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March 6, 2018 • 6:53 am Comments Off on 14 Ways of Describing the Rain
14 Ways of Describing the Rain
Here, the experimental film from 1929 by Joris Ivens to which Hanns Eisler wrote his Op. 70 variations-score in 1941 (Vierzehn Arten den Regen zu beschreiben, in homage to his mentor on Schoenberg's 70th birthday), using a Pierrot lunaire ensemble. This is what Daniel Barenboim selected to open the Boulez Saal's first-anniversary concert on Sunday (alongside Schubert's Introduktion und Variationen über Trockne Blumen and Pierrot lunaire itself).
The project inspired Theodor Adorno to collaborate with Eisler during their American exile in the 1940s on the short but potent book that first appeared in English as Composing for the Films (sic).
Eisler remarks:
What has brought about this research project is the question raised in recent years by musicians everywhere–is it really necessary to continue the current Hollywood practice of rehashing "original" scores with crumbs picked from the table of Tchaikowsky, Debussy, Ravel, Richard Strauss and Stravinsky? Is a new musical material possible? May it not even be more useful and effective?
Not hard to transpose that into our situation today…
Filed under: aesthetics, film music, Hanns Eisler, Uncategorized
July 23, 2017 • 11:57 am Comments Off on All the World's a Reflected Dot
All the World's a Reflected Dot
Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrors is this year's big blockbuster exhibit at Seattle Museum of Art. (Kusama moved to Seattle in 1957 for a year before heading to New York. In Seattle she had her first important American show at the legendary Zoë Dusanne Gallery.)
I'm still processing my contradictory reactions to Infinity Mirrors. Here, the usual inflated hype is actually more germane than usual, since it ironically underscores aspects of Kusama's aesthetic.
T.S. Flock gets it in this piece for the Seattle Weekly, one of the most incisive critiques I've seen so far of the show.
This notion is what ties the Infinity Room format to Kusama's other calling card: dots. The earth itself is a dot. Everything is a dot. In Kusama's worldview, everything is atomized into dots in an incomprehensibly large universe, and the sense of a singular continuity (i.e., ego, monument, institution) is "obliterated" by her dots. …
After all, the Infinity Rooms are simultaneously self-negating and self-centering, just as Kusama's dot motif sees a unified whole among discrete particles. Isn't that a fine definition of love between humans?
Margo Vansynghel offers another insightful take:
Framing the story as the "artist-in-mental-hospital-who-makes-art-as-therapy" robs her of nuance and due credit. …
Maybe Kusama, intentionally or not, has been mirroring back to us what we created, a world of endless reflections of the same thing. She plays the leading role in this society of the spectacle. In November, wax museum Madame Tussauds Hong Kong opened up a polka-dotted "artistic themed" Kusama "zone." One wonders where the art ends and her life, and the spectacle, begins. Critics have argued that she turned her mental illness into a spectacle, too. I don't agree. The more interesting question though: If your antidote is turned into an art-world or Instagram commodity, how effective is it? And if you place the visitor in front of the mirror and it spins out of control, who's to blame? In this uncertainty the show becomes truly interesting.
Filed under: aesthetics, art exhibition, Uncategorized
August 16, 2015 • 4:24 am Comments Off on Snowblinded by Agnes Martin
Snowblinded by Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin: Happy Holiday, 1999; acrylic and graphite on canvas
What a joy to spend an afternoon at Tate Modern's major retrospective of Agnes Martin. Of particular fascination are the parallels with yet stark deviations from Minimalism, the tension between form and medium and expressive yearning.
Martin's approach to color reinforces her formal restraint, yet paradoxically opens up a vast new dimension of sensual intensity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the cycle of twelve paintings, The Islands.
These variants on Martin's signature grids, in white, create an unsurpassably beautiful experience. Their contemplative serenity left me almost snow blind, dizzy, visually drunk. Readjusting to the "normal" white of the walls, the everyday noises of shoes echoing, becomes a challenge. How to decompress?
Martin on her art:
My paintings have neither objects nor space nor time nor anything – no forms. They are light, lightness, about merging, about formlessness, breaking down form.
Without awareness of beauty, innocence and happiness,one cannot make works of art.
Filed under: aesthetics, art, painting
August 12, 2015 • 4:00 pm Comments Off on The Isle of the Dead
The Isle of the Dead
I was recently studying Rachmaninoff's famous tone poem for a project. This interpretation by Evgeny Svetlanov and the BBC Symphony I rather enjoy — especially how they bring off the brooding opening.
Here's one of the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin's several color paintings of the famous image that inspired Rachmaninoff. (The composer said he preferred the black and white reproduction that gave him his first impression of the painting, claiming he may not have composed the tone poem had he seen the original first.)
Regarding extramusical inspirations, Rachmaninoff once remarked:
When composing, I find it is of great help to have in mind a book just recently read, or a beautiful picture, or a poem. Sometimes a definite story is kept in mind, which I try to convert into tones without disclosing the source of my inspiration.
As for The Isle of the Dead, which he composed while in Dresden in 1909 Rachmaninoff specifically stated: "When it came how it began — how can I say? It all came up within me, was entertained, written down."
Filed under: aesthetics, painting, Rachmaninoff
July 17, 2015 • 8:51 am Comments Off on Joshua Sofaer's Rubbish Collection
Joshua Sofaer's Rubbish Collection
As a foretaste of the upcoming Seattle Art Fair, Seattle Art Museum is currently hosting a series of talks by contemporary artists about their practice. The first one took place this week.
In it Joshua Sofaer, who focuses on projects involving collaboration and participation, talked about his recent effort at the Science Museum in London: The Rubbish Collection.
During the first phase, visitors to the Science Museum last summer were invited to participate by "sorting and documenting of one month's worth of rubbish generated by the Science Museum's visitors, staff, contractors, and exhibition projects to create a growing visual archive of the things we throw away from day to day… With a focus on sustainability and reuse, The Rubbish Collection confronts the materiality of rubbish and highlights that the things we throw away do not disappear but are transformed."
Says the versatile British artist Sofaer: "Museums generally display items that have some special status, that are rare, or valuable. But in this project, I want to give the 'museum treatment' to the stuff it would normally throw away."
I was intrigued to learn that Sofaer had also recently directed a staging of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Folkoperan in Stockholm:
In this production the recitative which carries the biblical text has been replaced by filmed interviews that are projected on a screen which covers the wall behind the stage. In the interviews, singers and musicians share personal stories which concern the big themes of the passion: forgiveness, guilt, pain, fear, loneliness, and love.
The staging is kept simple, with the ensemble, including the orchestra, on stage all the time. As one body of people, they act as collective witnesses, with soloists emerging from the amongst them in a series of tableaux.
At the start of his talk, Sofaer quoted this famous statement by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou as his own "rallying cry": "'Art is what makes life more interesting than art."
Filed under: aesthetics, art, art exhibition
Two Women by Marco Tutino
San Francisco Opera's world premiere last night of Two Women by the Italian composer Marco Tutino raises interesting and important issues about making opera today. I intend to get into this more substantially after dealing with some crushing deadlines….
Joshua Kosman's extensive review expertly nails the key problems with this opera, as well as its larger aesthetic implications:
But Tutino — along with General Director David Gockley, who commissioned the work from him on the recommendation of Music Director Nicola Luisotti — has also taken this opportunity to mount a rather forceful esthetic argument. In its strongest form, the claim is that the history of 20th century music has been a nightmare that we need to wake up from, and that the path to redemption lies in a wholesale return to the ancient traditions.
Ultimately, such pleasures as "Two Women" can provide are the comfortable pleasures of familiarity. The piece is nominally new, yet it feels like a long-lost and not as successful cousin to "Tosca" or "Cavalleria rusticana."
Anne Midgette dissects the failings of Two Women in her insightful Washington Post review:
Two Women" maintains a near-constant level of melodramatic musical intensity….But the opera neglects to flesh out any of these characters, and this robs the surging score of much of the effect it's trying so earnestly to convey. When the figures are one-dimensional, it's hard to get involved.
It' s important not to lose sight of the bigger picture in the case of "Two Women," as well. This opera may be a dud, but it is much better to try new opera than stick to the overly familiar.
UPDATE [19 June 2015]
Some more thoughts on Two Women. Having the opportunity to see SF Opera's current production of Berlioz's The Trojans probably intensified my negative reaction to Tutino's new opera, since the plight of women under the stress of wartime is a theme shared by both. The magnificent Berlioz production, featuring a first-rate cast, a compelling vision from stage director David McVicar, and some of the best work I've ever heard from Donald Runnicles and the SFO orchestra, was a genuine privilege to experience.
The multiple rape scenes in Two Women, by contrast, come across essentially as part of "the plot": moments that crudely intend to push buttons and elicit reactions without the libretto or the music doing the work needed to make them effective. The result is something closer to tabloid journalism.
