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Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour 2020 - Aberdeen Theatre Tickets
We do not curently have theatre tickets available for Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour 2020 - Aberdeen. This could be because we have simply sold out or it could be that this show is no longer running. The information on this page remains purely for historical and informational purposes.
Clear the floor and whip out your score cards, because Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour is back for 2020 and will waltz its way around the country from January next year for 32 scintillating sequin-filled shows. Including for the first time ever, a special Relaxed Performance in association with the National Autistic Society at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham.
The tour will star TV Judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood (who directs the live show for the 10th year) and Bruno Tonioli. They will be joined by 2018 TV show winner Stacey Dooley who is hosting the 2020 tour.
Recreating all the glittering moves and pure magic of the nation's favourite TV show will be: Sky Sports presenter Alex Scott, actress Catherine Tyldesley, EastEnders actress Emma Barton, CBBC presenter Karim Zeroual, actor Kelvin Fletcher, BBC Breakfast's Mike Bushell and social media sensation Saffron Barker.
Arena audiences can expect to enjoy an unmissable evening of dance entertainment filled with colour, excitement and humour. Showcasing all the amazing choreography and live music that Strictly is known for, audiences will experience a host of breath-taking dance routines guaranteed to leave them reeling and roaring for more. Recreating the glitz, glamour and magic seen on the TV, this show is undoubtedly a must-see spectacle for fans and families up and down the country.
Theatre: QA Venue 6 - Non E-Ticket
Address: Harling House, 47-51 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0BS


Takumi Bakery is a Japanese concept is now open at Bawabat Al Sharq Mall.
Emirates Blends is now open and offering perfumes and body care products.
Join us during the Raffle Draw and win loads of special gifts on Thursday 21 March at 8:00 PM.
Miss Elegant is fashion store that offers a wide range of elegant ladies fashion.
Yamanote is a Japanese Bakery & Café that offers tasty pastries.
Bayt Al Saboun Al Loubanani offers a wide range of natural products for body and hair.
This event is in collaboration with Mafraq Hospital and Metrofitt Men's Gym.
Mediclinic Middle East is once again offering free heart health checks to mark World Heart Day.
Kid's Moda Outlet is a multi-brand luxury fashion shop for kids.
Learn how to drive safely at Bawabat Al Sharq Mall from 30th July till 1st August.
Nishat Linen is Now open in Bawabat Al Sharq Mall.
We are excited to announce the opening of the new Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) branch at Gate No. 3.
IL Caffé Di Roma now opened at Bawabat Al Sharq Mall.
Celebrate EID Al Fitr at Bawabat Al Sharq Mall!
Celebrate Ramadan with blissful tunes of oud and Qanoun.
Fast 8 cars are now placed at various locations throughout the Mall.
Shop & get a chance to win a Nissan Patrol. Raffle draw on 25th March 2017.


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Q: Naming convention having two targets in the app I had two target for my application. One free and other is for paid.
Now i need to add different icons for both target. Now the problem is that i can not used apple naming conventions like now i use icon_free.png and icon_paid.png.
My Problem when i add 512px icon then will  iOS will automatically pick the correct image for each build

A: There are two ways.
First option: You can use apples naming conventions. Just store the icons in different sub directories. When creating the second target one suitable sub-dir was created. However, you can create a new one.
Place the files with default names in each of the directories.
Create separated groups for them in your navigtor tree in xcode. Upon creation of the second target that should have been done anyway. So you can have both versions of the icon with the same name at different branches within your navigation tree.
Then go to the copy build settings of each target and make sure that the appropriate version is included for each target.
Second option: Alternatively give the icon (and default etc.) files different names and name them explicitely in plist.info. And plist.info then exsist for each of the targets. For plist.info xcode should have created separate files anyway. You find it on the info tab of the projedct settings close to the build obtions tab.
In general I found it is good pactice beeing neat with separate folders. After hasseling around with difficult problems when having two targets with newer apps I always have one sub-dir with all the shared resources and one for each of the targets. It makes it easier to boundle the copy and compile settings for each of the targets accordingly.
Just one more: When ever you apply changes to the bundles in this way you should delete the apps thoroughly from the simulators and test devices. If you don't then you may run into situations where the root cause is difficult to find. That is that there are old versions of some of the resources on the device. They will not be updated along with new releases. You will then have as best missing resoures on 3rd party devices and in the worst case you will chase errors and all what you try does not have an effect on the device/simulator because the locally existing resource is not being updated. Difficult to figure out.

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Alabama agent has best month in his 15 year career.
Have you ever heard of Orange Beach, Alabama? According to the locals, it was one of the most well-kept secrets in the entire country. Orange Beach is located just West of the Florida State Line. Boasting some of the most beautiful white sandy beaches in the world, the Gulf Shores/Orange Beach area is becoming less of a secret.
In 2010, the BP oil spill brought unfortunate attention to the area. The infamous Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill speckled our white beaches with black tar. Orange (Beach) became the new black, so to speak. Scared of the oil and the chemicals used to dissolve the tar balls, most tourists decided not to vacation here that year.
Thankfully, the beaches were eventually cleaned and restored. Government sanctions and lawsuits followed. In response, British Petroleum began paying for 1000's of commercials across the country, promoting the area. The ads aimed to bring more tourism to make up for what was lost by the spill. Well, be careful what you ask for. Tourism in our area has hit new record highs each year after that disaster was resolved. Numbers have been rising every single year in a row. 2017 is projected to be no different, according to the Alabama Department of Revenue.
Because of all the new attention that the Alabama Gulf Coast has received, developers are also paying close attention. Several new beach front condo projects are in the works, with one to be completed soon. Phoenix Gulf Shores is an 80 unit development scheduled to be completed by mid-2017. This gorgeous condo includes 3 and 4 bedroom units starting in the $600K's, with over 1700 square feet in most units. Already, this newest complex on our Gulf Coast has sold out. But we are looking at approximately 500 new condo/hotel units in the area over the next 3-5 years.
Another huge attraction coming to the area this year is OWA, or "Big Water." OWA is a $500 Million Dollar project located in Foley, Alabama, just north of Orange Beach on the Foley Beach Expressway. The Poarch Creek Indian tribe is developing the project to be similar to a Six-Flags amusement park but with hotels, restaurants, mall, theater, concert hall, RV park, etc. OWA will bring more positive change, attracting families who can enjoy the amusement park and our beautiful beaches all on the same vacation.
With these projects and dramatic increases in tourism in the last 5 years, you can imagine that the real estate market is heating up as well. My name is Ricky Carruth, a real estate agent with RE/MAX of Orange Beach. I just had my best time in the business in 15 years: $105K in gross commissions earned in a single month. I closed 104 transactions in 2016, and 14 so far in 2017. Those are tall feats for a small-town Alabama boy, but I've worked 7 days a week for over a decade building strong relationships with my clients and fellow agents. Honesty and dependability are key reasons behind my success.
These last 15 years, I've faced the highest highs and lowest lows of the real estate market. So harsh lessons—and grateful blessings—have been the theme for my career so far. I am extremely excited for what the future holds in this market and the world as a whole.


