The Bahá'í Faith arrived in the United States in 1894 and is now a century old. Its American membership, which in 1899 consisted of about 2000 persons, mostly of white Protestant background, has grown to almost 120,000 . Initially located in a few score towns and cities, today Bahá'ís can be found in about 7000 localities in the United States. Worldwide, 1992 membership stands at about five million, with Bahá'ís located in every country on the planet.
Diversification is an ever-present theme in American Bahá'í history. From two black members in 1899, the African-American membership rose to five percent of the community by 1936. Efforts to teach the religion to rural populations in the early 1970s, especially in South Carolina, increased the African- American population to perhaps thirty percent of the American Bahá'í community. Native Americans have been attracted to the Bahá'í religion in increasing numbers since the 1940s; currently there are several thousand Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís, especially in rural Alaska and on the Navajo and Sioux reservations. Hispanics have also joined and constitute a thousand or two members.
Immigration has profoundly shaped the American Bahá'í community's ethnic composition. During the war in Vietnam the Bahá'í Faith in Southeast Asia particularly attracted ethnic Chinese and Hmong hill people; they have been especially numerous among the groups fleeing Vietnam. Bahá'í teaching efforts in refugee camps attracted thousands of Cambodians and Laotians to the Bahá'í Faith as well, and many of them came to the United States. As a result the American Bahá'í community has several thousand Bahá'ís of Southeast Asian background; no one knows exactly how many there are. In some cities--such as Portland, Oregon, and Lowell, Massachusetts--Southeast Asian Bahá'ís are a majority or substantial minority of the Bahá'í community. The Islamic Revolution in Iran also forced tens of thousands of Bahá'ís to flee that country and about ten thousand have settled in the United States, especially in greater Los Angeles.
What attracted this remarkably diverse community to a single religion? The Bahá'í teachings consist of the ideas enunciated by Bahá'u'lláh (1817-92), whom Bahá'ís regard as the bearer of a new revelation from God and the fulfillment of the prophecies of the previous religions. His teachings have been interpreted, clarified, and expanded by a line of successors: `Abdu'l-Bahá (1844-1921), Shoghi Effendi (1897-1957) and the Universal House of Justice (a nine-member body elected every five years, starting in 1963). The writings of all three are considered authoritative and binding on all Bahá'ís worldwide.
Central to the Bahá'í religion's appeal have been two teachings: the oneness of religion and the oneness of humanity. The tenet of oneness of religion asserts that each of the major religions of the world was founded by a *Manifestation of God* whose teaching constituted a divine revelation. Thus Bahá'u'lláh is viewed as only the latest Manifestation in a list that includes Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Zoroaster, Krishna, and Buddha. The oneness of religion also involves a corollary principle that all the religions of the world have promised a Messiah figure who would come and usher in a golden age; those promises, Bahá'u'lláh asserted, were fulfilled by him and his religion. Bahá'u'lláh specifically claimed to be the return of Christ and to fulfill biblical prophecy. This claim was the principal reason two thousand Americans became Bahá'ís between the years 1894 and 1900; it remains a popular aspect of Bahá'í teaching in the rural south today. The Bahá'í claim to fulfill Islamic, Zoroastrian, and Jewish prophecies attracted thousands to the Faith in nineteenth-century Iran; the more general Bahá'í claim that all religions ultimately can be traced to a divine revelation and that they all promise the coming of Bahá'u'lláh were factors in attracting Southeast Asians and native Americans to the fold.
The Bahá'í principle of the oneness of humanity has been another consistent source of appeal. The American Bahá'ís early recognized that the oneness of humanity meant that they had to teach their religion to all types of people, and that they could not form racially or ethnically segregated Bahá'í communities. The Washington, D.C. Bahá'ís took the lead in teaching African Americans the Bahá'í Faith in 1903; by 1909 about a dozen blacks had become Bahá'ís (in a community with about seventy Bahá'ís altogether) and in spite of resistance by some white Bahá'ís, who maintained the time for integration had not come, the African Americans were integrated into the white community. In 1911 the Washington Bahá'ís elected Louis G. Gregory, the leading black Bahá'í, to the local Bahá'í governing body; in 1912 Gregory was elected to the national Bahá'í coordinating body as well by delegates representing all the Bahá'í communities in North America. In 1912 Gregory married a white Bahá'í. The union was the first racially integrated marriage in the American Bahá'í community; `Abdu'l-Bahá, who was visiting the United States at the time and who had actively encouraged their courtship, praised interracial marriage as a demonstration of the love that is possible between the races. `Abdu'l-Bahá also spoke extensively about the dangers facing the United States if it did not overcome its racial divide; he set the tone for future Bahá'í concern about the issue.
While integration of races and ethnic groups in the American Bahá'í community has never been perfect or without controversy, it has consistently been a priority of the American Bahá'ís, and explains why persons of varied ethnic backgrounds have been able to coexist in local Bahá'í communities. Intermarriage among these groups is a sign of their acceptance of each other. The American experience has helped set the tone for Bahá'í communities worldwide.
While the American Bahá'í community has influenced many Bahá'í communities around the globe through its traveling Bahá'í teachers, its *pioneers* (unpaid voluntary missionaries) and its publications, other communities have strongly influenced the Americans as well. This is especially true of Iran; Persian Bahá'ís have settled in the United States since 1901 and have been active as leaders in the American Bahá'í community. But undoubtedly the strongest source of influence from outside the United States has been the head of the Faith (`Abdu'l-Bahá from 1892 to 1921, Shoghi Effendi from 1921 to 1957, and the Universal House of Justice since 1963), located in Haifa, Israel. Because the head of the Faith has binding authority to interpret the Bahá'í scriptures, set major policies, and overrule decisions of local and national Bahá'í governing bodies, the development of the Bahá'í Faith worldwide is coordinated. If the understanding of the Bahá'í Faith in one country develops in a direction that the head of the Faith does not desire, the head will take steps to correct the situation. Consequently any study of the American Bahá'í community cannot treat it in a vacuum, but must consider the role of the Bahá'í World Center.
Any discussion of the American Bahá'í community in the 1990s must include a discussion of what issues are "hot" in the Bahá'í community and which are not. But such a discussion must begin with the recognition that the Bahá'ís, within their own community, do not think in terms of "issues." Their primary concern is with community priorities, which are largely set by their institutions, not by the Bahá'ís individually. Furthermore, the American Bahá'í community has been heavily, but by no means completely, insulated from the intellectual trends in American society by the consistent focus of the Bahá'ís on their scriptures and their obedience to their elected Bahá'í institutions. Finally, the Bahá'í religion has elaborate rules of discourse that strongly direct and sharply limit the nature of discourse among Bahá'ís.
For over sixty years, the highest priority of the National Spiritual Assembly--the nine-member elected governing body of the Bahá'í Faith in the United States--has been teaching the Bahá'í Faith to others. Each American Bahá'í is encouraged to set a goal of bringing one new person into the Bahá'í Faith each year; to host an informal meeting in his or her home for teaching others (called a fireside) at least once every Bahá'í month; and by word and deed to proclaim the Bahá'í Faith in an appropriate fashion to everyone he or she can. American Bahá'ís fall far short of the teaching ideals set for them: growth currently averages about three percent a year, not one hundred percent, and the majority of the nation's population still knows little or nothing about the Bahá'í religion. While the high expectations generate some discouragement, American Bahá'ís are generally optimistic that in the future the Bahá'í Faith will grow rapidly in the United States and eventually--in centuries--it will become the predominant religion of the country. Monthly Bahá'í community meetings are usually dominated by reports of teaching successes or by consultation on new efforts to take the message of Bahá'u'lláh to the public. A new technique that has stimulated successes has been "teaching institutes": any group of Bahá'ís can come together to form these informal teams to study the Bahá'í scriptures together and teach the Faith to others, and each institute sets its own goals and makes its own plans. Such team efforts have strengthened individual initiative by providing it with a peer support network.
The second priority of the National Spiritual Assembly-- especially over the last decade--has been fostering racial unity and equality in the American Bahá'í community itself. Shoghi Effendi identified racism as "the most challenging issue" facing the American Bahá'ís, and his phrase has become a watchword. Many local Bahá'í communities hold one or more meetings every year where the Bahá'í standard of racial equality is discussed.
In the last decade Bahá'í efforts to combat racism in American society have also greatly increased. Bahá'ís have long been involved in the NAACP, the Urban League, and the Civil Rights movement; in the first two they have provided local leadership. In the last decade increasing numbers of Bahá'ís have been asked to serve on city Human Relations Commissions; more and more local Bahá'í communities are collaborating with religious and human rights groups to sponsor projects to educate the public about racism. In 1991 the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States issued *The Vision of Race Unity,* a public statement of the Bahá'í understanding of the racial challenges facing America; a campaign was initiated to give copies of it to government officials and leaders of thought. A second, more ambitious statement is in the planning stage. One result of the Bahá'í Faith's growing visibility in the area of race relations was the appointment, in 1992, of a representative of the National Spiritual Assembly to the rank of Commissioner on the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday Commission.
There are other "official" issues in the American Bahá'í community of lesser importance, such as the role of women in the Bahá'í Faith and educating Bahá'í children in the religion, but space does not allow a discussion of them. Unofficial issues also exist but describing them systematically is impossible because no polls of Bahá'í attitudes have ever been taken, and no relevant statistics have been collected. Furthermore, the Bahá'í rules of discourse emphasize that discourse must occur in such a way as to maximize unity and minimize disunity. The Bahá'í scriptures make it clear that unity is incompatible with the creation of special interest groups within the Bahá'í community or the division of the Bahá'ís into competing factions. Unity is currently understood by the Bahá'í community to mean that Bahá'í institutions can be publicly criticized only in ways that are respectful of their authority; that individuals are almost never publicly criticized; that all discussion of issues must avoid polarization; and that all arguments made in a Bahá'í context must be built on principles articulated in the Bahá'í scriptures. Under such circumstances many issues current in American society--such as which politicians to vote for in elections, or eliminating sexist language in publications, or the Bahá'í position on abortion, or the role of homosexuals in civil society--are discussed little or not at all in a "public" Bahá'í context.
