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Three Islands Press : Modern Handwriting : Professor
Professor™ ($39)
Packages: 3IP Library, Handwriting Set
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My father, Leslie Willson, had a long, distinguished career as a professor of Germanic languages—with a special interest in contemporary German arts and letters. (His DIMENSION literary magazine, 1968–1994, is famous in the field.) About the time he retired from teaching, he also retired from writing in longhand after I turned his script into a digital typeface. Professor is a slightly modified version of my father's cursive hand, a good, strong, helpful, friendly, personable hand—much like the man himself. Comes in a single, medium-weight style. US$39.
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    this.news = [];
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      handleSetSelectedTeamMember: AltActions.SET_SELECTED_TEAM_MEMBER,
      handleSetSelectedShopItem: AltActions.SET_SELECTED_SHOP_ITEM,
      handleSetSelectedNewsItem: AltActions.SET_SELECTED_NEWS_ITEM
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    this.team = content.team;
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Offered in single-variety bunches (Units) averaging 50-60 plants each. 3 Unit, 5 Unit, and 30 Unit quantity orders must each consist of one variety; no mixing and matching. Jumbo to colossal size, flattened bulbs famous for their sweet, mild flavor. This is one of the varieties grown as a Vidalia-type in the well-known onion-producing region of Georgia. Not suitable for storage. Adaptation: 20-36° latitude. Intermediate resistance to pink root.
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App by app, Google is bringing self-serving Intents to iOS
by Chris Duckett in Australian Technology , in Developer on May 7, 2013, 12:31 PM PST
Google makes it easier for iOS app developers to integrate with Chrome.
From today, iOS developers are able to have a small taste of Android Intents, as Google has announced its OpenInChromeController class.
Fundamentally, the class does nothing exceptional that iOS devs would not have done before; it searches the device to see whether Chrome is installed, and, if it is, it will pass the handling of the URL to Chrome.
What is new is the way that Chrome handles being passed this URL with the addition of a back button that notifies the user that they will be passed back to another application.
(Image: Google)
It's a decent piece of design by Google.
As someone who is primarily an Android user, there is one stand-out gripe with iOS that appears whenever I return to an Apple device: the lack of support for a default browser.
If you love Safari, then the immutable selection by Apple to make the browser solely responsible for handling URLs is one of those "it just works" moments. But if you've moved beyond using Apple's in-house apps, then you're in for a world of pain that is presumably punishment for not doing it the Apple way.
The results of this core design decision by Apple are strewn throughout the app ecosystem. Why should my Twitter client need to handle URL loading in a web view? Surely that activity would be better handled from a dedicated browser app, rather than a wrapped browser-like widget. Typically, there is no support for browser-like activities, such as bookmarking, syncing, or searching for a word/phrase in these web views, either.
Each time I use an iPhone, these thoughts return, and it makes me appreciate Android's Intent system all the more. It's one of the few unique things that Android users can genuinely boast to users of other mobile operating systems.
If only Google would learn from this, and provide the same sort of "you are about to return to another app" notification on Android. Imagine being able to avoid getting lost in the Android back button maze that can occur when you untombstone an app.
Google has already taken it a step further this week by providing the ability to launch Google Maps, Chrome, and YouTube from its iOS Gmail app.
It is Intents of a kind — the kind that keeps you locked into Google's ecosystem on iOS.
As someone who has by and large replaced Apple's default apps with their Google equivalents, it'll have to do for now.
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Home Gaming News WRC8 Racing Across All Formats This September
WRC8 Racing Across All Formats This September
WRC 8, the official video game of the FIA World Rally Championship, will be released across all major consoles. PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC this September. To get you all salivating just that little bit more, they've released a brand-new video that shows you more information on the revamped career mode.
WRC is the most authentic and full WRC racing game every created. There's new off-road physics for every surface. Career mode has been completely redesigned, there are extreme and dynamic weather conditions. All that, spread across a game with 52 teams, 14 countries, over 100 special stages, weekly challenges and an eSports mode.
So, what is this Career Mode?
The career mode is often the most played, of all the WRC game modes, and the development guys and gals wanted to make sure that they designed content that the fans wanted.
The new career mode mimics, as close as possible to the real-world experience of becoming a professional rally car driver. You need to progress as you race through the various WRC seasons to ultimately become the world champion. You need to progress in three different areas.
Plan your time effectively. What events do you do between rallies? Do you train, perform manufacturer challenges, compete in classic events or simply put your feet up and relax?
Manage your crew that comprises of 6 different and related jobs. You'll need to think about each role individually, consider your unique characteristics and use them well.
Research and develop upgrades for your team, using R&D and their own skill trees, that evolve based on your choices. Every decision you make can impact your teams progression, and their morale.
Your rally's stats available at the end of each race, will give you all the information you need to compare against your competitors and adjust your tactics, in order to climb the rankings, upgrade your car and recruit the right people.
WRC 8 will be released in September 2019 across all major platforms, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. Stay tuned to thezombiechimp.com for more information.
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Sebring FL Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers
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A spinal cord injury (SCI) is a difficult and often life-changing event. Back injuries and neck injuries are some of the most agonizing and crippling conditions anyone can endure; they may cause uncertainty, frustration, financial hardship, and grief. If you have a catastrophic injury that you believe is the result of someone's negligence, a spinal cord injury lawyer may be able to help you receive the benefits that you deserve.
A spine injury involves damage to the spinal cord or surrounding tissues, bones, nerves, or blood vessels. This trauma can result from injuries received in a car accident, workplace accident, slip and fall accident, defective product, truck accident, motorcycle accident, and other possible causes. The severity of a spine injury can vary from a sprain or strain to herniated discs, paralysis, and even death. The symptoms may be apparent immediately or gradually develop, and may result in:
Loss of function or feeling
Breathing complications
Tingling sensation or sensory loss
Digestive system dysfunction
Extreme pain
Paralysis (loss of control of any part of the body)
A difficulty with walking or standing
How Back Injury Attorneys Help Clients
A several spinal injury may require long-term medical care, attendant care, home modifications, and rehabilitation. If you believe that your injury was caused by someone's negligence, you may be entitled to compensation. SCI victims and their families can sleep easier with spine cord attorneys watching out for their best interests. Personal injury attorneys help spinal cord injury victims fight for back injury settlements; injury lawyers may also be able to assist with::
Investigating the accident and working to prove negligence
Battling for workers' compensation benefits
Coordinating and assisting with doctor's appointments, medical treatments, and caretaking issues
Fighting for maximum recovery
Helping to relieve the burden and overwhelming stress often associated with spinal cord injury claims
Spinal Cord Stimulation Provides Hope for Paraplegics
It is estimated that there are 276,000 Americans who live with a spinal cord injury. Until now, many clinicians report little to no improvement after a year of suffering a spinal cord injury. However, according to the journal PLOS One, new research has shown that epidural stimulation can help spinal cord injury patients to initiate movement and even stand and bear weight even years after becoming paralyzed.
An epidural stimulator is a device that is implanted in the spinal cord of patients to help generate signals from the brain to the spinal cord to initiate movement. The studies have shown the epidural stimulation has helped paraplegics to sit and even stand with the help of electrical currents via electrodes on the spinal cord that the patients can control via a remote.
Researchers intend to continue studying the spinal cord and the mechanics of spinal cord simulations in hopes that further progress can be made to enhance recoveries early on and increase the quality of life for paraplegics.
If you or a loved one suffer from a spinal injury due to the negligence of another, those responsible for the injury may have the duty to provide compensation for the profound physical and emotional loss. Time can be of the essence; delaying legal recourse could cause you to miss out on the damages that may be owed to you by the liable party. A lawyer trained in spinal cord injury litigation can help explain these deadlines.
Burnetti, P.A., works hard because we know the future of our clients depends on it. The firm's spinal cord injury lawyers represent clients that reside in Tampa, Orlando, Lakeland, and other Florida communities. For a no-obligation, free consultation, fill out the case evaluation form or call 1-888-BURNETTI.