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Q: Reading .csv data from URL in python: extra lines First post on stackoverflow, and a newbie to python. I'm trying to read weather data from a location from wunderground. It should be straightforward:
import csv
import urllib2
url = 'http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMDLAURE4&day=9&month=6&year=2013&graphspan=day&format=1'
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
cr = csv.reader(response)

However, when I do this, I get an extra line in between all the data. So if I examine the first few lines of the .csv output, I get the following:
    cr.next()
    Out[210]: []

    cr.next()
    Out[211]:
    ['Time',
   blah blah blah fields redacted
     'DateUTC
']

    cr.next()
    Out[212]:
    ['2013-06-09 00:07:00',
      blah blah blah data redacted
     '2013-06-09 04:07:00',
     '']

    cr.next()
    Out[213]: ['
']

    cr.next()
    Out[214]:
    ['2013-06-09 00:22:00',
     blah blah blah data redacted,
     '2013-06-09 04:22:00',
     '']

I could just loop over the file, and throw away every other line, or check to see if the line only contains
 and get rid of it. To me, that's an inelegant solution, as the real 'problem' is due to the reading of the text. This seems like an 'opening in binary' or codec problem, but how do I check? Thanks!

A: There must be a way to tell wunderground to return a true CSV format, instead of HTML. However, you can work around it by skipping those rows that are too short:
import csv
import urllib2
url = 'http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMDLAURE4&day=9&month=6&year=2013&graphspan=day&format=1'
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
cr = csv.reader(response)

for row in cr:
    if len(row) <= 1: continue
    print row

Update
Here is a different approach: create a class to filter out those unwanted lines:
import csv
import urllib2

class RemoveBlank(object):
    def __init__(self, response):
        self.response = response
    def __iter__(self):
        return self
    def next(self):
        line = '\n'
        while line == '\n' or line == '
\n':
            line = next(self.response)
        return line

url = 'http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMDLAURE4&day=9&month=6&year=2013&graphspan=day&format=1'
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
cr = csv.reader(RemoveBlank(response))

for row in cr:
    print row

This time, instead of giving the response object to cdv.reader, you wrap that response object within the RemoveBlank object. Note that in Python 3, the method should be named __next__.
The advantage of this method: it leaves the main body clean so you can concentrate on your logic.

A: First of all, this isn't an answer for your question. This is an alternative solution using a different way to solve the problem.
I use the same API, and a better way to get the same info is use the JSON response as Larry Lustig has commented.
from json import loads
from urllib import urlopen

url = 'http://api.wunderground.com/api/01f4106be8822ff4/history_201300609/q/MD/Laurel.json'
response = loads(urlopen(url).read())

print 'Date', 'Temperature', 'Dew Point', 'Umidity'
for w in response['history']['observations']:
    print w['date']['pretty'], w['tempi'], w['dewpti'], w['hum']

Response
Date Temperature Dew Point Umidity
12:15 AM EST on January 29, 2013 32.0 32.0 100
12:36 AM EST on January 29, 2013 32.0 32.0 100
12:57 AM EST on January 29, 2013 32.0 32.0 100
1:18 AM EST on January 29, 2013 32.0 32.0 100
1:39 AM EST on January 29, 2013 32.0 32.0 100

In official API doc you could found more info.
And here, the solution for your problem. This is a way to read a CSV file as a dictionary.
from urllib import urlopen
from csv import DictReader
from StrinIO import StringIO

url = 'http://api.wunderground.com/api/01f4106be8822ff4/history_201300609/q/MD/Laurel.json'
response = StringIO(urlopen(url).read())
weather = DictReader(response)

# Skips header
weather.next()

for w in weather:
    print w

Response
{None: ['2013-06-09 00:07:00', '18.5', '17.2', '1015.8', 'WNW', '285', '0.0', '-1607.4', '92', '-2539.7', '', '', '0.0', 'weatherlink.com 1.10', '2013-06-09 04:07:00', '']}
{None: ['
']}
{None: ['2013-06-09 00:22:00', '18.6', '17.8', '1015.8', 'WNW', '285', '0.0', '-1607.4', '93', '-2539.7', '', '', '0.0', 'weatherlink.com 1.10', '2013-06-09 04:22:00', '']}

Here again, your results comes as dict. Easier to handle.