It is always difficult to assess the impact of a particular movement on American society or American culture as a whole. Ideas may be borrowed from the movement by society, but sometimes the borrowing goes from society to the movement instead, and sometimes an idea arises almost simultaneously in both.
Though it has steadily grown over the last century, the American Bahá'í community remains small, perhaps one twentieth of one percent of the total American population. There are many examples of small movements' having a noticable impact on American culture or American religion; Unitarianism, Theosophy, and Vedantism are good examples. But for a small movement to produce a large impact on the American scene, three conditions usually must be fulfilled. First, the movement must advocate ideas--usually a few simple ones--that resonate strongly with existing trends in the culture. Second, the movement must be able to advocate those ideas in a language that is appropriate and effective in the society outside it. Third, the movement must have articulate spokespersons who are also leading intellectual or literary figures in the culture. Usually the presence of the first two virtually assures the third.
Historically, the Bahá'í community has rarely been able to fulfill these three requirements for influence. The basic Bahá'í teachings are usually expressed in a Bahá'í terminology that is difficult to translate into mainstream language. Further, the ideas usually are part of a much larger complex of Bahá'í teachings and cannot be separated from them. For example, the application of the principle of interracial and interethnic unity to society is difficult because Bahá'í scripture prohibits Bahá'ís from partisan political activity and breaking the law. Consequently few prominent blacks and few Civil Rights leaders have been attracted to the Bahá'í Faith.
The Bahá'í vision of a united, peaceful world, similarly, has been of limited appeal outside the Bahá'í community because it cannot be established through partisan political efforts. Furthermore, the Bahá'í conception of world unity and of interreligious relations are dominated by the belief that the new world order envisioned by the Bahá'í scriptures can occur only if the world accepts Bahá'u'lláh as its Lord.
In spite of these caveats, the Bahá'í Faith has had some impact on American culture in the areas of racial integration and the peace movement. The fact that the American Bahá'í community has been racially integrated since its establishment has been an encouraging example to others. Bahá'ís generally bring an optimistic idealism to efforts to foster interracial unity or world peace, which is usually appreciated and welcomed. In both areas the Bahá'í Faith has attracted a few converts from among prominent thinkers and has influenced the thinking of non-Bahá'ís somewhat.
Currently the American Bahá'í community is enjoying better public recognition than ever before. Newspaper articles mentioning the Bahá'í Faith have increased in number considerably in the last few years, and now the majority of articles do not focus on the persecution of Iranian Bahá'ís, but on the American Bahá'í community itself. Anti-Bahá'í materials (usually produced by Fundamentalists) are still relatively rare. The United States Congress has passed five resolutions condemning the persecution of Iran's Bahá'í community and has even held three Congressional hearings on the treatment of Iran's Bahá'ís, which concretely demonstrate that the American Bahá'í community has been able to muster some political influence on Capitol Hill. The Bahá'ís have also collaborated with other human rights organizations such as Amnesty International in their efforts to secure Congressional ratification of the United Nations Convention on Genocide, and are currently working on the ratification of four other treaties.
April 1992 to April 1993 is a Holy Year for Bahá'ís because it marks the centenary of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh. Only one other Bahá'í Holy Year has ever been proclaimed before: 1953, the centenary of the beginning of Bahá'u'lláh's mission. During 1992-93 Bahá'ís are to reflect on Bahá'u'lláh's mission; the National Spiritual Assembly has also called on the American Bahá'ís to rededicate themselves to the establishment of racial unity. The Holy Year began with the election of twelve new National Spiritual Assemblies, primarily in countries of the former Soviet bloc where the Bahá'í Faith was severely proscribed until a few years ago. On 29 May 1992 several thousand Bahá'ís gathered in Haifa, Israel to commemorate Bahá'u'lláh's passing at his mausoleum.
In late November 1992 the second Bahá'í World Congress was convened in New York; 27,000 Bahá'ís from around the world attended the four-day event. The themes of the Congress were a celebration of Bahá'u'lláh's mission, of his establishment of a Covenant to maintain the unity of the Bahá'í Faith, and of the growing strength and diversity of the Bahá'í world community.
In February 1993 the first official translation of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Bahá'u'lláh's book of laws, was released to the world; the book is expected to have a deep impact on the Bahá'ís, and will probably shift their emphasis from an enunciation of Bahá'í social principles toward a proclamation of the significance of Bahá'u'lláh and his teachings to humanity. The Holy Year also saw the application for the first time of an important law of the Kitab-i-Aqdas to Bahá'ís outside the Middle East: the law of huququ'llah, which calls for the payment of a nineteen-percent tithe on one's surplus income to the Bahá'í World Center. So far the American Bahá'í community has greeted the law quite positively, and contributions to the other Bahá'í Funds have not declined significantly.
History has shown that great increases in the numbers of American Bahá'ís occur when social turmoil is high; the Bahá'ís experienced large increases in the late 1960s, the 1930s, and the 1890s. If American society enters another period of turmoil, a substantial increase in Bahá'í numbers may occur. If, on the other hand, society remains more or less as it is now, Bahá'í growth is likely to remain in the range of three to five percent per year for the foreseeable future. Even at that rate the American Bahá'í community is likely to reach a quarter million members in about fifteen years, and a half million members in about thirty years.
Growing size and influence will also spark a much more thorough investigation of the American Bahá'í community by outsiders. One result of that investigation will be the asking of tough questions about the many ways the Bahá'í religion's teachings deviate from cultural norms. The Bahá'í rules of discourse, discussed in cursory fashion above, are only one example of an aspect of the Bahá'í Faith that differs markedly from accepted practice in the United States. If the Bahá'í religion is ever to have substantial influence in the United States, the Bahá'í distinctives--both positive ones from a cultural point of view, such as racial integration, and negative ones, such as restrictions on discourse--will also have to be explored and sharply debated.
Hatcher, William S., and J. Douglas Martin. The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global Religion. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1984.
Smith, Peter. The Babi and Bahá'í Religions: From Messianic Shi'ism to a World Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987.
Stockman, Robert H. The Bahá'í Faith in America, Volume One: Origins, 1892-1900. Wilmette, Ill.: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1986.
1. The Bahá'í population of the contiguous forty-eight states was about 110,000 in 1992, but Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico together have about six thousand more. Reconstructing the membership figures for the American Bahá'ís decade by decade is complicated by changing definitions of membership and poor data collection, but the following numbers have been determined: From 1899 to 1921 the number of Bahá'ís ranged between 1500 and 2500, depending on how many of the Bahá'í sympathizers one includes. In 1936 the membership had risen to 2584; in 1944, to 4800; in 1956, to 7000; in 1963, to 10,000; in 1969, 13,000; in 1971, 31,000; in 1974, 60,000; in 1979, 75,000; in 1987, 100,000.
2. Gayle Morrison, *To Move the World: Louis G. Gregory and the Advancement of Racial Unity in America* (Wilmette, Ill.: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1982) 204.
3. No comprehensive ethnic survey of the American Bahá'í community has ever been undertaken. The numbers of minorities given in this paper are estimates made by various offices at the Bahá'í national headquarters in Wilmette, Ill.
5. I refer to such issues in American society as abortion, euthanasia, party politics, and homosexuality; without surveys of Bahá'í attitudes it is impossible to discuss in a scholarly way the role of these issues in the Bahá'í community. There is also the question of "schismatic" Bahá'í groups; four small ones (with a total membership of about a thousand) exist in the United States. But Bahá'ís have almost no contact with these groups and the issues that brought them into existence thirty or more years ago are of no contemporary interest to Bahá'ís.
6. The reason partisan political activity and violation of the law are prohibited is because of the Bahá'í emphasis on the concept of unity. Partisanship divides political elites into competing factions, whose chief loyalty is to maintenance of their own power, not to what is right or what is best for society. The rule of law is essential for the maintenance of social order, and therefore for maintaining unity. Consequently the exalted standard of unity which Bahá'ís proclaim precludes Bahá'ís from join political parties, taking positions in partisan issues, and breaking the law in order to change social practices.
7. The Office of Public Information at the Bahá'í National Center supplied the following statistics: from May 1989 through April 1990, 4340 newspaper and magazine articles appeared in the United States; from May 1990 through April 1991, 3628; from May 1991 through April 1992, 3855; from May 1992 through November 1992, 5202. The increase in 1992 reflects publicity generated by the Bahá'í Holy Year.
8. An excellent summary of the World Congress's purpose and its events may be found in *One Country* 4:3 (July-Sept. 1992). A thorough description of the events, with numerous photographs, may be found in *The American Bahá'í* 23:19 (December 31, 1992).
9. The huququ'llah is paid on nonessential property and assets; it is not paid on one's food, lodging, clothing, transportation, and other essentials. Many Bahá'ís never are able to pay any huququ'llah at all. It functions more like a religious "luxury tax" than a tithe.
1. Transliteration has been dropped. Italics converted to *asterisks* and bold face into ALL CAPITALS. Footnotes marked by [square brackets].
2. This was the final draft and predates Talisman by about a year. Hence it reflects my pre-Talisman views, which may have changed over the last two years.


