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Q: Call Project Scripts from Another Project I'm building an RStudio project (Project 2) where I would like to access certain scripts that are contained within another already-built RStudio project (Project 1). Project 1 contains various scripts, some of which reference one another through source() calls. Is there any way to achieve this? I originally thought that by using here::here() or box::file() in Project 1 could facilitate this, however I realized that both of those functions will reference the working directory of Project 2 as opposed to that of Project 1.
For example, let's say Project 1 contains the following file structure:
> list.files(withr::with_dir("./Project_1", getwd()))
 [1] "assumptions.R"          "launch.R"               "output.R"
 [4] "project_env.R"          "renv"                   "renv.lock"
 [7] "run_scenarios.R"        "Project_1.Rproj"        "sample_script_1.R"
[10] "sample_script_2.R"      "selected_assumptions.R"

And Launch.R is the script that launches code for all of the remaining scripts (code below).
Launch.R
source("assumptions.R")
source("project_env.R")
project_env$launch_mode = project_env$scenario_toggle$DEFAULT

source("assumptions.R")
source("selected_assumptions.R")
source("output.R")
source("run_scenarios.R")

Is there any way to execute the Launch.R script from outside of Project 1? Because of the way Project 1's scripts are tied together, if I try to execute Launch.R from anywhere outside of the project, I get errors as soon as it tries to execute the source("assumptions.R") command.
Any help would be much appreciated.

A: To make box::file() return the current script's directory path rather than the current working directory, you'll need to load the script as a module. At its most basic, this means replacing source calls with calls to box::use. The reason is that 'box' provides a module system rather than individual helper functions; hence, box::file etc. assume that they are being called in the context of a module. The 'box' package vignette gives further information.
As an example of the usage, with 'box' modules your Launch.R script would look as follows:
box::use(
    ./assumptions[...],
    ./project_env[...],
    ./assumptions[...],
    ./selected_assumptions[...],
    ./output[...],
    ./run_scenarios[...],
)

Where:

*

*Module names are unquoted

*./… signifies that this is a local, relative module name (rather than a package, or globally installed module which is searched differently)

*[...] means: attach all names defined inside the module; by default, 'box' attaches no exports when loading a module. Attaching isn't done by default because it's not generally recommended.

Please also note that each module has its own scope, just like R packages. Thus, the statement project_env$launch_mode = project_env$scenario_toggle$DEFAULT will have no effect in the loaded modules. To make a module see variables in the calling code, you need to pass them explicitly into the module.
With these changes, a box::file() call inside one of the modules will return the path to that module's directory; and box::file('some_file') will return the absolute path of some_file nested inside the module (again, for more details see the vignette linked above).
Lastly, to execute Launch.R outside your project, with the above changes, you  can simply run e.g. Rscript path/to/Launch.R and this will work. Alternatively, you can also treat Launch.R as a module and load it via box::use. To do this from outside the project, you'll need to configure 'box' search path via the box.path option. Afterwards, you can use the module via an absolute import directive (in contrast to the previous local, relative import directives):
box::use(projectname/Launch)

*

*projectname here would be the folder name of the folder that contains your Launch.R script, and the box.path option needs to include the path to its parent directory.

A: I had the same issue, and I could resolve it with
here::i_am("path_to_script")
source("path_to_script")

See here package website for details. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/here/vignettes/here.html

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As a director, your CV needs to be far more focused and compelling than the applications for entry or junior-level employees. Other managers and leaders will be scrutinising everything from your formatting skills to your experience with precision. After all, while any poor hiring decision can be costly, the stakes are even higher for senior employees.
When hiring managers are looking for senior-level leadership positions like Director of a financial company, every detail on a CV counts. As the saying goes: a great CV won't guarantee you a job, but it should improve your chances of an interview.
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All CVs must be tailored to the specific role and company you're applying for. Successful people know that if they want to stand out, they need to prove that they did their research, and show that they can link their value to the goals of the business.
Look at the job description for your target Director position, and highlight any key competencies, experiences or skills a hiring manager will be looking for. As you write your CV and cover letter, focus on making those key characteristics shine through. You can even mimic some of the languages that the organisation used to create a sense of resonance with the person who reads your CV.
When hiring managers are browsing through director CVs, they're not just looking for skills and potential; they're searching for someone who can deliver genuine results. After all, as a director, you'll have a significant impact on the way the business grows and evolves. You'll need your CV to show your potential employer that you have what it takes to accomplish the goals that matter most to the company.
Details are essential in an interview-winning Director's CV, but it's crucial to make sure that you include the right information. The hiring manager or recruiting company responsible for dealing with your CV will have various applications to sort through, so they'll appreciate a CV that gets straight to the point.
Your executive resume needs a consistent message running throughout the document that highlights the specialities and talents you bring to the table. For instance, if you're particularly good at cutting costs as a regional director, highlight that in the details of your previous work experience, personal summary, and achievements.
If you need to, you can even include a "core skills" section to highlight some of your critical competencies in bullet points.
Irrelevant details about your hobbies and personality – unless your employer asks for this information.
Your age and date of birth – no employer is permitted to ask for these details in the first place according to anti-discrimination laws.
Headshots: Although certain companies appreciate a headshot as part of a CV, most won't need a picture to make a hiring decision.
Finally, include details that will define and showcase your personal leadership brand, and the things you can do for the organisation in question.
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Useful information on connecting up some popular monosynths to Kenton MIDI to CV converters.
Kbd In/Out 1/4" jack CV Chan A Early Models have no CV/GATE Inputs, however we can fit them.
S-Trig In/Out 1/4" jack S-Trig Some Prodigy synths have Cinch Jones connectors.
The Cinch-Jones S-Trig connector commonly fitted to MOOG synths, has two flat blades - the narrow blade connects to the tip of a 3.5mm jack plug and the fatter blade connects to the body.
The connection info refers to channel A, but this could equally well be channel B etc. If you are going to use channel B of the converter, you would be using the gate, s-trig, aux 1 & aux 2 outputs (as required) of that channel also.
All the outputs of the PRO-2000/4/SOLO (except the SYNC 24 and MIDI thru) are on 3.5mm jack sockets.
Some of the control inputs on synths are mutually exclusive, ie. you wouldn't use the EXT CLK IN of the SH-101 at the same time as the CV & GATE inputs.
References to FILTER control, mean control of the filter cutoff frequency - sometimes also called filter sweep or VCF frequency control (VCF means voltage controlled filter).
A stereo jack plug has the following connections, tip - ring - and body - in that order. To connect to the ring of the stereo jack involves connecting the body of the 1/4" stereo jack to the body of the 3.5mm jack - and connecting the ring connection of the 1/4" stereo jack to the tip of the 3.5mm jack.
The PRO-2000/4/SOLO (or indeed any MIDI to CV converter) is not generally the appropriate solution for the control of Polyphonic synths. Although a few early poly-synths do have CV & GATE inputs fitted, this only enables you to use one of the voices, so you effectively get a monophonic synth when using CV & GATE. The way to control poly-synths using MIDI is to get an internal retro-fit, which of course KENTON can supply and fit for you.
On the Sequential Pro-One you need to set the centre switch in the MODE section of the Pro-One to the "Repeat/Ext" position to work with an external CV converter.


