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Weekly News Roundup 9/6 to 9/12
This week: Find out if you follow the most popular pet influencers, the FDA recalls more pet food products, and gender discrimination in the veterinary profession.
Pet obesity: Is it a disease yet?
According to Banfield Pet Hospital, pet obesity is an epidemic. But if it's an epidemic, does that mean it's a disease?
Weekly News Roundup 1/17 to 1/23
This week: A new music-streaming service for pets, the most-trafficked animal in the world might be one you've never heard of, and why you don't want to be alone with a cat if the end is near.
New study offers more fodder to spay/neuter discussion
The age at which large-breed dogs are spayed or neutered has become a hot topic with regard to obesity and nontraumatic orthopedic injuries, and a new study published July 17 in the journal PLOS ONE and based on data from the Morris Animal Foundation Golden Retriever Lifetime Study provides more information for veterinarians.
Upcoming Oregon vote could change the way you practice telemedicine
A controversial proposed amendment to Oregon's Veterinary Practice Act may have ripple effects that could change the way veterinarians nationwide practice telemedicine (also known as connected care ) in years to come.
What the UK's new telemedicine rules mean for veterinarians in the US
A temporary relaxing of telemed rules in the UK is now set to become permanent, according to the RCVS. Here's how that change could impact veterinarians on both sides of the pond.
Introducing AAHA's new End-of-Life Care accreditation
In an effort to help veterinary practitioners elevate end-of-life care for companion animals, AAHA now offers an End-of-Life Care accreditation option for veterinary practices as part of the AAHA Standards of Accreditation .
Introducing a new continuum of patient-focused anesthesia
Tamara Grubb, DVM, PhD, DACVAA, cochair of the 2020 AAHA Anesthesia and Monitoring Guidelines for Dogs and Cats , is excited about the new guidelines. "There are so many new things [that] I don't even know where to start," she told NEWStat .
This week: Some medical students get out of school early to join the fray, human medical workers told to keep mum on COVID-19, and good news on the testing-pets-for-coronavirus front.
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Honduras: Hispanic Reading Room Country Guide
This guide provides curated Library of Congress resources for researching Honduras, including digitized primary source materials in a wide variety of formats, books and periodicals, online databases, and tips for searching.
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Created: June 11, 2021
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Harris & Ewing, photographer. Honduras. Street Scene in Tegucigalpa. 1911. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Library of Congress holds thousands of collection materials about and from Honduras. Curated by librarians in the Hispanic Reading Room, this guide is part of a series of Country Guides that provide quick references for countries and regions from the Luso-Hispanic world. The Hispanic Reading Room is the Library's portal to the Caribbean, Latin America, Spain and Portugal; the indigenous cultures of those areas; and peoples throughout the world historically influenced by Luso-Hispanic heritage, including Latinos in the U.S. This guide offers links to diverse resources on Honduras from across the Library including digitized primary sources, selected books and periodicals, online databases, and tips for searching. For specific questions or assistance using the Library's resources, use the Ask a Librarian service to contact a reference librarian.
Honduras: Quick Facts
United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Honduras. 1985. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Official Name: Republic of Honduras
Capital: Tegucigalpa
Date of Independence: September 15, 1821
Head of State/Government: President Juan Orlando Hernández
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The Critics' Choice Awards kicked off Sunday at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, where some of the biggest names in television and film turned out for a night of fun, some surprises, and a wholehearted celebration of the industry.
One of the most important takeaways from the evening, however, is the role the Critics' Choice Awards could play in indicating what films are favorites to take home Oscar gold when the Academy Awards roll around on Feb. 28.
WATCH: Jacob Tremblay Wins the Critics' Choice Awards With Cutest Acceptance Speech Ever!
First and foremost, the critics spoke loudly when it came to their love of the gritty newspaper drama Spotlight, which beat out The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Mad Max: Fury Road, Carol, Brooklyn, The Martian, The Revenant, Room and Sicario, to take home the top prize of Best Picture.
With its wins for Best Original Screenplay and Best Ensemble Cast -- which includes Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci and Liev Schreiber, to name just a few -- Spotlight could be poised to earn quite a bit of hardware come Oscar night, where it's nominated in six categories including Best Picture.
Mad Max: Fury Road felt the love at the Critics' Choice Awards as well. The celebrated action epic took home four awards, including Best Action Movie, Best Director (George Miller), Best Actor in an Action Movie (Tom Hardy) and Best Actress in an Action Movie (Charlize Theron).
Given Fury Road's 10 Oscar nominations, there's a good chance the film may get some of the recognition from the Academy that its legion of fans believes it deserves.
And it was another good night for Leonardo DiCaprio, who followed up his Golden Globes win last weekend with another award for Best Actor Sunday night for his role in The Revenant. Could the 41-year-old star finally take home an Oscar after getting nominated six times?
For more on who had a great night at the Critics' Choice Awards, check out the full list of winners below.
RELATED: Sylvester Stallone Wins at Critics' Choice Awards -- Is An Oscar Inevitable?


In North Carolina family law practice, litigation is started with a summons and complaint being filed, followed by an answer and counterclaims and finally, a reply to the counterclaims. This series of filings is collectively referred to as the pleadings in the case.
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Another example is that of equitable distribution. In North Carolina equitable distribution law, there isa rule that a claim must be made for equitable distribution prior to divorce or the right of a party to ask for an equitable distribution is lost forever. Even if the pleadings are closed, a party may file a motion in the cause for equitable distribution any time up until the entry of the divorce judgment in a case.
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Q: An an extra Add Rule button to react-querybuilder I am using react-querybuilder what I need is another Add Rule button to be add next to the original one and want to add differnt set of fields and operators when using the new button. Here is some part of my code:
import { HBButton, HBIcon } from '@hasty-bazar/core'
import { FC } from 'react'
import { useIntl } from 'react-intl'
import queryBuilderMessages from '../HBQueryBuilder.messages'

interface AddRuleActionProps {
  handleOnClick: (event: React.MouseEvent<HTMLButtonElement, MouseEvent>) => void
}

const AddGroupAction: FC<AddRuleActionProps> = ({ handleOnClick }) => {
  const { formatMessage } = useIntl()
  return (
    <>
    <HBButton
      onClick={handleOnClick}
      size="small"
      leftIcon={<HBIcon type="plus" />}
      sx={{ marginRight: 2, minWidth: 50 }}
    >
      {formatMessage(queryBuilderMessages.rule)}
    </HBButton>
   // >>> ANOTHER HBButton with different implementation to be added here
    </>
  )
}

export default AddGroupAction

A: Adding a new answer based on your feedback and because this one is very different from the other. I'm about to release v5.0 of react-querybuilder that has the feature I mentioned in the first paragraph of the other answer. This makes achieving the desired result much more straightforward and also eliminates the need for external state management (i.e. Redux).
TL;DR: working codesandbox example here (uses react-querybuilder@5.0.0-alpha.2).
React Query Builder only takes one fields prop, but you can organize the fields into an array of option groups instead of a flat array. I set the operators property on each field to the default operators, filtered appropriately for the type of field (text vs numeric).
import { Field, OptionGroup } from 'react-querybuilder';
import { nameOperators, numberOperators } from './operators';

export const fields: OptionGroup<Field>[] = [
  {
    label: 'Names',
    options: [
      { name: 'firstName', label: 'First Name', operators: nameOperators },
      { name: 'lastName', label: 'Last Name', operators: nameOperators },
    ],
  },
  {
    label: 'Numbers',
    options: [
      { name: 'height', label: 'Height', operators: numberOperators },
      { name: 'weight', label: 'Weight', operators: numberOperators },
    ],
  },
];