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Q: C# Float to Real in SQL Server I am attempting to use Entity Framework and have a contact database that has Longitude and Latitude data from Google Maps.
The guide says that this should be stored as float.
I have created my POCO entity which includes Longitude as a float and Latitude as a float.
I have just noticed that in the database, these both come up as real.
There is still a lot of work to be done before I can get any data back from Google, I am very far away from testing and I was just wondering if anyone can tell me if this is going to be a problem later on?

A: Nope, that should be fine. Note that you may not get the exact same value back as you received from Google Maps, as that would have been expressed in decimal-formatted text. However, this is effectively a physical quantity, and thus more appropriate as a float/double/real/(whatever binary floating point type you like) than as a decimal. (Decimals are more appropriate for man-made quantities - particularly currency.)
If you look at the documentation for float and real you'll see that real is effectively float(24) - a 32-bit floating binary point type, just like float in C#.
EDIT: As noted in comments, if you want more than the significant 7-8 digits of accuracy provided by float, then you probably want double instead in C#, which would mean float(53) in SQL Server.

A: This link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258876(v=sql.80).aspx
explains that, in SQL Server, real is a synonym for float(24), using 4 bytes of data.  In .NET a Single precision floating point number also uses 4 bytes, so these are pretty much equivalent:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/47zceaw7(v=vs.71).aspx

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Q: Двойной клик по кнопке Есть условная клавиатура в боте с одной кнопкой: "назад", при нажатии на которую, бот отправляет пользователя в предыдущее  меню. При двойном клике на эту клавишу, бот дважды выполнит все функции этой кнопки. Хотя по задумке хочется, чтобы второй клик мыши игнорировался.
У клавиатуры vk-api есть свойство: "one_time" с параметрами True и False.
Проблему можно решить с применением параметра True, но тогда клавиатура будет исчезать, что не очень красиво выглядит.
Есть ещё способ: добавлять к каждой кнопке какую-нибудь уникальную подпись и при первом нажатии присваивать эту подпись клавише, а при втором проверять на наличие этой подписи и если она есть - игнорировать это нажатие. Но это всё, в конечном итоге, выглядит как-то громоздко и неуверенно. Поэтому встал вопрос, а есть ли какой-нибудь ещё способ решения подобной проблемы?


Youtility is marketing so useful, people would pay for it if you asked them to do so. This form of helpfulness is transforming the businesses of companies large and small all over the world. Youtility is perhaps most effective, however, when applied to industries where there is not a lot of natural differentiation between competitors. One such industry is real estate, where we often think of Realtors and property managers as homogenous entities that all do, act, and say similar things.
That's why I co-wrote Youtility for Real Estate: Why Smart Real Estate Marketing is About Help, Not Hype. This is the playbook for how real estate professionals can massively accelerate their business by fundamentally shifting how they think about value, their customers, and their marketing.
The book launches tomorrow (November 4) and is available at Amazon.com and BN.com as an electronic download for the spectacularly reasonable price of $2.99.
I wrote this book with the sublime Erica Campbell Byrum, head of digital marketing for ForRent.com. Erica is a brilliant marketer who has successfully applied the Youtility principles to her own business.
If you're in real estate, purchasing this book for less than 3 bucks is a no-brainer. But I'll tell you a secret: this is the best thing I've ever written. Even if you aren't in real estate, you will find huge value in this book, I promise.
In fact, if you buy a copy of Youtility for Real Estate, and you don't love it, just let me know and I'll refund your money in full.
Here's a taste of the kind of interesting examples that are in Youtility for Real Estate.
When all your marketing and communication efforts are focused on real estate, your only potential audience for that information is the small sliver of the population currently thinking about buying, selling, or leasing a property at any given time. You need to create useful marketing that appeals to customers at ALL stages of the funnel.
At the top of the funnel (sometimes abbreviated as TOFU) are potential clients who are not likely to be "in the market" yet in a classic sense. They may be receptive to buying, selling, or leasing, but haven't taken steps that would indicate that they are active in the market. For most real estate professionals, this group—which is by far the largest—is invisible and off-limits because most real estate marketing has nothing to offer this category of potential client. At this stage, these clients are primarily interested in information about communities, regional amenities, and lifestyle optimization in general.
Youtility at the top of the funnel increases your potential customer base by being helpful beyond real estate.
The middle of the funnel (MOFU) is where most real estate marketing is focused. At this stage, the potential client needs information about what's available, where, and how it all compares. This is where listing aggregators, search engine optimization, online inquiry forms, and similar tactics become commonplace. Once a potential client has expressed interest in the market (often through a search or website visit), literally dozens of real estate professionals have similar information available. The best marketers at this stage go well beyond listings and provide true expertise in an easy-to-access fashion that's sometimes assisted by remarkable technology.
The bottom of the funnel (BOFU) is where decisions are made and ratified. This is where potential clients decide between two or three real estate professionals and are looking to have specific questions satisfactorily answered, including inquiries about costs, fees, and process. This is also the stage where trust building through Youtility becomes incredibly important, especially given the disproportionately high psychological and financial stakes inherent in real estate.
The Corcoran Group is one of the largest residential real estate brokerages in New York City. Historically, conventional wisdom has suggested that luxury buyers are not as active on social media and still prefer analog, high-touch real estate processes. In recognizing the changing demographics of luxury buyers, and the true pervasiveness of social media across all population groups, the Corcoran Group turns the "social media doesn't work for luxury" axiom on its ear.
One of the top-of-the-funnel Youtility programs the Corcoran Group offers is a large collection of neighborhood-centric tips and lists on Foursquare. Social media specialist Bari Mogill and her colleagues have left thousands of tips about New York City that are digitally "attached" to specific locations. When residents use the Foursquare app to check out a location or look for things to do in the immediate vicinity, tips from the Corcoran Group pop up inside the app.
To promote these lists and provide friend-of-mine awareness at a low cost, the Corcoran Group has built an ingenious system using the firm's Twitter account and IFTTT recipes.
Holli Beckman is vice president of marketing and leasing operations for WC Smith, a real estate developer and property management firm that oversees more than ten thousand units in the Washington, DC, region. Holli also owns Apartminty, an apartment-hunting consultancy that helps locate apartments for clients across the United States. Holli writes a comprehensive and useful blog about all things apartments. She knows the apartment-locating business and realizes that it's far from easy.
Recognizing that if people were taking the time to complain about apartments on Twitter, their need was both acute and present, Holli set out to take as much pain as possible out of the process, and within thirty days she generated more than one hundred leads for Apartminty, all from Twitter.
After twenty-three years in real estate—the only job he's had outside of time spent as a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger—Joe Manausa has learned a few things about how people think about buying and selling properties and about the power of self-serve information and Youtility.
One of Joe's most successful Youtility programs is a downloadable PDF e-book called For Sale by Owner: How to Sell Your Home Yourself. Joe takes the time and effort to produce a comprehensive guide that will help people sell their house without his assistance. It's a very counterintuitive approach that most real estate professionals wouldn't even consider, much less execute.
But Joe realizes that this type of Youtility builds all-important trust by demonstrating that he has nothing to hide. Further, he actually generates new clients directly from this program.
Purchase your copy of Youtility for Real Estate today (for less than 3 dollars!). Or, you can gift it to a friend with just a click or two on Amazon.com. And remember, even if you're NOT in real estate, if you buy the book and don't find value, I'll give you your money back out of my own pocket.