American Elites Support Terrorism–Proof That Those "Moderate Rebels" in Syria are Really Jihadists | Finding Trout In Your Milk?
The absurdity of everything Obama, particularly after the lead role he and his administration obviously played in the back stabbing of a formerly essential ally, is even becoming clear to some of the ideological shock troops on the progressive left. The failure of the "Fake News" establishment mantra, as well as the clear repudiation of the globalist agenda by an increasingly aware populace seeking to remove the technocratic deep state and the transnational administrative state from their formerly sheep-like backs has sent a silver spike into the bloodsucking vampires of the power elites.
From the repudiation by the majority of Americans to the anthropogenic global climate change total scam to the now almost comical "the Russians did it" bleating of the wounded beasts that have sought our servitude, humanity's will for freedom and truth, following generations of brainwashing and elite directed self serving propaganda is showing its muscle. Though the embers have been glowing for years, it is the freedom of information and access to truth and knowledge fostered by the internet and its many dedicated truth seekers, from Breitbart and Alex Jones to the many thousands of YouTube "journalists" and bloggers that has set the fire in the belly of America and the West ablaze.
The decentralization of knowledge and the sacred (truth) has achieved its pinnacle in the technologies of information delivery; exactly as it should be, exactly as it was destined to do. It has been a long war, one not yet completed. From the priest kings and tribal shamans many thousands of years ago knowledge and information, from the religious to the commercial, was the power that the ruling elites kept encased in impregnable ice. Each technological paradigm transition threatened the ruling privileged class and was fought against vociferously by the those threatened by the diminution of their essential control over truth and reality. Millions died by the sword, the fires of the stake or were wasted away in the dungeons and prisons of the lords of power and wealth whose legitimacy prominently depended on their control over the dissemination of information and the reality they shaped.
As with the English translation of the Latin Bible so assiduously prosecuted by the Pope and Prelates of the Catholic monopoly of Christianity during the Reformation, the technological revolution of the Gutenberg presses could not be stopped and thus ended the absolute powers of the Church. All centralization of control and rule ultimately fails; falling on the jagged rocks in front of the Sirens of humanity's technological creativity in the pursuit of decentralized information, knowledge and truth. Propaganda, a relatively recent method of elite mass control, is a tool developed by those in power that found themselves increasingly fighting an uphill battle against new technologies of decentralized information flows. It has failed them, at least for now.
There is light shining down upon us; it is the light of truth. Truth decimated by a decentralized neural network with billions of nodes, billions of participants. As with all earlier attempts to suppress the centrifugal forces of technological progress and the freedom that is derived from access to fact and truth based reality, the generational design to create a globalist, transnational Administrative State ruled by an elite of absurd wealth and privilege, cannot succeed. It is against the laws of human nature and thirst for knowledge that, despite massive scientifically designed brainwashing primarily through the State manipulated educational institutions, has caught the ruling power elites complacently residing behind their gated communities and protected moats of social distance and self anointed superiority.
Technology trumps centralization, it has been so since the first time written language appeared. However, it is unlikely still, despite the obvious writing on the wall, that the powerful ruling elites, the hidden hands behind almost all governments, will NOT go away quietly. There has never been a knowledge revolution that has not delegitimized much upon which the existing order stands, nor without turbulence, death and attempted suppression. The evil globalist cabal of demonic transnational technocrats will not, will not lay down at was very likely the one yard line on the field in the game of tyranny and One World Government. Is it going to be different this time? Perhaps, it may be, but don't bet your life and family resources on it, as it is highly unlikely. Expect war, orchestrated economic collapse and social upheaval.
The American war against Syria has been a lie since the very earliest days of the "uprising". As was the war in Iraq, the war in Libya, the war in the Ukraine, Bosnia, Afghanistan and on and on. . In fact there has not been a war that America has not been directly or covertly engaged in fostering that has not been built on lies. Lies that are always, almost without exception, knowingly supported and propagated by the mainstream corporate media. How stupid are we? Apparently, not as stupid as they thought.
The facade is crumbling on all sides. From mainstream media's illusion of objectivity to the dissolving lie of the mythical "moderate rebel," what was once a forgone conclusion, is now exceedingly uncertain. As that may sound unsettling, it is indeed a good thing. Truth may be uncomfortable at times, but to avoid it for a comfortable hole in the sand will most certainly lead to a life of control and mitigation. Many would no doubt prefer the "ignorance is bliss" option, and opt to remain under the unseen controlling hand of the deep state. Yet if we maintain this course, that will no longer be an option.
The idea that the US was funding and training ISIS, at one point, was right up there with flat earth theory to the average individual. In the past few years, if one chose to address the obvious contradictions in the "moderate rebel" narrative or point out the clear connections between the US and those they were meant to be fighting, they would be met with the customary denial, insults and anger. Then something changed; shifted. Whether it was a factor beyond our control or the ineptitude of the bumbling corporate media that ultimately pulled down the veil, within the last year primarily, Americans began to wake up; they began to ask questions; they began to see through the lies for the first time in a very long time.


