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It's believed a landlord in London, Ontario, tossed the shell while he was cleaning up after recently evicted tenants. A neighbor who found the shell said, "Those idiots had that in their house."
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Thomas Dekker: It was the worst hour of my life
After falling agonisingly short of breaking Rohan Dennis' Hour Record, Thomas Dekker admits he can be proud of his achievement
Stuart Clarke February 26, 2015 5:39 pm
Thomas Dekker on Stage 8b of the 2014 Tour of Britain Credit: Graham Watson
Hour Record
Thomas Dekker says his Hour Record attempt was the worst 60 minutes of his life, especially missing out by such a short distance.
The Dutchman fell just 270m short of Rohan Dennis' mark of 52.491km, enough for second place ahead of Matthais Brändle and Jens Voigt.
>>> Twitter reacts to Thomas Dekker's Hour Record timing farce
Without a team in 2015, Dekker is hoping his performance will persuade a professional squad to take a punt on him and says he can be proud of his achievement in Mexico.
"It was the worst hour of my life." Dekker told Dutch television NOS after completing his attempt. "I got to a very high level and for three months I have given everything, then the sourness that you did not make it… I've proven myself that an hour can be very hard cycling. I think I can be proud of this achievement."
>>> Hour Record timeline
He continued: "It is not enough for a record, it is a little disappointing, but if I am honest I could not have done better. You always demand the best of yourself and this was the best I could do.
"I knew it would be difficult… I knew it beforehand. Rohan is such a good rider, one of the big stars in cycling at the moment. But I think I did a good effort."
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UCloudGPUImageFilter Class Reference

	Inherits from
	UCloudGPUImageOutput : NSObject

	Conforms to
	UCloudGPUImageInput

	Declared in
	UCloudGPUImageFilter.h

Overview

GPUImage’s base filter class

Filters and other subsequent elements in the chain conform to the GPUImageInput protocol, which lets them take in the supplied or processed texture from the previous link in the chain and do something with it. Objects one step further down the chain are considered targets, and processing can be branched by adding multiple targets to a single output or filter.

Initialization and teardown

– initWithVertexShaderFromString:fragmentShaderFromString:

Initialize with vertex and fragment shaders

- (id)initWithVertexShaderFromString:(NSString *)vertexShaderString fragmentShaderFromString:(NSString *)fragmentShaderString

Parameters

						vertexShaderString

Source code of the vertex shader to use

						fragmentShaderString

Source code of the fragment shader to use

Discussion

You make take advantage of the UCloudSHADER_STRING macro to write your shaders in-line.

Declared In

UCloudGPUImageFilter.h

– initWithFragmentShaderFromString:

Initialize with a fragment shader

- (id)initWithFragmentShaderFromString:(NSString *)fragmentShaderString

Parameters

						fragmentShaderString

Source code of fragment shader to use

Discussion

You may take advantage of the UCloudSHADER_STRING macro to write your shader in-line.

Declared In

UCloudGPUImageFilter.h

– initWithFragmentShaderFromFile:

Initialize with a fragment shader

- (id)initWithFragmentShaderFromFile:(NSString *)fragmentShaderFilename

Parameters

						fragmentShaderFilename

Filename of fragment shader to load

Declared In

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Managing the display FBOs

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Size of the frame buffer object

- (CGSize)sizeOfFBO

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UCloudGPUImageFilter.h

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Tim Siglin: Welcome back to Streaming Media West 2018. I'm Tim Siglin, contributing editor with Streaming Media magazine and founding executive director of the not-for-profit HelpMe! Stream. Today I've got a guest from MediaKind. Introduce yourself and then tell us what MediaKind is, because I think people will know the components, but they don't know the name.
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We have compression media delivery, cloud DVR, and then we'll be called a media platform of TV platforms, so this would be a media first media room area. Compression really on the hardware side more our Tandberg heritage. We acquired Envivio in 2015, and that's really the start of software compression and the foundation of microservices architecture in that layer of the portfolio. And we bought Databricks for both the cloud DVR platform. It is also a very nice layer for an application platform, if you like, for live and bot origins--sort of the next generation in adaptive bitrate delivery.
Mark Russell: The goal here really is to build one of the largest players in the media technology space, it's really focused on media technology exclusively, since it does give us a chance to do that, which we're very excited about, by the way. It's a very exciting proposition to be, to be part of, and I think, if we were to think about our end goal, I mean, it's the reason I'm here. I'd have to say, you know, we come from a heritage of pretty classic broadcast in pay TV, and really have a lot of experience in that mold, but my goodness, you look around and, you know, pay TV is becoming streaming TV and streaming TV is going everywhere, and you know broadcaster's are going direct to consumer and we're streaming media now.
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Now, having said that, there will be many potential customers who will want to operate in different modes, so we're quite committed to continuing to solve components and to engage the market the way it wants to be engaged.
Tim Siglin: So, there are some possible hybrid approaches.
Mark Russell: Exactly. We're a vendor, we're not service provider.
Tim Siglin: Sure, that makes sense.
Mark Russell: So, we are committed to both helping our customers get to the future, but also help them with their current investments.
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Mark Russell: I did two panels on it today.
Mark Russell: That's right. I think they'll find, hat may be the start of the journey but it won't be the end. We see microservices as kind of an ecosystem where you're adopting a new way of engineering your products, you're adopting a different way of operating them, you're adopting a different way of maintaining them over time, and so you don't want to take microservices outside the context of that ecosystem. So it's continuous delivery, continuous evolution. That is a very important aspect of this, and if you start from that perspective, you very quickly realize that microservices, very simply put, it's a container of value, and you want to have that do as few things as possible.
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Tim Siglin: Mark, thank you very much for your time. This has been Mark Russell with MediaKind. We'll be back shortly.
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Q: Ninject solrnet binding doubts I am using Ninject for DI in my project. I am using solrnet for search functionality and I am trying to incorporate Solr to Ninject. Below is the code i have added in Global.asax
    protected override IKernel CreateKernel()
    {
        return new StandardKernel(new ServiceModule(), new SolrNetModule(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SearchServer"]));
    }

SolrnetModule.cs
public class SolrNetModule : NinjectModule
{
    private readonly string serverURL;
    public IReadOnlyMappingManager Mapper { get; set; }

    public SolrNetModule(string serverURL)
    {
        this.serverURL = serverURL;
    }

    public override void Load()
    {
        var mapper = Mapper ?? new MemoizingMappingManager(new AttributesMappingManager());
        Bind<IReadOnlyMappingManager>().ToConstant(mapper);
        Bind<ISolrConnection>().ToConstant(new SolrConnection(serverURL));
        Bind(typeof(ISolrQueryResultParser<SolrSku>)).To(typeof(SolrQueryResultParser<SolrSku>));
        Bind(typeof(ISolrQueryExecuter<SolrSku>)).To(typeof(SolrQueryExecuter<SolrSku>));
        Bind(typeof(ISolrDocumentSerializer<SolrSku>)).To(typeof(SolrDocumentSerializer<SolrSku>));
        Bind(typeof(ISolrBasicOperations<SolrSku>)).To(typeof(SolrBasicServer<SolrSku>));
        Bind(typeof(ISolrOperations<SolrSku>)).To(typeof(SolrServer<SolrSku>));
        Bind(typeof(ISolrReadOnlyOperations<SolrSku>)).To(typeof(SolrServer<SolrSku>));
        Bind<ISolrService>().To<SolrService>();
    }
}