What's on your travel bucket list? I've always been intrigued by the Amazon rainforest in South America!
We recently spent a week with a dear friend whose wife is from Brazil. My daughter and I asked her questions about life in Brazil and if she'd been to visit the rainforest. We talked about the diversity of Brazil—from the small beach towns and to the tiny villages along the Amazon River to the large cities.
When I've written about the jungle before, in the Sophia's Jungle Adventure yoga book, our Jungle Yoga Cards for Kids, and other blog posts, I focused animals from the Central American rain forests because of my familiarity with those places. I was fortunate enough to live and teach in Guatemala for five years many years ago. But I've never been to the Amazon.
Harpy eagle, emerald tree boa, toucan (my personal favorite), scarlet macaw, spider monkey, owl butterfly, poison dart frog, jaguar, porcupine, anteater, sloth, iguana, tapir, parrot, pink river dolphin, caiman, leaf-cutter ant, and piranha.
Many of the animals are similar to the animals in the Central American rain forests, but from what we could find out, the scarlet macaw, piranha, pink river dolphin, and emerald tree boa were specific to South America. Please correct me if we're wrong!
We also learned that the Amazon is near the equator, making it a hot and humid place for thousands of animals.
Another fun way to learn about the animals that live in the Amazon is through movement. Try these five animal yoga poses for kids below. They are in a specific sequence to invite flow from one pose to another. Don't forget to clear the space, take off your socks, practice on a non-slip surface (mat or towel), and mostly importantly, have fun!
1. Pretend to be a scarlet macaw.
How to practice WARRIOR 3 POSE: Stand on one leg. Extend the other leg behind you, flexing your foot. Bend your torso forward and take your arms back alongside your body. Pretend you are flying through the rain forest like a scarlet macaw. Switch sides and repeat the steps.
2. Pretend to be a spider monkey.
How to practice SQUAT POSE: Come down to a squat with your knees apart and your arms between your knees. Touch your hands to the ground. Pretend to be squat like a spider monkey.
3. Pretend to be a jaguar.
How to practice CAT POSE: On all fours, round your back and tuck your chin into your chest. Pretend to be a jaguar stretching on the forest floor.
4. Pretend to be a pink river dolphin.
How to practice DOLPHIN POSE: On your hands and knees, bend your elbows and rest your forearms on the ground, with your palms flat. Lift your knees to straighten your legs and look forward. Pretend to be a pink river dolphin cruising down the river.
5. Pretend to be a piranha.
How to practice LOCUST POSE: Lie on your tummy, lift your chest and shoulders, and look up. Pretend to be a piranha guiding through the shallow waters.
Where was your favorite Amazon animal yoga pose?
Explore the Jungle through fun and simple yoga poses!
Fly like a toucan, slither like a snake, and flutter like a butterfly as you act out this journey through a Costa Rican jungle with Kids Yoga Stories. The storybook includes a list of kids yoga poses and a parent-teacher guide. Jazz up your jungle story with these extension ideas. Download a free Wordsearch and Coloring Page. Age group: 4 to 7.


