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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using OpenTK.Graphics.OpenGL;
using OpenTK;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;

namespace QuickFont
{
    public static class Helper
    {
		public static void IsMatrixOrthogonal (out bool isOrthog, out float left, out float right, out float bottom, out float top, Matrix4 matrix)
		{
			if (System.Math.Abs (matrix.M11) < float.Epsilon || System.Math.Abs (matrix.M22) < float.Epsilon)
			{
				isOrthog = false;
				left = right = bottom = top = 0;
				return;
			}
			left = -(1f + matrix.M41) / (matrix.M11);
			right = (1f - matrix.M41) / (matrix.M11);
			bottom = -(1 + matrix.M42) / (matrix.M22);
			top = (1 - matrix.M42) / (matrix.M22);
			isOrthog = Math.Abs (matrix.M12) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M13) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M14) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M21) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M23) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M24) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M31) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M32) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M34) < float.Epsilon && Math.Abs (matrix.M44 - 1f) < float.Epsilon;
		}

        public static T[] ToArray<T>(ICollection<T> collection)
        {
            T[] output = new T[collection.Count];
            collection.CopyTo(output, 0);
            return output;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Ensures GL.End() is called
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="mode"></param>
        /// <param name="code"></param>
        public static void SafeGLBegin(BeginMode mode, Action code)
        {
            GL.Begin(mode);

            code();

            GL.End();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Ensures that state is disabled
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="cap"></param>
        /// <param name="code"></param>
        public static void SafeGLEnable(EnableCap cap, Action code)
        {
            GL.Enable(cap);

            code();

            GL.Disable(cap);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Ensures that multiple states are disabled
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="cap"></param>
        /// <param name="code"></param>
        public static void SafeGLEnable(EnableCap[] caps, Action code)
        {
            foreach(var cap in caps)
                GL.Enable(cap);

            code();

            foreach (var cap in caps)
                GL.Disable(cap);
        }

        public static void SafeGLEnableClientStates(ArrayCap[] caps, Action code)
        {
            foreach (var cap in caps)
                GL.EnableClientState(cap);

            code();

            foreach (var cap in caps)
                GL.DisableClientState(cap);
        }

		public static void SaveQFontDataToFile(QFontData data, string filePath)
		{
			var lines = data.Serialize();
			StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filePath + ".qfont");
			foreach (var line in lines)
				writer.WriteLine(line);

			writer.Close();

		}

		private static bool RectangleIntersect(Rectangle r1, Rectangle r2)
		{
			return (r1.X < r2.X + r2.Width && r1.X + r1.Width > r2.X &&
				r1.Y < r2.Y + r2.Height && r1.Y + r1.Height > r2.Y);

		}

		public static char[] FirstIntercept(Dictionary<char,QFontGlyph> charSet)
		{
			char[] keys = Helper.ToArray(charSet.Keys);

			for (int i = 0; i < keys.Length; i++)
			{
				for (int j = i + 1; j < keys.Length; j++)
				{
					if (charSet[keys[i]].page == charSet[keys[j]].page && RectangleIntersect(charSet[keys[i]].rect, charSet[keys[j]].rect))
					{
						return new char[2] { keys[i], keys[j] };
					}

				}
			}
			return null;
		}

		public static QFontDataInformation LoadQFontInformation<TFont>(Stream fs)
		{
			var lines = new List<String>();
			using (var reader = new StreamReader (fs))
			{
				string line;
				while ((line = reader.ReadLine ()) != null)
					lines.Add (line);

				var data = new QFontData();
				return data.Deserialize(lines);
			}
		}

		static List<QBitmap> LoadBitmaps (string filePath, int pageCount)
		{
			string namePrefix = filePath.Replace (".qfont", "").Replace (" ", "");
			var bitmapPages = new List<QBitmap> ();
			if (pageCount == 1)
			{
				bitmapPages.Add (new QBitmap (namePrefix + ".png"));
			}
			else
			{
				for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
					bitmapPages.Add (new QBitmap (namePrefix + "_sheet_" + i));
			}
			return bitmapPages;
		}

		public static List<TBitmap> GenerateBitmapSheetsAndRepack<TBitmap>(QFontGlyph[] sourceGlyphs, TBitmap[] sourceBitmaps, int destSheetWidth, int destSheetHeight, out QFontGlyph[] destGlyphs, int destMargin, bool usePowerOfTwo)
			where TBitmap : class, IQBitmap, IQBitmapOperations<TBitmap>, new()
		{
			var pages = new List<TBitmap>();
			destGlyphs = new QFontGlyph[sourceGlyphs.Length];

			TBitmap currentPage = null;

			int maxY = 0;
			foreach (var glph in sourceGlyphs)
				maxY = Math.Max(glph.rect.Height, maxY);

			int finalPageIndex = 0;
			int finalPageRequiredWidth = 0;
			int finalPageRequiredHeight = 0;

			for (int k = 0; k < 2; k++)
			{
				bool pre = k == 0;  //first iteration is simply to determine the required size of the final page, so that we can crop it in advance

				int xPos = 0;
				int yPos = 0;
				int maxYInRow = 0;
				int totalTries = 0;

				for (int i = 0; i < sourceGlyphs.Length; i++)
				{

					if(!pre && currentPage == null){

						if (finalPageIndex == pages.Count)
						{
							int width = Math.Min(destSheetWidth, usePowerOfTwo ? PowerOfTwo(finalPageRequiredWidth) : finalPageRequiredWidth);
							int height = Math.Min(destSheetHeight, usePowerOfTwo ? PowerOfTwo(finalPageRequiredHeight) : finalPageRequiredHeight);

							currentPage = new TBitmap();
							currentPage.InitialiseBlankImage (width, height, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
							currentPage.Clear32(255, 255, 255, 0); //clear to white, but totally transparent
						}
						else
						{
							currentPage = new TBitmap();
							currentPage.InitialiseBlankImage (destSheetWidth, destSheetHeight, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
							currentPage.Clear32(255, 255, 255, 0); //clear to white, but totally transparent
						}
						pages.Add(currentPage);

					}

					totalTries++;

					if (totalTries > 10 * sourceGlyphs.Length)
						throw new Exception("Failed to fit font into texture pages");

					var rect = sourceGlyphs[i].rect;

					if (xPos + rect.Width + 2 * destMargin <= destSheetWidth && yPos + rect.Height + 2 * destMargin <= destSheetHeight)
					{
						if (!pre)
						{
							//add to page
							if(sourceBitmaps[sourceGlyphs[i].page].Format == System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb)
								currentPage.Blit(sourceBitmaps[sourceGlyphs[i].page], rect.X, rect.Y, rect.Width, rect.Height, xPos + destMargin, yPos + destMargin);
							else
								currentPage.BlitMask(sourceBitmaps[sourceGlyphs[i].page], rect.X, rect.Y, rect.Width, rect.Height, xPos + destMargin, yPos + destMargin);

							destGlyphs[i] = new QFontGlyph(pages.Count - 1, new Rectangle(xPos + destMargin, yPos + destMargin, rect.Width, rect.Height), sourceGlyphs[i].yOffset, sourceGlyphs[i].character);
						}
						else
						{
							finalPageRequiredWidth = Math.Max(finalPageRequiredWidth, xPos + rect.Width + 2 * destMargin);
							finalPageRequiredHeight = Math.Max(finalPageRequiredHeight, yPos + rect.Height + 2 * destMargin);
						}

						xPos += rect.Width + 2 * destMargin;
						maxYInRow = Math.Max(maxYInRow, rect.Height);

						continue;
					}

					if (xPos + rect.Width + 2 * destMargin > destSheetWidth)
					{
						i--;

						yPos += maxYInRow + 2 * destMargin;
						xPos = 0;

						if (yPos + maxY + 2 * destMargin > destSheetHeight)
						{
							yPos = 0;

							if (!pre)
							{
								currentPage = null;
							}
							else
							{
								finalPageRequiredWidth = 0;
								finalPageRequiredHeight = 0;
								finalPageIndex++;
							}
						}
						continue;
					}

				}

			}

			return pages;

