Not to diminish the acclaim or original nature of Black Mirror, which makes us confront our relations to technology and convenience in the same way shows like the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits made us question our tenuous hold on reality and moral uprightness, I think I'd like to preview this adaptation inspired by Roald Dahl's collection of short stories, thrillers for adults. Despite running for eleven seasons, I have no recollection of Tales of the Unexpected—the plot summaries of the episodes do sound archetypal, not formulaic, and leave the view challenged and draw his or her own conclusions.
Lately the term "dog-whistle" has taken on a purely figurative meaning for veiled code words that a signals a political response to those in the know, however, apparently marketers are adopting a very literal feature outside of the human range of hearing to gather and spread demographic information about potential consumers without their knowledge—with potential for much more invasive acts.
Though the method is comparatively an indirect one, it made me think of the subliminal messages embedded in movies to make people salivate and seek refreshment—and then perhaps as a closer parallel was the earlier experimental techniques of phreakers, playing a sequence of tones into headsets to commandeer telephone networks and make free long-distance calls. There's surely nothing savoury in ultrasonic hacking and while the big telecoms may have seen nothing redeeming in "toll fraud" that undercut their profits, the founders of Apple and other industry luminaries got their start in this community.
The doggedly diligent campaign reporters of Nation Public Radio's Politics Podcast have been working virtually non-stop during this entire physically and emotional taxing election cycle in America, serving up a refreshingly thoughtful and reflective reporting on the election despite the usual common discourse and the pace of change. Now they're working even harder with daily broadcasts, but recently to bridge the weekend presented a really interesting episode from this summer that I'd missed before—before all these dread realities began to coalesce and was not a regular listener. Encore examines the role of music—specifically musical theatre in the shaping of campaigns and presidencies.
I knew that FDR with "Happy Days are Here Again" (Chasing Rainbows, 1930) and Truman with "I'm just Wild about Harry" (Shuffle Along, 1921—for addressing social justice questions) had capitalized on popular, feel-good songs of their day—just like other rallying standards, but I didn't realise that the Kennedy White House did not become characterised as Camelot organically but rather became known as such because the Lerner and Loewe Broadway production about to be adapted to film was so popular. Musical numbers might not have the same purchase on cultural currency as they did in decades past—at least not one that's immediately recognisable—having been replaced by other power-ballads, but it's interesting how the discussion touches on one candidate's invoking of songs from The Phantom of the Opera as part of his regular playlist (plus some number with those damn dancing cats, whereas perhaps "Tomorrow belongs to Me" from Cabaret may work better) because of his connection to New York and the Great White Way, and the other who backed away from her rather accidental though intended as flattering comparison to Eva Perón.
PfRC wishes you and yours a very happy Hallowe'en, an abundance of tricks and treats and thanks for visiting.
As a ghost story of sorts for the season, we take a look at the interesting if not inattentive trials of one parapsychologist in the 1960s who tried to induce psychical experiences by dressing up as a moaning, menacing apparition in various locations, including a cemetery and the (captive) audience of an adult film cinema.
Of the dozens the passed by or saw the spirit manifest itself in the theatre, disappointingly hardly any registered his presence, with just one or two recalling something that didn't quite fit—an errant polar bear or an error with the projector perhaps—and one individual purposefully avoiding a man in a sheet. I always found it rather incredulous that not everyone screening the same clip noticed the walk on role of the gorilla (on a unicycle, with pom-poms or what have you) as cited, but never thought seeing that and not calling it out was anywhere near household pets detecting ghosts or the pre-tremors of an earthquake (given I owe that I miss a lot of other obvious, glaring things), and I'm sure that going without acknowledgement after all that effort must have been frustrating. Perhaps that's why the scary clowns of today have gotten so aggressively hammy. The conclusions of this study held that an experimental, simulated haunting could not elicit the psychic contagion of a genuine one, which sounds pretty reasonable to me.
A very clever artist and architect in Tokyo is being honoured the country's most prestigious design award for his world map—which, through some geometric transformations, finally corrects to a great extent for the distortions of Mercator-projection on a flat surface, the so called polar flair that makes Greenland look bigger than Africa. Find out more about the Authagraph map at the link up top.
Rather inscrutably, the Swiss railway announced that the public, travelling or otherwise, will be able to purchase the virtual currency bitcoin at all ticket kiosks of their extensive network. Valued currently at nearly seven hundred francs per coin, customers will be able to purchase in fractional denominations as well, but not with absolutely anonymity as an electronic wallet would need to be set up—though cash can still flow with a much higher degree of liquidity since no banks are involved. Though some cities in Switzerland, notable the public services of Zug, accept bitcoin for payments, train passengers won't be able to pay for their fare with this particular tender.
Via Kottke, we discover the Internet Archive's special curation of content indexed in the discontinued Yahoo! GeoCities platform, whose community created millions of rather pioneering features that have seeded the internet, including page templates, MIDI sounds and of course millions of GIFs. Give it a try and uncover some classic and nostalgic snap-shots—simply typing in "gif" yields some very good search results.
SETI, after receiving a significant grant from a wealthy donor, is turning its focus on a very particular and peculiar target—a star whose notice first caught the attention of astrophysicist Tabetha Boyajian (hence Tabby's Star) for its strange peaks and dips in brightness.
These changes in luminosity are too drastic and irregular to be caused by transiting planets and has caused some to suggest that the star harbours around it an alien megastructure, which either partially or fully encloses the host star to capture all of the radiation it emits. The hypothetical engineering was elaborated by mathematician Freeman Dyson as the inevitable consequence of technological advance and the need for sustainable energy. Civilisations, faced with the prospect of being host to a dying or unstable sun, may even cling unseen and shielded from the Cosmos beyond to the inside surface of a sphere that's been built to completely surround the star at the right distance to sustain life and utilities but perhaps over the æons, the diameter of the enclosure shrinks to grow closer to the flickering heat. I wonder how those later generations, distantly removed from the original project, might think of their Universe.
Rather jarringly but with the message that last rites should not be nihilistic—or pantheistic—the Vatican has issued a prohibition against the scattering of cremains to the winds or dividing the ashes among family and friends as final keepsakes.
Although Church doctrine—just since 1963—allows cremation burial is preferable and earthly remains should be deposited on consecrated grounds and the grave-goods ought not kept in an urn on the mantle. Having lived in Germany for a long time, such morbid license that's allowable in America does seem a little strange and quite other. What do you make of all this? As many amongst us are loathe to shuffle off this amortal coil, it is an uncomfortable thing to think about how we'd like to be celebrated.
A-historically but surely born out of relatable frustration, a Parisian advertising agency Graphéine imagines how some of the most iconic works of art commissioned for movies, album covers and book covers might come out if they had been subject to modern clients and sponsors with an eye towards demographics and marketing standards. This opening credit sequence from Saul Bass would certainly not be as alluring and effective for setting the mood.
Thanks to the always marvelous Nag on the Lake, we're given to ponder on the meta-consumer character of these 3D printed earrings, designed to catch cordless headphones when they inevitably (they say, although I've never liked using any sort of ear-bud) dislodge from ones ears. Without judging the merit of this concept, which I think is pretty clever for the niche or failing it redresses, the brilliance of this "product" is that it's only a concept that one can make, reinvent or not. How do you think greater access to 3D printing technology is going to change the relationship between consumers and manufacturers and potential be a disruptive factor all around.
If it weren't for the assurances of the intrepid crew of Amusing Planet, I'd also fear that a War of the Worlds' style tripod was being activated after æons of hibernation in order to conquer the Earth in the Helsinki district of Töölö, but this view from above is the half buried Temppeliaukio Church, excavated directly into solid rock.
From above ground only the copper dome with its skylight of this structure, planned originally during the 1930s (though not inspired by the radio drama that scared a lot of people out of their wits in 1938 since the alien invaders didn't emerge from under our feet in the originally but rather from Mars) and was finally realised in 1969, alliteratively, by brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen, first consecrated as Taivallahti. In addition to regular church services, the church is also a popular concert venue owing to its excellent acoustic properties.
I appreciated the controversy that the outcome of the Brexit referendum had regionally for the United Kingdom, with a significant majority of Scotland and Northern Ireland voting to remain. I understood how the Scots might try again to declare independence and that Northern Ireland has the only land border with a European Union member, but did not realise just how thorny it was.
Not only is it an unpalatable prospect to have frontiers returned between the exclave of the UK and the Irish Republic and create obstacles to movement and trade, the Republic has extended the right of citizenship to any resident of the island in hopes of reconciliation and ultimate union after so many years of violence and animosity. So called Peace Lines partition sections of Belfast and Londonderry, cities still divided by sectarianism long after the wall came down in Berlin. What would it mean to the notion of dominion if seven out of every ten adults chose to see past historical difference and protest against very recent developments that don't play their self-interests and trade their allegiances? I am not sure how Britain would react to a de facto reunification.
Though perhaps the attributing the pictured typeface sampler to its signatory would be wholly antithetical to those who'd champion the importance of good penmanship and the atrophying effects of typing all the time (the person behind this font is said not to be overly fond of computers, except for their ability to spew out hate-fuelled attacks against his opposition), but recognising the æsthetics of one US presidential contender's handwriting (a little bit like Disney, superficially) one type founder (threats of legal action to follow) created a font out of it. The typeface can be downloaded here and is of course called Tiny Hand.
As one popular social mediator is making it harder for the publishers of yellow journalism—the click-bait, catchpenny variety which ironically the internet giant fostered and prompted in the first place—makes it harder to gain a purchase within their walled-garden, some outlets are turning to celebrities—some prominent and popular ones with a following and some, well not so much—to shill for them. One can assume that the revenue gained by increased traffic out-weights what they pay for celebrity endorsement, but one can never be sure about this sort of economic model. What do you think? Would you unfriend someone for failing to disclose their financial arrangements so far as sharing what's newsworthy goes?
Corroborated with the US Government Accounting Office's (GAO) annual report, the Simpsons have been vilified in accusing the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS, the tax authority) of operating the "slowest, punch-cardiest" computer in the government—at least, in one sense.
Those who work for the government have enjoyed heretofore some measure of job-security in knowing that their position is justified because different, entrenched systems cannot communicate with one another and need human translators—or at least water-bearers, but often it's not the equipment, the hardware that's wholly off life-cycle. Those laurels can be awarded to the nuclear defence platforms running on the same mainframes since inception and cannot be taken offline for updates and payroll systems. They may not be the most sophisticated but that does not necessarily mean that a system that goes on working for decades, with proper maintenance, ought to be overhauled for the sake of efficiency or intelligibility—since they are impervious to attack (at least the lazy, automated kind) and there might be an element of self-preservation in the programming, like the Voyager space probes exploring the Cosmos as our competent ombudsmen.
From an architect disrobed astride a donkey, to mock crime-scenes to a tour of the property from a feline perspective, dezeen showcases some of the most unconventional real estate photographs meant to grab the attention of prospective buyers with jarring details.
There's no evidence that the massive internet outage that did not just affect single platforms but rather significant geographical swathes of access by a coordinated and sophisticated assault on one of the structural switchboards is the work of those that might want to disrupt the US election.
