The Centrifuge is a UK-based electronic arts collective and a record label specializing in exploring electronica, glitch, IDM and even drill'n'bass. Operating since 2008, The Centrifuge has put out many digital releases that tickle our eardrums, including releases by Lodsb and Velapene Screen. This particular mix is put together by the mysterious missaw, who, from what I can gather, is the person behind the collective!
This podcast is in the most part compiled from tracks featuring in The Centrifuge's 5th Anniversary Compilation which is due out this summer. For HC I've made a beat-driven selection which I hope enlivens many a headphone commute! You can find out our label and Europe-wide events programme at thecentrifuge.co.uk.


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Q: JSLint and the "Expected to see a statement and instead saw a block." error I have picked up the habit of wrapping all of my case statements in curly brackets from programming in C because of this but JSLint is throwing a fit. It stops validating at that point.
My question is: Is this such a bad practice in JS? Do I not have to worry about the scope issue because JS has function scope (I understand how that would be the case, I just want a good reason not to be 'consistent' on this)?
(I know that different languages call for different practices, but i am trying to be as consisten as possible across languages to help protect my sanity.)

A: Good question.
The reason that JSLint complains about this is because it is actually contrary to the language specification for the switch/case statments:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-262.pdf
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/switch
The JavaScript compier will tolerate it, however JSLint is about ensuring your code adheres to a stricter and more correct subset of JavaScript. ("The Good Bits" as Douglas Crockford puts it!)
Moreover, the extra bracing is extra characters that you will have to transmit with the website. If you don't need them, why transmit them?
Referring to your above link, the same problem does not present itself in JavaScript. So, the following will work:
var x = 0;
switch(x){
    case 0:
        var y = 1;
        alert(y);
}

See it at this JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/LKWwB/
Finally, regarding your sanity, I would relinquish the tenuous grip you have on it. I did years ago and am much happier for it :-)