Solrservice.cs
 public class SolrService : ISolrService
 {
    public readonly ISolrReadOnlyOperations<SolrSku> _solr;

    public SolrService(ISolrReadOnlyOperations<SolrSku> solr)
    {
        _solr = solr;
    }

    public ISolrQueryResults<SolrSku> SearchAll(string query)
    {
        var qopts = BuildParameters();
        var results = _solr.Query(query, qopts);
        return results;
    }

    private QueryOptions BuildParameters()
    {
        var qopts = new QueryOptions();
        qopts.AddOrder(new SortOrder("dateAdded", Order.DESC));
        return qopts;
    }
 }

While running the application, I am recieving the below error
"Error activating ISolrQuerySerializer
No matching bindings are available, and the type is not self-bindable."
Am i missing something here or the way i am trying to use Solr in NInject is wrong?

A: Since you are using a custom SolrNetModule class, it appears that you have not connected up all of the required dependencies in the SolrNet stack for everything to run correctly. I would recommend using the SolrNetModule that is provided with SolrNet. You can obtain this either from the source or via NuGet. Alternatively, if you still want to use your own custom NinjectModule, I would reference the one from the source for comparison.
Update: Here is probably the best example of usage of Ninject with ASP.NET WebForms (I am assuming you are using ASP.NET WebForms based on your code structure)

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BEST ANSWER: I can not answer the question regarding the pink color. I can just tell you that my "purple" coat is not that dark; it is more like lavender.
The one I got was red so I'm not much help. I don't like the hidden button placket. Not easy to button but is well made.
I bought the plum and it is lighter than the picture.
It is a light bright pink, in my opinion.
BEST ANSWER: I'm 5"3". This coat comes just at my knee. From the floor, it's approximately 18 3/4".
where's the size guide for womens' sizes?
BEST ANSWER: In small blue print you are directed to click for petite or women's sizes. Once you do that the women's sizes of 1X, 2X and 3X will appear. Once again to the right of those size boxes in small blue print is typed "size guide". Click on that & it will give you a complete body chart for sizes. Basically 1X is 18-20; 2X is 22-24; 3X is 26-28. I found their sizes are quite ample/big. Difficult to decide because I myself run between a 22-26 depending on the manufacturer. Larger however allows you to wear a sweater or even a blazer underneath your coat.
The size guide for women is located directly under the the two boxes labeled (L) and (XL). This has to be a joke right!
WILL THIS BE AVAILABLE IN THE TEAL COLOR SHOWN?
does coat have a lining?
clean shape at all times.
It has a silk lining, but the coat itself is heavy enough so this lining worked for me. For extra warmth, you can add a sweater or jacket.
yes, but this is a coat to wear on mild winter days, not when the weather is below 40.
It has a silky polyester full lining.
Yes, the coat has a full lining.
Yes, it does have a lining.
How long is the coat?
BEST ANSWER: This was not the coat I bought, but the Three Quarter Wool Coat that I did buy came down right at the top of my knees. It was a Petite. I bought both a red and a blue coat and like them very much, although it isn't cold enough for a coat except in January and February here in Mississippi so have hardly worn them.
It is car coat length...mid thigh for me. Great coat. Light weight but warm and was roomy enough to wear other sweater layers under if needed.
The coat come below the hips. I really like the coat.
It hits just above my knees. It?s a very nice coat.
It reaches just above the knees.
To wear over suit ,will I need to go up a size?
BEST ANSWER: Yes. That would be a good idea. I think you will find that this coat isn't bulky and won't seem over-sized.
My coat fits over a sweater cardigan or a blazer just fine. Without going up a size.
This coat is true to size without suit underneath. I recommend you size up.
Does the coat have a flair to it or A line look?
BEST ANSWER: I wouldn't say a real flair or a real A line look. It is a straight cut which does not hug the body. This is my second one after many years of service from the first. I get lots of compliments when I wear it, a very comfortable coat that can be worn with anything.
I believe that the coat is straight. If it has an A line it is not obvious. I feel that the size is accurate and it appears to be a straight line coat. I have two of these coats and love them both.
More of an A line look.
does this coat have lining ?
sizing...petite medium or regular medium. Does it run large?
This coat is fully lined. Size is pretty true. I ordered a size up to leave room for bulky sweaters and I really don't think I needed to order it a size up.
The coat is lined with a dyed to match polyester satin like fabric.
I ordered a petite small and would guess it is true to size (6-8).
Yes, It has a lining. No, it does not run large. I bought a Petite Medium and fits perfect.
Please what is the percentage of wool in this coat? I freeze in winter and want to make sure it will be warm enough so I don't. Thank you.
BEST ANSWER: Sometimes it depends on the color of an item to give you an accurate answer on that. However, if you freeze in the winter, this is not the coat for you unless you plan to wear lots of layers.
It is 60% wool. 30% polyester. I have not worn it in very cold weather here in KY. I have a coat just for really cold days. I wear this one for dress to church. I hope this helps.
I don't recall the % but I don't believe this coat will be warm enough for you. I am always too warm but I think this coat is perfect for me.
This coat is 60% wool, 30% poly, and 10% viscose. The lining is 100%poly.
is this the same, or equivalent, to the Leon Levin coat you carried a few years ago? I purchased a London Fog coat from Appleseed's about 3 years ago, and though the quality is fine, the fabric is more "itchy" and not the same soft fabric as the 'original' item.
BEST ANSWER: I'm not familiar with the Leon Levin coat, but this one is very nice and comfortable. I agree the fabric is a little "itchy", not what I expected, but okay. Haven't actually worn it but tried it on when it arrived here and it fits me just fine. I'm 5'8" and weigh about 140 lbs. and ordered the brown coat in Medium. Now that it's finally feeling more like Winter, I expect I'll be getting lots of use out if it.
Thank you. To correct the brand on the "first" coat: a Larry Levine. Cashmere is part of the fabric blend. I want to purchase a new balmacan only if it is a non-itchy fabric.
I love these Balmacaan jackets enough to have bought one to have when the first wears out.
BEST ANSWER: 60% wool, 30% polyester and 10% viscose which is a form of rayon. The 'hand" or feel of the fabric is nice and, at least so far, it has not pilled.
On my tag it says 80% wool, 20% nylon for the coat - lining is 100% polyester . . . Very nice fabric ! I've had my coat for about one year and it still looks like new . . . I usually wear it to church ! Love the raglan sleeves too !
Buy a size larger than you think you need.
BEST ANSWER: It runs a bit large. I had to return mine for a size smaller. I love this coat and have gotten many compliments on it.
I bought the coat for my daughter who wears an XL. It fits her fine, runs to size, and she wears it often.
the sizing is true but the button holes need to be a little larger.
Does this coat button at the neck?
BEST ANSWER: There is a button at the neck right below the collar. I have never used it because I don't like things tight around my neck but it can be buttoned at the neck.
Can I wear a white shirt and leggings and leave the coat on or to hot?
BEST ANSWER: It is a very warm lined wool coat. It would be much too warm for me to leave on inside.
Yes, you won't be too hot.
Is the light plum color like the darker amethyst color in the PAPER catalogue or like the lighter lavender shade shown on this website? When I called one of your agents, she said she does not have a copy of the paper catalogue, so she couldn't see what I was asking about!
Thank you, but this doesn't really answer my question.
I have this coat. It is a lighter lavender color.
Would like to see back views?
BEST ANSWER: The back is plain with a small split towards the bottom for ease of sitting.
Back view very nice. Center seaming matches seaming at shoulders. Very classy looking. Can't upload a pic.
Can anyone tell me the number of inches the collar is, that is the width of the collar? I'd like to know when collar is up approximately where it would come to on my face, for cold winds.
BEST ANSWER: Collar Height: 3"
What is the length of regular misses size?


