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Now I need to insert some records and to do that I need to use an ADODB.Connection and Recordset. However normally I would call Connection.Open but the database is already open from the Access.Application. Is there a way to not have to open the Access file twice and instead get the ADODB.Connection from the Access.Application object?

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If the election were held today, President Obama would win more than 52 percent of the popular vote, an increase that could be attributed to the release of Mitt Romney's "47 percent" video, according to political calculus done by Nate Silver of The New York Times' Five Thirty Eight blog.
By Sept. 17, the date when the video of Mr. Romney's remarks was released and received widespread attention, the momentum from Mr. Obama's convention appeared to have stalled (although not necessarily reversed itself). Mr. Obama led in the popular vote by 4.1 percentage points on that date, according to the "now-cast." Since then, however, Mr. Obama has gained further ground in the polls. As of Thursday, he led in the popular vote by 5.7 percentage points in the "now-cast," a gain of 1.6 percentage points since Mr. Romney's remarks became known to the public.
Silver's chart, below, does not include the effect of the national conventions or economic trends, which makes it useful for looking at the isolated impact of the Romney videos on the 2012 presidential election.
Nate Silver, The New York TimesOver the coming weeks, political pundits will likely be interested in seeing an updated version of this chart, as Romney continues to feel the aftershocks of his remarks.


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01-15-2009, 08:07 PM, (This post was last modified: 01-15-2009, 08:08 PM by umbro.)
In the game the chance of a Panther knocking out a T34/85 at range 11 is 10%.
Presumably this accounts for a shot fired from the front quarter hitting an area of the target not protected by "effective thickness" armour that it would not ordinarily penetrate (turret, gun, mounting ring, drivers viewport, tread, etc), or as has been stated elsewhere on this thread some other reason that the tank was made inoperable (commander killed, crew panicked, etc.).
Given these scenarios, 10% seems completely reasonable, IMHO.
Interesting thread, and not sure where I come down on the issue. I'm not even sure if what follows is a suggestion, as I've been a happy user of shoot and scoot myself (try surviving without it in such scenarios as Prokorakova as Germans).
I think a unit that has moved should have some op fire ability in the following enemy phase, even if it has used up its shots. Two shots for tanks over a six minute turn seems rather restrictive. Perhaps units that move should fire with less effectiveness than those which remain stationary.
Shoot and scoot is good when done from terrain you dont want to hold, or is in no jeopardy of being occupied by the enemy.
Its part of the price we pay for IGOUGO and less file transfers by PBEM. I do not know how much coding would be required for change, or if such coding could be made optional.
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This is all very fine guys and a great discussion, but I think we are getting a little off track and should be dealing only with one issue at a time.
Just a reminder, the issue I was bringing up was the overuse of shoot and scoot in PBEM games. Thus making the games an unrealistic simulation of what occurred on the battlefields of WWII.
There have been some good ideas put forward which may discourage the overuse of this tactic.
Although I have no idea whether any of these are able to be designed into the game, or indeed if that is what others would like to see done.
However it is giving us food for thought and perhaps Jason could answer that for us.
IMO I think it would improve the game and it seems I am not alone in this thought. Exactly how many others agree we may never know unless you add your comments and thoughts.
I think any discussions on the ranges of vehicles and other aspects members want to discuss then please could they start a new thread.
01-15-2009, 10:34 PM, (This post was last modified: 01-15-2009, 10:36 PM by Hawk Kriegsman.)
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"the issue I was bringing up was the overuse of shoot and scoot in PBEM games. Thus making the games an unrealistic simulation of what occurred on the battlefields of WWII."
Once again, how does one know what is realistic to the World War II battlefield unless one, was there, reads individual action reports and sitreps, or interviewed participants?
And, once again, this is a game that plays quite well as a simulation/game. I know some may not like it but, that is how it is presented and, I believe, how it survived as a game for so long as others fell by the wayside (including many "realistic" games).
I know that Hawk has posted of his findings on shoot and scoot in previous posts. I wish he was able to share that again here. I know that I have read about the ability of fast AT/SP that used the tactic along with other armor on various scales.
I do not see the need for making the changes you propose. Maybe simply playing those who conform to your personal ROE's is in order, instead of changing the game for a possible majority of players who may not see it your way?
As with the original assault, surround, and capture tactic, developing tactics to counter the shoot and scoot may make it a more enjoyable game for you than to make a major, fundamental, change to the game as the developers did with extreme assault.
I do not see shoot and scoot as being terrible unrealistic.
Unrealistic are the scenarios where the sides are roughly even when most attacks were launched from a three, four, five or more advantage. Yes, some specific cases had fewer troop numbers attacking larger numbers but, overall plans were to have superior numbers.
And, if you want realism in play you may want realistic scenarios? Would you call for throwing out any hypothetical scenarios or those based on history but not as historically accurate to be "real"?
As with many of these discussions "real" and realistic are subjective ideas?
Most "realists" concerned with the use of HT's, trucks, etc have personal ROE's that govern their PBEM games. Most are simple and straightforward. Why make fundamental changes to a game, for all those who play it, over something that could be solved through a personal ROE?
I will be interested to see what Jason might say.
I also wish I knew what Hawk wrote. :smoke:
I think we all have to realise this is a game and improvements can hopefully be made where required, but remember, it's still a fun game to many. If we strive for complete realism, maybe we have to wait for technology to develop automated robots that can fight each other on our floor carpets, lol!
I just think that, what we have is what we've got. A heck of a lot of work went into improving it and some will be happy, some won't. Best perhaps to try use the tools in the best way possible, until a list of improvements are formulated and ok'd as being able to be done by the programmers?
It would be nice to think that this issue could be resolved by ROE, but I could see some problems there. One would only have to move a unit out of the LOS after firing for some reason and you have a problem.
If some of the op fire solutions mentioned earlier in the game were able to be implemented and perhaps made optional I can see no great impact being forced upon the game.
These are doable in HPS PzC and Steel Panthers, a game I believe which is older than this one.
It wouldn't stop one shooting and scooting, it would just mean there would be an added risk involved.
I really can't see how this would be bad for the game, it would be more realistic and at the same time give a bit more added excitement to shoot & scoot, which at present can be very predictable.
I really don't believe anyone can defend the present situation in some PBEM games and pretend that is what happened on the battlefield.
We are very lucky these days there is a wealth of evidence available for anyone to see and to disprove the excessive use of this tactic.
We even have The Military Channel documentaries now, thousands of books and films on the subject. I've seen most of them as I am sure many members have.
What I've never seen is over a hundred tanks and other vehicles like halftracks with some kind of weapon, coming into the line of sight in 6 minutes, shooting and then disappearing.
Prove me wrong, point me in the right direction, where can I see this, it will truly be a wonderful, sight.
Seriously my only agenda here is I would like to see if it is possible this made the best game of all time.
I believe it's good now but it could be better, slow progress surely there is nothing wrong with that.:)
With regards to various weapons systems (tanks & AT guns) being able to inflict damage or losses to certain targets at long and even short ranges from time to time does seem quite unrealistic and not historically accurate to me. But as Hawk previously mentioned. A Tank being killed in this game does not necessarily have to mean it's armor has been penetrated. There are positively other ways to render a tank useless. However first and foremost the ability for a given weapon system to kill any given tank in this game should be it's ability to breach or smash apart that given tanks armor IMO. In this game I believe I'm seeing to many tank commanders being killed and tank tracks being hit so to speak. IMO Part of this problem with so called long range kills comes from what I believe the original designers either overlooked or intentionally did in order to not bog the game down to much. What the designers overlooked was that given attack values should also proportionately drop off as range to given target increases because of actual combat accuracy attacking gun. What we have now with many weapon system is just the attacking values dropping off because of the guns penetration performance over given ranges. Here's just one example.
Present German Panther tank Hard Attack Values:
Range in hexes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (range)
36 35 34 32 30 28 26 23 20 17 15 13 (attack value)
Now the actual accuracy of the 75mm L/70 is as follows:
Range in meters
500m 1000m 1500m 2000m 2500m 3000m (range)
100% 97% 72% 49% 29% 18% (accuracy)
Penetration performance of 75mm L/70 vs armor plate set at 30 degrees
100 meters 500 meters 1000 meters 1500 meters 2000 meters
138mm 124mm 111mm 99mm 89mm
Now if actual combat accuracy was factored in with penetration performance. This is what might expect to see instead.
37 35 33 30 25 20 16 12 9 6 5 4 (attack value)
A possible revised value that might be considered.
37 35 33 31 27 24 21 17 14 12 10 8 (attack value)
This is just a formula and I'm not saying that attack values should be changed. Only that the TS original designers as outstanding as they are. Just seemed to have missed or intentionally missed a few minor details with regards to attack values IMO ... Not to mention a good number of defense values.
Comments are appreciated
Again, I will say that I am unsure where I stand on this particular issue. I will observe that any game that players use ROEs, or dreaded "Gentlemens' Agreements" to play must have something those players do not like.
FM WarB Wrote: Again, I will say that I am unsure where I stand on this particular issue. I will observe that any game that players use ROEs, or dreaded "Gentlemens' Agreements" to play must have something those players do not like.
Exactly correct. It is a matter of personal use and "feelings" about the game.
I see shoot and scoot as a valid tactic, in appropriate situations. To take away that ability based on personal desire to remove it is not a valid reason.
Off the specific topic but relevant to the general discussion; I think Cavalry should have dismounted horses move at one or two hexes, due to the fact that one man is holding the reigns of four or five other horses, while keeping them "in formation". But, the riderless horses can move their full movement often creating a "stampede" which some players use for drawing opt fire. Personal ROE's are then necessary to keep the game somewhat "real".
Similar to the use of non-combat transports, personal ROE's to not use them to spot, draw opt fire, or block are often in effect. I personally do not play opponents who use them that way.
They are all on the map and capable of doing "unreal" things. But, to have the game engine changed to restrict it is so far down on my "wish list" that I believe "personal ROE's" are enough to "fix it".
If anyone does not like shoot and scoot they will eventually end up playing only those who do not use it?
It's a quite simple fix that could "please all the people, all the time"?