Next I set up a custom field selector component to only allow fields that are part of the same option group. So if a "name" field is chosen, the user can only select other "name" fields.
const FilteredFieldSelector = (props: FieldSelectorProps) => {
  const filteredFields = fields.find((optGroup) =>
    optGroup.options.map((og) => og.name).includes(props.value!)
  )!.options;

  return <ValueSelector {...{ ...props, options: filteredFields }} />;
};

This custom Add Rule button renders a separate button for each option group that calls the handleOnClick prop with the option group's label as context.
const AddRuleButtons = (props: ActionWithRulesAndAddersProps) => (
  <>
    {fields
      .map((og) => og.label)
      .map((lbl) => (
        <button onClick={(e) => props.handleOnClick(e, lbl)}>
          +Rule ({lbl})
        </button>
      ))}
  </>
);

The context is then passed to the onAddRule callback, which determines what field to assign based on the context value.
const onAddRule = (
  rule: RuleType,
  _pP: number[],
  _q: RuleGroupType,
  context: string
) => ({
  ...rule,
  context,
  field: fields.find((optGroup) => optGroup.label === context)!.options[0].name,
});

Put it all together in the QueryBuilder props, and voilà:
export default function App() {
  const [query, setQuery] = useState(initialQuery);

  return (

      <QueryBuilder
        fields={fields}
        query={query}
        onQueryChange={(q) => setQuery(q)}
        controlElements={{
          addRuleAction: AddRuleButtons,
          fieldSelector: FilteredFieldSelector,
        }}
        onAddRule={onAddRule}
      />

{formatQuery(query, 'json')}

  );
}

A: Update: see my other answer
This is a little tricky because the onAddRule callback function only accepts the rule to be added (which is always the default rule), and the parent path. If we could pass custom data into it this question would be much easier to answer.
The best way I can think to do it today is to externalize the query update methods out of the QueryBuilder component and manage them yourself (for the most part). In the example below, I've used Redux Toolkit (overkill for this use case but it's what I'm familiar with) to manage the query and replaced the Add Rule button with a custom component that renders two buttons, one to add a new rule for First Name and one to add a new rule for Last Name.
Working CodeSandbox example.
The redux store:

import { configureStore, createSlice, PayloadAction } from '@reduxjs/toolkit';
import { RuleGroupType } from 'react-querybuilder';
import { TypedUseSelectorHook, useDispatch, useSelector } from 'react-redux';

interface State {
  query: RuleGroupType;
}

export const getQuery = (state: State) => state.query;

const initialState: State = {
  query: {
    combinator: 'and',
    rules: [],
  },
};

const querySlice = createSlice({
  name: 'query',
  initialState,
  reducers: {
    setQuery(state: State, action: PayloadAction<RuleGroupWithAggregation>) {
      state.query = action.payload;
    },
  },
});

const { reducer } = querySlice;

export const { setQuery } = querySlice.actions;

export const store = configureStore({ reducer });

export type RootState = ReturnType<typeof store.getState>;
export type AppDispatch = typeof store.dispatch;

export const useAppDispatch = () => useDispatch<AppDispatch>();
export const useAppSelector: TypedUseSelectorHook<RootState> = useSelector;

The App component:
import {
  ActionWithRulesProps,
  add,
  Field,
  formatQuery,
  QueryBuilder,
} from 'react-querybuilder';
import 'react-querybuilder/dist/query-builder.scss';
import { getQuery, setQuery, useAppDispatch, useAppSelector } from './store';

const fields: Field[] = [
  { name: 'firstName', label: 'First Name' },
  { name: 'lastName', label: 'Last Name' },
];

const AddRuleButtons = (props: ActionWithRulesProps) => {
  const dispatch = useAppDispatch();
  const query = useAppSelector(getQuery);

  const onClickFirst = () =>
    dispatch(
      setQuery(
        add(
          query,
          { field: 'firstName', operator: '=', value: 'First' },
          props.path
        )
      )
    );
  const onClickLast = () =>
    dispatch(
      setQuery(
        add(
          query,
          { field: 'lastName', operator: '=', value: 'Last' },
          props.path
        )
      )
    );

  return (
    <>
      <button onClick={onClickFirst}>+Rule (First Name)</button>
      <button onClick={onClickLast}>+Rule (Last Name)</button>
    </>
  );
};

export default function App() {
  const dispatch = useAppDispatch();
  const query = useAppSelector(getQuery);

  return (

      <QueryBuilder
        fields={fields}
        query={query}
        onQueryChange={(q) => dispatch(setQuery(q))}
        controlElements={{
          addRuleAction: AddRuleButtons,
        }}
      />