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XXXTentacion Gets Punched While Performing on Stage in San Diego
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Max Weinstein Published: June 7, 2017
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Update (June 8, 1:12 a.m. EST):
X surfaced on Instagram talking about the incident after the fact and claiming security at the venue set him up. See what he had to say below.
XXXTentacion was performing at the sixth stop of his Revenge tour in San Diego Wednesday night (June 7) when he was punched by someone onstage. Video of the incident was captured on social media showing the moment X is attacked before security quickly rushes to fight the attacker.
X has a bit of beef with Rob Stone, who jumped X's close friend and tour mate Ski Mask The Slump God earlier this year while Ski was performing. Rob is from San Diego, and many said it wasn't a good idea for X to tour out there. In video below, the Twitter user who captured the footage says "Fuck Rob Stone," but there doesn't seem to be any immediate connection between the "Chill Bill" rapper and X as of right now. Nonetheless, some on social media believe it was either Stone or someone connected to him seen in the video below.
Footage also shows X coming back on stage, though he's looking out of it in the brief clip. He also tweeted about the incident: "security and venue set me up, I got sucker punched and knocked out, it is what it is [...] next time make sure you kill me so I can't talk shit."
X also alluded to someone getting stabbed after the melee, and Fox 5 San Diego reports someone was indeed taken to the hospital in an unknown condition with stab wounds.
Although the tour just started on the last day of May, there was already chaos at the very first show in Houston when Wifisfuneral, who's a member of X's Members Only crew, got jumped in the crowd after stagediving.
XXL has reached out to X's team for comment.
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Source: XXXTentacion Gets Punched While Performing on Stage in San Diego
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A life less roardinary
When obituaries are written, it is not uncommon for the deceased to be described as a one-off. In John Benham's case, that label was completely deserved.
The former Colchester solicitor, who has died aged 71, led the most remarkable life, combining practice in the law with a career as a lion tamer with the most famous circuses in the country.
The Colchester Gazette last week recounted how Benham (pictured above) had qualified as a solicitor after studying at the College of Law in Guildford, initially working with his family's firm. But the lure of the circus was too strong and he joined the Chipperfield's group in 1975, first as a drummer and then presenting African lions. Benham, who trained two lions himself, would perform in two shows a day and became a local celebrity, famed as the suited solicitor who turned into a showman.
His time in the circus came to an end when he settled down with a family and resumed a full-time career in the law, staying in practice until retirement in 2013. His friend Liz Castagnoli told the Colchester Gazette: 'When it came to lion training he was fearless, he loved the excitement and the edge of danger to it. He enjoyed breaking the rules of convention.'
Of course under Michael Gove's Wild Animals in Circuses Act 2019, lion acts are now a thing of the past. But there must be some other circus stars among Gazette readers: do drop us a line on obiter@lawsociety.org.uk.


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I was diagnosed before joining the Centre. My previous employer was the first to know and, fortunately for me, he responded positively saying that he'd rather have 'me operating at 80% than most others at 100%'. That's stuck with me for a long time.
Ever since I joined the Centre in 2007, the support that I've been given has been invaluable. My own manager, Catherine, attended a Mental Health First Aid course to equip her with skills and knowledge that she could use to support me and others with. I've condensed my hours, to give me a bit more breathing space from one working week to the next. I can work from home when I need to. My colleagues are generally more understanding when my mood bounces all over the place! There are a number of people at the organisation that I can confide in, at all different levels and in various departments. I've also listened to others and advised them when I've been well, but they've been struggling.
It was a reference to this support that I started a speech with, at the Mental Health Today Conference. Mind Cymru invited me to be on the panel of a workshop that looked into the role of service users in their own care planning. The term 'service user' is not one that I like, but we moved on. As well as outlining my experiences of other areas of support that I've accessed down the years, I also made some suggestions for how health professionals could improve engagement with people that have mental ill health and wider engagement with support bodies that may end up helping the same people. People with mental ill health are generally happier and healthier in employment, than not. Working for a supportive employer can be absolutely critical to someone's wellbeing and the overall structure and purpose of a person's life, particularly if they've experienced mental illness.
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Government forces opposing the radical Islamic militias in Syria have reported a sudden flood of advanced weaponry including long-range missiles being used as ISIS and others push towards the Mediterranean coast.
An investigation, published by the Independent newspaper, reveals the concerns of Syrian army officers loyal to president of the rump Syrian state Assad, who are defending the eight mile strip of land separating the Islamic State from the sea. Speaking to journalists, officers said since ISIS's capture of Mosul the types of weapons they had employed had changed dramatically, and now included heat-seeking missiles and tube-launched anti-tank missiles.
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It's nice when you can associate a typewriter you have in your collection with a favourite author.
Of course, many of us will buy a particular model of typewriter purely for the reason that such-and-such typed on one, as I did in the case of an Adler Universal 39 like the one used by Sir Kingsley Amis.
This could perhaps be an observation partly based on his father (even if he was Welsh). Or perhaps Martin had himself in mind? He obviously changed typewriter at least once in his life. The following images show him using a TA-Triumph-Adler SE 1000 series (SE 1000/SE 1005/ SE1010/SE1011/SE1030/SE1040) office electronic typewriter.
Of the two authors, I prefer the younger Amis, but that may be due to the fact that I can relate more to his generation (he's 12 years older than me).
Any image of Joe Stalin has always given me the creeps. I once had a vivid nightmare in which I was an attendee at a round-table meeting with Uncle Joe and feared for my life to the extent that I woke up in a cold sweat. It was the sort of dream you wake up from and feel was something more than a dream, possibly a glimpse of a past life. Since my father was born in the Ukraine and fled Stalin, I think there might be something in it—something in the gene pool.
AH! I know how you feel with associating the writer with the machine. It is like there's a common vector – as though you have a worm-hole to their creative process.
As for Stalin – I like to think that creepy sensation is as a result of image selection and manipulation. In the same way that he destroyed people's lives himself by doing that to others.
excitement of knowing I have a machine of the same model used by one of my favored authors.
Great post. It is amazing that the father and son authors are nearly in the same pose. I would much prefer the younger Martin Amis using a manual typewriter. I've purchased one electric typewriter (a 60's Smith-Corona Coronet Electric) but choose not to use it often. There is just something about electrifying the process that gets my brain working faster than my fingers. From then, it's all downhill.
ah, Amis pere et fils! But I didn't know Martin used a typer as well. It kind of figures – people were still predominantly using them in the 80s, when Marty did his best work.
Speaking of whom, I have a lot of fondness for his work (but somehow, his father seems the bigger/better writer — this is an odd statement to justify perhaps), but his latest stuff has been pretty atrocious. Like that Jospiovici guy said, it's don't-know-where-to-look bad, like when a favourite uncle is caught masturbating near a school. [Beat that for acid criticism). His Pregnant Widow is on my stack of books to re-sell/cycle – along with Koba the Dread – which starts of great, but is just one chapter of great. As far as bio values go, it's a lame duck, compared to some of the proper (and way scarier) real bios of Joe.
I think Martin peaked with Time's Arrow – which is a brilliant formal experiment. Money is also v good.
Anyhoo, I ramble. Nice post.