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Orioles look to end five-game losing streak against slumping Angels
Date: 06/29/2018Author: Jake McDonnell 0 Comments
BALTIMORE — After several seasons of performing much better at home than on the road, the Orioles (23-57) enter their final series of June with more road wins (12) than home wins (11). For the Orioles, wins have been hard to come by both at home and on the road this season, but the struggles at home have been particularly bad.
Look no further than the Orioles' latest series against the Seattle Mariners, a series in which Seattle swept Baltimore over four games. Both Buck Showalter and Darren O'Day got ejected on Monday, and then O'Day re-injured his hamstring on Tuesday.
That's a rough two days.
Trailing 5-4 in the eighth inning of Wednesday's affair, Chris Davis hit a monster three-run home run to give the Orioles a 7-5 lead, only for Zach Britton to blow the save in the ninth when Denard Span hit a game-tying two-run home run. The Orioles went on to lose 8-7 in the 11th inning.
Thursday's series finale also went into extras tied at 2, and Seattle's go-ahead run only scored because of a fielding error by Colby Rasmus that delayed Jonathan Schoop's throw to the plate.
No matter how hard they try, the Orioles simply cannot get out of their own way. They can't hold a lead, several pitchers continue to go down with injuries, and through it all the front office continues to hold off on firings and trades that need to start happening fast. Having a general manager with an expiring contract in charge of a rebuild only makes Orioles fans more nervous, but then again Dan Duquette might not even be making the decisions anymore anyway. You wouldn't know, because we haven't heard a peep from Orioles ownership all season regarding these issues.
With all of this on the minds of Orioles players, coaches, employees, and fans, the season goes on as the Los Angeles Angels (41-41) come to town for a three-game weekend series at Camden Yards. The Orioles are losers of five straight and own the worst record in the majors, but the Angels have lost six in a row and seven of their last 10.
Following a 2-1 win over the Twins on Jun. 10, the Angels were 37-28 overall. Since then, they have played 4-12 baseball. The Angels come to Baltimore after losing a makeup game 2-0 in Kansas City on Monday, and then losing three straight to Boston at Fenway Park.
A look at the standings: The Orioles now sit 31 games behind the two best teams in baseball – the Red Sox (55-27) and Yankees (52-26) – in the American League East. Out west, the Astros (55-28) have the third-best record in the majors, with the Angles sitting at .500 in fourth place, 13.5 games back. The Mariners (51-31) are 3.5 games behind Houston.
Last Meeting: The Orioles kicked off the month of May by getting swept in Anaheim. The entire series swirled around Albert Pujols, who came just one hit shy of 3,000 in the series finale before the Angels left for a five-game road trip.
The Birds lost a close 3-2 opener before the Angels outscored Baltimore 22-10 over the final two games, including a 12-3 win on May 3.
Last season, the Angels won a late-August three-game set over the Orioles 2-1. The O's won the opener 9-7 despite starter Jeremy Hellickson allowing all seven Angels runs over 4.2 innings.
Miguel Castro, Richard Bleier, and O'Day held the Angels in check after Hellickson's exit, limiting the Angels to three hits, one walk, and two strikeouts. Manny Machado plated seven of Baltimore's runs, including a walk-off grand slam.
Overall, the Angels won the 2017 season series vs. Baltimore 4-2.
Game times and pitching matchups:
Game 1: Friday, Jun. 29, 7:05 pm – Felix Peña (0-0, 5.40 ERA) vs. David Hess (2-4, 5.44 ERA) – MASN, 105.7 The Fan
Game 2: Saturday, Jun. 30, 4:05 pm – Tyler Skaggs (6-5, 2.69 ERA) vs. Andrew Cashner (2-8, 4.70 ERA) – MASN, 105.7 The Fan
Game 3: Sunday, Jul. 1, 1:05 pm – Deck McGuire (0-0, 6.08 ERA) vs. Kevin Gausman (3-6, 4.20 ERA) – MASN, 105.7 The Fan
Notes on the Angels:
At Camden Yards, superstar outfielder Mike Trout owns a lifetime average of .278 in 90 at-bats with seven home runs.
Two-way player Shohei Ohtani was cleared to resume hitting on Thursday. He has not appeared in a game since Jun. 6 because of a partially-torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his right elbow.
Notes on the Orioles:
Mark Trumbo has hit safely in 12 straight games, tying his career-high that was set on Aug. 29-Sept. 10, 2015 while he played in Seattle.
Machado's average at home this season stands at .350 (48-for-137, 13 home runs), whereas on the road, he is 15-for-170 (.265, 7 home runs).
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University announces online classes, citing coronavirus concerns
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Georgetown University announced plans on March 11 to move all undergraduate courses online in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus and the associated disease known as COVID-19.
In a university-wide statement, university President John DeGioia explained that while campus will remain open, all courses will be administered virtually until further notice. He also strongly encouraged students to not return to campus after spring break, but noted that students who needed to stay would be able to.
"We strongly encourage undergraduate students to return to their permanent addresses," DeGioia wrote.
While no specific methods of remote instruction were given, administrators stressed that both students and faculty would need to work together to aid transition. Some professors have informed their classes that online instruction will take place via Zoom, a video conferencing platform.
"While almost all faculty have used instructional continuity before, we have never offered several weeks of remote education," Provost Robert Groves wrote in an additional campus-wide email. "We must work together to do this well."
Students who need to remain on campus will be able to do so. "Key services will be available," DeGioia wrote.
The university announcement comes after several U.S. universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Ohio State, Berkeley, and American have moved to digital classes to prevent further spread of the virus.
As of March 10, nineteen cases of COVID-19 have been reported in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Three D.C. virus patients are associated with Christ Church Georgetown, less than a mile from Georgetown's campus.
No Georgetown students, faculty, or staff have tested positive for the coronavirus.
There are 570 confirmed cases in 36 U.S. states. So far, 26 U.S. deaths have been caused by COVID-19. According to The Atlantic, as of March 10, only 4,384 individuals in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19.
DeGioia ensured that the university is working closely with D.C. Health and promised that the university community would be informed of any updates or changes to university policy. "All of us need to exercise the strongest precautions to reduce transmission," he wrote.
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The UK aims for Marrakesh were to: (a) strengthen action and ambition; (b) make progress on implementing the Paris agreement; and (c) demonstrate the UK's leadership on climate change. These objectives were achieved.
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Announced that the UK had ratified the Paris agreement. On this occasion, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy reiterated that we look ahead to continuing our leadership on climate action and ensuring that British business continues to play a key role in the new global low-carbon economy. We believe it will benefit the UK while we implement our industrial strategy to deliver an economy that works for all.
Co-led with Australia the production and presentation of the $100 billion road map on behalf of donor countries, setting out how the goal of mobilising $100 billion of public and private climate finance by 2020 will be achieved.
Hosted a Green is GREAT pavilion, showcasing British strengths in managing the impact of climate change and providing a platform to show and sell British innovations.
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Q: How to restrict Kubernetes containers to view block devices list on host (K8s minion) os? During a custom K8s flexvolume development, I observed that containers are able to view complete block devices list present on the K8s minion (host) where it is running over. Basically "lsblk" command output on host os is also visible if executed "lsblk" over the containers.
Also if container c1 has a flexvolume v1 assigned and c2 has v2; and both c1, c2 runs over same K8s host then c1 os can see v1, v2 both in "lsblk" output. Where c1 has only access to v1 and not v2 which is as expected but for certain security aspects, we do not want c1 os to view any block devices being accessed by c2 or specifically by K8s host.
K8s is using docker as containerization service.
Please can anyone guide here to achieve expected configuration. Is K8s Namespace way to go? if yes, can you provide any example?
Thanks in advance.