{formatQuery(query, 'json')}

  );
}

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Baseball Dads: Sex. Drugs. Murder. Children's Baseball. by Matthew S. Hiley (Greenleaf Book Group Press, $15.99, 320 pages)
"Holy Travel Ball, Batman"
What do you do when you live in an affluent suburb, your kid is a talented baseball player but ends up playing on a team with a "daddy ball" coach, and your wife is sleeping with half the males in the state of Texas? Why, the answer is obvious. You spend 90% of your waking hours high as a kite, orchestrating a killing spree, have sex constantly, assume you can get away with it because you are a superhero, win over the cops, and – at the same time – get the reader to root for you because every other character in the novel is even more reprehensible than you.
At least that is Dwayne Devero's solution in Matthew S. Hiley's masterpiece Baseball Dads.
Every page gets more absurd than the last until just when you think it can't get any more ridiculous, it does. If you have to wear glasses to read, as I do, good luck. It is hard to imagine when you are crying your eyes out with laughter. Baseball Dads is Family Guy on steroids.
It is a farce, certainly. But it is extremely well-written. And, it is so far out there that one is forced to reflect on the moral negativity of egocentric lives without realizing that Hiley is holding the mirror up to us all – until it's not as funny anymore when the realization comes that that is exactly what he is doing.
The Real Housewives of Fort Worth, or the reality of your own suburban backyard, your attitude about your kid's participation in organized sport, and the absolute certainty that he or she is surely on the cusp of a college Division I scholarship – before they've even reached puberty? Well, you will have to decide for yourself.
Dave Moyer
Dave Moyer is an education administrator and the author of Life and Life Only: A Novel about love, baseball, and Bob Dylan.
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Think of a Number by John Verdon (Crown, July 2010, 432 pages)
"On the one hand, there was the logic of the law, the science of criminology, the processes of adjudication. On the other, there was pain, murderous rage, death."
John Verdon, a former advertising firm executive in Manhattan, has produced a brilliant debut novel that offers a cynical and skeptical look at the modern criminal justice system. In Verdon's words, "…the justice system is a cage that can no more keep the devil contained than a weather vane can stop the wind." If one read this novel with no knowledge of the writer's background, one would guess that he is a retired policeman or prosecutor. It is quite hard to believe that Verdon has no personal knowledge of the bleak and challenging world that he writes about so expertly in this work.
In Think of a Number, retired Detective David Gurney and his wife Madeleine live in the hills of Delaware County. She is the smarter of the two, although he is considered to be the most brilliant crime solver who ever worked for the New York City Police Department. Gurney is so legendary that his adult son says to him, "Mass murderers don't have a chance against you. You're like Batman."
But Gurney may have met his match when he's asked by the county district attorney to serve as a special investigator on a serial killer case. The killer seems to do the impossible. First, he sends his intended victim a message asking him to think of a number, any number at all. Once they think of the number they are instructed to open a sealed envelope; this envelope contains the very number they thought of written in ink. As if this is not amazing and frightening enough, the killer subsequently calls his intended victim and asks him to whisper another number into the phone. After he does so, he is instructed to go to his mailbox. There he retrieves a sealed envelope with the very number he just whispered typed onto a page that was in the envelope.
Gurney is fortunate in that he's ably assisted by Madeleine who often sees things he's missed. But no one can figure out how the serial murderer performs his numbers tricks, or how to capture him. In order to solve the puzzles, Gurney is going to have to consider making himself a target of the killer. Gurney's logic and research tells him that the serial killer is a control freak, one who kills victims in different states (like Ted Bundy) but operates according to a strict plan.
Gurney must come up with a theory as to what connects these male victims – who seem to have no apparent connection – in order to figure out why they were killed. Once he does so, he begins to formulate a plan that will put him face to face with a madman genius. (The reader, quite fortunately, will not come even close to predicting what's ahead.)
Think of a Number is a fast-moving, cinematic-style thriller. It is easy to see this novel being made into a film. At heart, it's an old-fashioned morality play in which a retired white-hat wearing man must come out of retirement to battle with an all too clever mean-hearted outlaw. Detective Gurney engages the enemy – a modern devil – while understanding that in the gritty field of criminal justice there are no final victories.
This is an impressively written and engaging story. One is advised to refrain from starting it without having cleared a number of hours on one's schedule; otherwise, hours of sleep will be lost. Once finished, you will no doubt begin – as this reader has – to count the months until Mr. Verdon delivers his next very satisfying thriller.
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The thing about Hollywood is it makes you doubt yourself – your identity, your judgment, you motivation, your parenting…
Ruth Rabinowitz had a waking nightmare that she had hit a transvestite crossing Highland at Hollywood Boulevard. In her mind the transvestite would be lying in the crosswalk surrounded by Shreks and Dorothys and Princess Fionas; Batman would call 911 while Japanese tourists took pictures of the fallen one with their cell phones. The transvestite would be fine, of course – it was a waking nightmare – and when s/he was set upright on his/her extremely tall platform shoes, s/he would look down on Ruth from six feet up and say kindly, Go ahead, honey – you cry if you want to. Ruth would break down right there, and the transvestite would take her gently in his/her arms – and his/her skin would be wonderfully silky and toned from hours at the gym – and smooth her hair from her face while she wept.
That's how much pressure she was under.
Driving into Hollywood was always harrowing, and though she and her thirteen-year-old daughter, Bethany, had been in Los Angeles for only three weeks, she had already learned that the smoothness of the trip to a casting studio was inversely proportionate to the importance of the audition. Right now it was three o'clock, Bethany's callback time had been two forty-five, and they were stuck in choking traffic on Highland near Santa Monica.
Admittedly, some of their tardiness – all right, most of it – was Ruth's fault. She had a tendency, even under routine circumstances, to dither. She'd changed clothes twice before they'd left, even though no one would care or even notice what she was wearing. She'd checked and rechecked an e-mail in which Mimi Roberts, Bethany's manager, had forwarded the callback's time and location. She'd printed out, misplaced, reprinted, and then found the original copy of the MapQuest directions she'd pulled up – even though they'd driven to the same casting studio just yesterday. Now she heard the same maddening refrain looping endlessly inside her head: You should have left sooner, you should have left sooner, you should have left sooner. Her blood pressure was so high she could feel her pulse in her feet. "I just can't believe there's this much traffic," she said.
"Mom," Bethany said with newfound world-weariness. "This is LA."
"Well, you can certainly see why it's the birthplace of road rage." They moved up a couple of car lengths and then stopped, still at least eight cars short of the intersection. Beside them a young man in a BMW cursed energetically into his Bluetooth…
This is an excerpt from the opening of Seeing Stars: A Novel by Diane Coplin Hammond. This entertaining and charming book will be reviewed in the near future on this site. Seeing Stars was released by Harper on March 23, 2010. This trade paperback sells for $13.99, and is available as a Kindle Edition download for $9.99.
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Statement of Evergreen student McKenzie Kyger to Board of Trustees, July 12, 2017. UPDATE: Interview of McKenzie here: https://youtu.be/dDxlnTv5fEg.
Can hate lead to hate?
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America without Black labor, ingenuity, creativity, innovation and invention would be in the dark ages, and you take that anyway you want to. Granville Woods, Garrett Morgan, Lewis Latimer, and Elijah McCoy are a few inventors?genius tinkerers?who come quickly to mind when considering the roles they played in the development of modern America.
There is a tendency to discount the continuing role of Black inventors in science and technology in the digital age, but they are just as prominent, just as invisible now, as they were in the past.
At a recent event at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, a man in a wheelchair asked at the top his voice during a question and answer session on African American athletes ?Who invented the cell phone??? When no one answered, he shouted ?A Black man, Henry Sampson.?
Most of the folks in the audience laughed him off as some kind of kook.? But the man wasn?t altogether off his rocker or wheelchair.?? Sampson isn?t credited with inventing the cell phone, that honor has been given to Dr. Martin Cooper, if one person can be said to be the inventor.?
However, Sampson, born in 1934, is considered the inventor of gamma-electric cell, which is a critical component of a nuclear reactor.? Moreover, he holds several patents related to solid rocket motors and conversion of nuclear energy into electricity.? Also, he is deemed a pioneer in the study of internal ballistics of solid rocket motors using high-speed photography.
Along with this claim, it was widely declared that Philip Emeagwali was the ?father of the Internet.?? While this is assertion is greatly exaggerated, Emeagwali, born in 1954, has a number of scientific awards in the realm of supercomputers that have gone a long way in analyzing petroleum fields.
Far less controversial are the advances made by Lonnie G. Johnson, a senior systems engineer at NASA.?? A graduate of Tuskegee University, Johnson invented the Super Soaker squirt gun, a toy that has generated more than $200 million in sales.?? He has more than 80 patents with 20 more pending.
Visually impaired people can thank Marc B. Auguste, Sr., his son and daughter-in-law for creating and developing a multi-purpose coin-organizer. The device also has a great utility for the sighted.?????????????
And Black women are in the mix as well, particularly Janet Emerson Bashen, the first African American female to hold a software patent. She invented Linkline, which is a web-based application for EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) claims intake, and document management that is the focus of her company.?
Another African-American woman inventor is Harlem-born Dr. Patricia Bath, an ophthalmologist and surgeon who has created Laserphaco, a laser-powered probe that allows doctors to rapidly vaporize cataracts. Among her other firsts is her position as surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center.?
