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This $30 office chair with over 30,000 5-star reviews is a '5/5 in every category' — and it's on sale on Amazon
Moriba Cummings
With work-from-home practices at an all-time high, more folks invest in more suitable and comfortable home office furniture. Whether they're working from a kitchen table or a designated work desk, finding the right chair that's both comfortable and productivity-inducing can make all the difference.
While we've created a guide to the nine best office chairs for working from home, according to reviewers, one of the most popular on the list is also the most affordable and one of the most comfortable for all-day use. With over 30,000 five-star reviews on Amazon right now, the Furmax Ergonomic Mesh Chair with Lumbar Support is both sleek, easy to assemble, and based on shoppers' reviews, perfect for long-term use. Plus, it's on sale for just $32, right now!
Furmax Ergonomic Mesh Chair With Lumbar Support, $29.97 (Orig. $74.99)
$29.97 $74.99 at Amazon
This Furmax office chair offers many features and perks that some of today's higher-end options boast. From its subtle ergonomic design to a lumbar support mesh back for easy breathability, this chair is a quality bargain at just $30 — that's 60% off.
What features does the Furmax chair have?
While most under-$75 office chairs have very little cushioning, the Furmax features a recently updated thick padded seat with high-density sponges for extra comfort for daily use. Its three layers of support (top mesh layer, thick sponge middle and sturdy panel base) provide a soft-yet-sturdy seat with good resilience that's not easily deformed.
This chair also includes a five-star heavy-duty base with 360-degree swivel wheels that run smoothly and noiselessly on floors.
Also, its signature wing-type back support makes it easy to lean back comfortably with just the right amount of arch and support to alleviate any back pain. The genius backrest tilt mechanism makes it easy to lean back and forth without straining your back and shoulders. The tilt tension is adjustable using the knob under the chair and the handle, also located under the seat, can lock any angle in place.
Also, as with most office chairs, the seat height is fully adjustable with the handle located under the chair.
What do reviewers think of the Furmax office chair?
The Furmax Ergonomic Mesh Chair With Lumbar Support is available in nine colors and has over 30,000 five-star ratings on Amazon. One shopper even said they got "more than what I bargained for."
"I searched endlessly and tirelessly online for what I hoped to be a lasting chair that would provide ease, comfort, relaxation, durability and bolstering," the five-star reviewer wrote. "This chair by Furmax gets a 5/5 in every category."
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Report: Microsoft and Sony might have worked out a deal for Call of Duty
By Samuel Tolbert
last updated 1 December 2022
Meanwhile, an FTC decision can reportedly be expected by January.
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Microsoft is currently working to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $69 billion.
The deal is undergoing regulatory review, and has seen PlayStation parent company Sony push for the deal to be blocked.
Microsoft has reportedly offered Sony a 10-year deal for Call of Duty to remain on PlayStation consoles.
According to a new report, Microsoft and Sony recently held meetings to discuss exact terms for the deal.
As Microsoft continues to try and close its biggest deal ever, we're getting more and more reports of different potential actions and concessions Microsoft will consent to in order to get the deal finished.
The latest report comes from SeekingAlpha (opens in new tab), which reports that Microsoft and Sony recently held meetings to discuss terms and provide assurances that after the deal closes, Microsoft will "allow Activision's games to be played on the PlayStation console."
This deal, valued at almost $69 billion, is the largest acquisition in video game history, and would see Microsoft add Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, and King to the existing Xbox first-party publishers of Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
Sony has repeatedly pushed back against the deal, with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan stating that Microsoft's initial three-year offer for Call of Duty remaining on PlayStation was "inadequate," while Sony has argued Microsoft will be able to raise prices on Xbox games, Xbox consoles and Xbox Game Pass once the deal closes.
Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard is currently undergoing regulatory review in multiple countries, including the FTC in the U.S, the CMA in the U.K, and the European Commission in the EU. The deal has so far been approved without restrictions by Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Serbia.
Prior to this latest update, Microsoft reportedly offered Sony 10 years of Call of Duty as a concession to the European Commission in order to get approval for the deal. Another report recently indicated the FTC is "likely" to block the deal, though it's also possible the regulator is preparing a lawsuit as part of a move to seek concessions. The newest report indicates that an FTC decision can be expected by January 2023.
It's worth emphasizing this is just a report, and how much of a rollercoaster this story has been for the past several months, we'll have to wait and see just how everything pans out in the future.
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What? Beer is made by fermenting cereals, typically malted barley or wheat. Hops are a very common natural preservative and flavouring, but fruit, herbs and spices may also be considered traditional.
Where? Almost every corner of the globe has its own local beer. Only water and tea are consumed by humans more. And we're working on that.
When? As soon as humans began to write, the historical records mention beer. It is therefore possible beer drinking delayed the invention of writing.
How? The only thing to watch is temperature of serve. IPAs and Pilsners cool, most ales and porters a bit warmer. Most labels will guide you.
Tip For Beginners: Beer can be categorized into bottom, top and wild-fermented, referring to the type of yeast used and which drives elements of the flavour.