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Q: Conceptual - How does a custom feature maps to the web application / site? When we deploy a custom code such as a List Definition with custom forms, we are attaching it into the feature so that upon activation, the list and forms are created.
Going behind the scenes, the List Definition, together with the custom forms, are actually being created in the Features folder found under the hive. Looking at the web application in the IIS, we cannot see any virtual directory that is pointing to the feature folder. So my question is, how do we correlate the feature with the web application?

A: Features have a scope. Depending on the scope, you can either have:
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*a feature deployed to the whole farm [scope: Farm]

*a feature deployed to one or more web applications (you can check where a feature is deployed to from the Central Admin > System settings > Solution management) [scope: Web application or Site]

*a feature globally deployed [scope: Web application or Site and deployed to all web applications, or Web]
for sandboxed solutions:
All the features in the package get deployed to the site collection whose solution gallery you uploaded the solution into. Then, depending on the scope, they will show up under Site collection features [scope: Site] or Site features [scope: Web]

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Hibs' Darren McGregor backs Ryan Porteous over Coulibaly tackle
Moira Gordon
Published: 22:30 Tuesday 25 December 2018
If Ryan Porteous' challenge on Lassana Coulibaly last week was hot-headed, the reception the Hibs teenager will receive at Ibrox this afternoon will be just as fiery.
Rangers were angry to see him escape with a yellow card at Easter Road so, when the youngster runs out in front of the partisan Govan crowd today he will be left in no doubt about how they feel.
Hibernian's Ryan Porteous was booked for this tackle on Rangers' Lassana Coulibaly. Picture: Ross MacDonald/SNS
The youngster, who has quickly become a cult hero to the Hibs fans, won't give a hoot, according to his defensive colleague and former Rangers man, Darren McGregor.
"He takes it all in his stride. I am his biggest fan, he's been phenomenal. Sometimes we forget he's only 19! At that age I was kicking people down the Links for Leith Athletic and this guy is playing week in, week out against top opposition."
Part of a defence that pieced together three clean sheets in a row prior to the weekend draw with Livingston, including a 2-0 victory over Celtic, followed by that 0-0 stalemate against Rangers, Porteous is a player who is not daunted by big-game atmospheres.
A wholehearted threat in the opposition box as well as his own, he has also managed to salvage a draw from the jaws of defeat on three occasions in the past couple of months, underlining his importance at both ends of the pitch.
But, for all his merits, there remains moments when his challenges have to be viewed through splayed fingers, the margins for error miniscule, and even manager Neil Lennon expressed annoyance with last week's effort on Coulibaly. But there is a fine line between recklessness and the kind of combative spirit needed to dominate opposition forwards, says McGregor, and he believes that, with time, Porteous will learn just what is needed.
"That rashness is fine, to a certain extent you'd rather have him over aggressive than under aggressive. We all agree sometimes he is a wee bit rash but you have to take it with a pinch of salt. I think he goes into every tackle wanting to win the ball, there's no intent to go in to hurt a guy. The other night a bit of tiredness had perhaps crept in and he mistimed it. There was no intent.
"You don't want to take the aggression out his game but the rashness, well maybe he has to try to dial that down a bit. He knows that more than anyone but sometimes in the throes of the game you get a rush of blood, you think you can win it, you go in full tilt, you miss it, the other player gets there before you and it looks like a bad tackle.
"But if you speak to him off the park, he's such a humble guy, a nice guy and he will go on to play at levels above this with the progress I have seen even this season and the help he gets from everyone behind the scenes as well."
Already a Scotland Under-21 cap, McGregor believes Porteous is not far away from a full call up, citing attributes that will endear him to national boss Alex McLeish.
"He's an attacking threat, good on the ball, composed," said McGregor. "He's 19 and he still has a bit to go but I think he ticks all the boxes for me, his composure, his ability on the ball, his strength at set pieces, his heading ability. He has a bright future.
"I said to him the other day, never mind the 21s. I don't want to put him on too high a pedestal, but for me there's not many better centre halves in Scotland. You've got Scott McKenna at Aberdeen, I like him, and John Souttar, who is injured at the minute, but he is definitely up there and he will be there very soon if he keeps developing the way he is."
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And while the opposition fans may baulk at some of his challenges, the Hibs support and his Easter Road colleagues are happy to back Porteous.
"The fans love to see that aggressive nature, love a slide tackle, said McGregor, who is another whole-hearted competitor. "Obviously it has to be within the confines of the game, it has to be controlled aggression but if he can slide in and win the ball he will and the fans love that. But I have said to him 'pick and choose your moments, then win it'. If it's there to win he'll win it. Sometimes he'll take the player with him but again the intent is to win the ball, not hurt the player so I am with him with that."

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Q: mysql no connection but why is this happening In localhost/blah/index.php it lets me login, register accs, etc.
I uploaded my website it to my webhost.
I go to my website but i see no mysql connection.
It works fine on my localhost/phpmyadmin/xampp or w/e u call it
What is making this happen?
Finding a new webhost and or updating my php version is not an option

A: Maybe you use your local database settings. Update them to the server database settings.

A: Make sure you have MySQL on your server.
Check connection setting for MySQL on the server.
Upload or create database/table as required on the server.