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2022 Box Office Still 33% Shy Of Pre-Pandemic Levels
Despite a 65 percent jump in box office earnings last year, the movie industry still has a long way to go in its recovery from the Covid-19 shock.
At an estimated total of $7.5 billion, Statista's Felix Richter notes that the North American box office had the third worst year since 2000, still trailing 2019 box office earnings by 33 percent.
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Things are looking even worse when adjusting for ticket price inflation, which makes the 2022 results the third worst year in a long, long time. With roughly 814 million tickets sold in the United States and Canada, movie theaters attracted at least 400 million fewer visitors than in any year between 1995 and 2019, according to industry tracker The Numbers.
Movie theaters and the film industry were hit incredibly hard by the coronavirus pandemic, as screens went dark in most parts of the world in March 2020, when strict social distancing measures were implemented to contain the virus. Box office earnings vanished practically overnight, and film studios were forced to push back movie releases to later in the year, hoping that things would be back to normal by then. Unfortunately, things never went back to normal, as Covid came and went in waves and it took a long time for people to be comfortable enough to return to movie theaters, even after vaccinations had become widely available.
Desperate to generate new revenue streams, studios even did the previously unthinkable in 2021 and started releasing films on streaming services simultaneous to the theatrical release. While embracing streaming as an alternative means of distribution during these special times seemed like a shrewd move, it is proving difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. Consumers have a way of quickly getting used to new realities, and while many people have sorely missed the moviegoing experience, others have long called for the end of theatrical release windows.