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Family History Never Tasted So Good!
by Lisa Cooke | Aug 14, 2011 | 01 What's New, Inspiration
We all have cookbooks in our kitchen, many of which were handed down to us by our mothers and grandmothers. In addition to be overflowing with delectable recipes, they are often brimming with family history. Today I'd like to share with you a recipe mystery that followed me for years, and the bit of genealogical serendipity that solved it.
I once gave a presentation called Inspiring Ways to Capture the Interest of the Non-Genealogists in Your Family at a local genealogical society. (Genealogy Gems Premium Members can log in and watch this vide class as part of their membership here.)
In it, I gave an example of some items I had found on Ebay from my husband's Larson family. If you listen to the Genealogy Gems Podcast then you have heard me mention the Larson family. They hailed from Winthrop Minnesota and owned a hardware store and lumber business there for many years.
LJ Larson Hardware store
While I was taking questions toward the end of the presentation a woman in the front raised her hand. Her name was Harriet, and she said she was sure that she had a cookbook from Winthrop, Minnesota in her collection of books at home. She offered to send it to me and I gladly gave her my email address so we could connect.
Considering that Winthrop is such a small town, it make her statement surprising indeed! To provide perspective: Winthrop is about 1 square mile and the population hovers somewhere around 1300. So, I was surprised indeed to have someone in Pleasanton, California telling me that she had a cookbook that dated back to the early 20th century from this little town.
As promised, Harriett followed up with me by email. She asked for my address and told me that the book "looks a little worn but all of the pages are there. I hope it can be of some use to you. My sister taught either first grade or kindergarten there during World War 2 and that's how it came in to her possession."
The Cookbook Filled with Family History
Harriett was a woman of her word because about a week later the 340 Home Tested Recipes cookbook compiled by members of The Ladies Aid of the First Lutheran Church of Winthrop, Minnesota was in my mailbox.
The Winthrop Cookbook
It continues to amaze and delight me how powerful just putting your family history "out there" is. By regularly mentioning real people and places in your own research, it so often leads to information and items that just seem to be waiting to be found. It's what we call "genealogical serendipity" in genealogy circles.
But the genealogical serendipity didn't end there. Not only did my husband's ancestors contribute recipes to this little community cookbook, which of course I was thrilled to find – but there was a recipe in there that I had been in search of for over 25 years.
The Great Cookie Mystery
You see, when Bill and I got married, he shared his fond memories of a sour cream cookie his grandmother used to make. I'm an avid baker, so I checked with his mom to see if she had the recipe. Sadly, she didn't.
Over the years I have tried to find a recipe for sour cream cookies in an attempt to recreate them. Every time I found one, I whipped up a batch. Bill would take a bite and shake his head saying they' were good, but they weren't like grandma's cookies.
Bill enjoying baked treats with his Grandma Helen (Larson) Mansfield.
So as you can imagine, the first thing I looked for when I received this cookbook from the town where Bill's grandma was born, was a recipe for sour cream cookies. There were many yummy-sounding treats to comb through like Pecan Sticks, Victoria Cookies, Father and Son Favorite Cookies, and Sorghum Cookies.
I got excited as I came across names I recognized from the family tree including Mrs. Sheldon S. Larson, the mother of a cousin we had the good fortune to finally meet two years ago when I presented a genealogy seminar in Minnesota at the Swedish Genealogical Society.
But the real thrill came when I made my way to page 42. There I found a recipe for Sour Cream Drop Cookies:
The infamous sour cream cookie recipe!
Surprisingly, the recipe wasn't contributed by Bill's grandma Helen (Larson) Mansfield or anyone named Larson. Instead it was submitted for inclusion in the cookbook by Mrs. Hulda Anderson. That fact didn't deter me from trying it out. In a small town like Winthrop, recipes likely were regularly swapped and handed down through various families.
I immediately baked a batch and served them up to Bill. I'll never forget his eyes as they lit up in excitement! He took a bite, and was ecstatic to once again be tasting Grandma's sour cream cookies!
It may sound like a small victory in the scheme of thing, but for me it was a thrilling one, none the less!
I emailed Harriet and told her the good news and thanked her profusely.
I got a reply from her husband George. He wrote:
"I thought I would add a little amusement to the coincidence of the Sour Cream cookies. My father, George Anderson, Sr., was a salesman for American Steel and Wire, subsidiary of U. S. Steel, from the 1920s to the 1960s, traveling to every hardware store and lumber yard in southern Minnesota to sell fence, posts, nails etc. I don't have any record of it, but I'm sure he would have called on your family's hardware store in Winthrop. He knew all of his customers by first name, no doubt your in-laws included."
Genealogy Serendipity never tasted so good!
A Genealogical Look at the Cookbook
I looked through the book carefully for a publishing date but none was to be found. However, there were several clues including the name of the church and the pastors name:
Lambert Engwall, Pastor
To put these clues to use, I headed to Google and searched the name of the church, the location and the name of the pastor:
first lutheran church winthrop minnesota lambert engwall, pastor
Googling the church, location and pastor
The first result was just what I needed. The link to me to a Wikipedia page about the church:
The church in Wikipedia
It was a fairly comprehensive page, and I was specifically looking for a list of pastors who had served at the church. To save time, I used Control + F (PC) to trigger a find on page search bar. I searched for "pastor" and was immediately take much further down the page to exactly what I wanted to know.
A helpful list of previous pastors
I quickly learned that Lambert Engwall served at this church in Winthrop, Minnesota from 1944 to 1972. Given that Harriett through it hailed from the World War II era when her sister lived there, and from the condition and style of the book, I feel confident it was published closer to 1944.
The next steps to learn more about the relationship between the Andersons and Larson include could include:
Reviewing the 1940 census for Winthrop, Sibley County, Minnesota, and mapping their homes in Google Earth.
conducting additional research into church and their available records include church meeting minutes.
A comprehensive search of the Winthrop News newspaper, with a particular eye on the social pages.
Share Your Genealogical Serendipity and Cookbook Stories
Have you experienced glorious instances of genealogical serendipity in your own family history quest? Do you have a cookbook that has been handed down to you that you treasure? Please leave a comment below and share your story!
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The Cameron/Glasser Quartet @Roast the Band
30jun2:30 pmFeaturedThe Cameron/Glasser Quartet @Roast the Band
Hilary Cameron- piano Adam Glasser- harmonica Nick Kaçal- bass Andrea Trillo- drums Hilary's roots are in classical music but early in her career she spent an influential two years in New York studying jazz
Hilary Cameron- piano
Adam Glasser- harmonica
Nick Kaçal- bass
Andrea Trillo- drums
Hilary's roots are in classical music but early in her career she spent an influential two years in New York studying jazz at Manhattan School of Music and playing in clubs and venues in New York City. In London she started out on keyboards/vocals touring with the Gail Ann Dorsey Band and Womack and Womack. She then formed her own jazz/latin trio and performed at venues such as the Vortex and the 606 club. Her influences include salsa and Eastern European music. She toured with Europe's only all-female salsa band Candela and recorded with an early incarnation of house band Just East of Jazz.
Adam Glasser's unique harmonica sound combines his South African roots with many years immersed in the UK jazz scene initially playing piano his own groups as well as for SA legends such Dudu Pukwana, and as musical director for 16 years of the veteran SA vocal group the Manhattan Brothers. His 16 years as musical director led to his producing their final album 'Inyembezi' for EMI in 2006. Adam has since released 2 critically acclaimed albums of his own – 'Free at First' (2010 SAMA Best Modern Jazz Album)and 'Mzansi' (nominated 2012 SAMA Best Jazz Album).
Nick Kaçal (pronounced Kasaal) is a double bassist and audio engineer. Originally from Trinidad, he is currently resident in London. He studied Electroacoustics at Salford University, where he became involved with the local jazz scene. Originally a guitarist and electric bassist, the involvement with the Manchester jazz scene led to him discovering the double bass as his instrument of choice. Since then he has played as a sideman on the London music scene playing predominantly jazz and acoustic folk. He formed his own group, Guerillasound, releasing a CD in 2008 and touring successfully in Japan. In the last few years, his science and engineering background has led to him returning to acoustics and audio, with a base in his own small mix and tracking studio – Guerilla Sound Recordings. He has recently produced, recorded and mixed full albums for One Little Indian act Songdog and Barcelona artist The Big Head Troubled Boy.
Andrea Trillo, is a very accomplished drummer , can play in all styles. Very dynamic can play very softly if nedeed , and yet grooving. Started playing in 1981 in Rome. Moved to England in 1990. Where soon become a in demand drummer, in the jazz scene. Played with all the great jazz musicians that London had to offer. Was in Jerry Dammers band from 1992 to 1994. Played with Herbie Hancok in 2000, and was part of Hazel O'Connor 's band in 2010. These days he is still freelancing , playing Ronnie Scott, pizza express, Royal Albert Hall , 606 jazz club. Co-running a band with the great jazz Brazilian singer Karen Lane.
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El crespinell groc o cresp (Sedum acre) és una planta perenne de la família de les crassulàcies originària d'Europa, però naturalitzada a l'Amèrica del Nord.

