01 : Laurent Wolf vs Lucas & Steve - Calinda 2k15 [Spinnin Deep].
02 : Paul Oakenfold - Otherside (Future House Remix) [Perfecto Records].
03 : Milow - Mistaken (Sam Feldt Remix) [Free Download].
04 : Thomas Newson & Marco V feat. Rumors - Together (Original Mix) [Armada Music].
05 : Odesza vs. Cedric Gervais feat. Zyra - Say My Name (Remix) [Spinnin Remixes].
06 : Amersy - Paradox (Original Mix) [Armada Trice].
07 : Futuristic Polar Bears - Night Vision (Original Mix) [Armada Trice].
08 : James Egbert & Taylr Renee - Can't Stay Here (Original Mix) [Armada Music].
09 : Yves V - Octagon (Orginal Mix) [Smash The House].
10 : Disfunktion, Kyle Richardson - Break Free (Original Mix) [Armada Trice].
11 : Vinai & Scndl - Frontier (Original Mix) [Spinnin Records].
12 : The Chainsmokers & Tritonal feat. Emily Warren - Until You Were Gone (Original Mix) [Disruptor Records].
13 : Kenneth G & Reez - Pop (Original Mix) [Wall Recordings].
14 : Firebeatz - Go (Extended Mix) [Spinnin Records].
15 : Sultan + Shepard feat. Kreesha Turner - Bring Me Back (Original Mix) [Armada Music].
16 : Dzeko & Torres feat. Delaney Jane - L'Amour Toujours (Tiesto Edit) [Musical Freedom].
17 : Sandro Silva & Thomas Newson - Vandals (Original Mix) [Smash The House].
18 : Ralvero & Kill The Buzz - Dreamin (Original Mix) [Revealed Recordings].
19 : Swanky Tunes feat. Christian Burns - Skin & Bones (Original Mix) [Showland Records].
20 : Thomas Gold & Uberdrop - Souq (Original Mix) [Armada Music].
21 : Pelari - Voices (Original Mix) [Armada Trice].
22 : Disco Fries feat. Fatman Scoop - Volume (Original Mix) [Protocol Recordings].
23 : Kryder & Dave Winnel - Apache (Original Mix) [Size Records].
24 : Sander Van Doorn vs Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano - ABC (Extended Mix) [DOORN (Spinnin)].
25 : Steve Forte Rio - Slumber (Riggi & Piros Remix) [Free Download].
26 : Shelco Garcia & TEENWOLF, Killa Karma, Nuthin' Under A Million - Children Of The Son (Shelco Garcia & TEENWOLF Remix) [Vicious].
27 : Tujamo & Danny Avila - Cream (Original Mix) [Spinnin Records].
28 : Joel Fletcher & J-Trick feat. Fatman Scoop - Here We Go (Original Mix) [Dim Mak Records].
29 : Jebu - Consequences (Original Mix) [Refune Music].
30 : Husman - Hammer Of God (Original Mix) [Armada Captivating].
31 : Hardwell & Armin van Buuren - Off The Hook (Original Mix) [Revealed Recordings].
32 : Sebastien feat. Satellite Empire - Escape (Heatbeat Remix) [Armada Captivating].
33 : Tom Fall & JES - Come Back (Original Mix) [Armada Trice].
34 : Orjan Nilsen - Don (Original Mix) [Armind (Armada)].
35 : MaRLo feat. Christina Novelli - Hold It Together (Jochen Miller Remix) [Armind (Armada)].
36 : MaRLo feat. Christina Novelli - Hold It Together (Chris Schweizer Remix) [Armind (Armada)].


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## Getting Started
Download the [production version][min] or the [development version][max].

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```html
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
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      });
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Output
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{
    "total": 237,
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        "id": "714976247",
        "title": "Iron Man",
        "year": 2008,
        "mpaa_rating": "PG-13",
        "runtime": 126,
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        "release_dates": {
            "theater": "2008-04-14",
            "dvd": "2008-09-30"
        },
        "ratings": {
            "critics_rating": "Certified Fresh",
            "critics_score": 93,
            "audience_rating": "Upright",
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            "detailed": "http://content7.flixster.com/movie/10/93/35/10933541_det.jpg",
            "original": "http://content7.flixster.com/movie/10/93/35/10933541_ori.jpg"
        },
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            "name": "Robert Downey Jr.",
            "id": "162654529",
            "characters": ["Tony Stark"]
        }, {
            "name": "Terrence Howard",
            "id": "162652991",
            "characters": ["Lt. Colonel James Rhodes"]
        }, {
            "name": "Jeff Bridges",
            "id": "162655890",
            "characters": ["Obadiah Stane"]
        }, {
            "name": "Gwyneth Paltrow",
            "id": "162653966",
            "characters": ["Virginia \"Pepper\" Potts"]
        }, {
            "name": "Leslie Bibb",
            "id": "563122407",
            "characters": ["Christine Everhart"]
        }],
        "alternate_ids": {
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            "alternate": "http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/iron_man/",
            "cast": "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies/714976247/cast.json",
            "clips": "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies/714976247/clips.json",
            "reviews": "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies/714976247/reviews.json",
            "similar": "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies/714976247/similar.json"
        }
    },
    ........... 9 more results
}
````

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The protracted sale of The Weinstein Company has entered a new phase.