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Disney's PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:ON STRANGER TIDES Sails Home on Disney Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and Digital on October 18th
DAPs Magic Disney News – PRESS RELEASE
The Walt Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films are proud to present the #1 worldwide box office success of 2011 – making over $1 billion globally – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, in stunning high definition Blu-ray™, eye popping Blu-ray 3D™ (a first for the legendary franchise) and Digital on October 18, 2011.
Setting sail on an ocean full of hi-def adventures, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will debut in a Limited Edition 5-Disc Combo Pack (1-Disc Blu-ray 3D + 2-Disc Blu-ray + 1-Disc DVD + 1-Disc Digital Copy), a 2-Disc Combo Pack (1-Disc Blu-ray + 1-Disc DVD), and for the ultimate fan a 15-Disc Four Movie Collection. Additionally the movie will be available in 3D and High-Definition Digital.
The Limited Edition 5-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack includes hours of bonus materials offering fans a deeper dive inside Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides including immersive Disney Second Screen technology, exclusive behind-the-scenes experiences, Fountain of Youth mythology, an extensive look at mermaids, bloopers, deleted and extended scenes, and much more.
In addition, the Pirates of the Caribbean 15-Disc Four Movie Collection offers fans more adventures than ever before. The Collection is packaged in an authentic replica Pirate's Chest, and includes a collectible map and an iconic skull disc case that holds the Blu-ray™ discs and digital copies of ALL four Pirates of the Caribbean movies, along with the Blu-ray 3D™ disc and DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Rob Marshall (Nine, Chicago), and written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, National Treasure 2, Mask of Zorro), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the latest addition to the incredibly successful Pirates of the Caribbean franchise that has for years entertained audiences of all ages with its thrilling adventures, hi-tech special effects and unique storylines.
Back as Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp (Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Alice in Wonderland) returns leading a sensational cast of talents that includes Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech), Ian McShane(HBO's "Deadwood") and more.
The visually stunning film shot in high-definition 3D invites viewers to embark on an adventure-filled ride with Captain Jack Sparrow as he searches for the breathtaking Fountain of Youth. Along the turbulent trip, fans are forced to re-think their knowledge of fairytale creatures when they are introduced to a group of alluring yet precarious mermaids, traverse isolated islands and fight international enemies.
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• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2-Disc Blu-ray + 1-Disc Digital Copy )
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• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2-Disc Blu-ray + 1-Disc Digital Copy)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (1-Disc Blu-ray 3D +2 -Disc Blu-ray + Digital Copy + 1-Disc DVD)
• 1-Disc Blu-ray bonus disc that includes all-new never-before-seen short film "Wedlocked"
• Authentic replica Pirate's Chest, a collectible map and an iconic skull disc case.
• And much more…
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About Disney Second Screen:
Disney Second Screen transforms the movie watching experience by allowing viewers to explore the story behind the film perfectly synched on a second device, like an iPad™ or laptop, without interrupting their enjoyment of the movie. By simply accessing the Disney Second Screen companion application on their Internet-connected device, consumers are able to dive deeper into the film by engaging with elements including 360-degree vehicle turnarounds, interactive progression reels, and more. Disney Second Screen directions and access codes can be found inside the Blu-ray Disc packaging. Audio synching is powered by TVPLUS.
Film Synopsis:
From Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer comes all the fun, epic adventure and humor that ignited the original. Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. A tale of truth, betrayal, youth, demise — and mermaids! When Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penélope Cruz), he's not sure if it's love or if she's a ruthless con artist using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. Forced aboard the ship of the most feared pirate ever, Jack doesn't know who to fear more —Blackbeard (Ian McShane) or the woman from his past. Directed by Rob Marshall, it's filled with eye-popping battle scenes, mystery and all-out wit.
For those who would like to stay connected with the world of Pirates are encouraged to:
• "Like" the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/PiratesoftheCaribbean
• Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/DisneyPirates
• Visit the website and mobile site: www.disney.com/pirates
About Walt Disney Studios:
For more than 85 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company (DIS: NYSE) was built. Today, the Studio brings quality movies, music and stage plays to consumers throughout the world. Feature films are released under four banners: Walt Disney Pictures, which includes Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, Disneynature, Touchstone Pictures and Marvel. Original music and motion picture soundtracks are produced under Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records, while Disney Theatrical Group produces and licenses live events, including Broadway theatrical productions, Disney on Ice and Disney LIVE!. For more information, please visit www.disney.com.
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Arsenic study raises more questions than answers….
Posted on February 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Arsenic study raises more questions than answers….
Confidence intervals are not reported in the abstract. A typical ecological study that is not definitive…..
Gong, G., and S.E. Bryant. Low-level arsenic exposure, AS3MT gene polymorphism and cardiovascular diseases in rural Texas counties. Environ Res. 2012 Feb 15.
Abstract: Most Americans living in rural areas use groundwater for drinking. Exposure to low-level (around the current U.S. standard 10μg/L) arsenic in drinking water is associated with increased mortality of cardiovascular diseases. The current study was to determine if coronary heart disease, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia were associated with low-level arsenic exposure and AS3MT gene single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) A35991G (rs10748835) in rural Texas. Subjects (156 men, 343 women, 40-96 years of age with a mean of 61) were residents from rural counties Cochran, Palmer, and Bailey, Texas. Groundwater arsenic concentration at each subject's home was estimated with ArcGIS inverse distance weighted interpolation based on the residential location's distances to surrounding wells with known water arsenic concentrations. The estimated groundwater arsenic concentration ranged from 2.2 to 15.3 (mean 6.2)μg/L in this cohort. Logistic regression analysis showed that coronary heart disease was associated with higher arsenic exposure (p<0.05) and with AS3MT genotype GG vs. AA (p<0.05) after adjustments for age, ethnicity, gender, education, smoking status, alcoholism, and anti-hyperlipidemia medication. Hypertension was associated with higher arsenic exposure, while hyperlipidemia was associated with genotype AG vs. AA of the AS3MT gene (p<0.05). Thus, coronary heart disease and its main risk factors were associated with low-level arsenic exposure, AS3MT polymorphism or both.
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The Hoverflies that visit the flowers: There are very few bees and never any wasps, that are interested in visiting the flower of the cactus when it blooms. However, almost every flowering is accompanied by a visit from a hoverfly or two. Here's a couple snapped in August 2018 visiting the same flower, even having a little battle with each other to assume dominance. Looking for a hoverfly expert to identify the genus please.
Leaf-Cutting Bee nearly every year the cacti in my greenhouse get a visit from a very interesting species of bee, one that doesn't live in a hive with thousands of other bees, nor does it seem to make honey...it's a leaf-cutting bee that makes a hole in the earth and brings pieces of leaf that it has cut into an arc shape, to bury in the earth, wrapping it's maggot-like offspring in cigar-shaped cocoons made from the leaf-pieces.
Flower Base Growth A new phenomenon that has only happened in Summer 2018; the base of a flower has stayed attached to the main cactus, after the body of the flower had withered. Is it that the flowered was pollinated? Nerds needed.