Much of the attention has been focused on the shortcomings of Tutino's score, but I think the poorly crafted libretto is even weaker, betraying signs of decision-by-committee. It's easy to see how the intention was to elicit emotional reactions similar to Puccini's "E lucevan le stelle" or "Addio fiorito asil." Yet the libretto treats these like a paint-by-numbers project rather than allow them to emerge organically from the dramatic moment: so much so that, for example, the "flame-flower" image symbolizing the fragile love blossoming in winter between Michele and Cesira becomes risibly manipulative. (At one point I found myself playing the "Let's spot the Tosca game as if I were watching an operatic a Where's Waldo.)
There's even a scene of uneasy humor at the start of the second act — you can imagine the meeting where someone said, "We need some comic relief!" — which draws clumsily on Puccini's scherzando, satirical moments (think of the Sacristan in Tosca). As the weasely informant Sciortino betrays Michele, his mother scurries nervously about, promising to satisfy her guests with a tasty home-cooked meal. And as with quite a few other passages of the score, the music just vamps away, trying to tell us how we should react to the clumsy dramaturgy.
I've only rarely experienced a world premiere where the critical near-consensus seemed so obvious and immediately apparent. Two Women doesn't express or elucidate the emotions meant to be triggered by the drama: it tells the audience what those emotions should be by mimicking over-familiar parallel moments from Puccini and other verismo classics, with a dash of generalized film score vocabulary and other bits and pieces from the repertoire.
When I was first seriously discovering music as a teenager, I had the temerity to claim I could be a composer because I was able to produce music in the style of composers I admired. Thankfully the scales fell from my eyes pretty soon and I realized the arrogance of this mistake. Which isn't to say all music should be "original." I don't buy into the modernist fallacy of radical originality either. But I believe there is a fundamental difference between shameless imitation to manipulate an audience's comfort zone and genuine creativity.
I additionally want to make clear that this is NOT about the choice of a "conservative" style. Samuel Barber long since proved that writing in a conservative tonal idiom is hardly incompatible both with original musical ideas and having something genuine and honest to say. So any attempt to champion Two Women as an embrace of the audience forsaken by 20th-century composers is, frankly, a red herring and overlooks the fatal shortcomings of a manipulative, derivative opera.
Despite the failure of both libretto and score, SF Opera has gone out of its way to present Two Women with excellent production values, assembling an impressive cast. Anna Caterina Antonacci (who also sings Cassandra in The Trojans on her "free" nights) is the linchpin as the courageous, spirited Cesira – a dynamo of acting and vocal passion.
If only the opera actually delineated any of its characters in depth! And given Tutino's failure to explore the relationship between the actual two women in question – mother Cesira and her daughter Rosetta – the considerable talents of Sarah Shafer in the latter role are lamentably underused. Still, Shafer movingly conveys the final stages of Rosetta's transformation following the violence and trauma she has endured.
Dmitri Pittas brings his ardent tenor to the pedestrian music he is given as the fearless idealist Michele. Mark Delavan has to play a cardboard baddie as the rapist/collaborator/fascist/betrayer/liar etc. etc. Giovanni. He does sing well. (Another critique: Tutino's libretto, which was co-written with Fabio Ceresa and "adapted from a script by Luca Rossi," absurdly whitewashes the historical role of the Italians and their relationship to Hitler's Germany in WWII. Characters like Giovanni and Sciortino are presented as the "bad apples" among an otherwise terrified and subjugated populace in this turning-point year of the war of 1943. Yeah, right….)
Nicola Luisotti conducts with a palpable belief in the score, somehow rendering its gestures with an actual sense of passion. (Tutino turns out to be a skilled orchestrator, even if he leans too heavily in one scene on xylophone-drum sonorities.) The production gains a lot from director Francesca Zambello's attentive eye and sense for pacing. She makes the most of what she can from this predictable dramaturgy, and Peter Davison's sets work beautifully, integrating film projections of scenery and historical footage. Is it any surprise that these documentary images of people uprooted, refugees fleeing the bombing of their cities, are far more moving than the "new" opera in which they're embedded?
Filed under: aesthetics, music criticism, new opera, San Francisco Opera
December 31, 2014 • 6:07 am Comments Off on "Time's Friction"
"Time's Friction"
The last day of the year, the eve of a new start. Not a bad moment to recall a key passage from The Hamlet, the first novel of William Faulkner's Snopes trilogy: the passage in which Mink Snopes, having murdered the landowner Jack Houston, is searching by night for the corpse he had hidden. Writes Faulkner:
So he [Mink] held himself still for the space of a hundred, trying to orient himself by looking back up the slope… Then he went back … trying to recognize by its shape and position the tree where eh had left the axe, standing in the roar not of silence now but of time's friction. He thought of starting from some point which he knew was below the tree he sought and searching each tree as he came to it, but the sound of time was too loud.
In his essay "Faulkner's Augustinian Sense of Time," Seemee Ali argues that the famously fluid temporality in Faulkner is closer to the interweaving of past, present, and future elucidated by St. Augustine than it is to "Bergsonian" metaphysics:
Beginning with "The Hamlet," the elasticity of time in Faulkner's corpus is not simply a matter of personal perception for his characters. Time's manifold variety is an ontological fact that they are forced to confront. In the "Confessions" Augustine puzzles over this ontological condition….
Faulkner intuits the complexity that Augustine articulates … that the apprehension of history, the attentionto the present, and hope for the future are all the work of the mind. Calling the mind to attention, to expectation, and to remembrance is the ambitious task that Faulkner's fiction sets for itself at the very moment Mink Snopes murders his enemy and discovers his consioucness stymied by "time's friction."
But what about the sounds time is making — the noise of time?
Filed under: aesthetics, American literature
November 17, 2014 • 6:25 am Comments Off on A Touch of Ghosts
A Touch of Ghosts
I can't wait for the new production of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles coming in January at Los Angeles Opera — part of the company's upcoming Figaro Trilogy that will include the iconic Mozart and Rossini operas based on the plays of Beaumarchais.
The composer on style, from an extensive interview with Bruce Duffie:
I don't write in any one style. That is important. I feel I do not approach a piece thinking of any style at all, but I evolve the style when I know what I have to write for that piece. If you listen to the "Pied Piper" and the Clarinet Concerto and the Oboe Concerto — which are three woodwind concertos — you'll see that they're totally and completely different from each other. I use style in a different way. I tend to think of style as a variable. I do have stylistic things that come back — certain intervals, certain kinds of progressions, certain sonorities, that I use because they're part of me. That is an unconscious style. But as far as the idea of style as it exists in music today, in which one associates a sonority or a sound or a total piece with somebody, and he writes the next piece in that style and the next piece in that style, as Brahms did, I don't feel I'm that kind of composer.
Here's a little teaser of costume sketches.
Filed under: aesthetics, American opera, composers, Los Angeles Opera
September 20, 2014 • 9:12 am Comments Off on Absolute Literary Materialism
Absolute Literary Materialism
In his recent New Yorker profile of the Scottish writer James Kelman, James Wood contends that the no-frills, "absolute materialism" of Kelman's prose — which he likens to Karl Ove Knausgård's obsessive detail over daily rituals — "is rarely boring"
… partly because, like Knausgård, he simply proceeds AS IF the subject matter were interesting; and partly because, in writing as in most areas, limitation increases focus, and tends to irradiate necessity as if it were a luxury. This is the principle of prison writing, both in the literal sense ("One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich") and in the figurative sense (Kafka's allegories of imprisonment.
Filed under: aesthetics, literary criticism
September 19, 2014 • 4:26 pm Comments Off on Pollock and Cage
Pollock and Cage
Animator Léo Verrier's new Jackson Pollock-themed short (above) leads Colin Marshall to compare this film fantasy of the birth of Pollock's famous technique with the real thing: "Chance may have led him to discover this practice, but it hardly means he gave up control."
Marshall quotes another filmmaker, the maverick Stan Brakhage, on Pollock, who recalls a trip to visit the painter:
But they [some New York painters] were like commenting and the used they words 'chance operations' which was no bother to me because I was hearing it regularly from John Cage. And the power and the wonder of it and so forth . . . but this really angered Pollock very deeply and he said 'Don't give me any of your "chance operations".' He said, 'You see that doorknob' and there was a doorknob that was about fifty feet from where he was sitting that was in fact the door that everyone was going to have to exit be. and drunk as he was, he just with one swirl of his brush picked up a glob of paint, hurled it and hit that doorknob smack-on with very little paint over the edges. And then he said, 'And that's the way out.'
Meanwhile, in If Jackson Pollock Wrote Music, Kyle Gann explores the connections between Pollock and composers John Cage and Morton Feldman:
In the middle of the 20th century, the arts exploded into a new and unsettling realm of abstraction. Paintings were no longer paintings of something; they were simply paint. Music, too, was no longer about melody; it had abandoned the grounding in tonality that had been its mainstay for centuries. For some composers, notably John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Earle Brown, music was now about sound the way paintings were about paint.
Filed under: aesthetics, art, art history, film, modernist composers
'Brutes' captures the simultaneous impatience and mercurial swings of girlhood
In plunging us into the collective mind of a group of girls watching the search for a missing girl, author Dizz Tate creates an original, stylistically ambitious take on well-trodden subject matter.