Fa de 5 a 15 cm d'alçada. És una herba cespitosa que creix en sòls pedregosos o poc profunds. Les fulles són suculentes, ovoides, de 3 a 6 mm, amb l'amplada màxima a la meitat inferior. Les flors són d'un groc viu. Floreix de juny a juliol.

En sòls calcaris i a vegades silicis de l'estatge subalpí, a la regió mediterrània, del nivell del mar als 2.000 m d'altitud. No es troba a les Balears.

És una planta tòxica que provoca vòmits. Com indica el nom científic, té un sabor picant. En medicina popular s'havia utilitzat contra les malalties de la pell.

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Polymath (titre original : Polymath) est un roman de John Brunner, paru en 1974.

Le roman tire son titre de la notion de « polymathie », qui est l'état d'une personne ayant des connaissances encyclopédiques sur de nombreux sujets.

Parutions
Le roman a été publié aux Presses de la Cité, dans la collection Futurama,  ,  1977, avec une traduction d'Odile Sabathé-Ricklin et une illustration de couverture de Serge Clerc .

Résumé
Deux vaisseaux spatiaux emplis de réfugiés d'une planète mourante atterrissent sur une planète non répertoriée sur les cartes galactiques.

L'un des vaisseaux s'est posé à proximité d'une jungle, dans une zone montagneuse. L'autre, sur lequel était le polymathe, amerrit : les survivants ont juste le temps de quitter l'astronef avant qu'il ne coule.

Les survivants doivent survivre en dépit d'une situation très précaire. Leur survie dépend en partie d'un jeune homme qui figure parmi les rescapés et qui est polymathe...

Distinction
Ce roman figure dans la liste des 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction d'Annick Béguin (1981).

Annexes

Sources

 Avis détaillé sur Culture S-F
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A new ginger species found in Yunnan
Zingiber, commonly known as ginger, is a perennial plant. It is one of the largest genera in Zingiberaceae with about 150 species distributed in tropical to warm-temperate Asia.
During a floristic survey of Yubaiding Forest Farm (Yunnan, China) in 2018, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected some peculiar specimens of Zingiber belonging to sect. Cryptanthium.
After studying the fresh flowers, reviewing the protologues, types and having comparative studies, the researchers confirmed that the taxon does not match any other species in sect. Cryptanthium and is therefore a new species.
They named the new species as Zingiber porphyrochilum for its labellum color and got it published in Annales Botanici Fennici.
Zingiber porphyrochilum is a perennial rhizomatous herb. It can reach 1.5–2.0 m tall, forming clumps, with up to 10 leafy shoots per clump. Its rhizomes are tough, elongate and creeping, externally brownish yellow (fresh rhizomes) to fuscous (dry rhizomes), internally pale yellow (fresh rhizomes) to pale brown (dry rhizomes).
It is similar to Z. densissimum in its bilobed ligule and flower shape but differs from it by having a longer clumped pseudostem , longer ligules, brownish yellow corolla lobes, labellum and lateral staminodes brownish yellow at the base, and bright clear red to dark purplish towards the apex and margins.
Zingiber porphyrochilum is currently known only from the type locality at Yubaiding Forest Farm in Xinping, Yunnan, and adjacent areas, where it grows on sandstone soil, in moist, half-shaded areas under semi-evergreen broad-leaved forest.
TAN Yunhong Principal Investigator
Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
E-mail: tyh@xtbg.org.cn
Flowers of Zingiber porphyrochilum. (Image by TAN Yunhong)
Zingiber porphyrochilum (type material) (Image by DING Hongbo)


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package com.bt.pi.app.networkmanager;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

import com.bt.pi.core.application.watcher.task.TaskProcessingQueueContinuation;
import com.bt.pi.core.application.watcher.task.TaskProcessingQueueWatcherProperties;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class SecurityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiatorTest {

    private SecurityGroupDeleteTaskProcessingQueueContinuation securityGroupDeleteTaskProcessingQueueContinuation;
    private SecurityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiator securityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiator;

    @Test
    public void shouldCallSuperClassToSetWatcherInitiator() {
        // setup
        final AtomicBoolean isInvoked = new AtomicBoolean(false);
        securityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiator = new SecurityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiator() {
            @Override
            protected void setTaskProcessingQueueContinuation(TaskProcessingQueueContinuation aTaskProcessingQueueContinuation) {
                isInvoked.set(aTaskProcessingQueueContinuation == securityGroupDeleteTaskProcessingQueueContinuation);
            }
        };

        // act
        securityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiator.setSecurityGroupDeleteTaskProcessingQueueContinuation(securityGroupDeleteTaskProcessingQueueContinuation);

        // assert
        assertThat(isInvoked.get(), is(true));
    }

    @Test
    public void testTaskProcessingQueueWatcherProperties() {
        // setup
        securityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiator = new SecurityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiator();

        // act
        TaskProcessingQueueWatcherProperties annotation = securityGroupDeleteTaskQueueWatcherInitiator.getClass().getAnnotation(TaskProcessingQueueWatcherProperties.class);

        // assert
        assertEquals(60 * 1000, annotation.staleQueueItemMillis());
        assertEquals(60 * 1000, annotation.initialQueueWatcherIntervalMillis());
        assertEquals(60 * 1000, annotation.repeatingQueueWatcherIntervalMillis());
    }
}

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Anti-Trump Attorney Sentenced to Prison Time for Financial Crime
Top Anti-Trump Attorney Sentenced To Jail Time
(ReliableNews.org) – Once a rising star on the Liberal media scene, Attorney Michael Avenatti's fall from grace was quite spectacular. He has been charged with multiple crimes over the last couple of years. Now, he's been sentenced to prison — again.
On Thursday, June 2, US District Judge Jesse M. Furman sent Avenatti to prison for four years. The sentencing comes months after a New York jury found the disgraced attorney guilty of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing from his ex-client Stephanie "Stormy Daniels" Clifford. Avenatti used a fake letter to trick Clifford's literary agent into sending him nearly $300,000 in payments meant for her after she got a book deal to write about her alleged affair with former President Donald Trump.
Michael Avenatti… who Brian Stelter said would make a great Presidential candidate… was sentenced to 4 years in jail today.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) June 2, 2022
Avenatti spoke at the sentencing, saying his "healthy ambition" turned into "blind ambition" at some point. He said he destroyed his reputation, career, and relationships while hurting his family by making a "series of mistakes." He tried to apologize to Clifford but the judge told him it was "too little, too late," saying Avenatti's crimes were "brazen and egregious." The judge also ordered Avenatti to pay $297,900 to the US and $148,750 to Clifford.
The former attorney was previously convicted of trying to extort Nike. He has also been accused of stealing settlement money from other clients.