Our bit of rain (0.12 inches in Sutherland Heights) was only due to that formed by the collision-coalesence process, some times called the "warm rain" process, or more technically, non-brightband rain2.
Usually clouds at inland locations like Arizona have so many droplets in them , a few hundred thousand per liter or more, larger drops that can collide and coalesce don't form because the condensed water is spread over so many of them.
So I could feel the excitement out there as that frontal band got closer. Perhaps you saw the drizzle-mist rainbow on the Tortalitas, looked at cloud tops, and saw no ice. If you said you saw some ice yesterday you were mistaken or lying to impress your friends.
7:36 AM. Looking toward the Tortolitas at the line of Cumulus congestus approaching Catalina. Can you see the little piece of rainbow just below those low,low cloud bases? Go straight above the white dot marker in the road (Oracle). Cloud bases were usually hot yesterday morning, 15-17° C, and, thus. our clouds were loaded with extra water. The warmer the base, the greater the amount of water that condenses above cloud base. That means drops is bigger, and can reach sizes where bumping together leads to sticking, not rebound as is normal. The usual cloud base is around 5-10° C this time of year. Photo, of course, not taken while driving; that would be crazy. Is just "shopped" to look that way to provide an "action" setting.
7:40 AM. Such a pretty scene! Can you see the little bit of lower hanging cloud below the line of Cumulus? It looked like our windshift, cold front line might be on the doorstep. Waited until afternoon to get here, though.
7:45 AM. Here's a closer look at those lower windshift indicating clouds to the NW yesterday. Now you KNOW the front and "FROPA" is getting close. Very exciting scene. But would it rain? No ice was visible anywhere around.
7:44 AM. In the meantime, Stratocumulus clouds gathered upwind of Catalina with light rain visible just above the horizon SW/ Was looking for an icy top. to extrude above the Stratocu, but didn't see one. You didn't either.
7:49 AM. In the meantime, not much is going on over the Catalinas. Notice how much shallower the Stratocu are than just over there by the Tortollitas. Really showed that the lifting zone of the front was so close!
8:22 AM. Suddenly, it was raining! If you don;t believe me there are drops on the camera lens in this photo. All this misty rain developed while the author, cloud maven person, wasn't paying attention. Did that Stratocumulus develop rain, or did that bit of rain above the horizon move in? Maybe this can be answered at the next club meeting.
8:25 AM. Starting to lose photo control here, as things closed in, prettyness getting enhanced be passing rays of sun on the greenish Catalina Mountains. How can you not record this? Well, maybe you can go ho-hum, but no cloudcentric person could.
8:33 AM. By this time it was all over and 0.05 inches had been logged. Here, those raining clouds zip off to Oracle State Park and vicinity over the horizon. Still looking for icy tops, but haven't seen any, such as in those Cumulus tops, horizon left. Photos now being taken almost every minute, certainly within every five minutes. Wondering if I need a doctor….?
8:47 AM. Rain begins to form on Pusch Ridge from low-based Cumulus clouds. The misty look, lack of a shaft, has you thinking "warm rain" all the way, Maybe of Hawaii, too.
Skipping a LOT of pretty scenes now…..
9:47 AM. Think how special you would think you were when this ray of sunlight bathed you for those few seconds, darkness all around.
9:48 AM. Pretty much the same scenes as you've already seen over and over again, but this one has a bird in it for the sake of variety.
10:33 AM. A little break allowed some nice scenes of the Cumulus congestus on the Catalinas. Notice how low the base is. You could have been hiking in congestus bases yesterday! Very few people get to hike in the base of a Cumulus congestus clouds. You still haven't seen any sign of ice, either.
Valid for 10 AM, yesterday. Output was from the 11 PM AST model run, a diagram with a lot of writing on it.
11:50 AM. Major windshift line and fontral passage (FROPA) now beginning to make progress toward Catalina along with a line of deeper clouds along it. Was thinking ice might be seen somehwere up there at this time, but nope.
11:52 AM. When looking for ice, you want to look at what's ejecting from the tops of the clouds. Here, that little flat cloud above the Cumulus clouds is the "ejecta" from those showers just starting to hit the Tortolita Mountains. As you can see as a cloud maven person, it does not have a fibrous look, nor are there fine strands of ice dropping from it, as would be the case if ice was present. SO it was another piece of circumstantial evidence that ice was not involved in even those dark clouds toward the Tortolitas, ones that would eventually give us our final bit of rain here in Sutherland Heights, Catalian. This kind of cloud has sometimes been called a "water anvil." This was a really exciting moment, though most folks would find that hard to fathom.
12 Noon. A hard shower has popped up over there toward Marana. Now here's I would have guessed these must be some ice at cloud top from the narrowness of the shaft indicating a higher cloud top than in the other nearby shower-producing clouds. Does anyone out there have an aircraft and can fly IFR? It would be great to be on standby like days like this and go take a look at cloud top heights.
12:38 PM. Stratocumulus, in one of its better presentations; lumpy and widespread.
The rest of the day was overcast, cool with a period of light rain around 2 PM, with the temperature dropping to a remarkable 58° F here in Catalina.
The last TUS sounding seemed to confirm this unusual rain day, indicating that the stratiform tops near and over the site were at 0° C.
Here's pretty much what the balloon went up through: The TUS rawinsonde, launched around 3:30 PM yesterday. Cloud tops would be where the two lines, temperature and dewpoint temperature, separate.
4:04 PM. Looking toward Pusch Ridge and Tucson.
Our final rain total in Sutherland Heights was a respectable 0.12 inches from a rarely observed event. 0.47 inches fell on Ms. Lemmon for the highest amount around.
Might add more later, but am quitting now to go "lunge" and ride a horse..
2When steady rain is occurring, returns have a bright band, or a augmented return from the layer in the atmosphere where snow is melting into rain. On days like yesterday, throughout the Tropics, along the West Coast, among many places, non-brightband rain is fairly common. Typically it falls from clouds with tops warmer than -5° C. Ice usually onsets at temperatures between -5° and -10° C in such clouds. Hawaii is a good example where "warm rain" produces most of the prodigious rain totals there on the windward slopes, such as that at Mt Waialeale on the Island of Kuwai where the average rainfall is more than 450 inches!
8:15 AM. Looking upstream in the Sutherland Wash at the back gate of Catalina State Park. I could hardly believe that there was no flow with so much rain having fallen in Catalinas! But it was good in a sense; all that rain mostly soaked in.
6:37 AM. A photo of drizzle falling from Stratocumulus clouds. Hope you got out and jumped around in our rare drizzle occurrence. Big hat, no bicycle, works in drizzle, too, the tiny drops won't get on your glasses. Note how uniform the fuzziness is toward Catalina/Oro Valley, only gradually thickens to the left. Took about 2 h to get a hundredth when this was going on.
7:23 AM. Drizzle drops as seen by your car's windshield after about 1 sec at 1 mph. Note how close together they are. The tiny drops and how close together they are is what differentiates true drizzle from the phony labeling of spares large drops as "drizzle" we sometimes get from our TEEVEEs by semi-pro meteorologists. Sorry to bang on them again, but REALLY, folks, they should know better. Sure, I'm a drizzle-head, but it really does matter since its a whole different process that produces drizzle compared to sparse large drops. Sorry, too, for another mini-harangue on this, but REALLY folks, we should know the difference! Feeling better now, got that out.
8:02 AM. Heading down to the Sutherland Wash on Golder Ranch Drive with temperatures and dewpoints in the mid-60s, there really was a feel for being on the wet side of the Hawaiian Islands, maybe above Hilo, HI, at 3,000 feet elevation, except for the dead grasses.
10:20 AM. One of the many dramatic scenes yestserday, this one looking toward the Charouleau Gap NE of Catalina.
10:19 AM. While it was nice to see all the water glinting off the rocks on the side of Samaniego Ridge, a deeply troubling aspect was the amount of aerosol that had moved in suddenly it seemed, evident in the crespuscular rays. How could it be this dirty so soon? Seems like a weather oxymoron after such a long period of rain. Also, one wondered if this aerosol loading would stop the warm rain process by providing too many, and smaller droplets in our clouds. Fortunately, that did not happen, and what appeared to be warm rain events, or ice formation at relatively high temperatures in our clouds, also requiring extra large cloud droplets, for the most part, continued intermittently into mid-afternoon.
10:32 AM. Close up of aerosols and sun glints on wet rocks.
12:23 PM. Glimpse of ice-forming top (smooth region above crinkly top). Types of crystals visible here?
Needles and hollow sheaths because the top temperature was likely equal to or warmer than -10 C (14 F) and cooler than -4 C, and that is the temperature range that those crystals form under when there is water saturation, as there is in a Cumulus turret before it glaciates. OK, a lot of hand waving, but that's what I think and I am here mainly to tell you what to think, too.
5:36 PM. The day ended quietly with a little, but pretty scruff of orographic Stratocumulus castellanus on Sam Ridge, the clouds mashed down by the subsiding air at the rear of our little trough that went by yesterday afternoon.
NOAA spaghetti plots still suggesting a pretty good chance of rain here around the 23-25th of this month. Nothing before then.
The End, after some improper speculation.
The sky was packed with tropical Cumulus congestus and a few Cumulonimbus clouds in the distance at dawn yesterday, an unusual sight for Catlanders. A few of those Cu around the Catalina/Saddlebrooke/Oro Valley area grew overhead into "soft-serve" Cumulonimbus clouds with heavy, tropical-feeling showers you could hike in with great comfort; no lightning/thunder observed.
Up to an inch likely fell out of the core of the largest ones yesterday morning, but only .09 inches was recorded here in the Sutherland Heights. The Golder Ranch Drive bridge at Lago del Oro got 0.28 inches, Horseshoe Bend in Saddlebrooke near one core got 0.71 inches, Oracle, a half inch. Due to the exceptionally warm cloud bases, about 60 F again, warm-rain processes were certainly involved with those showers, though glaciated tops were usually seen, too. In warm base situations, they can act together.
Now here's something interesting of me to pass along to you, something you might want to pass along to your friends when the opportunity arises: ice doesn't seem to make much difference in the rainfall rates of true tropical clouds in pristine areas, only a little "juicier" than the ones that we had yesterday. Early radar studies in the 1960s1 indicated that the rainrates of tropical clouds peak out BEFORE the cloud tops reached much below freezing, a finding that has been confirmed in some aircraft studies of rainrates in tropical clouds2. Icy tops going to 30 thousand or more really didn't do much but add fluff. All that really heavy rain that developed before the cloud tops reached the freezing level was just due to collisions with coalescence (AKA here, but nowhere else because its too silly, as "coalision.") So, "coalision" can be an extremely powerful and efficient way to get the water out of clouds and onto the ground!
Scattered storms beautified the sky the whole day in the area. More are expected today, as you likely know. Have camera ready! Hope you get shafted!
Cool snap, maybe with rain, virtually guaranteed now for about the 26th-27th. Should make a good dent in the fly season, if you got horses and have been battling them all summer you'll really welcome this.
Your Cloud Diary for September 19, 2014.
6:32 AM. Overcast Stratocumulus (likely with bulging tops) and the distant top of a Cumulonimbus, that bright sliver, lower right.
6:33 AM. Cumulonimbus top NW of Catalina, an usual sight since it had arisen from such low based clouds in the "boundary layer". Usually this only happens due to heating by the sun later in the morning or in the afternoon, of course.
They got shafted, see photo below; came back soaked, their dogs, too.
But, I had done my best. True, it was early morning, and after all, those hikers were likely thinking, "it doesn't rain much here in Catalina in the early morning" (unless its FOUR inches like two weeks ago).
7:30 AM. Heavy rain falls S of Sutherland Heights, on hikers who had been warned about a dump; produced a warm feeling.