With more than a dozen patents to his credit, Dr. Thomas Mensah, a native of Ghana, is perhaps most proud of his invention of a guidance system for Patriot missile. He is also the chairman of Supercond Technology Inc. of Norcross, Georgia. His other inventions cover fields including fiber optics and guided vehicle systems and last year he was honored with Percy Julian Award. Julian (1899-1975) was a remarkable scientist who perfected the cortisone drug, creating a synthetic from soybeans.
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Michael Boston talks The Guitar
The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards: When did you decide to make The Guitar, and what were your immediate production difficulties faced by this particular project?
Michael Boston: Just months after the response went so well for Dress Rehearsal, the idea of finally getting this story before the cameras just kept staying in the back of my mind, so I thought what's the worst that could happen? So really dove into it and though, I entertained the thought of crowd funding, I decided to fund it on my own with a lot of sacrifices rather than have to spend the time on an online campaign. I could just stay focused on the creative. Immediate difficulties were just deciding which bank should I rob.
TMBT: How are you finding the changing landscape of film cast and crew searches through social media? Or do you still work in an old school style?
MB: Well, everybody's out there now, right? It's amazing how many people get a nice photo taken, go onto social media, label themselves as an actor without paying some assemblage of dues. But whatever. I think actors access, casting networks are really good. But I also think that an actor-ran company like Cazt is great, too. Lots of hungry actors go through their doors, me being one of them, lol. I think trust is ultimately the biggest factor in casting. I used several people in The Guitar that I used in Dress Rehearsal because I trusted them and also recognized how giving there were as actors. Who gives a damn if you have 1000 followers on twitter, two-thousand friends on Facebook? I just want to be around actors that are actors not attention whores.
TMBT: There's a real sense of community within this project. How did you cast this ensemble so well?
MB: You know, Ben, that really really means a lot. I think it's instincts again. These people really like each other. They're unselfish. They have big hearts. I can not tell you how underused they were, especially those with just one or two lines or maybe just in the montage. Their previous work is so admirable. Christine Kent, Shannan Leigh Yancsurak, Karin Tracey… really terrific actresses… and we got the amazing E.R. Ruiz to come in and help. Samuel Whitehill and Michael Keyes work like crazy and they believed in our story if only to be in it for a matter of seconds. Blessed, blessed, blessed. They started calling themselves Team Guitar and it gave me goosebumps.
TMBT: When did you decide on making such a large short film? Have you ever considered a plot of this nature worthy of say a feature length?
MB: Are you trying to say the The Guitar was too long? Hah! Cause yes, I realize it could have been shorter. Our opening was very feature film-like but it did establish this guy had an addiction, loved his guitar, was not special to anyone on the streets and soon enough he'll meet some kid and things will change for him… good or bad. I think we used a lot of our footage and maybe I became a little too preachy. Lesson learned. The art of short films is keeping it short. No, I don't see it as a feature film. Maybe a good character in an ensemble piece like a reunion type of film, like where are they now?
TMBT: How long was the shoot for The Guitar?
MB: Really ended up being about 6 days total. But very spread out. Raquel Gallego, our DP, had an assignment in Europe after the first 3 days, so we broke it up and came back a few months later to get Leo Winston's past filmed. This allowed me to put weight back on and look somewhat healthy again. It worked out well. Half was shot in studio, half on location. We knew the shots we needed but the alley shots became compromised, I'd say. We had to rely on Thaddeaus Ek's voice-over to fill in some blanks.
TMBT: What is your particular editing process for a short of this size?
MB: Pedro Gonzales Kuhn was a warrior with Premeire Pro and I had already spent a couple of months reviewing everything first before I approached him. I really don't think size mattered. He worked in binges and we reviewed, repeated and he mixed the sound from a music library for us. You know, there really wasn't much wasted footage on this project.
TMBT: You've been working in film for quite a few years now, how has the industry landscape changed?
MB: But I was out of it for a long time, too. So I came back in and had a lot to learn and boy, am I still! I am humbled by it all and I listen to to these young filmmakers and learn from them. I think there are obviously more opportunities to create content like never before. Friends can pool their money together and or can raise it and shoot short films every month, couldn't they? You don't have to have to go into a bigwig's office and make the film he wants you to make. Exciting!
TMBT: Have you found that your expertise in filmmaking still grows with each project?
MB: OMG, still learning! I think you remember what doesn't work the most. I look at Raquel and Steven Jared Mangurten (DP on Dress Rehearsal) as huge mentors to me. So much respect for them. I think these two films are very simple and realize that the possibilities are endless. I absolutely love ShortsTV and see what other filmmakers are creating and it's so inspiring to me. I still believe it's story first, but what can be added to that with creative DPs, editing, effects and it's limitless.
TMBT: What have you been working on since Dress Rehearsal and The Guitar?
MB: I'll just say something not quite as dark as the first two. Some light-hearted romantic stuff. Love is a beautiful premise.
TMBT: Filming such a rough portrayal of life must have waned on you as an actor. What did you do to prepare for the role?
MB: Dropping weight, living on coffee and 5-hour energy does not make for happiness. I was very uptight and on edge, very nervous but that really served that character well. I tried to stay stinky, haha, so maybe that was selfish to cast and crew. But they were all very understanding. I actually dressed the set for the alley scenes. Had went to homeless areas, grabbed the shopping carts, that blanket used in the opening was actually from the trash… kept it unwashed. I figured if it was good enough for the homeless, it was good enough for Leo. I think my co-workers from my real job suspected I was sick and or doing drugs because I kept hearing I was getting too skinny. Internally, I was blocking out my feelings of hope. It was very depressing.
TMBT: What's your favorite swear word on a film set?
MB: If I ever get to work in your neck of the woods, it'll be c*nt! (hey UK filmmakers, just bought me some red plaid East End pants, btw, if I'm needed), ah but in the states, I'd have to go with the f-word cause that's what I'll use when I just realize I had forgotten one thing or another!
TMBT: How big a role does music play in your life?
MB: I'll say it's increasing. I'm really late to the party on that. I soooo love music now and realize how important it is. How could we survive without music. If that was taken away from us, I don't know how we'd survive. Bread, water… music. It's a necessity. Football would be next, btw.
TMBT: If you could revive any crew member from the past to work with, who would it be?
MB: I'd want them all! Steven, Raquel, Sequoia Thompson! Andrew Pouch. John Haegele stepped up and ran the show for us one day, besides his acting duties on The Guitar and saved us.
TMBT: Have you ever considered quitting filmmaking? And if yes, what stopped you?
MB: No.
TMBT: Can cinema really save us?
MB: While it's such a huge part of most people lives, a healthy… and at the same time an unhealthy diversion… to some, we should never need cinema to save us.
Vikkramm Chandirramani talks Destiny
Please note: you can watch Destiny below this interview.
The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards: When did you decide to make Destiny, and what was the reason behind making this particular short film?
Vikkramm Chandirramani: I had been writing a lot these past couple of years. The idea for 'Destiny' originated from a discussion on a forum which I ran for a while on one of my websites. People were making anonymous confessions and this young woman confessed to harassing her ex, who had dumped her, by making fake profiles and standing him up. I fictionalized it to turn it into a short story and then a screenplay which ultimately became 'Destiny'. I thought it would resonate with urban men and women in their twenties and it did, fortunately. That's my audience on the internet in these parts.
TMBT: How does your casting process for film look like?
VC: The right casting is really important. If you cast the right actor in the right part, that's half the job done. Looking the part and being able to perform are important aspects. We don't do 'cattle calls' or 'open auditions' as that wastes a lot of time of everyone. We request work links from actors who have some prior experience. We then invite select actors who may be suitable for a specific part, to audition. Before an actor shows up we've probably already seen at least some of their work. So, anyone who's invited to attend one of our auditions already has a good shot at landing the part. My options are wide open when we invite actors to send their profiles. I rarely have biases in terms of how tall a character is or what he or she looks like unless it is relevant to the character or the plot. I audition actors myself.
TMBT: The home setting for your film was very carefully laid out – what's the story behind the film's design?
VC: Thank you for noticing that! We got a nice apartment which was sea facing. So, it was quite well lit. We dressed it up to make it come across as the apartment of a young single woman in her twenties. I went shopping for a lot of the props with some of my crew. Some were ordered online. The curtains which you see were custom made. The upholstery was bought. My wife made the bulletin board. It was all done inhouse. We didn't have the budget for a production designer but we wanted visual appeal. So we had to be inventive.
TMBT: What's your approach when filming scripted material?
VC: I write and direct myself. I also edit. My writing style is rather visual. So it's easier when I turn a story into a screenplay. I keep my cinematographer and sound designer in the loop. We visit locations to assess any potential challenges of filming there. If it's a very dimly lit location with no natural light, we'll need more lights and time to set it up. If there's a lot of traffic noise, sync sound may be hard to pull off. Before we go on set, we've taken some reference pictures and are on the same page about the shots we're going to take though I don't storyboard too much unless it's going to be a complicated scene. That said, whatever you do, some unexpected hitches will always come up when filming and have to be dealt with.
TMBT: How long was the shoot for Destiny?
VC: There were three days of filming. We shot a significant part of the film in an apartment at Bandra. Some parts were shot at my office at Oshiwara. We did some guerilla shooting on the streets and inside Starbucks. The pre-climax was shot at a cafe, 1441 Pizzeria while the climax was shot on Versova beach.
TMBT: What is your writing process for this project?