An investment group led by Maria Contreras-Sweet, former head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, has moved into exclusive negotiations about a bid for the company's assets, according to a person with knowledge of the talks.
A deal could now be days away, the person said.
The Weinstein Co. has been seeking a buyer for several months. The movie and TV studio was severely hurt by the sexual harassment and assault scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein.
In fact, the stain was so damaging that the company likely won't carry the name Weinstein at all in the future.
Representatives for Contreras-Sweet and The Weinstein Co. declined to comment on Tuesday.
Deadline, The Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported that exclusive negotiations are underway.
The person with knowledge of the talks said the plan calls for Contreras-Sweet's group to acquire the studio's employees, projects and assets. The plan will avert a bankruptcy auction, which was thought to be a likely outcome.
But the investor group will not be buying The Weinstein Co. per se -- because they'll be forming a new company with a new name. Erasing the stain, so to speak.
Last fall Contreras-Sweet was reportedly interested in having a "women-led board" take control of The Weinstein Co. Her proposal letter to the company sparked both internal and external interest.
Before running the SBA during the Obama administration, Contreras-Sweet was the founder of ProAmerica Bank.
The Weinstein Co. has operated in a state of limbo ever since the scandal involving Harvey Weinstein erupted last October. Projects have been frozen and partners have backed away from the studio. So a sale would provide some much-appreciated guidance to staffers about the future of the company.


In speaking with Brooke Hutchinson, director of Camfed USA, I learned that the organization's exponential expansion can be credited to close cooperation with a host of different partners—public and private international organizations, state ministries of education, school and district-level committees, community activists, teachers, volunteers, and alumni. Rather than seeking to disrupt existing institutions, Camfed invests in and works through government schools to expand educational access.
Technology plays an important role in that endeavor, though perhaps not in the way you might expect. While Camfed has distributed thousands of smartphones and e-readers (thanks to a partnership with Worldreader ), its most meaningful innovations happen out of sight. By collecting data about students, mentors, and alumni, Camfed isn't just improving its own accountability; it's collecting data that helps teachers track student progress, partners deploy resources, and governments devise better educational policy.
Hutchinson stressed that the organization is heavily focused on secondary education, where it receives its largest return on investment. Secondary education can be expensive in sub-Saharan Africa, whereas primary school is typically free, though Camfed can offset the cost of incidentals. When local schools aren't available, girls often attend boarding schools, which entail school and exam fees. Here Camfed can intervene, and at a modest expense.
However, money is only part of the challenge. Some girls are the heads of their households, in which case free schooling or supplies won't help them care for a child or parent. Camfed has developed an extensive alumnae network and mentorship program through which girls connect with allies and leaders inside their communities.
Those communities shape the organization's philanthropy. School-based committees of teachers and parents identify girls based upon need, assess their risk of dropping out of school without support, and evaluate their living situation. Camfed oversees the process via volunteers and alumnae, as well as administrative offices in the countries where it operates.
Once Camfed sponsors a student, it begins collecting data on her progress. However, logistical impediments abound. Because Camfed concentrates on rural areas, participants often lack access to computers or the Internet. According to Hutchinson, many schools aren't even on the electrical grid.
Smartphones are indispensable to data collection. Through Camfed-provided phones teachers and mentors conduct mobile banking (which helps them avoid long trips to local banks), access the organization's mobile technology platform (what it calls the Social Education Network), and track student progress using an ODK, an open-source mobile monitoring application.
While it sounds technical, that ODK is central to the organization's philanthropy. Camfed has developed monitoring forms through which teachers and mentors can track and upload specific data points, such as a student's family and living situation, school performance, and bursary status to the organization's Salesforce database. Camfed uses an integration tool called Jitterbit to sync the forms with that database. In combination with FinancialForce , Camfed's database serves as the backbone for all of its programs as well as its financial, fundraising, communications, and HR information.
Practically speaking, that database enables Camfed to collect information that serves teachers, community members, and partners. A teacher can track a student's attendance and grades. A community member can use information about her living status to ensure she has the supplies and support she needs to stay in school. And a partner can use disaggregated data to answer questions that inform policy. Are more girls dropping out of school because of pregnancy? When do they get married and have children? How many graduates start their own businesses?
Camfed has no shortage of partners. At last count , the organization was working with more 5,306 schools across 129 rural districts. Camfed has forged numerous partnerships with ministries of education, international organizations like the European Commission and Human Dignity Foundation, and private companies such as Google and British Airways. The ability to access disaggregate data (while protecting student security) is integral to shaping public policy.


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The Yoga Pant Problem
The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton.
Episode 228 | February 12, 2018
Distillations Podcast | Episode 228 | February 12, 2018
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Yoga pants are having a moment. And while they're not new, they've moved beyond the gym and yoga studio into nearly every corner of our lives.
This so-called athleisure wear trend has made a lot of people happy. "Once I wore [yoga pants], I never wore jeans again if I could help it," says Sage Roundtree, a yoga instructor from North Carolina. But as comfy as the trend is, it has made a lot of people very unhappy—including the entire cotton industry. That's because performance athletic wear isn't made out of cotton. It's made of synthetic fibers such as Lycra, polyester, and spandex. As demand for athleisure wear grows, demand for cotton shrinks.