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Bransholme
This woman was the first to move onto Bransholme 50 years ago - and this is why she will never leave
Marjorie Ellarby got the keys to her home on Dulverton Close in 1967
Anna Riley
The estate of Bransholme was first built more than 50 years ago.
It was built on what was swamp land to provide affordable accommodation for people in the surrounding areas and was once the largest estate in Europe.
Many residents have come and gone since it was first constructed in 1967, and a memorial sculpture has recently been unveiled to mark the four generations that live on Bransholme and the sense of community in the area.
But one woman has remained a constant in the neighbourhood ever since she was the first person to move in to the then newly made council houses.
Marjorie Ellarby, 88, got the keys to her home on Dulverton Close along with her husband and three and five-year-old daughters over five decades ago and has never looked back.
Marjorie Ellarby lives at number 13 Dulverton Close (Image: Richard Addison)
She moved from Longhill and was drawn to Bransholme after hearing that central heating and garages were available there, as well as garden space.
'I'll never leave'
Mrs Ellarby says that she will never leave and that the people are the best part of the neighbourhood, and has many fond memories in Bransholme.
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"We moved in to our home in May and we were living there at least a fortnight before anyone else moved in, so it was a bit of a ghost town to begin with," she said.
"I remember that we had been there two days and we had a knock on the door from an old man who asked us how long we had been moved in for because he thought that the street was still empty.
"He said that he should have been putting the street lights on if he knew that anyone was in the houses, as it was pitch black down the street - he said he would have lost his job if anyone found out that he hadn't been putting the lights on, so we agreed to keep his secret.
"In the beginning, people kept coming to the estate to look around the houses to see if they wanted one and we made them all cups of tea and answered any of their questions.
"Then when people started moving in we helped them by showing them how the heating worked and making sure they settled in.
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"People used to get lost as every house looked the same and we used to always get knocks on the door from people asking where certain houses were, as they didn't realise that all houses were odd on one side and even on the other.
Before a Dulverton School was built on Bransholme, where Mrs Ellarby worked as a dinner lady for 26 years, her two daughters went to school in Sutton and she also remembers the initial lack of other facilities in the area such as shops and other amenities.
On "family allowance day" she had to trail down a dirt track to Sutton and remembers there was only one bus per day to get in to Hull, but would make the journey with her neighbours, who also became close friends.
Marjorie Ellarby with the sculpture (Image: Richard Addison)
Throughout her time on the estate, Mrs Ellarby, who was also the first person to buy her home from Hull City Council on the estate, says there has always been a big sense of community spirit, which was cemented during the 50 years of Bransholme celebrations last year.
"There's always been a really friendly lot that have moved in and out of the 10 foot that I'm on, where I've been from the start.
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"Everyone always joins in with things that are going on and chats to one another - the place has changed a lot since I was first here but one thing that has stayed the same is how nice the people are.
"My husband died 22 years ago and my family asked me if I was going to move to a smaller house but I flat out refused - I've got a neighbour who always takes me to the shops and we've both said we'll never move from Bransholme and that the only time we'll leave here is when we're in a box.
Mrs Ellarby has vowed never to move from Bransholme (Image: Richard Addison)
50 years of Bransholme
"We had a big celebration day for the 50 years of Bransholme and it was a lovely day, but I just can't believe how long I've been here as it's just flown by.
"I was part of the sculpture of people from the estate holding hands that was built to commemorate the anniversary, and my daughters, granddaughter and great grandson were as well, so there were four generations of my family cast in stone.
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Terrence Malick's KNIGHT OF CUPS First Look
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The Hollywood Reporter debuts a first still from Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, featuring Christian Bale and Natalie Portman on a beach together. FilmNation Entertainment reportedly shows footage to foreign distributors investing in Malick's latest experiment. The film's plot has been kept under wraps, but centers on celebrities and their excessive life of temptations. Could it give you a hope for what this movie could be? However, it's a typical Malick beautiful shot. Besides Bale and Portman, the cast includes Cate Blanchett, Antonio Banderas, Joel Kinnaman, Isabel Lucas, Imogen Poots, Wes Bentley and many others were among those who featured on set at various points. The two upcoming films from Malick, Knight of Cups and FMA Lawless, a picture set in the Texas music industry, might have some link, but exact details are still vague. Lawless follows 'two intersecting love triangles' and is a story about 'sexual obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin.' No release information is available for either film, but Knight of Cups is expected to hit theaters later this year. Check out the image below.
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Through You – How A New VR Project Dances with Intimacy
December 10, 2016 HollywoodGlee	Leave a comment
Posted by Larry Gleeson
By Lily Baldwin
I didn't do film school. I was a dancer and started making raw stop-motion shorts when touring with David Byrne. After 150 shows, I came to realize that dance enabled people to understand the music. Unsure what the "strange moves" meant, dance gave them permission to feel something they couldn't necessarily fit into words. Then is when I first felt the compulsion to turn the electricity of a live performance into an object that could transcend borders, language, and endure time. I turned my hard knock dancer-work-ethic into teaching myself how to edit with stills I'd shot (after a year I realized using a mouse made all the difference). 'Twas pure play – I wasn't even sure what the "it" of it was supposed to be.
I've built this manifesto of sorts that guides my work: Everyone speaks body, it's a universal alphabet. I define this "visceral cinema" with articulate bodies in space in relationship to a lens. Dance isn't always a virtuosic "pow"; it's about bodies that are aware of their edges and use their range. Bodies can't lie. They are the subtext of us – it's a subterranean language usually too shy to come out. Bodies speak nuance and contradiction that get lost when spoken. The clincher is fitting a body inside a lens – a practice that is significantly more crafted than grabbing footage of a crazy-cool body. I think it's a balance of these: Proximity to lens, distinct performance focus, a breathing handheld camera, knowing when/not to crop a body and lock frame, editing as a rhythm tool (cutting on action, thank you Maya Deren), and sound/music as sub-protagonist and dialogue. The final convergence shouldn't be possible in real life. "Gesamtkunstwerk," meaning "total work of art," is my favorite word, and a wink to The Ballet Russe.
Co-Directing: Where Differences Unite
A couple years ago my friend Saschka Unseld (Oculus Story Studio) asked me to make something with dance. I was trying to turn the "flattie" into a kinetic playground, so the prospect of having 360 degrees to mess around with was enticing. I could use my years of performing in unconventional spaces and get rid of the proscenium box that now seemed stuck on a wall. We've both always edited our own work and agree that nothing is ever completed. He's a renowned director, cinematographer, and tech maven (the latter not being my forte). We embraced our differences, jumped off our respective cliffs, and trusted that our mutual rigor would spit us out somewhere. We applied and were accepted into the Sundance Institute Jaunt VR Residency.
Lily directing Joanna Kotze and Amari Cheatom with Saschka and DP Dagmar Weaver-Madsen. Photo by Cameron Berton.
This collaboration has been striking. It has enabled me to indulge in imagination without needing to know how to practically realize the fantasy. I play with the parameters of performance and narrative expectation. Saschka is a poet with technology and uses it to capture a distinct human tenderness. He moves like a dancer, engaging his tools like I've trained my skeleton. We began collaborating by dancing together – him, as his camera, with me. It's a unique banter, our unique perfectionisms moving through space. We cantilever off our perspectives, pick up where the other drops off, and take different paths to arrive at the same place. It's an intuitive collision.
Carob is Not Chocolate and VR is Not Film
What's disarming (and therefore exciting) about VR, is that we're asking the viewer to silently enter and intimately witness a world they don't have much control over (yet). This medium's power is not about titillating the viewer with a rush of endorphins — we all know adapting film to VR is a mistake. The potency of VR is combining the intensity of immersion with all the tech limitations, and then using these as tools to articulate something that couldn't exist in any other medium — and should absolutely not be possible in real life.
What is Story in VR?
We both wrestle with linearity. Real life happens in simultaneous layers, which is how we experience time and therefore story. Creating in 360 degrees space was a relief, and has left us thinking of story in terms of "slices of life". Saschka strongly felt we should remove all filmmaking protocol from our process. He slowed down our script into a series of "peak moments of being" that were strung in a bold tableau. I think of it as walking through a museum and stepping inside a series of paintings (each one a complete world) on the wall. VR demands that users feel culpable, feel responsible, feel powerful, feel alone, and feel close. What is a story that uses this alphabet? These tenets dictate our story experience. Time plays differently because there's so much to see! Because you're intimate with the environment, little things become epic. Directing in VR is its own muscle, one we're exploring and training.
Limitations Are Portals For Discovery
My uncle is hard of hearing and he has the most amazing sense of smell. There's something about having less of one thing, that mandates solving in unexpected ways. I'm a sucker for detail and frustrated by the "fuzzy" picture in VR. After a test shoot, we decided we couldn't lose the subtle intimacy of our breathing dancers, Joanna Kotze, Amari Cheatom, and Marni Wood, as they moved from the '70s through 2046. So we decided dance had to express emotion graphically. Specified fingers in space made all the difference. Colored light would imbue the emotional details lost in their faces. Inside the crafted costume and production design, reflective fabrics with bold patterns would define the character of a body, bold architectural shapes in the room and strong color shifts would best show time passing.
Amari Cheatom and Marni Wood in Through You. Photo by Cameron Berton.
Rigorous Mistakes Are Innovations
Authentic creativity and innovation come from not having rules and not knowing what things are called. Too much identification keeps us confined to knowing what things should be. When I fall onstage and fuck up, it presents a new choice. (First thing is to keep a straight face and never look like you didn't mean it.) This impromptu problem-solving and rigorous commitment to follow-through is my background, and we're finding it's perfect for VR. On set my freshness to the space had me proposing wild "What if?" and "Can we…?!" questions. Saschka adamantly protected our creative discovery saying that anything that "wasn't supposed to work," we'd ignore. "There are no rules, anyone who says differently is jumping the gun," he said. As our previous experiments had proved, we could move the camera and not make the viewer nauseous. It was more complex than tracking a "fixed focal point" — we found the key is creating a physical connection between the camera/viewer and the subject. I danced with Saschka, and there happened to be a camera between us. Fast cuts? Jump cuts? Frantic changes in pace? It's all possible, it's just a force that needs to be properly wielded. The conversation is too often between technology and art. We're talking about technology and body. We want to use technology to move into uncharted areas that make us reckon with our mortality. Our motto: If we fail, if this ends up a disaster, let's at least fail upwards.
We've thrown caution to the wind, and there's nothing shy about Through You. We dive head on into a never-ending love story that will play cyclically, hitting the peak moments of intimacy, betrayal, loss, aging, the passing of time — only to be engulfed in flames and then reborn again under water. It's a racy, bold, and undeniably human experience that pushes the power of immersion and dares us to have a body that loves, feels pleasure, and feels loss. We worked intensely with our DP and longtime collaborator Dagmar Weaver-Madsen – a fierce maker in her own right – and she held us to task, grounded our ideas in practicality, and proposed bold DIY ideas to solve curveballs. She pushed us hard and kept the production glued together with the expertise of Brooke Chapman, our camera supervisor who wielded Jaunt's incredible camera. It was a dream team. None of Through You would exist without our team's incredibly hard work.
It's a hot moment, this VR thing. As a dancer first, it's a space where I thrive and where I don't have to be an expert – I just get to be rigorously curious. I feel like I'm a detective and we're all on a wicked-good scavenger hunt.
With such polarizing fear shaping our climate, we've called our choices into question. It's a privilege to do what we do. ("Artist" makes us cringe – we think of ourselves as "lookers," "finders" and "makers.") What can we do about what's happening in our world now? We've landed here – how can 360 immersive degrees wake up a body? When we literally feel ourselves and all that VR can do (way more than we think), we remember our impact: we are responsible, we make a difference.
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Q: Remove a field of my json in a specific case I have an ExpressJS controller that list all my users
userCtrl.get :
get(req, res, next) {
  var func = function(err, data) {
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    return res.json(data);
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I'd like to call it from another road, in such a way that res.json() will filter a field of this json
Something like :
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    res.json(x);
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  res.json = anonJs;
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The problem is, with this last piece of code I end up with a recursion as I call res.json that is now defined as anonJS