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What People Are Saying About the 2018 Chevy Malibu
by Amy Krigsman | Posted on June 17, 2018 | Posted in Chevrolet
The 2018 Chevy Malibu is an award-winning car model for both dependability and safety. It received the highest overall score, a five-star rating in the 2018 National Highway Traffic Safety Association tests. When the Malibu is equipped with the available driver confidence package, it was awarded an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick in 2017. In 2015, the Malibu was given the honor of Most Dependable Midsize Car. With awards like these, you can tell that Malibu has become a trusted model over the years.
The Malibu is an affordable car, and it saves you money over the lifetime of its use as well. After all, it's one of the most fuel-efficient midsize vehicles on the market. The hybrid model is the most outstanding of the line when it comes to fuel efficiency, getting an EPA-estimated 49 miles per gallon in the city. The standard trim is not bad on efficiency either, getting 27/36/30 rankings (city/highway/combined). Take that incredible fuel efficiency, and add in outstanding safety ratings and state-of-the-art connectivity to the package, and you are really starting to get an idea of the big picture. This practical efficiency is why the Malibu is so popular—and why it continues to do well in the midsize market despite some fierce competition.
Safety at Its Finest
The 2018 Malibu comes standard with ten airbags. That should show you just how seriously Chevy takes the safety of its drivers. The new Malibu is equipped with automatic forward braking, meaning the car can sense an oncoming collision and automatically apply the brakes by itself at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour. That's safety at it's finest. While many cars are using aluminum tin-can frames and a plastic outer shell that crumples on contact, Chevy is still building cars made of high-strength steel where it matters most, while supplementing with other strong but lightweight alloys to maximize the vehicle's ability to protect you and the ones you love, without sacrificing the aerodynamic weight (because doing so would make it too heavy to get good fuel economy).
The Chevy philosophy when it comes to safety is a three-part system: prevent, protect, and respond. The preventive aspect of the Malibu's safety system includes Electronic Stability Control to give the driver confidence in low-traction environments. Lane Keep Assist gives a warning and a gentle nudge to help the driver stay in his or her lane if they start to veer into another. Rear Cross Traffic Alert keeps an eye on the unpredictable traffic that can approach from any direction when you're backing out of a parking space or driveway. Forward Safety Awareness includes a collision alert system that warns the driver of vehicles slowing down ahead and vehicles speeding up in the rear, as well as Forward Automatic Braking that goes to work automatically when an accident is about to take place, which helps to either significantly reduce the speed of impact or avoid the collision altogether.
The protection aspect of Chevy's philosophy is all about the way the car is built: with a safety-first design to put the driver's mind at ease when they're carting loved ones around from place to place. The trick to the Malibu's durability is the safety cages that are in place in critical zones to keep the driver and passengers protected in the case of a collision. The cages actually absorb the impact of a crash and deflect the impact's energy away from the cabin and the passengers within. State-of-the-art safety belts, restraint systems, ten individual 360-degree airbags and the LATCH (Lower Anchors and Top Tethers) for children combine to greatly reduce any risk that a collision may bring along with it.
Last but not least, the responsive part of Chevy's three-part safety philosophy involves the constantly available Onstar support technology. Chevy's Automatic Crash Response system uses built-in sensors to alert an Onstar agent in the event of a crash. If you don't respond to the agent, he or she can use a GPS system to find out exactly where you are and send help your way exactly when you need it the most.
What People Like About the 2018 Malibu
Affordability, fuel efficiency, safety, and connectivity top the list of what folks like about the Chevy Malibu, and we've already touched on all of those assets in this rundown. So what else keeps people coming back to the Malibu when they could be buying foreign or drifting over to other domestic brands, such as Ford or Dodge, instead? Well, the new Malibu is also simply a nice-looking car. It's not too flashy, not too dull, but just kind of pleasant to look at.
The interior, especially if you opt for one of the higher-range trims, is quite nice as well. It's not a luxury car. It's not super sporty. It's just a cool modern ride. What's not to like? The infotainment system is user-friendly, and it comes with a big screen, so it's easy to navigate through the menus without feeling like you're pecking away at a smartphone.
What People Don't Like About the Malibu
The biggest gripe about the Malibu is its lackluster engine. The turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder is a great engine, to be sure, but it's only available with the most expensive trim package. The standard 1.5-liter engine doesn't give the driver the power that he or she tends to want (unless they put the pedal to the floorboard), but in this car, they probably don't really need it. The engine fits the car, to be honest, but it doesn't go above and beyond.
There is also no V6 option regardless of the trim package a driver selects, so you either settle on the 1.5 or pay up for the 2.0. Another complaint is that there are no all-wheel drive options on the Malibu with any of the different trims. That is a bit of a disappointment for power-minded drivers, especially when it's coupled with the relatively weak engine options.
The interior is nice, as mentioned before, but it does leave a good bit of room for improvement, especially if you choose a lower-priced trim. The front seat interior area is significantly nicer than the back seat. The new Malibu's sloping roofline makes backseat passengers feel a bit claustrophobic. And on lower trim options, many parts of the interior feel noticeably cheap, made with hard plastics and cloth.
Overall, the Malibu exceeds expectations, as long as you're not expecting anything breathtaking. If you are in the market for an economy midsize sedan that puts safety first, has modern technological features, is affordably priced, and gets good gas mileage, you just might find that nothing on the market suits you quite like the new Chevy Malibu.
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Background: From February 20 to April 2020, the coronavirus SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)-CoV-2 spread in northern Italy, drastically challenging the care capacities of the national health care system. Unprepared for this emergency, hospitals have quickly reformulated paths of assistance in an effort to guarantee treatment for infected patients. Orthopaedic departments have been focused on elderly traumatology, especially the treatment of femoral neck fractures in patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the orthopaedic management strategy for femoral fragility fractures in COVID-19-positive patients with the hypothesis that operative treatment may contribute to the overall stability of the patient. Methods: Sixteen patients affected by proximal femoral fracture and a recent history of fever, shortness of breath, and desaturation were admitted to the emergency room. Thoracic computed tomography (CT) and oropharyngeal swabs confirmed that they were positive for COVID-19, requiring hospitalization and prophylaxis with low-molecular-weight heparin. Results: Three patients died before surgery because of severe respiratory insufficiency and multiple-organ-failure syndrome. Ten patients underwent surgery on the day after admission, whereas 3 patients had suspended their use of direct thrombin inhibitors and needed surgery to be delayed until the third day after admission. In all patients except 1, we noted an improvement in terms of O(2)saturation and assisted respiration. In 9 patients, hemodynamic and respiratory stability was observed at an average of 7 days postoperatively. Four patients who underwent surgical treatment died of respiratory failure on the first day after surgery (1 patient), the third day after surgery (2 patients), or the seventh day after surgery (1 patient). Conclusions: We noted a stabilization of respiratory parameters in 12 COVID-19-positive patients who underwent surgery treatment of proximal femoral fractures. We believe that in elderly patients with COVID-19 who have proximal femoral fractures, surgery may contribute to the overall stability of the patient, seated mobilization, improvement in physiological ventilation, and general patient comfort in bed.
Treatment of Proximal Femoral Fragility Fractures in Patients with COVID-19 During the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in Northern Italy / F. Catellani, A. Coscione, R. D'Ambrosi, L. Usai, C. Roscitano, G. Fiorentino. - In: JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY. - ISSN 0021-9355. - 102:12(2020 Jun 17), pp. e58.1-e58.6. [10.2106/JBJS.20.00617]
Treatment of Proximal Femoral Fragility Fractures in Patients with COVID-19 During the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in Northern Italy
Catellani, Francesco
;Coscione, Andrea;R. D'Ambrosi
;L. Usai;Roscitano, Claudio;Fiorentino, Gennaro
Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; COVID-19; Coronavirus Infections; Disease Outbreaks; Female; Femoral Fractures; Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary; Frailty; Hospitalization; Humans; Italy; Male; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; SARS-CoV-2; Betacoronavirus
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JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY
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Top Hybrid SUVs to Buy for 2021
Posted on December 21, 2021 December 21, 2021 by Laura Bell
With advancing automotive technologies, the motor industry has taken a different route and offering car enthusiast numerous options. Hybrid car technology has been one of the most amazing innovations of the past few decades. The concept of hybrid technologies has been introduced by popular car brands in various vehicle segments that include SUVs. These top-of-the-line technologies has made SUVs more fun and exciting to drive. The modern-day SUVs are one of the most popular categories in the UAE car market as they come with eco-friendly features and improved fuel economy.
The increasing demand for eco-friendly vehicles has pushed the popular car manufacturers to adopt the hybrid technologies. Hybrid cars are less toxic for the environment and consume lesser fuel as well. SUVs are one of the most sought-after vehicle segments and now some SUVs are also packed with hybrid technologies. These hybrid SUVs not only have low-emissions electrified powertrains but also excellent performance capabilities.
Let's have a look at some of the top 2021 hybrid SUVs available in the market.
2021 BMW X5 xDrive45E
The 2021 BMW X5 xDrive45E is a heavy SUV that has been packed with a huge 23 kW battery and 3.0L 6-cylinder petrol engine. This perfect combination can make it work as mini electric vehicle and a full-size SUV when needed. The BMW X5 xDrive 45e offers the flexibility and combined benefits of an electric and combustion engine. The starting price of the 2021 BMW X5 xDrive45E is $65,400 USD that is justified as it is one of the best hybrid cars to buy.
2021 Volvo XC90 Hybrid
The Volvo XC90 has been among the best luxury family SUVs that available in the market. The all-new Volvo XC90 has some great hybrid technologies for the first time as it comes with T8 plug-in hybrid system with an electric range of up to 31 miles. This luxurious seven-seater hybrid SUV has a remarkable towing capacity of 4,000lbs. The starting price of this powerful off-road SUV is $49,000 USD.
2021 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid
Toyota is known for its best productions in the auto industry and arguably it has set similar standard with the 2021 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. This advanced hybrid SUV features an All-Wheel Drive Integrated Management with Information Display monitor. One of the best hybrid cars to hit the market, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid comes with an Electronic-AWD 2.5L hybrid engine with front and rear power output of 118/54hp (88/40 kW) and 149/89lb-ft of torque. In addition, the direct shift 8-speed electronically controlled automatic transmission with intelligence and sequential shift mode has further powered the engine. The dynamic 2021 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid has a price tag of $28,800 USD.
2021 Lexus UX Hybrid
The 2021 Lexus UX Hybrid is keeping up with the brand's core value by offering a perfect combination of performance and luxury. This contemporary hybrid SUV has been equipped with an electric motor that delivers up to 68.9mph combined with 2.0L petrol engine. In addition, one of the most amazing features of the 2021 Lexus UX Hybrid is its self-charging capability that does not require any plug-ins. The 2021 Lexus UX Hybrid with advanced powertrain tech has a starting price of $35,200 USD.
2021 Honda CR-V Hybrid
The all-new 2021 Honda CR-V comes with an advanced hybrid powertrain with an all-wheel-drive in an electric mode. One of the best-selling SUVs for the past couple of years has now been packed with advanced hybrid powertrain that is capable of producing 212 total system horsepower with a top speed of 6200 rpm. The modern-day hybrid car also offers a spacious cargo space to enjoy the true experience of a good crossover SUV. In addition to this, the vehicle has been laced with latest features such as Honda Sensing Safety & Driver-Assistive Technologies, Apple CarPlay Integration, Android Auto Integration, and heated front seats. The 2021 Honda CR-V Hybrid comes at a starting price of $27,860 USD.
2021 Toyota Highlander Hybrid
Toyota car brand is known for its reliable and advanced vehicles that also features hybrid cars. The 2021 Toyota Highland is a full-size SUV that sends automatic power to the rear wheels of the vehicle for improved traction, thanks to its electronic All-Wheel-Drive hybrid drivetrain. This contemporary hybrid SUV comes with a 2.5L 4-cylinder ECVT Hybrid engine that is coupled with an 8-speed electronically controlled automatic transmission. This enables the vehicle to deliver a combined net 243 horsepower and 175lb-ft of torque. The 2021 Toyota Highlander Hybrid has starting price of $38,510 USD.
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In 2013, Mitsubishi introduced the first-ever plug-in hybrid SUV ever to be sold and it still is popular model in the hybrid SUVs class. The 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Hybrid comes with an electric motor with a strong battery and 2.4-litre petrol engine. This perfect combination has the total power output of 221bhp to keep the performances high. The all-new and powerful Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Hybrid coms at a starting price of $36,295 USD.
2021 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid
The 2021 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid is among the most fuel-efficient and advanced plug-in hybrid SUV available in the market. The modern-day SUV comes with a Subaru StarDrive Technology which combines the efficiency of a plug-in electric vehicle and conventional gasoline engine. This combination delivers mouthwatering performance, and when the hybrid is plugged in to a 120V household outlet it takes up to 45 hours to charge to 100% from 0. The 2021 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid is available at the starting price of $35,345 USD.
Hybrid cars have brough an exciting change in the auto industry as popular car brands are manufacturing vehicles with hybrid technologies in large numbers to meet the demands of the buyers. Arguably, hybrid cars are the future that is offered in differed vehicle segments to suit the preference and requirements of car enthusiasts. Hybrid SUVs have also become a popular choice for motorists as it offers plenty of latest powertrain technologies and excellent fuel efficiency. SUVs are versatile and powerful vehicles that are high in demand due to its off-road features. Therefore, all the afore-mentioned hybrid SUVs can be perfect choice for car enthusiasts.
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As presented in an earlier blog post, the Android adb daemon (in the host device) can be set to listen for requests coming from wifi or ethernet instead of the default usb. This process is common for the majority of Android smartphone/tablets and in order to achieve it, the host device must receive at least a set of initialisation commands sent throughout the mini-usb connector.
The mini-usb is a very good connector but when you have to disconnect and reconnect it many times, it may fail or broke. As a consequence, having a mini-usb connector that does not work, means that you can not upload your apks, debug and in general manage your Android device.
The Ltouch Android-based touch panels do not suffer from this issue because they allow you to switch the adb to ethernet/wifi even when the mini-usb does not work or is broken.
This article will present a step-by-step tutorial and will show you how to accomplish that. The main prerequisite is having a Ltouch Android panel F/FW or a development board Ltouch S/SW.
The key part is to leverage a great feature of the Ltouch, that is, you can use both the mini-usb and an additional serial line in order to access and control it. When the former does not work, basically just use the latter. This additional serial line is placed on the rear part of the panel and is represented by a DB9 connector. On the rear cover of the Ltouch, there are two DB9 serial connectors (see the picture above), one is used for RS232 communication and the other one is used for Android logging and managing.
The leftmost one (the closest to the power connector) is used when the Android 4.0.4 is installed, whereas the rightmost with Android 2.3.
The serial port parameters are the following: 115200 baudrate N-8-1.
This will tell the adb daemon on the host to listen for request on tcp port number 5555.
In order to get the device's ip address, just use the command netcfg from the command line.
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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from docutils import nodes
from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive

class Vidme(Directive):
    """ Embed Vidme video in posts.