		}

		public static Dictionary<char, QFontGlyph> CreateCharGlyphMapping(QFontGlyph[] glyphs)
		{
			var dict = new Dictionary<char, QFontGlyph>();
			for (int i = 0; i < glyphs.Length; i++)
				dict.Add(glyphs[i].character, glyphs[i]);

			return dict;
		}

		public static void ScaleSheetsAndGlyphs<TBitmap>(List<TBitmap> pages, QFontGlyph[] glyphs, float scale)
			where TBitmap : class, IQBitmap, new()
		{
			foreach (var page in pages)
				page.DownScale32((int)(page.Width * scale), (int)(page.Height * scale));

			foreach (var glyph in glyphs)
			{
				glyph.rect = new Rectangle((int)(glyph.rect.X * scale), (int)(glyph.rect.Y * scale), (int)(glyph.rect.Width * scale), (int)(glyph.rect.Height * scale));
				glyph.yOffset = (int)(glyph.yOffset * scale);

			}
		}

		public static TFont BuildDropShadow<TFont, TBitmap>(List<TBitmap> sourceFontSheets, QFontGlyph[] sourceFontGlyphs, QFontShadowConfiguration shadowConfig, char[] charSet, byte alphaTolerance)
			where TFont : IFont, new()
			where TBitmap : class, IQBitmap, IQBitmapOperations<TBitmap>, new()
		{

			QFontGlyph[] newGlyphs;

			//GenerateBitmapSheetsAndRepack(QFontGlyph[] sourceGlyphs, BitmapData[] sourceBitmaps, int destSheetWidth, int destSheetHeight, out QFontGlyph[] destGlyphs, int destMargin, bool usePowerOfTwo)

			var bitmapSheets = GenerateBitmapSheetsAndRepack<TBitmap>(sourceFontGlyphs, sourceFontSheets.ToArray(), shadowConfig.PageWidth, shadowConfig.PageHeight, out newGlyphs, shadowConfig.GlyphMargin + shadowConfig.blurRadius*3, shadowConfig.ForcePowerOfTwo);

			//scale up in case we wanted bigger/smaller shadows
			if (Math.Abs (shadowConfig.Scale - 1.0f) > float.Epsilon)
				ScaleSheetsAndGlyphs (bitmapSheets, newGlyphs, shadowConfig.Scale); //no point in retargeting yet, since we will do it after blur

			//blacken and blur
			foreach (var bitmapSheet in bitmapSheets)
			{
				bitmapSheet.Colour32(0, 0, 0);
				bitmapSheet.BlurAlpha(shadowConfig.blurRadius, shadowConfig.blurPasses);

			}

			//retarget after blur and scale
			RetargetAllGlyphs<TBitmap>(bitmapSheets, newGlyphs, alphaTolerance);

			//create list of texture pages
			var newTextureSheets = new List<TexturePage>();
			foreach (var page in bitmapSheets)
				newTextureSheets.Add(new TexturePage(page.GetBitmapData()));

			var fontData = new QFontData();
			fontData.CharSetMapping = new Dictionary<char, QFontGlyph>();
			for(int i = 0; i < charSet.Length; i++)
				fontData.CharSetMapping.Add(charSet[i],newGlyphs[i]);

			fontData.Pages = newTextureSheets.ToArray();
			fontData.CalculateMeanWidth();
			fontData.CalculateMaxHeight();

			foreach (var sheet in bitmapSheets)
				sheet.Free();

			var result = new TFont ();
			result.SetData (fontData);
			return result;
		}

		public static void RetargetAllGlyphs<TBitmap>(List<TBitmap> pages, QFontGlyph[] glyphs, byte alphaTolerance)
			where TBitmap : class, IQBitmap, new()
		{
			foreach (var glyph in glyphs)
				pages[glyph.page].RetargetGlyphRectangleOutwards(glyph, false, alphaTolerance);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Returns the power of 2 that is closest to x, but not smaller than x.
		/// </summary>
		public static int PowerOfTwo(int x)
		{
			int shifts = 0;
			uint val = (uint)x;

			if (x < 0)
				return 0;

			while (val > 0)
			{
				val = val >> 1;
				shifts++;
			}

			val = (uint)1 << (shifts - 1);
			if (val < x)
			{
				val = val << 1;
			}

			return (int)val;
		}

		private delegate bool EmptyDel(BitmapData data, int x, int y);

		public static void RetargetGlyphRectangleInwards(BitmapData bitmapData, QFontGlyph glyph, bool setYOffset, byte alphaTolerance)
		{
			int startX, endX;
			int startY, endY;

			var rect = glyph.rect;

			EmptyDel emptyPix;

			if (bitmapData.PixelFormat == System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb)
				emptyPix = delegate(BitmapData data, int x, int y) { return QBitmapData.EmptyAlphaPixel(data, x, y, alphaTolerance); };
			else
				emptyPix = delegate(BitmapData data, int x, int y) { return QBitmapData.EmptyPixel(data, x, y); };

			unsafe
			{

				for (startX = rect.X; startX < bitmapData.Width; startX++)
					for (int j = rect.Y; j < rect.Y + rect.Height; j++)
						if (!emptyPix(bitmapData, startX, j))
							goto Done1;
				Done1:

				for (endX = rect.X + rect.Width; endX >= 0; endX--)
					for (int j = rect.Y; j < rect.Y + rect.Height; j++)
						if (!emptyPix(bitmapData, endX, j))
							goto Done2;
				Done2:

				for (startY = rect.Y; startY < bitmapData.Height; startY++)
					for (int i = startX; i < endX; i++)
						if (!emptyPix(bitmapData, i, startY))
							goto Done3;

				Done3:

				for (endY = rect.Y + rect.Height; endY >= 0; endY--)
					for (int i = startX; i < endX; i++)
						if (!emptyPix(bitmapData, i, endY))
							goto Done4;
				Done4:;

			}

			if (endY < startY)
				startY = endY = rect.Y;

			if (endX < startX)
				startX = endX = rect.X;

			glyph.rect = new Rectangle(startX, startY, endX - startX + 1, endY - startY + 1);

			if (setYOffset)
				glyph.yOffset = glyph.rect.Y;

		}
    }
}

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Q: Convert function pointer type to corresponding string Haven't read a book about C++ templates yet so I'm stuck on a problem. I'm using C++14.
How to convert function pointer type to particular string based on type itself?
I have function pointer types:
    using FuncType1 = int (*)(double);
    using FuncType2 = int (*)(int);
    using FuncType3 = int (*)(int);

I would like to write something like this:
class Test {
private:
   template<FuncType1> static const std::string func_name = "FuncType1";
   template<FuncType2> static const std::string func_name = "FuncType2";
   template<FuncType3> static const std::string func_name = "FuncType3";
public:
   template<T> std::string GetFuncType() {
      return func_name<T>::value;
   }
};

I know this doesn't compile but should be enough to show idea. I think it's possible to specialize GetFuncType method but I would prefer to specialize member variable func_name instead (if that's even possible). Also - would FuncType2 and FuncType3 resolve to correct string if code is fixed?

A: One way:
template<class T> constexpr char const* get_name() = delete;

using FuncType1 = int (*)(double);
using FuncType2 = int (*)(int);

template<> constexpr char const* get_name<FuncType1>() { return "FuncType1"; }
template<> constexpr char const* get_name<FuncType2>() { return "FuncType2"; }

int main() {
    std::cout << get_name<FuncType1>() << '\n';
    std::cout << get_name<FuncType2>() << '\n';
}

A:
I would prefer to specialize member variable func_name instead (if that's even possible).

So, if I understand correctly, you're looking something as
class Test
 {
   private:
      template <typename> static const std::string func_name;

   public:
      template <typename T>
      std::string GetFuncType () const
       { return func_name<T>; }
 };

template <typename> const std::string Test::func_name = "not func";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType1> = "FuncType1";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType2> = "FuncType2";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType3> = "FuncType3";

given that FuncType1, FuncType2 and FuncType3 are different types (not equals as FuncType2 and FuncType3 in you question).
The following is a full compiling example
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

using FuncType1 = int (*)(double);
using FuncType2 = int (*)(int);
using FuncType3 = int (*)(long);

class Test
 {
   private:
      template <typename> static const std::string func_name;

   public:
      template <typename T>
      std::string GetFuncType () const
       { return func_name<T>; }
 };

template <typename> const std::string Test::func_name = "not func";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType1> = "FuncType1";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType2> = "FuncType2";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType3> = "FuncType3";

int main ()
 {
   std::cout << Test{}.GetFuncType<int>() << std::endl;
   std::cout << Test{}.GetFuncType<FuncType1>() << std::endl;
   std::cout << Test{}.GetFuncType<FuncType2>() << std::endl;
   std::cout << Test{}.GetFuncType<FuncType3>() << std::endl;
 }

If you want that Test{}.GetFuncType<int>() gives a compilation error, you can initialize func_name only for requested specializations
// template <typename> const std::string Test::func_name = "not func";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType1> = "FuncType1";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType2> = "FuncType2";
template<> const std::string Test::func_name<FuncType3> = "FuncType3";

// ...

std::cout << Test{}.GetFuncType<int>() << std::endl; // compilation error!