VC: My father was a prolific writer. So, writing comes naturally to me. Stories are about conflict and there's conflict in our lives and around us all the time. Stories come to me in various ways. It could be from something I read in the newspaper or a remark someone made. It could be from an experience or a memory or by watching something happen. From there it evolves into a plot. Sometimes stories stay with me for months and I suddenly think of an aspect that could improve a particular story. When I'm convinced about a story, I turn it into a screenplay and write the dialogues. So at any given time, I have various screenplays at different stages of completion.
TMBT: Have you felt a change in the way you think about filmmaking since making Destiny?
VC: In India when you make a short film and place it on YouTube, you're competing for attention with major film production houses who have hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal and well known artists on speed dial. I thought it would be very difficult to have my film watched amidst the productions of these gigantic companies. Now I realize, people on YouTube are open to watching films featuring and made by new artists! That is heartening. 'Destiny' has gone past 2.25 million views, purely because of word of mouth.
TMBT: What have you been working on since this short film?
VC: I have been writing a lot these past couple of years. So I have quite a few screenplays to pick from. I've yet to decide which one I will go ahead with now. I get rather adventurous when I write! So, I end up with several characters and multiple locations. My film 'Screwdriver' had thirteen characters! 'Destiny' had several locations. So, when I want to make the film I have to be inventive to pull it off. That takes a while and I only work with a 'shooting ready' script.
TMBT: What would you say are the difficulties and benefits of filming in India?
VC: I can't say about India as a whole because the entertainment industry is huge and has various issues which some of their leaders would be better in a position to speak about. As someone who has been making short films, we need to have an easier process to get permissions to shoot in public places. All red tape should be waived for filmmakers making short films or working on small budget features as long as people are not being inconvenienced. No formal permission should be required. The benefit here is that there are two things people in India love: films and cricket. So, if you make an entertaining film, people will watch it in droves. With the internet growth exploding, it's only going to increase the audience.
TMBT: What's your favorite film set food snack?
VC: I love vada pav and samosa with green chillies and dry garlic chutney! You should try it if you're in Mumbai someday.
TMBT: How big a role do apps play in your life?
VC: I have an iPhone and apps do play an important role. Social media apps are an indispensable part of my life as much as of the next person. I use apps to keep track of news, to navigate through traffic and shop online! When it comes to reading, however, I prefer the feel and fragrance of a book over a tablet or e-reader.
VC: Cinema as a medium must be used for bringing about social change. However, films must be entertaining, primarily. Cinema is as much a business as an art form. Otherwise films with social messages can become preachy and the tail will be wagging the dog.
Richard Schertzer talks Afrit
The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards: When did you decide to make Afrit, and what was the reason behind making this particular short film (pushing aside your course)?
Richard Schertzer: I started production on Afrit in April of 2017 and the reason behind making this was to extend the string of films in the 'Horror Extended Universe' which is a shared cinematic universe for horror films under my film production company Wyvern Studios. I also wanted to make a stalker-type horror film.
TMBT: How does your filming process for look like?
RS: What I do is I assemble my cast and crew and shoot the harder scenes first so that way I get those shots out of the way and then I work my way into the easier shooting.
TMBT: The locale of your film was rural, but also somewhat delicate in its handling of the buildings which litter the space. What was the thinking behind the film's overall design in terms of its areas depicted?
RS: We filmed the short at Manhattanville College and began filming near the school's little chapel and moved over to buildings in founders hall to get a more claustrophobic feel.
TMBT: What's your approach to working within film genre?
RS: My approach to working within a genre is to use what I know about that particular genre and then apply it to my work.
TMBT: How long was the shoot for Afrit?
RS: The shoot for 'Afrit' only took one day.
TMBT: What is your visualisation process for this project (storyboarding, look books etc.)?
RS: I wrote up a script and basically winged it.
TMBT: Have you felt a change in the way you think about filmmaking since making Afrit?
RS: Yes. There are pros and cons to working in a small crew for a film set. Pro; you can do what you want with as much time as you want without studio interference, but Con; you have to work harder at what you are doing.
TMBT: Is attending a film making course important to you?
RS: It's very important to me.
TMBT: What would you say are the difficulties and benefits of filming a student project?
RS: The difficulties are that you work in a small group which can limit the number of jobs on set, but you are able to do whatever you want with the time you are given.
TMBT: What's your favorite moment when making this project?
RS: My favorite moment was when we were all on the trail of the little chapel and I held the camera on a shoulder rig, kept it on the focus frame of the first girl and 'dollied' so to speak to the stalker demon, which I thought elevated the ominous mood.
TMBT: What do you imagine your future films, post college, will be like?
RS: I actually plan on directing short films after college and starting my own business in filmmaking and move on making feature-length films.
RS: I believe cinema can save us because it provides an outlet for those that create it and inspiration for those that watch.
TMBT: What does the title of the film mean?
RS: Afrit or Ifrits are a class of infernal djinn and also held to be a death spirit drawn to the life-force (or blood) of a murdered victim seeking revenge on the murderer.
Jan Miller Corran talks Snapshots
The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards: When did you decide to make Snapshots, and what were your immediate production difficulties faced by this particular project?
Jan Miller Corran: The script was conceived around two years ago and was ready for filming in the summer of 2017. As it is a film that takes place by a lake, one obstacle to address was finding lake in a drought. Plus each day of filming happened during a major heat wave.
JMC: Finding our cast was actually a combination of old school and use of social media. I discovered Shannon Collis who portrays Young Rose through an IMDB search. This led me to contacting her through Twitter. Other cast were secured through friends or long time connections.
TMBT: There's a real sense of a family unit within this project. How did you pursue this ensemble of actors?
JMC: The success of this story is highly dependent on the ensemble cast. As the story is based on a true story about my mother, I had visualizations of real life people in mind. Granted the characters that surround the core of the story are fictionalized there comes a genuine knowing of who each character is and how each fits in with the others. In hiring actors for each role, the consideration of how they fit into the entire family unit was strong. The film has won awards for best ensemble cast so we must have succeeded in doing what we set out to achieve.
TMBT: When did you decide to make Snapshots?
JMC: In early 2016 I shared the script with Lee Anne Matusek who became co-producer on the project. In turn she shared the script with her friend, the actress and director Melanie Mayron. Mayron was immediately enthusiastic about the story and jumped on board.
TMBT: How long was the shoot for Snapshots?
JMC: It was a three week shoot.
TMBT: What is your particular editing process for a script of this nature?
JMC: I write freeform and do not edit as I go. Once the script is complete I then share it with people I rust to be 100% hones in their criticism. Then the editing begins. The story gets tighter and the nuances unfold.
TMBT: What was it like to collaborate on this screenplay?
JMC: In a sense, the script from the first draft to the last day of filming is one of collaboration. for example, the impact of a very quick shooting schedule required changes in scenes to best capture the best of the dialogue without requiring more time to shoot and re-shoot. Often the actors got to know their chaacters so well that they would state that, for another example, "I think Rose would respond this way". Remember we had incredibly talented actors. For me, if Piper Laurie stated she felt Rose (her character) would phrase a line differently than what wrote, I trusted Piper to know best.
JMC: Every film project comes with lessons. I've been involved in 20 films since 1995. From shorts to documentaries to feature films, each provided challenges which educate one for the next project. Each time a project ends I say that I'm "never going to do that again". But with the next project new challenges arise and you employ what the last project taught you. Each film has it's mistakes and surprises along the way.
TMBT: What have you been working on since Snapshots?
JMC: I'm currently involved as a co-producer on a project with the working title "Follow". Then, I have written a script "Turn Left at Shambala" with Toronto based writer and director Kate Johnston of the award winning film "Tru Love". Both projects are in finance seeking status. Both films have cast attached. So, it will be the acquisition of finances and then filming will begin.
TMBT: What's your favorite moment when working on a film project?
JMC: It is so hard to pick one. The moment a director says they love the project is one. Then, when you sit in a room and see theend results of all the editing of countless hours of filming appear on the screen it is a incredible feeling.
TMBT: How big a role do your idols play in writing a screenplay, and who are your writing idols?
JMC: Lillian Hellman is definitely a writer I'd aspire to be. She took risks and did what I hope Snapshots does- tell a complex story in a simple way. Another writer I highly admire was Nora Ephron. My personal love goes to all writers who successfully turn an Agatha Christie novel into a screenplay.
TMBT: If you could revive any cast member from the past to work with, who would it be?
JMC: If I could go back in time I would have loved to work with Katherine Hepburn, Sandy Dennis, Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick. Really too many to name them all.
JMC: Everytime I walk off he set when the director says, "It's a wrap" I swear I won't do it again. I'm mangled. But then the next day I can't wait to dive into the next project.
Images courtesy of Three Women in a Box Films.
FilmHuman Issues
During 2017, The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards was associated with FilmHuman. Due to low readership FilmHuman closed end of 2017. These three issues are maintained via MagCloud.
Year One: FilmHuman – Issue #1 – March 2017
Curated is FilmHuman's own film magazine featuring interviews with filmmakers, reviews of recent indie film releases, and articles discussing film production and film works. This first issue includes the curated works of James Wren, and interviews with Iranian filmmaker Ali Atshani, Swiss…
Year One: FilmHuman – Issue #2 – June 2017
Curated is FilmHuman's own film magazine featuring interviews with filmmakers, reviews of recent indie film releases, and articles discussing film production and film works. This issue features interviews with Joe Zappa, director of the US noir webseries Clever Girl, Christophe Karabache about…