    Based on the Vimeo plugin by Kura:
    https://github.com/kura/pelican_vimeo

    VIDEO_ID is required, with / height are optional integer,
    and align could be left / center / right.

    Usage:
    .. vidme:: VIDEO_ID
        :width: 640
        :height: 480
        :align: center
    """

    def align(argument):
        """Conversion function for the "align" option."""
        return directives.choice(argument, ('left', 'center', 'right'))

    required_arguments = 1
    optional_arguments = 2
    option_spec = {
        'width': directives.positive_int,
        'height': directives.positive_int,
        'align': align
    }

    final_argument_whitespace = False
    has_content = False

    def run(self):
        videoID = self.arguments[0].strip()
        width = 420
        height = 315
        align = 'left'

        if 'width' in self.options:
            width = self.options['width']

        if 'height' in self.options:
            height = self.options['height']

        if 'align' in self.options:
            align = self.options['align']

        url = 'https://vid.me/{}'.format(videoID)
        div_block = '
'.format(align)
        embed_block = ''.format(width, height, url)

        return [
            nodes.raw('', div_block, format='html'),
            nodes.raw('', embed_block, format='html'),
            nodes.raw('', '
', format='html')]

def register():
    directives.register_directive('vidme', Vidme)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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FEUD IN FLAGSTAFF
Sister Wives' Kody Brown admits polygamous family is 'unpopular' as AZ neighbors slam clan 'wishing they weren't here'
Grant Hodgson
Teresa Roca
Published: 19:56 ET, Dec 7 2020
Updated: 22:40 ET, Dec 7 2020
SISTER Wives star Kody Brown admitted he and his polygamous family of four wives and 18 kids are still "not popular" in Flagstaff, Arizona, as neighbors "wish they weren't here," just two years after relocating from Las Vegas.
Kody, 52, exclusively told The Sun: "We're not popular around here," as he left the $890,000 five-bed house he shares with his only legal wife, Robyn, and their five children outside of Flagstaff.
Kody, his four wives and their 18 children moved to Flagstaff in 2018Credit: Kobal Collection - Rex Features
A neighbor of the couple also told The Sun that the controversial family, who moved to the outskirts of the town in 2018, "keep themselves to themselves."
The neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "I have not spoken to Kody for more than two years, since before they moved into the house.
"They keep themselves to themselves.
"We wish they weren't here because they make Flagstaff look as though everyone has all these wives."
Kody, wife Robyn and their five children live in an $890,000 home just outside Flagstaff, AZCredit: PPA /The US Sun
The Sun can also confirm the family has never integrated into the large Mormon community in their hometown.
Kody and his wives Meri, 49, Janelle, 50, Christine, 48, and Robyn, 42, are members of the Apostolic United Brethren, a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon religion.
The sect allows followers to practice polygamy.
There is a large Mormon presence in Flagstaff, which was designated a "second stake" by the church's Salt Lake City leadership in 2017.
Kody's other wives Meri (left), Christine (second left) and Janelle (front) all live close to Kody and Robyn (who is on the right)Credit: Instagram
The church has more than 5,000 followers in the area in 14 separate congregations.
Leslie Seaman, the church's stake president of the Flagstaff Arizona East Stake, told The Sun that he never met Kody or his family.
And he insisted the church there does not support polygamy.
Leslie, a dentist in Flagstaff, said: "I don't know this gentleman, I do not know them and I have never met them.
Meri, Kody's first wife, recently posted a message on her Instagram profile telling how much she still loved himCredit: Instagram
"We support the government and realize that polygamy is contrary to the laws of the land."
Kody and family were living in Utah, whose population is 51 percent Mormon, back in 2010 when the show first aired.
But they were afraid of being arrested under the state's strict anti-polygamy laws and fled to Las Vegas, where they hoped to be more free to live their unconventional lifestyle.
But two years ago, the TLC stars left Sin City for Flagstaff.
Robyn said one of the reasons for leaving was the welfare of their kids.
The family lived in Utah before moving to Las Vegas then FlagstaffCredit: TLC
She said during an interview at the time: "Vegas changed a lot over the last few years. So we started worrying a lot more about what the kids are getting exposed to."
Kody added: "The timing was just right for getting our kids out of Las Vegas and into a safe place."
But the move put financial pressure on the family as well, Christine admitted.
On the most recent episode of Sister Wives that aired earlier this year, she admitted in her confessional: "Financially, we're drowning."
Kody and the family have kept a low profile during this year's pandemicCredit: TLC
As The Sun reported, Kody dropped $1.8 million on homes and land, including $820,000 on vacant property called Coyote Pass to be split into four parcels to eventually build on.
The family had trouble selling their four Sin City homes, which were located in a cul-de-sac.
The houses eventually sold for thousands under their asking price.
Kody and Robyn even applied for a home equity line of credit in the amount of $150,000 on March 20, 2020 for their $890,000 home, which was approved, The Sun previously reported.
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Some info about the image dimensions and your CPU/environment would help. By the way there is planned a replacement for the current render engine.
There is no problem in GIMP, or other same graphical program - Pinta.