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Dappeto is a heritage-listed residence at 171 Wollongong Road, Arncliffe, Bayside Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1885 by Frederick Gibbins. It is also known as Macquarie Lodge and Dapetto. The property is owned by the Salvation Army. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

History
Frederick John Gibbins (builder and owner of Dappeto 1885 to 1917) was born on 25 May 1841 at Dappeto - an Aboriginal name for the area south of Wollongong, later variously known as Dapto or Mullet Creek.

Frederick Gibbins was the eldest child of John and Ann Gibbins (née Meredith) who were married at St. Luke's Anglican Church, Liverpool, NSW on 16 March 1840. John Gibbins arrived in Australia on the "Claudine" in 1829 after having been sentenced to 14 years transportation for stealing a handkerchief. Frederick John's mother, Ann, was a granddaughter of First Fleeter Meredith, Steward to Captain John Marshall of the "Scarborough."

In 1865 Frederick John Gibbins met and married Catherine Pickett and they had a family of six sons and three daughters - Alfred, Emma (Pattison), Amy (Thom), Ernest, Frederick, Walter, Edwin, Ada (Stead) and Percy. Percy died at the old family home in Kent Street, Sydney, in early 1885 just prior to the move to Dappeto.

From 1885 to 1917 Dappeto was the home of the Gibbins family. The home stood on 11 acres of land, part portion 61, Parish of St. George one of four adjoining portions included in a Crown Grant made to Thomas Hill Bardwell on 5 September 1853. On 18 September 1879, Portion 61 was sold to George Penkivil Salde who in turn sold the land to Frederick John Gibbins on 6 August 1881.

In 1885 the building of Dappeto was completed and became the family home of the Gibbins family until the death of Mr Gibbins in 1917 and the final sale and settlement of the estate.

Frederick Gibbins was an oyster merchant and trawling magnate. About 1906 he entered into partnership with three other large oyster merchants, Comino Athanassio, Charles Edward Woodward and John Moriarty, and the firm, known as Woodward, Gibbons & Comino, dominated oyster marketing in New South Wales.

In 1917 the Salvation Army purchased Dappeto and part of the original site - Lots 33 to 36 and 54-59 Section B, Portion 61 for the purpose of establishing a Children's Home. It remained in operation as such until 1969 when the children in residence were transferred to the Stanmore Children's Home and plans for a Senior Citizens' Complex were prepared.

In 1971 the Senior Citizen's Complex was completed containing self-contained units, a bed hostel and nursing home. The complex was renamed Macquarie Lodge. The wing at the rear of Dapetto that housed the kitchen, laundry and servants' accommodation was demolished and replaced with the present nursing home.

Following its nomination by Rockdale Council an Interim Heritage Order was placed over Dappeto on 14 May 1986. A Permanent Conservation Order was placed over the property on 17 February 1989 and transferred to the State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

Description
Dappeto is a two-storey house of domestic style Victorian architecture. It was constructed of sand-stock face bricks which were mixed with whale oil to protect the building against dampness. It has a patterned slate roof surmounted by an ornate captain's walk accessed by a cast iron spiral staircase. The two storey verandah has an iron balustrade and trim to the upper floor and frieze to the lower floor. It features several beautiful fireplaces and overmantles of various imported English timbers.

The name Dapetto appears above the fanlight. A Coat of Arms with initials F. J. G. is above the side bay windows.

Heritage listing
Dappeto is of State heritage significance as an excellent example of domestic style Victorian architecture. It is associated with Frederick Gibbins, an oyster merchant and trawling magnate.

Dappeto was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

References

Bibliography

Attribution

External links

New South Wales State Heritage Register
Houses in Sydney
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
1885 establishments in Australia
Houses completed in 1885
Arncliffe, New South Wales

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"We're honored to be mentioned among so many great names in the industry but what's even more gratifying is that this is a recognition from skiers and snowboarders," says Brian Lawson, director of public relations for Crystal Mountain. "It says a lot about our people, in every area of the resort, and their dedication to creating a wonderful experience for our guests."
Liftopia, the largest online and mobile marketplace serving the ski and mountain activity industry, surveyed their customers to measure enthusiasm on specific aspects of their favorite resorts such as family friendliness, challenging terrain, crowds as well as snow consistency and quality. More than 10,000 responses were then weighted with a proprietary algorithm based on Liftopia's exclusive dataset that includes resorts' total visits per season, acreage and average lift ticket prices to determine the best ski areas overall, across seven categories and five regions.
"For years consumers have told us they wanted a ranking system that wasn't based simply on which resorts were the biggest, relied on a handful of "expert" opinions or even pay-to-play advertising dollars," said Evan Reece, co-founder and CEO of Liftopia. "We crafted the Best in Snow Awards using details from a consumer survey and our proprietary data to uncover the ski areas people are most passionate about, all over North America."
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Discussion in 'Retro Gaming' started by NinjaWrr, Oct 30, 2018.
Music rights might have killed this a bit. They are missing some of the really big staple games from the system. I think I will still buy it, but less excited then before.
I don't care for a large majority of the games on the system. Of those I do care about, I already own a number of them physically and digitally and see no need to buy them yet again on an overpriced emulator.
I pre-ordered the Playstation Mini, but I'm actually considering cancelling my pre-order. I'm not really interested in most of the games that they're offering and I think they could have made some better choices.
Probably not for me either. Just nothing that looks that interesting to me. Although I have tons of memories playing the old Destruction Derby game.
I ended up cancelling my Playstation Mini and putting the money towards getting Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee Edition for my partner.
The list of games was pretty mediocre and apparently, the mini SNES can actually emulate PS1 games better than the actual PS1 Mini. Damn.
...apparently, the mini SNES can actually emulate PS1 games better than the actual PS1 Mini. Damn.
I do not find the Mini Playstation interesting too, the games they offer are not really interesting.


Please see Board of Directors to learn more about each of the individuals responsible for the direction of the foundation.
Please see Background to learn more about the beginnings of the Foundation.
The Mwebaza Foundation's mission is to enrich the relationships among our Colorado and African partner schools through cross-cultural exchange and service learning that enhances educational opportunities, fosters a healthy learning environment, and promotes self-sufficiency.
Through the Mwebaza Foundation, our Colorado partner schools raise funds to help with the various needs of our African partner schools. This includes construction of schools and classrooms, providing books and other classroom supplies, as well as general care for disadvantaged school children such as, sustainable food programs and improved hygiene and sanitation. As much as possible, we develop projects and programs with a focus on self-sufficiency, as our ultimate goal is to help our partner schools fund, maintain, and improve themselves.
We promote a successful pen pal letter, photo, and artifact exchange between our students and staff so that all involved can learn more about and gain a better understanding of one another's cultures and lives.
In the summer of 2009 and years since, Mwebaza board members visited Uganda and saw firsthand how Mwebaza School and St. Paul have responsibly used the resources they have been provided.
Please see Foundation Projects to learn more about our past and pending projects.
Although Mwebaza School the school has benefited greatly from recent improvements such as a new school building, gardens, chicken coops, and a rainwater collection and sterilization system, there is still much more to do. The school's sanitation system is inadequate with an insufficient number of long drop latrines or more modern toilets to meet student needs.
The Mwebaza Foundation has assisted St. Paul School address some of its physical needs, however there is still more to do. St. Paul school struggles with retaining qualified teachers due to the remote location and long distances teachers have to travel. The Mwebaza Foundation hopes to raise funds to help St. Paul construct teachers homes where teachers can live onsite.
Our newest partner school, Parents Junior School in Gulu, Uganda needs a lot of assistance. We are currently raising funds to construct sanitary and sustainable bathroom facilities and water collection and treatment systems.
Another issue for all our African partner schools is providing a quality education. With the lack of resources, students suffer in the classroom from oversized classes and a lack of materials. The Mwebaza Foundation is focusing on improving the quality of education through continued teacher training and resource development. The Mwebaza Foundation is looking to partner with other organizations to develop computer labs in our schools to help bridge the technology gap that many suffer from in developing countries.
If you would like to help us accomplish some of our goals please visit How to Help.


Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death. Back in the 19th century, when camera technology became publicly available, documenting loved ones on their death beds or even after death was not uncommon. Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive by Jack Mord, released in December by Last Gasp Publishing, gathers 120 photographs from this lost rite of 19th and early 20th century United States and Europe.
"Neither death rites nor cultural portraiture could flourish until the Industrial Revolution fostered public expressions of individual worth and benevolent nature," writer Joe Smoke explains in an essay. "Two concrete testaments to this sociological shift were the immediate naming of infants and the personification of pets." He notes that in the 18th century, gravestones often just read "child" or "babe." No one who died under a year got a name.


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Our standard antibody sequencing procedure gives us the full variable region and part of the constant region of heavy and light chains. We provide an antibody sequence analysis report specifying the number of heavy and light chains identified, analysis of the results, agarose gel images of the amplified DNA fragments, and the DNA and protein sequences for each chain identified.


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MP Q&A: SCOTT PHILLIPS & JED AYRES
June 14, 2013 beardomattixLeave a comment
We are looking forward to our Fathers Day Noir At The Bar Summit this Sunday. Austin founders Scott Montgomery and Jesse Sublette are meeting up with Scott Phillips and Jedidiah Ayres at Opal Divine's (3601 South Congress) for a night of music and crime fiction readings. Here's a little background: Scott Phillips' latest, Rake, is a tale of an American actor in Paris juggling four women, his violent temper, and a crime while trying to execute a movie deal. We sold out our initial run of Jed's A F*ckload Of Shorts (there will be more at the event), and if you're offended by the title don't bother cracking the book. In fact you may want to avoid the interviews we did with them.
First, Scott-
MysteryPeople: I believe this is your first time to get out of the Midwest for a novel. I know you spent time in Paris, but other than experience what drew you to use it?
Scott Phillips: It was originally written for a collection of novels from a French publisher, La Branche, all of which were intended to be made as TV movies. That plan never went anywhere, but the idea was that it had to be a thriller, it had to be filmable in Paris, and it had to have Friday the 13th in it somewhere.
MP: I didn't realize until after the book that your protagonist has no given name just the one of the doctor he plays on TV. Was there a specific intention of that?
SP: Not really, but at a certain point I realized I hadn't given the actor his own name and I left it at that. The friend I based the character on was really a soap opera actor, the star of a show called Santa Barbara, which was enormously popular in prime time in France, and it occurred to me that almost no one in France knew his name, the fans always referred to him by his character's name. We really did try and make a movie about the arms of the Venus de Milo; in retrospect we're probably lucky we failed. A lot of the events in the book are exaggerated versions of things that really happened back then.
MP: As a writer, what makes him a fun character?
SP: He's a self-deluded narcissist, always trying to convince the reader (and himself) that he's a swell guy, always looking out for other people. And that sort of supreme self-confidence of his is amusing to write. Not dissimilar to Bill Ogden, from The Walkaway and The Adjustment.
MP: While you show the film business, warts and all, isn't the normal skewering of it that you get with many authors that use it as a backdrop. As somebody who is involved with the industry, how do you view it?
SP: As I say above, many of the events described in the book really happened in the course of trying to get that movie made. People are always trying to get people to work for free, always trying to scam money out of backers, always trying to screw their way into the movie business.
MP: Sex plays a large part in Rake as well as your other work. What's the best way for an author to approach it without coming off as porn?
SP: I have no idea. I love to write about sex, but it never occurs to me that anyone might find it arousing. I suppose I try and depict it in a matter-of-fact way, awkward and sometimes embarrassing and often thrilling. The worst kind of sex writing, I think, is when the writer tries to idealize it, all arching backs and glistening torsos and simultaneous orgasm. Also terrible is the sort of thing where the author gets overly hyperbolic and starts comparing genitalia to foodstuffs and planetary bodies and automotive parts.
MP: You're doing our Austin Noir At The Bar with your friend and cohort, Jedidiah Ayres. What do you like about his writing?
SP: He has a willingness, or maybe it's a compulsion, to go too far. Where a more psychiatrically stable writer might pull back, Jed plunges ahead, damn the torpedoes. The one about the groupie, the dead rock-star and the groupie's boyfriend is one of the funniest and most disturbing stories ever written, and yet he manages to bring a kind of sweetness to it.
As Jed proves here, he even goes too far in Q&As. To fit the standards of BookPeople (Not necessarily MysteryPeople) some redaction was necessary.
MysteryPeople: Your short story collection is titled A F*ckload Of Shorts and you have a novella titled Fierce Bitches. Do you plan to use swear words in your titles like John D MacDonald used color?
Jed Ayres: I really don't want to lock myself into a pattern like that. I wonder sometimes, what color Sue Grafton's face drained to when her publisher said, "Fantastic, I guess we know what the next one will be called." Dude, she must've looked awful. "How many of these f–kers do I have to write?"
I will say this, though, I had a 'dicussion' with someone over the title of my novel Peckerwoood. They told me that it would have to go – you just couldn't name a book that – and I said "That's okay, it can go back to the original title, 'Shitbird.'"
We've not resumed that conversation.
Lucky for me, I guess, the publishers I've had had the sack to keep the titles. In fact, both Brian Lindenmuth at Snubnose and Cameron Ashley at Crime Factory are the ones who officially titled those books. I'd titled a query letter to Brian A F–kload of Shorts and he thought it was the name of my book and really argued for it when it came time to call it something (the asterisk was added to match the title of the film adaptation of one of my stories – A F*ckload of Scotch Tape), and Cameron seized on a joke I'd made that the book should be called Fierce Bitches after a line of interior monologue one of the characters has at the end (and in the context of the line, I think it's actually a very sweet title – and why I consider it a love story), and wouldn't let it go. I didn't argue with him, though. That title has balls. Or, uh, ovaries.
MP: In F*ckload Shorts, what story do you consider the epitome of your brand of storytelling?
JA: The good one. Don't bother with the others.
MP: Most of the stories deal with people on the lower rungs of the ladder. Why do losers make good protagonists for you?
JA: I've never been able to identify with the characters that I encounter in fiction who are cool, accomplished, scary-smart or generally good at stuff, so when I write it's gotta be about folks I can identify with. Weakness, brokenness, pettiness, unedumacatedness – these are things I believe and understand – and I'll follow a character displaying those like I'm reading my own diary. I'm much more easily invested in their fates.
MP: St. Louis Noir At The Bar has shined the light on some great local talent. What makes the city conductive for good crime fiction?
JA: Same as anyplace – it's got people. People equal crime. Still, you're right, we've found a lot of awfully good stuff around here (or good, awful stuff if you prefer) – maybe it's the climate. There's also a rich and terrible history of outlaws and crime that has passed into folklore in these parts – from The James/Younger Gang to Stagger Lee and Egan's Rats. That's bound to spark the dark imaginations of a few talented folk.
MP: You are not only a writer of crime fiction, but also a reviewer of it on your website Hardboiled Wonderland. Who are some talents more people should know about?
JA: I think Clayton Lindemuth, J. David Osborne and David James Keaton all have new books that are putting a foot up the ass of American words and everybody ought to take note. Same with Jane Bradley, Benjamin Whitmer, Jordan Harper, Jake Hinkson, Greg Bardsley, Johnny Shaw, Todd Robinson, Matthew McBride, J.I. Baker, Peter Farris… Some of them are pretty well known in this very small corner of the crime fiction world, but if I take a step back, I realize it's a far smaller notoriety than they deserve. And, y'know for the life of me, I can't understand why people like Dennis Tafoya, Roger Smith, Christa Faust and Sean Doolittle aren't housef–kinghold names by now. Oh, and just you, the hell, wait and see who's talking about Kieran Shea after Koko Takes a Holiday drops – that ought to be huge.
MP: Why should people take time out on Father's Day and come out to our Noir At The Bar at Opal Devine's on South Congress?
JA: Man, talk about a self-answering question. It's all right there. It's Father's Day – skip the family dinner at Chili's and bring the old man out for something he'll actually enjoy. Or how about, you just spent an afternoon with your family, come chill the hell out with some nasty ass fiction and tasty tunes and we'll raise a glass.
Or, every time you don't support independent bookstores and authors, the terrorists, the Taliban and the NSA win. I really do hope you turn up.
To experience Scott Phillips, Jedidiah Ayres, and Jesse Sublette without a filter come out to Opal Divine's at 7PM on June 16th.
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Arevalo Mateus PhD '13 Named Lead Scholar for NY State Archives Documentation Plan
by smccrea • February 18, 2019
Jorge Arévalo Mateus earned a PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan in 2013.
Jorge Arévalo Mateus PhD '13 is a lead scholar on a developing plan for The New York State Archives. The plan will focus on the collection and preservation of, as well as accessibility to, records involving under-documented topics and communities.
Arévalo Mateus will guide the research process of the project, which will include surveys on collections and communities and regional meetings across the state. The project is one of the Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY), a statewide program that supports a network of library and archival repositories that contain New York's historical records and is in conversation with other collecting institutions in the state.
"I am happy to serve as a lead scholar for this significant statewide project, one that I am certain will make a strong and lasting impact for the representation of all communities and their contributions to New York State history," Arévalo Mateus said.
After receiving his PhD from Wesleyan in ethnomusicology, Arévalo Mateus served as head archivist and curator of the Woody Guthrie Foundation, curator of the Raices Latin Music Archives at Boys Harbor Inc., and archivist for the Louis Armstrong Archives at Queens College (CUNY). Along with his position at DHPSNY, Arévalo Mateus is executive director of the Association for Cultural Equity and the Alan Lomax Archives at Hunter College (CUNY), in partnership with the American Folklife Center for the Library of Congress. He has also worked in archives and college management and as a development consultant for several public and private sector organizations and nonprofits in New York City.
DHPSNY announced the launch of the new multiyear documentation planning project, as well as Arévalo Mateus's hiring, in December.
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Q: django.core.exceptions.AppRegistryNotReady: Apps aren't loaded yet. file init
django.core.exceptions.AppRegistryNotReady: Apps aren't loaded yet.