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*Persistent volumes and host volumes/paths are not namespaced

*However, persistent volume claims PVCs belong to a single namespace

*You may consume the storage through PVCs so that each namespace has access to its own PVCs

*Separate containers/pods by namespaces

*Dont use host volumes in production

*Use podSecurityPolicy to allow specific volume types and deny others such as HostPaths

Additionally, a PV that is already bound to one PVC cannot be bound to
  another, regardless of namespace. This means that even if a user
  attempts to craft a PVC which claims an existing PV from a different
  namespace, it will fail. When using Trident, the PV and PVC are
  destroyed at the same time by default. This behavior can be changed so
  that PVs are retained, but a PV that was bound to a PVC once and then
  unbound can never be bound again.

https://netapp.io/2018/06/15/highly-secure-kubernetes-persistent-volumes/
use pod security polcieis to restrict pods not to access host paths and only access some specific volume types and pvs
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-policy/#volumes-and-file-systems
AllowedHostPaths - See Volumes and file systems.

Volumes and file systems
Volumes - Provides a whitelist of allowed volume types. The allowable values correspond to the volume sources that are defined when creating a volume. For the complete list of volume types, see Types of Volumes. Additionally, * may be used to allow all volume types.

The recommended minimum set of allowed volumes for new PSPs are:

configMap
downwardAPI
emptyDir
persistentVolumeClaim
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21. March 2008 • Nancy Shore
There were two articles about AATA in the Ann Arbor News today.
Article 1: Board member: AATA needs a 'diet'.
AATA Board Member Ted Annis presents a Treasurer's Report at the AATA Board Meeting. The report criticizes AATA for it's service, funding, and more.
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It's become clear that Mr. Annis really needs to be let go from the AATA board. He doesn't appear to be working in the best interests of the agency, and isn't even trying to hide his agenda of trying to pay less property taxes. His findings are a pretty clear indicator of his desire to lower his property taxes by cutting the AATA millage (which he's alluded to many times in the past). While lower property taxes may be a laudable goal, it shouldn't be the primary reason why he's on the AATA board.
There are areas where the AATA bus system needs to be improved, but not in the ways he suggests. He didn't even bother to document or source any of his "findings". They contain a great deal of speculation, conjecture, and factual errors.
His conclusions that UM riders are being subsidized by "Ann Arbor taxpayers" is spurious. As part of that argument, he claimed that UM students don't pay property taxes. I'd love to rent from him, because my landlord passes those taxes through to me in my rent! UM already pays a substantial amount for its people to ride on AATA buses. The contract with UM was constructed using a very common model which many other universities/transit agencies throughout the country have implemented. Mr. Annis' proposal for UM isn't even remotely like anything in the industry. If he drives away UM, the productivity of the AATA system certainly isn't going to fare well (interesting when considering that particular metric is supposedly so important to him).
AATA is not part of the city gov't and never has been (Annis couldn't even be bothered to get that fact right in his paper). The city collects taxes on behalf of AATA, but AATA was incorporated as an independent single-purpose unit of government under the MI state constitution. The people who pushed the original AATA ballot issue had the choice to create a city transit dept, but they deliberately steered away from that (and created a dedicated millage with no sunset). I've talked to some of them…they knew that transit would be one of the first things to be chopped if it was a regular line item in the city budget (hence the current structure and financing of the AATA).
Under the Annis model, the AA Public School system is also a city dept…i guess someone forgot to inform them of that. Having the city audit AATA is inappropriate, and there's no precedent for it anywhere in the state. AATA is financially audited every year, and once again received a clean rating a few weeks ago.
The bus system structure was also recently evaluated by a consultant, which found that AATA uses best industry practices in the implementation of its service (including the fact that it's a 'hub-and-spoke' arrangement…most cities of Ann Arbor's size use this type of system). There are things that can be improved in the system's design…no one disputes that. The upcoming service changes in august are the first step in an attempt to deal with that.
Why doesn't Mr. Annis mention these things in his paper? Because his agenda isn't to save Ann Arbor taxpayers money…it appears to be more egocentric than that. He's spent a ton of money on a big house and lots of landscaping (and doesn't appear to like paying taxes for his opulence), so he seems to be willing to tear apart our public transportation system to save himself a few dollars.
I like shrubs and big rocks as much as the next person, but i also realize that public transpiration is a vital part of this region's economy. It's also going to be a major part of the region's tools for growth.
It's time to get this clown off the AATA board and replace him with someone who actually has experience with transit and is dedicated to the cause (or at least has set foot on an AATA bus more than a couple of times). The region's riders deserve better. Are you listening AATA board, AA City Council, and Mr. Mayor?
—flareontoo Mar. 21 '08 - 08:24AM #
I find Mr. Annis' ideas alarming.
First, this is a time in our region's history when we need to expand transit funding, not limit it.
The idea of turning the AATA millage over to City Hall to manage is equally wrong-headed. This utility needs to be protected from political winds and our City Council has not displayed good judgment on a number of big decisions in recent years. Mayor Hieftje has already appointed two staff members to the AATA board. There was some justification to appointing his transportation chief but the appointment of Sue McCormick, a top city administrative official, appears to be an effort to run AATA from the City Administrator's office.
My own bus service (route 13) is being cut. We will no longer have midday service. I did use this service for business downtown. There were always people sharing the bus with me. I would like to see AATA sustain service to residents, not cut it. That is why we pay for a generous millage that no other municipality can match.
—Vivienne Armentrout Mar. 21 '08 - 05:04PM #
I think there are areas where the AATA could improve, but Ted Annis is way off base about what they are.
Organization leadership is hard. Good Executive Directors are rare, good Boards are even rarer.
Right now the AATA has neither a good Executive Director nor a functioning Board.
From what I see, the previous executive director had a very top-down style. That has created an AATA culture where the staff, while very competent, aren't empowered to speak up. Everything I hear about the interim ED, Dawn Gabay, tells me that she was a great operations manager, but that's a different skill set than what is needed for an Executive Director.
So, there's a vacuum in leadership from the staff.
And from what I hear, the search for a permanent ED is going nowhere (I could be wrong on this one, if anyone knows more, please correct me).
Then, there's the AATA Board. As I said earlier, good Board governance is very rare. That's not a slam on the people volunteering on Boards, it's just that it's hard for an all volunteer body to put the time, the focus, and the expertise into good governance.
So with the AATA Board, we have Ted Annis running off half-cocked, the mayor's fondness for appointing city staff. C'mon, Eli Cooper and his boss, Sue McCormick, are are both on the AATA Board. How likely is Eli to butt heads with his boss on AATA issues at a public Board meeting?
And here's the clincher… nobody on the Board even rides the bus.
What worries me most about this situation is that from the outside this looks like a cataclysm of dysfunction. That will make recruiting it much harder to recruit a a top-notch new Executive Director.
So, that's a bunch of complaining. What do I see that needs to be done?
1. Recognize Strengths: We have a good system developing innovative services like the Link and Hybrid Buses. For all my complaining, things are pretty good.
2. Recognize that everything is not OK: A little bird told me that when the Mayor was asked about how AATA was doing, he thought everything was fine. Everything is not fine.
3. Get busy finding a permanent Executive Director: Without someone to take leadership of the organization, cast a vision for the future, and work with the board and communities develop a strong system, the organization will stagnate.
4. Build a better board: I've heard sinister theories about why the Mayor has appointed city employees and political supporters like Ted Annis. I don't know. I think they might just have been convenient. Whatever the case, The AATA needs Board members who actually ride the bus, understand the roles and limitations of board governance, and are willing to recognize what they don't know (ie, if they haven't done the research to judge the hub and spoke system, they acknowledge that).
End of rant.
—Chuck Warpehoski Mar. 21 '08 - 07:02PM #
it's clearly time for a transit rider's union, so that the snooze gets the view from the rider's point of view too.
—Edward Vielmetti Mar. 21 '08 - 07:17PM #
Chuck Warpehoski wrote: "And here's the clincher… nobody on the Board even rides the bus."
I believe Eli Cooper uses the Park and Ride most days and cycles on Fridays, weather permitting.
But by mentioning that, I don't mean to challenge your basic point, which is that the perspective of regular bus riders should be better represented on the Board.
—HD Mar. 21 '08 - 08:22PM #
Thank you HD, and I've also been told that Charles Griffith also rides the bus sometimes.
I stand humbly corrected.
Oh well, never let the facts get in the way of an opinion. :) I still think there's a leadership gap at the AATA that requires a permanent ED and a more functional board.
—Chuck W. Mar. 22 '08 - 03:38AM #
Certainly, the bus system could interface much more effectively with the train service. However, I'd rather cut the millage to Washtenaw Community College than to AATA. Oh….maybe take part of WCC's millage and allot it to AATA? Why not?
David Nacht is a self-important blowhard who can't lead the AATA Board; he should be replaced. Maybe Annis's report was comprised of his opinions, but he is the treasurer and, one would imagine, familiar with the budget. Need we forget that AATA's Executive Director, Greg Cook, quit just over a year ago over questionable travel and expenses? After that, Nacht told us that "AATA would continue to grow under Ms. Gabay's direction."
Uh huh.
—SR Mar. 23 '08 - 04:46AM #
"Maybe Annis's report was comprised of his opinions, but he is the treasurer and, one would imagine, familiar with the budget."
One would imagine but his "opinions" appear disconnected from reality.
—John Q. Mar. 23 '08 - 09:14AM #
As a former AATA employee this scenario is not surprising. It comes up time and time again since the city has no clear financial control over the AATA and has been desperate for their tax dollars for years. Their control is of course a strong one though since the Mayor appoints the board. That said the financials of AATA have always been strong. Maybe that is why the City is upset. They can't seem to match AATA's financial and auditors reports.