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Interview with Lillian Besler Cohn
Cohn, Lillian Bessler
Lillian Besler Cohn was born in Minneapolis in 1895 of immigrant parents (from Niomsk, Romania). Her father had been a miller. In this country he worked on a farm in New York and at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In Minneapolis he worked as a miller with Pillsbury Mills but became ill. After recovering he was self-employed with various occupations, including making and selling grits, running a secondhand-tool store, locksmithing and making and selling umbrellas. Lillian Besler married Louis Cohn in 1917 and has one son, Victor. She has been active in study groups, Democratic Farmer Labor Party politics and the Soviet Jewry Action Committee. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Charitable organizations in the early Jewish community - her father's hard work and hard times - her lack of education (she quit school so that her brothers could be educated) - social life in the Jewish community - anti-Semitism - and prominent citizens in the Jewish community.
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Lillian Besler Cohn Narrator Rhoda G. Lewin Interviewer February 25, 1976 Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lillian Besler Cohn Rhoda Lewin
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LC: In those days, you know there was no organized Federation. I remember that a group of men, they were what they called a Penny Society. Did you ever hear of that? They went around and they collected nickels and dimes. Well, you know, the people didn't have very much. We lived on First Street and my father was very sick at one time; I was maybe seven, eight years old. And the German Jews like Mrs. Jacobs, from the Jacobs Jewelry Store, and Mrs. Rothschild, who was one of the original Rothschilds—the Rothschild's that is now Young Quinlan's—they used to come around and see my grandmother. I think they helped out with money, too. My grandmother lived upstairs of our house because in those days, there was no support. My father, as little as he made, we had to see that she was okay. She had a daughter who worked in the cigar factory run by the Pflaums. They're now in the musical world; this was their grandfather. And then I remember later on Ruth Smilow, who's Paul Smilow's mother—he's a lawyer—she would go around and help people. I don't know that she gave them any money, but they did all the things that maybe now you have nurses that come around. They would help you if you had a childbirth, or something like that. And I remember Dr. Gordon, he charged a dollar a visit. He had an automobile, and I was only a little girl and I remember he used to come to this friend from Howard Lake, that I went to Santa Barbara with. Her mother was a very sick woman and he would make a call and then he would take all of us kids and give us a ride. He had the only automobile. RL: What year was this, about? LC: This must have been in the early 1900s. I remember so many little things from those old days. I don't know if you remember the years when there were a lot of peddlers, the Jewish men. My father didn't happen to be a peddler. My father came to America sometime in 1885-86. He worked on a farm in New York for $8 a month, he told us. Eggs were five cents a dozen! Before we go any further, can I show you a picture of my father and mother when they were married? My father's father in Europe, my grandfather, they were from a little town called Niomsk that's in Romania. They were millers, so my father 1
came here to work for Pillsbury Mills. I don't even know what he did. He probably was a laborer. He worked there a number of years, until he got sick. Then he opened up his own little store. We had a little store where he sold second-hand tools, around Eighth Avenue and Washington. It was a tiny little shack of a business. Then, later on, he moved to Ninth and Marquette, and he had a real nice store. My brother Jonas stayed a year out of high school and he took over and the business was quite prosperous. But what I wanted to tell you, the old time peddlers in those days had horses. Most of them lived on the North Side, but we lived on the South Side, on Longfellow Avenue. We were one of the very few people there. My father worked at the World's Fair in Chicago, that was in 1890, I think, and then they came to Minneapolis, as I say, because of the milling situation. And then my father bought some kind of a machine or something and he made groka—that's grits—and so we had contact with a lot of people. At our house—we lived on Third Street and Fourteenth—we had a great big room, what they called the front room, and we had a telephone. The kind you ring, you know. My uncle, Mr. Sutsmuz (?), and the immigrants would come to our house. It was rather a meeting place. Dr. Rosen, while he was learning to be a doctor, was a barber in our house. [Laughter] He rented the front room every Sunday. [Laughter] This was the way we lived. These peddlers, on Sunday, would take their horses and they would have a buggy and they'd go out to Minnehaha Falls with their families, and with their horses. We never had a horse, because my father never peddled or anything like that, but a lot of the families, that's how they started in those days, because they started from scratch. A lot of our Jews, at that time, worked for the Milwaukee Railroad in the yard, in the shops. They worked hard, six days a week. There was no labor law then. I got married in 1917 and I left with my husband, and I can't tell you a great deal about those times, except I remember when the Foshay was built. My father was a locksmith, he was an expert in locks, and he also did umbrellas. There used to be a man, and they called him Sabley something—I can't remember his last name—and he would go on trips. He was like a missionary, only I don't think he was too religious. You know what I mean. He was a pseudo religious person, at least that's the way I thought. And so he'd come, when he'd go on one of these trips, and my father would make him an umbrella. Then when he came back he always gave my father a picture. He went around all over the world. Eddie Schwartz, I bet, would know his name; he was quite a character and he was very, very well known in Minneapolis at that time. And Eddie Schwartz's mother and father -- his father was a printer, Meyer Schwartz, and the mother's name was Daisy -- they were a delightful couple. The father, I think, at one time had a dancing school as just a side-line. My father also belonged to a lodge. And my mother would give the men their lunch. It was cold, you know, in the wintertime, and they would come in. They would bring maybe a sandwich or something, and my mother would give them a bowl of soup, or some hot coffee. There were quite a few who came. RL: These were the peddlers?
LC: Yes. Then there was Eastman the baker, whose daughter Pokey married Ben Katz -her name is Claire—and she drove his wagon. RL: How old was she when she was driving for him? LC: Well, she must have been a real young girl. She's a University graduate. I don't know, she must be about your age. Are you in about your forties or fifties? RL: Forties. LC: I think she's about your age. She's a college graduate. And she married this Ben Katz who had been very successful in the drug business, and I think they're retired now. And their little daughter works in the office with Paisner now [Dr. Hyman Paisner], and she has that audiograph. She does that kind of work. RL: Now you said you left Minneapolis when you got married? LC: Yes. I married, and then we traveled for a few years, and we come back. Victor was actually raised by my mother from the time he was six, until almost the time she got sick. We'd come back and stay a couple of months. Then, after my mother died, he stayed with my brothers. My brothers were both lawyers. When my father had that store on Washington Avenue, and that's when he got over being so terribly sick. He was sick for two years at one time, and we had awfully hard times, we just had terrible hard times. I can't tell you how terrible they were. Then my father got a job putting out the streetlights, lighting them and putting them out. They had gas lights in those days. And my brother would help him. Then my brother broke his leg—he was in a cast—and he was just a kid, maybe nine or ten years old then. Then my father starts to go into business. Any my mother used to drag my brother Jonas, who was about five, six years old, she'd drag him with her every day she went down and helped my father out. This is how hard people worked in those days. It wasn't easy for us. And my brothers, they all became lawyers. My brother Ben was in the student training course at the university, and he got a scholarship to study law at night. Then, because Ben had the books, Phil took 'em and he became a lawyer. Phil became a very good lawyer, and he never cared for money. He could practice in Federal Court. He was in with one of the two Kerry brothers. Was it Archie Kerry that was the one that was well known? They were criminal lawyers, and Archie was the best one. And in that office also was Abbie Ginsberg. RL: Were those the Ginsbergs that became Gilbert? LC: No, that's a different Ginsberg. You know Rose Gortson of Sargent Gortson, this was her cousin. Abbie was a brilliant lawyer. I wouldn't want this to come out in any copies, 'cause I could be sued by someone. But Abbie was in this office with my brother Phil, and Abbie always wanted .a little percentage on everything. He was finally 3
disbarred. He was a brilliant lawyer. He could have been a very rich man if he had stuck to his work, but he liked to talk a little bit all the time. He was convicted of selling stock to priests, and he served in Sandstone prison. He had a sister, Ann Strauss, that lives in St. Paul, and also Kate Brooks, Katie. She was married to Keavey Brooks. In the 1920s and the 1930s, my brother handled many, many Federal cases. He'd go to Fargo. He knew the Sterns very well, from Fargo. They were Benny Harris' friends. Benny Harris had a bar here. But as I said, Phil never cared for money. He would do many, many cases for nothing. He'd go to the City Jail, and he saw a man whose wife is still around here, so I wouldn't tell you his name, and he said to this fellow, "What are you doing here?" And he said, "Well, I've been arrested from the." So he said, "You got an attorney?" He said, "No, I got no money for an attorney." So Phil said, "Well, Joe, I'll be your attorney, I don't want any money from you." He died with a few thousand dollars, because he didn't care for money. My brother Ben, on the other hand, went into the training corps... RL: What training corps? LC: Students' training corps—what do they call it—at the university. RL: The ROTC? LC: The ROTC, and then got the scholarship when he came out. Then, when he was forty-one years old, he was drafted and joined the Marines! He was a top sergeant in the Marines. And he worked in adjudication at the Veterans Administration. My youngest brother, Jonas, also became a lawyer, but he became interested in the pinball business and never did practice law. RL: What was that bar you mentioned? Somebody owned a bar, you said. LC: Benny Harris. RL: What bar was that? LC: On Eighth Avenue and Fourth Street. I don't know if he was in the rackets or not. I don't know if you'd like to mention something about Ernie Fleigel. Their name originally was Fleigeltopf. And after the first World War, Ernie was a fighter, he was a lightweight, and the father went to Germany and bought up a lot of razor blades and all kinds of stuff. The poor guy, I guess he lost every cent he made on it. But Ernie became a prizefighter, and then opened up the 620 Club. I don't know if you ever knew that at the 620 they had the Round Table. Did you know about the Round Table? RL: Tell me about it. LC: Well, they had a Round Table where a lot of men about town . . . Ernie Schraeder, 4
Benny Haskel . . . I know all about him, too, because he was my brother's uncle. [Laughter] I don't know if this stuff's going to be any help to you or not. RL: Yes. Who else belonged to the Round Table? LC: Well, Benny Haskell, a few judges... I can't remember their names... a few top lawyers, men from around City Hall... You had to be invited to sit at the Round Table. They would come and have their lunch. When my brother Phil died, my brother Ben was invited. And he dropped dead—was it in 1957 or was it 1967? He was sitting there one noon, and he dropped dead at that Round Table. RL: When did this begin? LC: Well, it must have started in the 1930s or so. Phil was well known around town, very well known. He belonged to a bridge club at the Radisson. Phil was an expert bridge player, and they used to play in back of a... You never knew Sophie Siegel or Doris Siegel, did you? They had a brother, Ben Siegel—he's out in California, I think—and one of their brothers had a cigar store here, and when we couldn't find Phil, when somebody would call him up—he would often get calls late at night, you know—we'd call this cigar store. I don't know if anybody is running it now, on Seventh Street and Second Avenue North. I don't even know where it is, I never saw it, but I used to call it all the time. Benny Haskell, their family, my uncle Mr. Zuckman, who was married to my father's sister, he was one of the older ones. Benny and his brother Joe and another brother, Sam Zuckman... the name was Zuckman, it was never Haskell... Haskell was his father's name. Benny married Christy Haskell. He went to Canada and met her and she was a very beautiful girl at the time. And many years, I don't remember how many years, later, they opened their liquor store and they prospered very, very much. They have this one daughter who lives in Oklahoma. RL: That was after prohibition that they opened the liquor store. Cohn; Yes. That was my father's brother. He was sick... he used to go down to Rochester for many, many years. He knew the Mayos very well. They used to tell a joke about him, that he ate so many salami sandwiches that his stomach was no good. They went down to Rochester and they had a beautiful daughter, a gorgeous girl, and one time they went down there and Christy sat next to a lady from Oklahoma and they started to talk, and she said I have a beautiful daughter, and the other one said, I have a beautiful son, they showed 'em the pictures, and would you believe it, she married a very rich young man from... I think it's Tulsa, Tulsa or Oklahoma City, one of the two. Christy now lives in the Towers. I don't think she socializes much at all...or anything. I really know very little about her. At one time we were very close. RL: You say you traveled during the 1920s. What business was your husband in? 5
