited to become part of the artist's on-going installation. Björn Roth recalls, "I don't think the word 'art'" was ever used. The studio was inventory, and the works were material. 'Now we have to root around in the inventory', he'd say when the time had come to work on something from our studios.' "Roth Bar" is emblematic of this creative process as it includes items from Dieter Roth's studio in Iceland, thus also activating the continuous re-use of materials.
The bar and studio, thus, form two contrasting poles in this exhibition. Whereas "Roth Bar" is a site for lively interaction, bringing together audience and collaborators alike for music and performance, "The Studio of Dieter and Björn Roth, Ackermannshof, Basel" is a place of retreat and contemplation.
"Roth Bar" will be presented alongside a series of ten gestural paintings by Björn Roth inspired by an ornithology book. These bird book paintings mix fine abstract marks with more translucent washes in oil paint; some also feature more intricately layered textures and colours. Shown together these artworks highlight the artistic legacy of Dieter Roth— as it lives on in the continued evolution of his collaborative pieces, and also in the creative practice of his son and grandson.
Recently, Björn and Oddur Roth have continued the bar building practice, creating "Roth New York Bar" for Hauser & Wirth New York's inaugural exhibition at its 18th Street space in 2013, as well as "Roth Bar & Grill", constructed for the unveiling of Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2014.
The assemblage-like bars always include locally-sourced, salvaged materials and often incorporate monitors showing videos, musical instruments and carpentry scraps. "Roth Bar" and its changing shape and configuration represent a continuously evolving practice, bridging the gap between art and life. Along with serving coffee and drinks and hosting DJs, the bar—run by Mr Samigo and Family—will further disrupt the juncture between artwork and reality by delivering a programme that includes live music, film screenings, a panel discussion, as well as a karaoke night and a slam poetry contest.
© Dieter Roth Estate. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich.


Home Lifestyle Art Did academia kill jazz?
While films about jazz are everywhere, evidence suggests that fewer people are actually consuming the music, putting the genre more on par with classical music than with today's pop artists.
There are a host of reasons for the decline of jazz as a popular music, but the one that interests me as a music historian is the role that academics played.
In our attempt to elevate jazz to the ivory tower, we may have inadvertently helped to kill it as a popular style.
However, all is not lost. While the genre might seem destined for academic obscurity, jazz continues to kick around in popular music – just in subtler ways.
In the 1920s, during the early years of the Great Migration, waves of black Americans migrated from the South into the industrial cities of the North. Black jazz musicians, particularly those from New Orleans, brought their sound with them. They moved to neighborhoods such as The Stroll in Chicago, Black Bottom in Detroit, 12th Street and Vine in Kansas City and, of course, Harlem. This occurred just as the record industry blossomed and radios became mainstays in American homes.
Jazz was well-positioned to become the most popular genre of music in the nation.
Over the next decade, the genre underwent a transformation. Artists began to amass larger ensembles, fusing the energy of jazz with the volume of dance bands. The Swing Era was born, and jazz orchestras dominated pop charts.
During the Swing Era, the Lindy Hop was a popular dance.
These developments led to a new set of issues. Larger bands meant less freedom to improvise, the cornerstone of jazz. During the 1940s, music recordings became increasingly important, and jazz musicians found themselves frustrated with how little they were being paid, resulting in a series of strikes by the American Federation of Musicians.
After that, jazz never really recovered.
Jazz underwent another, more subtle, shift during that same time period: It left the club and went to college.
Perhaps university administrators wanted to elevate a distinctly American genre to a status of "high art." Or, maybe they just wanted to capitalize on jazz's popularity among college students. Either way, universities started to create curriculums geared towards the genre, and by the end of the 1950s, several institutions, such as the University of North Texas and the Berklee College of Music, had jazz programs up and running.
In the classroom, jazz was explored in a new way. Rather than hearing jazz played while grinding on a dance floor, it became something to dissect. In one of the earliest jazz histories, "The Story of Jazz," musicologist Marshall Stearns captures this shift. He begins his book by explaining how difficult it is to categorize the spirit of jazz. He then spends over 300 pages trying to do just that.
Popular culture began to reflect jazz's shifting identity as the music of educated people. The 1953 film "The Wild One" features a bouncing big band soundtrack that underscores the shenanigans of a motorcycle gang led by Marlon Brando.
Just two years later, "Blackboard Jungle," also features delinquent kids – except this time, they prefer the sound of Bill Haley. In one scene, their math teacher tries to get the kids to appreciate his collection of jazz records. The scene ends with the kids beating the teacher and breaking his records.
Jazz had gone from the music of youthful rebellion to that of the cultured elite.
During the 1960s, jazz may have been as eclectic as ever. But academics like historian Neil Leonard continued to push for jazz to be made into a serious subject of academic inquiry, as he argued in his book "Jazz and the White Americans." Professional groups devoted to the study of jazz education were founded, such as the National Association for Jazz Education.
In the last 20 years, jazz's identity as an academic art form has only grown. At my institution, almost all of the non-classical course offerings in the music school are about jazz.
Today, in any given semester on any given campus, you can find college students sitting in classrooms at 9 a.m. on a Tuesday trying to absorb the importance and complexity of a music meant to be heard in a club at 2 a.m. on a Saturday. It's become brussels sprouts for budding music aficionados: You know it's good for you, but it doesn't necessarily taste all that great.
Outside of the classroom, a dwindling audience base has forced traditional jazz venues to play into the notion of jazz as an educated person's music. The current iteration of Minton's Playhouse, a club that was once a bastion of jazz energy, now calls jazz "America's classical music" in an attempt to raise the profile of the genre (and perhaps justify the cost of the steaks being served there).
Other venues have minimized jazz. This year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival will feature decidedly non-jazz artists such as Katy Perry, The Rolling Stones and Chris Stapleton.
Despite jazz's distance from its popular roots, a little digging shows that we still like listening to jazz more than we think. We just stopped openly calling it jazz.
Kendrick Lamar's 2015 album "To Pimp a Butterfly" is every bit as much a jazz album as it is a rap album, thanks to Lamar's collaboration with the saxophonist Kamasi Washington. Washington also had a short film, "As Told to G/D Thyself," based on his album, "Heaven and Earth," at Sundance.
Meanwhile, the music collective Snarky Puppy has become an international sensation by creating long-form jazz works while avoiding any specific labels. Another music collective, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, has found a way to keep the sound of jazz alive – and to embrace jazz's lighter side – by transforming contemporary pop songs into historical jazz genres.
With academia positioning jazz as art music, the genre is unlikely to experience a popular resurgence any time soon.
But today's artists are proving that the spirit of jazz is alive and well, and that jazz is much more than its name.
Maybe this is fitting: The earliest jazz musicians didn't call their music "jazz" either. Instead, they blended their sound with pre-existing pop genres, and, in doing so, created one of the most distinct forms of music in American history.
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