FilmHuman Issue #3
By Ben Rider in Year One
Third time's the charmer. Right? For this issue we have Michael Boston chatting about his fantastic short film Dress Rehearsal, Mia Mullarkey talking about her Amsterdam traveller Oh Brother, Thorkell August Ottarsson speaking on his feature Suicide Squad, Josiah Cuneo dancing around his Lilt, and lastly, Duane Michals getting all handsy with The Pleasures of the Glove.
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New patent hints at 'Wrist ID' for Apple Watch – The Next Web
Apple has filed a patent for a light sensor on the back of its Watch that can authenticate users. In other words, you could unlock the device automatically whenever you put it on. I, for one, welcome my Wrist ID overlord.
The idea behind the Wrist ID unlock technology is deliciously simple: a component on the back of the wearable fires light into the user's wrist. This is then used to generate a field image of the area. This vein-filled section of each person's arm should be as unique as a fingerprint, meaning the scan will be able to ensure that it's you who put the Apple Watch on.
If you'd like more in-depth info about how it works, you can read the full patent here.
This is an example of the sorts of features Wrist ID could use as a reference to unlock your Watch.
The more I think about the potential of Wrist ID, the more I like it. Yeah, I generally only take my Apple Watch off once or twice a day, but having to type in a physical passcode seems archaic — and is also pretty annoying for such an advanced piece of hardware.
I also wonder whether this added security could be expanded to other devices. One of my favorite Apple Watch features is how it can be used to automatically unlock your Mac — and it'd be great if there was a way Wrist ID could work in a similar way with your phone. Actually achieving this is more complex than you'd think (could someone nearby pick up your phone and it'd unlock?), but we can dream, right?
Of course, there are a few things to consider before we start expecting this to appear in the next Apple Watch. First in line are the potential technical issues with Wrist ID. The Apple Watch already has problems with tattooed skin — and although this seems to have improved over the years, there are still questions about how well tech like this would work on inked areas or darker skin tones.
Secondly, we have to understand that just because Apple has applied for a patent, that doesn't mean the technology will ever see the light of day.
Despite this, I choose to believe. Wrist ID would be an excellent addition to the Apple Watch, and I'm certain the company could do a shedload of interesting stuff with the tech if it's implemented.
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I got it built and now that it is programmed, the buzzer buzzes constantly after I power it on. I double checked the wiring and soldering and everything is put together correctly.
What would cause this? Anyone else have this problem at first?
"Get it right, then go for GREATNESS!"
DogLover wrote: I got it built and now that it is programmed, the buzzer buzzes constantly after I power it on. I double checked the wiring and soldering and everything is put together correctly.
It could be a bad microcontroller chip. Have you tried putting in the spare chip that comes in the box?
Other than that is could be a mistake in the wiring. Make sure that's all good and there are no tiny shorts or solder bridges.
It could be that you downloaded the firmware files for another product, like the ServoChron.
Question: when you say it buzzes, does it make a tone or is it buzzing in a harsh or unusual sound?
You might also try unplugging the servo. If the servo is bad/defective or connected wrong, it could be causing power issues for the main board and causing it to act strange.
Ok I got it working, I think. Now if only there was a way to test it first.
DogLover wrote: Ok I got it working, I think. Now if only there was a way to test it first.
Put it into a rocket as if you were ready to launch. Plug all the vent holes with tape with the exception of one hole that you leave open. Then give the open hole a big long kiss. That should be enough to trigger a launch and deploy.
What was the issue you had with the build? Is there something we should clarify in the manual?
U.S. Water Rockets wrote: Put it into a rocket as if you were ready to launch. Plug all the vent holes with tape with the exception of one hole that you leave open. Then give the open hole a big long kiss. That should be enough to trigger a launch and deploy.
I gave that a try and it seemed to work, a good sign. I think the problem was due to a short circuit on the Altitude/Pressure Sensor.
Was the short a manufacturing defect? We bought about 5 or 6 of them for the "development" process as well as for taking nice "build" photos for the manual. We never had a bad one from the maker.
No it was a epic fail during soldering.
DogLover wrote: No it was a epic fail during soldering.
Have you been able to launch it yet? You're really going to love how simple it is to use.
I just tested your Altimeter with servo and radial deploy mechanism in a 3 liter rocket. Unfortunately the parachute deployed a few meters from the ground on its way down.
I guess the peak altitude at around 15-20 meters (50 - 65 feet). The electronics wasn't damaged and it reported an altitude of 134 feet.
I wonder what might have caused the apogee detection failure. If I look at the instructions for the static pressure holes, it might have to do with that. I have 4 3 mm holes spread out evenly around the body (volume of around 1 liter) but also a clear strip (5x5 mm) to put the rubber band through for the servo. The holes are clearly too big? Does the servo have to be in an isolated compartment?
thanks for the altimeter design and instructions.
If the system reported an apogee, then it detected a launch and detected an apogee. The only time when the system will not report an apogee is if the battery is disconnected while going up. Since you say the altitude reported 134 feet and the parachute did deploy, then the apogee detection was triggered. Your vent holes sound reasonable, so there probably wasn't any issue there.
What you are seeing is just the results of having a very low altitude flight. The altimeter is designed to deploy the parachute after it senses the rocket has stopped going up. Then the rocket starts falling, and the servo moves, but if you watch the servo on a bench test, you can see that they don't move instantly. It can take a second for the servo to swing from the armed position to the deployed position. Then you also have to think that it can take a little time for the rubber band to unwind and the parachute to fall out. Then it takes additional time for the parachute to unfurl and the rocket to decelerate. All this usually happens within a second, but sometimes the parachute can get sucked into the wake of the rocket and it will take a long time to open. Other issues can sometimes cause the parachute to be slow in coming out, even though the apogee was properly detected. Falling from 134 feet if you do the calculations it only gives the parachute system about 2.8 seconds to go from armed to fully deployed. That's not a whole lot of time. If your rocket had gone up another 20 meters, it would have probably have fully saved itself from hitting the ground. Probably the best advice we can offer is to try and increase the altitude of the rocket a bit more, find a really quick acting servo, or use a 6V battery for the power source, which will make the servo swing faster. All those will save a bit of time and make the system open a bit faster.
If you aren't doing it now, it's always useful to take video of the rocket from the ground, and put a cheap camera onboard the rocket. One of those 640x480 "Keychain" cameras can be had for under $10, and these will tell you all sorts of things you never knew. For example, you might have a crash and think something went wrong with apogee detect, so you recover the video and you can hear the sound of the servo moving but the rubber band never comes out. You can then concentrate on figuring out how the rubber band could possibly snag on the servo rather than chasing after a failure in the electronics. You will know the electronics worked and the failure was mechanical.
At any rate, we wish you success in your future launches! Good luck!
So it sounds like rocket kissing is in my future. Better break it to Mrs Bugwubber now so she's prepared!
bugwubber wrote: So it sounds like rocket kissing is in my future. Better break it to Mrs Bugwubber now so she's prepared!
Does that mean you will also be launching some altimeter flights??? Your launches are always quite entertaining.
I just tested it again with higher pressure to start with. This time it worked every time for the three launches.
It seems that it opens quite a bit before apogee. I assume this is unavoidable. The flights were all very stable and there was barely any wind. Could this be due to the static pressure holes? I could put in a delay on the assumption that the starting pressure is always the same.
The reported altitude is way to high (usually 4 digits starting with 10 of 11, so I assume this to be around 1000 feet). Visually I would estimate the height around 60 to 70 meters but it's hard to guess.
Are you positive that the parachute is really deploying before apogee? This is something we have never seen in any testing. We spent a great deal of time working on that part of the code, and if anything it should be biased to being a fraction of a second after apogee, since the altitude is read at regular intervals and so the velocity would have to be zero or negative for a complete interval before the software could detect it. The algorithm is not predictive, because there's very limited memory in these low cost microcontroller boards.
It's possible that the pressure ports may need to be larger due to some unforeseen influence that we never encountered. Just as a guess, perhaps the pressure drops in the part of the rocket where you have the altimeter due to compression of the bottles during launch and the subsequent relaxation of the bottles as the rocket decelerates? This is just a speculation.
Is it possible that from your vantage point on the ground it simply looks to you like the rocket is still going up, but in reality it has stalled at apogee and you are seeing some sort of optical illusion that makes it look at though it is climbing?
The only way to know for sure would be to fly and onboard camera and see if you can hear the servo move before or after the rocket starts coming down.
We've never had one deploy early and we have probably over 100 videos of the altimeter during testing and 100 more videos of the altimeter being used for development of our Radial and Hybrid Deploy techniques. But anything is possible. We just don't know what you could be seeing.
I'll try to do some more tests. For starters, I'll adapt the electronics compartment to be more sturdy. The bottles I use are quite flexible.
Next launch, I'll try to make a video from a distance with a good view on the flight trajectory. I made video's of 2 launches but I was too close to have a clear view.
Have you thought of the possibility to store all data of a single trajectory that can be dumped through a USB connection?
I found software (http://energia.nu) with which the MSP board can be programmed like Arduino kits and a serial debugging output, but your firmware design is closed (and I have no clue with regard to embedded devices programming ;) ).
I'm also thinking of putting in an old android smartphone of mine with a sensor logger, but this would add 100 grams of payload.