Luckily, cotton has a few tricks up its sleeve to keep consumers interested—because this is only the latest episode in a decades-long rivalry between cotton and synthetic fibers.
Credits | Transcript
Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elizabeth Berry Drago
Reporter and producer: James Morrison
Senior Producer: Mariel Carr
Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez
Our theme music was composed by Zach Young
Additional music courtesy of the Audio Network
Alexis: Hi, I'm Alexis Pedrick.
Lisa: And I'm Lisa Berry Drago.
Alexis: You're listening to Distillations, and we're your new hosts! And that's not all that's new around here. We're now officially coming to you from the Science History Institute.
Lisa: That's right, the non-profit organization formerly known as the Chemical Heritage Foundation is now the Science History Institute. You can read all about the change at science history-dot-org. and don't worry, you can still find Distillations wherever you find podcasts.
Alexis: If you've been outside lately you've probably noticed that yoga pants and leggings are no longer just for exercising. Or practicing yoga.
Sage Rountree >> It's all about getting the cute yoga butt out walking around. Once I wore them I never wore jeans again if I could help it. I'm disappointed if I have to wear pants that button because yoga pants are so cozy.
Lisa: That's Sage Rountree, a yoga instructor in Carrboro, North Carolina. Sage isn't alone. Yoga pants are so popular so schools, and even airlines are struggling a little with how to react.
News clips >> Schools in Massachusetts, North Dakota, and Illinois are some of the states where in some schools where wearing tight pants is considered against school policy.
>>Girls have been pulled out of class for wearing leggings.
>>What do you think? Are her pants too tight? Her parents say no way, the school say yes.
>>I think girls should not be allowed to wear leggings as pants.
>>You should only wear leggings at home.
>>They should not be labeled as a distraction to boys.
>>They're leggings, that's what everyone wears nowadays. It is really not a big deal. To me it's not.
>>They made it through security only to be stopped by the so-called fashion police. Two girls were kicked off a United Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis because they were wearing leggings.
>>One Montana lawmaker went as far as calling yoga pants provocative, and wanted to make wearing them illegal in his state.
Alexis: This is reporter James Morrison.
James: This trend has spawned a whole new hybrid clothing style called the athleisure wear. It's exactly what it sounds like. Companies like Lululemon and Athleta, are now designing athletic apparel for people who have no intention of ever working out. There's a funny video on YouTube by the Van Vuuren brothers with nearly six million views
that's making fun of this phenomenon.
YouTube video >> Active wear, active wear. Never exercising in my active wear. Active wear, active wear. Doing literally nothing in my active wear.
Alexis: Apparently this is not a passing trend. According to University of Nevada fashion historian, Deirdre Clemente, this is just the beginning.
Deirdre Clemente >> We are seeing athleisure infiltrate the American wardrobe and I think that infiltration has only just begun.
Lisa: Now before we go any further, let's address the leggings elephant in the room. I'm wearing stretchy business casual clothes, which you might mistake for yoga pants. And the world hasn't ended.
Alexis: No, that's true. I'm really comfortable in business casual stretchy clothes. I think it's all right, we are all okay. Work is all still getting done. No crises have happened, and, you know I'm a lot more comfortable for it, and I don't have to iron, which makes me super happy.
Lisa: Super happy. Not everyone is as happy as we are about the comfort athleisure wear trend. In fact the entire cotton industry is extremely upset about it.
James: That's because performance athletic wear isn't made out of cotton. It's made of synthetic fibers like polyester, nylon, and spandex that can stretch and wick away moisture. John Robinson is an agricultural economist at the University of Texas. He says the rise and popularity of yoga pants and leggings has coincided with a decline of the demand of cotton over the past five years.
John Robinson >> When these fashion things happen, then all of the sudden there will be a big shift—in this case inwards—in the demand for cotton because it seems like everyone is wearing those tight clingy yoga pants, whether they should be or not they are. They're very popular. And those kinds of fashion trends can influence, obviously they influence, ultimately the demand for cotton fabric.
Lisa: While synthetic yoga pants may be the latest economic threat to the cotton industry, this battle between manmade and natural fibers has been raging for decades. Cotton might be the current victim of this war, but silk was its first casualty.
Chapter 2: The Rise of Rayon & Nylon
Lisa: Before the 1800s there were no manmade fibers. There was cotton, wool, linen, and silk: all natural. Cotton accounted for 85 percent of the world's fibers consumption at this point. Silk on the other hand was a coveted niche fiber because it was the softest, most luxurious, and expensive of them all.
James: Silk is so soft because it's a delicate thread created by silk worms when they're spinning a cocoon. It's durable because the individual threads are very fine and strong, like a spider's web. When you weave silks threads together you get clothing that is both extremely soft and strong. These qualities made it popular among the wealthy and it became the basis for much of their attire in the forms of satin and velvet. It was also expensive because almost all silk production was happening in Asia, which means it had to travel great distances.