This is the second article in a series about how to start a permaculture guild in your community. It's based on what we've been doing to start one in Santa Cruz, CA. In the first article, we explore what a Permaculture Guild is and how to host your first meeting using the World Cafe process. In this article, we describe how to host an Open Space with your guild.
When was the last time you attended a meeting or conference in which all of the participants collectively created the agenda? If you haven't attended a meeting like this, imagine what it might feel like for the agenda-setting power to be distributed equally among attendees.
Although other factors certainly affect where power is held in groups, when we create the agenda together, we're allowing space for more diverse ideas to emerge.
Additionally, the topics put forth by the entire group represent those that are most pressing, important, or exciting. The top-down agenda creation process that's common in mainstream work environments limits the scope of possibilities, solutions, and ideas.
We already know that collectively creating inevitably produces more possibilities than doing so in isolation. David Holmgren's permaculture principle of "Integrate rather than segregate" comes to mind. The same can be true in our meetings and conferences.
Most of our permaculture participants want to host meetings in ways that are inclusive of our diverse perspectives, and yet many of us were never taught how, beyond Robert's Rules of Order, perhaps. So, how do we host meetings like this?
In this article, we'll explain the process of hosting what is called Open Space Technology. We'll use the context of the Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild as an example.
Last month, the newly re-launched Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild hosted the World Cafe process to explore the possibilities for the future of the Guild. It's described in this article. For our second meeting on March 7, we utilized Open Space Technology and focused on what permaculture topics and actions people in the Guild are most passionate about pursuing or discussing.
Open Space Technology, Open Space, or OST, is a format for meeting facilitation in which the participants of the meeting collectively create their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance.
All participants have the opportunity to express what they consider to be important and to take responsibility for their passions.
By allowing everyone to present a topic for the meeting, power is distributed to the collective group, and the energy and passion of the group determines where the discussion leads.
Note: People often hear "Open Space" and think that it's just free time and get anxious that it's going to be a chaotic waste of time. Alternatively people hear "Open Space" and confuse it with "Open Source," thinking they know what the process is. For as simple, elegant and effective as it is, it is surprising that more people do not actually utilize Open Space Technology in their communities and organizations.
Although Open Space Technology allows participants to create the agenda collectively, someone still needs to organize the gathering, introduce the process to attendees, and facilitate at key points throughout the meeting or conference. We'll refer to the organizer of the Open Space as "the host," although this could be a hosting team of multiple people.
As with any meeting or conference, a date, time, location, and purpose need to be identified. Ideally, the purpose is identified in a collective way based on the needs and interests of the group. Once these details are confirmed, the host should prepare and share an invitation to the meeting. We shared our invitation at the end of the February meeting, through a couple emails to our Guild list-serv, and on the Facebook event page for the March meeting.
For the Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild's Open Space session on March 7, 2018 at the Live Oak Grange, our purpose was to create an opportunity for Guild members to explore permaculture topics they are passionate about together.
Some possible outcomes were to encourage people to get to know each other better and build community, as well as identify possible actions or projects the Guild could collectively work toward in the coming year.
During the World Cafe process in February, we explored questions about the intention of the Guild, what we could each individually bring, and what we could collectively accomplish.
At the end of the February meeting, we invited participants to think about what came up for them that they would want to explore deeper at the March meeting. We only briefly mentioned Open Space Technology but didn't get into the specifics. Our emails and Facebook event page also only briefly described Open Space Technology. We gave enough detail for folks to come prepared with topics, but not so much detail that they felt overwhelmed.
In addition to inviting folks to attend the Open Space and reserving the meeting location for a certain date and time, the host should also map out how many discussion sessions will fit into the meeting time. Be sure to plan time in at the beginning for folks to trickle in. If you're having a potluck beforehand (which we did), you'll want to allow people to eat, mingle, and wash dishes before beginning the session.
If it's your first time hosting an Open Space, give yourself plenty of time for the introduction so you don't feel rushed. Each discussion session can be about 20 minutes long. If you can, give folks 5-10 minute breaks between sessions. You'll also need time at the end for the harvest and cleanup. Note: At all-day or multi-day Open Spaces the sessions are typically 60-90 minutes long. Because our Open Space was two hours long on a weekday evening we opted for 20 minute sessions.
For a meeting to be considered an Open Space session, there are some key elements that the host should explain during the introduction. These elements set the tone for the Open Space session and create a set of expectations.
At the beginning of this post when we asked you to imagine a meeting in which everyone created the agenda, you may have groaned at the thought of giving everyone the metaphorical microphone. How could that possibly work without chaos? How do you avoid giving power to people who may hog the conversation and steer it toward their own interests? While these are issues that every meeting facilitator must consider, Open Space does have some strategies for addressing them during this context-setting at the beginning.
Write or print out these elements (the four principles, one law, and two animals described below) on paper large enough for everyone to see them while the group is sitting together. For the Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild meeting, we used printer paper because the group was small (about 20 people). For much larger sessions, you should use butcher paper or flip chart paper with large letters. You can also put these on a projector; however, we find it's best to keep it low-tech. These should remain up in the space throughout the meeting or conference.
In addition to the guiding principles and law, there are a couple roles that are mentioned in the video below. These include convener, bumblebee, and butterfly, which the next video will explain.
One animal who is not invited to Open Space sessions and isn't mentioned in these videos is the boar (or bore), the person who hogs the floor and doesn't let anyone else speak. It's important to mention this animal even though it isn't invited as a reminder to pause and let others speak in sessions. This is one subtle way to remind folks that Open Space sessions work most effectively as dialogue, rather than lecture or monologue in which only one voice is heard.
Along the left side of the matrix, make rows for each time session (Session 1, Session 2, etc.). When people announce their topic, they will select a time session and a letter/location for their discussion.
As mentioned briefly in the video above, it's important to have note-takers at each discussion who can capture the names of the participants and the key discussion points, action items, or anything else that was discussed that should be recorded. Please see this article by Phil Howard, Jan Perez, Tim Galarneau, and David Shaw about note taking at Open Spaces using the Dynamic Facilitation process.
At the end of the session, hang the notes up on the wall for people to read during the breaks. Ultimately someone should type up the notes and share them with the group (or scan/send an image if the handwriting is legible). The best practice is to create a "news room" where the note-takers have access to computers to type up the notes right after the session. That way, the proceedings can be distributed before the meeting is even over! For our meeting, one person collected the notes and typed them into this Google Document to share.
At the end of the session, it's important to reserve time for a harvest. This is a chance for everyone to reflect on what was discussed or discovered. The host can invite each person to share a brief reflection, or you can ask each session topic to briefly share key take-aways.
For our meeting on March 7, we had each session share back what they discussed. Some groups focused on information sharing and telling stories about successes and challenges with a particular topic, such as worm composting. Other groups identified possible next steps and committed to taking action before the April meeting to report back. Overall it was a fun opportunity for folks to get to know one another better, learn something new, and become (re)inspired. In today's fragmented society it is important to have opportunities like this for citizens to "flex the muscles of democracy" in small ways.
Although the format of the April meeting hasn't been finalized yet, we are continuing to move toward the direction of identifying goals for us to work on as a Guild in 2018. We'll be sure to share another report about what steps we take at our next meeting as part of this series.
In addition to the traditional Open Space process, we also had a few passive engagement opportunities for attendees at our meeting that will likely be present at our future meetings.
We asked folks to sign in with their name and email if they wanted to join the email list. Next to this was a stack of scratch paper and some instructions for a Community Asset Mapping project (see below).
We collected name cards from those who participated (not everyone did), and we will share the information on our Guild list-serv.
Attendees were also invited to share various kinds of information. This included needs/requests, resources/offerings, and upcoming events. At our exchange/free table, people could leave items they had brought to give away or trade. Items included seeds, sourdough starter, plants, food, flowers, and more.
These are all ways to help build community among the folks who attend the meetings. For now, we're collecting information in Google Drive to share with our email list. We may later identify other ways to share this information among our group.
Below is the agenda from our Open Space session on March 7 to show how much time we devoted to each section. We actually started the meeting about 30 minutes late because folks trickled in slowly and didn't start eating until around 6:50pm. Because we had given ourselves plenty of time for the introduction and re-arrangement of topics, we only ended about 5-10 minutes past 8:30pm. If you are hosting a potluck before your Open Space, we would recommend giving folks a full hour to arrive and eat.
For folks who live near Santa Cruz and want to get involved with our permaculture guild, please join our Facebook group. You can mark your calendar with the upcoming meeting dates for 2018 listed on our website here. RSVP on the Facebook event page for our April 4th meeting here.
Please connect with us if you're inspired to host an Open Space session in your community–for a permaculture guild meeting or any other kind of meeting! We have worked with groups from 2 to 600 people, and from 60 minutes to 6 days, to design and host productive and energizing meetings. Our services include hosting World Cafe, Open Space Technology, and Council sessions. We also offer a suite of other practices to suit any occasion or desired outcome. How might your organization, guild, or community host better and more productive meetings? Please contact us through our consultation inquiry form here.
Missed part one in this "Starting a Permaculture Guild" series? You can read the article here.