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Dunmow Rhodes claimed a 2-1 win at Sandon in The David Strachan Mid Essex League Knock-Out Cup second round.
The away side started the stronger of the two teams .
Their first chance in the 24th minute when Jake Buckland broke through and pulled the ball back for Adam Burton whose shot was brilliantly stopped on the line.
This woke Sandon who used the long ball with the slope to turn the Dunmow defence.
With dangerous crosses into the box Sandon were unlucky not to score before half-time.
The second half saw Dunmow press hard from the kick-off.
In the 54 minute Daryl Burton pulled the ball back to man of the match Josh Burgess who fired a low strike home.
In the 68th minute Sandon tried to push forward. Jamie Sanders broke down the Sandon attack and released Matt Travell. Matt's first shot was pushed out by the keeper but he followed up his run and tapped in for Dunmow's second goal.
Dunmow skipper Simon Preece headed a free-kick into his won goal for 2-1, but his side saw out the game to progress.


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Japan to start inoculation drive Wednesday amid shortage of special syringes
By Kiyoshi Takenaka
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will kick off its COVID-19 vaccination programme on Wednesday amid concerns that a shortage of special syringes could lead to the waste of millions of doses of Pfizer vaccine as the country grapples with its third and most serious wave of infections.
A Tokyo hospital staff member checks the temperature of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine with delivery staff at a hospital in Tokyo, Japan, February 16, 2021. Kimimasa Mayama/Pool via REUTERS
Japan's vaccination programme chief Taro Kono announced the launch of the programme at a news conference on Tuesday after the government officially approved Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday, the first such approval in Japan.
But fears are growing in Japan that millions of doses of Pfizer vaccine could be wasted due to a shortage of special syringes that maximise the number of shots used from each vial.
The government has made urgent requests, but manufacturers are struggling to ramp up production fast enough, creating the latest headache for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who suffers from weak public support.
"We are still trying to secure these special syringes," Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said on Tuesday.
Japan's vaccination drive, the last to be launched among G7 industralised nations, will start with 40,000 medical workers.
The government will then target people aged 65 or above, those with existing health conditions, and workers at elderly care facility workers. The vaccination drive would be completed within a year, Kono said.
"Now that we are starting our inoculation drive - a crucial card to play in our fight against the coronavirus pandemic - I hope that many people get vaccinated while correctly understanding the benefits and risks," he said.
Inoculating Japan's population swiftly is a top priority for Suga's government as he is determined to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer after the Games were postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan, with a population of 126 million, has so far signed contracts to procure 314 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, enough for 157 million people.
SYRINGE SHORTAGE
Japan last month signed a contract with Pfizer Inc to procure 144 million doses of its vaccine, or enough for 72 million people.
One vial is meant for six shots, Pfizer says, but it takes special syringes that retain a low volume of solution after an injection to extract six doses, while only five shots can be taken with standard syringes that the government has stored up in preparation for the inoculation drive.
When asked last week, Kato did not directly answer questions whether the shortage of the ideal syringe meant the number of shots Japan can administer would be reduced, but on Tuesday he conceded that without it there would be waste.
"When it comes to what's left in vials and syringes, what's unused will be disposed of," Kato said.
Both a Pfizer Japan spokeswoman and a Japanese health ministry official declined to say whether the contract to supply Japan with 144 million doses of vaccine by the end of the year is based on six doses being taken from each vial.
"I want to do everything I can to make sure that we can get six doses, considering that there are so many people around the world waiting to be vaccinated, and Japan can't be the one country that is wasting its vaccines," Kono said.
In a bid to minimise the amount of vaccine left unused in syringes and vials, the government is asking medical equipment manufacturers to boost output of the low dead-space syringes, but there are doubts whether that can be done quickly enough.
Although daily cases have been in decline in recent weeks in Japan after peaking in early January, Tokyo and nine other prefectures are still under the coronavirus state of emergency.
Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Additional reporting by Ritsuko Ando and Sakura Murakami; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Ana Nicolaci da Costa

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package org.scalastyle.scalariform

import org.junit.Test
import org.scalastyle.file.CheckerTest
import org.scalatest.junit.AssertionsForJUnit

// scalastyle:off magic.number

class EqualsHashCodeCheckerTest extends AssertionsForJUnit with CheckerTest {
  val key = "equals.hash.code"
  val classUnderTest = classOf[EqualsHashCodeChecker]

  @Test def testOK(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class OK {
  def hashCode(): Int = 45
  def equals(o: java.lang.Object): Boolean = false
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(), source)
  }

  @Test def testHashCodeOnlyKO(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class HashCodeOnlyKO {
  def hashCode(): Int = 45
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(columnError(4, 6)), source)
  }

  @Test def testEqualsOnlyKO(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class EqualsOnlyKO {
  def equals(o: java.lang.Object): Boolean = false
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(columnError(4, 6)), source)
  }

  @Test def testEqualsOnlyAnyKO(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class EqualsOnlyKO {
  def equals(o: Any): Boolean = false
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(columnError(4, 6)), source)
  }

  @Test def testEqualsWrongSignatureOK(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class EqualsWrongSignatureOK {
  def equals(o: scala.Object): Boolean = false
  def equals(o: java.lang.Object)(o2: java.lang.Object): Boolean = false
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(), source)
  }

  @Test def testHashCodeWrongSignatureOK(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class HashCodeWrongSignatureOK {
  def hashCode(o: scala.Object): Int = 45
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(), source)
  }

  @Test def testOuterKOInnerKO(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class OuterKO {
  def hashCode(): Int = 45
  class InnerKO {
    def equals(o: java.lang.Object): Boolean = false
  }
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(columnError(4, 6), columnError(6, 8)), source)
  }

  @Test def testOuterOKInnerKO(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class OuterOK {
  def hashCode(): Int = 45
  class InnerKO {
    def equals(o: java.lang.Object): Boolean = false
  }
  def equals(o: java.lang.Object): Boolean = false
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(columnError(6, 8)), source)
  }

  @Test def testObjectInnerKO(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

object Object {
  class ObjectInnerKO {
    def equals(o: java.lang.Object): Boolean = false
  }
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(columnError(5, 8)), source)
  }