It is unfair and inappropriate for a person who never set foot on an AATA bus to have influence over the organization. How exactly does Mr. Annis propose people get to work or to school without the service. This is a age old argument. Those who don't ride it or need it want the service cut. I guess they never think about what that kind of action would do to this economy.
AATA has always been recognized as a stellar leader in public transportation; from technology, to service levels for a community our size, it is a system which is duplicated and honored.
Dawn Gabay is a competent leader as is her long serving staff. I am sure she did not ask for this position but she has taken the responsibility seriously until a new ED is found. No one who worked with the former ED should have been surprised by his demise. It may have taken longer then many thought, but it was inevitable. Give Ms. Gabay a chance to lead. Look at the board she has to deal with.
Too bad Mike Bolton couldn't be convinced to return. He truly lead the AATA to a leader in providing public transit to the community.
—Liza Mar. 25 '08 - 04:23AM #
The full text of the Ted Annis' report is here. It should be noted that the AATA board rejected this document as a treasurer's report and that "the document does not reflect the policies or views of AATA or its other board members."
—Juliew Mar. 25 '08 - 06:13AM #
It seems funny to me that because there is disagreement on the board of AATA some writers assume something is wrong. Compared to the way it used to be, with Greg Cook riding roughshod over the board; this is a breath of fresh air.
Ted Annis made some bold statements but the rest of the board did not back him up. This is not out of character for him. Boards need people who are not afraid to rock the boat. The board will have to work it out over time. That seems like a healthy discussion to me. Diversity of opinion is not a bad thing.
They have been doing some good things since Cook left. The express buses are clearly a hit and now they are adding late buses from downtown. Seems to me like they have a strong board although they must miss Nancy Shore who left to take the job with the Chamber.
AATA is a big business; it needs some competent, experienced, organizational people on the board along with people who know transit.
Seems like it would be hard to find many people who have all the experience and skills needed plus the time to serve on the board and they ride the bus everyday.
I don't care if they ride the bus so long as they manage the operation well and if you step back from it, it seems like they do OK. But I would like to see them be on time more often. They seem to be working on it and when it stops snowing it will get better.
—LauraB Mar. 25 '08 - 08:43AM #
This is David Nacht, Board Chair of AATA. I am genuinely happy that people care enough about our bus service in the community to blog about AATA. I invite members of this blogging group to attend our meetings, generally on the third Wednesday of the month at AATA headquarters on South Industrial at 7:30 pm. We usually get a few representatives from the diabled and senior communities, but we have almost no one from the general public who rides the bus daily as a commuter. I genuinely would love to hear commuter voices at our meetings.
From where I sit, AATA does a good job of meeting the needs of those who use it regularly. And if you disagree, I would like to hear about specifics. I ride the bus randomly and solicit rider views as well as reviewing our rider feedback data. (As suggested, I do not commute on the bus on a daily basis. But I view it as my job to advocate for those who do)
As I have stated publicly, the views of any one board member may not be those of the board. I respect all of my colleagues, but I don't agree with all of them on everything. It is my job to ensure that dissenting voices are heard and not suppressed, but that the majority vote on policies.
The Board is about to enter a "visioning" process where we will hopefully come together around a few coherent themes for future growth. The choice to delay hiring a new executive director was a majority board choice: we decided that it was better to decide where we want to go, and then pick the right person to help us get there, rather than allow the selection of the new e.d. dictate the direction of transit to the community. We actively debated this issue, and it was not unanimous.
In the meantime, I am proud of the positive incremental changes that have been taking place:
1. we have hybrid buses;
2. we have bio-diesal;
3. we have worked to keep service to Ypsilanti, recognizing the financial issues that community faces;
4. We coordinated with the private sector to get a bus to the airport at no cost to taxpayers;
5. We are launching express commuter service to Chelsea;
6. We are cooperating with the City, the DDA; the County; and others on a wide array of planning and visioning projects in ways we never used to;
7. I am starting to take a more public role as an advocate for regional transit, such as a presentation I gave before the County Commission a few weeks ago.
In short, I think respectful disagreements about the direction of the agency or criticisms of current board direction are healthy, and I encourage all of you to stay involved as transit advocates, particularly as the community may face choices about funding regional transit.
As for the comment that I am "self-important blowhard", I will try to take this criticism into account in the future. Maybe I can modulate into a self-aware unimportant blow-hard….
David Nacht
AATA, Board Chair
feel free to email me your thoughts directly at davidnacht@gmail.com
—David Nacht Apr. 9 '08 - 11:01PM #
Some set of bus details are now online, in the form of a revised proposed fall bus schedule changes .
—Edward Vielmetti May. 23 '08 - 12:17AM #
Here's the whole press release:
AATA Board approves revised service changes
ANN ARBOR, MI – Following extensive public input on proposed service changes, the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority (AATA) Board of Directors carefully considered the public's concerns and approved a revised list of changes at its May 21 meeting. The service changes will take effect on Sunday, August 24, 2008.
Overall, the changes are designed to add service during morning and afternoon peak hours, and improve on-time performance on routes where this has been a problem, including the 4, 1U and 12UM routes. The changes will improve service to the Miller Road Park & Ride lot and add service to the new Skyline High School.
Service reductions are planned in lower productivity service during midday, evening, and weekend hours on Routes 7, 12UL, 14 and 16.
On behalf of AATA, Board Chair David Nacht said, "I'm excited that we're going to be able to serve hundreds of our commuters with service every 15 minutes. There is a real difference between having to wait for a scheduled bus and knowing that you can just go out and wait at a stop and a bus will arrive shortly.
"What pleases me most, however, is how much input we received and how responsive our staff was in changing the plans in response to the public comments."
Six meetings were held around the community to gather comments from the public. AATA also received more than 350 comments and questions by e-mail, written correspondence, telephone and petition.
The Policy and Operations Committee of the Board and AATA staff considered the comments and suggestions, further analyzed the service in question, summarized the input and made recommendations to the board, which approved the recommendations without further revision.
Of the original 28 proposed changes, 17 were adopted as proposed, four were adopted with modifications and seven were not adopted, as a result of the public input.
Route 1U – Pontiac-University
Timing will be adjusted on this route to improve on-time performance.
Route 4 – Washtenaw
Multiple changes are designed to improve the reliability and frequency of the route in Ann Arbor without adding to rider's travel time or adding a large number of additional service hours. Details of the changes will be included on the AATA web site when the maps and schedules are produced and posted.
Route 7 – South Main-East
• The 10:18 p.m. trip leaving the Blake Transit Center will end at Eisenhower and
South Industrial.
• The loop now serving Kerrytown will be eliminated.
• A trip from the Blake Transit Center to the Pioneer High Park & Ride Lot
will be added at 10:48 p.m.
Route 8 – Pauline
Frequency of weekday service during morning and afternoon peak hours will be increased to every 15 minutes. The additional service will use Liberty Street to travel inbound to the Blake Transit Center (BTC). Service on Route 8 will be through-routed with the #2 Plymouth route. That is, a bus arriving at the BTC on Route 8 will depart as a #2 bus to enable riders to travel to and from the University of Michigan (U-M) campus and medical center without changing buses.
Route 9U – Jackson-University
The route will be moved away from Maple Village to the Miller Road Park & Ride Lot. Service will be provided on North Maple Road between Dexter Road and Miller Road. No service will be provided on Jackson Road.
Route 12UL – Liberty-University
The route will be eliminated.
Route 12UM – Miller-University
Peak Hour Service
Service to and from the Miller Road Park & Ride Lot will be increased to every 20 minutes. Service to the new Skyline High School will be added.
Midday Service
Service will operate every 30 minutes between the Miller Road Park & Ride Lot/Skyline High School and the Blake Transit Center, resulting in service every 15 minutes on Miller Road.
Route 14 – Geddes-East Stadium
During peak hour service, the route will be shortened to operate between Pioneer High School and U-M Medical Center (Mott) and time will be added to improve on-time performance. The #14 and #9U route service will be through-routed at Mott. That is, a #14 bus that arrives at Mott will depart as a #9U bus to enable #14 riders to travel to and from the U-M campus and downtown without changing buses.
Midday service will be eliminated.
Route 16 – Ann Arbor-Saline Road
Service will be eliminated on two loops along the route: 1) William, Thompson and Hill streets and 2) Oak Valley east of Lohr, Ellsworth and Lohr Road south of Oak Valley. A third loop on Oakbrook, Main and Eisenhower streets will be shortened to use Northbrook rather than Main.
Once revised, maps and schedules showing the changes will be posted on the AATA web site, www.TheRide.org.
Route and schedule questions may be directed to AATA at 734.996.0400.
—Edward Vielmetti May. 23 '08 - 10:19PM #