It is, however, certainly a foretaste of how the smartening up of every aspect of our lives might have been not well thought through and how everything from car-pooling, couch-surfing, ordering a la carte, grocery-lists and free-wheeling banking might needn't have been untethered from one thing to be tied to a conspiracy to make our days seamless and coordinated. If allowed to remain an ad hoc and arguably unnecessary network of interlaced parking meters, baby-monitors, or fast-food tray liners, then we there's a huge front of least resistance to exploit, and hackers can deploy unlimited foot soldiers in the form of botnets that can't be easily repelled and countermeasures can be countermanded. If the internet becomes subject to takedown, does the growing reliance on the Internet of Things become a handicap and a liability? What do you think? If this temporary static elicited such a panic, it's hard to imagine what a true and sustained outage might look like—although, thankfully, we wouldn't of course be posting live about it.
Of course, the turning leaves of the trees are delightful but so too can be vines and ivy, like this rather spectacularly vibrant creeper with mixed colours that I saw scaling the side of a building.
Quaintly and soberingly, we're reminded that the internet is controlled by seven individuals (plus their understudies) who are stewards of seven keys, meeting quarterly in a ceremony steeped with ritual to verify and update the underlying architecture of the web and ensure that no one could make changes unanimously.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN), which recently absorbed the protective redundancy built into the Domain Name System (DNS) when the US relinquished control earlier in the year, is the unglamourous sounding metonymic monarch that's accorded all this pomp and circumstance and this level of security. With as de-centralised as the internet is, it's a little hard to appreciate the role of this obscure office, but it's akin to the clearing houses that control banking transfers, establishing a naming-conversion and turning strings of numbers into addresses that people can recall and without their oversight, internet sites could experience denial of service attacks where so much traffic is redirected to one site, its servers are overloaded and the site shuts down—the hug of death, or imposter sites could be more easily fabricated to siphon off user data. We owe it to ourselves, I think, to try to understand this strange and inscrutable cabal a little better.
Recalling once that a professor espoused the opinion that Soviet elements had infiltrated the Peacenik anti-war movements of the Vietnam and this support (both fiduciary and ideologically) was made manifest by the quality and artistry of the protest posters that they carried, I enjoyed this guided tour of the not so secret but still politically covert gallery of the CIA's art collection. Though the rationale behind the particular patronage of abstract expressionists may be rather tamely selected due to the style of the day of when the headquarters were completed in the late 1950s, we learnt nonetheless that the intelligence agency funded and promoted—unbeknownst to the artists themselves, the likes of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, in additional to the creators of the canvases that adorn the agency corridors.
Who knew? This is leagues better than most patriotic pictures of soaring eagles and flags—with long titles like "Why are there no knock-knock jokes about America? Because Freedom rings, by damnit!" Made available to the viewing public (at last and at least through the power of the internet and thanks to Hyperallergic), there was also an element of propaganda at work, making the statement that America was unbounded by tradition and fostered such licence and even showcased that freedom by loaning artwork out to a sort of travelling exhibition to Iron Curtain countries—despite being inaccessible to the American museum-goers. Be sure to visit this excellent and privileged curation at the link above.
I've been admiring these sleek composite images of planes taking off and landing from airports from photographer Mike Kelley.
Of course the artist had to camp at each location for a few days to amass the right shots, angles and approaches—though probably not all that long considering the volume of air-traffic, and I notice that one of his arrangements captures a milieu that's very familiar as I drive past the Frankfurt Flughafen on the Autobahn twice a week. Sometimes, by ones and twos only though, a jet will pass overhead and seem incredibly close and looming but I never try to capture that moment, as I don't need any further distractions while driving. One of these days, I'll figure out how to safely perch myself in the field or on the overpass. Read more about Kelley's technique and travels on Colossal.
Much to everyone's dismay, a blind novelist in Dorset who commits her to ink and paper to later have them transcribed had a creative spurt that ran for twenty-six pages before realising her pen had run dry.
I'm sure the moment after the experience of hitting "save" rather than "save as" does not begin to frame that feeling of love's labour lost, but the solution was rather an elegant and befittingly creative one. Her friends and family had the wherewithal to turn to the local police office for help and the forensics team using a technique called electrostatic detection were able to recover the text from the impressions of the indented writing that her inkless pen left on the page.
Every year in early October the city of London for the past eight centuries the city of London pays a symbolic, token rent to the monarch of six horseshoes, sixty-one nails, an axe and a knife plus eleven pounds sterling. The office of Remembrancer of the Crown was established in order to keep tabs on rents and assizes, although the whereabouts of these specific properties are time out of mind. Other estates around England are stipulated to annually or situationally render such things as a single white rose, a French flag, port wine, or a straw bed for visiting dignitaries.
Author and artisan Kurt W Zimmerman has crafted an retro R2 unit in a style that evokes the Art Deco movement. Zimmerman uses his droids (this one also being radio-controlled and naturally makes all the boops and blips that we expect and understand) and other custom props to inspire school children and visit the hospital-bound to and fund raise for raise charitable contributions.
Before the design duo created furnishings that defined the Mid-Century Modern era, Charles and Ray Eames developed splints, prosthetics and a body litter (a stretcher, a gurney) for the US Navy ahead of America's entry into World War II.
More on the Eames' other surprising projects here and here. The skills honed in mass-producing these medical devices conferred on them the talent and feel for working plywood that was expressed a few years later in their iconic, undulating lounges. Every item in this chain, from the form-fitting splint that could protect a wounded leg to the classic chairs, reflects real homage to the human body and how it carries itself. Take a peek at the splints as part of an exhibition in Leeds courtesy of Hyperallergic that explores the place of sculpture and design in prosthetic limbs and the process of healing and making whole.
Although it may have seemed like adding insult to injury to field-test the innovative idea of incremental architecture in a community just devastated by an earthquake to deliver half-houses, but as Kottke shares with this fascinating look into the subject, perhaps sometimes it takes a crisis to exploit and explore other option, like this neighbourhood in Chile that is not typical public housing. By furnishing a new resident with not a completely finished home but rather an on-going project that can be developed according to how one's family grows or according to one's trade, people aren't just occupants—temporary or long-term—and become co-creators and invested in the building.
Working in conjunction with UC Berkeley and the Peace Corps, a San Francisco-based laboratory has produced a prototype atmospheric well that, powered by wind alone, can harvest litres of clean water. The Water Seer's turbine push air into a buried condensation chamber (cache) to be collected as needed and is a completely closed system, requiring no extra plumbing or purification-process—very similar to the techniques that Frank Herbert described for the Fremen of the desert world of Arrakis.
Consulting the extensive archives of Doctor Caligari's Cabinet, we learn on this day in 1939, Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington had its premiere, first shown in the US capital.
Our faithful chronicler provides the additional anecdote that when American films were banned in occupied France a couple years later, many cinemas screened the Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur movie as their last picture show before the ban went into effect. One theatre even played it continuously for a month leading up to the prohibition. (More here via Messy Nessy Chic on the entertainment scene of Paris under the Nazis.) You can watch the entire classic at the link up top but I'd suggest that movie theatres might treat audiences to a healthy dose of Democracy before that country votes.
As if there weren't already enough pratfalls in politics to contend with or itches to scratch potentially violently in America with a fully-armed populace confronted with hunters of virtual monsters running across their lawns, a viral phenomenon of scary clowns lurking in the shadows, apropos of nothing, with the express intention of frightening others out of their wits has arisen—and been exported to where ever people might express their gratitude for living in a society of privilege and free from want in such ways. What do you think? Far from agents of social justice nor a group that had not already been established as creepy and menacing, professional clowns are now apparently saying their trade is being besmirched, with prominent spokes-clowns ducking out of the public-eye until this craze passes.
Though it seems we have narrowly averted what could only be described as Marmageddon with the one of the main grocery chains in the UK and a major, multi-national food producer having reached a compromise on the pricing regimes of its suite of brands after an unstable currency and costs fluctuations threatened to make the country's beloved (or reviled) breakfast-spread a little harder to obtain, the bigger and mostly unseen problem of overhead, profit-margins, product-placement and price-controls still remain.
Consumers and smaller producers without the leverage (because it's Unilever, you see) of these titans are still not off the hook. Of course, such dealings are happening all the time and could have occurred regardless of the Brexit outcome—but that contentious milieu only made the negotiations or bullying visible—and the industry turns on the subsidies of Milk Trusts and Egg Councils and the greased recommendations that favour processed foods over more wholesome ones without the influence of vertical monopolies. What do you think? I'll bet that this isn't the last spat in the supermarket aisles.
Following the tradition marketing wisdom of the 1970s, any product could be made better once swathed in denim, as Weird Universe informs, showcasing this limited edition television model called the Sidekick from Zenith. Be sure to visit the website for more details plus a related link to a Gremlin automobile upholstered in Levi's jeans from around the same time.
Regardless of how all the reporting seems rather dodgily recursive, leaning on sources that that sit as murky at best (if not deliberate disinformation), I cannot see any reason for the US to announce, advertise plans for retaliatory network strikes against Russia, accusing the Kremlin of meddling in American domestic affairs.
If the Russian government did sponsor the hacking of the Democratic National Committee servers and is the source of Clinton campaign internal communiques being slowly leaked (which still seems debatable with the facts as presented), the US received no notice, no advanced warning. Why would it make its offensive manoeuvres public and directly attributable? Moreover why risk escalation in the name of restoring the reputation of Democracy—which domestic politics has slandered quite well enough on its own and without any foreign intervention? It is not as if US intelligence agents state that their assault will coerce Russia into accords on Syria, but rather, they hope it will aid in strengthening Russia's press ability to research and report on corruption at the top, and embarrass leaders by exposing their economic ties. Well, knock me over with a feather.
The always captivating Everlasting Blört directs our attention to brief but informative and thoughtful lesson from PBS on the art history of the selfie with examples of self-portraiture that punctuate the entire time that photography has been with us, and indeed have forwarded the technique and technology. There's a whole engrossing lecture series of Art Assignments that follow that are all worth checking out.
Thanks to Fast Company, we learn that the late David Bowie was a grand patron of the Memphis-Milano movement having amassed a sizable collection with signature pieces from artists like Peter Shire and Ettore Sottsass.
Miraculously, as fellow enthusiast Nag on the Lake reports, a fountain that flows continuously with red wine free to any weary souls wanting to slake their thirst has just been inaugurated in the village of Caldari di Ortona in Abruzzo along the Adriatic coast. Hospitably, the local vineyard that supplies and is behind this permanent installation insists that it is not a mere publicity stunt nor an invitation to loiter (but perhaps linger) but a wayside retreat for pilgrims travelling between Rome and Ortona going to see the relics of Thomas the Apostle, enshrined at the cathedral there after his mission to India.
Hellenologophobia is a fun word we learned that signifies fear of (and it's pretty easy to deconstruct in hindsight) Greek terminology—by extension, anything unfamiliar, inscrutable or complex, adverse to jargon. Relatedly, there's the not so easily prised apart sesquipedalophobia (literally Latin for a "foot and a half long") and the monstrous and intimidating hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, both meaning fear of long words, the above length referring to poetic metre.
In addition to the annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower over the last weekend on Viðey Island in Reykjavík bay on the occasion of John Lennon's birthday, the beams illuminating the skies (and beaming wishes of goodwill all across the universe) for the next two months—to be extinguished on the anniversary of his assassination—with Iceland being originally chosen as host for its ecological thermal energy and general good governance, Yoko Ono has several other concomitant art projects going on in the country. Ono also solicited tributes from local artists, and humourously Ragnar Kjartansson presented her with an elaborate Simpsons' meta-reference, to Ms Ono's delight.