Lisa: But in 1884 the French engineer Count Hilaire de Chardonnet discovered how to make artificial silk in a lab by mimicking the silkworm process with chemicals. This process still used natural materials, but it was the first manmade fiber. It later become known as rayon.
DuPont educational video >> When we make this rayon fiber we are imitating a spider spinning a web. When it spins the thread from its web, it forces this liquid up through tiny holes called spinnerets. We use this tube as a spinneret. We draw and sell the liquid forces it up through the tiny hole to the end of the tube. And here is our rayon fiber.
James: Clothing companies were ecstatic about this new fiber. They rushed it to market as artificial silk stockings, but early rayon was riffed with problems. It couldn't handle heat or water. But consumers didn't know that, so they were surprised when they fried it with their irons or watch it fall apart in the wash.
Clemente >> So it annoyed women. They started to think, we don't want to buy this stuff. So you sort of see the rayon market struggle in through the 20s.
Lisa: But in 1925 something happened that would forever alter the course of synthetic fibers.
James: The American chemical company DuPont was flush with cash from selling smokeless gunpowder to the American and allied forces during WWI. And it was looking to diversify its business by acquiring new chemical technology companies. Among its early purchases were cellophane and rayon. And a company with deep pockets like DuPont was able to take rayon and make it more durable and less susceptible to heat.
Lisa: And this happened at a pivotal moment in America. The country was in the middle of the roaring 20s and women's fashion was changing. Ankles, calves, and even knees were finally seeing the light of day. Women had just gotten right to vote. They were going to college in record numbers. They were moving into new spaces and their clothes had to move with them. Dresses were getting shorter, but modesty still required their legs to be covered with something.
James: Demand for rayon stockings skyrocketed. DuPont's success with rayon set it on course to experiment more with manmade fibers. It wasn't sure exactly what it was looking for, but it knew there was potential for an even stronger, more durable fiber than rayon. So it spent the next decade developing a thread that would be as strong as a spider's silk.
Lisa: Bob Kenworthy is our in-house chemist. He tells us that chemists knew about the chemical reaction that creates Nylon, but it wasn't put into practice until 1938. It involved 11 years of research and more than 230 DuPont scientists and technicians, lead by Wallace Carothers.
Bob Kenworthy: Polymerization: difunctional acids, difunctional amines that produce long-chain molecules hadn't really been reduced to practice in an engineering sense so that it was a useful material that came out of it, okay? I mean you can run that reaction and get a piece of glassware full of black goop, okay? It doesn't exactly do anything but what Wallace Carothers and his group did—he found a way to run that reaction that could then be reduced to useful practice. And
therefore we now have nylon. First as silk substitute but now much more broadly used in a lot of different applications.
Lisa: On October 27th, 1938 the company announced the world's first fully synthetic fiber, which required no natural ingredients. And it was called Nylon 66. The company previewed the new fiber at the 1939 World's Fair that spring, which had the fitting theme of "The World of Tomorrow." Later that fall, nylon stockings hit the consumer market for the first time. Debra Hughes is the curator of collections at the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, which preserves DuPont's archives.
Debra Hughes >> They were first put on sale in Wilmington in six local department stores and within the first few hours they were sold out. Later, they were offered across the country and four to five million pair were sold out in a few hours.
James: Within two years, nylon stockings captured 30 percent of the hosiery market. But their run was short lived. In 1942, America entered WWII and all consumer nylon production stopped.
Chapter 3: WWII and the Post War Era
Alexis: At this point nylon mostly just threatened the silk market. Cotton still made up about
three quarters of the world's consumption. The cotton industry just couldn't fathom how these synthetic fibers would ever compete with their product.
James: The war completely disrupted everything. Much of cotton cropland was converted to grow food for the war effort, but it was still used as the source of all soldiers clothing. Meanwhile nearly all nylon went into making things like parachutes, ropes, blood plasma filters, and tents. At the same time, America was also at war with its main silk supplier: Japan. So women were left without silk, rayon, or nylon stockings.
Alexis: But it was still improper to go without them, so some women drew lines up the backs of their legs with chalk, to mimic the seam from stockings. There was also a significant black market.
James: All of this signaled to DuPont that the demand for nylon stockings never ceased during the war. And when the company was released from its war duty in 1945, it immediately returned to producing nylon stockings. But they didn't anticipate how much demand had built up during the war. When the first pairs of nylon stockings hit stores in September 1945, so-called "nylon riots" broke out. And things got nasty.
Hughes >> There were so many people that people would be pushing and shoving and pushing people down to grab a pair of nylons. It was like this major sale with not that many nylons and too many people who really wanted it. So everybody wanted it.
Alexis: The biggest of these nylon riots was in Pittsburgh in June of 1946. 40,000 people lined up for over a mile to compete for just 13,000 pairs of nylon stockings. After years of rationing and sacrifice women were starving for a return to normalcy, and they wanted to re-embrace fashion.
James: DuPont eventually opened another nylon production plant and the riots subsided. Over the next decade they released a family of synthetic fibers to compete with natural fibers like wool and cotton. Polyester, acrylic, and spandex all debuted under the brand names like Dacron, Orlon, and Lycra. They even had their own catchy ad jingles.
Archival advertisement >> To look neat in the fall look for Dacron on the label. Because Dacron is a man's best friend.