Sorry I have not been on today. I had school and now I'm working on the chat, but it is proving to be difficult…But I think I have it figured out!!!This is how it all starts then I pray ask the lord for his help and the mind starts to click! I can say he is blessing me all the way and I look forward to the new page!!
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Urban Geographies
Author: Anthony Monta
Europe's cities are changing fast.
The arrival of millions of migrants from Africa and the Middle East has begun to destabilize and transform urban and other built environments from Kos to Calais and Lampedusa to Malmö.
In the past, migrants lived outside city limits or in their peripheries. With time, these older peripheries have become new centers, giving rise to what some observers have called "polynucleated" cities.
Where once these towns and cities grew slowly and organically, they are now subject to tremendous external pressures to change rapidly.
What does this process look like as it happens? How can an American student go about studying something so dynamic and complex?
Lucien Steil, Associate Professor of Architecture at Notre Dame, has been co-teaching a course during fall semester 2015 entitled "Of Cities and People." Students have flocked to the course from multiple disciplines across the university. Enrollment had to be capped at twenty. To increase the interdisciplinary range of the course, Steil brought in Anré Venter from the Department of Psychology to teach alongside him. Together, they have developed a new kind of course with a required class trip to parts of Paris, France, that would never appear on a tourist's itinerary.
"This pedagogy is a little like chaos, you know," says Lucien Steil, "but like some forms of chaos, if you handle it right, it can be enormously productive." After reading and discussing writings from authors as diverse as Léon Krier, Martin Heidegger, Didier Fassin, Mario Luis Small, Michel De Certeau, and Charles Taylor, students in "Of Cities and People" are required to document, discuss, and reflect on living cultures and how their inhabitants are both shaped by, and creatively shape, the built environments around them.
The assumptions of the course challenge the typical ways students tend to view cities. Instead of using conventional concepts like "center" and "periphery," students are asked instead to perceive and think about more dynamic processes such as identification, orientation, adaptation, exclusion, and participation. Inhabiting a city and making it one's own is not just a consumerist or passive process, but a creative one.
None of this is esoteric, says Steil: "We have all seen urban spaces that are designed beautifully but don't 'work.' They are empty. But our students also see how even ugly or empty spaces can be seen as frames. They can be taken up and filled in beautiful ways you cannot predict."
How do Steil and Venter lead students to see cities more holistically? "I think it has to do with trust," says Steil. "And to build trust, I think it helps for students to travel together, to be dislocated, to experience this dislocation and yet to be cheerful." Students in the course have visited social housing projects, juvenile detention centers, the 'banlieue' neighborhoods of Paris such as St. Denis, and even parts of Detroit. They come to see peripheries as centers that are not their own, and to live with that de-centered sense of identity.
It is a very far cry from tourism. "We want students to develop what we call 'design thinking,'" says Steil, "which is really an approach to citizenship, you know. It's thinking about what we do where we are, whether individuals or together, and how we interact, whether it's small things or big things."
The connection to questions of citizenship and integration fills Steil and Venter with enthusiasm. "If you give the people who live in certain environments the opportunity to help design them, then we think architecture can even begin to heal."
Example? The Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in South Bend, Indiana. This facility has given its inmates the opportunity to re-purpose a particular wing of the center that has fallen into disuse. Steil and Venter's class will meet with inmates, show them what they have discovered in urban environments they have studied, and then follow up with the JDC after the wing has been re-purposed by the inmates themselves.
Trying to grasp the living reality of Europe's and America's changing urban environments is a monumental task. The students have many questions.
But the most urgent question they ask Steil and Venter is: "when are you going to teach this course again?"
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She is dressed mostly for armor. They are rarely seen in normal clothing or even a dress.
In addition, she wearing a heavy woolen cloak , showing a deep blue, the lower right quarter is scarlet. Center back emblazoned the fine embroidery of a circled, rearing black snake on a white background.
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In the year 52 she became engaged with Attos a Knight from Cadomyr.
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Pinga: Reassured by the presence of peacekeepers and the army, families have returned home
Pinga: Reassured by the presence of peacekeepers and the army, families have returned home. Photo MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani
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After fleeing recurrent attacks by armed groups into the bush, more than sixty people returned home in Pinga, Walikale territory, in North Kivu late October 2020 following the reinforcement of the Congolese armed Forces (FARDC) and National Police (PNC) units deployed in this area, as well as the presence of MONUSCO peacekeepers' temporary base.
The population's return was noted at the end of an integrated response's visit to Pinga by all the substantive sections of MONUSCO office in Goma. For two days, MONUSCO carried out activities aimed at enhancing the capacity of local authorities and community actors to address the factors contributing to persistent insecurity, violence and human rights violations, as well as community tensions.
The Mission also organized a series of consultations with community leaders on the challenges of peaceful coexistence, also with the aim of updating the mapping of the presence of local authorities and their needs.
For Kise Wango Urumbo Siméon, the governor's delegate official, Pinga has become a hotbed of insecurity because it is surrounded on all sides by armed groups.
"The government has a lot to do in Pinga for lasting peace to be restored there, as usual, with its partner MONUSCO. First, FARDC must be present everywhere. The population no longer needs to live with armed groups. This is why we are asking the government to deploy the FARDC ", he said.
With the truce observed for several weeks in Pinga, the returnees are timidly trying to resume their activities. However, some continue to fear that the situation, still volatile, may deteriorate due to persistence of militias all around the city.
During the consultations organized by MONUSCO, participants, including members of civil society organisations and women's representatives, argued that the presence of the FARDC must be reinforced before starting to rehabilitate the infrastructure, and it is also necessary to contribute to reducing youth unemployment.
While welcoming the actions by blue helmets in support of the FARDC, these local actors have strongly urged the establishment of a permanent MONUSCO base as well as support for development projects in this area which has long remained unstable due to armed groups' activism.
 North Kivu: MONUSCO mission raises awareness among civilians and assesses the security situation in Pinga
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NORD-KIVU: the population are called upon to support the army and MONUSCO in the fight against the common enemy
The acting mayor of the city of Beni in the province of North-Kivu called on the population to trust the National Army and MONUSCO Forces in their fight against the armed group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the common enemy.
ITURI: Congolese Journalists Trained by UN on how to Fight Hate-speech and Promote Peace Rhetoric
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A: You cannot use JDK 7 with Android SDK! Please use JDK 5 or JDK 6 (I recommend to use JDK 6).