A: You must store the reference to the old function before replacing it.
router.get ('/services/:serviceKey/authBridge/users', function(req, res, next) {
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Here we are, a year after moving back in and I'm finally ready to share my bedroom with you. Ey up, not in that way of course. I've a terrible headache and I made the bed especially for the photos so can't risk messing them up! I do however want to share its transformation.
I am pretty sure that in it's day, this bedroom would have been incredibly stylish. Much like the rest of the house, time, love and thought had been put into its design it's just all that love was put in 30 years ago. Ankle shy curtains and peach ceilings with matching carpets just aren't my bag and with a door in every corner, change was needed.
I began where I always do with any major design decisions, I of course consulted Mr Peach. I listened patiently whilst he gave his opinions on colours and furniture. I hung on his every thought as to where said furniture should be placed and then immediately ignored every last idea. You see, his experience of design decisions is choosing between the Trainspotting and 'Take Me To Your Dealer' poster at the freshers fair. If it was up to him we would be snuggled up under a star wars duvet cover whilst watching the 55inch wall mounted flat screen. Er………no! So with Mr Peach fully believing that I was acting on his golden design nuggets, I promptly arranged a clandestine meeting with my interior 'lover' Monsieur Pinterest. Always on hand to get my juices (of creative sort) flowing and forever ready to be my cheating partner, I set about falling down a bedroom rabbit hole. But first to solve the layout issues.
Just revisiting these plans gives me the willies. For any of you that have played the renovation game, you'll know just how much you become obsessed with these drawings. Endless hours, countless cups of tea and a biscuit mountain spent wondering if you've made the right choice. Will our lives be better if we move that wall 5cm to the right? Any choice that gives us more space than the bin lids is a good one though right? Choices made, random doors to adjacent rooms were blocked up, the coffin sized ensuite knocked out and greedily we stole the family bathroom and a bedroom to create way more room than is strictly necessary. Boom. Now for the fun bit.
Since stepping through the doors of the Peach Palace full of anticipation, excitement and full of an actual baby, I've become obsessed with panelling. Having once thought it was only for Hogwarts I have now embraced it head on. In full Verruca Salt style, I knew that I had to have it. Thankfully, we know a man who can do almost anything with MDF and he set about making it happen. The whole wall cost us less than £400. Then came the search for the perfect grey, simples yes? Think again, with thousands of shades of grey available we went temporarily grey blind and then opted for Lead Grey from the Dulux Heritage range. We chose this for no other reason other than the thumb screws were on to pick a colour by the next morning. We took a punt, it paid off. I am endlessly answering insta questions about this paint shade.
I've spoken of my love of House of Hackney before, a cool as f**k East London brand that pushes all of my interior buttons. In another life I'm a hipster wafting around Shoreditch, sniffing out Vegan cafes and shopping at HoH for stylish accessories. The closest I get to Hipster these days is a growing collection of hairs on my chin. Good job I can shop online! I chose Tulipa in Pewter which although is not available on their site, I'm pretty sure you can order it. Now as much as I love HoH, its safe to say they are a little skinny on the rolls. It took 3 to cover one wall and I was less than pleased to discover that despite spending hours of tessellating and jiggling, there remained an A4 sized void where no pattern matched. 'Just order another roll' said the decorator. At a bazillion pounds a roll this isn't what you want to hear and thus the void remains as a tribute to the fact that I just can't afford it.
I'd had my eye on a Vita Copenhagen Eos for yonks so snapped one up for a steal in the Graham & Green sale. It. Is. Beautiful. It also fails to give off any light. It is entirely pointless but quite frankly I can live with that because it makes my heart sing every time I see it. Being unaware of its pathetic luminous offering meant we didn't have the forethought to plan for wall lights. No pressure then lamps…………We needn't have worried though as a bespoke creation from my friend Lisa Lampshades and a cheeky little schoolhouse electric  gift to myself for my husband's 40th (yes you heard that right) work a treat. We also have a couple of old Hubsch Interior lamps in there for when we are really desperate but to be honest, these days I look far better in low lighting. Consequently, they rarely get used.
I've never had a dressing table before. Maybe that's because my make-up applying skills are both questionable and sporadic. It did however feel like a pretty grown up thing to have and at pushing 40 I'm a grown up right? Not one to shy away from a bargain I searched Ebay and found this saucy little number for a mere £30! I coupled it with a brass tub chair and I now have zero excuses to not look a million dollars at every waking moment.
And now to my favourite corner in the entire house. This is the view form my bed, its what I wake up to every morning. Granted, instareality means that it's mostly covered in last night's clothes but its a cracking view none-the-less. These garments also tend be be scattered on the what Mr Peach refers to as the 'floordrobe'. What can I say, a tidy house is the sign of a wasted life.
Talking of beds, mine is a brand spanking new one and I adore it. As you may know we have a lot of children. Some might say too many and sometimes I would agree with them. One of those times is when I wake up and the bed contains a double figure number of appendages. Our record is a grand total of 24 arms and legs and trust me it's a sweaty squeeze. I'd been looking at upgrading our king bed into a super king for a while but just couldn't justify it. Then as if by instamagic, Darlings of Chelsea got in contact and asked me if I would like a bed! Having been a dentist for all of my adult life, the closest I get to a freebie is a mini tube of colgate and a pack of floss so this felt incredible! I chose the Northcote, a plush velvet frame with a padded headrest that props these old bones up a treat whilst reading the morning newspaper (we all know there are no newspapers just GMTV and titting about on Instagram right?). I was also insanely lucky enough to receive a Simba mattress to trial. Not just any Simba, the Luxe mattress, the one that seems to be made entirely of hugs! Anyway they are a match made in actual heaven and I am terribly grateful.
For a long time I'd been looking for a giant rug, something to anchor the bed. Modern Rugs came up trumps with the Fading World rug by Louis de Poortere. Its one of the fanciest and softest rugs that I've ever owned, a proper treat for the trotters!
I'm not allowed to talk about cushions, they are Mr Peach' nemesis. All you need to know is there's lots of them and they cause a ritual huffing and puffing of the wrong sort in the bedroom every evening. The Christy Jaipur throw and Mizzknits chunky knit are totally worth a mention though.
There you go, a little overdue but hopefully worth the wait. I hope you enjoyed the little tour, you'll see a peek at our ensuite in the video. If you missed the bathroom transformation you can read about it here. And if you have enjoyed reading, I would really appreciate you taking a minute to vote for me in the Northern Blog Awards. I'm pretty chuffed to have been nominated. Vote here (category 7, you can skip throught the other categories). Any other questions, please feel free to comment below, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
In the interest of being completely transparent I would like to share a few things with you. The bed, mattress and rug were gifted to me. I am under no obligation to write and recommend these pieces in this post, I have not been paid and no prior approval of content was required. Thank you please.
Feel so lucky to have spent a night in that bedroom of dreams….nothing too dodgy just a kind friend letting her Australian mate take over her boudoir. Totally agree with the hugging mattress!