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Side note: I've fixed the title. The author is a volunteer, there's no such thing as "URGENT" here.
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Such is the ubiquity and range of monasteries in Cyprus that visiting them can begin to feel like a chore, at least for the non-believer. Not so in the case of Agios Neofytos, about 17km north of the centre of Pafos (best accessed by climbing up the steep hills through Emba and Tala, at which, incidentally, it's worth a refreshment stop in its very pleasant village square). It boasts a fascinating back story, and a spectacular setting worth a visit in itself. For a full appreciation of the monastery, do buy the guidebook published by the church authorities (€5).
The monastery itself, through the main gate, past the gift shop and café consists of a residential block, church and cloisters surrounding a lush garden; beyond here there's a spacious terrace dotted with benches overlooking the valley. At the far end of the terrace, accessed by a stone bridge, is the reason for all the fuss – the Enkleistra, the caves dug out by St Neofytos himself.
The Enkleistera consists of three rooms – the first two are the nave and sanctuary of a chapel (the Church of the Holy Cross), the third is Neofytos's cell. The walls of the nave are covered in frescoes, the upper ones sixteenth-century, the lower ones earlier works which could possibly have been painted by the saint's own hand. In the sanctuary are more frescoes, this time twelfth-century. Look out in particular for the one at the western end of the roof of Neofytos (the bearded figure with wings) being escorted to the Day Of Judgement by two angels. The saint's pious expression seems to suggest that he's taking nothing for granted and the inscription reads "I fervently pray that this image should come to pass". Beyond the sanctuary, through a low doorway, is the saint's cell, also frescoed, and containing a bed, table, desk, chair, bookshelf, even a quill niche, all carved out of the rock. It also houses his tomb – he expressed a wish that when he died, his body be interred in it, and the cave sealed off. However, in 1756 the sarcophagus was opened and his bones transferred to the monastery church, where, once your eyes have adjusted to the gloom, you can see (and if you wish, kiss) his silver-encased skull, and inspect his sarcophagus – it's on the left, under the pulpit.
Across from the church is a museum, housing the monastery's many treasures – crosses, chalices, censers, sacred texts, bibles, vestments, icons and much else. Some of these objects are unbelievably exquisite: the 1560 Venetian bible, for example, and an illuminated manuscript from the late eleventh century. Sign of the times – all signs are in Russian as well as Greek and English.