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What is lard bread, you ask?
It's this wonderful bread made with pork drippings and only freaking fantastic!!!!!
I used to buy this old school Italian loaf in a Soho bakery years ago, that is no longer in business. They probably died from eating too much lard.
It was the BEST loaf of bread ever, loaded with pancetta and some of the salty fat. Ah, organic and healthy.
Jim Lahey has a recipe for lard bread made with pancetta, but I used good old smoked slab bacon and sauteed onions and rosemary to make this loaf an amazing piece of art.
I like to plan on baking my bread at 9 a.m. on Sunday to have it ready for lunch, so it's nice and warm. I usually start the process on Saturday morning at 9 a.m. to be exact, so 24 hours later we are in business.
By the time you wake up the next morning, this thing is alive. It has tripled in size and wants to escape from the glass bowl. It has a life of its own and wants to get on with it.
I sauteed the bacon pieces with the onions, then cooled and drained them on paper towels.
Mixed them in with the flour, yeast and salt and the baby is on its way.
24 hours before you are planning on eating the bread, get started.
Cook the bacon and onions in a large nonstick skillet on medium-low heat for about 10 minutes. Drain and cool the mixture on paper towels.
In a large glass bowl, mix the flour, salt, yeast. Once the bacon onion mixture is cooled, add that with the rosemary to the flour mixture. Add a about a tablespoon of the lard or fat from the pan.
Now add the cool water and mix with your hands to form a nice sticky dough and form into a ball.
Leave in the glass bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap and leave on the counter in a cool dry place for about 18 hours (I usually do 24 hours, depending when I wake up in the a.m.).
When you check on it, the dough will have spread in the bowl and doubled in size.
Using a rubber spatula, scrape out the dough onto a floured surface and fold it a few times, turning it over and forming another ball of dough.
Now you are supposed to let it rest in a dishtowel for another hour or two for the second rise, but for some reason, this loaf did not need it.
I put it in the oven almost right away. It was ready to go.
Preheat your heaviest 7-9 quart Dutch oven for 15 minutes in a 475F oven.
Carefully remove the Dutch oven and lay the dough on a piece of large parchment paper, big enough to slip into the pot.
Place the dough and parchment paper into the preheated pot and bake covered for 30 minutes.
Remove the lid, and bake another 10 minutes uncovered until you have a beautiful crust.
Slice into it whenever you like. I never wait for the bread to cool, it's too good.
This was my favorite loaf from Lahey's book so far.
It was like an Italian onion roll with little bits of bacon in it.
PERFECT on its own, with butter, or with an egg over easy.
Now THIS bread looks fantastic! And seems easy enough to make. I have a recipe for bacon fat cookies which are great so I can only imagine this bread has an amazing flavor,too! Thanks for sharing!
Grandma always said to cook with lard. Judging by this bread, she was spot-on.
Stacey - Can I come for lunch next Sunday? Please make this bread.
You did a great job. Looks just like the ones found in Italian specialty stores or bakeries.
I'm so impressed with your bread making, I shy away from anything with yeast, I might have to take a closer look at that book!
Funny, I have had my "in-house baking team" working on this very item. Apologies for my mimicking this post in the not too terribly distant future.
Oh yum! There are a couple of Italian specialty shops near me where my grandmother used to buy lard bread all of the time when she was alive. Every now and then my brother (who lives in her old house) buys it for family occasions, but people are just too afraid for their health to buy it more often. Now you have me craving it. I could go to the store, or I could consider baking it myself when I have the time.
Lard.....did you say LARD? Oohh....a woman after my own heart! We will definitely try this one and further fuel our Lahey addiction.
You start to bake bread. Wow! Talented, and the bread sounds amazing.
It's time to grease the Weezer! And gooble up this bread, you little rascal you.
I'm floored. Have I ever seen you post a bread recipe, made with yeast? You've been holding out. You are a baker. Beautiful loaf of bread. I'm in!
This is my third loaf from Lahey's book (fig walnut, chocolate coconut, and this beauty!). where have you been?
I bought his book after your first post because it was so easy, and yes, delicious. I've made your fig bread with the cinnamon several times and it's always fabulous. Can't wait to try this one!
oh hell yeah. all i have to say about this one.
I know this is an old post but I just made this bread from the recipe you posted. I am a walking bread baking disaster but this came out delicious and beautiful! Thank you so much!


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New Occulo Lounge café bar to open on Lord Street in Southport creating 30 new jobs
Home New Occulo Lounge café bar to open on Lord Street in Southport creating 30 new jobs
Andrew Brown, December 4, 2022 December 4, 2022 , News, Hospitality, Lord Street, Occulo Lounge, Southport, 0
Proposals to open a new Occulo Lounge café bar on Lord Street in Southport. Creating 30 new jobs, have been approved by Sefton Council.
The new venture, operated by Loungers UK Ltd, will open on the corner of Lord Street and Nevill Street, in the building previously occupied by Waterstones bookshop.
Waterstones relocated to its new home on Chapel Street in August.
Loungers UK will now invest £1 million in transforming the historic three-storey building, which was constructed in 1925-7.
It would open seven days a week, with proposals to open at 8am and close half an hour past midnight.
It is another boost for a growingly popular Lord Street, which saw the first two phases of The Grand opening earlier this year. Building work is currently taking place to transform the former Garrick Theatre, while a new Wetherspoon Hotel is due to open in Pavilion Buildings.
In his report to Sefton councillor, Chief Planning Office Derek McKenzie said: "The proposal is acceptable in principle and will not cause any harm to the living conditions of nearby residential properties. The proposal will preserve the historic fabric and features of the Listed Building and will preserve the character and appearance of the Lord Street Conservation Area. The proposal will not result in any highway safety issues.
"The proposal therefore complies with local policies and is recommended for approval subject to conditions.
"The proposed operating hours of the premises would be 8am-12.30am Monday – Sunday, given the town centre location these proposed hours are considered to be acceptable. These hours can be secured by condition."
Loungers UK Ltd says that it "operates from many listed buildings throughout the country and so is well aware of the requirements to retain as much of the historic fabric as possible".
The firm says it intends to invest £1 million in the building's transformation, with the creation of 30 new jobs.
Occulo means 'relating to the eye or the sense of vision'.
The Design, Access and Heritage Statement for the scheme has been prepared by D2 Planning, which said: "Loungers UK Limited operates over 190 sites across the country.
"The Lounges are all uniquely designed, with an emphasis on creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for families (as well as four legged friends).
"The aim of every Lounge is to tie in with local customers, so that they can make of the Lounge what they will; whether a customer wants to come in for a coffee after dropping children to school, a working lunch, or a tipple after work, Lounges can provide an environment for all these purposes.
"As well as these everyday activities, each site will be tied in with local charities and initiatives. "Also, they will run reading groups, young mum's support groups, Christmas initiatives as well as a number of others.
"Each new site will generate in the region of 30 new jobs for the local community across a variety of roles – from leadership positions to front of house staff. These staff will also have available to them a very high standard of training with regards to health and safety, licensing etc which will help prepare them for other positions in the future."
The landmark building, on the corner of Lord Street and Nevill Street, is a former bank – one of a number of very grand bank buildings which once dominated Lord Street.
It was constructed in 1925-7 and was designed by Palmer & Holden, in association with Finchett, Lancaster & Archer of London.
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Southport FC score dramatic 94th minute equaliser in draw with Scarborough AthleticNew £1m Occulo Lounge is a massive boost for Southport that will attract more new businesses


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Q: How to use 2 expressions in EF Repository Pattern I have this method in my Generic EF Repository class
public class GenericRepository<T> : IGenericRepository<T> where T : class
{
    public async Task<IEnumerable<T>> GetAllByExpression<T>(Expression<Func<T, bool>> expression,
        Expression<Func<T, object>>[] includes) where T : class
    {
        if (expression != null)
        {
            IQueryable<T> query = context.Set<T>();
            foreach(var include in includes)
            {
                query = query.Include(include);
            }

            var result = await query.Where(expression)
                .ToListAsync();

            return result;
        }
        else
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("Invalid expression.");
        }
    }
}

I do not know how to use the "Include" to it. Basically what I want to get is like this =>
return await context.PropertyChargesRates.Where(x => x.BuildingId == buildingId)
                    .Include(x => x.PropertyChargeType)
                    .ToListAsync();

This is how I try to utilize this function:
public async Task<IEnumerable<PropertyChargesRate>> GetPropertyChargeRates(int buildingId)
        {
            try
            {
                var g = new GenericRepository<PropertyChargesRate>(context);
                var result = g.GetAllByExpression<PropertyChargesRate>(x => x.BuildingId == buildingId, ** CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO CALL THIS PART YET **);

                return result;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return null;
            }
        }

A: Implementation that you are looking for could look like this:
        public IEnumerable<T> GetAllByExpression<T>(
         YourDBContext  context,
         Expression<Func<T, bool>> expression,
         Func<IQueryable<T>, IQueryable<T>> includes) where T : class
    {
        if (expression != null)
        {
            IQueryable<T> query = context.Set<T>();
            query = includes(query);

            var result = query.Where(expression)
                              .ToList();
            return result;
        }

        throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(expression), "Invalid expression.");
    }

And usage would look like this:
repository.GetAllByExpression<YourEntity>
         (YourDbContext,
         YourWhereExpression,
         (q)=> q.Include(i=> i.YourInclude1)
                .Include(i2=> i2.YourInclude2));


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node-spotify
============
*Important note*
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Spotify has declared [1] libspotify, which this project is based on as "no longer under active development". A newer library will be released "later this year".