Alexis: Postwar America embraced synthetic clothing as the next evolution beyond natural fibers. They wrinkled less and could be worn without ironing. Manmade fibers were the clothing of the future.
Hughes >> Everything was looking ahead. In our terminology it'd be the new
iPhone or it'd be this and then everybody had to have the new. I think that was the type of atmosphere for some of these new fibers when they came out.
James: By the 1950s manmade fibers could be found in underwear, socks, and even men's suits. But early synthetics were scratchy and uncomfortable. Many people still preferred the feel of cotton on their skin. And for all its success, DuPont still hadn't convinced fashion designers that synthetic fibers could be stylish. Here's Deirdre Clemente again.
Clemente >> They had a difficult time being able to convince fashion designers to use, you know, dacron instead of silk. Because snobby designers would say "Oh, we're not using that stuff."
Alexis: So DuPont came up with an ingenious solution. It shoveled piles of cash at fashion designers and it plied them with thousands of free samples.
Clemente >> Designers such as Hubert Givenchy openly embraced this. They took the check and made some dresses out of synthetic fibers. And that's really when the natural fibers industry said "We've got a problem"
James: Because designers dictate fashion trends, once Givenchy made a line of polyester dresses, Sears wasn't far behind. But this expansion would not go unchecked.
Chapter 4: Cotton Strikes Back
Lisa: In 1966, panicked U.S. cotton farmers successfully lobbied Congress to pass the Cotton Research and Promotion Act. It allowed cotton growers to unite and formed the company, Cotton Incorporated, which is still to this day focused on promoting and researching new technologies to make cotton more competitive. Mary Ankeny is the group's vice president of product development and innovation.
Ankeny: The first effort of this program was to advertise cotton directly to the consumers. So we weren't trying to sell cotton to the mills. But we were trying to make the consumer aware of the great fiber that's out there that we call cotton.
And we did through the development of the seal of cotton.
James: This was an actual seal. You've probably seen the logo of a fluffy cotton ball growing out of the word cotton a thousand times on packages of undershirts or socks.
Archival advertisement: So when you're looking for comfort, look for the sign of cotton. The more cotton, the better you feel.
James: Cotton had never been advertised before this time. It was seen as a commodity like milk, eggs, or bread. But it was quickly losing market share. In the 1960s cotton share of the retail and home furnishing industry was 66%. By 1975 that share was wiped in half to just 34%. That's because the synthetic industry had finally perfected ways to make fabrics like polyester more durable and comfortable and DuPont had released millions of pamphlets educating consumers about how to wash and iron synthetic without ruining them.
Clemente: And that's really where all of the decades of working out the kinks and all of the decades of 'oh, these aren't as nice as natural fibers.' All of that fades in the 1970s. The American consumer comes to not only accept synthetic fibers, but celebrate them.
Alexis: By the 1970s, manmade fibers reigned supreme.
James: This celebration took place mostly in the discos. The glam crowd wanted to distance themselves from the free-loving, anti-war hippies who wore lose and colorful clothing. So the disco crowd opted for skin-tight tight, shiny and sparkly clothes which were mainly polyester. And then in 1974, the 100% polyester leisure suit had arrived. The idea was that this was this was a casual suit that could we worn a aboard a yacht, or out in the country. Its popularity spiked in 1977 when a young John Travolta donned a white leisure suit in the film, "Saturday Night Fever."
Clip from 1979 Saturday Night Fever: Can you guys do layaway? As long as it doesn't turn into a 20-year mortgage.
All right, look, put me down for five dollars for that blue shirt by the window. Hold it for me.
Hey wait for your receipt. Please, please don't trust me.
Lisa: The cotton industry knew it couldn't beat synthetic fibers in a head-on competition.
Natural fibers couldn't stretch like spandex, or take fancy dye patterns like polyester. But cotton was comfortable and it lasted. So the industry focused on drumming up demand in its core market of work clothes, and blue jeans, which were highly popular in the 70s.
James: Cotton grew bold in its offensive. It was the only natural fiber with the market share and the deep pockets to push back on manmade fibers. And then in the late 1970s it moved into synthetic territory. It coated cotton yarn with synthetic acrylic to make cotton clothes wrinkle free just like polyester.
James: In this 1979 commercial a young Bryan Cranston promotes the no-iron "Cotton Ease" shirt.
Archival Advertisement: This new 100% cotton shirt is fantastic. 100% cotton, but with a special process so I can just wash and wear. It's new. The Cotton Ease Shirt by Arrow. All the comfort of 100% cotton and easy care. Because she promised to honor. But not to iron.
Lisa: Cotton Inc.'s investment in advertisement started to pay off in the 80s, and it played out in a few ways. One was that people started mixing natural and synthetic fabrics in their outfits.
Clemente: In your mind picture one of these 1980's aerobicized backup dancers for James Fonda, the legendary Jane Fonda workout aerobics video. What do they have on? They have on nylon tights, some sort of a spandex or lycra jumpsuit - leotard- and a cotton sweatshirt.
James: This is also the decade where you see cotton elbow its way into the corporate world. Wool and synthetic suits had reigned supreme in the office place in the 70s, but in the 80s this new thing called casual Friday started to catch on. Here's Cotton Inc.'s Mary Ankeny again.
