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Mastercard extends sponsorship of Goodwood Festival of Speed
Leisure & Tourism | South East | Sport
A partnership between Mastercard and the renowned Goodwood Festival of Speed has been extended following a successful first four years.
Mastercard has sponsored the event – dubbed 'the largest motoring garden party in the world' – since 2015, and has this week agreed a new multi-year extension to that deal.
A spokesman said the agreement builds on Mastercard's four years as Presenting Partner for the world's greatest celebration of motorsport, and reflects the brand's continued commitment to connecting consumers with their passions.
The Festival of Speed is a unique summer weekend that brings together a heady mix of cars, stars and motorsport 'royalty' to create the largest car culture event in the world, held in the immaculate grounds of Goodwood House in West Sussex.
The Duke of Richmond, who founded the event in 1993, said: "I am delighted that Mastercard has made such a significant commitment to the future of the Festival of Speed.
"Mastercard has been a hugely supportive partner over the last four years and their renewal is a ringing endorsement not only of the Festival of Speed as an event, but also of motorsport as a forum to drive passion, engagement and to keep the automotive world relevant to our changing audience.
"Together with Mastercard, we enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2019 that saw our biggest-ever attendance, the automotive industry presented more new car launches and dynamic debuts than ever, the all-new Drift Arena was enormously popular and a new record time was set on the Hillclimb by Volkswagen's all-electric I.D. R.
"I am sure that our 2020 event on July 9-12 will build from there and deliver still more fabulous entertainment."
A key factor in the festival's success has been its ability to not only embrace the best automotive heritage, but to also showcase its relevance to the future.
Next year's event will see the FOS Future Lab, introduced in 2017, take the Festival of Speed into new territory with major interactive displays on the potential of 5G technology, space exploration, autonomous transport, robotics and future mobility.
Contactless payment specialist Mastercard will help fans make the most of the event by delivering unique cardholder access, plus Priceless experiences and competitions.
Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Mastercard, said: "At Mastercard, we believe experiences matter more than things, which is why we're so excited to bring motorsport fans closer to the thrills and innovations on offer at Goodwood Festival of Speed.
"Whether you're a vintage car enthusiast or devoted racing fan, this is the partnership to get your heart racing."
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MEET MOLLY
NEW INKLINGS PRESS
Every now and then, I wonder if my goals and dreams are reachable. Am I really doing what I'm supposed to be doing, or am I wasting my time? If I'm supposed to be a writer, why aren't I published yet? Can I report back to my family, friends, and readers that I'm really doing everything I can to reach these goals, or am I just sitting around waiting for that Golden Ticket to fall in my lap?
Am I just fooling myself?
I think not!
Because every time I think of throwing in the towel, two things happen: First, I start singing that song from Annie: "It's a Hard-Knock Life". The one with the lyrics about what a sad little life those orphan girls live. And second, I remember.
I remember why I love writing.
It's because I love reading.
And I remember that my favorite authors weren't always authors. They all started somehow, sometime. And they never gave up.
They inspire me:
L. Frank Baum was married with two children when his newspaper business folded. In 1898, at the age of 42, he had received many rejection letters and decided the only way to get published was to do it himself. He self-published his book, By The Candelabra's Glare", which finally garnered him the attention he needed. Two years later, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, leading the way for 15 sequels.
Laura Ingalls Wilder devoted her life to her husband, children, and their farm. It was her daughter Rose's encouragement that led her to write Little House in the Big Woods, the first in the "Little House" series of books for children. She was 65 when it was published in 1932.
Louisa May Alcott fashioned her Little Women stories after her childhood and sisters. She fancied herself to be Jo March, the unsettled tomboy writer of the four. Struck by poverty, Louisa determined to help her family by any means, and took such jobs as seamstress, governess, and teacher. However, she never let go of her dream of writing and at the age of 22, her first book was published. At age 36, Little Women brought her her most famous success.
Stephen J. Cannell overcame dyslexia to produce and write many popular television shows from the early 1970s through the 1990s. He sold his production company and began his second career: a novelist. His Shane Scully series is a popular cop-drama-in-print; the final novel having been published December 6, 2011, just over one year after his death.
Charles Dickens was born into an impoverished family. His father often lived beyond his means and when Charles was young, his father was arrested into Debtor's Prison. His mother and siblings soon followed. Charles was a young teen when he was forced to quit school in order to work over ten hours each day to help his family. These experiences flowed out of him in his creative works, most notably, A Christmas Carol.