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Chase Utley will hold a press conference today, the Dodgers announce. He never does that.
Chase Utley retiring just makes it more real, and that is that college is so far behind me. Utley and those power hitting Phillies were going bananas when I was a young man at the great Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Every night consisted of Natty Light, Phillies dingers, going to Shorty's, passing out and doing it all over again the next night.
Watching Chase crush Met's fans dreams, eat a pitch off the ribs or make some stupid hustle play, they will tickle my heart forever. He also helped deliver one of the greatest nights of my life when the Phillies won the 08 World Series.
So goodnight sweet prince you will always be The Man.


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Examples of a few astrophoto's with low cost equipment.
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Q: What is the correct POSIX-style TZ format: <+04>-4 vs UNK-4 Currently I am writing a component for an ESP32 microcontroller. Therefore I need a list of all timezones.
I found many sources of a timezone file, but they use different formats for the timezone values. One example ist Europe/Ulyanovsk. Some files use <+04>-4 and others use UNK-4.
The ESP32 can handle UNK-4 correctly, but fails with a value like <+04>-4.
Can someone explain me, what the format with "<" and ">" means? Why don't they use an abbreviation? Unfortunately that format is also used by the iana Time Zone Database.
In this link: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html you can read "The std string specifies the name of the time zone. It must be three or more characters long and must not contain a leading colon, embedded digits, commas, nor plus and minus signs."
So how can this be a valid TZ value?
In this link: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tzfile.5.html you can read "Some readers mishandle POSIX-style TZ strings that contain "<" or ">".  As a partial workaround, a writer can avoid using "<" or ">" for time zone abbreviations containing only alphabetic characters."
Obviously the ESP32 is affected by this problem. So is there another official source of a timezone database that uses a format without "<" and ">"?
Thanks for any help!
Cheers
Harald

A: Here is the Posix specification for time zone names: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_03
For "UNK-4", the "UNK" is the time zone abbreviation (designation in Posix-speak) and -4 is the offset and means 4h east of the prime meridian. Note that the sign of the offset is opposite what everyone else uses, including other parts of Posix.
To differentiate between the abbreviation and the offset, the abbreviation must be all alphabetic characters.
However if you would like the abbreviation to contain non-alphabetic characters, the Posix spec says that you can quote the abbreviation with a leading '<' and a trailing '>'.

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*In the quoted form, the first character shall be the  ( '<' ) character and the last character shall be the
 ( '>' ) character. All characters between these
quoting characters shall be alphanumeric characters from the portable
character set in the current locale, the  ( '+' )
character, or the  ( '-' ) character. The std and dst
fields in this case shall not include the quoting characters.

So with "<+04>-4", the abbreviation is "+04", while the offset remains 4h east.


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est le sixième album studio de la chanteuse américaine Britney Spears, paru le 28 novembre 2008 en Europe et le 2 décembre aux États-Unis, jour du vingt-septième anniversaire de la chanteuse. Britney commence à travailler sur cet album au début de l'année 2008 avec une palette de producteurs, comprenant certains de ses producteurs, à l'image de Bloodshy & Avant et Danja. L'album se compose essentiellement de musique pop et dance-pop.

À sa sortie, Circus reçoit des avis plutôt positives de la part des critiques et suscite d'importantes comparaisons avec son précédent album, Blackout. D'un point de vue commercial, l'opus réalise de bonnes performances. Aux États-Unis, il débute au sommet du Billboard 200 avec plus d'un demi million d'exemplaires écoulés et  vendus dans le monde durant sa première semaine d'exploitation. De plus, Britney obtient une place dans le Livre Guinness des records en devenant la plus jeune artiste féminine de l'histoire à avoir cinq albums numéro un aux États-Unis. Par ailleurs, l'album obtient également de bons classements au Canada et dans les charts européens.

Le premier single de l'album, Womanizer devient un hit mondial et bat le record de la plus grande progression au Billboard Hot 100, passant directement de la  à la . La chanson devient le single le plus vendu de Britney depuis ...Baby One More Time. Le second single, Circus culmine à la  aux États-Unis. Le troisième single If U Seek Amy crée la polémique pour sa double signification, mais réussit tout de même à atteindre le top 20 aux États-Unis. Circus est le deuxième album de Britney, depuis ...Baby One More Time à disposer de deux singles au top 10 et trois au top 20. L'album reçoit une nomination aux Grammy Awards dans la catégorie Best Dance Recording pour Womanizer. L'album s'est écoulé à près de 4 millions d'exemplaires à travers le monde.

Afin de soutenir l'album, Britney lance sa cinquième tournée intitulée, The Circus Starring: Britney Spears. La tournée démarre le 3 mars 2009, à La Nouvelle-Orléans aux États-Unis pour s'achever à Adélaïde en Australie. La chanteuse réalise quatre étapes durant cette série de concerts, passant deux fois par l'Amérique du Nord et visant l'Europe et l'Australie. La tournée suscite la controverse en Australie en raison des accusations de playback. Par ailleurs, Britney promu l'album au cours de plusieurs émissions de télévision et sortant un vidéoclip promotionnel pour la chanson Kill the Lights.

Genèse

Le 3 janvier 2008, Britney Spears doit laisser la garde de ses fils aux représentants de son ex-mari Kevin Federline. Elle est hospitalisée le même jour au Centre médical Cedars-Sinai. La police à son arrivée, note que la chanteuse semble être sous l'influence d'une substance illicite. Le lendemain, les droits de visite de Britney sont suspendues et Kevin obtient la garde exclusive des enfants. Le 31 janvier 2008, Britney est admis en psychiatrie au Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centere. Le tribunal a placé Spears sous la tutelle temporaire de son père, James Spears ainsi que de l'avocat Andrew Wallet, en leur donnant le contrôle total de ses actifs. Spears est sortie de l'hôpital le 6 février 2008. Ses parents ont alors exprimé leur déception et inquiétude face à la décision de laisser sortir leur fille de l'hôpital. Le mois suivant, Britney Spears apparaît en tant qu'invitée vedette dans la série How I Met Your Mother, lors de l'épisode Ten Session où elle campe le rôle d'Abby, une réceptionniste. Spears reçoit des critiques positives pour sa performance, tout en offrant à la série son record d'audience. En juillet 2008, Britney Spears retrouve certains de ses droits de visite après être arrivée à un accord avec Federline et son avocat. Le 7 septembre 2008, Britney Spears ouvre la cérémonie des MTV Video Music Awards avec un sketch comique pré-enregistré avec Jonah Hill, ainsi qu'un discours d'ouverture. Durant la cérémonie, la chanteuse remporte les prix, Best Female Video (« Meilleur vidéo pour une artiste féminine »), Best Pop Video (« Meilleur vidéo pop ») et Video of the Year (« Vidéo de l'année ») pour son titre Piece of Me. Également, un documentaire d'une heure centré sur la vie de la chanteuse intitulé, Britney: For the Record, est réalisé à l'occasion du retour de Spears dans l'industrie du disque. Réalisé par Phil Griffin, For the Record a été entièrement tourné à Beverly Hills et New York, au cours du troisième trimestre de 2008. La partie la plus importante du tournage a débuté le 5 septembre 2008, soit deux jours avant l'apparition de Britney Spears au MTV Video Music Awards. Le documentaire a été diffusé sur MTV le 30 novembre 2008, rassemblant 5,6 millions de téléspectateurs pour les deux diffusions la première nuit. MTV a déclaré que le documentaire de Britney Spears avait recueilli la plus forte audience de l'histoire du réseau sur le créneau horaire du dimanche soir. L'album Circus a été prévu pour une sortie mondiale le 2 décembre 2008, le jour de l'anniversaire de Spears. Toutefois, à la suite des fuites sur Internet, l'album a été mis en vente en téléchargement numérique avant sa date de publication initiale.