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Q: Regular expression for checking if capital letters are found consecutively in a string I want to know the regexp for the following case:
The string should contain only alphabetic letters. It must start with a capital letter followed by small letter. Then it can be small letters or capital letters.
^[A-Z][a-z][A-Za-z]*$

But the string must also not contain any consecutive capital letters. How do I add that logic to the regexp?
That is, HttpHandler is correct, but HTTPHandler is wrong.

A: Aside from tchrist's excellent post concerning Unicode, I think you don't need the complex solution with a negative lookahead...
Your definition requires an uppercase-letter followed by at least one group of (a lowercase letter optionally followed by an uppercase-letter):
^
[A-Z]    // Start with an uppercase Letter
(        // A Group of:
  [a-z]  // mandatory lowercase letter
  [A-Z]? // an optional Uppercase Letter at the end
         // or in between lowercase letters
)+       // This group at least one time
$

It is just a bit more compact and easier to read, I think...

A: Take a look at tchrist's answer, especially if you develop for the web or something more "international".
Oren Trutner's answer isn't quite right (see sample input of "RightHerE" which must be matched, but isn't).
Here is the correct solution:
(?!^.*[A-Z]{2,}.*$)^[A-Za-z]*$

Explained:
(?!^.*[A-Z]{2,}.*$)  // don't match the whole expression if there are two or more consecutive uppercase letters
^[A-Za-z]*$          // match uppercase and lowercase letters

/edit
The key for the solution is a negative lookahead. See: Lookahead and Lookbehind Zero-Length Assertions

A: Whenever one writes [A-Z] or [a-z], one explicitly commits to
processing nothing but 7-bit ASCII data from the 1960s.  If that's
really ok, then fine.  But if it's not ok, then Unicode character
properties exist to help you with handling modern character data.
There are three cases in Unicode, not two. Furthermore, you also have
noncased letters. Letters in general are specified by the \pL property,
and  each of these also belongs to exactly one of five subcategories:

*

*uppercase letters, specified with \p{Lu}; eg: AÇDZÞΣSSὩΙST

*titlecase letters, specified with \p{Lt}; eg: LjDzSsᾨSt
(actually Ss and St are an upper- and then a lowercase letter,
but they are what you get if you ask for the titlecase of ß and
ſt, respectively)

*lowercase letters, specified with \p{Ll}; eg: aαçdzςσþßᾡſt

*modifier letters, specified with \p{Lm}; eg: ʰʲᴴᴭʺˈˠᵠꜞ

*other letters, specified with \p{Lo}; eg: ƻאᎯᚦ京

You can take the complement of any of these, but do be careful, because
something like \P{Lu} does not mean a letter that isn't uppercase!
It means any character that isn't an uppercase letter.
For a letter that's either of uppercase or titlecase, use
[\p{Lu}\p{Lt}].  So you could use for your pattern:
 ^([\p{Lu}\p{Lt}]\p{Ll}+)+$

If you don't mean to limit the letters following the first to the
"casing" letters alone, then you might prefer:
 ^([\p{Lu}\p{Lt}][\p{Ll}\p{Lm}\p{Lo}]+)+$

If you're trying to match so-called "CamelCase" identifiers, then
the actual rules depend on the programming language, but usually include
the underscore character and the decimal numbers (\p{Nd}), and may also
include a literal dollar sign and other language-dependent characters.
If so, you may wish to add some of these to one or the other of the two
character classes provided above.
For example, you may wish to add underscore to both but digits only to
the second, leaving you with:
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Corneal: Use Beenhakker cash for local coaches
Arnold Corneal Sunday 13 April 2014	Local Football, National Football, Volley 1 Comment
Arnold Corneal, brother of ex-technical director Anton Corneal, follows up on his criticism of the TTFA president and general secretary with a suggestion for how money earmarked for Leo Beenhakker might be best used:
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee and general secretary Sheldon Phillips have been bellowing for the return of former Trinidad and Tobago 2006 World Cup coach Leo Beenhakker as director of football at a cost believed to be anywhere between US$45,000 and US$55,000 per month.
Photo: TTFA director of football and former 2006 World Cup coach Leo Beenhakker.
Why are we not hearing those same sentiments from the technical committee of the TTFA? Oh yes, there is a technical committee which, under the TTFA's constitution, has the responsibility for technical decisions inclusive of recommendations for the employment of coaches and directors.
Unfortunately, they have been kept very silent since Tim Kee's appointment and side-stepped after Phillips' arrival.
Further, I understand the committee was not even consulted about the appointment of present coach Stephen Hart and only found out when the decision was already made by Tim Kee after he consulted with Phillips.
Again, we see a president demonstrating that he is a Jack of all trades; calling the shots on anything that peaks his interest or allows him to assert his authority. It is not surprising; he was an obedient understudy as TTFA vice president when Jack Warner was at the helm.
We are now witnessing history repeat itself.
Photo: TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee (right) and general secretary Sheldon Phillips.
(Courtesy Wired868)
Beenhakker's role in effecting Tim Kee's new dispensation of football development emerges out of discussions by individuals who have absolutely no knowledge or experience on the topic. I understand that even these deliberations were done without the input of the TTFA's technical committee.
How did both Tim Kee and Phillips come to the conclusion that we have had little or no development in football in Trinidad and Tobago? And how could they conclude that this alleged vacuum or longstanding dilemma warrants a US$55,000 salary for one individual to implement?
Did they see it fit to consult people like Bertille St. Clair, Ron La Forest, Gally Cummings, Edgar Vidale, Alvin Corneal, Steve David, Leroy De Leon and many others or to include the many coaching school coaches who fostered development over the last 30 years?
These are the people who know about what development has taken place in this country. The old people would always say: "If you don't know, then ask!"
On the matter of the supposed void in local football, I present another view, one based on facts that are available for evaluation and scrutiny.
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago icon Warren Archibald (right) wrongfoots NY Cosmos defender Barry Mahy while representing the Washington Darts in the NASL during the 1970s.
(Courtesy ttfootballhistory.com)
While I subscribe to the fact that development must be continuous, I also acknowledge our local football has done reasonably well in this area for over 50 years. Those of the right age might remember that, in 1967, Trinidad and Tobago won bronze at the Pan American Games in Canada.
Some of the results were: Trinidad 1, Mexico 1; Trinidad 1, Argentina 0; Trinidad 5, Colombia 2; Trinidad 4, Canada 1.
Astonishingly, this occurred in an environment where Trinidad and Tobago had far less footballers than now and it was names like Pa Aleong and "Old Man" Braithwaithe who shouldered the responsibility for our development.
Six years later, our national team was on the verge of the 1974 World Cup at a time when only 16 teams qualified and not 32 as it is now.
In 1989, Everald "Gally" Cummings' team almost made it to the 1990 World Cup with talent from national youth teams coached by Winston Phillips and Philbert Prince. Then, in 1991, Bertille St Clair took an under-20 team to the World Youth Cup with Dwight Yorke and many other talented young players.
All of this was done with local coaches and all working for free also, may I remind you!
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago's 1989 "Strike Squad" was coached by ex-local stand out Everald "Gally" Cummings.
In that era we also produced the David Nakhids, Dexter Skeenes, Shaka Hislops, Russel Latapys, and too many others to call here. If this wasn't evidence of development, then what is?
Within the last seven years, Trinidad and Tobago has qualified for two World Youth Cups and almost did it again at under-17 level in Panama last year. If that again is not clear evidence of successful development, then wake me up.
Let us look at the factors that contributed to this development over these many years. Primary to this are the volunteer coaches, some of whom I named previously, and the many coaching schools that contributed to this cause.
It is important to stress that this success came at a time when little money was available to support development and, in many cases, coaches were not paid. Nevertheless, development took place because of the blood, sweat and passion that these players and coaches shed.
Now comes Leo Beenhakker!
While I respect his accomplishments as a world class coach, I question his history or expertise to help our development. This has never been part of his portfolio. He has always only coached fully professional world class players.
Photo: Coach Leo Beenhakker (centre), Trinidad and Tobago World Cup captain Dwight Yorke (left) and the country's record goal scorer Stern John at the 2006 World Cup.
We are now asking an aged practitioner to establish a developmental system, which comprises many stakeholders who continue to operate pro bono while Beenhakker receives in excess of US$55,000 each month.
If half of Beenhakker's monthly salary was available to fund youth developmental projects in Trinidad and Tobago, I can assure you that we will qualify for many more youth and senior World Cups.
The major problem in local football has never been with the development stage; as I have hopefully outlined. But it continues to be with the management phase.
We have always had the players, coaches and passion of a people who love the game; but, apart from the late visionary Eric James, we have had little football administrators who adequately understand the management of the sport.
Even more pressing is the fact that the current administration continues to demonstrate little appreciation and respect for the value of the local coaching practitioners that we have had for over 50 years. And they fail to understand the impact of poor management on athletes' performances and their chances of achieving success.
Many of the decisions that they make are business decisions that are conceptualized and implemented in a vacuum, that is void of input from the people who really know about the key ingredients of the sport. This has become routine.
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 midfielder Levi Garcia (right) takes on a Costa Rican opponent during CONCACAF competition last year.
(Courtesy CONCACAF.com)
Clearly we are allowing the tail to wag the dog. Football will continue to be played even in the absence of management; but management cannot operate in the absence of football.
I have little confidence in the sport management skills of Tim Kee and Phillips; and I urge our players, coaches and supporters to demand much more from football administrators. There is too much to lose.
Many sacrifices have been made by players and local coaches; mostly for the love of the game and not for the love of money. It is now time that our local coaches and players benefit from the money that we understand is readily available; they have been on the job for well over 50 years.
Now is the time to put them on the payroll. It is not too late to correct the errors of the past and move on quickly to create a successful future.
Editor's Note: As far as we know, the figures presented in this blog are speculation. Wired868 cannot confirm or rebut the author's claims regarding the current relationship between the TTFA technical committee and its president and general secretary.
Please note too that Leo Beenhakker has so far stood in solidarity with local coaches and refused to accept a TTFA position until all arrears to coaches are met.
Click HERE to read Arnold Corneal's initial response to his brother's resignation as TTFA technical director.
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Arnold Corneal is the former corporate communications manager at Petrotrin and communications advisor to late President ANR Robinson. He holds an English FA international coaching badge and is the son of former national player and coach Alvin Corneal and brother of ex-TTFA technical director Anton Corneal. He was a former ASL goalkeeper.
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Strange as it may seem, I have to agree with Arnold Corneal comment regarding the money for Beenhakker. I criticized his hiring in 2006 and I totally agree that he had never developed any team that he has coached in his career. In addition, is it not the same Tim Kee and his side kick Phillip who bad mouthed Jack Warner? Now they are doing the same thing they accused jack of.
I say get rid of these unqualified opportunists and let us get some people who understand the concept of football to administrate football in T&T. Why do we in T&T continue to have this slave mentality? If Beenhakker was as good as Tim Kee says he is then why he does not have a job coaching one of the better teams in the world?
Finally I would like to remind every body in T&T that in 2006 Jack Warner was solely responsible for Trinidad going to the World Cup through his conniving manipulating of FIFA rules to ensure Trinidad went to World Cup as he promised. It had nothing to do with Beenhakker's coaching.