Lucy Maud Montgomery's mother died when she was just 21 months old. Out of grief, her father handed custody over to Lucy's maternal grandparents who raised her in an overly strict, lonely manner. When she was sixteen, Lucy spent a year with her father and his new wife, but came back to her beloved Cavendish. Lucy credited her lonely childhood as starting her creative mind, as that's when created several imaginary friends and began to write. A poem was locally published when she was just 16, but her real success came at age 34 when her first novel was printed: Anne of Green Gables was the fairy-tale telling of a mixture of Lucy's childhood and the life she had wished for. Ten more novels recounting life on Prince Edward Island followed.
J. M. Barrie's family dissuaded his writing tendencies, instead encouraging him to go into Ministry. He bargained with his parents and they agreed that he could attend college to study literature. He was first published with minor works in 1888. It wasn't until 1904, when Barrie was 44 years old, that Peter Pan entered the world. Shortly before his death, Barrie gave all Peter Pan rights to the Great Ormond Street Hospital; which to this day, continues to benefit from Barrie's talents.
These stories and more inspire me. They inspire me to write my stories. They inspire me to keep at it, no matter what. Because some day, I'll be on a list like this.
Whatever it is you're born to do, don't give up. Learn from others who have forged the way for you. Let their lights lead you. And blaze your own trail for those who follow.
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart…" [Colossians 3:23a].
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I'm struggling to listen to my better angels.
Listening as I foolishly do on Sunday mornings to the talking heads spout inane foolishness, I get cranky. Reading Huffington Post and articles in my email about people who spread lies about President Obama wanting to euthanize Grandma, people who rage in fear of socialism and Muslim take-overs, people carrying pictures of Hitler, my head starts to spin. I want to scream. I hear and read the hate and ugliness and flat-out lies that Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh spew with such malicious glee, and I feel hurt and anger. Hurt that there is such ugliness in the world, anger that people make a lavish living telling lies and frightening the ignorant and gullible. I get incensed by it all.
Yesterday morning - I'm not sure quite what sparked it - I took a step back and thought maybe I should find a way to practice what I preach, which is that love has more power than hate. But how do I find a place of love for someone like Dick Cheney, a man who proudly asserts that torture is not only justifiable but righteous behavior. From my perspective this makes him the same as the people he hates so much. They too believe that anything they do can be justified because they think their cause is righteous. When is it ever righteous to torture people? When is it ever righteous to imprison people because they might be guilty of something? Not because the are guilty, but because we think they could be. (And what's with our absurd fear of these people as some sort of super human monsters who can't be held by our prisons? When did we become such ninnies? Levenworth couldn't hold a maybe or actual terrorist? What will he do burn through the walls with his x-ray vision? If he could do that, wouldn't he have escaped already?)
But back to what I wanted to talk about. If I were to live my values, I'd find a place of compassion for the Cheneys, Becks, Limbaughs and Bushes of this world, for the insurance executives who think their $53 million salaries are a fair trade for the health and well-being of human lives. I'd find a place of compassion for Sarah Palin & Chuck Grassley and others who have been spreading nonsense about death panels for the elderly, about socialist take-overs. I can almost feel sorry for Cheney, who is in some ways the most evil of them, because I think he may be truly fear driven. Sarah Palin may be a mix of crazy and stupid. I don't know about Limbaugh. I think he's just a mean, hate-filled person. But how sad is that when you get right down to it. How sad is it to spend your life spewing hate about other people, living to diminish them?
I really want to find that place in myself where I stop being so reactive to them, in part because I think it's a better way to be, but also because I think my reactivity gives them power. If I could smile and shake my head lovingly at their unfortunate ignorance and lack of information, if I could pray for them - not to fix them - just for their well being, I wonder if it wouldn't have more power than all the polarizing anger I feel at the mere mention of their names. I always say that we become the thing we hate and there's truth in that even here, or maybe especially here. What if instead of meeting Ann Coulter's inane venom with anger and irritation, I met it with laughter and tender pity for someone so filled with pain that all she can do is try to demean others? When I hate Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and others like them, aren't I becoming just like them?