Ankeny: People started wearing Dockers and more cotton pants. Cotton polo shirts and cotton dress shirts paired up with khaki pants and leaving the three- piece suit at home.
Lisa: The 80s offered a comeback for cotton. By the end of the decade it was nearly back up at nearly 50% of the fibers market. By comparison, polyester and nylon together were at about 30%.
Lisa: Then it capped off the decade with a drop-the-mic moment during the TV broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1989.
Ankeny: That's where we had the jingle: the look, the feel, the fabric of our lives.
Cotton Ad Jingle: "The Touch, the Feel, the Fabric of our Lives."
Ankeny: That commercial, series of commercials, really struck the hearts of Americans. Even to this day, years and years later, when I tell people I work for Cotton Inc. I say the fabric of our lives and immediately the light goes off. And they are like 'Oh, yeah.'
Chapter 5: Synthetics Rise Again
James: But cotton's comeback was about to come to an end. The synthetic industry had set its eyes on cotton's most valued market: blue jeans.
Alexis: That was a tough pill to swallow for the cotton industry since blue jeans have long been their bread and butter. Traditionally denim is 100% cotton, but by the mid 1990s clothing manufacturers began making women's jeans with as much as 35% spandex in them --to provide a stretch quality. This lead into the skinny jean era of the late 90s, early 2000.
James: In 2002, demand for polyester surpassed cotton for the first time ever. By 2005, the cotton industry became fully aware that consumers wanted more stretch from their everyday attire. Skinny jeans gave away to jeggings, leggings and yoga pants, which were made almost entirely of manmade fibers. Cotton has never really been able to break into this market because it doesn't stretch.
Alexis: Can I just stop us here for a moment to say that stretchy jeans are the absolute best. And I think they are a necessity. I need stretch in my jeans or otherwise I won't be able to wear them.
Lisa: Yeah absolutely. But for the right fit, the right range of motion, I think stretchy jeans are a godsend.
Alexis: And you wash them and they don't shrink right away. 100% cotton, that's always a problem.
Lisa: Keep their shape.
Alexis: Exactly. Alright back to business.
Alexis: In 2011 the cotton industry hit another setback that was years in the making. The ethanol boom of 2006 cause the price of grade and oil seed to skyrocket. So a lot of the cotton growers switched to these crops instead. A steady decline in cotton ultimately came to a head in 2010 when two of the worlds largest cotton producing countries -China and Pakistan- saw their crops ruined by bad weather. The resulting shortage lead to the price of cotton nearly tripling from 70 cents a pound to more than $2 a pound.
James: To save money, clothing manufacturers started blending more synthetic materials into traditionally cotton garments, like basic white t-shirt. Check the label on your undershirt the next time you get a chance and see how much polyester is in there, you might be surprised.
James: This shift made clothing manufacturers realize that Americans weren't as adverse to synthetic blends as they once thought. So when cotton prices finally dropped back down, these manufacturers continued blending synthetics to cut cost and the demand for cotton has pretty much being stagnant since then.
Lisa: Right now, cotton accounts for 27% of the textile market. That's right, 27%. It was at 85% 100 years ago. Meanwhile, Nylon and polyester combined make up 60% of the market. Analysts expect this share will only grow larger as the textile market grows by billions of pounds annually and athleisure wear becomes even more prevalent. But that's not to say cotton and other natural
fibers will fade away. In fact, all fibers are expected to benefit from the growing apparel market because people will always need clothes. And some people will always want comfortable cotton t-shirts, heavy wool coats or silk pajamas.
James: But 100% cotton, wool, or silk garments may be more of a luxury in the future, now that companies know they can get away with blending in synthetics to cut costs. And that might make you think manmade fibers are the clear winner in this decades-long competition. And you might be right. But Deirdre Clemente thinks there's another winner: us, the consumer.
Clemente: The past century has redefined the way that human beings dress. The rise of casual dress is part and parcel of the changing American society. One where class and wearing distinctions of your class aren't as important as they were in the French Court. They aren't as important as they were in the Roman society. Really what we are looking at today is a culture where society doesn't tell us what to do. We tell society what we are going to do.
Alexis: Okay Lisa, so let's reflect.
Lisa: We spent a lot of time talking about the economics story. But I think there is an important social angle we shouldn't miss.
Alexis: Okay, do tell.
Lisa: I think a lot of the anxiety is over who can wear leggings in public. Can we wear leggings in public? Where is it okay to wear leggings? Is it okay to wear leggings to a meeting, but not to a presentation? I think so much of that is about controlling what women wear. Or social anxieties over what women wear. And it doesn't matter whether its formal wear or leggings. It doesn't matter whether it's comfortable or uncomfortable clothes. I think it's always going to make someone anxious. Are women comfortable are they too comfortable?
Alexis: Exactly, exactly and I think that's why when we say the athletic leisure wear, that's what we are talking about. We are talking about women. Women are the ones who wear yoga pants.