  @Test def testMultipleClasses(): Unit = {
    val source = """
package foobar

class Class1 {
  def hashCode(): Int = 45
}

class Class2 {
  def hashCode(): Int = 45
}
"""

    assertErrors(List(columnError(4, 6), columnError(8, 6)), source)
  }
}

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From Belfer Center Studies in International Security
Combating Nuclear Terror and Climate Change
By Daniel B. Poneman
Making the case that we can use nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror.
Poneman says that there are two existential threats to human existence: climate change and nuclear proliferation and terrorism. The first, he argues, requires a greater investment in nuclear energy to reduce humanity's dependence on carbon fuels—but this, he notes, risks aggravating the second threat. So his recommendations address both threats together. He proposes shifting to lower-carbon energy sources, including nuclear power; fully implementing the Paris climate agreement; and, among other nonproliferation moves, eliminating the North Korean nuclear threat. It's a daunting list.
Nuclear weapons and climate change present very different but very significant global risks. Dan Poneman is one of the few who has worked at and contributed to mitigation of both risks and now has shared this experience through insightful analysis and commonsense recommendations. Double Jeopardy should be required reading for policymakers.
Ernest J. Moniz
former U.S. Secretary of Energy and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Humanity faces two existential threats: nuclear annihilation and catastrophic climate change. Both have human origins, and both are linked to the use of nuclear energy. Inherent in the use of atomic fission is the risk that the technology and materials can be diverted to terrorists or hostile nations and used to make nuclear weapons. The key question is whether we can use nuclear energy to reduce the threat of climate change without increasing the risk that nuclear weapons will be used.
In Double Jeopardy, Daniel Poneman argues that the world needs an "all-of-the-above" energy policy, one that advances the goal of decarbonizing the environment through all available means—including nuclear power. Poneman makes a compelling case that we can enhance the ability of nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror. Doing so will require well-crafted laws and policies, implemented with an ethos of constant vigilance and embedded in a culture that weaves safety and security goals into the fabric of our nuclear programs. This will enable government and industry to work together to maximize energy and climate benefits while minimizing safety and security risks.
$27.95 T ISBN: 9780262037303 288 pp. | 6.125 in x 9.25 in 17 b&w illus. May 2019
Daniel B. Poneman
Daniel Poneman is a Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Centrus Energy Corp., which provides enrichment, fuel, and fuel services to utilities that operate nuclear reactors throughout the world. Poneman previously served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, as Acting Secretary of Energy, and on the National Security Council staff. He is the coauthor of Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
Double Jeopardy is a must-read for anyone who cares about the world our grandchildren will inherit. Dan Poneman shows us how we can address the two greatest threats to our long-term future—at the same time. Brilliant!
Susan Eisenhower
member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
Dan Poneman has done what very few have even tried, and what no one has actually succeeded in doing—to persuade almost everyone along the long ideological spectrum that the issues of climate change and nuclear power are inextricably connected. There will be no addressing the former without the latter. Read this book. If it will not change your mind, then at least it will change your approach. Very few authors can do that. Poneman has.
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In this insightful and useful book, Dan Poneman explores the two great existential threats that we face: nuclear annihilation and climate change. He provides not just convincing analysis but also some clear and crisp proposed solutions. In a time of muddled thinking, this book is urgently needed.
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Presidents of both parties have relied upon Dan Poneman's wise counsel on matters of global nuclear and energy security. In this important book, Dan outlines a rationale and a roadmap for reinvigorating America's nuclear leadership, which is indispensable to protecting our planet and all who live here.
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In Double Jeopardy, Dan Poneman draws on his extensive experience as both a policymaker and a businessman to make a compelling case for how nuclear energy can help address one of the world's most pressing problems—climate change—without inviting nuclear catastrophe. This thoughtful, well-researched, and highly readable book is a cry for, and a roadmap to, the reestablishment of American leadership in a key industry that has implications far beyond the realm of energy.
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Nuclear proliferation and climate change are two of the most vexing challenges facing humanity. Dan Poneman is an expert on both subjects. His clearly written, urgent call to action brings these two vitally important issues together in a novel and highly informative way.
former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman, Paulson Institute
In clear and simple prose, Double Jeopardy tackles two of the toughest challenges of our time: nuclear proliferation and climate change. Poneman has served his nation well under both Republican and Democrat presidents, and the solutions he recommends have the staying power that only bipartisanship can produce.
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Daniel Poneman draws upon his great knowledge of and experience with nuclear power—as a policymaker and scholar and in the private sector—to demonstrate the key role it can play in meeting energy and environmental objectives and how, at the same time, to assure nuclear security on a global basis.
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The world's greatest action sports show – Travis Pastrana's Nitro Circus Live is coming to the UK this summer for its first ever UK and Ireland outdoor stadium tour. So to celebrate we've teamed up with Nitro Circus Live to giveaway 5 pairs of tickets to this year's show.
The world's biggest live action sports show will visit Worcester, Livingston, Hull, Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Llanelli, Sheffield, Yeovil, Gateshead, Ipswich, Peterborough and West Sussex making it the most extensive tour that Nitro Circus has ever undertaken in the UK and Ireland.
Nitro's cast of daredevils, the greatest action sports stars on the planet, will perform the most incredible choreographed riding routines ever in freestyle motocross (FMX), BMX, skate and much more.
Highlights include the explosive "Nitro Bomb" featuring all riders flipping simultaneously. Plus, during FMX trains, riders will slice through the air wheel-to-wheel, mere inches apart.
Nitro Circus athletes will also brave the (in)famous 40-foot Giganta ramp, which will launch a host of ridiculous contraptions like trikes, a penny farthing, a lounge chair, a bathtub and much more.
For more information and ticket info see Nitro Circus Live and for the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to the venue of your choice enter your details at our Nitro Circus prize draw page.