8:14 AM. Those showers moved off into the Catalina Mountains and the early morning sun provided a spectacular scene. (From the "Not-Taken While-Driving" Collection, though certain attributes here suggest that someone just pointed a camera in any old way and got this shot. Pretty clever to make it look that way, kind of adds an "action: attribute to the shot.
1:47 PM. I meet a friend, southbound, on Equestrian Trail. I advise her that if she drives under this cloud, she will get dumped on. She continues on. There is no outward sign of ice, and no shaft, however.
1:49 PM. Thunder begins to grumble repeatedly from this cloud only two minutes later! The conversion from a droplet top to an ice (glaciated) one is clearly in progress. My friend has disappeared over the horizon, which isn't that far in only two minutes.
1:58 PM. Kaboom! I was actually a little late getting the fallout to the ground. Will have to look at the video to see the shaft plummet down. Produced a nice little haboobula, too, on the left side, where the shaft is densest. I wondered if my friend had gotten "shafted", as we say here when folks are under the rain shaft.
2:57 PM. An isolated Cu congestus thrusts three turrets out. Who will it turn out to be?
Look! Its Snoopy with wings! (Ice seen on the right, also on the left, but less obvious).
4:31 PM. Pile of Cumulus congestus clouds weighs down the Catalina Mountains again as they did the previous evening. Had to pull off the road this time, jump out car to get this grand scene, well, to me anyway. Hungry passengers a little annoyed at the pre-dinner delay. You know, had to complain a little.
6:18 PM. Another sunset reason why we live here and love it so much.
The End, enjoy our last couple days, it would seem, of our summer thunderstorm season. Oh, me.
1Saunders, R. M., 1965; J. Atmos. Sci.
2Cloud Maven Person with Hobbs, 2005, Quart; J. Roy. Met, Soc.
Yesterday, in the wake of TD Odile, it was about as Hawaiian a day in Arizona as you are ever likely to see. First, the high dewpoints, ones that replicate those in HI, mid and upper 60s (69-70 F in HNL right now), cloud base temperatures of around 60 F, and with misty, even drizzly warm rain around at times. The only thing we didn't see was a rainbow, so common in HI they named a sports team after them.
If you thought the clouds looked especially soft-looking yesterday, I thought they were, too. That soft look that also characterizes clouds in Hawaii and other pristine oceanic areas arises from low droplet concentrations (50-100 per cc), characteristic of Hawaiian clouds.1 Both low updraft speeds at cloud base, and clean air result in low droplet concentrations in clouds.
The result of these factors?
6:10 AM. Light drizzle or rain due to collisions with coalescence rather than due to the ice process falls from yesterday morning's Stratocumulus deck (fuzzy, misty stuff in the center and right; eyeball assessment). Quite exciting to eyeball.
9:46 AM. So clean and pure looking, these clouds during a brief clearing yesterday morning. These might well have been seen off the coast of Hawai'i.
10:23 AM. One of the Hawaiian like ambiance of yesterday was both the low clouds, the humid air, and the green texture on the mountains highlighted by the occasional ray of sunlight. Fantastic scenes!
11:31 AM. Being a cloud maven, I wasn't too surprised to see drizzly rain start to fall from our Hawaiian like Stratocumulus clouds, but I was excited!
11:41 AM. Stratocumulus clouds mass upwind of the Catalinas. Hoping for a few drops at least.
12:07 PM. An especially tropical looking scene I thought, with the very low cloud bases, the humid air; the warm rain process likely the cause of the rain on Samaniego Ridge.
6:08 PM. As the day closed, this fabulous scene on Samaniego Ridge. Clouds might be labeled Stratocumulus castellanus.
6:25 PM. As the air warmed in the clearings to the southwest and west of us, King Cumulonimbus arose. Expect some today around us.
Mods still coming up with cold snap at the end of the month, even with rain as the cold front goes by. How nice would that be to finish off September? Still have a couple of days of King Cumulonimbus around as tropical air continues to hang out in SE Arizona. Hope trough now along Cal coast can generate a whopper here before that tropical air leaves us. Am expecting one, anyway, in one of the next two days, probably our last chances for summer-style rain.
24 h rainfall ending at 7 AM AST yesterday for SE AZ (courtesy of the U of AZ rainlog.org site).
2A thousand microns is a millimeter, in case you've forgotten, and that's only about 0.04 inches in diameter. Most raindrops are in the 1000 to 3000 micron diameter range, though the largest, measured in Brazil, the Marshall and Hawaiian Islands, can be about a centimeter in diameter.
Odile passed to the S and E of Cat land, leaving only 0.13 inches here in the Heights, the Sutherland ones. Didn't even get the half inch I hoped for. Oh, well, we can be happy for the droughty areas of New Mexico that got the brunt of that tropical system as did portions of extreme SE AZ. You may know that for many days in advance and up until 11 PM the night before last (shown here), our best models had O practically passing right over us with prodigious rains indicated.
Unfortunately, we meteorologists often "go down with the ship" when this happens due to model forecast consistency. Only in the last minutes, so to speak, did the model runs get it right (but too late to be of much use) and finally indicated that the true path of the heaviest rain was NOT going to be over us, as was already being discovered via obs. O was such a cloud mess, the mods may have been off in locating where the center was. Not sure. Will have to wait for the panel report.
Seems to be preciping on the Cat Mountains right now, though doesn't show up on radar, so its likely a RARE "warm rain" event here in AZ where the rain forms by collisions between larger cloud drops to form rain drops and the cloud tops are low1. Maybe that's O's legacy; tropical air and a warm rain day sighting.
BTW, whilst Catalina and most of Tucson didn't get much, it has continued to rain steadily in our mountains over the past 24 h with Dan Saddle, up there in the CDO watershed, leading the way with 2.09 inches in 24 at this hour (5 AM) and its still coming down lightly, as noted. Its been a fantastic rain since it was steady and soaking up there over that whole 24 h period, much like in our winter storms. Below, some totals from the PIma County ALERT gauges. You can see more totals here.
BTW#2, true CMJs (cloud maven juniors) will want to photograph the rain from these shallow clouds, this rare, Hawaiian-like rain event2, lining the Catalinas this morning as soon as its light enough. It would be like photographing a parakeet on your bird feeder here in Catalina, one migrating from South America. I think that's where they come from. Anyway, your cloud-centric friends from other part of the world would be quite interested in seeing your photos of this.
Is the summer rain season over?
Now we get into some interesting weather times as we go back into the scattered big thunderstorms feeding on the moist plume that accompanied O. That moist plume will be around for the next few days. These coming days, with their thunder squalls, may well be the most "productive" ones for rain here compared to the piddly output of O here in the Heights. We have upper air goings on that are likely to make storms cluster more into big systems a time or two during the next few days instead just the one over here and over there kind of days, the ones you hope you get lucky on to get truly shafted. So, "fun times at Catalina High" ahead, to paraphrase something.
11:15 AM. The look of a stormy sky: Stratus fractus lining Samaniego Ridge, orogrpahic Stratocumulus topping the Ridge, overcast Nimbostratus producing R– (very light rain).
4:56 PM. By afternoon the deeper clouds were gone leaving Cumulus, a couple of distant Cumulonimbus clouds with their rain shafts, and an overcast of Stratocumulus or Altocumulus, no precip coming out of them.
6:28 PM. The sunset, while OK, like O was a little disappointing since more clouds could have been lit up by the setting sun but weren't.
Cool weather alert: based on model consistency, which I have already discredited earlier, there are cold snaps now appearing for the end of September and early October. They've shown up in a couple of runs now. They have some support in the NOAA spaghetti factory plots.
1There's a nice description of "coalision" , the warm rain process not involving ice, in Pruppacher and Klett (1998) if you really want a nice book about cloud microphysics in your library.
2Mostof the rain that falls in Hawaii falls from relatively shallow clouds with tops at temperatures above freezing, no ice involved, contrary to the usual situation here where ice is necessary.
Maybe they sneaked up because I wasn't looking. After posting yesterday just after 5 AM, went out side and looked at the Catalina Mountains, that is those parts I could see through the thick rain shafts, and said, "WHAT!!!?" I was STUNNED to see them; had not even looked at the radar imagery for a couple of hours. Really was asleep at the keyboard.
And then the hour or so of rain that followed, with no lightning! Rain is so rare here om the morning in the summer, and it was so substantial. If there was a disappointment, a slight one, it was that Cargodera Canyon (NE corner of Cat State Park) with 0.87 inches, and the bridge at Golder Ranch Dr and Lago del Oro (0.71 inches) got so much more than we did here in Sutherland Heights in the past 24 h (0.38 inches). They were hit harder, too, by that late afternoon Cb that drifted off Pusch Ridge, again, a heavy shaft of rain with no lightning–how often have you seen that in a summer afternoon?
For a roundup of Pima County rainfall totals, go here.
It was, with its high concentrations of drops, a rain reminiscent of coastal Washington State in the early fall when offshore waters are still pretty warm, or Hawaii, for that matter, the latter location where most of the rain forms without ice. Our high concentrations of rain drops was also likely due to forming, at least partly, through the "warm rain" process, one that does not require ice, and is VERY rare in Arizona. Requires really warm cloud bases, and we had them yesterday, with bases around 60 F, 15-16 C, not too much cooler than you would find hovering over you in New Orleans or Miami, or Merida, Mexico, etc., places where warm rain develops routinely along with ice in the deeper clouds.
Here are some scenes from our huge, and low based, soft-looking, "soft serve" Cumulonimbus clouds, ones that looked that way because updrafts are weak for such deep clouds. You will see that updraft weakness in these photos.
11:44 AM. After the rain, this gentle giant. No anvil, frosty glaciated slides that kind of slope upward, all indicative of relatively gentle updrafts, a situation that limits the amount of electrification that can build up in them. I was in awe of how pretty this was, and how unusual its appearance was, too. Had to stop, jump out in the mud and grab a shot.
11:46 AM. A closer look. I am just beside myself at how tropical this scene is, so I took another shot. Took too many photos yesterday, too.
2:31 PM. Another tropical-looking scene on the Samaniego Ridge. Cloud bases are running about 15-17 C here, 59-62 F. Coulda been taken in the hills around Luzon, Phillipines. Note itty bitty rain shaft. Without doubt that from drops colliding and sticking together ("warm-rain process), no ice needed for those clouds to start raining yesterday. I hope you enjoyed this unusual day as much as I did! It was like being transported to a REALLY warm and humid climate, and yet, here we are in a desert!
3:06 PM. Maybe the "Dump of the Day". It was beginning to fade at this point, and as it approached Catalina, I listened intently for thunder, but none was heard. This, too, made it so "tropical oceanic" since those huge clouds with their weak updrafts, hardly ever have lightning. But I have never seen a shaft like this in the afternoon here sans thunder, making the day that bit more unusual, and special. I will never forget you, August 29th, 2013.
6:43 PM. Just the condensation of the water, and the accompany release of a little heat was enough even in the evening to send small clouds shooting upward, another sign of warm based clouds. The warmer the base, the more water is contained in the droplets that first form, and the more heat that is given off to the air next to the droplet. Those clouds were magnificent last evening on the Catalinas! There was yet another Cumulonimbus beyond the mountains, too.
6:45 PM. Just two minutes later, I was thinking about that curry dish with mushrooms. I guess it shows how flexible the human mind is, going from this to that.
Well, that's about all we have time for, kids, and the hour of the exede.com choke hold, 5 AM approaches, and its too frustrating to be on the Web after that. May dredge up a Kwajalein shot at some later point, for comparison purposes, though.
Dewpoints are still running very high, even several 70s in the state (68 F here in the Heights). And so, with luck and no drying and no appreciable changes evident, we'll have another day in the Phillipines, or the Marshall Islands, or Puerto Vallarta, New Orleans, Miami, Panama, etc. Enjoy.