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Listening to the first 10 seconds, you don't really know what type of track this is going to be. But then the music and Omega's vocals kick in and it's a nice surprise. The musical composition works well, and nothing feels out of place. Stay Connected is uncomplicated and has a smooth bass flow throughout the track. Zonny doesn't seem to falter and his words flow effortlessly to accompany the track. With the simple and few repetitive chorus lines, this is a track people can sing-a-long to as well.
This is the type of track that would probably be played on a nice summers day, relaxing in a bar or on a road trip. There's definitely something about Stay Connected that also makes this really feel like it has come from New Zealand. The combination of Omega's singing and Zonny's raps allow you to relax and also vibe out at the same time. With Omega's recent performance at Rhythm & Vines, as well as the release and success of his recent single Clouds, he is definitely an artist to keep an eye on.
Omega Levine has started releasing solo material, after taking some time away from the spotlight.
After singing vocals with Parachute Band, Levine has slowly been crafting new music with a range of local producers.
He's released a couple of new jams on his Soundcloud page; a short interlude called Tragedy which was produced by Pete Wood, and a song called Chasing which was produced by Havvks.
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How HuffPo Makes Their Social Content Pop
While headline optimization is all the rage on the page, it's easy to forget that the copy of your social media updates is actually what many readers see before they decide to click on your content.
This inspired The Huffington Post's editorial team to craft a vision for how the two can work together—headline and social copy—in a way that gets the most visitors to the page and makes their content uber-sharable.
"It's all about framing the story while still compelling people to click the link," says Jessica Leader, a content strategist at The Huffington Post. "If it's a list with facts, I'll use some of the facts—or I'll tweet a teaser. A lot of times we'll ask questions."
Leader often works with other editors, managing editors, and reporters to workshop an article's headline. From there, it's time to optimize that piece of content for maximum engagement on different social networks.
Twitter, she says, "takes the most social strategy." With the limited character count and no embedded article preview, you have to do a lot in 140 characters to get readers to click without feeling like they just got manipulated by clickbait. Leader advises social strategists to "give people enough information that they don't feel tricked and understand what the content is, but without giving them the whole story, so they feel compelled to click through."
Content on Twitter also needs to play into people's real-time feeds, whereas articles on Facebook can come and go for days. Additionally, Facebook displays article previews and allows you to customize the headline. Leader often adjusts the accompanying copy accordingly.
"Because you already see the headline and the picture, a lot of times our [Facebook] content is a lot more pithy," she explains. "I want people to get more of our voice so they trust the voice and they align with what we align with."
She has specific strategies for different article types. "Sometimes it will be something as easy as 'being a lady is awesome' for an article about ways women are crushing it right now," says Leader. "Other times, when you have list of things, we'll frame them in a way that will interest people. We know people are already seeing the headline on Facebook, so we'll highlight one fact, like '#3 is such and such.'"
First impressions are crucial. It all comes back to communicating the narrative for the piece in that initial interaction. "The main strategy is to try and consider the platform and how people ingest information, which changes how much to give versus how much to hold back. Readers like to know there's a person behind the content—not just a robot."
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How do you condense 100 years of Disney into a two-hour live performance? There are so many favourite films and musical numbers that you could make the show last a week and still not even come close to covering it all.
But Disney On Ice Celebrates 100 Years of Magic does a great job of combining old classics alongside newer films for a show full of breath-taking ice choreography set to a soundtrack of Disney musical numbers you can't help but sing along to, all enhanced by impressive special effects and spectacular costumes.
Currently at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena until Sunday as part of its UK tour, it's a truly magical experience.
All five of us absolutely loved it.
This was the third Disney On Ice for me, Little Miss E, my seven-year-old daughter, and Little Man O, my five-and-a-half-year-old middle child.
Cardiff Daddy and Toddler Boy I, who has just turned three, came along for the first time. At the end of the performance, there was only one word on Toddler's lips: "more". And I think we were all in agreement. To see all the Disney magic you know and love unfold before your eyes is an incredible experience, and to see your child witnessing it for the first time is even more special.
You can watch our video featuring some of the highlights of the night here.
Visually, the show is delightful, with action taking place all over the rink, and the turns, lifts and spins from the team of 50+ dancers provided so many "wow" moments.
The outfits worn by the skaters look as if they have stepped right out of the films and onto the ice in all their full Technicolor glory. Some of the cast wear full-on plush animal outfits – and it's pretty impressive they can still skate to such high standards while wearing a huge furry animal head.
The show opens with warm-up dancers getting us up and dancing with a routine for The Mouse Bounce. This is part of Disney's new Fit To Dance initiative, inspiring children to create their own story and an accompanying dance.
From there, classic favourites Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy whizz on to the rink. As with previous Disney On Ice shows, the four provide a narrative that links the various performances together, with Goofy telling us he wants to make his own movie, featuring a story to be inspired by.
The first act begins with a whistle-stop store of Disney favourites. Two numbers from Pinocchio – When You Wish Upon A Star, featuring some incredible spins and turns from the Blue Fairy, and by Pinocchio's Got No Strings – are quickly followed by scenes from Finding Nemo, with some fantastic costumes and a huge and impressive Crush, the sea turtle, moving around the huge ice arena.
Beauty and the Beast is a very timely and well-received inclusion, given the success of the recent live action film. When Lumiere and Cogsworth entered, you could hear the collective wow from the audience. I love both versions of the film, so would have loved to have seen more. Instead, we had a montage of dances from various Disney princesses and princes, including Ariel, Rapunzel and Snow White.
Frozen ended the first act and was by far the longest section. Too long in my opinion, especially compared to the fast-paced nature of the rest of the show and also given it featured heavily last year. Still, the performances were faultless and some of the turns and spins breath-taking. The audience were singing along word perfectly to musical numbers including Love Is An Open Door, Let it Go and In Summer, from everyone's favourite snowman Olaf, who got one of the biggest cheers of the night.
The second act opens with Aladdin and included a well-choreographed You Ain't Never Had A Friend Like Me from Aladdin and Genie, not to mention a stage full of blue genies. We then move on to Toy Story and a cast of marching green soldiers plus Woody, Buzz and Jessie; followed by fearless warrior Mulan with some very impressive skating moves.
The Lion King is clearly a favourite in Cardiff tonight with the rousing Hakuna Matata and the serene Can You Feel The Love Tonight? providing a great contrast. I would have loved to have seen more, but before we knew it, the whole company were back on stage and waving goodbye.
As I said, all three of my children absolutely loved the show.
It was Toddler's first Disney on Ice and he did amazingly to sit through it all and stay up way past his usual bed time.
Little Man loves Aladdin and Toy Story was so pleased to see those, while Miss E was most excited by Beauty and the Beast.
I, however, couldn't help but sing along to every word… and I noticed Cardiff Daddy was too. Frozen might be one of Disney's newest films but for me it is already overflowing with beautiful nostalgia and conjures up many happy memories and I'm sure one day my daughter will rediscover her love for all things Anna and Elsa.
Because that's the thing about Disney. You are never too old for the magical feelings it creates and there's enough of it to last a life time.
Disney on Ice Celebrates 100 Years of Magic is at Motorpoint Arena Cardiff until Sunday 9th April with tickets still available for most performances.
Thursday, 6.30pm; Friday 2.30pm and 6.30pm; Saturday and Sunday 10.30am, 2.30pm, 6.30pm.
For more ideas of family-friendly events in South Wales, see the Cardiff section of Cardiff Mummy Says, follow @cardiffmummy on Twitter or the Cardiff Mummy Says Instagram feed.
*Thanks to Disney On Ice for providing us with review tickets for the show.
We are off to see this on Sunday morning – glad your little one enjoyed as not sure how my three and a half year old will be but me and Daddy can't wait to go!
Am so jealous we've been wanting to go for the last couple of years but there's not been any decent seats left at the O2. Looks like you had a brilliant view!
I'm not a huge disney fan but shows like this always look so magical! I've never been to anything on ice so i'd love to at some point and I know the kids would love it too!
How amazing! I have never seen one live but it looks like it would be so much fun – I'm Disney mad!
I used to love Disney as a child and I hope this show comes to Ireland one day. We do have Disney on ice every year.
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The EBRD's Early Transition Countries (ETCs) Initiative aims to stimulate economic activity in those of the Bank's countries, which still face the most significant transition challenges: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
FINTECC is working in ETCs, to support the implementation of climate technologies.
Early Transition Countries face significant challenges in terms of energy efficiency, including wasted energy, high energy dependency and inadequate energy infrastructures. Overall, the ETCs' average energy intensity is over three times higher than that of the European Union.
Central Asian ETCs are particularly vulnerable to any future disruption of hydrological systems. There is a real need for water efficient technologies, as well as improved irrigation systems and water infrastructures.
FINTECC has identified several barriers to successful technology transfer in the ETCs region. These include the high cost associated with implementing climate technologies, coupled with a lack of understanding around profitability vs. risk.
Information is not communicated effectively, meaning projects are often viewed as having even higher inherent technical and financial risks than is necessarily the case. There is therefore the clear need for technology deployments that can act as demonstration projects to the relevant sectors.
We offer incentive grants to help companies prioritise climate technologies within their investment programmes. These include technologies that achieve energy, water or materials efficiency. They also include those that increase business resilience to the effects of climate change. Our grants are primarily for climate technologies with low market penetration and good replicability potential, within their participating country.
Incentive grants are available as a complement to EBRD financing and can sponsor up to 25 per cent of the cost of the specific technology. The grants are capped at US$ 500,000 for any one company and are payable after the installation and commissioning of the eligible climate technologies.
The EBRD's in-house energy and water efficiency specialists review energy, water and material efficiency potential in client operations and assist in identifying the best way to support them in implementing investment opportunities.
International specialists are available where necessary to conduct resource efficiency audits, helping companies to prioritise sustainable resource efficiency investments and understand the technical and financial feasibility of climate technologies in their context.
Learn more about resource efficiency audits here.
Training programmes are helping local consultants learn more about climate technologies, particularly in relation to the industrial and buildings sectors. The local consultants can then provide more effective support for local clients. Training programmes are currently being delivered in Moldova and Armenia.
The International Energy Agency has produced a Policy Insights paper, with support from the EBRD and with inputs from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The paper will help policy-makers in ETCs and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean understand the options for enabling climate technology implementation.
View the Policy Insights paper here.