I do wish we had a better, more discriminating media. I think all our pundits, left and right could happily be retired to a farm somewhere where they can yell nonsense and evasion at each other all day long. Those on the left are as bad in their way as the right. I saw a conversation yesterday where the question was raised that when President Obama said in his speech that unnamed people saying there were death panels were telling lies, wasn't that the same as Joe Wilson calling him a liar? Wasn't he calling Gassley and Palin liars? The democratic pundit kept evading the question which was intended, of course, to be a trap. The answer is pretty simple, though. The president said that unnamed people had told lies. He didn't name names and he allowed us to infer for ourselves that they were liars. What really got me, though, was the questioner then asked, "Is Sarah Palin a liar?" The pundit refused to respond, although Sarah Palin clearly IS a liar. She herself at one time supported similar legislation, so she clearly knows that end of life planning is not euthanasia preparation. There are two possibilities. She's either being intentionally dishonest or she's ignorant. That's the answer to the question. Why not say it? Democrats are so pathetically politically correct that they are ultimately politically incorrect. An honest answer isn't the same as hate speech. Calling out untruth in a speech is not the same as yelling "You lie," at the President of our nation.
But again, I wonder why we give this moron so much press time? He's a rude jerk. He embarrassed himself and his party and if we had left it at that he wouldn't be getting all the undeserved attention he's getting now. We've made a hero out of a nobody because of our reaction. Energy flows where attention goes. We give power to what we pay attention to. Time to start ignoring the Wilsons and the Coulters. Let them spew nonsense. Reply to their lies and foolishness when necessary, but without the hysteria about it that we are prone to.
What passes for news (on most stations including CNN) in this country is glorified gossip. Nonsense like death panel stuff gets repeated and countered by partisans, but not explored with any depth. The true issues of health care aren't being discussed, the true economic ramifications of doing nothing aren't being explored, the true potential for savings in the long run aren't being studied. We just have polarized rants by and large (with moments of depth) on CNN, pretty good coverage on PBS, god-knows-what on Fox and... dribble on the mainline channels.
I've rambled off track again, haven't I?
I don't know how to shift my own polarization, but I want to try. I want to meet hate with peace if not love. I don't know if I can, but I'm going to try to check my instinct for reactivity with something else. I think our President knows how to do this. He seems to let the ugliness bounce off him without rancor. I admire that.
On other fronts, the contractor is running late. Plumber is here to install the sink but the faucet hasn't arrived so he's doing loud drilly things to the back of my house which is making me very nervous. As for the sink, it seems to be very tall, like it's made for giants. This has me a bit freaked out. The plumber suggested that that may be because it's ADA compliant but that doesn't make sense to me. Even if you wanted to get a wheelchair under it, a sitting person would have to be able to USE it. Hopefully when Fred gets here everything will make sense. Meanwhile, I'm anxious about what's going on. Sigh.
I took some pictures of the shower the other night but lost them somehow and I think I'll just wait until it's all done and post pictures then. Hopefully later today. We'll see.
That's it for now. Not going to reread what I wrote. Hope it makes sense.
SouthLakesMom said...
Raven, negative stress is bad for your body and soul. When the people on the radio and TV make you crazy you can choose to a) laugh at them/pray for them (as you so wisely deduced) or b) just turn it off. Just as much as those you dislike count on liberal reactions, so the media and liberal reactors count on you as well. IT MAKES MONEY! So, just turn it off.
My mama taught me a long time ago that when someone is driving me crazy I should "nice 'em to death.' It drives them crazy and gives you back your power over the situation. Since you can't personally nice these people you're upset with, praying for them will, as you said, take away their power over you!
Unfortunately, mama also said that prayin' for bad things to happen to them don't count!
SouthLakesMom - It's really true. I've been making a conscious effort to watch less news and my disposition has improved considerably.
You're mamma was right on both counts. I never pray for harm to anyone, even Cheney. I would like to see that man go to jail, but I don't know if that's wishing him harm or just wishing him justice.
Raven, I hardly ever watch the news. John Stewart keeps me a little up-to-date on things transpiring :) and I check out some headlines on the MSN page when I'm on the computer. That's it. I watch the birds, the turkey, and the deer and I'm trying to find only peace in these autumn days of my life.
Too true, too true! You always tell is clearly and succinctly. But don't let it eat you alive. I've been watching less news lately for that very reason. I get so frustrated.
You and I think so much alike.
I have pretty-much turned off the news. Last year, I was listening to Air America via computer a lot. But about a month before the election I suddenly couldn't stand it anymore, not because of the opinions of the hosts, but because they were telling me all the mean, cruel things the opposition was saying and it was driving me nuts.
I, too have a difficult time being charitable toward the likes of Cheney. (Jesse Ventura suggested giving him a waterboard, Cheney, and one hour, and he'd have Dick confessing to the Sharon Tate murders.)
What gets me is that most of the people who are so nasty profess to belong to a religion that preaches "love thine enemy." What hypodrites.
Do you remember Lee Atwater, the man who developed the nasty Willie Horton ads for Bush #1 and cost Michael Dukakis the election? A month before he died in 1991 he said:
"My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul."
I wonder what Atwater would have to say about the past two decades?