LC: He sold advertising, cookbooks and various things, and so I would be in and out of Minneapolis and we'd take an apartment, and I also lived in Chicago for a while. We would travel and Victor would stay with my parents. RL: You'd be gone for months at a time? LC: Well, every time we got to Chicago we'd have Vic come down and stay with us. But he'd have to go to school here, you know. He went to South High, and he graduated and he started to go with Marcella when he was just seventeen years old. He skipped a couple of grades in school, and he also wrote... I think he was like an editor at that little junior high school on Thirteenth Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street. I don't know the name of it. He was always interested in writing. Victor was editor of the Minnesota Daily at one time. And his very good friend was the one who wrote "Mr. Roberts." RL: Tom Heggen. LC: Victor was a pallbearer at his funeral. They were very, very close at that time, with Tom Heggen and also Chuck Roberts who was the Washington correspondent for Newsweek for many, many years. Once in a while, I'll see him when I go to Washington. This time we didn't see him. He's working for some private group. RL: Now, let's back track for a minute. You said you got married when you were twenty-two . . . This was in 1917. Did you work before you were married? LC: Yes, I was a stenographer. RL: Who did you work for? LC: I worked for a Minneapolis concern. They're not in business anymore. They were Smith something or other that used to manufacture outside plumbing and things like that, and they were a big concern out southeast. I don't remember their names anymore. That was a long time ago. RL: Did you have any special training to be a stenographer? LC: Sure, I went to Minnesota Business College. At first I worked for $3 a week. My parents, as I say, struggled so my brothers all had what they called a melamed. I didn't have any Jewish education, so when I was fourteen years old I wanted to go to high school, and I did go for one year. I wanted to go longer, and my mother said to me, "Lily (she called me Lily), we can't afford to send you, we can send you but we can't buy you any clothes. The boys have to have a good education, they have to get along with the girls," she says, "but we just don't have enough money." So I had a friend, Doris Siegel, 6
whose sister Sophie worked for the Davis's. They had a great big store, and she was the main person there. I went to work for $3 a week as a cash girl, in Donaldson's. After two, three years they promoted me to $5 a week in patterns. Well, in those days you had to work awfully hard, and they wanted me to do something, and I didn't want to do it, so they fired me. My father had a store at the time, and I said to him, "Papa, this is not for me. To make $5 a week, there is nothing in it. I want to go to business college. Will you loan me the money?" So he loaned me $60. That's what it was for the term. So I went to business college. I still have a typewriter that I bought a few years ago...I've had a couple of them. I went to business school and took up Gregg shorthand and became a steno. I went to Chicago, and that's where I met my husband, and we came back to Minneapolis and I was married here. Then, after a few years, I stopped working, but when we came to Minneapolis, as I say, Lou was still in advertising and it was the beginning of the second World War... RL: Did you work after you were married? LC: No, no! Not the first few years. But when we came to Minneapolis and Victor was already grown up, then I needed to work. My husband had no training. He sold advertising, so Vic said to him, "Why don't you go up to the Jewish World? Maybe they can use you." Sure enough, we went up there and Mr. Frisch and we have become very good friends. I got a letter yesterday from Janet. Whenever she comes, she stays with me for a month. She stopped here last summer for a whole month and she writes to me, she calls me on the phone. So Mr. Frisch said to him, "If you get me seventy-five or a hundred names of prospective advertisers..." So we went all over town, we wrote down names, we didn't know who, what or when. But Lou happened to be a very good salesman. He never got rich on it, but we got along pretty good, and when he died in 1971, he was on retirement then, he was doing a little holiday advertising, so I took it over for about two years. I wasn't hardly making anything on it. It started with $1,800 a year and then down to $1,400 a year because I didn't try to get any new ones, and I discovered that my income tax went up, and I thought it isn't worth it to me, so I quit two years ago. RL: Did you belong to any organizations then? LC: This Saturday group, the old Aleph Club of Hadassah, has been going many, many, many years. I remember many years ago going to Sadie Shapiro's. I didn't belong at that time. And years ago they had Mr. Herzl . . . he would talk to them. Blanche Goldberg— there's another one you go to interview—she was a Halpern, and she can tell you many, many things. She's a good friend of mine. Blanche Goldberg knows many, many things, she can tell you about the old settlers in North Dakota, if you're interested. But this Aleph Club, Dorothy Brin belonged, Schuman. I was asked to belong many many years ago. I said no, because my husband was off on Saturday and I wanted to be with 7
him. But about seven or eight or nine years ago Gert Epstein went to California and Beth Fish said to me, "Lil, why don't you belong?" They won't take in just anybody, it has to be within a certain number, because the apartments now aren't big enough, but at that time . . . And then Esther Rosenbloom, who's our leader, said to me, "Yes, Lil." We discuss different things. It used to be that they'd say the old aliyah, but it isn't any more. It's sort of a private thing. Frances King . . . Dr. Goldberg, Isadore Goldberg, it's his sister . . . belonged for many years . . . RL: What do you discuss? Current events? LC: Rosie Sitkin, who died recently, belonged... Lena Green belonged, and her sister Esther Rivkin... They're from the old Hadassah, and they all belonged to the Saturday group. Idelle Silverman, she belongs. She was on the school board in Golden Valley, or Robbinsdale. Her husband is at the University. We meet once a month. This is the book we study. We just got through with it. Now we should have discussions. RL: "Little Redneck," the Stillman boys This must have started around the 1930's. LC: Oh, it started many years ago, as I say . . . but it's gotten away from Hadassah. It's private now, and Esther, you know, is quite set in her ways. She just doesn't take in anybody anymore. Ethel Goldman belongs. RL: Yes. It's an honor to be asked... LC: I don't know that it's such an honor. Rose Broude belongs, Sophie but you're supposed to do something. Betty Davis belongs . . . she's a newcomer. And so we meet, and last time, Frances King recorded something. I was supposed to give the part of the Sidur on Moses and the Ten Commandments, on Mt. Sinai, and I had it all written out, that I had done once before, a few years ago, and I thought last Saturday was the day, a part of the Pentateuch. I thought, gee, I'll give that, that will be just fine. And I added more to it. Then Frances King called me up, she said, "Lil, would you mind, I listened to Rabbi Zeilengold . . ." I don't know if you've ever listened to him. I never listen to him, never; I forget about it, and he's from the Lubavitcher, very strict. I'm not for him and I'm not against him. Put it that way. I'm just not too interested! RL: Tell me, were you at all involved in any of the synagogues as a young person? LC: Years ago. I've been involved with B'nai Abraham since I came back to Minneapolis in 1941. RL: Then when your family came here, and you lived on the South Side, there was... LC: Oh, my father, my grandfather were members of B'nai Abraham. My grandfather 8
never worked. He was a man with a lovely beard, very dignified. Then afterwards, my father broke off from them and we joined a little synagogue called the Seventeenth Avenue Synagogue. Mr. Gottlieb belonged to it, and I can't remember who else belonged to it. My father was president of that for a number of years, and later on we went back, for some reason or other, to the B'nai Abraham, and Victor was Bar Mitzvah at the B'nai Abraham. In those days they didn't have any big Bar Mitzvahs. We just had a little cake, or whatever it was, nothing much. You talked about Harvey, Harry, the Ginsbergs— Gilbert, they changed their name later on—they lived across the street from our house. I remember them as kids. And Harry, I understand he lost his license, but he got it back again. Rose Broude was telling me the other day, he belongs to a congregation now in Burbank. She saw him. RL: When you think back, can you remember any particular anti-Semitism in Minneapolis in those early years—in the 1930s—that affected you in any way? LC: Well, we used to be called "sheeney." But on the other hand, we lived next door to a saloon on Fifteenth Avenue and Sixth Street and Mrs. Norris was the owner of the saloon. Every time my mother would have a wash day -- by then we had some sort of machine -the rollers would fall out and my mother would wait for my brother Jonas to come and put in these rollers. Mrs. Norris would bring my mother a bottle of port wine, every time there was a wash day. Her boys unfortunately met a bad end, but I'm not gonna tell you about them because what good does it do? They were very good to the Jews. The Holtzerman boys grew up with us. The Schanfields -- Noah Schanfield, his brother Joe Schanfield – they were friends. They came from the same town in Europe that my father did. Esther Rosenbloom was a Schanfield and Mollie was a good friend of Morrie, who still lives in Excelsior. I don't know if he is interested in Jewish things or not; I doubt it very much. He's the Schanfield Insurance Company. Does he ever come to any Jewish affairs? I don't think I have ever seen him. He married a girl who was half Swedish and half Jewish. I know he was Jewish because I saw where he had a Jewish burial. But I think his kids have all intermarried. And Joe Schanfield, who was always a very nice man, we knew that family. They had a sister who was a school teacher, and Esther has a sister in New York that comes here all the time. She's from Noah's family. Then there was I.S. Joseph. My father gave him his first haircut in this country! Would you believe it? He had a father that they called Shirma (?) who was an uncle to the Schanfields and when he came to Minneapolis he lived a block or two away. We all lived in that same vicinity (in South Minneapolis), Fifth Street, Sixth Street, Seventh Street, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth Avenue, all around there. I think the Glicks lived somewhere a little further toward Franklin already, in a little better neighborhood, a little bit more up hill than ours. This I.S. Joseph was a poor boy and he worked for this grain company, and somehow or other he got into the business. Noah Schanfield owned a lot of property on the old South Side. So did the Holtzermans. 9
Remember all those brown buildings? There was a bunch of brown buildings near Cedar and Sixth Street and Seventeenth Avenue, and they were all painted brown. All those houses that were painted brown belonged to the Holtzermans. They say he was a Nazi, but I don't know. The boys used to call my brother Joiny—his name in Jewish was Jonah—but I don't know that they had any fights over being Jews or anything. And I remember in my class when I graduated from public school we had a couple of colored kids. And I had a colored music teacher. I didn't take lessons long, because I didn't like it, so I don't know anything about music, but she told me that they had trouble, at that time. She complained to me. But we didn't have any prejudice at that time against colored people. We didn't mix with them socially; you know what I mean. I don't to this day; I don't know why. The only one I ever knew I thought was a wonderful man; he was at the First National Bank in north Minneapolis, and he was on the Park Board. RL: John Warder LC: Yeah, John Warder, who was the most wonderful man in the world. I once belonged to an organization, through Council (National Council of Jewish Women, Minneapolis Chapter), called the... something about equal opportunity. I was their recording secretary for a long time. And he'd come to our house and bring our stuff. He was the most wonderful man, but... we were separate, let's say... we were separate from them, just like the Jews were separate. We have now integrated a great deal, and every family—in my family, Jeffrey, who's Debbie's husband, is half Jewish—we've gotten together lots more. Sometimes we like it, sometimes we don't, but you have live with it. RL: Wasn't there a lot of intermarriage, though, even fifty years ago? LC: Well, now my mother had two sisters, and my mother hadn't seen her sisters for thirty-seven years. They lived in New York. When Victor was about two years old, we went to New York and met my mother's family. And lo and behold, this Julius Kitts, who was my uncle, my mother's sister's husband, he wasn't Jewish! She knew him from the old country, and she married him. I don't know how they were married. They never had children. When the Jewish holidays would come, he'd to the synagogue with her, and she buried him in the Jewish cemetery. My other aunt, Rosie, was married twice, and neither time were they Jewish. So there was some of it, of course. Now that they go to college, there's a lot more of it, but there's always been some. And as far as anti-Semitism goes, I remember there was a Catholic school on Eighth Street and Fourteenth Avenue South, and sometimes our kids would have fights with those kids. They were strict Catholics. They all lived in what they called the Flats, and there were one or two Jewish families that lived there. One is a Salinger girl who belongs to Council, and these were either her husband's great-grandparents or grandparents. But it was mostly the Polish people lived down there. We used to call them Polacks. They were very uneducated, uncultured 10