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She has survived divorces with both Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux, and has managed to make the tricky transition into the competitive industry that is Hollywood for women over thirty.
But there was one thing she could not deal with.
Speaking to The Late Late Show With James Corden, Aniston revealed that when she first moved to LA to pursue a career in acting, her apartment was haunted.
Aniston said that from that point, her and her roommate became a lil' creeped out. She said the radio would randomly blast loudly and the dishwasher would start by itself.
She was sceptical, but they ended up having someone come over to the house.
When the ghost whisperer put frankincense into a little dish and walked into one corner of the house, the Friends actress says the plate shattered.
She appeared to imply that the incident convinced her it was real, adding that the ghost "hated [her] roommate".
"Did you tell the roommate?" Corden asked the 49-year-old.
"No, I moved out," Aniston laughed. "I feel terrible, but I couldn't say, 'It didn't like you.' She's fine… I don't know. I got out of there too quick," she added.
In a recent profile with Elle titled 'Jennifer Aniston Doesn't Need A Happy Ending', the 49-year-old touched on many things, from her new Netflix film Dumplin' and relationship with Dolly Parton, to the public's obsession with why she hasn't procreated.
Speaking of her recent divorce with ex-husband Justin Theroux, Aniston said she doesn't view the way their relationship ended as a failure – rather, a success.
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'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets': An Uphill Battle in the Box Office
Hollywood loves to judge a book by its shiny, 3-D cover
By David Akst • 07/20/17 5:00pm
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." Vikram Gounassegarin/EuropaCorp
On Friday, two of the summer's biggest blockbusters hit the screen. Christopher Nolan's WWII film Dunkirk and Luc Besson's sci-fi adventure Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets have more in common than just a release date, I suppose; they each feature beautiful stars-turned-actors (Harry Styles for Nolan, Cara Delevingne and Rihanna for Besson), each one cost at least $150 million, and each director is European.
The similarities end there. Dunkirk is shaping up to be a big success at the box office, and maybe in the awards circuit, while predictions for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are a bit less optimistic. France's most expensive film to date, Valerian has a lot to prove at the box office.
Dunkirk has been receiving rave reviews, while critics make Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets sound like a literal rave, a psychedelic light show with beautiful people but severely lacking in substance. I mean no disrespect to raves, of course.
Reviews of Besson's film generally praise its visuals, but lament its vapidity. They laud its beginning, but despair the way it quickly loses steam. Rolling Stone described it "as gorgeous as anything the French filmmaker has made and as empty as a Trump tweet." The L.A. Times declared it "a dazzling, dimwitted space opera." Entertainment Weekly just calls it "an epic mess," a phrase pretty common in the critical reception to this film.
To be fair, Peter Sobczynski gave Valerian four stars out of four, finding fault only with the character of Valerian and the character alone, in a review on RogerEbert.com. Those who do defend the film are generally quick to admit that its value is largely rooted in its arresting special effects.
Cara Delevingne, who plays Laureline, and Luc Besso at CinemaCon 2017. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for CinemaCon
An unfavorable reception among critics won't necessarily doom the film financially. Suicide Squad was reviewed negatively but performed incredibly well at the box office last summer. Transformers: The Last Knight was received with almost universal revulsion by reviewers, but saw an OK domestic opening and did fairly well in the international market. The last two Pirates of the Caribbean movies were more or less panned, but made profits of hundreds of millions of dollars when including international ticket sales.
The above films, though, aren't exactly like Valerian. Besson's film, in contrast to the latest Transformers or Pirates of the Caribbean film, is not a sequel and is therefore unable to rely on the success of the previous films to boost its sales. Despite the terrible reviews, I saw the latest Pirates of the Caribbean because I had seen the early ones in my youth. Seeing the movie was a terrible mistake on my part, but it still raked in more than $750 million worldwide.
Besson's film is based on the French sci-fi comic "Valerian et Laureline", a series by Jean-Claude Mézières which some say Star Wars was, uh, heavily influenced by. But the comic has no major cultural significance in the U.S., and probably won't help Besson much at the box office.
French comic strip creator Jean-Claude Mezieres visits the exhibition dedicated to his science fiction comics series Valerian and Laureline on June 13, 2017 in Paris. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images
At least Besson has some experience with bringing effects-based sci-fi to theaters. He directed the 1997 film The Fifth Element, a futuristic, humorous, sci-fi action film starring a bleached-blonde Bruce Willis as a (flying) taxi driver in 23rd century New York City. The plot is a bit confusing, but involves an evil power in space, alien races, magical stones, ancient Egypt, and more than a few weird haircuts. Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes, obviously.
The Fifth Element also included involvement and inspiration from Mézières, and its reception was comparable to that of "Valerian." The New York Times, in 1997, said that The Fifth Element looks "genuinely novel at times, thanks to the pulp exuberance of its electric colors and bold, jokey production design." But, as many are now saying of Valerian, the 1997 film "delivers that big badda-boom and nothing more. A positive 1997 review in Rolling Stone admits that "the plot is too incoherent to give away," assuring readers that "it's the eye-popping images that count." The film won various awards for special effects.
Box office numbers for The Fifth Element are impressive, all things considered, making a total of roughly $264 million on a budget of $90 million. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Besson said "when the film opened in the U.S., it was pretty slow," but that, over time, "it became a cult movie." He's not exactly right about the slowness, though; while it was considered an underwhelming release, a May 1997 New York Times article published fifteen days after the film dropped notes that "despite poor reviews," Besson's loopy sci-fi flick was "the No. 1 film over the last two weeks" in the country.
BoxOfficeMojo places the film's total lifetime gross at the #3 spot in the competitive "Taxi/Taxi Driver" category, so it clearly wasn't a flop.
Besson has to hope that viewers accept Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets the way they did The Fifth Element, which was successful in America and equally successful, if not more so, in Europe. But the two films are different.
Director Luc Besson with two actors from "The Fifth Element," Milla Jovovich and Chris Tucker, at a 2017 event celebrating the film. Rich Fury/Getty Images for Cinespia
Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson compares the two films in his review of Valerian, and writes that Besson's latest venture shows the promise of The Fifth Element's many quirks that made it fun and unusual, but loses its charm by the second half. At the end, though, Lawson expresses optimism that over time Valerian will develop a following the way The Fifth Element did.
Last year, Luc Besson said that the world wasn't ready for The Fifth Element in 1997, but that the world has since gotten weirder and that Valerian would be easier to accept. Maybe he's right. Or, maybe, the weirdness of The Fifth Element is what made it so popular. Valerian seems less endearingly, hilariously weird, and more forcefully, aimlessly weird, if weird is even a word for it.
In terms of box office performance, The Fifth Element had the advantage of no significant competition in theaters when it released on May 9th, 1997. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets comes out on the same day as one of the most hotly anticipated films of the summer, if not the year, by one of today's biggest directors, Christopher Nolan. If Dunkirk bites off a big part of Valerian's potential audience, Besson's film may be labeled a box office flop, which will only further discourage people from seeing it.
Perhaps Star Wars and Avatar are the best models to preserve optimism in this situation. Neither one has been lauded for its story, but their special effects have built massive audiences (and massive profits). Besson has to rely on special effects, more than anything, to draw viewers and sell tickets. He may realize that fact, based on a quote from a Vanity Fair article.
"Everyone under 50 will go see Valerian, and everyone above 50 will go see Dunkirk," he said. If those under 50 prioritize two hours of stunning special effects over plot or acting, he's probably right. Otherwise, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is in store for a rough weekend.
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Did you catch the voter engagement webinar hosted by CSWE and Voting is Social Work? Watch the full webinar anytime on YouTube and hear from social work educators, field directors, and a truly inspiring presentation from voting rights activist and radio host Barbara Arnwine, Esq., about the importance of voting in this year's election. Make sure you, your clients, and your colleagues are registered to vote and have a plan to cast their ballot!
Watch the Oct. 2 Facebook Live recording of NASW's Racial Justice Town Hall on Economic Inequities. This and all previous town hall recordings are available on-demand. On Oct. 20 at 1:00 p.m. ET, please join Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and NASW President Mit Joyner for a lively voter mobilization discussion. The event is free.
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With the election season in full swing and the COVID-19 pandemic unabating, the national conversation about economic recovery has intensified. We know that this pandemic has not only affected the mental health of our clients, colleagues and communities — especially those who already had poor access to mental and physical health care. We also know that these challenges are only exacerbated by losses of income.
Social workers are essential not just in shaping this conversation but in shaping the recovery, particularly for those most vulnerable to economic downturns.
As we enter the 10th month of the public health crisis and its economic fallout, nearly 180 million Americans face the possibility of having their utilities cut off as moratoria expire on extending services despite unpaid bills. More and more people cannot make rent or put food on the table. Indeed, almost 33% of children who live in rental housing are in households that are behind in rent or did not have enough food to eat in the last week. Over half of states have run out of money to fund their share of the Trump administration's $300 per week unemployment benefits extension. (Coalition on Human Needs, October 2020)
Not surprisingly, the economic fallout is greatest for people and families in poverty, many of whom are people of color. Unemployment rates for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Indigenous people are all higher than the national average. Since the pandemic began, only 34% of African American women have recovered lost jobs, compared to 61% of white women. These individuals were already excluded from the economic growth that characterized the years preceding the current crisis, magnifying systemic racial, ethnic, and gender injustice and inequity. Over the past two decades, predating the pandemic, the Black–White wage gap grew from 10.2% in 2000 to 14.9% in 2019. (Goldin, N., 2020 June 20, retrieved from https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-covid-19-is-worsening-americas-racial-economic-divide).
Social workers are educated to understand that "every person regardless of position in society has fundamental human rights such as freedom, safety, privacy, an adequate standard of living, health care, and education." It is one of the core competencies of social work education. One can see social workers in countless settings actively helping individuals and families regain their footing by connecting them with resources and addressing COVID-related mental health and financial challenges that can complicate economic recovery.
In these settings, a license to practice is a contract between the practitioner and the public that services will be safely, ethically, and competently provided. Regulation of the profession gives consumers of social work services a legal avenue of recourse at no cost to them should harm occur. This protection is especially important for consumers who are economically fragile. A license to practice also gives social workers the ability to bill Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies for services provided to clients who might be unable to pay. Licensing therefore enables social workers to get the jobs they need, be paid for that work, and provide services essential to the public.
Macro social workers play a crucial role in creating a more inclusive economy and can help make the systemic changes needed to achieve this goal.
For example, Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., MSW, founding director of the Center for Social Development at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has dedicated much of his career to inclusive asset building. Universal and progressive child development accounts are just one of the innovations he has developed and helped introduce into a number of U.S. cities.
Deborah Weinstein, MSW, executive director of the Coalition on Human Needs in Washington, D.C. (of which NASW is a longtime member), leads that organization's efforts to promote adequate funding for human needs programs, progressive tax policies and other federal measures to address housing, food security, health care and education inequities. CHN continues to play a major role in defending the social safety net from COVID-related impacts.
Social workers can help ensure economic recovery for all by voting on November 3 for candidates who will champion economic justice and greater social service access in their communities.
Economic justice is just one of 40 topic tracks and hundreds of presentations available at CSWE's 2020 Annual Program Meeting (APM), which is focused on Leading Critical Conversations on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Live sessions will be presented November 16-20, and attendees will have access to hundreds of recordings for up to 12 months! CSWE's APM is the largest gathering of social work education in the country. Register today for APM at www.cswe.org/APM.
CSWE members and subscribers of the Journal of Social Work Education can read an article that examines the financial literacy gap in social work education and provides an overview of some key fringe economy enterprises. Financial literacy education is important for social work students who at some point in their career will encounter financially-excluded clients. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10437797.2015.1043194?journalCode=uswe20&
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19-Month-Old Killed in Vermont Christmas Day Crash
Published December 26, 2021 • Updated on December 26, 2021 at 9:49 am
A 19-month-old baby is dead following a rollover crash in Sheldon, Vermont on Christmas Day.
According to Vermont State Police a car with three people inside, including the baby, was headed north on Cook Road in icy conditions when it approached a hill around a sharp curve. The car rolled over and landed upside down in a brook.
According to police, the driver and front seat passenger -- identified as 22-year-old Meagan Staples and 20-year-old Evan Whalon, respectively -- were able to get out of the car safely, but the 19-month-old was in the back car seat submerged in water.
Police say a neighbor ran down to the car and was able to cut the child out of the car seat before attempting CPR.
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The baby was taken the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Staples and Whalon were also taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The crash remain under investigation.