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Global Indigenous Media
Cultures, Poetics, and Politics
Book Pages: 376 Illustrations: 30 illustrations, 1 table Published: August 2008
Editor(s): Pamela Wilson, Michelle Stewart
Contributor(s): Pamela Wilson, Jennifer Gauthier, Joanna Hearne, Lisa Brooten, Kathleen Buddle, Mario Murillo, Alex Halkin, Juan Francisco Salazar, Sari Pietikäinen, Galina Diatchkova, Ruth McElroy, Priscila Faulhaber, Michael Christie, Faye Ginsburg, Laurel C. Smith, Louis Forline, Michelle Stewart
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In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention.
Global Indigenous Media addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio, the Internet, digital archiving, and journalism. The volume's sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media-making around the world. One contributor examines animated films for children produced by Indigenous-owned companies in the United States and Canada. Another explains how Indigenous media producers in Burma (Myanmar) work with NGOs and outsiders against the country's brutal regime. Still another considers how the Ticuna Indians of Brazil are positioning themselves in relation to the international community as they collaborate in creating a CD-ROM about Ticuna knowledge and rituals. In the volume's closing essay, Faye Ginsburg points out some of the problematic assumptions about globalization, media, and culture underlying the term "digital age" and claims that the age has arrived. Together the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international.
Contributors: Lisa Brooten, Kathleen Buddle, Cache Collective, Michael Christie, Amalia Córdova,
Galina Diatchkova, Priscila Faulhaber, Louis Forline, Jennifer Gauthier, Faye Ginsburg, Alexandra Halkin, Joanna Hearne, Ruth McElroy, Mario A. Murillo, Sari Pietikäinen, Juan Francisco Salazar,
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"Global indigenous Media is a remarkably eclectic and timely group of essays that are presented and arranged into a fascinating collection with a thorough and insightful introduction by the editors Wilson and Stewart. This book will be of significance to ethnographers and anthropologists with interests in the scholarship and practice of indigenous media, visual anthropology, communications and media studies, as well as indigenous artistic practice and production, to name only some of the fields on which this collection touches. — Paul Wolfram, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
"Global Indigenous Media is certainly an important contribution to knowledge regarding Indigenous media, and I do not hesitate to recommend it strongly to scholars in relevant areas of study." — Ross Watson, M/C Reviews
"[Global Indigenous Media] offers well-researched case studies and is thus of great value for all interested in media studies, the study of political movements as well as development studies." — Tilo Gratz, Social Anthropology
"[T]he collection successfully contributes to our understandings of Indigenous mass mediations, both as a diverse range of products and processes. . . . [T]he strongest essays in Global Indigenous Media should remind all communication and media scholars that they should be reading about Indigenous media experiences." — Vicki Mayer, Global Media and Communication
"[T]his volume is a brilliant exploration of the complexities of indigenous media around the world that will undoubtedly become a seminal work in visual anthropology. I highly recommend it for anthropologists interested in questions of the politics and poetics of indigeneity, indigenous engagements with the national and global politics of settler states, questions of indigenous citizenship and sovereignty, as well as indigenous aesthetics and cultural traditions taking shape in new digital technologies." — Kristin Dowell, American Ethnologist
"The editors have done a marvelous job. . . . For this reason, scholars of Aboriginal/Indigenous/Native American studies, communication and media studies, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, political science, journalism, and sociology to name just a few, will find this book deepens their knowledge of Indigenous media and their role in supporting, expressing and even remaking Indigenous culture, identity and life today." — Jean-Paul Restoule, Canadian Journal of Native Studies
"Global Indigenous Media is a necessary, urgent, and conceptually brilliant volume. Each essay is a gem. Taken together, they change how one thinks about Indigenous media and they reveal its importance in the transnational media landscapes of the twenty-first century." — Patricia R. Zimmermann, author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies
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Pamela Wilson is Associate Professor of Communication at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia.
Michelle Stewart is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York.
Introduction: Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage / Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart 1
Part I: From Poetics and Politics: Indigenous Media Aesthetics and Style
1. Imperfect Media and the Politics of Indulgence Video in Latin America / Juan Francisco Salazar and Amalia Cordova 39
2. "Lest Others Speak for Us": The Neglected Roots and Uncertain Future of Maori Cinema in New Zealand / Jennifer Gautheir 58
3. Cache: Provisions and Productions in Contemporary Igloolik Video / Cache Collective 74
4. Indigenous Animation: Educational Programming, Narrative Interventions, and Children's Cultures / Joanne Hearne 89
Part II: Indigenous Activism, Advocacy, and Empowerment Through Media
5. Media as our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma (Myanmar) / Lisa Brooten 111
6. Transistor Resistors: Native Women's Radio in Canada and the Social Organization of Political Space from Below / Kathleen Buddle 128
7. Weaving a Communication Quilt in Colombia: Civil Conflict, Indigenous Resistance, and Community Radio in Northern Cauca / Mario A. Murillo 145
8. Outside the Indigenous Lens: Zapatistas and Autonomous Videomaking / Alexander Halkin 160
Part III: Cultural Identity, Preservation, and Community-Building Through Media
9. The Search for Well-Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity / Laurel Smith 183
10. "To Breathe Two Airs": Empowering Indigenous Sami Media / Sari Pietikainen 197
11. Indigenous Media as an Important Resource for Russia's Indigenous Peoples / Galina Diatchkova 214
12. Indigenous Minority-Language Media: S4C, Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community / Ruth McElroy 232
Part IV: New Technologies, Timeless Knowledges: Digital and Interactive Media
13. Recollecting Indigenous Thinking in a CD-ROM / Priscila Faulhaber and Louis Forline 253
14. Digital Tools and the Management of Australian Aboriginal Desert Knowledge / Michael Christie 270
15. Rethinking the Digital Age / Faye Ginsburg 287
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Az Abrosaurus (nevének jelentése: "törékeny gyík" a görög  szóból, amely "törékeny"-t vagy "kecses"-t, a   pedig "gyík"-ot jelent) a macronaria sauropoda dinoszauruszok egyik neme a középső jura időszakból a mai Ázsia területéről, s egyike azoknak a  dinoszauruszoknak, amit a Dashanpu formációban találtak Kína Szecsuán tartományában. A legtöbb sauropodához hasonlóan az Abrosaurus is négylábú növényevő volt, de a többi sauropodához képest meglehetősen kicsi volt, nem sokkal több, mint  hosszú. A feje kockaszerű volt, ahol az orrlyukak egy magas, csontos íven helyezkedtek el.