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Is Accuracy the Price We're Paying for Faster Results?
Author: Alois SCHIESSL
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Speed or accuracy? Do we have to choose? Applying the right technologies and paying attention to basic sampling guidelines can reduce overall time-to-result without sacrificing accuracy.
When visiting a grain elevator facility, it is a common sight to see a number of trucks lining up in front of the grain reception point. During harvest season, up to 100 trucks can be lining up over any given day. The reception point has to make a quick decision on whether the trucks are carrying grain that falls below defined mycotoxin contamination limits and can therefore be admitted into the facility's operations. In harvest years where contamination levels are high,every truck's payload will be probed and analyzed for mycotoxins before admission into the facility. This has to be done quickly because having results available as soon as possible shortens the waiting time at the back of the queue significantly.
Quick assay turnaround is key but to what extent does it compromise accuracy? These are two important points we shall address next. To provide an answer, we shall first define the right method for such an application.
Every truck is probed and analyzed consecutively; hence a quick, easy-to-use, single sample test method is required. Lateral flow device (LFD) tests, also known as strip tests or dipsticks, are one of the fastest test methods available and a perfect fit for this scenario. Due to their simplicity, these tests can be performed by almost anyone with basic training and typically produce analytical results in just under ten minutes.
This enables quick decisions on whether a truck's payload can be accepted into the grain elevator's facility.
How lateral flow devices work
For a quick LFD test result, a grain sample is ground and extracted with novel water-based extraction solutions, following a subsequent development time of as little as three minutes to form visible test and control lines. In combination with a reader, the lines are then used for quantification. During the three-minute LFD development,the sample extract will flow over the strip and mycotoxin specific antibodies will bind mycotoxins present in the sample.
These blocked antibody sites cannot then be used to bind to antibodies coupled to visible gold colloids to the LFD test line, resulting in a lower test line intensity. Therefore, the higher the mycotoxin concentration in a sample, the lower the test line intensity. The control line will bind any excess of antibody gold conjugates, producing a visible line proving that the LFD development was successful. Such a quick and affordable test result cannot be produced by any other commercial test method. Therefore LFD technology shows its unique strength in reception point analysis.
What else is out there?
Other mycotoxin rapid test methods, such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), are also available on the market. ELISA tests, however, require a calibration curve with each analysis which can take around 20 minutes to produce a final result. Hence, such methods are only feasible when multiple samples are analyzed in parallel using the same calibration curve.
Another group of mycotoxin test methods are reference test methods, including high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) as well as liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry detection (LC-MS/MS). These are typical laboratory methods associated with high accuracy and reproducibility. The drawback of such methods is that they require highly skilled staff and take up to one day to deliver an analytical result. Therefore, they are unsuitable for application in a grain elevator reception point.
The big question of accuracy
The faster an analytical method is, the more often concerns about its accuracy will surface. So how accurate are LFD tests? LFD technology and ELISA tests both use the antibody-antigen reaction detection principle in which a specific antibody detects a unique antigen, in this case a mycotoxin, with a given sensitivity. Both test systems are calibrated against certified reference materials and results are compared to accredited reference methods in thorough validation studies.
Nevertheless, some test methods may not fulfill the operator's expectations.
What can go wrong?
Correct sampling (see text box) is the key to producing accurate analysis results. Large lots of grain (e.g.full trucks or barges) must be analyzed for mycotoxins before they are accepted into a facility. It is crucial that representative samples are taken for the analysis.
One of the most significant factors that can influence an analytical result is the commodity matrix. Ideally, test methods are developed to analyze any kind of food or feed sample for mycotoxin contamination. A limiting factor, however, is that different food or feed samples can have different components which may interfere with the analytical result, depending on their chemical structure and properties. Antibody-based rapid tests are often influenced by certain matrix components which can have major impacts on the antibody-analyte binding reaction, potentially yielding questionable results. Test kit manufacturers face the challenge of reducing or eliminating these interferences through, for example, specific antibody developments and matrix validations.
Further sources of error can be environmental factors such as the ambient temperature during tests. The antibody-antigen binding reaction — the detection principle of all immunochemical tests — is temperature dependent. For accurate results, manufacturers have developed test incubators to keep temperatures constant, thereby eliminating interferences caused by fluctuating temperatures.
Operators of analytical tests must be properly trained in order to administer the tests accurately. Different test methods require different operator know-how.The LFD tests are the easiest mycotoxin tests to perform. Basic training is enough to keep operator errors for such methods at a minimum.
Sampling error
The total error of an analytical mycotoxin text result is the sum of sampling, sample preparation
and analytical errors. The sampling error contributes the largest portion of error in the final result. This is due to the fact that mycotoxins are unevenly distributed within bulk grain samples, making it essential to take a representative sample before continuing with sample preparation and the actual measurement.
To get a representative sample from a bulk sample lot, it is necessary to take several incremental samples from multiple locations. These incremental samples are then combined to form an aggregate sample and after homogenization and further splitting by a mechanical divider, an analytical sample is taken for subsequent sample preparation. These procedures are described in official sampling plans by authorities, such as the European Commission (EC 401/2006 & EC 519/2014).
The large influence on the final analytical result makes it essential that the sampling error is kept to a minimum. The simplest way to achieve this is by increasing the number of sampling sites as well as the sample size of incremental samples within a sampling plan.
What is the test kit manufacturer's responsibility?
What can a test kit manufacturer do to ensure that results produced with their test kits are accurate and reliable? First, a test kit manufacturer needs to educate users on the importance of correct sampling, as this is crucial to result accuracy.
Next, it needs to prove the accuracy of its test kit by conducting a validation study that follows USDA GIPSA or AOAC guidelines. The test kit can be submitted to these official bodies for an external third-party evaluation confirming the claimed performance of the analytical method.
For such third-party validations, a test kit manufacturer must include the validation data for claimed sample matrices to ensure that the test kit performs accurately on these different sample matrices. In validation studies, multiple sample sources, e.g. maize samples from different continents, are typically used to show the reliability of the analytical method.
To further improve the robustness of a test system,environmental factors, such as temperature, must also be eliminated or accounted for. This can be done by using an incubator so that the LFD development always occurs at a constant, controlled temperature.
Is accuracy the price grain elevators pay for fast results?
After observing the operations at grain reception points, it is clear that rapid single sample tests are the methods of choice. Lateral flow devices clearly fulfill all criteria and in addition, reduce many sources of handling errors due to their simplicity.
By following clear and basic rules, speed doesn't have to come at the price of accuracy. Reliable and accurate results can be obtained in just under ten minutes and that is the key to efficiently analyzing and assessing grain from truck to truck at a reception point.
This article was published in our Spot On magazine
Other interesting topics In this issue:
Extracting mycotoxins with water – can that work?
What do washing clothes and extracting mycotoxins have in common?
5 Fundamentals of Allergen Management #2: Risk-Based Sampling
An important and often overseen part of allergen analysis is the process of sampling. Allergens that make their way into a product by cross-contact can be considered contaminants. Yet unlike other...
BIOMIN World Mycotoxin Survey 2018
The latest edition of the annual survey, covering 18,424 agricultural commodity samples from 79 countries with over 81,900 analyses, highlights the main dangers from the most important mycotoxins in...
5 Fundamentals of Allergen Analysis #1: Allergen sources and allergen load
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Der Flugplatz Pontedera (it.: Aeroscalo/Aeroporto di Pontedera) war ein italienischer Militärflugplatz und Werksflugplatz der Firma Piaggio bei Pontedera in der Toskana. Auf dem ehemaligen Flugplatzgelände befindet sich heute ein Gewerbegebiet.

Geschichte
Der etwa 25 Kilometer östlich von Pisa und Livorno gelegene Flugplatz wurde im Jahr 1913 von der italienischen Marine für den Betrieb von Luftschiffen angelegt. Ein erster großer Hangar wurde während des Ersten Weltkriegs um eine zweite, etwas kleinere Halle ergänzt. Während des Krieges patrouillierten die in Pontedera stationierten Luftschiffe vor allem über dem Ligurischen Meer, um die Handelsschifffahrt und Nachschubkonvois vor U-Booten zu schützen.

Nach dem Krieg bot die Marine mit den Luftschiffen von Pontedera aus Rundflüge für Zivilpersonen an. Die Einnahmen gingen an Familien, die Angehörige im Krieg verloren hatten. Am 20. Dezember 1923 wurde der Flugplatz von der gerade aufgestellten Regia Aeronautica übernommen. Hier wurde auch Umberto Nobiles Luftschiff Norge stationiert, das 1926 den Nordpol erreichte. 1928 endete die Luftschiffära in Pontedera, der Flugplatz wurde fortan nur noch von Starrflügelflugzeugen genutzt.

In den folgenden Jahren ließ sich die Firma Piaggio in Pontedera nieder und baute hier Militärflugzeuge, vorwiegend Bomber, darunter die viermotorige Piaggio P.108. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg stand zunächst die Rolle als Werksflugplatz weiterhin im Vordergrund, es wurden aber auch verschiedene Jagd- und Bomberstaffeln hier stationiert. Der Flugplatz wurde schließlich durch alliierte Luftangriffe zerstört und dann von den Amerikanern besetzt, die ihn erst notdürftig wieder herrichteten und dann die Piste asphaltierten.