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In my campaign of Star Wars, cloaking devices exist, and are used by many different sides in the conflict. However there exists no single version of this technology, as the various sides have each developed their own version, doing basically the same job, but in a slightly different manner. This document, hopes to detail how each system works.
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The Mandalorians, and their allies the Juannar, have developed and used cloaking devices for the past few decades. They are the only people to use cloaking technology in huge quantities, and almost every type of vessel they now build uses it.
Mandalorian cloaking technology is not true cloaking, but really just very advanced stealth systems, that lead to virtually the same end. These systems absorb all emissions heading towards the cloaked vessel, meaning that the ship is invisible (since light is absorbed rather than reflected), and offers no sensor return either so is just as invisible to sensors.
However this form of cloaking has several weaknesses.
1) The vessel has to be designed to use this form of cloaking, and it cannot be retrofitted into another vessel without major reworking of all its systems.
2) The engines of the vessel have to be designed to have low energy emissions, or the ship cannot move while cloaked (or the energy emissions of the engines would be detected), this also means that Mandalorian vessels can only move at half their normal speed while cloaked to keep the energy signature of their engines to a minimum.
3) The cloaked vessel cannot use any active sensors while cloaked, since the energy emissions would be easily detected.
4) Force Shields cannot be used while cloaked, for the dual reasons of their energy emissions, and them radiating energy away, rather than absorbing it.
5) Weapons likewise cannot be charged (although decloaking and charging weapons is usually linked together on Mandalorian vessels) or the high energy emissions would be detected through the cloak.
6) The cloak has to be carefully used, since it absorbs all sensor emissions leaves a blank spot which normally cannot be noticed against the blankness of space. However if the cloaked vessel was to get in between a target vessel and another object (a planet or another ship) then the absorbed emissions would create an obvious hole in the sensor image of the other object.
While these features make the Mandalorian cloaking technology flawed, it is still an incredibly useful technology, allowing fleets to move around undetected, and enemy movements to be tracked by cloaked scoutships with relative ease.
THE GALACTIC EMPIRE
Imperial Cloaking technology is based around the manipulation of gravity fields, which warps light, and energy around the cloaked vessel. This does make the vessel detectable by CGT (Crystal Gravity Trap) sensors, but is immune to detection by by other means (except the Force) no matter where the ship is,
Imperial Cloaking devices however have the unfortunate side effect of blocking the cloaked vessels own sensors and communications systems, rendering it completely blind and deaf. But the total blocking does work to the ships slight advantage, allowing it to use sheilds and weapons freely without endangering its cloaked status.
This weakness caused Imperial Cloaking technology to be abandoned for a long time, putting even the very successful Tie Phantom out of production until a solution was created.
The solution was found shortly after the start of the Imperial alliance with the Sith, and combined simlified CGT sensors with weak gravity well generators.
CGT sensors work by scanning fluctuations in the local gravity field, the simplified sensors they installed into cloaked ships, just monitored for fluctuations in the gravity field, listening to these fluctuations like a radio signal.
Using a very small Gravity Well generator, fluctuations could be created in the local gravity field, which could be detected by cloaked ships.
By combining these systems, it allowed cloaked fighters to be communicated with, and standard policy was that cloaked fighters were accompanied by a capital ship, or other command vessel, which would feed them sensor data, allowing them to fight while remaining cloaked.
While not as much of an edge as most cloaking technologies, this still gave the cloaked fighters a significant edge in battle, and allowed Imperial forces to minimise raids on convoys (because the transports could be feeding sensor data to cloaked fighters, there was no way to tell which convoys were being escorted, and which weren`t, it also became difficult to determine Imperial strength in any particular area).
The form of communication between the command vessel and the cloaked ships was also a point of strength and weakness in the system, firstly it could not be disrupted by jammers on A Wing fighters, or capital ships since it was gravity waves and not conventional signals. However, it was disrupted by full gravity well generators, meaning that the communications could not be used around interdictor cruisers or other gravity well deploying vessels.
New Republic scientists are working on ways to jam the gravity communications system, but current policy is to destroy the command vessel, forcing the cloaked fighters to decloak or be unable to continue battle.
The New Republic is currently without a functioning cloaking system, altough the Verpine hives in the Roche asteroids are working on a system, and have produced several flawed but functional prototypes.
Their work seems to combine elements of both Mandalorian and Imperial technologies, creating devices which allow the vessel to use passive sensors, communications systems, etc but not to give its location away by blocking all sensors. If successful this will be the best of both worlds, and superior to both of the rival designs, however power use is currently causing problems, with burn-outs being common on test vessels, and energy leaking through the cloak and giving the ships location away, but experiments are continuing.
Text completely by FreddyB. Image is by LucasArts, copyright remains with them.