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Prev. reg. 1984, no. 664-402.
arr.: Stephen Hannibal Massenburg, Jr.
An American tribute / freely arr. by Robert Cundick.
New Matter: arr. of preexisting words & music.
Medley for SATB voices with divisi and piano.
Copyrights records by Ludlow Music, Inc.
An American tribute / arr. by John Edmondson.
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, employer for hire of John Edmondson.
Conquistador / by John Edmondson.
composition & arr.: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, employer for hire of John Edmondson.
Normandy Beach : concert march / by John Edmondson.
16 p. + parts in folder.
Honor roll march / by John Edmondson.
Doctor Dixieland / by John Edmondson.
Christmas rejoicing / arr. by John Edmondson.
Acapulco holiday / by John Edmondson.
8 p. + parts in folder.
Pep rally rock / by John Edmondson.
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Parada del sol / by John Edmondson.
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Razzamajazz / by John Edmondson.
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Jazz warm-ups : stylistic beginnings for the developing ensemble / by John Edmondson.
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Clipping is a handy way to collect and organize the most important slides from a presentation. Personality and Communication Styles: A mentee, who has a Type B personality may opt for a mentor who is a typical Type A, and vice versa. The Republic of South Africa occupies the southernmost part of the African continent stretching from the Limpopo River in the north to Cape Agulhas in the south. Summer in South Africa is from October until March and temperatures average between 15 °C at night and 35 °C at noon. Of an estimated population of 50,586,000, around 77 % are of African origin, 10 % of European descent, Asians 3 % and those of mixed origins, known as Coloureds, 9 %. The South African economy is the most advanced on the African continent, with a sophisticated financial system that includes one of the top 10 stock exchanges in the world, and well developed physical, telecommunications, and energy infrastructures. The tourism industry is rapidly developing into an important generator of employment opportunities.
Type of product marketCommunications mix allocations vary betweenconsumer and business markets.
Buyer readiness stage Communication mix tools vary cost effectiveness at different stages of buyer's readiness.
Product life-cycle stage Communication mix tools also vary in cost effectiveness at different stages of the product life cycle. Once an employee has been identified as a high potential, the next steps is to find a mentor who will be a good fit for the employee.
Identifying your personality and communication style will help identify your preferred method and how well you will relate to your mentor. Once you have acquired enough experience and you are in a position where you can share the skills and knowledge you have by giving it back.
Covering an area of 1,219,090 km?, the country shares borders with Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe in the north, and with Swaziland and Mozambique in the north east.
Winter is from April to September with temperatures ranging from 0 °C or less at night to 20 °C at midday. There are 11 official languages: English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu, each of which is the first language for many of South Africa's people. As an emerging market in the global economy, South Africa is a leader and a competitive producer of raw commodity exports and value-added goods, such as motor vehicles.
It is presently the fourth largest economic sector in South Africa with around 700 hotels, 2,800 guest houses, and more than 10,000 restaurants. Consumermarketers tend to spend comparatively moreon sales promotion and advertising; businessmarketers tend to spend comparatively moreon personal selling. Although job outlook does appear be improving, many companies are facing challenges in finding and acquiring talent. Here are a few tips on how you can determine if the mentor-mentee relationship is going to work.
Therefore it is important that both parties are clear and have a good understanding on how to reach the goals.
Despite regional differences, South Africa's climate is generally mild throughout the year. The first democratic elections were held in 1994 and South Africa was then divided into nine new provinces including the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, North- West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Northern Province.
Major contributors of the manufacturing sector include chemicals, food, transport equipment, and iron and steel.
The fastest-growing segment in the industry is ecotourism, including photographic safaris, bird watching, botanical studies, mountaineering, snorkelling and hiking. Whenever I come across articles about the looming talent shortage and how organizations can address this issue, mentoring comes to mind.
Making it a point to check in at least once a week with each other will help develop good rapport and monitor progress. South Africa is a semi-arid country with a mean annual rainfall of 464mm per annum, compared to the world average of 857mm per annum, with snowfall limited to the highest mountain peaks of the Maluti-Drakensberg mountain range. Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa, other main centres are Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
Modern and sophisticated metal and engineering industries represent one-third of the manufacturing sector's contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). There are 17 national parks in South Africa, the largest being Kruger National Park in the Northern Province and Mpumalanga.
Major tourist attractions include Table Mountain and the cable way, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Oudshoorn (Cango Caves, Cango Crocodile Ranch, Highgate and Safari Ostrich Farm), Karoo National Park, Sea World, Howick Falls, Drakensberg, Umfolozi Game Reserve, Natal National Botanical Gardens, St. However, implementing a successful mentoring program will help organizations identify high potential employees who can be groomed for senior leadership roles. Lying 1,920 km south east of Cape Town in the Atlantic Ocean are the isolated Prince Edward and Marion islands, which were annexed by South Africa in 1947. The dependence of the South African economy on mining has declined, and with that also its degree of exposure to commodity prices.
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Travis brews a pot of tea in the kitchen of the Leafspring, a tiny house he calls home. Photo: Ian Terry
Depths of Imagination Travis Skinner Wants Material to Inform Design
Words by Elizabeth Kimberly
It was a crisp, not-quite-spring day when I drove up Travis Skinner's driveway near the north end of Lake Whatcom in Bellingham, Washington.
A light breeze coated the property with pollen grains, though residual frost from the previous night suggested winter still clung on. There wasn't a mailbox or a house number visible near Travis' residence on the property, but an array of sculptures, structures and wood scraps confirmed I was in the right place. Py, his four-legged companion, greeted me with a frisbee in his mouth and a string of dangling slobber.
My eyes went immediately to the front yard's main exhibit, one of this woodworker and sculptor's most impressive pieces: the Anglerfish—a 17-foot model of a female anglerfish that doubles as a wood-fired sauna on wheels. The Anglerfish, which Travis completed in late 2018, is a female representation of the deep-sea species known for its formidable fangs and the protruding luminescent lure it uses to attract prey as it slowly drifts thousands of feet below the ocean's surface in complete darkness.
Travis is well-versed in more than just woodworking, and in some ways the Anglerfish project is the physical manifestation of a person whose imagination knows few boundaries and operates with minimal distraction. He favors pen and paper over screens and spends much of his free time whittling, sketching or reading. Sit down for a cup of tea with him and the conversation meanders from design to the history of saunas to soccer to skateboarding. He's a compelling storyteller who, far from rambling, of ten connects diverse themes back to a central thread of sustainable living.
Raised in Baltimore, Travis now resides in the Leafspring, a tiny home he designed and constructed. Outside the front door, a hunk of partially chiseled wood about the size of a small bathtub sat on a sawhorse. He briefly and effortlessly demonstrated proper wood carving technique—it looked simultaneously tedious and relaxing. Travis wasn't sure what its final product would be, but the covered location of this makeshift shop allows him to work when inspiration strikes.
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git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so other people will not see them.
Actually if you want to reach the git development community, this is the place.
>> > I think there is a typo in the gitignore docs.
>> > >work tree if not from a .gitignore file).
>> > should be "If the pattern does contain" instead of "does not contain".
>> > slashes that are not a trailing slash.
>> The trailing slash is already covered in the previous paragraph as you noticed.
> following description" then I would highly recommend to remove that line.
> If I am not mistaken, the line is only used for the next paragraph.
> It also makes the paragraph where this line appears over-complicated when one reads it.
I think slashes are mentioned in the next three paragraphs actually.
the whole pattern "/" is probably seen as leading slash).
>> +   "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
>> mistake since having an example seems to help clarify the description.
> "Documentation/\*.html" does not match "Foo/Documentation/git.html".
> treats the pattern as a shell glob:". The symbols "*", "?", ""
> do also work if the pattern does not contain a slash.
These two paragraphs cover the "contain slash" and "not contain slash"
>> match 'abc.c' component in 'def/abc.c'. 'def/ghi/abc.c' or 'abc.c'.
> Yes, I absolutely agree, this is the key point that should be made more clear.
> directory, or a .gitignore file that happens to be in a subdirectory.
> any pathname relative to...". This seems to be always the case.
dunno. Adding Jonathan maybe he remembers something.
> That would be an option. However, since I do not the see purpose of the 'otherwise' case, I would just be clear about it in the mentioned paragraph.
> I will create a pull request.
>> > >considered from the root, because it has no non-trailing slash "/".
>> > >One may match a path that does not start at the root by using "**" (see below).
>> > >with the way how pathspec works in general in Git).
>> > >symbolic link foo.
> Yes that seems clearer.