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You can visit the Studio Fitness Center, which offers state-of-the-art equipment, as well as personal trainers to assist you with your training.
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Yoga and Aerobics classes can be taken in groups by the pool or by the beach, while you can also request private sessions in your villa.
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You can book private sessions with The Masters of Wellness, who are holistic experts that can help you find a healthier long term balance.
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For Authentic Thai dishes, with regional recipes and local products, head for the lagoon-edge 'La Sala Restaurant'.
The Poached & Chilled Seafood Bucket, featuring Tiger prawns, fresh shucked oysters and scallops on lemongrass stick, is a signature dish of the beachside barbeque restaurant, 'Sea.Fire.Salt'.
For Weddings and other ceremonial events, the resort offers Traditional Thai happenings or Western events, either at beach or at pool settings.
The Sea Shell and Herbal Therapy is one of the signature spa treatments of the resort that aims to relax you with the sounds of a shell close to your ear, and heated herbal compress.
Achieve total relaxation with Bamboo Massage, a technique inspired by ancient healing wisdom that makes use of aromatic oil and a set of warmed bamboo sticks in various sizes.
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For total relaxation, keep in mind that the resort offers two signature spa treatments, the Bamboo Massage, and the Sea Shell and Herbal Therapy.
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You may celebrate a special occasion with a private in-room and in-villa dining, or you can ask for a personalised Dining by Design journey.
Breeze is a beachfront pool bar offerings a wide range of refreshing drinks and juices as well as light snacks like mini burgers and sandwiches.
Dee Plee serves exotic drinks and Thai specialties. Try Khao Soi Gai, a northern curry noodle chicken thigh with egg noodles, with crispy noodle, pickled cabbage, shallots, dry chili oil and lime.
Sala Layan is an Italian restaurant with beachfront setting, offering breakfast, traditional Italian dishes, as well as vegan and gluten free options.
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The renovation of the existing pathways and building egresses was going to create path-of-travel issues, there was no avoiding it. So BRJ started the logistical plans early, during the design phase. Collaborating closely with the design team and campus administration and operations, interim obvious path of travels were incorporated into the design documents to mitigate interruptions to the flow of pedestrian traffic during construction.
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Cars.com Delivers Comprehensive Selection of New and Used Car Listings on Yahoo! Autos
Consumers Can Now Access More Than 2 Million Vehicle Listings on Yahoo! Autos Expanding Cars.com's Reach
CHICAGO & SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 11, 2007 (RUSHPRNEWS) — Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) and Cars.com today announced the launch of a strategic partnership to deliver comprehensive new and used vehicle listings on Yahoo! Autos. With this launch, Yahoo! Autos users now have easy access to the best selection of more than 2.4 million new, used, certified pre-owned, and private-seller vehicle listings from Cars.com dealers and private-party sellers nationwide. The launch marks the first time new car listings will be available on Yahoo! Autos to help vehicle shoppers go the extra mile in their search.
The enhanced vehicle listings on Yahoo! Autos will deliver increased relevance and expanded search results to the 83 percent of consumers who use the Internet to research vehicles before visiting a dealership(1).
"We're focused on providing optimal depth, breadth and relevance of vehicle listings to our valued consumers on Yahoo! Autos. It's important that we deliver an effortless experience to help people find the right car based on their particular location and specific vehicle needs," said Michael Yang, vice president and general manager, Yahoo! Autos. "By teaming up with Cars.com, we are marrying our best-in-class user search experience with their strong dealer and auto manufacturer relationships and access to new and used car listings."
Dealers advertising on Cars.com will benefit from exposure on Yahoo! Autos, resulting in an effective way to reach in-market shoppers with the right message at the right time. With 87 percent of its audience unduplicated from Cars.com, Yahoo! Autos delivers an entirely new, in-market audience of used and new vehicle shoppers with one ad buy on Cars.com(2). This alliance also allows Yahoo! Autos to leverage Cars.com's comprehensive editorial content in addition to enabling Cars.com's vehicle listings to generate relevant display ads through Yahoo!'s Smart Ads.
"As we look to provide our advertisers with the broadest reach and access to the most qualified buyers, Yahoo! Autos is the clear partner of choice as the fastest growing site for in-market vehicle shoppers," said Mitch Golub, president of Cars.com. "In addition to an unduplicated audience, Yahoo! Autos complements Cars.com in its commitment to deliver serious shoppers to our vast network of dealers. In fact, nearly 73 percent of Yahoo! Autos shoppers intend to purchase, a number in keeping with the 75 percent of Cars.com shoppers who intend to buy(3)."
(1) 2007 Dealer eBusiness Performance Study, Yahoo!/Cobalt Group/R.L. Polk & Co.
(2) comScore Media Metrix, August 2007
(3) Nielsen/Netratings @Plan study, Winter 2007
Partnered with more than 200 leading metro newspapers, television stations and their websites, Cars.com (www.cars.com) is the most comprehensive destination for those looking to buy or sell a new or used car. The site lists more than 2.4 million vehicles from 15,000 dealer customers, classified advertisers and private parties to offer consumers the best selection of new and used cars online, as well as the content, tools and advice to support their shopping experience. Cars.com combines powerful inventory search tools and new-car configuration with pricing information, photo galleries, buying guides, side-by-side comparison tools, original editorial content and reviews to help millions of car shoppers connect with sellers each month.
Launched in June 1998, Cars.com is a division of Classified Ventures, LLC, which is owned by leading media companies, including Belo (NYSE:BLC), Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI), Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB) and The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO).
About Yahoo! Autos
Yahoo! Autos (http://autos.yahoo.com) is a top destination for online automotive shoppers and has experienced 40 percent traffic growth during January – September 2007, versus 2006 (comScore Media Metrix). Yahoo! Autos delivers resources for researching, buying, maintaining and communicating with others about vehicle decisions and purchases. It's also home to product innovations that include Car Finder, a new vehicle make-model-trim search experience, and the Green Center, a leading online source for the latest news and information on alternative fuel vehicles.
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Home » Lifestyle » Is there a right time to get engaged? Relationship expert weighs in on when is too soon
Is there a right time to get engaged? Relationship expert weighs in on when is too soon
Is there a right time to get engaged?
The year 2022 has started with a handful of celebrity engagements – including Simon Cowell and Lauren Silverman who will be taking the next step in their relationship after a "secret proposal in Barbados."
The celebrity couple have been together for 13 years and share an adorable son named Eric.
And marriage didn't look to be on the cards for the couple, after Simon previously stated he didn't believe in it.
From one long-term romance to a shorter one, TV presenter Maya Jama is also reportedly engaged to beau Ben Simmons after less than two years together.
The 27 year old presenter was spotted donning a "million dollar ten-carat" diamond ring after a Christmas proposal.
And considering the two very different timelines, we asked Charlotte Johnson, a relationship and sex expert at Mega Pleasure, if there's such a thing as too soon to get engaged.
"There are many factors involved when it comes to engagement, such as age, and whether or not you want marriage and children," she shared.
Continuing: "If you want to get married and/or have a family this often impacts how long you're willing to wait for someone to pop the question. The truth of the matter is that there is no right or wrong length of time to wait to get engaged. Some couples may wait years before getting married, while others wait months.
"This all depends on your unique circumstances and it's something that you have to decide for yourself."
Charlotte advised "going at your own pace," as every couple is different when it comes to timelines.
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Discussing the recent celebrity engagements, she shared: "Simon Cowell proposed to girlfriend Lauren Silverman after 13 years together, despite having child Eric back in 2014.
"Although this is a longer length of time to wait to propose, every couple is different and you should take it at your own pace, listen to your gut and your family and friends.
"Whether you've been officially dating 'the one' for a few months or 13 years similar to Simon, you might be wondering how you'll know when the right time to get engaged is. There is never a right time to get engaged and this can be different for each couple.
"Every couple is unique, but a reasonable amount of time to be engaged is after one to three years of the relationship. Many people may wait longer to get engaged due to financial reasons, or not feel any pressure to take this leap in the relationship. Ultimately you should propose when the time feels right."
Do you think there's such a thing as "too soon" when it comes to getting engaged? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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January 1, 2013 – Changes to Public Health Regulation in Illinois
Better health and safety protection for swimming facilities
SPRINGFIELD—(ENEWSPF)—December 31, 2012. To help protect your health and safety in public swimming pools and at water parks, on January 1, 2013, Illinois will enact new legislation that calls for swimming facility engineers, architects and contractors to be prequalified by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). There will also be a new fee structure for swimming facilities to ensure inspectors can respond to complaints and inspect public swimming facilities more frequently and in a timely manor. Swimming facility fees in Illinois have not increased in almost 40 years.
"The goal of the Illinois Department of Public Health is to protect the health and safety of the public from disease and injury," said Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck. "A new swimming facility fee structure will allow the Department to conduct more inspections and respond faster when there is a complaint, an injury or outbreak of illness. Inspections help protect the public's swimming safety, but will also allow swimming facilities to open quicker if they have to shut down due to equipment malfunctions, chemical imbalances or disease causing organisms found in the water. This benefits not only the public, but businesses as well."
Schools and municipal pools will only pay a fee for building aquatic features (water slides, spray pools, play structures and other similar features). Certain tax-exempt organizations like the YMCA or United Way, will pay lower fees than other commercial swimming facilities.
By requiring engineers, architects and contractors to be prequalified and trained, the Department anticipates seeing better quality plans to build or alter a swimming facility submitted, which will allow the Department to approve permits more quickly. Better quality plans reduces the possibility of having to resubmit plans due to errors or non-compliance with the Swimming Facilities Code. Prequalified engineers, architects and contractors will also help people planning to build a pool make better and more cost-effective choices.
IDPH licenses and inspects more than 4,000 swimming facilities annually. For more information log onto http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/swimmingpools.htm.
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The above pojo has a row and a serviceResponse and i have a List, i want to insert the serviceResponse at given row(position) number of a master jsonArray.
So , it is like inserting jsonObject at defined position of jsonArray . I am doing it this way but this doesnt seem optimized .
 public void merge(JSONObject masterObject, List<RowAnswer> completeList) {
         completeDetailsfromRecommendationApis.stream().forEach(rowAnswer -> {
             try {
                 HomePageUtil.addToPos(rowAnswer , completeContent );
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        int pos = Integer.valueOf(rowAnswer.getRow()) ;
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        JSONArray jsonArr = completeContent.optJSONArray("container");
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            jsonArr.put(i, jsonArr.get(i-1));

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Is there any other optimized way to do this .