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Q: Matlab: Finding values higher than 150 and grouping them with their corresponding time This might be a simple task, but as im new to matlab, i have not been able to figure it out.
I have a matrix with two relevant columns, first column consists of hour-by-hour measurements of electricity consumption over the span of a month(so around 740 values). The second column consists of datenum values corresponding to each measurement.
The electricity-measurements have clear peaks, and I want to sum up each peak, from a lower boundary of 150, up to the peak and "down" to 150 again. Each month there are roughly 10-15 peaks, and i want to sum up each peak and store it in a vector together with its corresponding time so i can identify where the peaks occur,and how big they are. Im able to find the consumption values, but have trouble getting the corresponding times from the second column.
Does anyone have a solution to how I can do this?
Sorry for the confusing problem description.
Many Thanks
Edit:
Here is a sample from the data:
0.1250    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0150         0         0
0.1299    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0160         0         0
0.1368    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0170         0         0
0.1333    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0180         0         0
0.1343    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0190         0         0
0.1349    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0200         0         0
0.1250    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0210         0         0
0.1150    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0220         0         0
0.1150    2.0130    0.0080    0.0030    0.0230         0         0
0.1000    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040         0         0         0
0.1000    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0010         0         0
0.0950    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0020         0         0
0.0900    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0030         0         0
0.0850    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0040         0         0
0.0850    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0050         0         0
0.0848    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0060         0         0
0.0893    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0070         0         0
0.0883    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0080         0         0
0.0817    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0090         0         0
0.0836    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0100         0         0
0.0831    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0110         0         0
0.1017    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0120         0         0
0.1021    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0130         0         0
0.0949    2.0130    0.0080    0.0040    0.0140         0         0

All values are 1.0e+03 *
The first values are the consumption values and the rest are the datevec values for each consumption value. I need to be able to pick out the values from the first column that are above 150 and store them with their corresponding datevec values.
Hopes this helps. Im completely new to this so sorry for my 'noobish' questioning!
EDIT:
Im very new to matlab so haven't gotten it to work.
Gonna try a more "easy" approach.
The data i have is 740x1
sample of the data:
94.9997
89.9986
104.9981
139.8430
158.6546
161.6176
169.8047
178.4623
192.4402
207.0930
199.7369
190.2221
181.6872
173.1552
159.8161
149.9443
134.9956
129.9899
114.9989
99.9990
89.9990
89.9991
84.9991
79.9991
79.9989
84.9901
94.9928
149.9995
174.9977
174.7706
179.7816
179.8007
203.4999
208.6901
209.1134
199.3191
183.5979
164.4079
154.8898
140.0000
129.9494
124.9923
124.9987
104.9993
109.9994
94.9995
94.9995
84.9995
84.9995
84.9953
85.0000
84.8889
83.7396
I need a program that goes through the data and picks out the numbers higher than 150 and groups them. I realised that i don't really need the time, i only need to separate the peaks from each other.
I need it to run something like this:
%for loop that runs through the data
%picks out the first set of values over 150
%stores them in a matrix: column 1
%picks out the next set of values over 150
%stores them in the same matrix: column 2
%picks out the next set of values over 150
%stores them in the matrix: column 3
Appreciate all of your help, and I'm sure i could use the previous suggestions if i had a better understanding of matlab and programming in general.
Sorry for all the trouble!

A: Ok.
This is not very matlabish... but it could help you get started:
sum = 0; %keeps track of the sum in the interval
max = 0; %keeps track of the peak
maxi = 0; %keeps track of the peak index
aux1 = 1; %aux variable
minv = 100;

for i = 1:length(A)

    if i==1 && A(i,1)<minv

    elseif A(i,1) >= minv
        sum = sum + A(i,1);
        if A(i,1) > max
            max = A(i,1);
            maxi = i;
        end

    elseif A(i,1) < minv && A(i-1,1) >= minv
        B(aux1,1) = sum;
        B(aux1,2:7) = A(maxi,2:7);
        sum = 0;
        max = 0;
        maxi = 0;
        aux1 = aux1 + 1;

    elseif A(i,1) < minv && A(i-1,1) < minv

    end
end

Running that code with your sample data gives:
1349.2        2013           8           3          17           0           0
 203.8        2013           8           4          13           0           0

The first column gives the sum from the first 100 to the last 100 (I used 100 because none of the values of your data was bigger than 150, you can change this value by changing minv) and the rest of the columns corresponds to the date and hour of when the peak in that particular interval of time occured, if necessary you can add a new column to add the actual peak value too.

A: You can access the right rows with high consumption with logical indexing. Let's say the name of your matrix is data.
But before, I would improve the structure of the data, e.g. with structs:
% structure data and identify high consumption measurements
measurements.consumption     = data(:,1);
measurements.datevec         = data(:,2:end);
measurements.ixHigh          = measurements.consumption>150;

% get measurements with high consumption
peakMeasurements.comsumption = measurements.consumption(measurements.ixHigh);
peakMeasurements.datevecs    = measurements.datevecs(measurements.ixHigh,:);

If you're lucky and you own Matlab 2013b or newer, you can use tables to store your data more human readable.

A: Using the Matlab capabilities for logical indexing (as mentioned by JaBe) this solution should be faster than looping over all elements of A(:,:)
% Generate Demo data
A=[]
A(1:100,1)=20+ (1:100); % Time values
A(1:100,2)=rand(100,1) % scatter
A(20:25,2) = 155 % first peak
A(44:79,2) = 157 % second peak

% Add column with index
Aix=[(1:size(A,1))', A]; % [Index, time, Value]

% Just the peak values
B=Aix(Aix(:,3)>150,:)

% Collection of Peak Values
Peaks = B(1,:)
i_start=B(1,1)
for i=2:size(B,1)
   if B(i,1)==B(i-1,1)+1 % Datapoint belongs to previous peak
       Peaks(end,3) = Peaks(end,3) + B(i,3);   % Sum Value to Peak Result
   else % Generate Dataset for new Peak
       Peaks = [Peaks ; B(i,:)];   % Add new Dataset
   end

end;

disp (' Start Index | Start time | Sum Value')
disp ( Peaks)

Will give your the following result
Start Index | Start time | Sum Value
          20          40         930
          44          64        5652

A: Let the name of your vector be data. This will give you the sums of all the peaks:
sumvec = [];
while(1)
    beginindex = find(data>150,1);
    if length(beginindex)==0
        break;
    end
    data = data(beginindex:end);
    endindex = find(data<150,1);
    if length(beginindex)==0
        break;
    end

    sumvec = [sumvec sum(data(beginindex:endindex))];
    data = data(endindex:end);

end

I think some boundary conditions will break, but otherwise, is this what you want?