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George W. Es Muy Bueno
Why Lionel Sosa and other Hispanics are backing him.
By Patricia Hart
Lionel Sosa was a preteen with an independent streak when his father brought home a television set for the family's San Antonio home in 1952. When he turned it on, Republicans were anointing General Dwight D. Eisenhower as their nominee for president. The youngster was mesmerized. "My parents said, 'Lionel, you can't be for Ike—he's a Republican,'" the 61-year-old Sosa remembers today. "'We've always been Democrats. The Republicans are the party of the rich, and we're poor. The Democrats are the party of the poor.' I said, 'Who the hell wants to be poor?' That was my way of rebelling." That rebellion raised eyebrows in the predominantly Hispanic homes of Sosa's childhood neighborhood, where Franklin Roosevelt's picture commonly hung alongside home altars to the Virgin Mary. But it also set the artist turned advertising executive on the road to phenomenal success as he learned to put the power of television to work for big-money clients like Coca-Cola and Burger King. In 1980 he founded Sosa, Bromley, Aguilar, Nobel, and Associates, which grew to become the largest Hispanic ad agency in the U.S., with annual billings of more than $100 million.
He also counted the Republican party and its top candidates among his clients. In 1998 Sosa helped Texas Governor George W. Bush win strong support for his reelection bid from Hispanic voters by linking his "compassionate conservative" philosophy to the traditional Hispanic values of family, faith, and the work ethic. But he did so in a creative way: Instead of finding issues that would appeal solely to Hispanic voters, Sosa took Bush's message to Hispanics through language, music, the right spokespersons, and the right markets. He may as well have been selling soap.
Two years later, Bush is counting on that salesmanship to help his presidential campaign win the hearts and votes of the estimated six million Hispanics expected to participate in the coming presidential election. Sosa, currently a partner in GarciaLKS, a small San Antonio ad firm, and a consultant to Maverick Media, the Bush campaign's ad agency, believes the strategy he hatched for the '98 race will help Bush triumph with Hispanics nationwide. "What we do is we take what's important to Hispanics and what's important to the governor and link them together," Sosa says. "It's all values-driven. He champions our values, and the connect happens."
The assumption at the core of that strategy, however, is that a candidate can win over Hispanic voters by appealing to values, opportunity, and inclusion and by pushing specific government policies—on education, Social Security, and health care—that target a mostly economically disadvantaged class of immigrants and their offspring. In the past Sosa has earned success for Republican candidates with the premise that Latino "hot button" issues are no different from those of mainstream America: low taxes, economic and educational opportunity, and a strong national defense. But remaining mute on key issues affecting minorities and the poor carries its own risks in an age of growing sophistication among Hispanics toward political advertising. Once, any appeal to Hispanics—however vapid—succeeded by virtue of its own novelty. Today no serious candidate mounts a media campaign without some portion of it tailored specifically to minorities. To Antonio González, the president of the William C. Velásquez Institute, a San Antonio-based nonprofit group that researches Hispanic voting patterns, that means candidates could have the effect of "neutralizing each other" by using a soft sell in Spanish in a campaign year when Hispanic voters may be looking for something more. "The successful campaign will be the one that will go deeper into the substance of issues and take the challenge of moving from form to substance," González says. While he agrees that Hispanics have made giant strides in becoming fully assimilated Americans, González points to demographic data that suggest Hispanics are affected by different political issues than Anglo America. "The issues of Hispanics continue to be working-class issues, not middle-class issues," he says. "Hispanics are more concerned about health-care access, not health-care reform. The HMO reform deal? That's a middle-class issue. Two thirds of Hispanics don't have an HMO. They'd like to have one to reform."
Many Hispanic Republicans disagree. U.S. congressman Henry Bonilla of San Antonio, who represents a 67 percent minority district, says that "people who think you need a Hispanic agenda don't understand the culture." That culture is intrinsically conservative, Bonilla believes, and responds well to the traditional Republican emphasis on low taxes, cutting government regulations, and promoting the military. "Those things cut across all ethnic lines," he says.
More important, Bonilla and other Hispanic Republicans say, is Bush's appointment of Hispanics to top state positions, which is evidence of the governor's philosophy of inclusion. They include Sosa, to the Texas A&M University Board of Regents last year; Al Gonzales, to the Texas Supreme Court; Tony Garza, to Secretary of State (he has since won election to the Railroad Commission); and Houston engineer Raul Romero, to the University of Texas Board of Regents. Romero, who attained the status of "Bush Pioneer" by personally raising $100,000 for the presidential campaign, has successfully applied Sosa's blueprint to fundraising. Early in the campaign, when Bush was lining up political support, "we quietly did the same thing with Hispanic CEOs," Romero says. "Why businesspeople? Because they create jobs and most closely identify with the governor's values."
No one disagrees that Hispanic advisers like Sosa are essential for helping a candidate navigate the uncharted waters of a foreign culture. Republicans have only to recall President Gerald Ford's memorable visit to San Antonio: Ford gamely bit into a tamale—and bit and bit and bit—until someone took pity on him and showed him how to remove the impenetrable corn shuck. That moment ranks high in modern Texas political folklore, and it would never have happened if Lionel Sosa had been around.
In his memoir, The Americano Dream (Plume), which was published in 1998, Sosa traced his entrepreneurial path from hourly-wage earner to head of the largest Hispanic ad agency in the country. As a child, Sosa had watched his father slave for endless hours as the operator of a laundry and dry cleaners. Steered by "well- intentioned" teachers who taught their Hispanic charges to "be good with our hands," Sosa developed his aptitude in art. At age nineteen, he took his first job as a sign painter. "My story is one of hard work, energy, ambition, aggressiveness, stick-to-itiveness, huevos," he wrote.
That ability to move so effortlessly between cultures explains why Sosa was once chosen as Adweek's Advertising Executive of the Year. In 1995, having sold his interest in Sosa, Bromley, Aguilar, Nobel, and Associates so he could retire, Sosa joined GarciaLKS, a firm founded by his wife, Kathy, and their friend Luis Garcia. Among other things, the move showed that Sosa hasn't lost touch with his roots. Employees of the thirty-person agency, whose offices have a family feel to them, gather twice a week for lunches cooked by Sosa's housekeeper, Lupita.
Sosa first used his advertising talents in the political world in 1978, when Republican U.S. senator John Tower, concerned that his Democratic challenger, Bob Krueger, spoke fluent Spanish, asked for help in appealing to Hispanic voters. That election solidified Sosa's reputation nationally as a Hispanic advertising whiz. When the votes were counted, Tower won by only one half of 1 percent but claimed 37 percent of the Hispanic turnout. Historically, Texas Republicans had claimed less than 8 percent. Word spread, and Coca-Cola and Coors beer soon hired his agency for advertising campaigns that would target Hispanics. Other political accounts would also follow: Ronald Reagan, George Bush the elder, and the Republican party all had Sosa devise TV campaigns for them.
Sosa, who says he is still the only Republican in his family, realizes that he is bucking a deeply imbedded cultural bias when he asks Hispanics to vote Republican. "My number one rule is that I don't try to convert them to the Republican party," he says. "'Vote Republican' is a tougher sell." What's easier, he says, is asking them to vote for a specific candidate by "tying Republican conservative values to conservative Latino values." So, in the Bush television ads, "we talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way."
If that seems awfully generic, Sosa is the first to admit it. His favorite Bush ad in 1998 was a soft sell, he says, with Hispanic singer Emilio (whom Sosa calls the Garth Brooks of tejano) crooning to images of Bush walking in shirtsleeves in a Hispanic neighborhood during a parade. "We just showed his interaction with people," Sosa says. "Voters want to know, 'Is he genuine? Do I like him? Does he like me?' That's an emotional connect. If you don't do that, issues don't matter."
Sosa has his critics—or at least his work does. Ask Garry Mauro, a Democrat who was the land commissioner for sixteen years, managed Krueger's race against Tower, chaired Bill Clinton's Texas campaign, and challenged Bush in 1998. Mauro believes that Sosa's soft sell approach reflects the Republican party's poor record on issues directly affecting minority voters. "If I were him, I wouldn't want to talk about bilingual education and showing proof of citizenship to register to vote either," Mauro says. "Short of Bush distancing himself from the Republican congressional platform, I think he's gonna have a hard time doing anything but suppressing [Hispanic] turnout."
Still, Mauro says, "Lionel and George W. Bush did an excellent job of presenting an absolutely negative record to the Hispanic community." That negative record, he explains, includes Bush's support of requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and failure to support mandatory kindergarten attendance and other education initiatives that would have benefited low-income communities.
But Mauro credits Sosa and other Hispanic advisers with keeping Bush from making fatal errors with Hispanic voters—for instance, they encouraged him to oppose the California proposal to eliminate government services for the children of illegal immigrants. "He'll listen to Sosa when a lot of Republicans won't," Mauro says. Whether Hispanic voters will listen too remains to be seen.
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Cherry blossom season comes to Seoul every spring, typically in the early weeks of April. It is always a mad dash of people trying to find the best spot for cherry blossom watching. Perhaps the best spot, yet unheralded, is Ansan in northwest Seoul.
Trying to find the best Cherry Blossom spot can be a bit of a headache. Having to jostle with so many other people all wanting to see the same things is annoying. It saps the joy out of enjoying the splendor of the trees.
Fortunately, the ever-present but inconspicuous Ansan is there for the save.
There is no doubt that Yeouido and Namsan are great places to see the cherry blossoms. However, if you truly want an experience, and not just a view, then make haste for Ansan.
The primary spot to see the cherry blossoms on Ansan is just above the waterfall that empties into the Hongje Stream, or Hongjecheon. Follow the path that leads behind the watermill and prepare to be amazed.
The first thing you will come to while walking up the pathway is a picturesque bridge spanning a small cascading brook. Feel free to take pictures of the bridge, but don't cross it. Continue straight. And up.
Soon enough you will see the herb garden. there are a number of flower gardens here that are meticulously kept. This is one of the most peaceful spots in all of Seoul. Although undoubtedly still in the middle of a metropolis, there is barely a hint of big-city life to be seen. Even if the herb garden were absent, the area would still be a peaceful reprieve from the hectic city life.
It is in this area that the cherry blossoms come alive every April and form a white and pink wonderland. The trees are plentiful, and the people are usually few. There is no jockeying with other photographers for that perfect spot here. All the spots are perfect, and all the spots are available.
While the lack of crowds and the abundance of cherry blossoms is enough to make this one of the best places to see cherry blossoms in Seoul, it is the night time view that really sets it apart. Once the sun goes down, the lights go up. Literally.
As you can see in the pictures above, well-positioned floodlights do a marvelous job of illuminating the cherry blossoms from below. The glowing white cherry blossoms set against the dark sky is nothing short of breathtaking.
When all is said and done at the end of the day, or night, there really is no comparison. If you want to see cherry blossoms, visit Ansan. As is typical with nature, there is no way to adequately describe the scene with words. Even the pictures seen here do not do justice. It must be seen in person.