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Ferrari 512 är en sportvagn, tillverkad av den italienska biltillverkaren Ferrari mellan 1970 och 1971.

Bakgrund
1968 ändrade FIA reglementet för sportvagnsprototyperna och begränsade motorstorleken till tre liter, samtidigt som man införde en ny GT-klass med femlitersmotorer för bilar byggda i 50 exemplar. Ferraris fyralitersbil hamnade mitt emellan och stallet valde att dra sig ur sportvagnsserien under säsongen för att ta fram en ny, konkurrenskraftig trelitersbil. 312P-modellen visade sig dock inte kunna konkurrera med Ford GT40 och Porsche 917 och när FIA under 1969 sänkte kravet på antalet byggda GT-bilar till 25 exemplar valde Ferrari att bygga en egen femlitersbil.

Utveckling

512 S
Enzo Ferrari hade sålt huvuddelen av sitt företag till Fiat i början av 1969. En del av pengarna kom till användning för att bygga de 25 bilar som reglementet krävde. Motorn till 512 S hämtades från Ferraris CanAm-bil, medan chassit kom från den mindre 312P. Vissa modifieringar krävdes för att få plats med den stora motorn och eftersom bilarna körde i GT-klassen måste de formellt kunna användas på väg och var därför försedda med både reservhjul och ett litet bagageutrymme. De bilar som inte Ferraristallet själva använde, såldes till intresserade privatteam som den amerikanske Ferrari-importören Luigi Chinettis NART-stall.

512 M
Till 1971 utvecklades bilen till 512 M. Bilen fick en ny, lättare kaross och starkare motor. Ferraristallet körde det här året med den nya trelitersbilen 312PB, så alla 512 M användes av privatstall.

Detta blev den sista versionen av 512:an, eftersom femlitersbilarna förbjöds efter 1971.

Tekniska data

Tävlingsresultat

Sportvagns-VM 1970
I sportvagns-VM 1970 tog Ferrari bara en seger med 512:an, på Sebring 12-timmars med Ignazio Giunti, Nino Vaccarella och Mario Andretti.

I världsmästerskapet slutade stallet tvåa efter Porsche.

Sportvagns-VM 1971
Säsongen 1971 körde Scuderia Ferrari med den mindre 312 PB och överlät 512:an till privatstallen. NART lyckades bäst, med en andraplats på Daytona 24-timmars med Ronnie Bucknum och Tony Adamowicz som bästa resultat.

Säsongen 1971 slutade Ferrari trea i mästerskapet.

Källor
Ferrari, av Hans Tanner och Doug Nye, 1984.

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qv500.com om 512 S.
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512
Historiska tävlingsbilar
Racersportvagnar

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Turkey asks Russia to press Armenia to abide by Nagorno-Karabakh truce
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has asked his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to press Armenia to abide by the terms of a Russian-brokered truce in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Oct. 11. Earlier, the Turkish Defense Ministry said that the "international community should speak up against Armenia."
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Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has asked his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to press Armenia to abide by the terms of a Russian-brokered truce in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Oct. 11.
The ceasefire, clinched after marathon talks in Moscow advocated by President Vladimir Putin, was meant to halt fighting to allow ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azeri forces to swap prisoners and war dead.
In a statement, Turkey's Foreign Ministry strongly condemned an Armenian missile attack on Ganja, Azerbaijan's second city, on Oct. 11 morning. Turkey is a close ally of Azerbaijan.
Earlier, the Turkish Defense Ministry said that the "international community should speak up against Armenia."
"Committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, Armenia now violates the ceasefire," the ministry said on Twitter.
"Even in a ceasefire, Armenia continues to assault civilian settlements," it added.
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The eighth and final season of Dexter starts tonight on Showtime. Over those first seven years, we've seen Dexter Morgan and his deadly persona, the one he calls his "dark passenger" kill people who, according to his code, deserved to be killed. They were the worst of the worst, who had escaped justice, slipped through the cracks if you will, and, as a result, were either never caught or had been let back into society to continue their own mayhem. I didn't count, but some sites have reported that his number of victims stands at 125 to date. As viewers, we watched and hoped that Dexter himself would elude capture. There was something about his mission, his life's work, that brought out that side of us, our own dark passenger, which wanted these people to pay for their crimes, because the normal and legal route had failed.
We've seen Dexter the brother, who loved his sister, Debra, and wanted nothing more than to keep her from ever learning his terrible secret. We watched him fall in love, get married and become a father, only to lose his wife at the hands of the Trinity killer, in a bloody crime scene designed to resemble the one where Dexter's own mother was killed, leaving him to be raised by an adoptive father – a police officer and Debra's father.
It was the relationship between Dexter and Debra, along with the ghost of their deceased father, that grabbed and held our attention. In spite of the fact that they often worked together, she as a police detective, then sergeant and finally a lieutenant, and he as a police laboratory technician, specializing in blood spatter, for six of those seasons, he managed to protect her from the truth. Then she walked in on one of his "kills", that of Travis Marshall, who was responsible for several murders of his own. Debra, acting out of love and loyalty, helped her brother to cover it up. This one moment changed their relationship to that of co-conspirators, but even more devastating was that Debra was no longer the good guy. She had always taken pride in her fierce determination to be the best kind of cop. She had relentless in her investigations and hated anyone who refused to play by the rules. All of that was gone, in one awful stroke of Dexter's knife, and there was no turning back for either of them.
Season seven was devoted to the despair, confusion and fear that both of them were experiencing. Dexter was trying to show his sister that what he did was necessary, a service to the community. She, however, struggled between her love for him, and her dedication to her career. As their Captain, Maria LaGuerta, began to suspect that Dexter was the real Bay Harbor Butcher, Debra and Dexter were forced into a game of cat and mouse, manipulating and manufacturing evidence to point Maria in another direction. As she closed in on Dexter, he continued his killing sprees, often abandoning his own code and killing out of personal necessity.
Season seven ended with Debra shooting and killing Captain LaGuerta, having been forced to choose between her and Dexter. This season begins six months later and we'll see how Debra and Dexter have dealt with her murder. There are some rumors that we'll see the return of Hannah McKay, Dexter's serial killer soul-mate. The last we saw of her was as she left one of her greenhouse orchids at his apartment door, then simply walking away. The biggest question is who will survive the final season. Will this mean the demise of Dexter Morgan in every sense of the word? Until that last episode, I'm sure we'll be treated to a terrific and horrific ride. See you on the dark side.
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I read interview with Michael at end of Season Six. He said not to expect a happy ending for Dexter. 😦
I'm sort of preparing myself for that. I can't see any way for Dexter Morgan to survive or if he really should. 😦
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Funny story. Youngest daughter watched from beginning and said Mom you've GOT to find a way to watch this series. This was unusual for her so I asked, What's it about? She of course explained the premise to which I replied, You're kidding right, I'm going to cheer on a killer??? Of course, like millions of others I quickly became absorbed with rooting for Dexter. I'm pretty hard core when it comes to criminals so this was a genuine soul-searching quandary. And thus your statement "or if he really should" has put me back at square one. ;/
I will not have the time to watch right now so will be saving all my emails on your thoughts as the season progresses <see is that even the proper word to use! lol


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This month at Poetry in Motion, we have a very special guest poet all the way from New York City!
Emily Weitzman is currently on what I think many of us what call a dream mission - travelling the world on a fellowship to learn about different slam poetry communities! She is a veteran of the college slam scene in the US and has a bunch of awards to her name. Don't miss this exciting international performance!
We will also be holding our usual open mic to begin with, all are welcome to read or perform, original or covered material!
Emily Weitzman writes artichokes and eats poems. Raised in New York, she recently graduated from Wesleyan University, where she majored in English and dance. As a competitor and coach, she was a four-year member of the Wesleyan University slam poetry team. The team won numerous awards, including "Best Writing" at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) in 2012, and Emily won individual awards such as "Best Female Poet" (Yale Regionals 2012), "Funniest Poet" (CUPSI 2012), and "Best Persona Poem" (CUPSI 2011). Emily is currently traveling the world for a year on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, hoping to learn about communities and cultures by exploring spoken word scenes across the globe.