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On 29 October 2020, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided the residence of human rights defender and former chairperson of the Delhi Minorities Commission Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan and the office of the NGO 'Charity Alliance' headed by him.
Zafarul Islam Khan is a scholar, journalist and the former Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) – a statutory body which works under the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. He is the current Chairperson of the Charity Alliance, an organisation that provides education, relief, development and welfare programmes for minorities in India. He has worked extensively on minority rights, including Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains and Parsis. The 72 year old human rights defender is a respected scholar and intellectual and has been vocal against all forms extremism, including in his own community. He has spoken out against right wing extremism and violence against minorities in India.
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Zafarul Islam Khan is a scholar, journalist and the former Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) – a statutory body which works under the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. He is the current Chairperson of the Charity Alliance, an organisation that provides education, relief, development and welfare programmes for minorities in India. He has worked extensively on minority rights, including Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains and Parsis. The 72 year old human rights defender is a respected scholar and intellectual and has been vocal against all forms extremism, including in his own community. He has spoken out against right wing extremism and violence against minorities in India. The report produced by the DMC on the Delhi riots, clearly implicates far right wing elements, and state collusion in the violence that took place in February 2020. His work, especially as former-Chairperson of the DMC, has made him a direct target for the State and extremist groups.
On 29 October 2020, at around 7 am, NIA officers scaled the exterior wall of Zafarul Islam Khan's compound and entered his residence in Dehli. No physical search order or warrant was produced, although the defender was shown what officers purported to be a search order on an NIA officer's mobile phone. The order stated that the office premises of Charity Alliance was to be searched, having been linked to terrorist militants in Kashmir. The officers ordered the defender and his family members to hand over their mobile phones, and searched the bedrooms and residence on the first floor of the building. Around two hours later, the office of Charity Alliance, located on the ground floor was also searched. Items seized from the residence and the office include documents, laptops, hard drives of desk top computers, cash from the residence, and mobile devices. The raid ended at around 11 am and the defender's son was asked to accompany the officers to Shaheen Bagh police station to fill out a seizure memo, where he remained until 7 pm.
The human rights defender has been previously targetted by Indian authorities for his work. On 6 May 2020, Delhi police entered Zafarul Islam Khan's home and attempted to arrest him in relation to a post he had made to social media, which the police claimed was seditious. The 72 year old defender was granted anticipatory bail in this case by the Delhi High Court in July 2020, considering his age, risks posed by COVID-19 to prisoners, and because police had completed their inquiries into his case.
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New measles case confirmed in Los Angeles County, bringing total to 6 for the year
Doses of the MMR (measles, mumps rubella) vaccine and the Tdap for whooping cough at the Health Care Agency, Orange County in Santa Ana. (File photo by Michael Goulding, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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PUBLISHED: April 30, 2019 at 1:10 p.m. | UPDATED: April 30, 2019 at 1:10 p.m.
Public health officials on Tuesday, April 30, confirmed a new measles case in Los Angeles County, bringing the total number of infections in the county this year to six.
A county resident contracted the virus during international travel and the incident is not related to any of the other five measles cases, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials said. Of the six cases reported in Los Angeles County this year, a majority were never vaccinated, officials said.
Public health officials are urging those who travel internationally and those who have not been fully immunized against measles to get two doses of the vaccine to protect themselves against the highly contagious disease.
Health officials said anyone who may have been at the following locations may be at risk of developing measles for up to 21 days after being exposed.
Los Angeles International Airport, Tom Bradley International Terminal, on April 23, between 4 and 7:30 p.m.
Fox Auto Parks LAX Shuttle on April 23, between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.
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Measles typically begins with a cough, runny nose, fever and watery eyes. Three to five days after symptoms begin, a rash breaks out on the hairline and face, progressing downward to the neck and lower body. Those who have measles are contagious up to four days before the rash appears.
Last week, the county's public health department issued quarantine orders to hundreds of students and faculty members at UCLA and Cal State Los Angeles after they were exposed to individuals with measles on those campuses. A majority of those quarantined had been cleared as of Tuesday.
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Rainbow Kitten Surprise have been to Minneapolis three times in the last two years; first at the 7th St Entry, next First Ave, and then the Palace Theatre last night. Every show was sold out. The success story of RKS (how fans refer to them) is one that many bands hope for and few bands achieve: straight shot to some of the largest festivals and venues in cities across the nation in a matter of two short years since they began touring outside of the east coast market.
The North Carolinian band, who released their third studio album (How to: Friend, Love Freefall) last year, took to the stage last night and began "Matchbox" in a manner that could be described as humble given their typical live energy. The audience's excitement made up for that low-key opening until the frontman, Sam Melo, warmed up enough to dance his way from behind the keyboard to center stage and give the crowd a taste of what they had come to expect.
By their second song, "It's Called: Freefall," the enthusiasm was there in full force, with a whirlwind of twirling and jumping and high-kicking after the build-and-drop towards the end of the song, preceded by the lyrics "Ain't sh*t free but falling out/ and that sh*t's easy let me show you how, it's like." RKS songs use a lot of vocal harmonies, and more often than not there is more than one band member singing at any given time, but I found Charlie Holt's bass particularly striking during that song and left me wishing there were more of his harmonies the entire show, savoring them when they came.
"Shameful Company" swelled to a heart-grabbing brilliance when Melo dragged out the line, "If I don't suit you, then what do you want from me?" into an anguished scream. The audience lost their minds when, in "American Shoes," the music lulled and Melo sang, "I think I'm in love with the thought of us" right before the song crashed, launching the band and fans alike into a storm of dancing and scream-singing. It took me this long to notice that Darrick "Bozzy" Keller (guitar and vocals) was covered in glitter, most of it being apparent fallout from his beard.
The first few notes of "Hide" proved to be a crowd favorite, probably due to the song's popularity as a sort of anthem for LGBTQ+ fans; Melo came out publicly on Instagram when the music video was released for the track. Keller and Melo switched to acoustic guitars and Ethan Goodpaster, guitar, switched to a banjo and they began "All That And More (Sailboat)" as the crowd let out an audible "Awe!" in unison.
"St. Paul, this is our last song. Thank you all for coming," said Melo to the audience as the band began the opening notes of "Goodnight Chicago." Melo and Holt had a little alternating high kick sequence before one of the choruses; when the song finished Melo blew the crowd a kiss and the band walked off. They returned shortly after for a three-song encore, Jess Haney (drums) and Holt run-spinning their way on stage, Goodpastor carrying his guitar over his head, and Melo now shirtless save for a brightly patterned blazer that ended up coming off for the last song anyway.
RKS played "Fever Pitch" and "Recktify" one after another, Melo with more passion in his dancing and singing than we'd seen all night. Before their last song, Melo thanked every member of their crew by name and introduced the band in a sort of auctioneer style before hyping the audience up one last time as he went back and forth asking "do you mind?!" to which the crowd would scream, "No!" and after a few of those he began "Run" with words of request, "well if you really don't mind, turn the f*ck up please!" They drew the song out, Goodpaster using his empty beer bottle as a guitar slide and Melo climbing Haney's drum kit to balance in an arabesque atop the kick drum.
Sometimes you go to shows and you can tell that people are getting antsy waiting for it to end, but this was absolutely not one of those shows. Rainbow Kitten Surprise have a community of dedicated fans, and it was evident throughout the show that nobody wanted to go home last night. There was something in the air that lingered after the band left the stage and it left everyone smiling and content, happy to have spent a Tuesday night in a snowstorm with one of their favorite bands.