I hope to find the time to still add some features and remove bugs from node-spotify. When the new library is out I also want to check if a transition to it is feasible without changing the API too much.

[1] https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/libspotify/

Overview
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node-spotify is a node.js module to use the Spotify API in an easy manner from node.js.

The node.js module is a native module written mainly in C++.

A webpage for the project is here: http://www.node-spotify.com.

Notes
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I'm working toward version 1.0.0 which is not meant to provide everything libspotify offers. But I intend to wrap all libspotify types and provide methods
to access them where possible. Options and convenience features my lack, though.

You need a spotify premium account to build or use node-spotify. This is a requirement for using libspotify, sorry. You also need an appkey that comes with a premium account (https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/libspotify/#application-keys).

Dependencies
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node-gyp and libspotify are required for building. Under Linux you need libasound2-dev additionally. Install node-gyp via ```npm install -g node-gyp```.

Your compiler must be able to translate some C++11 features (std::shared_ptr, G++ 4.7 or Clang 3.2 should do).

Compiling & installing
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Compiling was tested on Raspbian, Ubuntu and OSX. Due to the usage of pthreads I'm not sure if node-spotify will compile on Windows.

There's one special option you can set when compiling node-spotify. ```--native_audio=false``` will compile no ALSA/OpenAL audio code
(depending on your platform). Default is ```true```. This is both settable for node-gyp and npm.

If you use OSX and have installed libspotify as a framework you need to edit the binding.gyp file. Remove "-lspotify" and write instead as one link option:
```"-framework OpenAL -framework libspotify"```. This is due to a bug in node-gyp that will eliminate a duplicate "-framework" entry from the link settings. If you
have installed libspotify via homebrew you don't need this step.

Change into the main folder (where binding.gyp lies) and run ```node-gyp configure && node-gyp build```.

Now the spotify module lies in ./build/Release/spotify.js. You can use it in a node.js program like so