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Swing Swing Submarine have today announced their new puzzle game "Tetrobot and Co.", a sequel to their acclaimed 2D indie puzzle platformer Blocks That Matter, planned to be released on Windows, Mac, Linux and touch devices in early 2013.
No other details for the game for the time being apart from the fact that Tetrobot, the main character of Blocks That Matter, will be an important element of the game but it will not be a playable character anymore. It means players should expect changes in terms of character's capabilities.


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FREDERICKSBURG—Sixty-five years after the launch of the original Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VFMA) Artmobile, Governor Ralph Northam and VMFA Director Alex Nyerges today hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of VMFA on the Road: An Artmobile for the 21st Century. The inaugural exhibition, How Far Can Creativity Take You? VMFA Fellowship Artists, explores the history and impact of VMFA's fellowship program, the largest of its kind in the United States, using the work of former fellowship artists to examine how different mediums and techniques are used to create unique works of art.
Beginning in 1953 the original Artmobile program brought art exhibitions and educational programs to colleges, schools, and community organizations across Virginia for 40 years, reaching 2.5 million people. VMFA discontinued its Artmobile program in the early 1990s, but as part of its 2015–2020 strategic plan and a renewed commitment to statewide outreach, museum leadership began exploring ways to bring this beloved program back. When the Commonwealth offered VMFA an 18-wheel tractor-trailer that includes 640 feet of display space, the museum began working with exhibition design firms Riggs Ward Design of Richmond and Explus Inc. in Sterling to design and fabricate a new and improved version of the Artmobile, equipped with cutting edge technology for 21st-century visitors.
The exhibition is divided into three sections, beginning with an introduction to VMFA and its unique history of serving the Commonwealth of Virginia. The second space is a gallery presenting artwork by fellowship winners, in-depth video interviews with the artists, VMFA curators, and educators, and a modular studio that can be used for collaborative projects. Featured artists include painters Cy Twombly and Benjamin Wigfall; photographers Sally Mann and Emmet Gowin; printmakers Dennis Winston and Ann Chenoweth; and television writer and director Vince Gilligan, among other Virginians.
From interactive features using newly digitized collection images to classroom resources from the online Learn Portal, VMFA on the Road also includes 21st-century digital components that will be fully integrated with VMFA's broader digital outreach efforts. In preparation for the mobile museum's arrival, local secondary schools can also participate in the new Evans 360° program, which enables students to interact in real time with a VMFA educator broadcasting live from the museum's galleries.
Like their Artmobile colleagues from the past, VMFA on the Road educators will greet visitors, conduct tours, offer activities on-site and work with local statewide partners to give lectures at community venues as well as hands-on workshops in schools and art studios.
VMFA on the Road will visit Hurkamp Park from October 30 through November 2. Tours will be limited to school groups from October 31 through November 2, with public tours being offered on Friday, November 2, from 2:00 to 7:00 PM. The Fredericksburg visit is organized in partnership with the Fredericksburg Area Museum. Its next scheduled stop is November 10 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM in Lorton for the Workhouse Arts Center's 10th anniversary. For details on the Artmobile's schedule, visit vmfa.museum/on-the-road.
The anticipated tour schedule consists of a combination of visits to K-12 schools, short residencies at community partners such as Boys and Girls Clubs, stops at community colleges and four-year institutions, visits to Museum Level Partners, and participation in large festivals and fairs throughout the state. The initial 16-month tour will place special emphasis on reaching communities in Southwest, Southern, and Central Virginia, in addition to venues in all 21 of the Commonwealth's planning districts. A VMFA on the Road residency will typically last three days.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, is one of the largest comprehensive art museums in the United States. VMFA, which opened in 1936, is a state agency and privately endowed educational institution. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret art, and to encourage the study of the arts. Through the Office of Statewide Partnerships program, the museum offers curated exhibitions, arts-related audiovisual programs, symposia, lectures, conferences, and workshops by visual and performing artists. In addition to presenting a wide array of special exhibitions, the museum provides visitors with the opportunity to experience a global collection of art that spans more than 6,000 years. VMFA's permanent holdings encompass nearly 40,000 artworks, including the largest public collection of Fabergé outside of Russia, the finest collection of Art Nouveau outside of Paris, and one of the nation's finest collections of American art. VMFA is also home to important collections of Chinese art, English silver, and French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, British sporting, and modern and contemporary art, as well as renowned South Asian, Himalayan, and African art. In May 2010, VMFA opened its doors to the public after a transformative expansion, the largest in its history.


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Unchained Spirit is a studio album by the dancehall/reggae artist Buju Banton, released in 2000. It was his first and only album to be released on the ANTI- record label, an imprint of Epitaph Records.

The album peaked at No. 128 on the Billboard 200.

Production
The album contains contributions from Stephen Marley, Rancid, and Beres Hammond, among others.

Critical reception

Exclaim! wrote that "the treacle far outstrips anything resembling a tuff rhythm here ... even over the good rhythms, Buju doesn't seem to have the command he once did." The Star Tribune thought that "Buju's grainy voice flows over slowly distilled lattices of rhythms and multi-part South African-style harmonies." M.F. DiBella of AllMusic defined the album as a "a vital and rhythmic mix of homegrown Jamaican philosophy, biblical harmonizing, and just plain eerie dancehall".

Track listing
"Intro" – 0:39
"23rd Psalm" (feat. Gramps of Morgan Heritage) – 5:44
"Voice Of Jah" (feat. LMS) – 5:01
"Sudan" – 4:41
"We'll Be Alright" (feat. Luciano) – 4:24
"Pull It Up" (feat. Beres Hammond) – 4:09
"Life Is A Journey" – 4:07
"Better Must Come" – 4:12
"Mighty Dread" – 5:01
"Poor Old Man" (feat. Stephen Marley) – 4:26
"Law And Order" – 3:51
"Guns And Bombs" – 3:20
"Woman Dem Phat" – 3:16
"No More Misty Days" (feat. Rancid) – 4:01
"Pull It Up" (feat. Beres Hammond) (live) – 2:56
"Reunion" (feat. Wayne Wonder) – 4:06