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Rebuff self-appointed custodians of Islam
Prakash Nanda21 Oct 2016 8:08 PM GMT
The legality of the triple-talaq system is now under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court. While political parties are talking in different tones on the subject (thanks to their vote-bank politics), at the people's level, there seems to be an emerging consensus that this regressive system must not remain a part of the Muslim Personal Law. In fact, there is now a growing realisation that in a democratic and secular India, there must be a uniform civil code as enshrined in the Constitution of India (Article 44) as a "directive". This "directive" does not come in conflict with Article 25 of the Constitution of India that guarantees the freedom of religion because Clause 2 of this Article separates religion from secular laws that remove some regressive religious practices. It clearly states that freedom of religion shall not limit the state from making any law "providing for social welfare and reform". And then we have Article 14 of the Constitution, under which every Indian has equal rights; no one under this doctrine of equality can be discriminated in the name of background, caste, and creed.
It is a misconception that uniform civil law will disallow one marrying according to her religion. What it does is that it ensures uniform rights to all in marriage, divorce, property rights, and inheritance in a society that is fundamentally patriarchal. In fact, its intended beneficiaries are women in general. In that sense, the common civil code is gender-sensitive; it has nothing to do with religion. It applies to women under all the regions, whether Hindus or Muslims or Christians.
It is to be noted that apart from the Muslims, all other religions in India have undergone some social reforms or the other in their personal laws and practices. The Christians have had Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872, the Indian Divorce Act, 1869, and the Indian Succession Act, 1925. In 1983, initiatives were taken by Bishops, clergy, lawyers, and social activists to modernise several sections in these laws that were considered discriminatory. The Parsis have the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936.
The Hindu civil laws (that also apply to the Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists) have been codified many a time by Parliament - the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955; the Hindu Succession Act, 1956; the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956; and the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956.
In contrast, the Muslim Personal Law has remained unchanged over the centuries. It is derived mainly from the Quran and the Hadith. The Quran is the primary source book of Islamic laws, but it is to be noted that Muslim Personal Law "as it is known and practised today was compiled more than a hundred years after the death of the Prophet." Be that as it may, the fact remains that the Muslim leaders in the country and the AIMPLB – a private organisation — have resented whenever the Supreme Court makes negative remarks on the "triple talaq" practice and the poor maintenance of divorced Muslim women. They say that "the country's top court has no jurisdiction to undertake the exercise as the community's personal law was based on the Quran and not by law enacted by Parliament."
However, AIMPLB's logic that Muslim Personal Law is a religious issue and hence beyond the purview of human-made laws is deeply flawed. It is true that except Bangladesh and Indonesia, every Islamic country has a uniform law based on Sharia which applies even to non-Muslims. But in virtually all other countries where Muslims live in significant numbers, it is also true that there is a uniform law — both civil and criminal. If human-made uniform laws can regulate Muslims residing in the United States or France and yet remain proud Muslims, why should AIMPLB fear that Indian Muslims will cease to be Muslims once they come under the uniform civil law? The AIMPLB's argument is made all the more redundant when the same Indian Muslims are under the purview of the "human-made" criminal law. Suffice it to say, Indian criminal law is not based on Sharia as is the case in many Islamic countries. How come Sharia is sacrosanct for civil laws but not for criminal laws?
Even in India, Goa still practices a common civil code, which has been the law since 1867 when the state was under the Portuguese colonial rule. Admittedly, this code allows some flexibility to certain religious or customary practices that are debatable, but the point is that in principle there is one civil law for all the Indian citizens living in Goa. And the Muslims in the state are quite comfortable with it. In fact, when in 1981 some orthodox Muslims under the banner of Goa Muslim Sharia Organisation, supported by outside Muslim leaders, tried to apply the law of India to Goa (that would have taken the Goan Muslims out from the purview of Goa's common law), the move was opposed successfully by Goan Muslim youth groups and Goan women's associations. This being the case, are Muslims of Goa lesser Muslims than their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh?
It is often argued that the Muslim community itself will generate a process of change and reform in the course of time. As an argument, there are merits in it, but if one goes by the reality on the ground, there is not much hope. As we have already seen, there have been simply no reforms in Muslim personal practices over the last 100 years. In fact, if anything, the situation has worsened for gender equity and justice among the Muslims in recent years. Wahabism, with immense Saudi petrodollars at its disposal, has penetrated India viciously. As a result, we see how in states like Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, and Telangana, the great culture of Sufism (liberal Islam in the subcontinent) has been severely challenged by Wahabi outfits that are segregating boys and girls in the madrassas, insisting only on the teaching of Sharia law in the madrassas, compelling girls to wear "Islamic clothes", including the hijab, and promoting rapid changes in the eating culture of places like Kashmir.
So what is the way out? In the prevailing political atmosphere of the country, it is simply not possible to legislate for a Uniform Civil Code. Here the judiciary has to step in, keeping in the tradition of "common law legal system" where "law is often developed by judges and courts when making decisions in individual cases that have a precedential effect on future cases".
Here, "the body of past common law binds judges deciding later cases to ensure consistent treatment and so that consistent principles applied to similar facts yield similar outcomes." In other words, past judicial cases become the primary source of law, which gives judges an active role in developing rules.
It is to its credit that the Indian judiciary has been relatively consistent in its observations that the Muslim women are being treated unfairly under the prevailing Muslim Personal law (in the last two years, I have come across at least four such observations). Now, it is time for concrete judgment that could become a "common law".
(Views expressed are strictly personal. The opinions appearing in the article do not reflect the views of Millennium Post and this newspaper does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.)
Prakash Nanda