```javascript
var spotify = require('./build/Release/spotify')( {
  appkeyFile: './spotify_appkey.key'
});
```

The appkey file can be obtained from https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/libspotify/#application-keys (choose binary, not C-code).

Binary distribution
-------------------
As of version 0.4.0 downloads of the pure compiled node.js module are available at http://www.node-spotify.com. I'll try to provide OSX, Linux x86_64 (ALSA) and Linux ARMv6hf (ALSA) builds.

How to debug node-spotify
-------------------------
Launch node.js and load node-spotify with require.

Attach lldb with $PID=process id of node

    lldb -p $PID

Set a breakpoint with, for example

    breakpoint set --file Album.cc --line 57

In the lldb console, execute this to continue the node.js process

    cont

Now you can execute commands in node.js. That lead to the breakpoint.

If you want to attach additional breakpoints, interrupt the process with

    process interrupt

in lldb.

Used software
-------------
* Base64 encoder from https://github.com/superwills/NibbleAndAHalf
* Sound playback is heavily based on https://developer.spotify.com/docs/libspotify/12.1.51/examples.html

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Lust in translation: 'Hormonal' Tagore collection pulled in China for sexual embellishment
by AFP 13:25, 29 December 2015 Updated 19:12, 31 March 2020
A new Chinese translation of Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's poetry collection "Stray Birds" has been pulled from bookshop shelves, the publisher said, after controversy erupted over its unusually sexual content.
The work, originally in Bengali, was first published in 1916, three years after Tagore won the Nobel literature prize for "his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", the first non-European to do so.
The new translation, by Chinese novelist Feng Tang, known for his racy depictions of Beijing youth in the 90s, was released earlier this year, but its content raised eyebrows.
Chinese novelist Feng Tang. Photo: Sina.
According to the official news agency Xinhua, in Feng's version the original line "The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover" became: "The world unzipped his pants in front of his lover."
In recent days online posters have been scornfully comparing Feng's translation to English and previous Chinese versions.
"He can write however he likes in his own books, but when he's dealing with other people's work, he must have basic respect!!!" said one user on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform.
Announcement on publisher's Weibo page. Photo: Weibo.
The publisher announced Monday that it will pull the book from bookshops and scrub it from the internet.
"Due to the great controversy surrounding Feng Tang's translation of Stray Birds, we have decided to recall this volume from all bookstores and online platforms," the Zhejiang Literature and Arts Press said in a statement on its verified microblog.
"We will make further decisions after consulting a team of experts who will provide a detailed assessment of the Chinese version."
Rabindranath Tagore. Photo: Wikicommons.
Feng is not known to speak or read Bengali, the state-run China Daily said, but according to Xinhua he worked from English versions of Tagore's poems.
He translated "hospitable" as "horny", the China Daily said, citing "translation buffs" and Tagore fans as saying that Feng's version "infused the original poems with hormonal flavour" and "mixed words of disparate styles".
But despite the critical response to the translation itself, the recall was condemned online.
"Are you crazy?! If the translation's bad readers can just choose not to buy it – why recall it, what law has been broken?!" wrote one expletive-prone Weibo user.
"This is no longer a discussion of the translation's merits – this is now about freedom of speech and freedom of the press."
Tagged: Censorship, India, Nobel Prize, poetry, Translation
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Community colleges pool resources to put forth the most skilled workers.
North Carolina, once home to a traditional economy based on tobacco, furniture and textiles, is stepping up its game and preparing to become a regional hot spot for a new global economy, requiring new kinds of workers — and community colleges are teaming up to help.
To keep pace with the need for skilled workers in factories, manufacturing and logistics, more than a dozen colleges in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area are sharing faculty, resources and facilities.
Companies or government entities, such as the local economic development commission, contact the nearest community college about training needs. If one college doesn't have the faculty, equipment or training space, it contacts a partner college that can offer the missing component. Colleges share the revenue that tuition for the training and the state generates.
For example, Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute, in Hudson, North Carolina, has a truck-driving program, but Gaston College, in Dallas, North Carolina, doesn't. A Gaston student would be able to get the logistics training through the Caldwell program, either by taking the courses at Caldwell or, if there were enough interest, the training, using Caldwell resources (trucks and instructors), would occur on the Gaston campus.
Employment opportunities are also shared. Gaston partnered with three colleges for a job fair, which gives global employers access to a larger pool of qualified applicants.
The college presidents also play a big role in the collaborative. They meet on a quarterly basis to discuss workforce and training outlooks, attend local gatherings on economic development and approve new projects.
Is the global collaborative scalable?
Gaston College partnered with more than a dozen colleges to share different resources. Diane Metcalfe, director of corporate education at the college, said that any more than 20 partner colleges would require a dedicated staff member to oversee the collaborative efforts.
Study college culture. Listen to other colleges to find out how their programs can be mutually beneficial. Learn about local needs and the colleges' service areas.
Study company needs first. Assess employer needs first to find out whether your college has the resources to help. "The more I worked with a company that was building a new facility, the more I realized we needed another college's faculty member to train employees in maintenance assessment," Metcalfe says. Gaston could train students in safety, leadership, continuous improvement and lean manufacturing, but it doesn't offer a maintenance assessment program.
Share information. Sometimes the partnership is more about helping each other start programs. Central Piedmont Community College welcomed Gaston College when studying its mechatronics program. Though its classes were full, it helped to show area employers that together the colleges can train all of their workers.


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We get questions to the events e-mail occasionally, and the kitchen too, about visual stuff. Where should we be sending them?
Is there a folder somewhere with details of bookings for the walls, contact details, etc? Like an art version of the events book we can use to answer questions about availability?


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Tear off that scarf and burn it !
Talk of the Town Commentary .. March 22, 2012
What's wrong with this picture ?
I have a red scarf like that which I have enjoyed wearing for several years. My plan now is to burn it. Graham James used the scarf to avoid showing his face as he came and went from a courtroom in Winnipeg.
He is Canada's most notorious pedophile, and a never-ending disgrace to our favourite past-time. Most of us cannot begin to understand what goes on inside the mind of a sexual predator like James. Hopefully his story has yielded some valuable lessons. Hopefully the people who hire coaches are more careful and thorough in screening such men before placing them in such a position of trust. Did Judge Catherine Carlson get it wrong when she sentenced him to two years for his multiple assaults on Theron Fleury and heaven knows how many other young hockey players? I'm betting that she has had many second thoughts about her decision to not allow cameras in court for the sentencing, especially after seeing that ridiculous photo with the red scarf.
Legal experts say James will likely be out of prison before Christmas, since he will undoubtedly qualify for parole after serving one third of his sentence. Sheldon Kennedy, the first of the victims to stand up and blow the whistle on his former coach, may have put it best. He said no sentence can ever restore what he and the other men have lost because of the actions of this man. It's been more than 15 years since Kennedy made his bold move. I wonder if he realized at the time how many more times he would have to relive his nightmare and what it would do to him.
We do know that pedophiles are masters of manipulation. Graham James has manipulated Canada's justice system a number of times. Judge Carlson may be another of his victims. But as others have pointed out, when it comes to sexual abuse, we're not dealing with a justice system. Rather it's a legal system. It has many flaws when it tries to deal with so many offences.
It has been a very dark and difficult 12 months for the game that Canadians love so much. Here's hoping we have at least come to realize that people like Kennedy and Fleury are heroes that all boys and girls who lace on skates should look up to.


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Immigration Law Bulletin - Issue 362 – 10 March 2014
Immigration Law News
For the Home Office's report: "Impacts of migration on UK native employment: An analytical review of the evidence", click here.
From 1 April 2014, the British Refugee Council and Migrant Helpline will provide advice services to asylum seekers and refugees. To read further, click here.
For updated register of licensed sponsors: workers (Tiers 2 & 5), click here.
Immigration Law Cases
Syed & Another, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 196 (4 March 2014)
In joined appeals, the Court of Appeal: (1) held that the expression "a UK recognised bachelor or postgraduate degree" in Table 10 of Appendix A to the Immigration Rules referred to a UK bachelor's or postgraduate degree and not to a qualification of equivalent level to a degree and that accordingly the ACCA professional qualifications are not eligible for points as "a UK recognised bachelor or postgraduate degree" under Table 10 or by virtue of the guidance; (2) rejected the contentions that there had been any unlawful delegation to the National Recognition Information Centre for the United Kingdom ("UK NARIC"), it being sufficient that the Rules provided that the relevant criterion affecting entitlement to leave to remain was that points would be awarded for academic qualification only if the qualification was deemed by UK NARIC to meet or exceed the requisite standard of a relevant degree in the UK.