References

2000 albums
Anti- (record label) albums
Buju Banton albums


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> Tue. May 24, 2016
International Session (Poster)
Symbol S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-SS Seismology
[S-SS02] Frontier studies on subduction zone megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis
Tue. May 24, 2016 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL6)
Convener:*Kyuichi Kanagawa(Graduate School of Science, Chiba University), Demian Saffer(Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Michael Strasser(University of Innsbruck), James Kirkpatrick(McGill University), Shuichi Kodaira(R&D Center for Earthquake and Tsunami Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Ryota Hino(Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Yasuhiro Yamada(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), R&D Center for Ocean Drilling Science (ODS)), Kohtaro Ujiie(Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba), Yoshihiro Ito(Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
[SSS02-P10] Improvement of 3D MCS data processing by advanced technology in Nankai trough
*Kazuya Shiraishi1, Masataka Kinoshita2, Gregory Moore3, Yoshinori Sanada1, Yasuhiro Yamada1, Gaku Kimura4 (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2.Earthquake Research Institute,The University of Tokyo, 3.Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii, 4.Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
Keywords:Nankai trough, 3D MCS
For the next stage of the deep scientific drilling in Nankai trough seismogenic zone, it is essential to know exactly shapes and depths of the mega-splay and the subducting oceanic plate, and fine structures in accreted sediments around the drilling site. Three dimensional multi-channel seismic (3D MCS) survey data were acquired in Kumano nada, and original data processing were also carried out in 2006. The 3D geometry of megasplay fault system in the Nankai trough subduction zone and detail structures in the frontal accretionary prism were revealed. However, any detail structures are not clear in the old accretionary prism between Kumano forearc basin and the megasplay fault, which are essential information for the successful deep drilling. The most difficult problem of the 3D seismic data is strong water-period surface related multiples which highly decrease the image quality. Especially in the deeper part than about 5 km, the resolution of the reflection image is very low with bandlimited signals by applying the specific processing to eliminate the multiples and noise with the technology of the day.
In order to obtain the clearer depth image for the next deep drilling target, reprocessing of the 3D data is highly required with advanced technology in a decade after the original data processing. There are three major scientific goals on the reprocessing of the 3D MCS data. First, 3D geometry and relationship between megasplay and plate interface beneath outer ridge, where multiples obscure clear imaging, to reveal whether decollement steps down to the plate interface or connects to the megasplay. Second, the fine scale imaging is required in the old accretionary prism beneath Kumano Basin. Distribution of faults, folds, or fractures, should be revealed to compare the seismic scale dipping structures to the nearly vertical fractures obtained at C0002 hole drilled by D/V Chikyu. Third, the reliability and the resolution of the velocity model should be improved to prove whether the low velocity zone (LVZ) in the outer wedge continue to that beneath the megasplay beneath Kumano Basin, and how much this velocity contrast contributes to the negative polarity in the megasplay fault.
The combination of the recent surface-related multiple elimination (SRME) and other noise attenuation techniques for better multiple attenuation, and broadband processing will contribute to enhancement of the deep reflection signals. Then, the sophisticated velocity model building to improve resolution and reliability, and the recent pre-stack migration method in depth domain with the updated data improve the depth image for mega-splay fault and the subducting plate. The advanced beam migration technique beyond the conventional Kirchhoff migration helps to image the steep dip fold and fault structures inside the old accretionary prism beneath the Kumano basin.


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Q: Use variable in re.sub, for Python parsing multiple datetime-format strings? I'm trying to come up with a function to translate various human date/time-format strings to Python compatible ones (from '*yyyy-MMM-dd*' to '*%Y-%b-%d*').
So far I built the translate dictionary below (a list of tuples [('yyyy','%Y'),('MMM','%b'),...]) so I can convert placeholder fields in input format-strings into strptime '%x' fields e.g.:
'yyyy-MMM-dd' --> '{5}-{3}-{12}'

But what do I do next? I've tried multiple ways:
>>> re.sub('({\d+})',translateList['\1'][1],'{5}-{3}-{12}')
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str

>>> re.sub('({\d+})',translateList[int('\1')][1],'{5}-{3}-{12}')
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '\x01'

>>> re.sub('({\d+})',translateList[eval('\1')][1],'{5}-{3}-{12}')
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

How do I pass what matched into the list? Or any other way to so this?
EDIT: My current approach is this, not fully satisfied:
def _getDatetimeFormatStringFromMuggleString(input):
    muggleList = [
        ('yyyy','%Y'), ('yy','%Y'),                             # year
        ('MMMM','%B'), ('MMM','%b'), ('MM','%m'), ('M','%m'),   # Month
        ('dddd','%A'), ('ddd','%a'), ('dd','%d'), ('d','%d'),   # day
        ('HH','%H'), ('H','%H'), ('hh','%I'), ('h','%I'),       # hour
        ('mm','%M'), ('m','%M'),                                # minute
        ('ss','%S'), ('s','%S'),                                # second
        ('tt','%p'), ('t','%p'),                                # AM/PM
    ]

    for i in muggleList:
        if i[0] in input and '%'+i[0] not in input:
            input = input.replace(i[0], i[1])

    return input

A: Why roll your own when you can use dateutil.parser?
import dateutil
outdate = dateutil.parser.parse(instr, yearfirst=True)

A: Why don't you use strptime:
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime('2012-12-12', '%Y-%j-%d')
datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 12, 0, 0)


Comp-U-Dopt provides technology access and education to underserved youth in greater Houston. PBDD met with the Executive Director, Megan Steckly, in February and toured their facility. Comp-U-Dopt was founded in 2007 by John Osha, a Houston patent attorney, based on the belief that every child deserves equal access to education and opportunity. Comp-U-Dopt has provided over eight thousand students and families in the Houston area with home computers while reducing the e-waste from unused computer equipment.
In Houston, there are 133,000 families that don't have computers at home. Comp-U-Dopt served 6% of that need in the last ten years. The need is great.
Computers are awarded in a variety of ways. High schoolers commit to eight hours of technical training time and then are awarded with a computer. During this eight hours, they are introduced to computer engineering and software programming. Computers are also awarded to elementary school-aged children who submit essays explaining how a computer will benefit their education. They attend a basic computer skills workshop with a parent/guardian. The Executive Director of Comp-U-Dopt, Megan Steckly, shared a few of the more memorable essays she has read recently such as a child who wrote that he "was sick of spaghetti, needed a computer so his mom can look up new recipes." Another person shared that getting a computer has helped the whole family since she no longer had to drive her nieces to the library so they could access the computers there.
Comp-U-Dopt has been in operation for ten years and in their facility for the last five years. They refurbish about 50 computers a week, placing the Ubuntu operating system on each computer along with additional Linux based educational tools. Ubuntu works well on the older machines they have, giving them years of additional usability. They load seventy educational applications that can be used off-line, showing kids that computers can be used for more than social media and word processing while increasing their technical literacy.
The curriculum for after-school programs stresses the relevance of technology education and underscores that learning is fun. Activities include using paper-airplanes for studying aerodynamics, designing a superhero, shaping a story that is then turned into a playable video game, and other fun tasks. Comp-U-Dopt wants to teach that technology is more than IT, so they cover life skills in a variety of industries.
Comp-U-Dopt launched STEAM Team in February of 2016 which is a hands-on, project-based curriculum with five half-day workshops leveraging technology to train students in grades 5-8 in science, technology, engineering, arts and math. By 2017, they had 145 students in seven sites, way beyond their stretch goals. They market and license the program to other organizations to make it as self-sustaining as possible. Licensees participate in a week-long train-the-trainer session and get support throughout the delivery period.
Their largest fundraiser is an annual Oktoberfest. This year it will be held on October 19th, with over 250 people helping to raise funds to tackle the divide in technology access and education.
One challenge they are faced with, as they grow, is the need to scale their ability to better track computer donations and inventory. Recently they were asked what had been done with a donation of eleven laptops. The donor was seeking confirmation that they had been received. While Comp-U-Dopt was able to locate them using their current Access database, it highlighted the need for a good inventory control process which they are working on.
Check out their website at http://compudopt.org/ for more information.
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I will look at doing pages for all the Ibrox disaster victims who have had memorials and get them off the list. What other stuff can be added?
No bother templbluenose I'll give the season pages a go soon.
Looks like they are just missing the Motherwell stats. Not sure what to start on next maybe start on some season pages.
Cheers mate. Only thing I wasn't sure about was when there is a few players on the same day, they could maybe be separated differently.
Started making a players birthdays page after seeing a thread on FF. If anyone has any ideas to make it look better then fire away.
Done another 5 so there is only the 3 Robert Campbells, Tommy McLean's stats table, a few players who didn't play any games and the 4 different James Millar/Millers to do. There is a bit of confusion with the Millers and Campbells so will have to research them before I do them. There is also Alick McKenzie to do but this is also confusing as another source has a player called Archibald McKenzie.
Well done Fog. That's me done about another 10 players should have them done by end of the week. Might even pop back on later to do a few.
Aye that or match reports and season pages. If I was still on the dole they would have been finished a few months ago.
What you trying to add mate?