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Something Special är det första samlingsalbumet av den italienska pop-artisten Sabrina Salerno, utgivet av Mega Records år 1988.

Detta album innehåller två versioner av Sabrinas storsäljare "Boys (Summertime Love)", samt de två nya singlarna "All of Me (Boy Oh Boy)" och "My Chico".

Låtlista
Multimegamix – 6:47
My Chico (P.W.L. Mix) – 6:10
Boys (Summertime Love) (Extended Mix) – 5:40
Hot Girl (Dub Version) – 7:03
Lady Marmalade (12" Remix) – 5:32
All of Me (Boy Oh Boy) (P.W.L. Mix) – 6:01
The Sexy Girl Mix for Boys and Hot Girls – 6:39
My Sharona (Extended Mix) – 5:07
My Chico – 3:30
All of Me (Boy Oh Boy) (Extended Mix) – 5:53
Hot Girl (New Version) – 3:28
Boys (Summertime Love) (Dub Mix) – 5:40
Sexy Girl – 3:20
My Chico (Dub House Mix) – 3:30

Album av Sabrina Salerno
Musikalbum 1988
Samlingsalbum
Engelskspråkiga musikalbum

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I've taken her out to do a shoot of her because well, she's another figure for sale. Surprisingly, she was sold to a friend of mine on AFN even before I put her up here.
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Here she is without her hat. The shiny silver hair looks much more apparent without the hat.
I spent a lot of time getting really tight framing of her because of the way she's curled up. Her arm and shoulder frames her face very well.
I always love some good frillies.
The pic is a little blurry, but you can kinda see some seam lines. They're pretty small though.
Well, that wraps up this figure, before it gets sent out. Hope you enjoyed it.
I apologize for the brevity of my posts. I'm quite sure that you readers sense that I'm posting very different these past few months. Things have been a little bit all over the place for me lately, and there's been a lot on my mind.
Sorry to see another figure of yours having to go. It sounds like that there's been quite a few ups and downs for you in the past few months, If so I hope things will get better soon.
Really lovely pictures! I love how the roses blend in.


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Q: Repeating the same window for several functions in Presto? I'm running a query similar to the following to accumulate the sum of the amount positive values and of total events on a 7-day window by the date.
SELECT
    first_value(date) OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 6 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS date_left,
    last_value(date) OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 6 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS date_right,
    sum(positives) OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 6 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS events,
    sum(events) OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 6 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS total
FROM
    data

While this query works, it's not pretty since it repeats the same long window specification 4 times.
Is there any way to "save" a window in Presto, or to use several functions on the same window?

A: To echo what @Gordon Linoff and @Guru Stron said in the comments, PrestoDB does support window functions but does not support the WINDOW clause. However, Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) has support for WINDOW, and Trino recently added more features around this earlier this year. Such as:

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*Full support for the RANGE frame type.

*Support for the GROUPS frame type.

*More support for the WINDOW clause.

If your team requires these types of features I recommend upgrading to Trino.


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Screenings are free. A discussion follows the movie with film scholar Steve Hunt.


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