To read the full judgment, click here.
Nzangane, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 555 (Admin) (5 March 2014)
A 'legacy case' in which Green J rejected the contention that, on the basis of §7.44 of the report by Sir John Vine, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, entitled "An Inspection of the UK Border Agency's Handling of Legacy Asylum and Immigration cases" March-July 2012, ("The Vine Report"), a "compelling" reasons policy existed with the asserted effect that the claimant, who claimed to fall within such a 'policy', should have been granted indefinite leave to remain rather than discretionary leave to remain for three years.
RQ (Jordan), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 559 (Admin) (5 March 2014)
A successful 'Cart' judicial review in which the challenge to the First-tier Tribunal's (FTT) determination was that the FTT Judge had refused to adjourn the 'detained fast-track' hearing in order for the Palestinian claimant to obtain evidence to corroborate his claim to have renounced his Jordanian nationality. The Upper Tribunal had refused permission to appeal based on an assumption that the claimant's assertions about his nationality might have been true. Subsequent to the grant of permission to proceed with the claim for judicial review (it being accepted that the 'second appeals' test provisions applied only to the grant of permission stage and not to the substantive judicial review) it had become accepted that on the one hand the claimant's Jordanian nationality had indeed been revoked but that, on the other hand, this had been done by means of a false and forged document. Nonetheless, Philip Mott QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, considered that (1) the issue of credibility in relation to nationality had been so prominent in the FTT decision, that it must be at least arguable that a decision-maker would have difficulty in putting an adverse finding on that issue out of her mind when considering credibility in relation to the alleged fear of persecution, such that the UT Judge had erred in refusing permission to appeal; and (2) to refuse the application now on the basis that the revealed truth does not on balance assist the Claimant on the issue of credibility, would be wrong, because (a) such a course would rightly lead to feelings of resentment that such an important decision was made on a false basis of fact and (b) this was an asylum claim, where the issue is of a fear of persecution and death if returned to Jordan and such cases demand the most anxious scrutiny, and the highest standards of fairness.
Omokayode, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 594 (Admin) (6 March 2014)
Yet another 'legacy case. The claimant, having been granted three years' discretionary leave (DLR) and not indefinite leave to remain (ILR), sought unsuccessfully to persuade Andrews J that her case was distinguishable from R (Geraldo, Aroun and Iqbal) v SSHD [2013] EWHC 2763 (Admin) and R (Mohammed) v SSHD [2014] EWHC 98 (Admin) and that because her claim to ILR was so compelling, she was entitled to an explanation from the Defendant as to why it was being refused and DLR granted instead.
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ILPA, Tuesday 11 March 2014, 16:00, London
Garden Court's Sonali Naik along with David Chirico return with this popular course that will ensure that you are fully up to date with all the latest case law, rules and developments and are thus equipped to identify and deal with Article 8 points arising in your practice.
Asylum Law Update
HJT Training, Thursday 13 March 2014, 16:00, London
Garden Court's Mark Symes explains developments in asylum law.
Current issues in securing protection for victims of trafficking
This session will provide an update on the different routes to obtaining protection for victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation/ criminal activity/ domestic servitude and labour exploitation who have an immigration problem.
Getting started in business immigration law
ILPA, Wednesday 19 March 2014, 16:00, London
ILPA's popular introduction to business immigration law, suitable for those who want to get started, fill in gaps in their knowledge or get up-to-date. A comprehensive and comprehensible guide to this fast-changing area.
Immigration Bill Online Q&A
Wednesday 19 March from 13:00 to 14:00
Refugee Action are hosting an online Q&A session examining the Immigration Bill. Panellists include Adrian Berry of Garden Court Chambers.
For more details and to submit questions in advance, click here.
Immigration Law Books
Garden Court Chambers Immigration Team members are authors of numerous books which we mention from time to time.
Immigration Practice and Procedure in Family Proceedings
This practical new work by Nadine Finch, Omar Shibli, Anthony Vaughan concentrates on the immigration procedures, law and rules relevant to family proceedings. Price: £60.00. For full details click here.
Asylum Law and Practice (2nd edition)
The second edition of Asylum Law and Practice by Mark Symes and Peter Jorro has been published. Price: £138.00. For full details click here.
Fransman's British Nationality Law (3rd edition)
The third edition of Fransman's British Nationality Law, written by Laurie Fransman QC and with contributions from Adrian Berry and Alison Harvey, was published in spring 2011. Price: £295.00. For full details click here.
Macdonald's Immigration Law & Practice (8th edition)
The eighth edition of Macdonald's Immigration Law & Practice was written by Ian Macdonald QC with contributions from many members of the Garden Court Immigration Team. Price: £230.00. For full details click here.
Human Trafficking Handbook
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Q: Do Frodo and Legolas have any discussion in the entire Lord of the Rings? Did Frodo and Legolas have any discussion in the entire Lord of the Rings? From what I remember (from the movies), Legolas said to him in Rivendell "And my bow!" and then they never talked again.
Do they have any discussions on the books or the movies?
I remember that he talked with the other members of the Fellowship, but I cannot recall any discussions with Legolas.

A: Yes.
On the Great River, after the first ambush by Orcs (which doesn't appear in the movie) and after Legolas shoots down the Nazgul's Fell Beast (likewise), we have the following exchange (the conversation opens with Sam):

'Well, I can remember three nights there for certain, and I seem to remember several more, but I would take my oath it was never a whole month. Anyone would think that time did not count in there!'
'And perhaps that was the way of it,' said Frodo. 'In that land, maybe, we were in a time that has elsewhere long gone by. It was not, I think, until Silverlode bore us back to Anduin that we returned to the time that flows through mortal lands to the Great Sea. And I don't remember any moon, either new or old, in Caras Galadhon: only stars by night and sun by day.'
Legolas stirred in his boat. 'Nay, time does not tarry ever,' he said; 'but change and growth is not in all things and places alike. For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets by: it is a grief to them. Slow, because they do not count the running years, not for themselves. The passing seasons are but ripples ever repeated in the long long stream. Yet beneath the Sun all things must wear to an end at last.'
'But the wearing is slow in Lórien,' said Frodo. `The power of the Lady is on it. Rich are the hours, though short they seem, in Caras Galadhon, where Galadriel wields the Elven-ring.'

Aside from that, there are plenty of other occasions where Frodo and Legolas were together and clearly had opportunity for conversation, but what they may or may not have said is unrecorded; here I give just two as examples:

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*During Frodo's watch in Moria he first sees Gollum (or at least what can be deduced to be his eyes); Legolas takes the next watch.

*On entering Lorien and after being waylaid by the Elves, Frodo and Legolas are the first two to climb up a flet, and they climb up together.

Despite the fact that any conversation is unrecorded, that doesn't mean that it didn't happen (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence) and it would be very odd indeed if they didn't talk at least for the first of these examples.

A: Well (in the books) there's also the time in Lothlórien after they cross the river of Nimrodel.

Almost Frodo fancied that he could hear a voice singing, mingled with the sound of the water.
'Do you head the voice of Nimrodel?' asked Legolas. 'I will sing you a song of the Maiden Nimrodel, who bore the same name as the stream beside which she lived long ago. It is a fair song in our woodland tongue; but this is how it runs in the Westron Speech, as some in Rivendell now sing it.' In a voice hardly to be heard amid the rustle of the leaves above them he began: [song is sang]
The voice of Legolas faltered, and the song ceased. 'I cannot sing any more,' he said. 'That is but a part, for I have forgotten much. It is a long and sad, for it tells how sorrow came upon Lothlórien, Lórien of the Blossom, when the Dwarves awakened evil in the mountains.'

A: I totally see where you are coming from.Yet, I doubt you've read the book,for in the book Legolas and Frodo have quite a few conversations. In the movies, Legolas isn't exactly a main or principle role.The only conversations Elijah Wood ( Frodo) made were with GOLLUM while going to Mount Doom,Sam throughout the movie,Gandalf at some parts,and Aragorn and other various characters.
So,in the movie,you are correct. The only sentence Legolas directly says to Frodo is 'And my bow,'.


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Otoacoustic Emission Testing measures an acoustic response that is produced by the inner ear (cochlea), which in essence bounces back out of the ear in response to a sound stimulus. The test is performed by placing a small probe, which contains a microphone and speaker into the ear. During testing, sounds are generated in the probe and responses that come back from the cochlea are recorded. OAEs are clinically important because they are a simple, non-invasive, test for hearing defects in newborn babies and in children who are too young to cooperate in conventional hearing tests.
OAE or otoacoustic emission testing is the recording of sounds that the ear produces itself. Otoacoustic emissions were first reported by Kemp in 1978. They appear to be generated by motile elements in the cochlear outer hair cells.
Two types of Otoacoustic Emission Testing
Transient otoacoustic emissions (TOAEs) or transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) – Sounds emitted in response to an acoustic stimuli of very short duration; usually clicks but can be tone-bursts
Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) – Sounds emitted in response to 2 simultaneous tones of different frequencies
OAE's can be partially suppressed centrally via the superior olivary complex. Axons of the lateral and medial olivocochlear bundles extend from the superior olive and leave the brainstem as a ventral component to the inferior vestibular nerve. They join the cochlear nerve as Oort's vestibulocochlear anastemosis. Axons of the lateral olivocochlear bundle synapses with afferent neurons from the cochlea. Axons of the medial olivocochlear bundle terminate a the base of cell bodies of the outer hair cells. It is generally believed that the medial efferents counteract the amplifying effects of the outer hair cells. It is probably mediated by acetylcholine.
OAE's are not suppressed by certain inhaled anesthetics, and from this observation, it would seem possible that they might be useful to detect damage to the hearing organ during surgery.
Otoacoustic Emission Testing is measured by presenting a series of sounds to the ear through a probe that is inserted in the ear canal. The probe contains a loudspeaker that generates the sounds and a microphone that measures the resulting OAEs that are produced in the cochlea and are transmitted through the middle ear into the outer ear canal. The resulting sound that is picked up by the microphone is digitized and processed using signal averaging methodology.
To obtain an Otoacoustic Emission Testing one needs an unobstructed outer ear canal, absence of significant middle ear pathology, and functioning cochlear outer hair cells.
The elements in the pathway for the OAE include the sound source, the ear drum, ossicular chain, inner ear, and outer hair cells. The same structures transmit sound coming out of the outer hair cells. OAEs can be affected by anything in the chain – -if sound doesn't get in or out — no OAE. If there is a resonance or filter between the sound source and microphone this will cause altered frequency spectrum of OAEs (Grenner, 2012). Thus, OAEs "reflect" a combination of inner ear and external/middle ear function. Individuals with small ear canals (such as infants) are different than adults due to the difference in external and middle ear size.
The OAE devices used in most clinics are "screeners". The typically check 5-10 frequencies and report whether the signal/noise ratio exceeds a preset limit, in which it indicates that the ear is a "pass", or if not, a "refer". This "go/no-go" type of output is often helpful in deciding whether there is any hearing problem — people who "pass" at all frequencies are unlikely to have anything seriously wrong with their inner ear. OAE's are quick and not bothersome to patients.
The clinical significance of OAE's is that they only occur in a normal cochlea with normal or near normal hearing. If there is damage to the outer hair cells producing mild hearing loss, then OAEs are not evoked. A rule of thumb is that OAEs are present if hearing is 35 dB or better. Because OAEs are evoked by transient signals that have a wide frequency response, a broad region of the cochlea responds, providing information on the frequency range from 1000 Hz to 4000 Hz. OAE's decline with age. Our clinical experience with OAE's, is that they do not discriminate well between causes of hearing loss. In other words, we would expect someone with an intact cochlea (including their outer hair cells), perhaps due to an acoustic tumor, to be equally likely to have absent OAE's as someone with cochlear damage due to noise. Kagova and others have observed that OAE's are generally reduced by acoustic neuromas.
Otoacoustic Emission Testing is appropriate for use in difficult-to-test patients: newborn infants, young children, patients who are attempting to feign a hearing loss (i.e. malingering), and developmentally delayed populations. OAEs primarily provide information about the activity of the cochlea, and do not assess the status of the rest of the auditory pathway, except for crossed responses mediated through the cochlear efferent system.
For the very young group, Trosman et al (2016) suggested that OAE+tymps were more cost effective than audiograms, because of the "questionable reliablity" of behavioral audiometry in very young children.
In adults, we feel that OAE's are most helpful in persons who may financially benefit from being diagnosed with hearing loss, and also as a cross-check on audiometry. In our experience, OAE's are very sensitive to noise and age related hearing disturbances.
One would think that OAE's might be a better method of screening for occupational hearing loss, generally caused by noise, than conventional hearing testing. OAE's are based on objective measurements rather than patient responses that are subject to misdirection. Contrary to this common sense hypothesis, Wooles et al (2015) reported that there was "no evidence of a robust relationship" between DPOAE's and pure tone audiometry. We think that this comparison of apples: oranges — an objective measurement to a subjective measurement in a setting where there is motivation to exaggerate, is fraught with peril due to bias, and that the "jury is still out".
TOAE's are commonly used to screen infant hearing, to validate auditory thresholds obtained via other techniques, and to assess the cochlear contribution to hearing.
DPOAE's are also used for infant screening. They can be obtained in persons in whom TOAE's cannot be obtained, and they can be obtained at higher frequencies than TOAE's (i.e. over 1000 hz).
OAE's have a special utility in auditory neuropathy. This is a condition, primarily of children, in which hearing is impaired but cochlear function is presumed intact. This is rather rare.
Possible utility
Cisplatin ototoxicity. Cisplatin is the most widely used anticancer drug currently and unfortunately, it is cochleotoxic. The toxicity begins in the outer hair cells (Reavis et al, 2011), and affects high frequencies first, the same area as age and noise. Because of the outer hair cell toxicity, DPOAE's have been suggested to be a reasonable method of detecting toxicity (Reavis et al, 2011). It would seem to us that this use would be greatly limited by the propensity of normal people to loose their OAE's at high frequency as they age.
Elevated intracranial pressure. There are some possible changes to the frequency distribution of OAE's as a result of changes in pressure in the inner ear as a result of intracranial pressure alterations. So far, this idea has not "panned out" due to variability.
Migraine — There is a small effect on OAE's on DPOAE (less) and less contralateral suppression. (Bolay et al, 2006; Murdin et al, 2010). This observation may eventually develop into a useful clinical test for phonophobia.
OAE's are not very helpful in Meniere's disease. This is probably because OAE's mainly test high frequencies, and Meniere's disease usually starts with low-frequency hearing loss. It appears that Meniere's must not selectively damage outer hair cells, as one would expect that OAE's would go earlier than conventional hearing testing — and this is not the case. This is an odd thing about Meniere's disease – – conventional dogma would make one expect that high-frequency outer hair cells would go first as they are metabolically very active and therefore more vulnerable. It suggests that conventional dogma (about the mechanism of Meniere's disease) is just wrong.
DPOAE's are probably not useful in detecting aminoglycoside ototoxicity, or for that matter, cisplatin ototoxicity (except perhaps in young people). Fausti and associates have suggested a possible use for DPOAE in ototoxicity as ototoxicity usually affects high-frequency hair cells first, and DPOE's are readily available at higher frequencies than are standard hearing testing. The problem with this idea is that high-frequency hearing usually declines with age, and thus there is nothing left to measure.
Some have also suggested that gentamicin (an aminoglycoside) selectively impairs responses mediated through the cochlear efferents, and that this might be a method of detecting ototoxicity. At this writing (4-07), to us this appears to be an unproven conjecture, without much support from our clinical data.
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LA Times interviews 'HP' director David Yates
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As part of the LA Times continued countdown to the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, they have released a brand new interview with Director David Yates in which he discussed both Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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We're here in the forest, we've just finished the scene where Harry, Hermione and Ron are captured by the Snatchers after being chased through the woods. The Snatchers are brutal and scary but they aren't the most intelligent of creatures. They're trying to figure out exactly who it is they've caught.
He voices his disappointment with the Half-Blood Prince eight-month delay and the disadvantages of having the film not yet released:
It was not something I warmed to initially. At the time, I was so adrenalized, I was so caught up in the process of getting the film in on deadline and making the movie on a certain schedule, and then the decision to delay was a huge anticlimax. There was a huge sense of disappointment, I must say. We finished the film a year ago, so it's very strange to go all this time without seeing it with an audience, which is what you make it for. But the studio made their case for the move and I came to understand and appreciate their reasons and they are very good at delivering these movies and understanding the process of making a film successful and I think it wise to defer to their judgment.
You find yourself fiddling with it much more in post-production, naturally. There's a good and bad to that. You could keep adjusting things for the rest of your life if you allowed yourself to do that. That can be unhealthy and at some point you have to say, 'Here is the cut-off date.' I know fans are eager to see it and it's been interesting for us to come back to it now, even as we are busy filming the next installments.
David finishes the interview by discussing the Deathly Hallows split, admitting that the first part will end with a cliffhanger:
Yes, I think we have. Things can change when you edit, of course, but the idea now is that it will be not long after the sequence that we are filming here today. That's what we're experimenting with. We've had three or four different ideas about where to cut off the seventh film. Traditionally, the movies have ended with a death or a bereavement, some sort of passage or arrival. This time we think we will end with more a cliffhanger. Again, though, that's the thought as of this moment.
To read the entire interview, click here .