Exception appeared when I added:

*

*import signals
in init.py file (apps/application/init.py)

*from models import Review
in signals.py file (apps/application/signals.py)
I want to send an http request when there is an insert in the model Review.
So I need to import Review model (in the __init.py__ file) to execute the following code:
@receiver (pre_save, sender = Review)
def my_handler (sender, ** kwargs):
       ....

A: In the Django's source, this is where the exception is comming from:
def check_apps_ready(self):
    """Raise an exception if all apps haven't been imported yet."""
    if not self.apps_ready:
        raise AppRegistryNotReady("Apps aren't loaded yet.")

As you can see it make sure every apps are ready (loaded). In general, when it is related to signals there are normally 2 situations when this happen.

*

*Circular imports
Make sure there are none in your project. This can cause the error.

*Registering signal before the app is loaded
See this for more information. But, one thing that help me understanding how Django works behind the scene is this statement:

It is important to understand that a Django application is just a set of code that interacts with various parts of the framework. There's no such thing as an Application object. However, there's a few places where Django needs to interact with installed applications, mainly for configuration and also for introspection. That's why the application registry maintains metadata in an AppConfig instance for each installed application.

Hence, what you can do is override one of the AppConfig method called AppConfig.ready() which allow you to perform initialization tasks such as registering signals.
# yourApp/__init__.py

default_app_config = 'yourappname.apps.YourAppConfig'

# yourApp/apps.py
from django.apps import AppConfig

class YourAppConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'yourappname'

    def ready(self):
        from yourappname import signals

Further information
For the sake of explanation, this is the recommend way of doing since Django 1.7+ which is most likely your case. The logic behind it is that the application registry hold a boolean value ready which is set to True only after the registry is fully populated and all AppConfig.ready() methods are called.


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Q: Retrieving data from span with jquery and c# I'm trying to retrieve some values from span which are inside a td. I have this function:
function reorder() {
    alert("Entrando en reorder");
    strorder = "";
    var totalid = $('#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_grdResultados tr td input').length;
    alert(totalid);
    for (var i = 0; i < totalid; i++) {
      strorder = strorder +$('#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_grdResultados tr td span')[i].text()+"*"+ $('#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_grdResultados tr td input')[i].getAttribute("value") + "|";
      alert("strorder1");
    }
    //strorder = window.location.href;
    alert("strorder2");
}

And the source code is this (a piece of the code):

      Título

    Opciones

      Dimension1
      <input type="hidden" name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$grdResultados$ctl02$hdnid" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_grdResultados_ctl02_hdnid" value="1" />

How can I do it?, because in this way I don't have what I want. Regards

A: This code gets every text inside every span in your table td.
var strorder = "";
var spans=$("table.table").find("td").find("span");
var inputs=$("table.table").find("td").find("input");

for (var i=0; i<spans.length; i++){
   strorder+=$(spans[i]).text()+"*"+$(inputs[i]).val()+"|";
}

Or without second array:
var strorder = "";
var spans=$("table.table").find("td").find("span");

for (var i=0; i<spans.length; i++){
   var $span=$(spans[i]); //temporary jquery object
   strorder+=$span.text()+"*"+$span.next().val()+"|"; //$span.next() ==input
}

PS. saving array.length to  totalid is not required because length is property not method, so getting length in loop is optimal solution.

A: This may be optimistic
 $td = $('.tablaDimensiones tr td');

        var spans = $td.find('span');
        var inps = $td.find('input');

        var len = spans.length;

        var sortorder = "";

        for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            sortorder += spans.eq(i).text() + "*" + inps.eq(i).text() + "|";
        }

A: I beleive that the following example is what you looking for you've almost correct code you should just organize it a little.
NOTE : The only error in your code is in the long line :
strorder = strorder +$('#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_grdResultados tr td span')[i].text()+"*"+ $('#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_grdResultados tr td input')[i].getAttribute("value") + "|";

Hope this helps.

function reorder() {
  var strorder = "";
  var table_spans = $('#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_grdResultados span[id^="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1"]');
  var table_inputs = $('#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_grdResultados input');

  for (var i = 0; i < table_inputs.length; i++)
  {
    var span_text = table_spans.eq(i).text();
    var input_value = table_inputs.eq(i).val();

    strorder +=  span_text + "*" + input_value + "|";
  }

  console.log(strorder);
}

reorder();