In der Nachkriegszeit verlor der Flugplatz, der unter der Kontrolle der italienischen Luftwaffe blieb, viel von seiner Bedeutung an den Flughafen Pisa. Piaggio baute in Pontedera zwar weiterhin Komponenten für Flugzeuge, unter anderem für die Aeritalia G.222 und die Aermacchi MB-326. Die Anlagen in Pontedera wurden aber vor allem bekannt wegen der dortigen Produktion der Vespa-Motorroller, die man viele Jahre lang auf der Start- und Landebahn des Flugplatzes testete. Nachdem man den Flugbetrieb ganz eingestellt hatte, wurde das Gelände nach und nach mit Fabrikhallen überbaut. Die bis 2010 vorhandenen Reste der Start- und Landebahn wurden bis 2013 vollständig abgetragen. An den Flugplatz erinnern heute noch die Straßen Via dell'Aeroporto und Via Hangar, an den früheren Luftschiffhafen ein Verwaltungsgebäude und ein Restaurant namens Aeroscalo.

Weblinks
 Bilder aus der Gründerzeit
 Pontedera auf forgottenairfields.com

Literatur
 Michele Quirici, Paolo Gori: L'aeroscalo di Pontedera. I dirigibili italiani. CLD Libri – L'Ancora, Pontedera 2000.

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Program of the spring session with step sheets [French] and videos on our website (remove the filter to see everything).
Our Club is 25 years old this year! Come and celebrate with us! Getting together and surprises guaranteed!
Saturday, May 4, 2019 from 8pm to 2am, Espace La Fontaine, 3933, avenue du Parc-La Fontaine, Montreal H2L 0C7.
35$ for members and former members, 40$ for all others. This entrance fee will cover the cost of the room and the snack…. And it will be a great snack: with a wide choice of refined appetizers! Nothing too beautiful for our 25th anniversary! Limited seating… Book your place here.
The Parade is a multicultural event that values diversity, bringing together Aboriginal participants, Quebec and Canadian citizens and members of immigrant communities.
At the end of the tour, each group is invited to take turns on stage to offer the audience a performance that is representative of their repertoire.
If you are interested in participating, please let Diane know at vice-president@clubbolo.com as soon as possible, thank you!
Club Bolo members in good standing are eligible for a free Équipe Montréal card that provides great discounts!
Village Western in Laval offers a 15% discount to Club Bolo members.
Sellerie Lemay in Montreal offers a 15% discount to Club Bolo members.


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Raising Cane's simply serves chicken tenders and fries at its 400 locations and counting across America and abroad. Here's why the concept works.
The scene: Raising Cane's is doing for chicken tenders what another Southern-born chain, Chick-fil-A, did for chicken sandwiches — making tastier fast-food versions to popularize all over the country.
The concept was born in Louisiana when Todd Graves had the idea to open a chicken finger-focused restaurant and recruited his friend and business partner, Craig Silvey, to help. They submitted a business plan as part of a course at LSU, and according to the company's online history, the plan got the worst grade in the class and "the professor said a chicken finger restaurant would never work. The banks said the same." Nonetheless Graves believed in his concept, followed his convictions, and saved enough money after stints working as a boilermaker in a Louisiana refinery and then as a salmon fisherman in Alaska to open his first restaurant in a former bakery in Baton Rouge, La.
When tearing out walls, he found an old mural of the bakery logo concealed behind brick and decided to adopt the style and lettering. Every location now boasts a signature wall mural of the Raising Cane's logo emerging from behind the middle of a broken brick wall. Each also has one or more pictures of Graves' dog, Raising Cane, who hung around the construction site with Graves when he was working on the first eatery. After this, a friend convinced him to name the place after the friendly Labrador Retriever. (His original idea was "Sockeye's Chicken Fingers" because he had fished for the Sockeye salmon to raise start-up capital.) Raising Cane has since passed away, but Graves and his wife got a puppy, Cane II, who is now grown and certified as a therapy dog visiting children hospitals weekly. The presence of the founder and his dogs are very much felt throughout the operation with personal stories and photos on the company website, photos in the restaurants, and a letter to customers printed on the soft drink cups explaining the chain's fresh, never frozen mantra.
Otherwise the Raising Cane décor is best described as eclectic, with lots of pop culture pictures and movie posters, everything from Wonder Woman to Elvis. It is order at the counter and grab a seat fast food with a drive thru, though the quality of the sleek furniture, brick and wood finishes of the floors and walls, and omnipresent hospitality of the staff evoke a slightly more upscale take on the genre. The formula certainly works — in the two decades since the first spot opened in 1996, Raising Cane's has expanded to nearly 400 locations in 24 states as well as serval other countries, mostly in the Middle East. Business Insider named it the "top restaurant chain of 2017," and for the 20th anniversary Graves unveiled a five-year plan to reach 600 stores and $1.5 billion in revenue by 2020.
While the brand is most densely represented across Louisiana, Texas and the Southeast, there are locations in Chicago, Las Vegas, up and down California, across the Midwest with many in Ohio, in the Colorado Rockies and Arizona desert, as far north as Minnesota, and there's even one in Boston, the sole Northeastern outpost (for now).
Reason to visit: chicken tenders.
The food: Menus don't get much simpler than the one at Raising Cane's — the sole protein is chicken tenders/fingers, which only come breaded and fried. Then there are just four options to choose from, plus a kid's meal and catering-style tailgate platters. The signature entrée is the Box Combo: four tenders with Cane's Sauce for dipping, cole slaw, crinkle cut fries, griddled Texas toast and a drink. The other options are all pretty much the same except for the number of fingers — there's a slightly smaller three-finger combo, and the Caniac, with six tenders and two servings of the dipping sauce. The most "radical" departure on the menu is the sandwich combo, which is simply three tenders on a roll with lettuce and Cane's Sauce, served with fries and a drink but no slaw. You come to Cane's for the chicken tenders and there is nothing else you can have — even the tailgate platters are simply trays of 25, 50, 75 or 100 fingers and appropriate amounts of Cane's Sauce. This is a secret recipe that fans have reverse engineered and shared online, basically a mix of ketchup and mayo with Worcestershire sauce and spices added.
So how has Raising Cane's become so successful selling essentially one item? The chicken fingers taste great, and for the big chain fast-food world, the quality is high. The restaurant uses only chicken breast tenderloins, the strip of meat on the underside of a chicken breast that is considered a premium cut in the poultry business, and these are never frozen. Each restaurant receives a continuous supply of fresh tenderloins, and then the meat is only cooked to order, never in advance (no heat lamps here). The chicken is marinated for extra flavor and juiciness, and when you order, staffers hand dip and bread the chicken, then fry it in canola oil, calling out diners' order numbers when it's ready. The process moves quickly even with the cooked to order strategy and it's worth the very short wait. The chicken tenders are juicy, meaty, generously sized and taste real, like chicken, not the chopped and reformed breaded patties many places use. The pink-hued Cane's Sauce is a good complement, tangy and slightly spicy with the consistency of a creamy dressing like ranch, but the menu could benefit from other options like barbecue or honey mustard, thought the model seems to be very much about keeping it simple and focused, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I'm not generally a fan of crinkle-cut fries, and there's a good reason why these are one of the least popular restaurant styles in the country, but like the chicken, at Raising Cane's the fries are better than the norm, thinner and crispier than most. Because the fries are also fried freshly and quickly salted so the salt sort of melts into the exterior, the crinkles help by expanding surface area. The cole slaw also tastes fresher than you might expect in this setting and at this price point, and it is made in fresh batches in each location every day so it stays crisp. The crispness and creaminess make a good contrasting partner to the chicken.
The least interesting thing on the menu is the Texas toast, more like a New England-style hot dog roll (those with the non-crusted, white bread-exposed vertical sides) that hasn't been split, a blandish strip of bread that's griddled. On the other hand, the roll for the chicken sandwich is very good, much better than other fast-food places, sweet and eggy with a bit of yellow color, but there is so much Cane's Sauce (on top and bottom) and a lot of chicken jammed in, that it is very sloppy to eat, and not recommended for in-car consumption.
The equation is simple — if you like chicken tenders or chicken tender sandwiches you will probably like Raising Cane's a lot, and if you don't, there is absolutely no reason to visit (though the sweet tea is good). The final piece of the well-oiled machine here is the staff — I find them consistently very friendly at every location, and not just at the counter, as there are smiling employees roaming the restaurants making eye contact and constantly cleaning up, something I don't normally see at fast-food chains.
Pilgrimage-worthy?: No, but it's definitely one of the better roadside fast food options on America's highways — if you like chicken tenders.
Larry Olmsted has been writing about food and travel for more than 15 years. An avid eater and cook, he has attended cooking classes in Italy, judged a barbecue contest and once dined with Julia Child. Follow him on Twitter, @TravelFoodGuy, and if there's a unique American eatery you think he should visit, send him an e-mail at travel@usatoday.com. Some of the venues reviewed by this column provided complimentary services.