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Q: Minecraft Already Running Error Whenever I try to play Minecraft, it pops up with an error saying "Game Already Running" I've tried restarting my computer, and looking online for fixes. How do I fix this problem?

A: Since we aren't getting an answer from Currupt_Bat I will provide the solution whenever I had similar problems:
Open your Task-Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and look for the process "minecraft" and manually shut it down.
Problems like these usually appear if you have not enough patience and start the application multiple times, by clicking it's icon multiple times.

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Jason Smith (born September 4, 1973 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired male Canadian boxing champion. Smith placed third in the 1995 Pan American Games and won a bronze medal in the men's light middleweight division (- 71 kg).

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Q: Weights and Biases error: The wandb backend process has shutdown running the colab linked below, I get the following error:
"The wandb backend process has shutdown"
I see nothing suspicious in the way the colab uses wandb and I couldn't find anyone with the same problem. Any help is greatly appreciated. I am using the latest version of wandb in colab.
This is where I set up wandb:
if WANDB:
    wandb.login()

and this is the part where I get the error:
#setup wandb if we're using it

if WANDB:
    experiment_name = os.environ.get("EXPERIMENT_NAME")
    group = experiment_name if experiment_name != "none" else wandb.util.generate_id()

cv_scores = []
oof_data_frame = pd.DataFrame()
for fold in range(1, config.folds + 1):
    print(f"Fold {fold}/{config.folds}", end="\n"*2)
    fold_directory = os.path.join(config.output_directory, f"fold_{fold}")
    make_directory(fold_directory)
    model_path = os.path.join(fold_directory, "model.pth")
    model_config_path = os.path.join(fold_directory, "model_config.json")
    checkpoints_directory = os.path.join(fold_directory, "checkpoints/")
    make_directory(checkpoints_directory)

    #Data collators are objects that will form a batch by using a list of dataset elements as input.
    collator = Collator(tokenizer=tokenizer, max_length=config.max_length)

    train_fold = train[~train["fold"].isin([fold])]
    train_dataset = Dataset(texts=train_fold["anchor"].values,
                            pair_texts=train_fold["target"].values,
                            contexts=train_fold["title"].values,
                            targets=train_fold["score"].values,
                            max_length=config.max_length,
                            sep=tokenizer.sep_token,
                            tokenizer=tokenizer)

    train_loader = DataLoader(dataset=train_dataset,
                              batch_size=config.batch_size,
                              num_workers=config.num_workers,
                              pin_memory=config.pin_memory,
                              collate_fn=collator,
                              shuffle=True,
                              drop_last=False)

    print(f"Train samples: {len(train_dataset)}")

    validation_fold = train[train["fold"].isin([fold])]
    validation_dataset = Dataset(texts=validation_fold["anchor"].values,
                                 pair_texts=validation_fold["target"].values,
                                 contexts=validation_fold["title"].values,
                                 targets=validation_fold["score"].values,
                                 max_length=config.max_length,
                                 sep=tokenizer.sep_token,
                                 tokenizer=tokenizer)

    validation_loader = DataLoader(dataset=validation_dataset,
                                   batch_size=config.batch_size*2,
                                   num_workers=config.num_workers,
                                   pin_memory=config.pin_memory,
                                   collate_fn=collator,
                                   shuffle=True,
                                   drop_last=False)

    print(f"Validation samples: {len(validation_dataset)}")

    model = Model(**config.model)

    if not os.path.exists(model_config_path):
        model.config.to_json_file(model_config_path)

    model_parameters = model.parameters()
    optimizer = get_optimizer(**config.optimizer, model_parameters=model_parameters)

    training_steps = len(train_loader) * config.epochs

    if "scheduler" in config:
        config.scheduler.parameters.num_training_steps = training_steps
        config.scheduler.parameters.num_warmup_steps = training_steps * config.get("warmup", 0)
        scheduler = get_scheduler(**config.scheduler, optimizer=optimizer, from_transformers=True)
    else:
        scheduler = None

    model_checkpoint = ModelCheckpoint(mode="min",
                                       delta=config.delta,
                                       directory=checkpoints_directory,
                                       overwriting=True,
                                       filename_format="checkpoint.pth",
                                       num_candidates=1)

    if WANDB:
        wandb.init()
        #wandb.init(group=group, name=f"fold_{fold}", config=config)

    (train_loss, train_metrics), (validation_loss, validation_metrics, validation_outputs) = training_loop(model=model,
                                                                                optimizer=optimizer,
                                                                                scheduler=scheduler,
                                                                                scheduling_after=config.scheduling_after,
                                                                                train_loader=train_loader,
                                                                                validation_loader=validation_loader,
                                                                                epochs=config.epochs,
                                                                                gradient_accumulation_steps=config.gradient_accumulation_steps,
                                                                                gradient_scaling=config.gradient_scaling,
                                                                                gradient_norm=config.gradient_norm,
                                                                                validation_steps=config.validation_steps,
                                                                                amp=config.amp,
                                                                                debug=config.debug,
                                                                                verbose=config.verbose,
                                                                                device=config.device,
                                                                                recalculate_metrics_at_end=True,
                                                                                return_validation_outputs=True,
                                                                                logger="tqdm")

    if WANDB:
        wandb.finish()

    if config.save_model:
        model_state = model.state_dict()
        torch.save(model_state, model_path)
        print(f"Model's path: {model_path}")

    validation_fold["prediction"] = validation_outputs.to("cpu").numpy()
    oof_data_frame = pd.concat([oof_data_frame, validation_fold])

    cv_monitor_value = validation_loss if config.cv_monitor_value == "loss" else validation_metrics[config.cv_monitor_value]
    cv_scores.append(cv_monitor_value)

    del model, optimizer, validation_outputs, train_fold, validation_fold
    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
    gc.collect()

    print(end="\n"*6)

A: TDLR; Check if the generated id is unique in the project space of wandb you are using.
Explanation
You can check the exact reason this happened in the log files under the wandb folder and specific run id. Had the same issue with Error communicating with wandb process and The wandb backend process has shutdown.
My problem was that I was assigning the run id to a specific instance which already existed, and rerunning the whole search space, but the run id have to be unique. Using name in init is generally a safer bet if you don't intend to continue the previous run (which is possible if you indicate so in the init method).
You can try running Wandb in offline mode, to see if this can help, and later on doing wandb sync.