<link href="https://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

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    Opciones

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Home Bullying Anti-LGBT group creates misleading packet for legislators on anti-bullying bill
Anti-LGBT group creates misleading packet for legislators on anti-bullying bill
Andy Birkey
The Minnesota Child Protection League, a group opposed to an anti-bullying bill making its way through the Minnesota Legislature, has created a packet for legislators that contains misleading information.
The packet starts with a message to legislators: "Considering a 'yes' vote on HF826, the bullying bill? This is a sample of the developmentally-appropriate programmatic instruction that your children will be shown with your stamp of approval!"
Then the group wrote, Warning: According to MN Statute 617.241, pictures in this book may violate obscenity laws. Therefore we have blurred the pictures out. However, if you vote yes on HF 826, the bullying bill, you WILL be voting to expose children to these kinds of images and ideas in every subject preK-12th grade under the guise of bullying prevention. For children, the pictures will not be blurred because public schools are exempt from obscenity laws."
What follows are excerpts from "It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health" by Robie Harris.
It's Perfectly Normal is one of the most banned books in America. It's number 12 on the American Library Association's most challenged books. It's also been praised as a learning tool for teaching about sexuality. It's received acclaim for its scientifically accurate, inclusive, and approachable information for children and families. Praise has included the Urban League, Planned Parenthood, TIME Magazine, the editor of Parenting Magazine, People Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times.
The Minnesota Child Protection League says it will be taught in schools around the state if the safe schools bill becomes law. But why would a sexual health book be included in anti-bullying curriculum? That's where MNCPL delves into conspiracy theories.
According to the group, the phrase "developmentally-appropriate" is code for indoctrination in sexually explicit materials. The group even published a handy guide mapping out their thought process.
Gov. Dayton's Prevention of Bullying Task Force released a report in 2012 and serves as the basis for the Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act.
One phrase in the report that the MNCPL pounced on is "understand the nature of human sexuality."
Here it is in context:
Effective strategies will promote values, attitudes, and behaviors that acknowledge the cultural diversity of students; optimize relevance to students from multiple cultures in the school community; understand the nature of human sexuality; strengthen students' skills necessary to engage in healthy interactions; and build on the varied cultural resources of families and communities.
MNCPL then conflates a five-word phrase in the task force report with a four-word phrase in the bill.
MNCPL wrote, "The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) is the likely standard for what is deemed "developmentally appropriate programmatic instruction" (HF 826, line 7.8) for human sexuality." (emphasis MNCPL)
SEICUS is a private nonprofit "dedicated to affirming that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of life" and has been a boogeyman for religious right groups for decades.
The phrase "developmentally appropriate programmatic instruction" occurs in the bill three times and each time in relation to prevention and discipline related to bullying, not in regard to human sexuality. In fact, the word sexuality never occurs in the bill and sexual health education is never mentioned in the bill. This is where MNCPL begins to stretch the truth.
To recap, MNCPL thinks that obscenity will be introduced in school curriculum because the group expects school administrators to turn to a sexual health group in order to set up school anti-bullying policies.
The MNCPL goes further. "Curriculum and resources like It's Perfectly Normal are highly recommended and promoted by SIECUS. The SIECUS guidelines have the stamp of approval from the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Department of Education—the intended location for the proposed School Climate Center—a $1 million dollar new state agency."
The Minnesota Department of Health lists SIECUS as a resource a number of times. The Department of Education does not. MNCPL is falsely conflating the Department of Education with the Department of Health.
The bill would not house the school climate center in the Department of Health. It would be housed in the Department of Education. The safe schools bill never mentions the Department of Health. Again, the MNCPL is falsely conflating the Department of Education with the Department of Health.
There is no connection between the safe schools bill and It's Perfectly Normal.
MNCPL cites a consent decree between the Anoka-Hennepin School District and the Department of Justice after that district failed to protect its student from bullying as proof that obscene materials (and supposedly It's Perfectly Normal) will be included in school curriculum
As a part of the Consent Decree settlement—described by U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez as "a comprehensive blueprint…a model for schools across the nation"—the Anti-Bullying/Anti-Harassment Task Force was formed in 2012. The Anoka-Hennepin Anti-Bullying/Anti-Harassment Task Force Report 2012-2013includes the following recommendation: "Comprehensive, inclusive health and human development education K-12." (Page 8) (emphasis MNCPL)
The emphasis on comprehensive, inclusive sexuality education for bullying prevention in both the Anoka-Hennepin Anti-Bullying/Anti-Harassment Task Force Report and Governor Dayton's Prevention of School Bullying Task Force Report shows the legislative intent to include sexually explicit, controversial lessons for school-age children, beginning in preschool—all under the banner of inclusive curriculum.(emphasis MNCPL)
But the claim that "sexually explicit lessons" or that It's Perfectly Normal will be included in bullying prevention under the safe schools bill is not supported by that claim. The consent decree listed 83 items under 9 recommendations, and one included "Comprehensive, inclusive health and human development education K-12." That could hardly be called an emphasis. In the governor's task force report, "sexuality" is mentioned only once in 44 pages, and its under the section that encourages parent, family, and community engagement in bullying prevention, not school curriculum or instruction.
In sum, despite the fact that the safe schools bill never mentions sexuality education, and the task force report makes one reference to sexuality, MNCPL argues that a specific book not related to bullying prevention will be shown to all kids in public schools because of the safe schools bill.
"That's just patently false. Far-fetched. I don't even know where they get this stuff," the bill author, Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, told WCCO earlier this month.
"It has to be based on evidence…research that has proven, positive effects. There is nothing like that in the research that supports a claim like that. So I don't know where this is coming from," said Dibble.
Much of it is coming from the religious right echo chamber.
For example, In Tennessee in February, former Saturday Night Live cast member turned religious right activist Victoria Jackson claimed the book was being used in Tennessee where she is running for office. It turned out it wasn't, and she quietly took the claim off her campaign website.
MassResistance, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center calls an "anti-LGBT hate group," brought the book up in Massachusetts last year in a fight against sex education standards.
The American Life League, an anti-abortion group, has been rallying against the book because Planned Parenthood uses it in its sexual health activities. And right-wing Catholic groups have been railing against the book this year.
The book has been targeted by the religious right for banning since it was first published in 1996.
Here's the packet MNCPL put together for legislators:
Mn Cpl Packet by Andy Birkey
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Did the 'sophomore jinx' get Nicki Minaj? It's somewhat hard to say. Whether you love or hate "Roman Reloaded" depends on what you're listening for. There was a lot of curiosity about what direction Minaj would take with this release as her fans have seen a rather quick progression from her rougher, explicit mixtape material to the pop of her latest single "Starships." With the album's concept being centered on her unfiltered and angry male alter-ego Roman, some assumed it would be edgy core-rap with songs like the previous "Roman's Revenge." Not the case at all. "Reloaded" is arguably more of a dance album than it is rap. Roman is heard clearly on the first 6 tracks and afterward gets lost in the shuffle as Nicki puts on her best techno-dance suit, making you wonder if you're listening to Britney Spears' "Femme Fatale" instead of an album from rap's latest star.
The rap-dominated tracks begin with the dramatic "Roman's Holiday," which lacks a strong enough lyrical narrative that introduces the alter-ego and the album concept. The subsequent 5 are moderately catchy and have some lyrical gems, but they're topically the same (mainly boasting) and have some annoying repetition. "Champion" is this album's "Moment for Life," with a smooth, airy track, a Drake verse and a 'yeah, we made it' theme. The cross into radio-friendly dance and pop comes with "Right by My Side" featuring Chris Brown. It was hard to keep attention after "Side." Several of the songs were too similar musically and the lyrics were thin. Additionally, the production was painfully mechanical, with the most simplistic and standard of techno patterns. Should the tracks become singles or get played in the clubs, they'll perform well because it's befitting of current trends, but it won't satisfy those desiring a little more depth. The lack of such depth is especially agitating when the record is 19 TRACKS LONG. I didn't have a problem with Minaj singing (even though her singing ability is minimal); I just wish it was more balanced between the singing and rapping. I did enjoy the reflective "Marilyn Monroe" and "Fire Burns." I appreciated how she unapologetically spits ill-will towards her ex on "Fire," as many breakup songs shy away from that to keep the karma clean.
"Roman Reloaded's" biggest offense is distracting from its own main character and theme. I wouldn't be surprised if the album was more Roman-focused in its early development and due to the commercial success of songs like "Super Bass," Nicki and/or record label execs decided to take a different route (yes, Minaj is with Young Money Entertainment, which has its origins in hip-hop, but Young Money is a subsidiary of a label under Universal Republic. Universal Republic has say in YME's activity). I'm not against an artist trying on another genre, but there's a way to do these things. Going for basic AND super mainstream isn't the answer. It tampers with your chances for longevity and only offers short-term hype. If she wanted to do more pop, they should have scrapped the album title, strengthened the content and have more sophisticated and creative production.
Did Nicki listen to her own album?


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Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
MWRA, Ria Convery
(617) 788-1105, ria.convery@mwra.com
MWRA Advisory Board, Matt Romero
(617) 788-2054, matthew.romero@mwraadvisoryboard.com
MWRA Board Approves $100 Million in Funding
to Remove Lead Service Lines
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a program to make available $100 million in interest-free loans to its member water communities to fully replace lead service lines.
"I am proud that Massachusetts is taking proactive measures to ensure that residents have continued access to clean drinking water," said Governor Charlie Baker. "The loans being provided by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority will allow communities to take the steps necessary to modernize their drinking water infrastructure, and keep Massachusetts' families safe and healthy."
"By making $100 million in interest-free loans available to cities and towns within the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority service area, we are providing municipal leaders with the tools needed to ensure healthy, clean drinking for individuals and families around the Commonwealth," said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito.
"Clean, safe drinking water for the residents of the Commonwealth is a priority of the Baker-Polito Administration, and this investment of $100 million will help cities and towns in the MWRA service area proactively address aging lead pipes within their communities," said Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton, who also serves as chairman of MWRA's Board of Directors. "The zero-interest loans awarded to municipalities by the MWRA will allow them the flexibility to create their own local programs to fully remove lead service lines from the water main all the way to the home, and will in turn ensure individuals have access to safe, fresh, reliable drinking water."
MWRA has an aggressive and effective program to address lead in customers' homes which includes a stable and well-protected water supply and an effective corrosion control program begun in 1996. These efforts have resulted in the MWRA system, as a whole, being consistently below the Lead Action Level since 2004. However, some individual communities have exceeded the Lead Action Level and many homes still have lead service lines.
"This program will help ensure that all residents of MWRA communities will continue to have safe drinking water, regardless of their ZIP code or the age of their home," said Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh.
"Both MWRA and the City of Boston have been leaders in the country on reducing the risk of lead in drinking water," added Austin Blackmon, Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space for the City of Boston who serves as one of the city's representatives on the Board and chairs the Water Policy and Oversight Committee." The creation of this program is further proof of our commitment to ensuring the safest water possible for all of our customers."
The program was developed at the suggestion of the MWRA Advisory Board, which represents the interests of the cities and towns served by MWRA. MWRA already provides financial assistance to member communities to improve local water systems so that the high quality water that MWRA delivers can make it all the way to the consumer's taps.
"This is just another example of the partnership that exists between the Authority and the member communities," said MWRA Advisory Board Executive Director Joseph Favaloro. "$100 million in available zero-interest loans will be a critical resource to our communities to eliminate lead services, meet regulatory requirements and allay public concerns over water quality at the tap."
MWRA is the process of updating a survey of community lead service lines, but current estimates are that as many as 28,000 – or 5.6 percent of the total 500,000 service lines – contain lead.
The estimated average cost to fully replace a lead service is typically between $3,000 and $5,000. Based on that estimate, MWRA believes the $100 million program should cover removal of all lead services in its service area. Partial replacements which remove only the portion in the street, but leave the portion on private property would not be eligible for the new program, as current research clearly indicates little public health benefit from a partial replacement.
"We believe the best approach is to provide funds on an as-needed basis as communities make progress with their lead service line replacement programs," said MWRA Executive Director Fred Laskey. "This will allow those communities that are successful in getting homeowners to participate to move quickly in replacing those lines."
Under the proposal, each community would develop its own program, tailored to their local circumstances. The pace of spending will depend on the level of interest by both communities and homeowners, and on any future regulatory requirements for lead service line replacement. The funds will be paid back to MWRA by communities over 10 years at zero interest.
The following MWRA member communities
would be eligible for this program:
South Hadley Fire District #1
Note: There may be MWRA communities that have already eliminated their lead water service lines. Check with your local water department to find the status in your community.
Facts About Lead in Drinking Water: MWRA's Lead Program
Local Water System Assistance Program (LWSAP)
How to Get Your Home's Drinking Water Tested
MWRA Annual Water Quality Test Results
MWRA Monthly Water Quality Test Results