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Paratroopers at Gophers Bowl Game
Jerry Groskreutz
Jerry Groskreutz Published: December 29, 2021
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Louise and I got to Chase Field for the Guarantee Rate Bowl almost 3 hours before the kick-off at 8:15 pm. Just about everywhere you looked you saw Gopher fans in maroon and gold! The stadium was not even open yet so we stopped by one of the sports bars next to the stadium. It was fun just talking to other Gopher fans before the game. Chase Field is the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team. It was a great stadium to watch the Minnesota Gophers beat the West Virginia Mountaineers.
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It has been cold (not Minnesota cold though) cloudy and it has rained almost every day we have been here so we were pleased when we found out Chase Field had a retractable roof that was closed. During the pregame all of a sudden it felt much cooler. They had retracted the roof! The reason was four paratroopers were going to land on the football field.
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It was amazing to watch them maneuver, drop down through the open roof and land on the field. They set up a football on a tee like it was an extra point. The last jumper came in and kicked the football. He kicked the football but did not get enough lift to get it over the crossbar though, so it was no good but sure fun to watch!
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The Minnesota Gophers marching band put on quite a show, pregame, halftime and during the game too! It appeared they had 3 to 4 times as many members as the Mountaineers! I was a little concerned when the Gophers on their first possession missed a field goal, and the second fumbled on the 8 yard line. But, it appeared they had more talent and eventually took control with their running game!
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Friday morning at 1:15 am we are scheduled to fly back to cold and snowy Minnesota. I think you could call that the "red eye" flight? At least at this point it has not been cancelled!
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define([
        './defaultValue',
        './defined',
        './DeveloperError',
        './Math'
    ], function(
        defaultValue,
        defined,
        DeveloperError,
        CesiumMath) {
    "use strict";

    /**
     * A rotation expressed as a heading, pitch, and roll. Heading is the rotation about the
     * negative z axis. Pitch is the rotation about the negative y axis. Roll is the rotation about
     * the positive x axis.
     * @alias HeadingPitchRoll
     * @constructor
     *
     * @param {Number} [heading=0.0] The heading component in radians.
     * @param {Number} [pitch=0.0] The pitch component in radians.
     * @param {Number} [roll=0.0] The roll component in radians.
     */
    function HeadingPitchRoll(heading, pitch, roll) {
        this.heading = defaultValue(heading, 0.0);
        this.pitch = defaultValue(pitch, 0.0);
        this.roll = defaultValue(roll, 0.0);
    }

    /**
     * Computes the heading, pitch and roll from a quaternion (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_between_quaternions_and_Euler_angles )
     *
     * @param {Quaternion} quaternion The quaternion from which to retrieve heading, pitch, and roll, all expressed in radians.
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [result] The object in which to store the result. If not provided, a new instance is created and returned.
     * @returns {HeadingPitchRoll} The modified result parameter or a new HeadingPitchRoll instance if one was not provided.
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.fromQuaternion = function(quaternion, result) {
        //>>includeStart('debug', pragmas.debug);
        if (!defined(quaternion)) {
            throw new DeveloperError('quaternion is required');
        }
        //>>includeEnd('debug');
        if (!defined(result)) {
            result = new HeadingPitchRoll();
        }
        var test = 2 * (quaternion.w * quaternion.y - quaternion.z * quaternion.x);
        var denominatorRoll = 1 - 2 * (quaternion.x * quaternion.x + quaternion.y * quaternion.y);
        var numeratorRoll = 2 * (quaternion.w * quaternion.x + quaternion.y * quaternion.z);
        var denominatorHeading = 1 - 2 * (quaternion.y * quaternion.y + quaternion.z * quaternion.z);
        var numeratorHeading = 2 * (quaternion.w * quaternion.z + quaternion.x * quaternion.y);
        result.heading = -Math.atan2(numeratorHeading, denominatorHeading);
        result.roll = Math.atan2(numeratorRoll, denominatorRoll);
        result.pitch = -Math.asin(test);
        return result;
    };

    /**
     * Returns a new HeadingPitchRoll instance from angles given in degrees.
     *
     * @param {Number} heading the heading in degrees
     * @param {Number} pitch the pitch in degrees
     * @param {Number} roll the heading in degrees
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [result] The object in which to store the result. If not provided, a new instance is created and returned.
     * @returns {HeadingPitchRoll} A new HeadingPitchRoll instance
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.fromDegrees = function(heading, pitch, roll, result) {
        //>>includeStart('debug', pragmas.debug);
        if (!defined(heading)) {
            throw new DeveloperError('heading is required');
        }
        if (!defined(pitch)) {
            throw new DeveloperError('pitch is required');
        }
        if (!defined(roll)) {
            throw new DeveloperError('roll is required');
        }
        //>>includeEnd('debug');
        if (!defined(result)) {
            result = new HeadingPitchRoll();
        }
        result.heading = heading * CesiumMath.RADIANS_PER_DEGREE;
        result.pitch = pitch * CesiumMath.RADIANS_PER_DEGREE;
        result.roll = roll * CesiumMath.RADIANS_PER_DEGREE;
        return result;
    };

    /**
     * Duplicates a HeadingPitchRoll instance.
     *
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} headingPitchRoll The HeadingPitchRoll to duplicate.
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [result] The object onto which to store the result.
     * @returns {HeadingPitchRoll} The modified result parameter or a new HeadingPitchRoll instance if one was not provided. (Returns undefined if headingPitchRoll is undefined)
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.clone = function(headingPitchRoll, result) {
        if (!defined(headingPitchRoll)) {
            return undefined;
        }
        if (!defined(result)) {
            return new HeadingPitchRoll(headingPitchRoll.heading, headingPitchRoll.pitch, headingPitchRoll.roll);
        }
        result.heading = headingPitchRoll.heading;
        result.pitch = headingPitchRoll.pitch;
        result.roll = headingPitchRoll.roll;
        return result;
    };

    /**
     * Compares the provided HeadingPitchRolls componentwise and returns
     * true if they are equal, false otherwise.
     *
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [left] The first HeadingPitchRoll.
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [right] The second HeadingPitchRoll.
     * @returns {Boolean} true if left and right are equal, false otherwise.
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.equals = function(left, right) {
        return (left === right) ||
            ((defined(left)) &&
                (defined(right)) &&
                (left.heading === right.heading) &&
                (left.pitch === right.pitch) &&
                (left.roll === right.roll));
    };

    /**
     * Compares the provided HeadingPitchRolls componentwise and returns
     * true if they pass an absolute or relative tolerance test,
     * false otherwise.
     *
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [left] The first HeadingPitchRoll.
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [right] The second HeadingPitchRoll.
     * @param {Number} relativeEpsilon The relative epsilon tolerance to use for equality testing.
     * @param {Number} [absoluteEpsilon=relativeEpsilon] The absolute epsilon tolerance to use for equality testing.
     * @returns {Boolean} true if left and right are within the provided epsilon, false otherwise.
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.equalsEpsilon = function(left, right, relativeEpsilon, absoluteEpsilon) {
        return (left === right) ||
            (defined(left) &&
                defined(right) &&
                CesiumMath.equalsEpsilon(left.heading, right.heading, relativeEpsilon, absoluteEpsilon) &&
                CesiumMath.equalsEpsilon(left.pitch, right.pitch, relativeEpsilon, absoluteEpsilon) &&
                CesiumMath.equalsEpsilon(left.roll, right.roll, relativeEpsilon, absoluteEpsilon));
    };