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PM Lee is personally suing a Singaporean political activist for sharing an article on Facebook
By Coconuts Singapore Dec 5, 2018 | 3:58pm Singapore time
Photos: Leong Sze Hian / Facebook
Leong Sze Hian, a 65-year-old financial advisor and an outspoken political activist, expressed bewilderment when lawyers acting on behalf of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong are taking him to court over a news article he shared on his Facebook page.
According to The Straits Times, the Singapore premier resorted to legal action after Leong failed to comply with a letter sent by his lawyers demanding that he make a public apology and pay for damages over the Facebook post. On Nov 8, Leong simply shared an article published by Malaysian publication The Coverage that claimed that Lee made "secret deals" with his disgraced former Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak to help launder money looted from sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.
The problematic article itself used information reported in a States Times Review piece titled "Lee Hsien Loong becomes 1MDB's key investigation target", which was in turn sourced from Malaysian media that interviewed Clare Rewcastle Brown, the editor of Sarawak Report who played a major role in exposing the 1MDB financial scandal. But Sarawak Report has refuted the States Times Review report, calling it erroneous and "unclear in its direction and meaning".
The Singapore government were livid, as you would imagine. The Monetary Authority of Singapore filed a police report against the author of the States Times Review article, taking issue with its "false allegations". The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) asked the States Times Review to remove the piece but got its request rejected. Singapore straight-up blocked the site after that.
A request was made to Facebook to deny access to the post on the States Times Review's Facebook page, but that was turned down as well.
By that time it was too late. The contentious story had already been picked up Malaysian outlets The Coverage and China Press.
Leong Sze Hian
But considering that thousands probably shared the Coverage piece on their personal Facebook pages, why was Leong singled out for legal action? And if The Coverage was the party that made the false allegations, why is someone who simply posted the article on Facebook getting in trouble?
It's something that has severely confused the man, who offered his side of the story in a Facebook post.
Admitting that he did share the Coverage piece, he clarified that he made no additional comments to the post that could implicate him.
"I did not add any comments or embellish the article by The Coverage.my, but merely shared it. It is therefore grossly inaccurate for certain State media to have represented to the whole of Singapore that I had made a post which was defamatory of the Prime Minister."
According to Leong, he actually complied with a demand to take down the post. Two days after he shared the article, he received an IMDA notice demanding him to take down his Facebook post within six hours, which he did.
But the powers that be weren't done with Leong. On Nov 12, he received another letter.
"I was therefore bewildered when Davinder Singh of Drew and Napier LLC sent me a Letter of Demand on the 12th of November alleging that I had defamed the Prime Minister and demanding that I make a public apology and compensate the Prime Minister for damages. The Letter of Demand also stated that I had posted TheCoverage.my article maliciously and to damage his client.
I reject all these allegations categorically."
The letter was posted on Facebook, which included a section about Leong's online reach.
"The post and the article were also available and accessible to all 5,000 of your 'friends' and 149 'followers' of your Facebook profile page and, as at 7:47pm on 8 November 2018, attracted 22 'reactions' and 5 'comments'. Further, the privacy setting of the post was set to 'public', which means you took steps to ensure that the post and article were available and accessible to all users of Facebook and the public at large."
Photo: Leong Sze Hian / Facebook
The document also held the apology that Leong needed to make.
The man, however, is no stranger to butting horns with the government. The Harvard Business School alumnus actively analyses and questions government policies on his blog and has been a columnist for The Online Citizen and Malaysiakini. Among other accomplishments, he had been president at local human rights NGO Maruah, and according to his bio on his blog, has been quoted over 1,500 times in the media.
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Wyoming NORML Misses 2018 Ballot Deadline
A group working to legalize medical marijuana in Wyoming has, once again, fallen short in their attempt to put the question before voters.
Wyoming NORML Makes Final Push to Get Medical Marijuana Initiative on 2016 Ballot
A group working to legalize medical marijuana in Wyoming may be down, but they're not out yet. The Wyoming Chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has until Monday to collect the 25,673 signatures needed to get the measure on this year's ballot...
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Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Murray calls the chances of the Wyoming chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws getting their petition on the "remote," with the Feb. 8 deadline rapidly approaching. Murray stopped by the Laramie Live morning show for an interview with host David Settle...
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import GeolocationPoint from 'ui/geolocationPoint';

export default class Geolocation {
  /**
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access public
     * @param {object} map - A Leaflet map.
     */
  constructor(map) {
    this._isMovedByUserAction = false;
    this._isLocateInProgress = false;
    this._hasHeadingMarker = false;
    this._lastAutomaticZoom = null;
    this._map = map;
    this._onOrientationFound = this._onOrientationFound.bind(this);
  }

  /**
     * Starts the location watch.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access public
     */
  locate() {
    if (this._isLocateInProgress === true) {
      this.stopLocate();
    }

    this._isMovedByUserAction = false;
    this._isLocateInProgress = true;
    this._lastAutomaticZoom = null;

    this._addEventListeners();

    this._map.locate({
      watch: true,
      setView: false,
      enableHighAccuracy: true
    });

    this._locateTimeout = setTimeout(
      this._onLocationTimeout.bind(this),
      30 * 1000
    );
  }

  /**
     * Stops the location watch.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access public
     */
  stopLocate() {
    this._isLocateInProgress = false;

    this._map.stopLocate();
    this._removeEventListeners();
    this._removeMarker();
  }

  /**
     * Stops the automatic panning of the map.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access public
     */
  stopPanning() {
    this._isMovedByUserAction = true;
  }

  /**
     * Adds the geolocation marker to the map.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     * @param {object} marker - A Leaflet marker.
     */
  _addMarker(marker) {
    this._marker = marker;
    this._marker.setOpacity(0);

    this._accuracyCircle = GeolocationPoint.getAccuracyCircle();
    this._accuracyCircle.setStyle({
      fillOpacity: 0
    });

    this._map.addLayer(this._marker);
    this._map.addLayer(this._accuracyCircle);
  }

  /**
     * Removes the geolocation marker from the map.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     */
  _removeMarker() {
    if (this._marker) {
      this._map.removeLayer(this._marker);
      this._map.removeLayer(this._accuracyCircle);

      this._marker = null;
    }
  }

  /**
     * Adds the needed event listeners.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     */
  _addEventListeners() {
    window.addEventListener('deviceorientation', this._onOrientationFound);

    this._map
      .on('locationfound', this._onLocationFound, this)
      .on('locationerror', this._onLocationError, this)
      .on('dragstart', this._onDragStart, this)
      .on('moveend', this._onMoveEnd, this);
  }

  /**
     * Removes the event listeners.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     */
  _removeEventListeners() {
    window.removeEventListener('deviceorientation', this._onOrientationFound);

    this._map
      .off('locationfound', this._onLocationFound, this)
      .off('locationerror', this._onLocationError, this)
      .off('dragstart', this._onDragStart, this)
      .off('moveend', this._onMoveEnd, this);
  }

  /**
     * The manual timeout handler.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     */
  _onLocationTimeout() {
    this.stopLocate();
    this._map.fireEvent('locationtimeout');
  }