A: Solution which worked for me is run !wandb login --relogin.


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Q: Feathersjs setting up issue I am new to featherjs when I run npm install and run by using npm start I am getting the below error. I tried to use the one sample project from github [https://github.com/swina/feathersjs-webpush-notifications][1]

A: Like the error says, you need a secret (and probably additional) configuration for authentication. This is usually located in config/default.json (or config/<environment>.json). Have a look at the feathers-chat configuration which is the standard configuration generated by the CLI and the recommended way to get started. More information on authentication configuration can be found in the authentication API documentation.


"Fear not" — words that make us stand a little straighter and feel a little stronger. "Fear not," (and words of a similar context) are found in the Bible more than a hundred times. We're taught that fear and faith cannot coexist. A fearful saint is not a faithful saint. But if you — like me — find yourself in a tumultuous situation, that contrast between the two extremes is a very real and present tension. Like the father in Mark 9, we find ourselves pleading — "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!" (v. 24). Over and over I pray: "God, I know You've got this. I know you are faithful. I know You will never leave me nor forsake me. But I'm scared God. I don't want to be. I'm trying not to be. But I am." And He understands. He doesn't chide or rebuke me — He just gives me reasons not to fear.
"This is what the Lord says — He who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters" (v. 16); "I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland" (v. 19).
At this moment I am both drowning in the sea and wandering through a desert. Seems as odd as faith mingled with fear but let me explain. My emotions seem like an overflowing river, thoughts rushing this way and that, pulling me under and threatening to take my very breath. For a split second I come up for air — "I believe!" In the next the waves crash over my head again — "But I am afraid!" God promises to make a way — a path through the waters of fearful thoughts and discouragement that threaten to drown me. He promises dry ground to cross over to the other side.
Yet I am in the desert where nothing grows and all seems lost — walking through a season of drought. Health issues. Disability. Unemployment. Multiple applications with no nibbles. Interviews with "no thank you." Watching the funds dwindle as the provisions dry up. The reality of what we're facing beats down like the scorching sun as we wander looking for an oasis. God promises to make a way here too — to provide streams in this wasteland . Mind you not to drown us like the sea, but to refresh and restore us.
He meets our needs for rescue and refreshing. He gives us dry ground and cool springs. He never fails to notice us wherever we are — even when we're in two places at once. Oh, my drowning, wandering friend — let me throw you a lifeline of hope. You don't have to fear because God hears you, He is with you, He fights for you, He will never leave nor forsake you, and He promises to help you. He knows where you are right now, and He knows what you need right here. He will make a way.
 The NIV records some 110 references; other translations will have a slightly different word count. Despite how good is sounds, there are actually not 365 "Fear not" verses.
Excellent. Words of hope are like throwing in a rope to a person drowning in the raging sea. Thank you. God has been so faithful, and though I know it, some days are more intense. Thank you for your words of hope.
Thank you Beth. I believe hope is one of the most important gifts we can share with one another. The greatest hope is that God will never fail us, not in this life nor the next. Blessings!


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Jean Renoir thinks that the close-up shot is what differentiates cinema from every other artwork kind; for thinker Gilles Deleuze, it's the affection-picture"; for painter Fernand Léger, it is the cinema's solely invention and as for Jean Epstein, it is cinema's soul. Filmmakers know more of their work will live on-line, especially as streaming services enter the movie business, and they're conscious that vast shots will not always translate as nicely on computer systems and telephones.
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An establishing shot introduces a brand new location – a church, a metropolis avenue, a rooftop, a hospital room – from a vantage point that allows the viewers to see all the related characters in the filmic space. It was a unprecedented dance between musical structure and filmic construction. Artistically nonetheless, there is a gray area that many photographers disagree on. If you're photographing an object so close that you could not inform what the unique topic was, you might be venturing into the realm referred to as Summary images.