We are the ones who get thrown off the planes because we are wearing leggings. We get sent home from school. All those things, I think we have a long history in this country of being anxious, being concerned about women's fashion, you know. And change happens and people panic. People freak out. But I also think that's part of the process. I think all the trends that we have right now in athleisure -- they are just trends. Someone in fashion is making those decisions and they are filtering down to us. It just so happens that yoga pants are really comfortable and
that's great, but I also don't think we should pretend that this is also not a fashion decision.
James: oh, and one final word about cotton. Cotton Inc. is already plotting its next comeback, branding cotton as the sustainable, natural alternative to synthetics. In an ironic twist, cotton is now selling itself as the fabric of tomorrow. For Distillations, I'm James Morrison.
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Alexis: for Distillations, I'm Alexis.
Lisa: And I'm Lisa.
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Frederick Carl Frieseke was born on April 7, 1874, in Owosso, Michigan. After studying for a short while at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, Frieseke left for France in 1898, and almost all of his career was spent as an expatriate, with ties to the United States maintained through his New York dealer, William MacBeth, and by occasional visits to America. Following the pattern of innumerable young Americans, he enrolled at the Academie Julian where he studied with Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). He appears to have had at least brief contact with and to have been influenced by James McNeill Whistler, who had recently opened his Academie Carmen in Paris.
By 1900 Frieseke was spending summers in the town of Giverny, made famous by the residence of Monet and subsequently by other artists, among them many Americans. In 1906, the year after his marriage to Sarah O'Bryan, he leased a house once occupied by the American Impressionist Theodore Robinson. Although the property was adjacent to Monet's, Frieseke had only limited contact with the French master. Instead he apparently found Pierre Auguste Renoir the most influential of all the Impressionists. Frieseke's Giverny house and garden, as settings for a series of female models, provided nearly all of his subject matter for the next thirty years, although in 1930 he made a series of watercolors of Florida scenes remembered from his childhood and painted some Swiss landscapes. After World War I, the artist and his family settled in Normandy.
At the height of his career, in the 1910s and early 1920s, Frieseke was perhaps the most popular of all living American artists. He received numerous awards and medals and saw his work purchased by private collectors and major museums. Decades after the initial introduction of Impressionism by Monet and his contemporaries, Frieseke assumed this style for his work, choosing to ignore the newer artistic movements of the early twentieth century. Nevertheless, his paintings were acclaimed in both the United States and in Europe. In 1904 he won a silver medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition and a gold medal at Munich. He was elected a member of the Société National des Beaux Arts in 1908 and the National Academy of Design in 1912. Seventeen of his canvases were featured at the Venice Biennale in 1909 and he won the Grand Prize at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. He was commissioned to execute several murals, including one for the New York store of John Wanamaker, one of his most loyal patrons. He died on August 28, 1939, at his home in Normandy, in the town of Le Mesnil sur Blangy. In the decades following his death, however, after artistic tastes had changed considerably, his work was nearly forgotten until it received renewed attention as interest in American Impressionism grew in the 1960s.
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Q: Rails on Postgresql FullText Index has been building up for 20 hours. Is that normal? I have an Ruby on Rails 3 Heroku application, which needs to perform text search on a few models. Each models have a large datasets, and that dataset is expected to grow considerably.
I want to be able to do fast text search on columns like title and description. Simple queries, like give me all Articles having "postgresql" (case insensitive) in their title, or body. I need multilingual capability too.
Currently, my DB is not being used in production, and I'm using the Ronin plan, which gives a dedicated db using PostgreSQL.
In order to do that, I decided to go with a plugin call texticle. That plugin allows full text search using PostgreSQL capability. However, it did not work smoothly, and I decided to build full text indexes.
I ran the following query, on a table with 15 millions entries. 20 hours later, it is still running.
create index on articles using gin(to_tsvector('english', title));

My questions :
1- Is it normal that it is so long for this index to build?
2- Is there any way to find out the status of that index build-up? It doesn't show yet in my indexes usage table.
3- What about my approach. Am I looking at this the wrongway? Would you have other recommendations? I would like to keep my budget low for now, but be able to easily migrate to an effective production quality solution when needs arise, a scalable one.
Thanks

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1- Is it normal that it is so long for this index to build?

No.
This is on my postgres 9.0 server which runs on single-core AMD Athlon 64 3700+:
filip@filip=# create table articles as select i, md5('the ' || random()::text || ' feds took my ' || random()::text ) as title from generate_series(1,15000000) i;
SELECT 15000000
Time: 91851.97 ms
filip@filip=# create index on articles using gin(to_tsvector('english', title));
CREATE INDEX
Time: 340802.395 ms

As you can see, on building GIN index on 15 Mrows took 340 seconds (BTW, table size was 977 MB and index size was 319 MB).
Turning text documents into tsvector and building a GIN (or GIST) index is CPU-intensive.
I don't know exact specs of heroku ronin in terms of CPU power. Can you tell us what it compares to?
Performance of index building is also very sensitive to maintenance_work_mem setting. Memory needed (and size of the index) depends on input data, might be from 20% to 150% of input data size.

2- Is there any way to find out the status of that index build-up? It
  doesn't show yet in my indexes usage table.

Unfortunately, no. PostgreSQL does not have this kind of "introspection".
You could create same index on a 10% sample and multiply to estimate.

3- What about my approach.