A neve (jelentése: "törékeny gyík") a koponya természetére utal, nagy nyílásokkal, amelyeket vékony csontok választanak el egymástól. Az egyetlen elnevezett faj az A. dongpoi, a 11. századi kínai költő, Su Shi nevéhez fűződik, más néven Su Dongpo, aki Szecsuánban született.

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Az Abrosaurust eredetileg camarasaurus sauropodaként írták le, és bár nem biztos, hogy az adott család tagja, a további kutatások kimutatták, hogy a Macronaria alaptagja (bazális vagy alapi helyzetű), akárcsak maga a Camarasaurus. Az Abrosaurus maradványait azonban nem írták le teljesen, így nehéz meghatározni pontos helyét a sauropoda családfájában.

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import unittest, sys, time
sys.path.extend(['.','..','../..','py'])
import h2o, h2o_cmd, h2o_import as h2i, h2o_glm, h2o_common, h2o_exec as h2e
import h2o_print

DO_GLM = True
LOG_MACHINE_STATS = False

# fails during exec env push ..second import has to do a key delete (the first)
DO_DOUBLE_IMPORT = False

print "Assumes you ran ../build_for_clone.py in this directory"
print "Using h2o-nodes.json. Also the sandbox dir"
class releaseTest(h2o_common.ReleaseCommon, unittest.TestCase):

    def sub_c3_nongz_fvec_long(self, csvFilenameList):
        # a kludge
        h2o.setup_benchmark_log()

        bucket = 'home-0xdiag-datasets'
        importFolderPath = 'manyfiles-nflx'
        print "Using nongz'ed files in", importFolderPath

        if LOG_MACHINE_STATS:
            benchmarkLogging = ['cpu', 'disk', 'network']
        else:
            benchmarkLogging = []

        pollTimeoutSecs = 120
        retryDelaySecs = 10

        for trial, (csvFilepattern, csvFilename, totalBytes, timeoutSecs) in enumerate(csvFilenameList):
                csvPathname = importFolderPath + "/" + csvFilepattern

                if DO_DOUBLE_IMPORT:
                    (importResult, importPattern) = h2i.import_only(bucket=bucket, path=csvPathname, schema='local')
                    importFullList = importResult['files']
                    importFailList = importResult['fails']
                    print "\n Problem if this is not empty: importFailList:", h2o.dump_json(importFailList)