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Space 2315, Chapter 5
Upon coming home from the victory at Mendus, Fleet Admiral Nancy Moore was welcomed home to Altair with a citywide parade in the capital of Parma. People all over the capital of the Allied Colonies for Freedom came out for it. The president of the Allied Colonies for Freedom declared the day a national day of celebration which pretty much resulted in everyone getting off work and gave people an excuse to party and get drunk.
Moore and her flag officers were invited to the president's mansion in the capital city for a personal meeting and an elaborate banquet in their honor. Personally, Moore hated all the attention; she wasn't one for appearances but when the president personally called and invited you to his mansion you couldn't refuse the offer. She'd much rather avoid all the limelight and get back to the job of prosecuting the war. The Human Federation wasn't going to go away just because she beat them back at a single star system. She needed to get back out there and do it a few more times.
She considered all the pomp and circumstance a chore. The citizenry saw her as a hero, a larger than life person, and someone who gave the Human Federation a bloody nose that most people in the ACF felt they most richly deserved.
"The president will see you now," the president's personal butler said as he came through the doors leading into the president's sanctum sanctorum. As Moore and her personal staff walked into the office the president stood up from his desk and welcomed them. Nancy looked about the room and couldn't help but to notice that many features of the room copied that of the president's office in Abu Dhabi.
"Fleet Admiral Nancy Moore," President John Renalt said as he came forward to personally greet her. "It's an honor to meet the admiral that brought the Allied Colonies for Freedom such a great victory over the Human Federation. You have given us all something to be proud of."
"Thank you, Mr. President," Moore said as she walked forward to shake her president's hand. "It's an honor to serve you and this star nation."
"Did you enjoy the welcome home ceremonies?" the president asked as he motioned for her and her staff to sit down in across from him. "I arranged to have the parade in your honor. It's not every day that we have a massive victory over our enemy, you know."
"Mr. President," the president cut her off. "Please, call me John. I'm not an officer or anything like that. If you ask me, I'm tired of the title. Mr. President this, Mr. President that. The title can be so…"
"Heavy?" Moore asked.
"Yes," John replied. "It's like a damn ball and chain connected to my ankle. I feel like sometimes I can't be myself and that I must put on some kind of face. It's very tiring. At least with you, I can feel like I can be myself, be the true person that I am."
"True, but you are my commander and chief." Admiral Moore paused. "But if you insist, John, I will call you by name." She looked at her staff officers and then the president. "If you want me to call you John, then call me Nancy, that's my first name." John nodded his head. "I know you describe this as a major victory but honestly if you ask me, I'm only doing my duty to my nation just like any officer and soldier has done. I'm no more important than the people who carried out my orders. I'm only Human." She shook her head. "I know that this may sound bad, but I take no joy in having to do what I do, that is, destroy Human Federation ships and kill their crews."
"How can you say that Nancy?" John leaned forward and clenched his fists as he slammed it down on the side of his chair. Nancy could see John's face flush. "The Human Federation has done us a great wrong! They took everything we had in the form of taxes. They left us with barely anything. They raped our economy leaving thousands out of work and sending them to soup lines, all because they wanted our resources and that we Colonials should give them it. They said, and I quote, 'It's not our problem.' Don't you remember that?
"I'm sorry," John stopped, putting his hand up and drew in a long breath. "I'm sorry for that outburst. It's just that when it comes to the grave injustices that those people did to us I can't help but to get angry. Because of what they did is the reason we broke away, or do you not agree?"
"Yes, the Human Federation has done us a great wrong. I can't agree with you more. But let's not forget that they are still our brothers and sisters. Most of them are only following orders from people further up the chain of command. We're all Humans," she paused. "We both call Earth our home. Those very officers and soldiers I fought against stood beside me not too long ago. I helped train a lot of them at the Naval Academy Etajima on Earth. Some of those killed might've been former students of mine. We're fighting our kin here. That bothers me sometimes."
"I see," John replied as he breathed out. "Perhaps you're right. Perhaps we, and I include myself, have been blinded by our hate and our anger. We wanted justice but the hate for them turned it into a lynch mob."
The admiral nodded her head. "For instance, the admiral I defeated at Mendus, Fleet Admiral Megan Kimery, was once one of my prized students at the academy. I taught her everything she knows today. And before you comment that the student hasn't learned from her teacher," she ignored the chuckles and quiet snorts from her flag officers, "She did face a set of unusual circumstances with our computer virus. She's a good officer and a good person. I'm sure that my leaving the Human Federation hurt her deeply, to know that someone she highly regarded is now an enemy of hers."
"I see," John looked up to Nancy. "You have great respect for her then. I could make it so that you never have to face her again in combat if you feel so strongly about this officer. I could always have the Admiralty issue orders that keep you far from–"
He got no further than that as Moore shook her head, "That won't be an issue, Mr. President. She's a former pupil of mine, yes, as are many other Human Federation Space Force officers." She noticed how the president winced at her using the full title of their enemy. "It's something we're all going to have to come to terms with. This war has split apart families, friends, and even spouses in some cases. But that won't distract me from doing my duty to the Fleet. If I can't be trusted to do my duty then I'll tender my resignation right now. Mine probably won't be the last."
The president waited ten seconds before he said, "No Admiral," he shook his head, "that won't be necessary. You have my full faith and the faith of our Congress."
"Thank you, sir. I sided with our people because I thought we know better on how to govern ourselves; that the individual states of Humanity know themselves better than those who live decadently on Earth. I was born and raised in the Colonies and they are my home. I will defend it until the day I die." She paused. "We also have another issue, a major issue in the ranks."
"Oh?" John asked. "What is it?"
"It's something that relates to what you said before, the part where you said that perhaps we are too blinded by our hate." John looked at her. "I found out through some people in my fleet that the XO on the ACS Thomas Jefferson, Lieutenant Commander Thomas Brady, looked away and even encouraged his crew to mistreat some of the POWs that we took after the battle. I investigated the situation during our voyage home in which ten POWs were beaten rather harshly. Some of them were beaten within an inch of their lives. He appeared before a formal captain's board and it's their recommendation that he be court-martialed."
"What?" the president asked. "Are you saying that our officers were responsible for this?"
"Yes John, they were responsible for those acts. And I put a stop to it." Admiral Moore paused. "They may be our enemy but they're still Human. Those that were responsible have been punished accordingly under the UCMJ and the Articles of War."
"What of those POWs that were hurt? Where are they now?"
"They were stabilized aboard my flagship as per my orders and have been transferred to military hospitals in orbit. After they've been attended to they will be transferred to the POW prison camp outside of Parma."
"Good," the president replied. "Thank you for bringing this to my attention; I will communicate this to the Admiralty."
"Thank you, John. The Human Federation may be our enemy but that doesn't mean that we should be butchers to them. I hold myself and the officers under me to a higher standard than that. We can't have shit like this happen, not now, not ever. If word of this were to get out, then I would anticipate that the Human Federation would do the same to our own. I publicly dealt with the situation and made sure all the POWs, especially the injured ones, saw me personally seeing justice done. I made sure they were tended to by our best physicians and surgeons. I wanted to make sure they knew we weren't just a bunch of jackbooted thugs."
Meanwhile, inside the halls of Congress, Fleet Admiral Kimery took her seat in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, or as she called it, the group of idiots that have been holding them back from winning the war in the first place. She swore that if it weren't for them they would have been done with the war by now but no, they had to nitpick everything which more often than not, sent many a good admiral packing. She was bound and determined not to let the idiots win against her.
Congressman James Scott spoke up. "Fleet Admiral Kimery, you have stated in your testimony that it was a computer virus that infected many of the systems belonging to the ships in your fleet. Is that an accurate description of the issue that eventually led to your fleet's defeat against the Rebels?"
The admiral sat in her seat and replied calmly. "Yes, that would be an accurate description of the issue."
"Fleet Admiral Kimery," Congressman Scott spoke up again. "Your testimony also states that you didn't know that anything was overtly wrong with your computer systems until shortly before the battle began. Is this correct?"
"Yes," the admiral nodded her head. "That statement is accurate."
"Why is that Admiral Kimery? How did you not know something was wrong before the battle took place? Don't you have your computer security personnel looking for these kinds of things?"
"I can assure you that we were monitoring all computer systems up to the beginning of the battle. Nothing out of the ordinary was detected in our systems leading up to the battle." The admiral replied.
"So why wasn't it found before you lost so many of your ships and so many of the people who served under your command?" Congressman Scott drilled. "Isn't it your job to make sure that things like this don't happen?"
"As I said before," the admiral replied with a sigh, "we were monitoring all computer systems up until the beginning of the battle and we detected no anomalous readings. We didn't detect any kind of viral package until it surfaced as the battle began. It caused many of the ship's computer systems to fail. As far as my cybersecurity people have been able to tell, we were the victim of a tailor-made delayed action virus."
"Admiral, would you furnish the committee with a list of names of those cybersecurity personnel so we may call them in for questioning as well?"
"No sir, I will not." The admiral replied with a stern voice.
A murmur ran through the assembled senators and representative assembled there. They weren't expecting her to reject their request so quickly.
The same senator spoke up again, "Are we to infer that you're protecting these people? That you want to cover up gross, dare I say, criminal negligence?"
"With all due respect sir," the admiral said in a tone which was as far away from respect as you could get, "I'm not covering anything up at all. I've seen the records myself and I've provided them for you."
"Records that could've been altered by your people," another senator said. "I find it rather convenient that all these records don't have the names of the personnel in question."
"There's a thing called operational security," the admiral said, all but rubbing the senator's nose in it, "I don't wish to have the names of my people aired for all to see, including any ACF spies or sympathizers who may be listening to this broadcast as we speak. I assume that you'd bring my officers before this committee and televise it. As I stated before I'm not covering anything up. I'm merely taking the responsibility as the commanding officer. If you want to blame or punish anyone then that's me."
The silence stretched for a long moment before the first senator cleared his throat and said, "You have also stated in your testimony that your weapons were firing on friendly ships. Is this correct?"
"Yes," the admiral replied with no hint of hesitation. "That statement would be correct."
"We will adjourn for a recess." The flood of people seconding the notion came swiftly.
Continue to Chapter 6…