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British oppression: the cause of the American Revolution?
August 26, 2020 by Essay Writer
The American Revolution was costly and bloody war that granted the Americans the independence for which they fought. This 8-year-long revolutionary war from 1775 to 1783 is considered one of the greatest revolutions of all time in that the Americans had defeated the most powerful nation in the world at the time, Great Britain. The American Revolution is a critical event in the history of the United States and has been explored and evaluated by numerous historians of the 20th century. Whether or not the revolution is justifiable by the American colonists is a long, debatable subject.
Some historians assume that the American Revolution is a result of colonial selfishness and ideology whereas some argue that "only oppression … can justify war" (McLaughlin C. Andrew). All in all, it can be conclusively demonstrated that British oppression towards the colonists is largely responsible for the American Revolution. In fact, particularly after the French and Indian war, England was beginning to rule tyrannically and severely oppress the colonists especially in the economic field.
Before interpreting how Britain oppressed the colonists after the Seven Year's War, it is important to know that even before this war Britain was already showing oppression under the practice of mercantilism. Hacker comments that "beginning in 1660 England gave new strength and direction to its empire. It began exerting stronger controls over the economic activities of the colonies" (DiBacco et al. 59) These stern policies were known as the Navigation Acts. The first Navigation Act of 1660 ordered that all colonial trade had to be in British ships or colonial ships with British captains. This act also ordered that goods such as indigo, sugar, and tobacco were to be sold only to England or another colony. Furthermore, "The law was directed against the Dutch maritime trade, which was very great at that time" (Elson Henry).
The second Navigation Act of 1663 assured that all European imports to the colonies were required to pass through Britain first. There, government collected both import and export duties on the same goods. Because this law hurt the colonies, it was later ignored. However, as Elson states: "had this law been strictly enforced, the effect on the colonies that produced the "enumerated" goods would have been disastrous." (Elson Henry) The last Navigation Act that was ordinanced in 1673 sent British tax officials who collected duties on colonial goods destined to England. From these Navigation Acts by Britain it becomes evident that England started oppressing the colonists even before the French and Indian war. I was suggested by Elson that the Navigation Acts were "unfortunate for British interests; it served to alienate the colonists, little by little, and prepared them for the final break with the mother land.(Elson Henry).
By 1760, England began tightening the screws on the colonies especially after the French and Indian War. Economic and political crisis started to be seen. Additionally, Britain was in debt and did not want to risk another war. Therefore, to keep piece with the Indians Britain issued the Proclamation if 1763 which declared that all land west of the Appalachians was to the Indians and off-limits to the American colonists. This proclamation infuriated the colonists who wanted to seek westward, and provoked resentment which would later lead to the American Revolution (DiBacco et al. 73). This protest to the Proclamation could be considered legitimate because as Hacker states:
Stringency and bankruptcy everywhere confronted the merchants and big farmers; seamen and laborers were thrown out of work, small tradesmen were compelled to close their shops and small farmers were faced by ruin because of their expanded acreage, a diminished market and heavy fixed charges made particularly onerous as a result of currency contraction. Into the bargain, escape into the frontier zones–always the last refuge of the dispossessed–was shut off as a result of the Proclamation of 1763. (Hacker 93)
In addition to the Proclamation of 1763 England also challenged the colonists with the use of writs of assistance. Britain thought that the colonists should return to their proper role of enriching the mother country and abiding by its rules (DiBacco et al. 81). The writs of assistance were blank search warrants that allowed tax officials to seize smuggled goods at any time and place when found. James Otis who represented the colonist merchants stated that "this writ is against the fundamental principles of English law…"(DiBacco et al. 82) Otis also claimed that the writs of assistance were unconstitutional.
The Seven Year's War caused more problems to the British which had to be solved . After the war 10,000 English soldiers remained to protect the frontier. Because the Parliament needed to raise funds for such expenses, the Stamp Act of 1765 was issued. It required that every sheet of legal document had to have a stamp on it showing that tax had been paid. Every copy of a liquor license, a land deed, a will, a newspaper, even playing cards were taxed. Moreover, those caught disobeying the law were to be tried in courts where there was no trial by jury. This act by the British was an attempt to cripple the colonists with taxes. The Stamp Act:
Meant that they had to go to a special stamp tax office to purchase the stamped paper. Not only that, the tax was to be paid in silver coin–a scarce commodity in the colonies. (DiBacco et al. 83)
Although this act was repealed in 1766, another oppressing act was passed, the Declaratory Act. The latter asserts Britain the right to rule and tax colonies. Following the Declaratory act came the Townshend Acts of 1767, where the King and Parliament expected more revenues from the colonies. The Townshend Acts placed high duties which were to be paid in gold or silver on lead, paper, glass, paint and tea. (Dibacco et al. 83). Such oppressive acts by the British Parliament meant to restrict colonial economy. In History of the United States, Salma Hale mentions that "…these restrictions, while they increased her revenues and wealth, greatly diminished the profits of the trade of the colonies, and sensibly impeded their internal prosperity."
There were several tyrannical events and acts that took place in Boston. The city was a sight of coercion and ruthless conflict between the British and the colonists. For example, on March 5th, 1770 tensions erupted when British soldiers fired at an angry street mob killing 5 people. This incident became known as the Boston Massacre. Only a month after this incident British Parliament repealed the Townshend duties but left the Tea Act of 1775 to symbolize Britain's control and power over the colonists. The Tea Act gave the East India Company a monopoly on trade. Moreover, the tea arrived in the company's own ships and be sold by its own agents (DiBacco et al. 85).Colonial merchants and shippers dismayed and thought that if Parliament could establish a monopoly on tea, then they could establish monopolies on other goods. According to Louis Hacker, the East India company:
Was given permission to ship in its own vessels and dispose of, through its own merchandising agencies, a surplus stock of 17 million pounds of tea in American: and, in this way, drive out of business those Americans who carried, imported and sold in retail channels British tea. (Hacker 89)