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i saw hambone up this one on facebook so i thought i would give it a go. if you could remember, a while a back david gave us a view of how riding is out on the hawaiian islands. now he's back around along with eszter with another one. lady ripping, ridic smoothies, footjam tailwhips, and an impressive dunk round out with some good vibe with beck. i can dig it.


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L'Interstate 165 (I-165) est une autoroute collectrice de l'I-65 qui donne accès à Mobile, Alabama. Elle parcourt environ 5,07 miles (8,16 km) entre Water Street au centre-ville de Mobile jusqu'à l'I-65, au nord à Prichard. L'I-165 se termine à Water Street, laquelle se termine sur l'I-10 moins de deux miles (3,2 km) plus loin. L'autoroute est surélevée sur toute sa longueur.

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L'I-165 débute à son terminus nord à un échangeur avec l'I-65 à Prichard. L'autoroute rencontre des voies locales avant de croiser la US 90 / US 98 Truck aux limites des villes de Mobile et de Prichard. Elle a un échangeur incomplet qui mène à Conception Street Road. Celle-ci n'est accessible que depuis les voies en direction nord. Finalement, l'autoroute atteint son terminus sud à l'intersection avec Beauregard Street. La US 90 / US 98 Truck se séparent de l'autoroute. L'échangeur inclut également une connexion vers Water Street qui mène à l'I-10.

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Smartphones are most popular devices for online shopping, survey says
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Smartphones have become the most popular devices for online shopping, with an 8% gain in planned usage to 56% of North American consumers, per a survey by mobile video ad network AdColony provided to Mobile Marketer. Less than a third (28%) of shoppers plan to use a desktop or laptop for shopping, while only 16% will use a tablet, the survey found.
About four out of five (81%) consumers said they have bought gifts on their mobile devices, while almost half (45%) of consumers use their smartphone to shop all the time. The most common purchases are clothing (43% of consumers), home goods (20%), books (9%), event tickets (9%), travel (8%), groceries (7%) and transportation tickets (3%).
Most consumers (61%) said it's important or very important to have a mobile device while shopping in-store, and the most common uses for the devices while shopping are researching competitor prices (55%), signing up for a discount (46%), taking a picture for future reference (45%) and looking up product reviews (44%).
Insight:
AdColony's survey suggests that merchants and brands need to have their mobile strategies in place to appeal to holiday shoppers who rely heavily on their smartphones to make online purchases or for assistance in stores. That growing preference for mobile shopping is meaningful for advertisers on social media and search platforms that have had added more shopping features to compete with traditional retailers and online stores like Amazon. More than a third (34%) of U.S. internet users said they had used social media to make a purchase, up from 29% last year, while another 27% said they were interested in social shopping, per a study by Bizrate Insights.
Mobile strategies are important as U.S. consumers plan to boost their holiday shopping by 7% to an average of $740 each, per a study by researcher NPD Group. Its survey found that one-fourth of digital shoppers will use a smartphone for holiday shopping this year, up from 19% two years ago. More than three-fourths of consumers will shop online this holiday season, while more than half of purchases will happen in stores, the survey found. That finding suggests that "bricks and clicks" marketing will be key for brands and retailers.
The National Retail Federation this month forecast a 3.8%-4.2% gain in holiday sales from last year for a total of $727.9 billion-$730.7 billion. The growth belies a difficult year for brick-and-mortar retailers, which this year have announced plans to close 8,558 stores while opening 3,446 new outlets, per a report last month by Coresight Research. The eroding power of shopping malls and shifting tastes among young consumers have been evident with last month's bankruptcy filing by fast-fashion retailer Forever 21, which may close as many as 178 stores in the U.S. The U.S.-China trade war is a significant concern for retailers as tariffs on Chinese-made goods raise prices on many consumer goods, CNBC reported.
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Narinder leads the Centre, mobilizing the private sector to partner with game changing interventions in the non profit sector, scaling their impact across Canada. She formally sat on the Global Council for Pro Bono and is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader.
As a lecturer at the University of Toronto, Narinder co-created the first course in microfinance and impact investing at the University. Further, she worked with Ryerson to launch the Professional Master's Diploma in Social Finance this past September, designing and teaching the "Investing for Impact" and "Social Impact Measurement" courses.
Narinder is the founding Executive Director of Rise Asset Development - a Rotman/CAMH financial initiative, providing an entrepreneurial path to employment for those with a history of mental health and addiction challenges. She led the design and growth of Rise from the pilot phase to its expansion across Ontario. Narinder has also has spent multiple years working across West Africa, both as program manager at the Première Agence de Microfinance (PAMF) across Burkina Faso, Mali and Cote d'Ivoire and as a member of the portfolio team with Acumen Fund (West Africa office providing impact investments to social enterprises across Ghana and Nigeria).
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Gaurav is extremely passionate about leveraging his business & strategy experience to drive social impact. Prior to joining the Centre, he was the head of sustainable business development at British Telecom in London, UK. His role straddled strategy, business development, partnership creation and program management; and he engaged across the business towards the development of products and programs with a social, environmental and economic impact. Gaurav has led multiple global projects, and formed partnerships with customers, charities, NGOs, governments and foundations in the UK, India, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Gaurav also brings extensive experience in management consulting at BT, public health consulting at The Clinton Foundation, and leading intellectual property development at Qualcomm Incorporated.
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Climate: Farming emissions to rise 30 percent by 2050
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Greenhouse gases emitted by agriculture are on track to rise by 30 percent by mid-century, driven especially by livestock and use of fertiliser, a UN agency reported on Friday.
"Global agricultural emissions are projected to increase in 2030 and 2050 by 18 percent and 30 percent respectively," the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report issued in Rome.
Annual emissions by mid-century will be more than 6.3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq), a standardised measure of carbon gas, it said.
Looking at the period from 2001 to 2011, emissions from crop and livestock production rose by 14 percent, the FAO said.
The biggest source in this sector was "enteric fermentation"—methane emitted in flatulence and belching by livestock—which accounted for 39 percent of the sector's total output of greenhouse gases. These emissions rose by 11 percent between 2001 and 2011.
Another big contributor was man-made fertiliser, which accounted for 13 percent of agricultural emissions in 2011—a rise of more than a third since 2001.
Asia accounted for 44 percent of agricultural emissions in 2011, followed by the Americas (25 percent), Africa (15 percent), Europe (12 percent) and Oceania (four percent).
Rice paddies, by generating methane through biological processes, account for 10 percent of total agricultural emissions, while the burning of savannah grasslands accounts for five percent.
Over the decade, emissions of greenhouse gases from land use change and deforestation fell by nearly 10 percent.
Around a seventh of global emissions of greenhouse gases come from the farm sector, previous estimates have said.
Livestock is major contributor to global warming: UN
Citation: Climate: Farming emissions to rise 30 percent by 2050 (2014, April 11) retrieved 22 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2014-04-climate-farming-emissions.html
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Q: Issue in Admin Panel after SUPEE Patch 8788 installation I have Magento CE 1.9.2.4 installed along with patches (5377,1533,4788 etc. almost all patches).
This question also reveals issues that may/surely occur in any custom module involving Image uploads in their custom sections, rather than just core magento issues.

*

*Now after I installed the latest patch 8788 through command-line, I am not able to open "Add/Edit" page of my custom module, which was working fine prior to 8788 installation.

I am getting below error when I try to open the "Add New Banner" page of my module:

Fatal error: Call to a member function setUrl() on a non-object in /home/site_user/public_html/app/code/community/My/Module/Block/Adminhtml/Banner/Add/Tab/Image.php on line 57

The culprit line is as below:
$this->getUploader()->getConfig()->setUrl(Mage::getModel('adminhtml/url')->addSessionParam()->getUrl('*/*/image'))

*Also I cannot see already uploaded product images in admin Catalog > Manage Products > Any product > Images section.