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Q: What happens first, MovieClip.onLoad() or Event.ENTER_FRAME? I'm making a small game in Flash as a school project, and I was wondering what would trigger first when a movie clip is placed-- the onLoad function, or the ENTER_FRAME event.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I removed onLoad, because it isn't actually called when the object is put on the stage.
var loaded:Boolean = false;
var angle:Number = 0; //in radians
this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);
function init():void {
    //get projectile position based on relation to mouse and spawning point.
    trace("init");
    loaded = true;
    this.angle = Math.atan2(mouseY - this.y, mouseX - this.x);
}
function update(e:Event):void {
    /* TRIG TIME! Move the object a certain amount
     * of pixels-- based on the delta, in the specified angle.
     */
    if (!loaded) {
        init();
    }
    trace("update");
    var slope:Number = Math.tan(angle);
}

This method still probably doesn't work, though...

A: onLoad doesn't seem to work the way I expected it to in this case-- I solved this by changing the onLoad function to an ADDED_TO_STAGE event. I moved all of the actionscript code for the class out of the flash file, and into a separate actionscript file, and put the event listeners for event.ENTER_FRAME and event.ADDED_TO_STAGE events into the class' constructor, and the now entire class works like a charm.
public function Projectile() {
    this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
    this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);
    super();
}

The function init was called before the function update, and now I can continue with my work!
Special thanks to Don for helping me solve this dilemma

A: In actionscript 3 you must add a listener, and not use onLoad,
So instead of MovieClip.onLoad() do:
MovieClip.addEventListener(Event.ADDED,mcLoaded);

function mcLoaded(e:Event):void {

trace("MovieClip added.");

}

As for the question asked,
ADDED / ADDED_TO_STAGE run before ENTER_FRAME.
This solution is for timeline code (Not a separate .as file. OP has the solution for the other case.)


The Japanese Government is providing Ghana a grant of 300 million Japanese Yen ($2.7 million) to procure more vehicles and communication gadgets for the Ghana Police Service to boost its operations and ensure security for nationals and investors.
The grants would allow Ghana to purchase close to 100 vehicles and surveillance cars, radio systems and other communication equipment for the Police Service.
It was initiated in 1987 by Japan in response to Ghana's request to assist in efforts to enhance the economic and social development of the country.
Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and Mr Tsutomu Himeno, the Japanese Ambassador, signed for Ghana and Japan respectively, while Mr Ambrose Dery, the Minister of the Interior and Mr David Asante-Apeatu, the Inspector General of Police, witnessed the signing at a short ceremony in Accra on Wednesday.
Ms Botchwey commended Japan for demonstrating support for Ghana's socio-economic development in various sectors over the years.
The grant would undoubtedly help position the Police to discharge their duties effectively, the Foreign Minister said.
Mr Himeno expressed the hope that the equipment would be used to "maintain Ghanaian security" and contribute to strengthening the Police agenda of transformational programme designed to building a world-class Police Service.
He said aside the current grant, Japan had assisted Ghana in the field of security in diverse ways including the training of police officials in Japan at a cost of 629,000 dollars, and the granting of two security boats totalling $53, 450, through the UNODC in July 2018.
"Japan will continue to engage the relevant authorities to help solve security concerns in Ghana," the Ambassador said.
He said the communication equipment would also assist in the checking of crime, especially armed robbery, on all the highways and be able to communicate with the people at any location in the country.
He reiterated the Government's commitment to maintaining security and ensuring that the citizens felt safe, and said government had recently committed more funds to retool the Police Service.
The Interior Minister gave the assurance that the Government would ensure the country remained the oasis of peace in Africa, saying; "We will deal with security decisively".
He, however, urged the citizens to freely hint the police with any available security information so they could act promptly to safeguard the peace of the nation.


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Bertius is a monotypic genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae.  The single species Bertius margaritatus Piza, 1974 was recorded from Turrialba, Costa Rica.

See also
Petrus Bertius

References

Phaneropterinae
Tettigoniidae genera
Monotypic Orthoptera genera