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However, I might be a bit obsessed with making model sheets for too many characters. I go back and forth. Maybe I should just do a B&W model sheet and leave color for the minor and supporting characters (I haven't done any color yet, unfortunately). Some of them are so minor, yet I want to give them a unique appearance.
I need to spend more time on this project. The finger is on the trigger and I'm working frantically.


The Oklahoma Residential Assisted Living Association is a 501(C)6 nonprofit organization representing Oklahoma owners and operators of residential care homes and assisted living residences.
We are dedicated to providing advocacy, education, communication, and resources to our industry. Our membership includes small and large, private and nonprofit homes.
Since 1980 we have been providing services to adults, older individuals, and individuals with mental disabilities as well as working closely with legislators, other associations, state agencies, health and mental health professionals.
We are unified in our efforts to assure the highest standards of service to residents of Oklahoma residential care and assisted living facilities.


Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 12:03pm.
April hasn't seen more than 200 residential home sales since 2008, when 214 homes were sold. Even still, this past April marks the most the month has seen in years, with 237 homes being sold—well over that of April 2008. This was over a thirty percent increase from this past March, which ended up having 182 sales. This is a big difference—a difference of fifty-five homes, to be exact. It was also almost a forty-five percent increase from the prior April, in 2012, which left off with 164 sales.


New AIA Pennsylvania Board President, Michael Skolnick, AIA presents Immediate Past President, Howard Quaintance, AIA with 2014 Outgoing President's Medal.
2014 was an excellent year for AIA Pennsylvania. It marked the first full year for new Executive Director Steve Swarney, who rounded out his team with the hiring of Holly Lubart as Director of Public Affairs and Amal Mahrouki as Manager of Membership Relations. They've brought tremendous energy, enthusiasm and a fresh perspective to all aspects of AIA Pennsylvania. Working with a dedicated Board of Directors led by President Howard Quaintance, they had a long list of achievements in 2014. The Board and I look forward to working with Steve and his team to build upon this momentum, making 2015 another very successful year.
This year we will continue to review the programs and services that are provided by AIA PA, with the goal of maximizing value and quality for all of our members. We believe young architects and emerging professionals are shaping the future of the architectural profession, and we will seek their involvement in all aspects of the organization, including outreach to the universities and in our advocacy initiatives with state legislators.
The strength of our organization lies with the talents and commitment of our members. Feedback from our members via the Legislative Survey, initiated last December, will be used to shape our legislative agenda, and we will rely on our members to strengthen our committees and to contribute to the PA Architects PAC.
Representing the interests of architects in governmental affairs and advocating for public policies that emphasize good design and responsible stewardship of the built and natural environments are at the heart of our mission. Our legislative agenda includes ongoing initiatives for P3s, continued support for PlanCon, opposition to Interior Design licensure, tax credits for historic preservation and green initiatives, and pursuing a continuing education bill for architects.
In addition, we are forming a DGS task force to explore opportunities to streamline the process and strengthen our relationship with the Department of General Services. We will work with the State Licensure Board on gaining reciprocity for licensure in Canada, and for use of electronic seals on Construction Documents.
AIA PA will continue to foster relationships with allied groups to pursue common interests and to seek opportunities for our members to pursue philanthropic work as "Citizen Architects." Our communications initiatives include the recent launch of AIA PA's new website, continued development of our social media presence, and the development of a program to communicate the value of architects and architecture to legislators and the general public. We will also be exploring the use of technology in order to overcome geographical separation to share resources and to provide content and programming to all of our chapters throughout the state.
We have a great deal to accomplish this year, and with your participation we can make 2015 a success.


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Manuel A. Roxas  (Capiz, 1 januari 1892 - Angeles, 15 april 1948) was van 1946 tot zijn dood in 1948 de 5e Filipijnse president. Roxas won de verkiezingen van 1946 van Sergio Osmeña en werd daarmee de eerste president van een onafhankelijk Filipijnen. Roxas overleed tijdens zijn presidentschap aan een hartaanval na het geven van een speech op Clark Air Base en werd opgevolgd door vicepresident Elpidio Quirino.

Biografie
Manuel Roxas werd geboren op 1 januari 1892 in Capiz, het tegenwoordig naar hem vernoemde Roxas City, in de gelijknamige Filipijnse provincie Capiz. Hij was het jongste kind uit een gezin van vier kinderen van Gerardo Roxas en Rosario Acuña. Zijn vader overleed acht maanden voor de geboorte van Manuel toen hij werd gedood door de Spaanse Guardia Civil. Na de dood van zijn vader hertrouwde zijn moeder met Eugenio Picazo. Uit dat huwelijk kreeg zij nog eens vier kinderen.

Na het voltooien van de lagere school in Capiz, werd Roxas door zijn grootvader Euleterio Acuña naar Hongkong gestuurd voor een opleiding aan St. Joseph's Academy. Een jaar later keerde hij weer terug in de Filipijnen, waarna hij in 1909 zijn middelbareschoolopleiding voltooide aan Manilla High School, de latere Araullo High School. Aansluitend begon hij aan een opleiding rechten aan de YMCA van Manila. Het jaar erop stapte hij over naar de nieuw opgerichte rechtenopleiding van de University of the Philippines. Tijdens zijn studie werkte Roxas als vertaler voor een Court of First Instance. In 1913 voltooide hij als valedictorian de bachelor-opleiding rechten. In hetzelfde jaar slaagde hij tevens met de hoogste score van dat jaar voor het toelatingsexamen van de Filipijnse balie.

Na zijn afstuderen was Roxas van 1913 tot 1915 secretaris van Cayetano Arellano, de opperrechter van het Hooggerechtshof van de Filipijnen. Aansluitend was hij van 1916 tot 1917 professor in de rechten aan de Philippine Law School van de National University.

In 1917 nam Roxas ontslag om zich te richten op een politieke carrière. Van 1917 tot 1919 was hij raadslid van de stad Capiz. In 1919 werd hij gekozen tot gouverneur van de provincie Capiz. Een jaar later werd Roxas bij de jaarlijkse conventie van gouverneurs gekozen tot voorzitter. Na afloop van zijn termijn als gouverneur werd Roxas bij de verkiezingen van 1922 namens het 1e kiesdistrict van Capiz gekozen in het Filipijns Huis van Afgevaardigden. Bij de verkiezingen van 1925, 1928, 1931 en 1934 werd hij herkozen waardoor Roxas van 1921 tot 1935 onafgebroken zitting had in het Huis van Afgevaardigden.

Bij de verkiezingen van 1941 werd Roxas gekozen in de Senaat van de Filipijnen. Vóór de Senaat echter in zitting kon gaan, werden de Filipijnen kort na de aanval op Pearl Harbor binnengevallen door Japan. In 1942 werd Roxas daar gevangengenomen door de Japanners. Tijdens het restant van de Japanse bezetting was hij de belangrijkste adviseur van Jose Laurel, de president van de door de Japanners gecontroleerde Filipijnen. Tegelijkertijd speelde hij in het geheim echter informatie door aan de Amerikanen. Gedurende de herovering van de Filipijnen door de Amerikanen kwam Roxas weer in dienst bij het Filipijnse leger. Toen het Filipijns Congres in 1945 voor het eerst bijeenkwam, werd hij door zijn collega's in de Senaat gekozen tot president van de Senaat.

Voorafgaand aan de verkiezingen van 1946 splitste een groep politici zich af van de Nacionalista Party en vormden de Liberal Party. Deze nieuwe partij koos Roxas tot hun leider. Hij moest het bij de presidentsverkiezing opnemen tegen Sergio Osmeña, de zittende president van het Gemenebest van de Filipijnen. Osmeña was Manuel Quezon opgevolgd na diens overlijden in ballingschap in de Verenigde Staten en weigerde om campagne te voeren, omdat hij vond dat hij zich reeds bewezen had. Roxas daarentegen kreeg de steun van generaal Douglas MacArthur en de weduwe van Quezon. Hij won de verkiezingen met 54% van de stemmen en werd hierdoor de derde president van de Gemenebest van de Filipijnen. De Liberal Party verkreeg bovendien een meerderheid in het Filipijns Congres.