people. These flats were way down by the river. They were squatters, and they had these little shacks or houses that they didn't have to pay nothing on. They didn't pay no taxes, no rent, no nothing. There were only one or two Jewish families that lived there. (Remind me to talk to you about Mr. Berman, the baker. I'll tell you some funny things about him.) But I don't remember we suffered any anti-Semitism. I know that Jews didn't belong to certain things, and all that. But we were not in a position to belong to any of these clubs or anything, so it didn't affect us much. When you worked, you had to write down that you were Jewish. I remember Rose Midanek, when she went to work—and this was much later; it must have been the 1940s or so—she worked for a grain company. She was a stenographer and a bookkeeper. And she brought along a book from the library that was in her sister's name, Molly Goldberg, and left the book there one night. The next week they told her she was through! But now you don't see that. I remember when we first came to Minneapolis, and Lou was selling advertising and he lost his job, and as I told you, we were at loose ends. He worked for a short time for some government project, about six months... this was in the 1940s... and I went to Honeywell to get a job, and you have to write "Jewish." I was refused. They didn't say why, but I am sure that was why. RL: What were you going to tell me about Berman, the baker? LC: When we lived on Fifteenth Avenue and Sixth Street, next to this saloon, Mr. Berman had a Jewish bakery on Fifth Street. He had two sons. Do you know who Joe Rosenthal is? He was a druggist, and their oldest girl, Marie, was married to Berman's son. He had a horse and buggy and he'd go around and deliver bread. And Mr. Berman used to go down to the flats all the time. Always a lot of drinking down there. And his horse was blind, but the horse used to know his way home! And when Victor was growing up and we lived around the corner, Victor used to go there and get bread. They have a daughter here, Sarah Haskell, she lives in Edina. She married a druggist who was very well off and she is a widow. She adopted a nephew; she never had children. But Mr. Berman, this horse would lead him home! Mrs. Berman was one of the nicest ladies you could ever find in your life. She was related to the Frieds on the North Side. And she would give every child who came in a doughnut. Every child who came in would get a doughnut from her! But he was a character, and he was well-known in his day. They belonged to the Adath Israel when the Adath was on Ninth Street. The Adath must have come there in the 1920s or 1930s. But he always stayed with the other synagogue. RL: Do you remember anything about World War I particularly? LC: Well, that's when I was married, in 1917, and my husband was exempt for some reason. My brother Phil was in the Navy for four years. He went overseas for three years. And Ben was in the ROTC, I remember. I remember when Phil came out of the Navy. You had to buy bonds, and I remember at that time, Lou was doing pretty good, so we bought a couple thousand dollars' worth of bonds. We disposed of them a few years later. 11
I don't remember if we lost or gained anything. Mr. Nathanson, from Canada, who became a magnate in the movies, I think they were related to Maxine Nathanson's family, they were cousins... I remember the bond drives. I remember in Milwaukee, one time, I sold doughnuts for the Salvation Army. We traveled a lot in those days...and did we travel by car? No. I remember more about the people in that period then I remember about the events that happened. RL: You said Mrs. Norris was such a good person. What did she do? Did she live in the neighborhood, too? LC: They lived right above the saloon. She has a niece who is still living, that Frances Litwin knows. RL: But she was a good neighbor? LC: Oh, she was a marvelous neighbor. She would do anything for anyone. She was just such a sweet person. He was a drinker, but she was everything that was nice. And my mother and her became very dear friends. When we went to Chicago...and her oldest son had open (?) or what they called a boarding house in those days, for her... and I met her and the daughter in Chicago. None of them are living any more. John Norris had a bar on the North Side, on Broadway, for many years. His widow is still living. He's the only one who really out-lived them all. But he died. He had what they called the Crystal Bar, but I don't remember it. I never was there. RL: What did the neighbors do.....? LC: Well, neighbors would come together. There were an awful lot of people that would come to the house, bearded men. They were always collecting for something. So what did you give them? You gave them a quarter. You gave them fifty cents. We had neighbors— I won't tell you their names, `cause some of their relatives might still be living—and one of the sons was slightly retarded. The father worked in the Milwaukee Railroad shop. He was a real tall fellow, and they lived right in back of our house, on Thirteenth Avenue. He'd lost his job, and he wouldn't talk to his parents after that. There was a Franklin Theatre, and my mother gave him a dollar every week so he'd have money to go to the show. The neighbors took care of one another. We had a neighbor, Harold Davis. He and Bud (?) owned some apartments on. Leo Davis, they lived on Clinton, and they have a daughter, Barbara Davis, who is married to a man from Baltimore. She lives in St. Paul. She's a school teacher. And their father owned the Davis Furniture Company. They made living room, or dining room, furniture; I don't remember which. They were very good, good friends. People would gather on Saturday night, sang and danced, and we would go to different people's houses. I don't think there was a lot of drinking -- there might have been -- but I was just a young girl. And when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, Davis was in the upholstering business, and I tutored English to a couple of his people -- I didn't 12
know much English, but I knew more that they did -- so they would know how to read and write English. My father never had an English education when he came to this country, and my mother couldn't read or write. But she was very shrewd and very bright. She could do more without reading and writing, than most people do... and I'm not bragging. My father, he had a repair shop for locks, and made keys, and he worked for Mr. Foshay, made keys for his office in the Foshay building. People would come in and he would give `em a claim check and he would write it in Jewish. He went to night school here but he never conquered how to read and write good. He could read and write English, though, because we took the newspapers. When I was about six, seven years old, my father took me to the library and we both got library cards. My father was an avid reader, he loved to read. So he really did educate himself, but he never mastered the writing, so these little claim checks were in Jewish. I remember when the Foshay Building went up, some salesmen came to my father and wanted him to buy stock. He wouldn't do it. I remember we were married at this time, and Lou and I, and my mother and father, we went to the Franklin Bridge and they had all kinds of fireworks and everything, and we could see it there. And my father said, "I wonder how many people are gonna lose money." I never forgot that... and they did, you know! [Ed. note: The Foshay Tower was dedicated in 1929, and Wilbur Foshay went bankrupt soon after.] RL: You were talking about Saturday night, when you had parties... LC: Yes, we would have these parties. There's a Mrs. Sisler that lived somewhere around where your mother lived (on Ninth Street South). Her husband, Jake, was an upholsterer. And people would just meet that way. If anybody needed any assistance, they'd all get together and help. Then I think the Children's Home opened up on the North Side. I remember my mother belonging to several organizations, but she never went to any meetings. She would give a dollar here and dollar there. And I think maybe the yearly dues were a dollar or two dollars. She belonged to the Penny Society... there's a Mrs. Chiat who now is in the Sholom Residence who knows many, many things, and she told me about this. Years ago, I used to be the representative to the Women's Division of Federation. ? Moses was president and then that Mrs. Litman... she belongs to the Adath. Rose Amdur was a vice president and she told about this society. I think it was the same Penny Society, and she ran that. I don't know when they started to organize. I think there was a home for the sick... Rose Smiler, as I said, would go around to different people's houses and help them. I don't remember who else. And we went to a lot of Jewish shows. There was the Schubert, and we used to have 13
traveling Jewish shows that would come here, very, very good shows, and all the Jewish people go. They would go to Minnehaha Falls in their buggies, for excitement, or to Lake Harriet. RL: Did you do amateur theatricals, and put on little programs and things like that at your parties? LC: No, no. You know what we used to do? Sit around the table and make the table go up, you know, like the Ouija board. We had a big dining room table, and we'd all get around the table, and they'd talk Jewish, and the table would actually rise. I never could figure it out. It was like a board. RL: The spirits came to you? LC: Yeah. That was one of the things that we'd do on Saturday night. And these two men who were of Russian descent would dance the . . . you know, the knee deal [the kazatzke]. They would do the dance and they would sing. RL: And somebody, I suppose, played the piano... LC: We had a piano, but I don't remember that anybody played it. One of the men would play the violin. The men folks from Europe had played violin and they would play. My father played the accordion. He had a little accordion he used to be able to play. RL: Oh, that's marvelous. Now were these family parties, the parents and the children, or was this just a young . . . LC: No, went, and I was just fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old, and I would go to these parties. It was the young and the old, we all would participate. Harold Davis would remember, because that was way after his time. They had moved…I don't think he would remember. But I remember because I'm older. Who else was at these parties? I can't remember anymore. I don't know if anybody has ever talked to you of what they called the "veld" on the North Side. That was the section that was later on [unclear]. The Greensteins lived there. They had a bunch of kids... Evelyn, and Babe... my sister-in-law, Marge. Her brother was married…Harry Solle is Babe's husband. And Evelyn's husband was Harry Rosen. There was my sister-in-law's brothers. They were early settlers. The only one here now is Babe, but she wouldn't remember any of these things. Evelyn would remember, but Evelyn now lives in Los Angeles, in one of these residential senior homes or something or other. And the old B'nai Abraham... first they were in the house, and then they bought a building between Third and Fourth Street. Of course this is going way back, and maybe you don't want to go that far back. RL: No, that's OK. 14
LC: We had a shammes that they called Mr. Shapiro, whose daughter, Kay, is married to a Weisman in St. Paul. Sarah. She's active in the Jewish War Veterans. You know Sarah Eisenberg? She's related to them. There's a Mrs. Weinstein, lived across the street; did you know her? She was related then. Who else was related then, that looks just like them? I can't remember who. He was the shammes; he ran the whole thing. He ran the synagogue and he did everything. And when they would have Simcath Torah, he would sing and he would dance. In the 30s and the 40s—I don't remember if old man Begin was living then, he belonged to the synagogue—I remember we had a dining room table, a round table, and my mother…they came to our house after Simcath Torah, and they'd drink wine. Some of them got a little bit high. [End of interview]
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package org.purview.bilinearemanalyser