Enregistrement

Il a été confirmé en 2008 que Britney Spears était en train d'enregistrer son sixième album studio. Le producteur Sean Garrett a confirmé cette information en déclarant : « Je suis juste heureux de la voir de retour et ressourcée. Elle est vraiment s'annonce et obtenir sa situation dans son ensemble remettre ensemble. Je suis vraiment fier et heureux de la voir », après sa dépression très médiatisée. Le manager de Spears, Larry Rudolph, confirme que le développement de l'album aura lieu à l'été 2008, déclarant que malgré l'absence de confirmation officielle quant à un nouvel album, ils étaient heureux de ses progrès de la chanteuse et qu'elle avait travaillé avec une multitude de producteurs. Spears a déclaré au magazine OK!, qu'elle n'avait jamais passé autant de temps à enregistrer un album et que c'était son meilleur travail. Elle a ajouté : « Je pense qu'il est plus urbain [...] J'écris tous les jours, ici même au piano dans ce salon ». Le producteur Claude Kelly a parlé du développement de l'album et de l'absence de concept, en disant : « Quand je suis arrivé avec Luke, nous savions que nous allions peut-être écrire quelque chose pour elle, mais il n'y avait pas de concept, il fallait connaître son style et savoir ce qu'elle fait. » L'album est sorti en parallèle de celui du groupe Take That, The Circus avec la même date de publication et le même titre. Spears a parlé du nom de l'album en disant : « J'aime le fait que vous soyez toujours au bord de votre siège quand vous êtes au cirque. Vous ne vous ennuyez jamais [...] Vous êtes vraiment en proie à ce qui se passe autour de vous. Et vous voulez savoir ce qui va se passer ensuite. »

Spears a parlé des premières sessions d'enregistrement en studio, attestant qu'elle avait choisi d'écrire une grande partie des chansons de l'album et qu'elle mettait au point un registre davantage influencé par la pop avec des producteurs avec qui elle avait déjà travaillé au début de sa carrière. La confirmation que Spears était en studio pour l'enregistrement de l'album survient à l'été de 2008, avec également la confirmation de plusieurs producteurs ayant pris part au projet tels que Sean Garrett, Guy Sigsworth, Danja et Bloodshy & Avant. Max Martin, qui a produit le premier succès de Spears, ...Baby One More Time, produit sur l'album la chanson If U Seek Amy. Guy Sigsworth, qui a déjà travaillé avec la chanteuse sur les singles Everytime et Someday (I Will Understand), a passé du temps en studio avec Spears en juin 2008. Il a plus tard été confirmé que Jim Beanz serait le producteur vocal et coauteur de l'album, disant à propos de Spears qu'elle était « une vraie professionnelle » et la qualifiant « d'incroyable ». Un autre collaborateur notable, The Outsyders, un groupe de producteurs basé à Atlanta et qui a produit le premier single de l'album. Fernando Garibay a révélé sur son site officiel qu'il travaillait sur deux chansons pour Spears, Amnesia et Quicksand, qui sont toutes deux apparues en tant que pistes bonus sur l'album. Danja a déclaré qu'il avait travaillé des chansons aux Chalice Recording Studios à Los Angeles, et que Spears les avaient enregistré aux Glenwood Studios à Burbank. Il a déclaré qu'il avait été inspiré par la musique de Hans Zimmer, comme la bande originales de Pirates des Caraïbes. Lil Jon, Rodney Jerkins, Sean Garrett et Taio Cruz, parmi d'autres ont tous annoncé avoir travaillé avec Spears, mais aucune de leurs productions n'apparaissent sur l'album.

Composition

Circus tire ses influences d'une variété de genres pop, tels que l'electropop et de la dance et considéré comme une suite du précédent album studio de Spears, Blackout. La chanteuse a décrit l'album comme plus allégé que son prédécesseur, qui avait un son davantage urbain. Les chansons de l'album ont été comparées au style de nombreux artistes, tels que Janet Jackson, Eurythmics, New Order, à l'écriture de Prince, Leiber & Stoller et Phil Spector. Dans une moindre mesure, l'album s'inspire d'éléments d'autres genres, comme une guitare go-go rock des années 1960 sur Mmm Papi. Circus se concentre sur différents thèmes et Spears « a une double devoir en tant que diva de la dance et chanteuse de ballades au cœur brisé ». Du point de vue des textes, ils ont été comparés à Blackout, du fait qu'ils soient « fougueux » et « conflictuels ». Dans des chansons telles que Circus et Kill the Lights, les paroles traitent de la gloire, un thème déjà abordé par la chanteuse dans des chansons précédentes telles que Lucky et Piece of Me. Le morceau ouvrant l'album, Womanizer, et aussi Shattered Glass, sont des chansons parlant d'un homme séducteur, coureur de jupons.

La première chanson de l'album, Womanizer, est choisie comme premier single et est décrite par Spears comme un hymne féministe et parlant d'un homme prompte à l'adultère. La deuxième chanson, Circus, parle des sentiments que ressent Spears en tant qu'artiste lorsqu'elle est sur scène, avec des paroles comme : « All eyes on me in the centre of the ring just like a circus (Tous les yeux sont sur moi, au centre de la scène, comme dans un cirque) / When I crack that whip everybody gonna trip just like a circus (Quand je donne un coup de fouet, les gens tombent comme dans un cirque) ». La chanson a été décrite bénéficiant d'une « production dance électronique » et a fait l'objet de comparaisons avec un single précédent de Spears, Break the Ice. La troisième piste de l'album, Out from Under a également été comparée à une ancienne chanson de Spears, I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman du fait de guitares acoustiques utilisées. Kill the Lights, quatrième morceau de l'album, est une chanson dance-pop qui traite des relations conflictuelles de Spears avec les paparazzi et a été comparé à Piece of Me. Au début de la chanson, on peut entendre « notre propre princesse de la pop, maintenant reine de la pop », ce qui a provoqué des comparaisons avec la musique de Madonna. Shattered Glass est la cinquième piste de l'album, et se caractérise par un beat électronique sombre et des paroles traitant d'une rupture irréparable au sein d'une relation.

If U Seek Amy est la sixième piste de l'album, c'est une chanson pop comportant des éléments de « glam-rave » et ayant suscité la controverse de par son double sens. En effet « If U Seek Amy » sonne phonétiquement comme « F.U.C.K. me ». La septième piste de l'album, Unusual You, est une chanson synthpop, qui parle d'une femme de trouvant l'amour qu'elle n'attendait pas. Unusual You a été comparée à des œuvres de Eurythmics dans les années 1980 et a été considérée comme une « ballade vibrante » ; d'autres critiques citant les thèmes musicaux des années 1990. Blur, huitième morceau de l'album, est une chanson pop aux influences urbaines et rappelle un lendemain de soirée avec des paroles « Can't remember what I did last night (Impossible de me rappeler ce que j'ai fait hier soir) / I gotta get my head right, where the hell am I? Who are you? What'd we do last night? (je dois reprendre mes esprits, où suis-je p***** ? Qui es-tu ? Qu'est-ce que nous avons fait hier soir ?) ». Le titre a été comparé à la chanson Early Mornin du quatrième album studio de Spears, In the Zone. Mmm Papi est le neuvième piste de l'album, les critiques ont noté les apects latin-pop et dancehall de la chanson, qualifiée d'amusante. De plus, les critiques ont souligné le fait que la chanson « revisite le personnage de Lolita de ...Baby One More Time. Il a été suggéré que les paroles faisaient référence au père de la chanteuse, Jamie Spears, ou au paparazzi Adnan Ghalib. Mannequin, dixième piste de l'album, est une chanson dance-pop avec une influence trip hop. Les critiques ont prisé l'aspect risqué et futuriste du titre, tandis que d'autres ont déploré la voix « sans vie » de Spears. La onzième chanson s'intitule Lace and Leather et a fait l'objet de comparaisons avec des œuvres de Vanity 6 dans les années 1980. À noter que la chanteuse Kesha Sebert, alors inconnue, chante dans les chœurs sur ce titre. Le dernier morceau de l'album, My Baby a été écrit par Spears pour ses deux fils, Sean Preston Federline et Jayden James Federline.