Presidentschap

Economie
Enkele maanden na zijn verkiezing tot president van de Gemenebest van de Filipijnen werden de Filipijnen onafhankelijk van de Verenigde Staten. Roxas werd hierdoor de eerste president van de onafhankelijke natie, maar festiviteiten op 4 juli 1946 werden enigszins overschaduwd door de problemen waar de nieuwe regering te maken kreeg. De herovering van de Filipijnen door de Amerikanen in 1944 kwam tegen een hoge prijs. Hoewel een groot deel van het land de oorlog relatief ongeschonden doorkwam, werd zo'n 80% van de hoofdstad Manilla verwoest. De stad was hiermee na Warschau de meest verwoeste stad van de Tweede Oorlog. De economie van de Filipijnen was ingestort en dit zorgde voor een moeilijke start van de nieuwe regering. De regering van Roxas zag zich gedwongen om een vrijhandelverdrag met de Amerikanen te tekenen, waaruit de VS veel meer voordeel behaalde dan de Filipijnen. De Bell Trade Act van 1946 gaf Amerikaanse ondernemers bovendien het recht om landeigenaar in de Filipijnen te zijn en om de natuurlijke hulpbronnen van de Filipijnen te ontginnen. Dit verdrag hielp niet bij het herstel van de economie.

Amnestie

Amerikaanse militaire bases

Overlijden
Op 15 april 1948 was Roxas op Clark Field in Pampanga voor een speech ten overstaan van de United States Thirteenth Air Force. Na afloop werd hij onwel, waarna hij werd overgebracht naar de residentie van majoor-generaal E.L. Eubank. In de avond overleed Roxas daar op 56-jarige leeftijd aan een hartaanval. Twee dagen na zijn overlijden werd vicepresident Elpidio Quirino beëdigd tot nieuwe president. Roxas werd begraven op Manila North Cemetery.

Privéleven
Roxas trouwde in 1921 met Trinidad de Leon, een dochter van senator Ceferino de Leon. Samen kregen ze twee kinderen: Rosario (Ruby) en Gerardo (Gerry) Roxas. Zijn zoon Gerry werd gekozen in de Senaat van de Filipijnen.

Zijn kleinzoon Mar Roxas was minister van binnenlandse zaken onder Benigno Aquino III, en dong met diens steun in 2016 naar het presidentschap. Met 23,12% van de stemmen werd hij tweede achter Rodrigo Duterte.

Nagedachtenis

Zie ook
 President van de Filipijnen

Bronnen

Boeken
  (1988), Rizal and Other Great Filipinos, National Book Store, Manilla

Websites
 Online Roster of Philippine Legislators, website Filipijns Huis van Afgevaardigden (geraadpleegd op 8 oktober 2015)
 Biografie van Manuel A. Roxas, website Filipijnse Senaat (geraadpleegd op 28 september 2015)
 Chan Robles Law Firm, Lijst met Filipijnse advocaten - R, website Chan Robles Law Firm (geraadpleegd op 28 september 2015)
  (1991), Philippines: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress.

Filipijns senator
Lid van het Batasang Pambansa
President van de Filipijnen

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Facin the Danube, this Neo- Renaissance edifice was designed by Miklos Ybl (see p94) and built as the Main Customs Office in 1871–4. The facade is 170 m (560 ft) long and features a colonnade supporting a balcony. On the balustrade stand ten allegorical figures by August Sommer. In 1951, this building opened as a university specializing in economics and management. There is a statue of Karl Marx, after whom the university was once named, in the atrium. windows, while the interior features cast-iron Neo-Gothic motifs. The Great Debating Hall Budapest tours is decorated with mosaics designed by Karoly Lotz. Many antiquarian bookshops and galleries have now opened around here. Fashionable bars, restaurants and cafes, and the recent pedestrianization, make this a very charming area from the men's section by a partition, and the division is further emphasized by the floor, which has been lowered by 30 cm (1 ft). The choir gallery is enclosed by an iconostasis that divides it from the sanctuary. This iconostasis dates from around 1850. The carving is by the Serb sculptor Miahai Janich and the Italian Renaissance-influenced paintings are the work of the Greek artist Karoly Sterio.


There is something about those first scents of spring. Those hopeful signs that it will return one more time. I have to change things up to match the new growth coming outside. So—-I changed my blog site a bit. A few tweaks, and voila! A slightly new appearance.
I am still continuing my Coffee, Coffee, Coffee series. It is great fun to write. I have to decide which place to explore next.
This is a topsy-turvy time, in many places across our country. Spring and prosperity take halting steps, only to be chased back, by lingering winter- and economic fears. The good things will take their place, though, as shown above!
Topsy-turvy describes it well! Crazy times we live in. In Montana spring teases for weeks.


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Q: use JQuery to find the collective radio button group name I've asked a lot of jQuery questions recently as I'm trying to use it rather good old Javascript, as I mentioned in previous questions, "I'm currently having to extend an very old ASP.NET site which has a database generated front end and is a behemoth of an application, it needs completely rewriting - however I've been told to add to it than redevelop it "
Now what I'm doing is once the backend is rendering a table to the interface I wish to loop through the tr elements of the table, within one of the td elements of the tr there are two radio buttons. I need to determine the name of the radio button group as I don't define them, the systems does using a GUID or something?
This is the table for example...

Okay, I'm looping through the table and at the same time switching the innerHTML of one cell to another and hiding some of the rows, I'll be adding functionality to show these later, here's the jQuery:
$('#tableID tr').each(function (i) {

        /*switch select and validation and clear */
        $(this).children('td.qCol').html($(this).children('td.aCol5').html());
        $(this).children('td.aCol5').html($(this).children('td.vCol'.html(""));

        /* hide all but the first row*/
        if (i >= 1) {
            $(this).hide();
        }

now I'm trying to determine the name attribute of the radio buttons that will be in the cell with class .qCo4, however I'm having no luck as the following returns an error and is "undefined"...
/* get the radio button name and check if either are selected*/

// check something exists...
if ($('input:radio', this).attr('name')) {

    var thisRadioName = $(this).closest("input:radio").attr('name').val();
    alert(thisRadioName);

}

$this is the tr element, so should I be using child rather than closest? If this makes no sense I can expand and explain better.

A: you should use find() or children(). closest() goes up the tree, while find looks for elements down the tree
var thisRadioName = $(this).find("input:radio").attr('name');

you can use also ':checked' to check if any radio is checked
var checkedRadio = $(this).find("input:radio:checked")

You should use children if you are absolutely sure that the elements you are looking for are direct child of the element, otherwise use find(). (using finds protect you from refactoring code if you modify the html, like adding a wrapping div for other reasons like styiling)
look at this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/nicolapeluchetti/Evq6y/

A: var thisRadioName = $(this).find("input:radio").attr('name');

should do what you want


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Q: AG Group failover and quorum We have a 4 node AG set up across two data centers using 4 replicas with a file share witness. Nodes 1 and 2 are in data center 1 and Nodes 3 and 4 in data center 2. Node 1 is primary and is set to synchronous commit with automatic failover to node 2 in the same datacenter. Node 1 is set to asynchronous commit to nodes 3 and 4 in data center 2. Node weighting is set to one for nodes 1 and 3 (main node in each data center) and zero for nodes 2 and 4.
Please, can someone tell me what the behavior would be if we had an unexpected SQL Server shut down at node 1?
Would the AG attempt to failover to node 3 in data center 2 due to the node weighting, fail and not attempt to fail over to any other replicas. Or would the AG group ignore node 3 due to it being async and try to fail over to the first synchronous replica with automatic failover based on the preferred owner's list?

A: The configuration described in the original topic is a bit strange. There are exists two resource groups SYSTEM (CNO, CNO_VIP1, CNO_VIP2, FSW) and AG (LISTENER, LISTENER_VIP1, LISTENER_VIP2, AG).
These two resource groups can be owned by different WSFC nodes. For example SYSTEM is owned by node from DC2 and AG is owned by node from DC1. In this case, if the link between DC1 and DC2 is broken:

*

*Then DC1 will have only 1 vote (NODE1)

*Then DC2 will have only 2 votes (NODE3 + FSW)

Accordingly to the quorum configuration DC2 part will alive (due to majority of votes) and DC1 will die (due to minority of votes). But as soon as synchronization between DC1 and DC2 is asynchronous there won't be automatic failover to DC2.
So you will end up with the situation when DC2 is alive but can not handle DB workload, because AG will wait manual intervention (allow_data_loss).
To avoid such situation, you need to assign votes like that
DC1:

*

*NODE1: 1

*NODE2: 1
ASYNC SYNCHRONIZATION
DC2

*

*NODE3: 0

*NODE4: 0
In that configuration AG will fail over to the NODE2 (DC1).
You'd better to explain the purpose of DC2. Is it disaster recovery DC or you need it for read scale or both?