                # this accumulates performance stats into a benchmark log over multiple runs
                # good for tracking whether we're getting slower or faster
                h2o.cloudPerfH2O.change_logfile(csvFilename)
                h2o.cloudPerfH2O.message("")
                h2o.cloudPerfH2O.message("Parse " + csvFilename + " Start--------------------------------")

                start = time.time()
                parseResult = h2i.import_parse(bucket=bucket, path=csvPathname, schema='local',
                    hex_key="A.hex", timeoutSecs=timeoutSecs,
                    retryDelaySecs=retryDelaySecs,
                    pollTimeoutSecs=pollTimeoutSecs,
                    benchmarkLogging=benchmarkLogging)
                elapsed = time.time() - start
                print "Parse #", trial, "completed in", "%6.2f" % elapsed, "seconds.", \
                    "%d pct. of timeout" % ((elapsed*100)/timeoutSecs)

                print "Parse result['destination_key']:", parseResult['destination_key']
                h2o_cmd.columnInfoFromInspect(parseResult['destination_key'], exceptionOnMissingValues=False)

                fileMBS = (totalBytes/1e6)/elapsed
                msg = '{!s} jvms, {!s}GB heap, {:s} {:s} {:6.2f} MB/sec for {:.2f} secs'.format(
                    len(h2o.nodes), h2o.nodes[0].java_heap_GB, csvFilepattern, csvFilename, fileMBS, elapsed)
                print msg
                h2o.cloudPerfH2O.message(msg)
                h2o_cmd.checkKeyDistribution()

                # are the unparsed keys slowing down exec?
                h2i.delete_keys_at_all_nodes(pattern="manyfile")

                execExpr = 'B.hex=A.hex'
                h2e.exec_expr(execExpr=execExpr, timeoutSecs=180)
                h2o_cmd.checkKeyDistribution()

                execExpr = 'C.hex=B.hex'
                h2e.exec_expr(execExpr=execExpr, timeoutSecs=180)
                h2o_cmd.checkKeyDistribution()

                execExpr = 'D.hex=C.hex'
                h2e.exec_expr(execExpr=execExpr, timeoutSecs=180)
                h2o_cmd.checkKeyDistribution()

    #***********************************************************************
    # these will be tracked individual by jenkins, which is nice
    #***********************************************************************
    def test_c3_exec_copy(self):
        avgMichalSize = 237270000
        csvFilenameList= [
            ("*[1][0-4][0-9].dat", "file_50_A.dat", 50 * avgMichalSize, 1800),
        ]
        self.sub_c3_nongz_fvec_long(csvFilenameList)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    h2o.unit_main()


21 October 2002, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
9 Országház utca, Budapest I.
The renowned artist, curator and art and media theoretician standing at the fore of the ZKM (Karlsruhe, D) since 1999 expounds his thoughts – in connection with the large-scale interdisciplinary exhibition at the ZKM – as to the role played in the modern world in the course of scientific, artistic and religious representation of the image. Is this type of employment even legitimate? What is the essence of the destruction and the adoration of the image? The lecture engages with the research programme begun last year by C3, entitled Image and Perception.
Peter Weibel will also introduce the institution under his direction and speak about its upcoming programmes and projects.
Gábor Bódy, investigating filmic language and the experimental paths of film production, achieved his first international success in Baden-Württemberg: in 1976, his diploma film, entitled American Torso, won the first prize of the Mannheim Film Festival. When the director was given the chance in 1980 at the Hungarian Film Factory (MAFILM) to establish an experimental section, another cinematographic periodical publication was born: the idea for Infermental. The international periodical, gathering earlier experimental work and providing a forum for newer works, focused on research of media and articulation, as well as the new functions of filmic language. Its lexicon section stimulated the dispatch of previously unknown filmic compositions. The first edition of Infermental was realised twenty years ago, in 1982; following the death of Bódy, the complete material of the video-periodical was placed in the collection of the ZKM. Until now, the entire edition has not yet been accessible in Hungary; from this occasion on, however, the complete archive will be researchable at C3.
We have invited Infermental's onetime international coordinator, historian Dr. Vera Baksa-Soós, to introduce the series.
Between 1994 and 1999, the ZKM compiled the prominent interactive, media art compositions of the era, in a unique form. Artintact, as a book and CD- ROM combination, primarily concentrated on those works that were realised within the framework of the ZKM residency programme, during the second half of the 90's. The German media institute has this year published the bilingual complete edition of the "virtual museum" of artintact in the form of a DVD-ROM.
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22 October 2002, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
31 October 2002, 6.00 p.m.
5 November 2002, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
69-71 Andrássy út, Budapest VI.
Lectures and discussions on the connections between vision research and the contemporary visual arts, organised on the occasion of the Day of Hungarian Science by the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and the Center for Cognitive Sciences, BME: Budapest Technical University.


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TESTIMONY My 53-year-old daughter has still not left the family home
When a child leaves the nest, the whole daily life, existence, is upset overnight. Parents may expect it, sometimes hope it, this emptiness caused by the departure of a child is a very strange feeling.
TESTIMONY I have a phobic fear of wrists and can't even look at them
Couples: this sleeping position that shows you lack independence
If some parents hope that this moment will come as late as possible, a woman would like her 53-year-old daughter to finally free herself from the parental home!
The comfort of the parental home
It is in the columns of the New York Post, that the distraught mother has poured out. Opening her heart anonymously to Abby, the publication's official adviser, she asked Abby for advice on how to invite her daughter to leave. "My husband died two years ago," she noted in the preamble. "I hope you can give me advice on how to manage my 53-year-old daughter who has never left home," she continued, desperate.
An independence that is slow to come
Stressing that mother and daughter generally got along well, she lamented, however, that she did not take her independence. "She does freelance art but doesn't earn a lot of money," she said, adding that she only contributed 30 euros monthly. "Plus, she has a driving phobia, so she doesn't drive. She expecting me to drive her to various places," she added. A situation that has become untenable for the mother.
Keep the peace at all costs
"She only has virtual friends. She wants to travel, but doesn't want to go alone and pushes me to accompany her even if I don't really want to," she continued. "I have offered group visits but she is reluctant to go alone," she lamented. To keep the peace under her roof, the mother concluded that she therefore forced herself to do these things to satisfy her daughter. In her response, Abby was not overreacting, pointing out that this mom had protected her daughter for far too long.
Too much dependence
"Tell her that she has become too dependent on you," she advised him. "She must overcome her phobia of driving (or at least take advantage of public transport) and her fear of traveling without you," she then noted. Wondering how her daughter would be able to survive and support herself when her mother disappeared, she asked, "How do you think she will survive living virtually without a job or life skills?" ". Inviting her to make an appointment for her daughter with a psychotherapist specializing in the elimination of phobias, she concluded "Your daughter should also get help to acquire a certain independence even if she is about thirty years behind ".
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