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Q: Failed to resolve: com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-smoothstreaming:2.6.1 I have a problem to build a expo detached project in android. When i build the project, the output from console build says: Failed to resolve: com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-smoothstreaming:2.6.1
Steps to reproduce

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*Init a project from: expo init

*Detach project with: exp detach

*Open /android in Android Studio

Solution attempts
Put the dependency manually in app/build.gradle
dependencies { implementation com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-smoothstreaming:2.6.1 }

Install Repository and sync project from Android Studio, results in: SDK Manager Could not find dependency "com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-smoothstreaming:2.6.1"
Invalidate caches and restart project from Android Studio - File/Invalidade Caches / Restart option
Helper links
Expo.io: https://docs.expo.io/versions/v31.0.0/
Detaching to ExpoKit: https://docs.expo.io/versions/v28.0.0/expokit/detach#__next
MVN Repository ExoPlayer Smoothstreaming: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.android.exoplayer/exoplayer-smoothstreaming/2.9.2
thanks in advance.

A: I added
maven { url 'https://google.bintray.com/exoplayer/' }
maven { url 'https://dl.bintray.com/android/android-tools' }
maven { url 'https://dl.bintray.com/firebase/gradle/' }

to my root build.gradle to get rid of the error.
Note that it has to go in your allProjects block
This is what I have as an example:
allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'https://google.bintray.com/exoplayer/' }
        maven { url 'https://dl.bintray.com/android/android-tools' }
        maven { url 'https://dl.bintray.com/firebase/gradle/' }
        google()
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
        flatDir {
            dirs 'libs'
        }
    }