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Uses the example of Susan Boyle to show how God wants to make a winner out of us.
When you take time to remember where you've been you can celebrate how far you've come... and see that God is at work in the lives of others as well.
Jesus wants us to trust him to use us in ministry.
A message to encourage believers than in spite of all their flaws, God is still going to be glorified in their life.
God doesn't judge from ouward appearance... but too often we do. What can we do to avoid that tendency?
A message of Hell in a two week message on life after death.
The new birth is an invisible reality with visible outworkings.
A Thanksgiving sermon reminding us that attitude is in our control.
Post US Presidential Elections focusing on "Divine bailout package" as enshrined in 2 Cor 8:9.
There are folks who try to bring a "penknife" to a Sword fight they want to have with the Bible. Why would they even try? And why are such folks doomed to failure?
What value does God place on people? What value do You place on people? We are to see others through God's eyes and realize that all of us are of great value to Him!
Paul is not focusing on sinful behavior we should avoid, but on exemplary behavior we should practice.


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Q: Reading all object values in StackMob I've been using StackMob's fetch() function to retrieve all objects in my table, given by the fetch() method as a single model object. Each object has multiple attributes with corresponding values. I've then used JSON.stringify(model) to get this output:
{"0":{"attribute1":val1,"attribute2":"val2","attribute3":val3,"attribute4":"val4"},
"1":{"attribute1":val1,"attribute2":"val2","attribute3":val3,"attribute4":"val4"},
"2":{"attribute1":val1,"attribute2":"val2","attribute3":val3,"attribute4":"val4"}

...and so on.
How can I print out just each of those values?
StackMob has a get() function that can be used as such:
var a_book = new Book({ 'title': 'The Complete Calvin and Hobbes', 'author': 'Bill Watterson' });
console.debug(a_book.get('title')); //prints out "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes"

But I'm not sure how I would use it in my situation, where I'm retrieving all of the objects in my table, rather than creating a new object (as above).

A: since the stackmob js sdk is built on backbonejs you could declare a collection which can contain all the "rows" in your "table" and then iterate through the collection to perform whatever action you want to each item in your "table"
var MyModel = StackMob.Model.extend({
        schemaName:'YOUR_SCHEMA_NAME'
    });

var MyCollection= StackMob.Collection.extend({
        model:MyModel
    });

var myCollection = new MyCollection();
myCollection.fetch({async: true});
myCollection.each(function(item){
                    //do something with item, maybe print
               });