Consequently, the Tea Act lead to the Boston Tea Party which would inflame the British parliament even more. In the Boston Tea party, a gang of radical colonists, disguised as Indians systematically dumped into the Boston harbor 342 chests of tea in response to the Tea Act.
Lastly, one of the most and domineering and oppressive acts that Britain had issued on the colonists were the Coercive Acts, or the Intolerable Acts as the colonists referred to it. After what had happened at the Boston Tea Party, Britain was enraged. Not only did England close the Boston Port until all tea wasted at the Boston Tea Party was paid back but even representative government was severely restricted in Massachusetts. The governor had the power to appoint the council, all judges and all sheriffs. Also, committees of correspondence were forbidden, and only. Under the governor's permission were town meetings allowed to be held. Yet another act declared that soldiers were to be quartered in abandoned buildings or taverns in colonies whenever it was necessary. It was an oppressive act because it interfered with the colonists' lives: food, clothing, and shelter had to be provided for the British Army. This act is commonly known as the Quartering Act.
To enforce these laws, Massachusetts became under military rule. Spontaneously, another act which offended the colonists known as the Quebec Act was issued in 1774. It not only guaranteed "French Canadians the right to practice Roman Catholicism" but it also "gave Quebec control over much of what is now Quebec, Ontario, and the Midwestern United States." (The Quebec Act). The colonists were not willing to tolerate Catholicism and felt offended. The American land-hungry settlers became enraged after Quebec acquire Indian Territory which they believed to be theirs by right. Such oppressive acts by the British may have contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution. In one historian's interpretation of the cause of the American Revolution it was suggested that:
The direct taxing of domestic goods and services under the Stamp Act, and taxing of imports under the Townshend Acts, the tax on the tea, the Coercive Acts which followed resistance to British authority by the people of Boston, and the exclusion of colonial representatives from the Parliament that enacted such measures–these were without doubt grievances which stirred the American generation of the 1770s. (McClellan 113)
In summary, the American revolution which was a gruesome and costly war to both Britain and the Americans, it had nevertheless granted the independence the Americans battled for. Due to the fact that the American Revolution is an excessively complex topic, there are various interpretations on whether it could be justified. Undoubtedly , it becomes clear that only British oppression on the colonists could be the cause of the revolutionary war. Not only were the British oppressing the colonists before the Seven Year's War with acts such as the Navigation Acts, but by 1760 England was starting to rule ruthlessly and oppress the colonies especially in the economic aspect. Lecky, one of the ablest historians mentions in "History of England that: "The deliberate selfishness of the English commercial legislation was digging a chasm between the mother country and the colonists."
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In a newly-published interview, former Apple sound designer Jim Reekes discusses the history of the sound cues he created for the company's devices, such as the famous Mac "beep" and startup chords, and the camera shutter used on devices like the iPhone.
The "Sosumi" beep originally started out under the name "Xylophone," but a lawsuit from The Beatles' Apple record label forced the similarly-named computer company to rename any sound effect with a musical-sounding name, Jim Reekes explained to CNBC.
"I actually said I'm gonna call it 'let it beep' and of course you can't do anything like that, but I thought yeah, 'so sue me.' And then I thought that's actually the right name," Reekes said. "I'll just have to spell it funny, so I spelled it Sosumi."
The designer lied to Apple's lawyers, claiming it was a Japanese word with no musical implications. "It was really me making fun of lawyers," according to Reekes.
As for the best-known Mac startup sound, it was originally a sharper tone that would play often because of the computer's tendency to crash at the time. Reekes decided that the machine needed a "palette cleanser" as a result, and recorded a C-major chord on a synthesizer at home, inspired by the end of the Beatles song "A Day in the Life."
Reekes didn't have permission to change the sound, but happened to know the people in charge of the right ROMs, and asked them to insert his sound late into development so that it wouldn't be caught. The result shipped with the first Quadra.
When some engineers became unhappy with the switch, he made up an excuse.
"Our excuse was it's too risky to take it back out at this point because something could crash," he joked. "We just made up some bulls---." The sound is no longer present on Macs, but was trademarked by Apple.
The Mac screenshot/iPhone camera sound is actually the slowed-down sound of Reekes' Canon AE-1 camera.
"Any time you take a photo with the iPhone it's my camera, which kind of freaks me out because, even to this day when I hear people take photos with their iPhone I look to see who stole my camera," he commented.
Despite being closely linked with Apple history, Reekes is not as rich as some other Apple luminaries, having left the company in the late 1990s while abandoning "tens of thousands of Apple options that would have made me probably $8 million today if I had kept them."
And the chord at the end of "A Day in the Life" now sounds great on the HomePod. The recent Sgt. Pepper's remix by Giles Martin was the first album I tested.
Thanks for this story. It had occurred to me that the Mac startup sound was inspired by the Beatles' chord. Maybe I remembered this detail from some piece of Apple lore that was already out there? Now we have the real story. Thanks to Jim Reekes also. I love that startup sound.
Wish it was still in the system, but I suppose it's now considered too quaint or something.
I always thought Jim Reeks was a cool guy...kind of a rebel in a way. He did really good work as well. I loved watching his interview he did for I think it was called "Welcome to Macintosh". He always has interesting stories to share while working at Apple.
Slight clarification here from a fellow sound designer. On the original CNBC clip, and also in his interview on the "Welcome To Macintosh" podcast, Jim says that the Mac and iPhone camera sound was not a slowed down recording of his AE-1 but just a slow shutter speed on the camera (at normal playback speed). Probably only me who cares but…!
That makes more sense. That sound always reminds me of the sound of a Leica M at 1/15 sec which is one of the informal ways to test the camera, it has a very distinctive sound at that shutter speed.
The "Sosumi" story behind the name is pure chaotic Apple.
"So sue me" - what Paul Simon said to Athol Guy of the Australian group The Seekers in the in the 1960's when Simon stole one of Guy's songs.
I don't know the incident you're referring to, but I'm pretty sure that that phrase was not coined by either Paul Simon or Jim Reekes.
The startup sound part starts about 13:20. No "day in the life" reference, though. Was that in Welcome to Macintosh?
Looks like he's an HR Giger fan.