Below is the core Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Media_Uploader class being called.
<?php
/**
 * Magento
 *
 * NOTICE OF LICENSE
 *
 * This source file is subject to the Open Software License (OSL 3.0)
 * that is bundled with this package in the file LICENSE.txt.
 * It is also available through the world-wide-web at this URL:
 * http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php
 * If you did not receive a copy of the license and are unable to
 * obtain it through the world-wide-web, please send an email
 * to license@magento.com so we can send you a copy immediately.
 *
 * DISCLAIMER
 *
 * Do not edit or add to this file if you wish to upgrade Magento to newer
 * versions in the future. If you wish to customize Magento for your
 * needs please refer to http://www.magento.com for more information.
 *
 * @category    Mage
 * @package     Mage_Adminhtml
 * @copyright  Copyright (c) 2006-2016 X.commerce, Inc. and affiliates (http://www.magento.com)
 * @license    http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php  Open Software License (OSL 3.0)
 */

/**
 * Adminhtml media library uploader
 *
 * @category   Mage
 * @package    Mage_Adminhtml
 * @author      Magento Core Team <core@magentocommerce.com>
 */

/**
 * @deprecated
 * Class Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Media_Uploader
 */
class Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Media_Uploader extends Mage_Uploader_Block_Multiple
{
    /**
     * Constructor for uploader block
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->getUploaderConfig()->setTarget(Mage::getModel('adminhtml/url')->addSessionParam()->getUrl('*/*/upload'));
        $this->getUploaderConfig()->setFileParameterName('file');
    }
}

Anyone let me know how to fix this with least code changes as possible.

A: adding in @Raphael answer  you need to add three fixes
first fix
Spacename_Moduelname_Block_Adminhtml_Modulename_Edit_Tab_Images.php
protected $_uploaderType = 'uploader/multiple';
public function __construct()
{
    parent::__construct();
    $this->setTemplate('moduelname/gallery.phtml');
    ....
}
protected function _prepareLayout()
    {
 $this->setChild('uploader',
            $this->getLayout()->createBlock($this->_uploaderType)
        );

        $this->getUploader()->getUploaderConfig()
            ->setFileParameterName('image')
            ->setTarget(Mage::getModel('adminhtml/url')->addSessionParam()->getUrl('*/*/image'));

        $browseConfig = $this->getUploader()->getButtonConfig();
        $browseConfig
            ->setAttributes(array(
                'accept' => $browseConfig->getMimeTypesByExtensions('gif, png, jpeg, jpg')
            ));
     return parent::_prepareLayout();
    }

Second fix in adminhtml/default/default/modulename/gallery.phtml file
 <script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var <?php echo $_block->getJsObjectName(); ?> = new Product.Gallery('<?php echo $_block->getHtmlId() ?>', <?php echo $_block->getImageTypesJson() ?>);
//]]>
</script>

third fix the js part layout/module.xml
<reference name="head">
            <action method="addJs"><file>lib/uploader/flow.min.js</file></action>
            <action method="addJs"><file>lib/uploader/fusty-flow.js</file></action>
            <action method="addJs"><file>lib/uploader/fusty-flow-factory.js</file></action>
            <action method="addJs"><file>mage/adminhtml/uploader/instance.js</file></action>
</reference>

files to fixes loaction
first fix
app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Catalog/Product/Helper/Form/Gallery/Content.php
second fix
app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/catalog/product/helper/gallery.phtml

A: Fixed - Image Upload issue after PATCH 8788 install of Magento version CE 1.7.0.2 - 1.9.2.4.

I was able to fix it,Please Follow following instruction.

Step >> 1: After installed security patch 8788 successfully, Please go to admin panel and flush all Magento cache. Then Logout your Admin Panel and Relogin to Admin Panel.

Step >> 2: Go to Index Management and select all reindex all data after flush all Magento cache once again.
Step >> 3: This very Important step, Delete your browser cache(Ctrl+shift+Delete) history clear all browsing data from browser including cookies.
Step >> 4: Go to Catalog >> Product Management , add new image of any product,now you can see everything work fine.

A: Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Media_Uploader is deprecated on after SUPEE-8788 (and 1.9.3). Thus there are several backward incompatibility changes which breaks module using the uploader.
I first thought a small change would fix it but there's actually way more to do.
Make a module using the gallery compatible with 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
So if you're a module provider, you don't want to have two different versions of your module for 1.9.2 and 1.9.3. Here's how to make your code compatible with both:
In your block _prepareLayout method you need to do the following:
Replace:
 $this->getUploader()->getConfig()
            ->setUrl($url)
            ->setFileField('image')
            ->setFilters(array(
                'images' => array(
                    'label' => Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__('Images (.gif, .jpg, .png)'),
                    'files' => array('*.gif', '*.jpg','*.jpeg', '*.png')
                )
            ));

With:
    if (class_exists("Mage_Uploader_Block_Abstract")) {
        // PATCH SUPEE-8788 or Magento 1.9.3
        $this->getUploader()->getUploaderConfig()
            ->setFileParameterName('image')
            ->setTarget($url);

        $browseConfig = $this->getUploader()->getButtonConfig();
        $browseConfig
            ->setAttributes(
                array("accept"  =>  $browseConfig->getMimeTypesByExtensions('gif, png, jpeg, jpg'))
            );
    } else {
        $this->getUploader()->getConfig()
            ->setUrl($url)
            ->setFileField('image')
            ->setFilters(array(
                'images' => array(
                    'label' => Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__('Images (.gif, .jpg, .png)'),
                    'files' => array('*.gif', '*.jpg','*.jpeg', '*.png')
                )
            ));
    }

As you can see I'm using class_exists to check whether SUPEE-8788 or Magento 1.9.3 is applied.
Then in your gallery.phtml you need to replace:
var <?php echo $_block->getJsObjectName(); ?> = new Product.Gallery('<?php echo $_block->getHtmlId() ?>', <?php if ($_block->getElement()->getReadonly()):?>null<?php else:?><?php echo $_block->getUploader()->getJsObjectName() ?><?php endif;?>, <?php echo $_block->getImageTypesJson() ?>);

With:
<?php if (class_exists("Mage_Uploader_Block_Abstract")): ?>
    var <?php echo $_block->getJsObjectName(); ?> = new Product.Gallery('<?php echo $_block->getHtmlId() ?>', <?php echo $_block->getImageTypesJson() ?>);
<?php else: ?>
    var <?php echo $_block->getJsObjectName(); ?> = new Product.Gallery('<?php echo $_block->getHtmlId() ?>', <?php if ($_block->getElement()->getReadonly()):?>null<?php else:?><?php echo $_block->getUploader()->getJsObjectName() ?><?php endif;?>, <?php echo $_block->getImageTypesJson() ?>);
<?php endif; ?>

Then for the layout file, you can do it like this:
<reference name="head">
    <action method="addJs"><file helper="module/getFlowMin" /></action>
    <action method="addJs"><file helper="module/getFustyFlow" /></action>
    <action method="addJs"><file helper="module/getFustyFlowFactory" /></action>
    <action method="addJs"><file helper="module/getAdminhtmlUploaderInstance" /></action>
</reference>

Replace module with your helper class identifier and in your module Data.php helper add the following:
protected function _isNoFlashUploader()
{
    return class_exists("Mage_Uploader_Block_Abstract");
}

public function getFlowMin()
{
    return $this->_isNoFlashUploader() ? "lib/uploader/flow.min.js" : null;
}

public function getFustyFlow()
{
    return $this->_isNoFlashUploader() ? "lib/uploader/fusty-flow.js" : null;
}

public function getFustyFlowFactory()
{
    return $this->_isNoFlashUploader() ? "lib/uploader/fusty-flow-factory.js" : null;
}

public function getAdminhtmlUploaderInstance()
{
    return $this->_isNoFlashUploader() ? "mage/adminhtml/uploader/instance.js" : null;
}

A: I was experiencing your same Issue case 2.  In my case it was caused by this file being overwritten by a custom module:
app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/catalog/product/helper/gallery.phtml
I would suggest you check to see if you have a similar template overwriting the template for that block Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Helper_Form_Gallery_Content and if that is the case, apply the Supee-8788 patch to the overwriting file.