Here we are Year 6...the week of Leavers' Service! As well as lots of exciting school events (reward afternoon, attendance party, reading rewards) we will be carrying on getting ready for our Leavers' Service with rehearsals.
Well there's lots happening this week isn't there? Some of you are on transition days for part of the week whilst he rest of us finish off our own pages from our end of Year reports and do some work down at Pleasley Orchard. Then we will get chance to produce our own KoDu video games. From Thursday, we will be starting to put together everything that we need for Leaver's Service!
It's going to be quiet in Year 6 this week with 15 children out at their new secondary schools! For the rest of us, we will be working on a project to design, advertise and create our very own computer game. We'll be carrying out some consumer research, some game design and releasing our game for the school to review!
This week, we will be getting ready for the Garden Party on Thursday afternoon by using our knowledge of ratio to make recipes. We will also be completing our raps, ready for the big Rap battle on Wednesday! We will be learning how to find our way around town in French and how to order food and drink.
Cross your fingers for sunshine; it's Sports Day on Monday! After that, it's time for the Rap battle - we'll be using a very famous storytelling rap to rap our own story f our time at Farmilo! We'll still be thinking about what makes us, 'us', as we explore the idea of nature vs. nurture in science. As well as this, we will be developing our Algebra skills in maths.
There's plenty going on this week! On Monday, we have a number of workshops being delivered on eSafety and helping us to understand some of the changes our bodies go through. On Wednesday, we have a theatre company coming in to join us for 'A Play in a Day' on the subject of 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle'. As well as this, a local artist is working with the school and, on Thursday, will teach us to produce some ceramics and on Friday, some of us are playing in a local cricket tournament! As well as all of this, we will be working on our estimation skills to solve some interesting mathematical problems and continuing to produce some fantastic pieces of writing.
How would you make the world a better place? That's the focus this week as we read 'If the world were a village'. We will be writing our own speeches sharing our ideas of how we would make the world a better place. Mayor of Mansfield, Kate Allsop, will visit us to talk to us about writing speeches. On Friday, we will give our own speeches to families. As part of this, we will be using Pie Charts and Infographics to share our learning.
What an exciting week we have ahead. After writing some superb story openings last week, this week Year 6 will be completing their versions of The Boy in The Dress. We will be continuing to explore religion in Nottinghamshire including finding out more about Sikhism. In maths, we will be refining our skills working with circles. And, as a reward for all of the hard work this year, Year 6 will be off to Nottingham to Mini Golf and for lunch!
This week, we begin writing our own versions of The Boy in the Dress. We will think about what it means to be 'us' and think about the ways in which we differ. We'll produce and interpret Pie Charts to represent the composition of our class. As well as this, we will be finding out about the religions which people worship in our area.
Lots of science this week Year 6, including a bit of a pongy experiment on Friday...more of that to follow! We'll be thinking about ourselves and how we can be classified.
Wishing you all a fantastic week - be the best that you can be.
A slightly shorter week this week with the Bank Holiday, but still lots going on!
In Maths, we will be focusing on our arithmetic skills and also revisiting ordering and comparing fractions.
In topic, we will be continuing to think about what makes us, us! We will be editing our recipes and refining our persuasive skills.
On Friday, we are going to be being mindful as we head down to Pleasley Orchard for a walk and some time together as a class ahead of assessment week, the week after.
We hope everybody has a lovely Bank Holiday weekend! We will see you on Tuesday.
This week, we are thinking about ourselves and what makes us unique based on the book 'The Boy in the Dress' by David Walliams. We will consider our individuality before devising recipes for 'how to make me me'! In maths, we will be working on our knowledge of fractions including conversion, ordering and simplifying.
Welcome back to the Summer term!!!!!! Sunny days, blue skies and lots of fab learning.
This week, we will be thinking about the Disney Pixar film 'Inside Out'...they have given emotions personalities and characters, so we will be asking 'What if punctuation had a personality?' and this will help us produce some very creative writing!
Our maths will focus on work on word problems and shape, interpreting the steps needed to fully solve a word problem and also calculating angles and area.
As we head towards the Easter Holiday, we will be thinking about shape in maths this week as we draw 2D shapes to fit given dimensions and investigate area and volume.
We will be working towards our D.A.R.E Graduation on Wednesday, off to the theatre on Tuesday to 'be brilliant', have our Easter Service on Monday and produce some of our writing on the theme of Easter through poetry.
A very exciting week this week! On Monday, we will learn more about human evolution and how we have evolved to our current form...then we will think about what the future may hold for humans! Then it's Lea Green Tuesday to Thursday for most of Y6 whilst those of us not going will be doing a big project about Comic Relief, ahead of Red Nose Day on Friday!
THREE fantastic weeks so far this half term and into our fourth! Super proud of Year 6!
This week we will be developing our understanding of angles, coordinates and translation. We will be measuring angles inside shapes before moving on to finding missing angles in triangles. We will also be plotting different locations around school on a coordinates grid. We will be completing our Pokemon adventure stories, describing action in an excitement and imaginative way. We will also be finding out about inherited characteristics and (a week after Crufts) how Best in Breed can become Best in Show!
2 fantastic weeks so far this half term Year 6 and here we go with our third! This week, our maths learning will focus on our knowledge of time, especially converting between 12 and 24 hours and minutes into hours e.g. how many hours and minutes is 444 minutes? Our topic will continue to explore Evolution whilst, in writing, we will be developing the second part of our story.
Spellings will be testing a range of the rules we have used throughout the year, so please use the spellings listed on this page as a revision aid.
This week, we will be starting to write the openings to our adventure story about our Pokemon, exploring how we can balance a range of sentence structures. In maths, our focus will be algebra, including finding numbers which satisfy different rules e.g. if a+b=c and c=6, what could a and b be?
Our topic learning will focus on how different species evolve through both natural and artificial selection.
DARWIN'S DELIGHTS is our new topic and we begin by finding out about the journey of HMS Beagle. We will find out about the theory of natural selection, including learning about the population of black and white-bodied peppered moths during The Industrial Revolution. In maths, we will be revisiting negative numbers, using them in context and calculating with them across zero.
This week, it's Health and Safety week at school. We will be thinking about all the ways that we can lead healthy and safe lives; this includes Safer Internet Day on Tuesday and a number of visitors speaking to us about different areas of healthy lives.
As it's the last week of half-term, there will also be a big spell, practising all of the rules we have learnt this half-term.
What an exciting and special week ahead; our restaurant opens on Friday so we had better get ready. This week will have a lot of Business skills involved: advertising, management, administration, profit margins, weights and ratio, food hygiene, recipes, instructions, web design...where do we stop?! We are excited to open our restaurants to parents on Friday and can't wait to see you all then.
Remember the context of the sentence is important to help you know which is meant.
The chocolate dessert was delicious.
He finished the first draft of his writing.
The open window let in a draught of air!
The broken-down train was stationary.
She could not write without her stationery.
This week, we will be completing our own short stories from Holes, writing about a character we've created and a series of events which happen to them at Camp Green Lake.
In Maths we will be extending our knowledge of fractions as we learn to recognise or find the equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages.
We will also be making our Day of the Dead masks and beginning to plan for our Mexican restaurant, which is open on Friday 3rd February from 1:15-3:00pm (details to follow).
I visited the Isle of Wight.
He sang the song aloud.
You are not allowed to use a calculator!
The film has cool special effects.
The weather may affect our plans.
Lots of our learning this week will have a science focus as we learn about light and shadows and relate this to El Castillo in Mexico which has a very special property related to light and shadows. In maths, we will be continuing to master the skills needed to calculate with fractions. D.A.R.E continues this week as well!
Homophones and words which are easily confused! Nouns end –ce and verbs end –se e.g. I am giving you some advice. I advise you to rest.
This week we are off to The Glazey Place and Chiquito for a fantastic trip. We will be painting our tiles and off for a sampler menu lunch at Chiquito, to taste some Mexican food before writing our own reviews of the food we tasted! This will help us to prepare for running our own restaurant in a couple of weeks' time.
Our maths learning will be all around fractions, including simplifying and adding and subtracting with fractions. In topic, we will think about the Geography of Mexico. We also begin D.A.R.E this week!
Words with silent letters; Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/, and the gh used to represent the sound that 'ch' now represents in the Scottish word loch!
This is a short week, beginning with a whole day with Partake Theatre, during which we will get to know more about the Mayans! We will begin to read Holes by Louis Sachar, which is our core text. In English, we will be writing instructions for how to play Pok-a-Tok whilst, in maths, we will be practicing using written arithmetic methods.
What a busy week ahead; Christmas play performances, a Carol Service and singing at Magnolia House! On top of all of that, we will be creating our very own Farmilo Christmas adverts with Year 3!
This week is the big end of term spelling quiz; spellings from all of the weeks will feature in this week's test and, don't forget, on Friday morning your home learning is due in to share ahead of our party day! Mrs. Ferry and I can't wait to see all of your creations for this half-term's topic.
This week we are going to be imagining we are back in the 1940s and writing out own diary entries from Goodnight Mister Tom. It's also Hour of Code, so we will be working on our programming skills.
We will be continuing our problem solving learning in Maths.
As well as this, we are preparing for our own Christmas performances, working on our singing and acting. It's not long until curtains up! We will be creating Christmas cards and calendars ready for Christmas!
Well...it's here! What a special week it's going to be. On Wednesday, the book is launched!! We will be doing lots to prepare for the book launch including making adverts and rehearsing our reading with intonation.
In maths, we will be applying our addition and subtraction skills in word problems.
We are also off to Magnolia House to be evacuees for the morning including singing songs for the residents.
AAAAAAAAND.....on Friday, Matt Arnold is joining us to help us make Willow Lanterns in preparation for the Community Carol singing next month.
i before e? or ie?
i before e except after c when the sound is 'ee' receive, deceive.
Pupils must also know some common exceptions.
Extra practise of the same rule this week.
This week we will be performing at Cool Choirs so there will be lots of music going on in Year 6 as we practice our WW2 Songs.
We will be reading poems written during WW2 and will be turning these into Blackout poetry. We will find out about The Battle of Britain and some of the key events and aircraft involved.
In Maths, we will be using our knowledge of inverse operations and reasoning to help us solve addition and subtraction problems.
This week we will be writing our own newspaper reports about the outbreak of World War 2. We will also be finding out about some of the major events which took place throughout the war such as The Normandy Landings and The Blitz.
In maths, we will be learning how to convert between standard units of measure including calculating the distances between key locations in World War 2 and converting the mass of different ingredients in ration recipes.
This week we will also be going to plant trees at Pleasley Community Orchard. It is also Anti-Bullying Day on Thursday and Children in Need on Friday!
Children in Need website link.
This week we are beginning to create our own Newspapers to reflect the stories and events at the outbreak of World War 2. Don't forget your all-important home learning on Monday; to summarise a news story you have gathered. We will find out more about rationing, including tasting some of the recipes which you may have been making for dinner during World War 2. In maths, we will be investigating the differences between area, perimeter and volume applying this to some learning about World War 2 shelters.
Our topic begins with the outbreak of World War 2 as we listen to Neville Chamberlain's announcement on the wireless. From here, we will find out about the key events as World War 2 broke out as well as creating our own propaganda posters. In maths, we will be working on our calculation methods and making sure we are confident in these.
Our final week studying the Victorians begins with our final visit from Global Words and Ralph Stone to 'pitch' our Book! We will be finding out about William Morris and designing and creating our own printed wallpaper. In Maths, we will be creating our own Victorian themed word problems.
On Wednesday it is our Harvest Festival and on Thursday it is a Science Day. Spellings will be a Big Test of the Half Term, testing all of the spellings we've learnt this half-term so do check your planners.
This week we will be focusing on the aspect of Victorian history which most interests us as individuals. We will devise our own non-fiction pages for the book to celebrate the interesting things we have learnt. Mr. Lindley will visit us to show us some Victorian artifacts. We are also off to watch The Ministry of Science!
In maths, we will solve problems using different operations.
The rule tends to be to double the r if you stress (pronounce) it in the world e.g. referring.
It tends to be one r if you don't stress it in the word e.g reference.
This week we will be writing the end to our stories! We will then begin researching and finding out about the aspects of Victorian life which interest us most and writing non-fiction pieces about them!
We will find out who Thomas Edison was and will be performing a range of experiments around Electricity!
In maths, we will use our multiplication skills to help us begin to solve long-division problems.
This week we are carrying on writing our stories. We will be focusing on the middle of the stories, thinking about how we can balance the action and speech, engaging our reader and making sure the story joins together. We will find out more about the Industrial Revolution as we continue to learn about the Mills in the Vale.
In maths, we will be carrying on with formal written methods of multiplication and we will also be producing a map of Pleasley Vale to accompany our stories!