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Please, can someone tell me what the behavior would be if we had an unexpected SQL Server shut down at node 1?

The failover would happen and the failover would be according to order in which nodes were added to Availability groups and configured for automatic failover. Like below(All Images taken from This MSDN Blog

This is SQL Server 2016 where you have option to set 3 replicas with automatic failover. Now user added replicas such that Node 2 and Node 3 where added one after other. Now in this case if Node1 goes down it will failover to Node 2. The exact failover sequence can be seen from  WSFC GUI. For this AG it would be like below

This tell you sequence of automatic failover. if node 1 goes down it automatically failsover to node 2 and if node 2 goes down it automatically failover to node 3 assuming WSFC was up and did the failover correctly.

Would the AG attempt to failover to node 3 in data center two due to the node weighting, fail and not attempt to fail over to any other replicas. Or would the AG group ignore node 3 due to it being async and try to fail over to the first synchronous replica with automatic failover based on the preferred owner's list?

The node weight would not come into picture here. I little idea how you ahve configured the AG so go ahead look into cluster GUI and you can see the order in which it would failover.
Since we talked about node weight I would suggest you to keep node weight for DR replicas as 0 this will make ODD number of votes in cluster. 2 nodes at DC and 1 FS witness. You would not want DR to take part in voting which is sitting out far somewhere and hardly have any idea


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Home News Premier and ministers travel to Japan to expand access to key markets
Premier and ministers travel to Japan to expand access to key markets
Tokyo: Technology, energy and natural resources were the focus of the Government of British Columbia's mission to Japan.
As part of this government's first mission to Asia, the Province aimed to strengthen ties and pave the way for expanded trade and investment opportunities for B.C. businesses.
"Japan is a key market for B.C. wood products, and an important market for the province's natural resources," said Premier John Horgan. "Building relationships with the Japanese government and some of Japan's largest companies that have natural resource interests in B.C. is critical to expanding markets for key job-creating sectors and attracting investment to our province."
During the two-day visit to Tokyo, the B.C. delegation hosted a natural resources roundtable with Japanese companies to discuss investment in B.C. projects. The Premier held meetings with key government representatives to advance bilateral co-operation in the energy sector and international trade and investment.
Premier Horgan toured Astomos Energy Corporation of Japan's Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) facility. In 2017, Astomos entered into an LPG purchase agreement with AltaGas, to be delivered through the Ridley Island Propane Export Terminal currently under construction near Prince Rupert. Once operational, the facility is expected to provide 40 to 50 permanent jobs.
The delegation, which included Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology Bruce Ralston and Minister of State for Trade George Chow, met with technology leaders Fujitsu and SEGA to promote investment in B.C. and partnerships with B.C. tech companies in information communications technology (ICT), wireless, quantum computing, and digital gaming and entertainment.
"With some of the world's largest tech and IT companies, Japan's growing investment in B.C. is a show of confidence in our tech sector and economy," said Ralston. "Our research infrastructure, deep talent pool and culturally diverse population are a magnet for tech investment."
"Solidifying our relationships with Japanese government agencies and tech companies is an important part of our growth strategy in this sector," said Chow. "We look forward to continuing discussions with many of our valued tech stakeholders at the BC Tech Summit in Vancouver next May."
Premier Horgan also gave a keynote speech promoting B.C. at a gathering of over 150 community, government and business leaders in technology, natural resources, agrifoods, tourism and international education.
• Japan is B.C.'s third-largest trading partner with $3.7 billion in goods exports in 2016.
• B.C.'s total exports to Japan, which are primarily commodities, are more than double that of the second-ranked Canadian province.
• In 2016, B.C. exported $985 million in copper and $969 million in metallurgical coal to Japan.
• B.C. is a leading supplier of wood products to Japan. In 2016, B.C. exported $726 million in lumber.
• B.C.'s ICT companies employ over 20,000 people and generate more than $9.5 billion in annual revenues.
• In 2016, B.C.'s interactive gaming sector comprised more than 150 companies, employing nearly 6,000 people full time.
• The Province established its trade and investment representative office in Tokyo, Japan in 2007.
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Home Food Stephen Curry and LeBron James lead the voting for the All-Star Game
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The NBA continues to be dominated by players of the stature of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant and Nikola Jokic. However, in the votes for the Stars game, the true kings have been Stephen Curry and LeBron James. All this thanks to 4.463.426 of votes that the figure of Golden State; while the legend of Ohio, accumulates a number of 4.386.392 in the votes.
In this way, the West continues to be dominated by the popular number 30 of those from the bay and by number 6 of the Californians and today, it will be very difficult to take away their presence in the next edition of the contest that brings together the best of the season.
In the East, meanwhile, Kevin Durant is the leader of the votes with 4,088,334, being followed by "Gigante Griego" Giannis Antetokounmpo and its 3.808.458. In addition to DeMar DeRozan of the Chicago Bulls, who has received support from fans with 2.973.854.
On the other hand, there are two players who are entering the fight to earn their ticket to Cleveland 2022 and those are Ja Morant and Trae Young. The first of them with a greater impact, because he is beating the Slovenian Luka Doncic by more than 200 thousand votes; specifically 1.633.313 a 1.410.605.
In the case of Bring Young, is above stars like Zach Lavine and of James Harden. Until now, the figure of Atlanta Hawks he is eating his enemies alive on the court with 1,596,301 votes.
Finally, the headlines will be announced next on January 27 and until now Stephen Curry y Kevin Durant They will be the team captains.
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Poroshenko said he did not put an equal sign between Putin and Zelensky. However, according to Poroshenko, for Putin any president of Ukraine except the current one is a "dream", follows from the broadcast of the "Direct" meeting of Poroshenko with journalists.
Also in the question was a proposal for advertising, in which Zelensky is hit by a wagon. Poroshenko stressed that Zelensky had to come to the debate himself in order to repel the attacks of "black PR". More Poroshenko on this topic did not spread.
During his speech, Poroshenko several times called Zelensky "a cat in a bag" and invited Ukrainians to support themselves in the second round of elections. However, if they still choose Zelensky, he is ready to accept this result.
The presidential candidate of Ukraine, the incumbent head of state, Petro Poroshenko, arrived at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev to participate in debates, broadcast by the Direct Channel. Poroshenko said that Zelensky was afraid of participating in the debate, so he intends to invite a showman to them every day.
Poroshenko said that in the years of his rule, Ukraine conducted a decommunization. Also, the Ukrainian army has become "the most effective" on the continent. Kiev also won gas disputes from Russia, Poroshenko noted.
Instead of debates with the unknown, Zelensky Poroshenko began to communicate with journalists. He also added that he intends to wait for Zelensky until 3 p.m. Poroshenko urged the gathered crowd to step into his headquarters as volunteers and help him become president.
Zelensky should come to the debate, because the country is obliged to see who chooses, Poroshenko said. Zelensky himself said earlier that he was ready to debate on April 19. Poroshenko said that he was inviting Zelensky to the debate on the ICTV channel tomorrow, April 15. "It's not scary, Vladimir," said the head of state.
The Ukrainian president added that the people have already chosen Euro-integration and NATO, and he intends to continue this course after the victory.
Actor Vladimir Zelensky, applying for the presidency of Ukraine, told why he did not take tests for alcohol and drugs with the current head of state, Petro Poroshenko, at the Olimpiysky stadium in the Ukrainian capital.
As explained by the presidential candidate of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in an interview with the news agency Ukraine, shortly before the planned event, he learned that a provocation was being prepared against him. The showman did not disclose details, stating only that the provocation was to be carried out at the Olympic Stadium. Based on the information received, he decided not to go to the stadium.
"Someday, after all these elections, information will be shed as if someone prepared a provocation against me at the NSC Olimpiyskiy. I did not go there because I received such secret information," Zelensky said.
Vladimir Zelensky himself demanded to be tested for the presence of alcohol and drugs in the body. This was one of his conditions for participating in the debate, which Poroshenko insists upon.
Both candidates, who passed the second round of the presidential election, passed the corresponding tests on the morning of April 5th. Poroshenko donated blood in the medical center at the site of the future battle, scheduled for April 19, and Zelensky trusted the employees of the commercial clinic Eurolab.
A few days later, Poroshenko suggested that Zelensky be re-tested for the presence of alcohol or drugs in the blood.
"Citizens of Ukraine have the right to be sure that the future president of the country is guaranteed not drug-addicted," the Ukrainian leader said then.