    /**
     * Duplicates this HeadingPitchRoll instance.
     *
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [result] The object onto which to store the result.
     * @returns {HeadingPitchRoll} The modified result parameter or a new HeadingPitchRoll instance if one was not provided.
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.prototype.clone = function(result) {
        return HeadingPitchRoll.clone(this, result);
    };

    /**
     * Compares this HeadingPitchRoll against the provided HeadingPitchRoll componentwise and returns
     * true if they are equal, false otherwise.
     *
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [right] The right hand side HeadingPitchRoll.
     * @returns {Boolean} true if they are equal, false otherwise.
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.prototype.equals = function(right) {
        return HeadingPitchRoll.equals(this, right);
    };

    /**
     * Compares this HeadingPitchRoll against the provided HeadingPitchRoll componentwise and returns
     * true if they pass an absolute or relative tolerance test,
     * false otherwise.
     *
     * @param {HeadingPitchRoll} [right] The right hand side HeadingPitchRoll.
     * @param {Number} relativeEpsilon The relative epsilon tolerance to use for equality testing.
     * @param {Number} [absoluteEpsilon=relativeEpsilon] The absolute epsilon tolerance to use for equality testing.
     * @returns {Boolean} true if they are within the provided epsilon, false otherwise.
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.prototype.equalsEpsilon = function(right, relativeEpsilon, absoluteEpsilon) {
        return HeadingPitchRoll.equalsEpsilon(this, right, relativeEpsilon, absoluteEpsilon);
    };

    /**
     * Creates a string representing this HeadingPitchRoll in the format '(heading, pitch, roll)' in radians.
     *
     * @returns {String} A string representing the provided HeadingPitchRoll in the format '(heading, pitch, roll)'.
     */
    HeadingPitchRoll.prototype.toString = function() {
        return '(' + this.heading + ', ' + this.pitch + ', ' + this.roll + ')';
    };

    return HeadingPitchRoll;
});


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'Wednesday' season two may not premiere on Netflix
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Tue 3rd Jan 2023 16.00 GMT
The brand new Netflix series Wednesday may not continue its residency on the streaming service, with the successful show possibly heading for Amazon Prime instead.
Despite the massive success of the show, starring Jenna Ortega, Netflix is yet to renew Wednesday for a second series, and whilst it is keen to keep its newly created triumph, it may have no choice but to hand it over to its competitor.
Though it might have debuted on Netflix, the show itself is actually a product of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and after Amazon signed an $8.5bn merger with the company last year, many have suggested Wednesday will soon be making the switch.
That means Amazon Prime will be lucky enough to piggyback off the success of the Netflix show with an inevitable second series unless the two streaming services can come to an agreement. For those hoping the show will stick on Netflix, you can take some solace from the fact that Amazon has stated that it's not planning to make all of its MGM content exclusive to its streaming service.
Whilst the show diverts from the plot of the original series, Wednesday stars the rest of the Addams Family characters, with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia and Luis Guzmán as Gomez joining Ortega as the title character. In addition to Ortega, Zeta-Jones and Guzmán, the likes of George Burcea, Gwendoline Christie, Isaac Ordonez, Georgie Farmer, and Riki Lindhome are also present.
Directing all eight episodes of the upcoming series, Tim Burton hasn't had a hand in the scriptwriter's chair, with that duty being left to five different writers, including Alfred Gough, who also helped to create the show itself. Burton is certainly a safe pair of hands when it comes to The Addams Family, with his previous works of Beetlejuice, Sweeney Todd and Edward Scissorhands, each created with a similar vibe.
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Q: Is it possible to let Fog interact with the material's opacity? I am working on a project that displays buildings. The requirement is to let the building gradually fade out (transparent) based on the distance between the camera and the buildings. Also, this effect has to follow the camera's movement.
I consider using THREE.Fog(), but the Fog seems can only change the material's color.

Above is a picture of the building with white fog.

*

*The buildings are in tiles, each tile is one single geometry (I merged all the buildings into one) using

var bigGeometry = new THREE.Geometry();
bigGeometry.merge(smallGeometry);

*The purple/blue color thing is the ground, and ground.material.fog = false;. So the ground won't interact with the fog.

My question is:

*

*Is it  possible to let the fog interact with the building's material's opacity instead of color? (more white translate to more transparent)

*Or should I use Shader to control the material's opacity based on distance to the camera? But I have no idea of how to do this.

*I also considered adding alphaMap. If so, each building tile have to map an alphaMap and all these alphaMap have to interact with the camera's movement. It's going to be a tons of work.

So any suggestions?
Best Regards,
Arthur

A:
NOTE: I suspect there are probably easier/prettier ways to solve this than opacity. In particular, note that partially-opaque buildings will show other buildings behind them. To address that, consider using a gradient or some other scene background, and choosing a fog color to match that, rather than using opacity. But for the sake of trying it...

Here's how to alter an object's opacity based on its distance. This doesn't actually require THREE.Fog, I'm not sure how you would use the fog data directly. Instead I'll use THREE.NodeMaterial, which (as of three.js r96) is fairly experimental. The alternative would be to write a custom shader with THREE.ShaderMaterial, which is also fine.
const material = new THREE.StandardNodeMaterial();
material.transparent = true;
material.color = new THREE.ColorNode( 0xeeeeee );

// Calculate alpha of each fragment roughly as:
// alpha = 1.0 - saturate( distance / cutoff )
//
// Technically this is distance from the origin, for the demo, but
// distance from a custom THREE.Vector3Node would work just as well.
const distance = new THREE.Math2Node(
  new THREE.PositionNode( THREE.PositionNode.WORLD ),
  new THREE.PositionNode( THREE.PositionNode.WORLD ),
  THREE.Math2Node.DOT
);
const normalizedDistance = new THREE.Math1Node(
  new THREE.OperatorNode(
    distance,
    new THREE.FloatNode( 50 * 50 ),
    THREE.OperatorNode.DIV
  ),
  THREE.Math1Node.SAT
);
material.alpha = new THREE.OperatorNode(
  new THREE.FloatNode( 1.0 ),
  normalizedDistance,
  THREE.OperatorNode.SUB
);

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/donmccurdy/1L4s9e0c/
Screenshot:

A: I am the OP. After spending some time reading how to use Three.js's Shader material. I got some code that is working as desired.
Here's the code: https://jsfiddle.net/yingcai/4dxnysvq/
The basic idea is:

*

*Create an Uniform that contains controls.target (Vector3 position).

*Pass vertex position attributes to varying in the Vertex Shader. So
that the Fragment Shader can access it.

*Get the distance between each vertex position and controls.target. Calculate alpha value based on the distance.

*Assign alpha value to the vertex color.

Another important thing is: Because the fade out mask should follow the camera move, so don't forget to update the control in the uniforms every frame.
// Create uniforms that contains control position value.
uniforms = {
    texture: {
      value: new THREE.TextureLoader().load("https://threejs.org/examples/textures/water.jpg")
    },
    control: {
      value: controls.target
    }
  };

// In the render() method.
// Update the uniforms value every frame.
uniforms.control.value = controls.target;

A: I had the same issue - a few years later - and solved it with the .onBeforeCompile function which is maybe more convenient to use.
There is a great tutorial here
The code itself is simple and could be easily changed for other materials. It just uses the fogFactor as alpha value in the material.
Here the material function:
alphaFog() {
const material = new THREE.MeshPhysicalMaterial();
material.onBeforeCompile = function (shader) {

  const alphaFog =
      `
      #ifdef USE_FOG
        #ifdef FOG_EXP2
          float fogFactor = 1.0 - exp( - fogDensity * fogDensity * vFogDepth * vFogDepth );
        #else
          float fogFactor = smoothstep( fogNear, fogFar, vFogDepth );
        #endif
        gl_FragColor.a = saturate(1.0 - fogFactor);
      #endif
  `

  shader.fragmentShader = shader.fragmentShader.replace(
      '#include <fog_fragment>', alphaFog
  );

  material.userData.shader = shader;
};

material.transparent = true
return material;
}

and afterwards you can use it like
    const cube = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, this.alphaFog());


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