Note: I am writing this post while sipping tea from my "I only date superheroes" mug. Just thought that would be good to throw out there. Now on to the real thing!
The other day I was talking to my mom about a lady she knows who had been married for twenty-something years, had grown children, and whose husband was moving out. Sad. Seriously sad. I don't know this lady, her children, or her husband, but my heart was genuinely sad for her. I simply cannot imagine sharing years and years of my life with someone only to have him give up on us when the children grow up and move away, or when he decides that there may be something better out there, or when fighting for me and for us isn't worth it anymore.
And then my mom said something for which I am so, so thankful but rarely say out loud: "It just makes me so thankful for Dad and how blessed I am." (I can't remember her exact wording, but this is a pretty accurate paraphrase.) And she's right. Our family has been abundantly blessed by the consistency and leadership my dad has provided for 30+ years. We Finches are not without our quirks, but if nothing else, we can say we have always had a great example of godliness in our home.
When I read that, I immediately thought, "Well, I am blessed to know many faithful men!" First there's my dad, and my brother, then the wonderful men my good friends have chosen to marry. There are also my own guy friends, and men from my church. These men are faithful to the Lord, their families (those who have them), their jobs, their friends, and their local church bodies. They are even faithful to me in some ways (if I ever need something that I can't or would rather not take care of as a single lady, I can call one of them to help me out, and they are ready and willing to lend a hand).
I often read about how there is a shortage of good, Christian men in churches and in families and how many men are failing to lead or initiate properly (and I think to some extent, this is true), but reading this verse made me abundantly grateful for the guys I know who don't fall into the traps of passivity or unfaithfulness.
Though I don't yet know who my faithful man will be, I am so, so thankful for the other faithful men in my life. And, for the record, I think they are real-life superheroes. They may not be able to fly or have laser vision, but they play a part in saving the world from impending doom, fighting for what is good and honoring to the Lord despite the world around them tempting them to take the easy way out.
Makes me thankful for my faithful man, that I sometimes take for granted. His (our) house was invaded for 4 days by three women, and he graciously slept in a chair. Even now, we have an intern staying with us for two months. And he is good with that. Not just putting up with it, but truly okay. I am blessed beyond measure by his giving spirit.


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Q: Cant add custom class to an array I have a custom class called PLAYER which has the following properties with the associated getter and setter and default init.
Private aName As String
Private aAge As Integer
Private aID As String
Private aScore As Integer

I am now trying to create an array in the main program as follows:

    Dim Players As Range
    Set Players = Range("PLAYERS")

    Dim PlayerRows As Integer, PlayerCols As Integer, count As Integer

    PlayerRows = Players.Rows.count

    Dim allPlayers() As PLAYER
    ReDim allPlayers(5)

    Dim temp As New PLAYER
    temp.name = Players.Cells(count + 1, 1)
    temp.age = Players.Cells(count + 1, 2)
    temp.ID = Players.Cells(count + 1, 3)
    temp.score = Players.Cells(count + 1, 4)

    allPlayers(0) = temp

But when I try and add the new object to to array of PLAYER objects I get a runtime error 91 'Object variable or With Block variable not set'.
How am I setting up this array wrong? I am trying to have an array for the class PLAYER.

A: Dealing with objects you have to use "Set" keyword:
Set allPlayers(0) = temp