import org.purview.core.analysis._
import org.purview.core.analysis.settings._
import org.purview.core.data._
import org.purview.core.report.Warning
import scala.math._

class AnalyserImplementation extends HeatMapImageAnalyser with Settings {
  val name = "Bilinear EM analyser"
  val description = "Finds bilinearly interpolated regions in an image"
  override val version = Some("1.0")
  override val author = Some("Moritz Roth & David Flemström")

  override val message = "Bilinearly scaled region"
  override val reportLevel = Warning

  val N = 2
  val sigma = 0.0075

  val markBilinear = for(matrix <- input) yield {
    status("Performing an expectation-maximization transformation")

    val a = new MutableArrayMatrix[Float](N, N)
  }

  private val gaussian5BlurKernel = Array[Float](0.0080f, 0.016f, 0.024f, 0.032f, 0.04f, 0.032f,  0.024f, 0.016f, 0.0080f)

  override val convolve: Computation[Option[Array[Float]]] = Computation(Some(gaussian5BlurKernel))

  val heatmap = markBilinear
}


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> Scottish Ballet will thaw The Snow Queen this winter
Scottish Ballet will thaw The Snow Queen this winter
The Snow Queen concludes Scottish Ballet's 50th anniversary productions (Photo: Nicola Selby and Eve McConnachie)
Scotland's national dance company, Scottish Ballet's 50th anniversary comes to a spectacular close with the world premiere of CEO/artistic director Christopher Hampson's The Snow Queen.
Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's much-loved tale, which was also the basis for Disney's hit film Frozen, this glittering new production opens at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre on Saturday 7 December, before touring to Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and Newcastle.
Scottish Ballet's The Snow Queen is a story of love and friendship that will delight audiences of all ages.
The action is driven by three central female characters: the brave young Gerda on a quest to rescue her true love, the enigmatic pickpocket Lexi at her side, and the powerful Snow Queen at the centre of it all.
Created in collaboration with multi-award-winning designer Lez Brotherston, The Snow Queen will take audiences from a bustling winter's market, through a fairytale forest, and into the icy realms of the Snow Queen's palace.
The production will include a colourful cast of characters dressed in a total of 111 custom-made costumes, from a circus ringmaster and his troupe to dancing snowflakes and, of course, the dazzling Snow Queen herself.
Set to the music of Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the specially adapted score will be performed live by the full Scottish Ballet Orchestra. One highlight will be an on-stage violin solo, set to send shivers down audiences' spines as the choreography, design and music come together for dramatic effect.
Christopher Hampson said: 'It's been an extraordinary year for Scottish Ballet, and I'm thrilled that we bring our 50th anniversary celebrations to a close with the world premiere of The Snow Queen.
'Unpicking this fairytale to bring out its most compelling characters and focusing on their journeys has been a rewarding process. Working with the brilliant Lez Brotherston, we have reimagined the story in a spectacular new world and I hope it will entertain and delight audiences of all ages.'
Designer Lez Brotherston, said: 'It's rare to be given the opportunity to create the visual imagery for a new piece of work; designing costumes and set to tell the story. Christopher and I have collaborated on creating our own version of The Snow Queen, giving opportunities to dance and movement as we create new characters and their backstories.
'For me, The Snow Queen has got magic, mystery and romance and it's my hope that audiences will be taken on a journey that catches their imagination this winter.'
Constance Devernay, is helped into costumer for Scottish Ballet's The Snow Queen by Christopher Hampson (Photo: Rimbaud Patro)
The performances will be accompanied by an extensive community engagement programme in schools and care homes across Scotland, as well as a special inclusive performance in Edinburgh on 19 December.
The Snow Queen will provide the stage for the culmination of Scottish Ballet's Five Wishes campaign, which has seen the company make wishes come true across Scotland in 2019 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations.
The fifth wish will see retired musician Colin, who is living with Parkinson's, invited to conduct the Scottish Ballet Orchestra in rehearsal for The Snow Queen. Finally, on 12 December, Alzheimer Scotland's Every Voice Community Choir from Dumbarton will be invited on stage to perform a Christmas song. This will be the culmination of the Five Wishes story, followed by BBC Scotland for a special documentary to be broadcast in late December 2019.
The Snow Queen is the second major commission of Scottish Ballet's Five in Five, an ambitious new commitment to stage five new full-length ballets over five years; one for every decade of the company's history.
In total, Scottish Ballet seeks to raise £5 million over five years to deliver these new works, and their associated access and engagement programmes. As part of the Five in Five fundraising campaign, Scottish Ballet launches the Costume Appeal to help make this production of The Snow Queen possible.
Audiences are encouraged to play their part and donate to help bring Lez Brotherston's stunning creations to life.
For more information, to book tickets to The Snow Queen, and to donate to the Costume Appeal, visit scottishballet.co.uk/event/snow-queen
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