  /**
     * The locationfound event handler.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     */
  _onLocationFound(e) {
    clearTimeout(this._locateTimeout);

    if (!this._marker) {
      this._addMarker(GeolocationPoint.getDefaultMarker());
    }

    if (e.heading) {
      this._rotateMarker(e.heading);
    }

    this._marker.setLatLng(e.latlng);
    this._marker.setOpacity(1);

    this._accuracyCircle.setLatLng(e.latlng);
    this._accuracyCircle.setRadius(e.accuracy / 2);
    this._accuracyCircle.setStyle({
      fillOpacity: 1
    });

    if (this._isMovedByUserAction === false) {
      let zoom = this._map.getZoom();

      if (!this._lastAutomaticZoom || this._lastAutomaticZoom === zoom) {
        zoom = this._map.getBoundsZoom(e.bounds);
        this._lastAutomaticZoom = zoom;
      }

      this._map.setView(e.latlng, zoom, { animate: false });
    }
  }

  /**
     * The locationerror event handler.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     */
  _onLocationError() {
    if (this._marker) {
      this._marker.setOpacity(0.5);
    }
  }

  /**
     * The orientationfound event handler.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     * @param {object} e - Event object.
     */
  _onOrientationFound(e) {
    this._rotateMarker(e.alpha * -1);
  }

  /**
     * The dragstart event handler.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     */
  _onDragStart() {
    this._isMovedByUserAction = true;
  }

  /**
     * The moveend event handler.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     */
  _onMoveEnd() {
    this._map.locate({
      watch: true,
      setView: false,
      enableHighAccuracy: true
    });
  }

  /**
     * The moveend event handler.
     *
     * @author Guillaume AMAT
     * @access private
     * @param {number} angle - The orientation angle.
     */
  _rotateMarker(angle) {
    if (!this._hasHeadingMarker) {
      this._hasHeadingMarker = true;
      GeolocationPoint.setHeadingIcon(this._marker);
    }

    GeolocationPoint.rotate(angle);
  }
}


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Ryan O'Neal stars as The Driver, a conniving and talented getaway driver who's continually on the run from a detective obsessed with capturing him. Told from the criminal's perspective.
Additional credits: Richard Wagner (sound).
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Lectoramas is the only mobile app, specially created for the Spanish-speaking market, to read books in 10 minutes. The whole development effort was undertaken by Hexacta using state-of-the-art technologies.
Lectoramas, a unique mobile app for reading books had its own space at the recognized South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival held in Austin (Texas) a few days ago. The application, an initiative of the argentine start-up, Lectoramas, was shown to the audience by its founders who highlighted the role of Hexacta in the development of this revolutionary app.
The app, specially created for the Spanish-speaking market (it is estimated that there are 500 million Spanish speakers worldwide), was totally developed by a 4-person team in Hexacta during a 4-5 month period.
"Lectoramas looked for us a few months ago with the idea of developing a mobile app for reading books in Spanish. The particularity that Lectoramas' app has is that people can read –or listen– book summaries in 10 minutes and eventually, they can buy online the entire book", says Fabio Gasparri, partner at Hexacta.
Meanwhile, Ramiro Fernández, from Lectoramas, said to the EFE Agency News (SPA) that the app aims to offer summaries with the most important points of the books and be useful for people who are uncertain about whether or not to read an entire book.
Also, "any person who likes to read or needs to read about a particular issue for professional reasons and does not have time for it is part of our potential audience", highlighted Fernández.
The app, which will be available next April for Android and IOS, offers a wide catalog of titles (non-fiction literature) and the possibility to download them to read them even without Internet connection.
What is behind this mobile app for reading books? What makes it different from similar applications besides is the only for Spanish-speaking users? The answer is innovation.
According to Gasparri: "We did all the platform development with innovation as our main goal. This app isn't just innovate because of the model of service that offers but for the technologies we used. The mobile app used by readers was built using React-Native technology. In addition, there is a backend developed in Node.js that serves both the mobile app and a backoffice web application, through which all contents are entered".
With regard to what this initiative means to Hexacta, Gasparri highlighted that "working with Lectoramas was a great opportunity to show our capabilities using the latest technologies and the best agile methodologies. (Read more: Custom software development: Why to choose it instead of off-the-shelf solutions?).


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Today, Springer Nature is pleased to announce the launch of an innovative service which we believe will significantly improve the workflows of researchers by saving time and enabling access to the most relevant content, allowing users to access a new way to keep up to date without visiting any new websites.
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If we believe the paper is the right one for the reader, then we will recommend it.
Developing this service, a first for any publisher, has been a long careful journey – and all along the way we have worked with groups of researchers to ensure the service we develop actually makes a difference to the people whowill use it.
Powered by an adaptive algorithm, Recommended learns about users individual research interests by analysing the last 100 papers read across nature.com, SpringerLink and BioMed Central. Recommended then searches for similar primary papers to the users reading history, utilising over 45,000 journals (and 65 million papers) from CrossRef and PubMed.
These are then combined with data from other sources, such as Altmetric, to create a recommendation score that our service uses to pick the top primary research papers recommendations to deliver to users. Recommended continually learns and improves based on how the users interact with its suggestions.
Since March 2016 a beta version of Recommended has been running across selected journals and pages on our websites, and based on exceptional user statistics, backed up by extensive quantitative and qualitative user research, we are now pleased to roll out the service more widely.
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In Round 9 I was White against GM Santos Ruiz, rated 2560 and one of Spain's brightest prospects. I noticed he had some problems in the Ruy Lopez and I expected him to switch to the Najdorf, his other main opening. I again managed to use a line I've never played before but I had prepared.
For full game analysis please see here.
A crazy game where I played with utmost aggression. I must admit that I enjoyed it and the fact that I didn't lose also felt good. Still, my sacrifices were speculative at best and objectively speaking I should have lost. But this game confirmed to me a very important thing - when you put pressure on your opponents, even if it's only a psychological one (as in this case, when the moves weren't good but I was "attacking") they are rarely able to deal with it properly. This was definitely the most fun game I played in the whole tournament.
The game with Santos gave me positive vibes and I was optimistic for the next round when I was paired against another young and talented player, 17-year old Russian IM Lomasov, rated 2559. He had already beaten players like Gelfand and Short, but I didn't need a warning to take him seriously.
I noticed that he played the sharpest 6 Bg5 against the Najdorf and I wanted to invite him to sharp play, especially as he probably wouldn't be expecting it. But I also knew that he can easily deviate from that, in spite of not being his repertoire, so I checked the popular alternatives on move 6 as well. The opening showed that I was spot on.
I was better out of the opening, but then I misevaluated the position several times and lost. It was a pity, because the opening really gave me good chances, but I have to admit that he understood the position better at the critical moments. I was disappointed and even followed the modern trends of not resigning until almost mate.
With this loss I was back at 50% and in the last round I got the same rating range as in Rounds 6-8 - a 2283 FM from Spain, Ibanez Aullana. At least he was older than me, so I could count on less energy and (hopefully) less resistance.
But things went sour immediately. I prepared well but when he played a dubious line I relaxed and continued to make normal-looking moves when all of a sudden I was worse!
A strange game in sense how abruptly the evaluation changed: first White got worse from a perfectly normal position and then all of a sudden Black was facing huge problems after the transposition to the endgame. I played the first part of the game badly, I started to put up resistance when I realised I was worse and then I played the endgame well.
With this win I finished on +1, with 6 points out of 11. I tried to give my best and it seems that my best now looks like this. I would have liked to play better against the stronger players, but I lacked the consistency during the game in order to match their quality of moves. The positive aspect was my inner feeling of being at least equal to them and my resolve to go for a win in every game.
I think that this will be my last European Championship. As life evolves I have less and less time to devote resources to preparation and spending 2 weeks away to play a very expensive tournament. Since this one was played in my home city I thought I should give it one last try and for a last try it was a decent one, especially compared to the others.
I haven't abandoned my desire to improve at chess. I only have to become more intelligent about it, as with less time I will need to work smarter. This tournament gave me excellent feedback and I hope to be able to use it in the future. Without any tournaments planned for now it is not clear when I could use this feedback, but the time will come. Then we will see if I learned my lessons.