Liste des chansons

Bonus tracks

Historique des sorties

Singles

Womanizer

C'est le premier single extrait de l'album. Il est lancé officiellement en radio le 26 septembre 2008. Il est produit par The Outsyders. Le clip est tourné le 24 septembre 2008 et il est réalisé par Joseph Kahn (Stronger, Toxic). La première mondiale du clip était le 10 octobre 2008 sur la chaîne ABC. À peine 24 heures après sa sortie sur les plates-formes de téléchargement légal, Womanizer est déjà  dans plusieurs pays comme les États-Unis, l'Espagne, le Canada, la Nouvelle-Zélande et la Suède. Il est le premier  au Hot 100 depuis Baby One More Time. Britney Spears bat aussi le record du nombre de téléchargements pour une artiste féminine en une semaine (battant Mariah Carey avec  contre  vendues pour Britney Spears) ainsi que le record de la plus grande progression (+95 places). Mi-avril 2013, Womanizer s'est vendu à  aux États-Unis et à plus de 6.5 millions d'exemplaires au total. Le clip a été visionné plus de 300 millions de fois sur le VEVO de Spears.

Circus

Deuxième single extrait de Circus, produit par Dr.Luke. Le clip a été tourné le 28 octobre 2008. Le single est lancé en même temps que l'album. Circus a été diffusé pour la première fois le 4 décembre 2008 à l'émission Entertainement Tonight. Le clip est réalisé par Francis Lawrence (I'm A Slave 4 U). À la sortie de l'album, le single se retrouve  des téléchargements aux États-Unis, ainsi qu'au Canada. À ce jour, Circus s'est vendu à  aux États-Unis. Pour sa première semaine, Circus arrive directement à la  place du Hot 100 et il a atteint la  place du top mondial. Le titre totalise plus de 5,5 millions de ventes dans le monde. Le clip a été visionné plus de 185 millions de fois sur le VEVO de Spears.

If U Seek Amy

Troisième single de l'album, la chanson est produite par Max Martin, le producteur de Baby One More Time. À ce jour, If U Seek Amy s'est vendu à  aux États-Unis, il est donc certifié Disque de platine et a atteint la  place du Hot 100. Dans le monde, les ventes totales du single s'élèvent à 1.5 million d'unités. Le clip a été tourné le 10 février, réalisé par Jake Nava (My Prerogative). Il a été diffusé pour la première fois le jeudi 12 mars sur le site Britney.com. Le clip totalise plus de 110 millions de vues sur le Vevo de Britney Spears.

Radar

Le quatrième single est Radar, produit par Bloodshy & Avant, choisi pour succéder à If U Seek Amy. Ce titre se trouvait déjà sur son précédent album, Blackout. Il était censé être le dernier single de Blackout, mais sa sortie a ensuite été annulée. Le tournage du clip s'est déroulé les 27 et 28 mai et a été diffusé le  juillet. Le réalisateur est David Meyers, qui a déjà travaillé avec elle pour les clips de Lucky, Boys et Outrageous. Pendant l'exploitation de Blackout, Radar s'était déjà vendu à  aux États-Unis. Il s'est par la suite vendu à plus de 2 millions d'exemplaires.

Out from Under

Radar ayant été le  single de Blackout en Suède, le titre Out from Under y fut diffusé à la place, atteignant la  place des ventes. Le titre fut également classé  aux États-Unis, lors de la sortie de l'album.

Unusual you
"Unusual you" fut sélectionné comme  et dernier single pour l'Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande avec le titre Shattered Glass en B-sides. Il a également servis pour la promotion du Parfum Circus Fantasy.

Classements et certifications

Remise de Prix

2008

2009

Notes et références

Liens externes

Album de Britney Spears
Album musical sorti en 2008
Album numéro un au Billboard 200
Album numéro un au Canada
Album numéro un en Russie
Album numéro un en Suisse
Album produit par Benny Blanco
Album produit par Danja
Album produit par Dr. Luke
Album produit par Greg Kurstin
Album produit par Max Martin
Album certifié disque d'or en Allemagne
Album certifié double disque de platine en Australie
Album certifié disque d'or en Belgique
Album certifié triple disque de platine au Canada


Cutting tree from top down..??
Re: Cutting tree from top down..??
I guess what I am talking aobut is the HARNESS, cutting into your legs and such. No matter how well it fits you are still hanging all your weight on it all day, ouch.
just another beaver with a chainsaw & it's never so bad that it couldn't get worse.
Yes, the risks are real, the talent is real, it is like watching a master musician, or any other skill that has been honed to an edge.
Chet took some trees down for me a few years ago. That was the first time I had seen someone do it that was a trained professional. What an awesome site to watch. Dont consider it paying to have the trees taken down, consider it as paying to watch a professional show. Every move makes you want to stand up and applaud.
It's one thing to learn how to do the work and invest in the equipment required in order to preform the task on a regular basis and something else to just have one or two trees taken down.
You can always save money by offering to be the ground man and run the ropes .
Just have them drop it and walk away, you do the clean up.
Check with local utility foresters, some guys will be doing it as side work, they may or may not have insurance.
Get a couple of quotes just to see what they want.
I stumbled across a Spruce today that needs topping, if the weather holds on Friday I'll take it down and get a few pictures.
This is one way to take the top out of a spruce tree.
Used a single rope technique to safety in.
Took all the limbs off one side to load the top in the direction of the fall.
Open face, back cut and one top on the ground.
This is the other one I was chewing on, the river washed away the bank causing it to work the cable.
If it broke the lashing wire the cable would have to be delashed and relashed over the river.
Need an old tree cutting down??


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Mrs. Patricia Blanchard Takes Her Baton to Bergen County Choir!
Mrs. Patricia Blanchard was this year's conductor of the prestigious Bergen County Choir. The Bergen County Choir has existed since 1964. The only other time a choir director from Rutherford was selected for this position was 1992. This is a unique honor for Mrs. Blanchard and the Rutherford Public Schools are proud to wish congratulations to Mrs. Blanchard on her work with Bergen County's finest vocalists.
There are 200 students in the choir that are selected via a rigorous audition process. They hail from schools throughout Bergen County.
Mrs. Blanchard conducts the Bergen County Choir.
14 students from Rutherford were selected to be a part of this year's choir.
The students who represented RHS in Bergen County Choir and RHS and BCC director, Mrs. Patricia Blanchard.
Congratulations as well to the four RHS students who were also selected for Regional Choir.
Rutherford is proud of our students and teachers and their commitment to the arts!