Nothing bad - it is OK, at last if PostgreSQL has built-in FTS, it's good to begin with.
But if you need faster solution (both indexing time and searching speed) - the only way is to go out of database. External solutions like Sphinx or Lucene are faster (10x from my experience).

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Baghdatis edged out by Tsonga in Miami
By Leo Leonidou March 24, 2014 7 95
Cyprus star Marcos Baghdatis came very close to pulling off a memorable win against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
IN a thrilling third-round contest, Marcos Baghdatis was edged out of the Sony Open by World No. 11 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
The Frenchman claimed the 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-5 victory in two hours and 30 minutes in scorching temperatures in Miami.
Cyprus star Baghdatis won 76 per cent of his service points and broke Tsonga once as he clinched the first set. The world No. 143 looked poised to close out a memorable victory as he surged to a 5-1 lead in the second set tie-break, but impressive play from Tsonga saw the Frenchman mount a comeback, reeling off the next six points to level the match.
Baghdatis was thwarted on five break point chances in the decider, with Tsonga finding his first serve when he most needed it, before breaking the Limassol native in the 11th game and serving out the victory. He goes forward to a meeting with Britain's Andy Murray.
Defending champion Murray and 17-time grand slam winner Roger Federer sizzled under a Miami sun, speeding into the fourth round with convincing straight sets wins.
Federer, twice a winner on the Miami hardcourts, needed just 62 minutes on a sweltering centre court to dispose of Dutch qualifier Thiemo De Bakker 6-3 6-3 while Murray appeared to be adjusting just fine to life without coach Ivan Lendl, easing past Spain's Feliciano Lopez 6-4 6-1.
After getting the defence of his title off to a shaky start with a three-sets win over Matthew Ebden on Friday, Wimbledon champion Murray was more in command against Lopez improving his record to 9-0 against the Spaniard in just 73 minutes.
"It's not always that easy to feel comfortable against him because there is not loads of rhythm with the way he plays," said the sixth seeded Scotsman. "But I moved well; returned well.
"It was obviously a more comfortable score line than the other day."
Murray has been in the Miami spotlight for more than his play this week after announcing he had ended his successful partnership with Lendl, who helped steer him to a pair of grand slam titles and an Olympic gold medal.
Lendl, who maintains a Florida residence, was in the stands catching some of the Sunday match, leading Murray to joke that the two men were renewing their partnership.
Seven of Murray's previous eight matches had gone three sets but the Briton, who has a Miami residence, made sure he would spend as little time as possible under a punishing sun, breaking Lopez three times in the second set, sweeping the last four games.
"It was really hot. I don't know how hot it was but when we came over at like 9:30 it was already 80 Fahrenheit (27 Celsius) and it was extremely humid," said Murray. "I have played a few matches here where it's been very, very hot but it doesn't always stay like this for a few days in a row in March.
"It's not easy conditions."
A resurgent Federer has shown that he is coming to grips with a new larger racquet, a change that the Swiss had resisted.
But Federer has seen improved results with the racquet, collecting his 78th career title in Dubai in February and reaching the final in Indian Wells to move back into the top five of the world rankings.
"I think it (the racquet) just gives me easier power, especially on the first serve," said Federer. "And I think as time now goes by, I'm getting a better feel for how is the ball going to react, you know, how much spin do I need to put on to stay really accurate and put it really close to the line.
"But then again this wasn't Andre Agassi on the other side, or Djokovic. It's just important for me to keep that up and remind myself it's going well so far."
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Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?
"A wonderful tour de-force." —The Boston Globe
"A rollicking, righteous story." —The Miami Herald
"Yes, it is a hoot."—The Washington Post
CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He writes a column for the Miami Herald and is the author of many bestselling novels including Bad Monkey, Star Island, and Nautre Girl.
His books for younger readers include the Newbery Honor winner Hoot, as well as Flush, Scat, and Chomp. Skink—No Surrender was Hiaasen's first book for teens and features one of his most iconic characters, the reclusive ex-governor of Florida now known as Skink.
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Volume 1, Chapter 31: Honey (3)
"Jinshi-sama didn't mean to go overboard with his prank. Can you forgive him?" Gaoshun was guiding her to the Diamond Palace, Consort Riishu's residence. His master, due to the incident just then, was at the Jade Palace getting severely lectured by Consort Gyokuyou.
"I understand. Then, it'll be fine if Gaoshun-sama does the licking from now on," Maomao said.
"L-licking…."
"It's fine if you understand." Maomao walked briskly, pouting.
He was truly a pervert. A nasty person with only looks.
No doubt he deceived everyone like that.
Extremely shameless.
If he wasn't a big shot, she would have kicked him between the legs. Or so she thought, but there was no point kicking something that wasn't there, so she decided to let it go.
And so like this, they reached the brand new palace that was set up under the southern sky.
Consort Riishu was dressed in a sakura-coloured dress. Her soft hair was bundled up with a flower kanzashi.
Maomao thought that this cute outfit suited her more than the extravagant outfit she wore at the garden party.
After Consort Gyokuyou entered, Maomao asked her for permission to meet with Consort Riishu to clarify something she was curious about.
Consort Riishu, noticing that Jinshi was not around, looked clearly dejected.
Only his outward appearance is good, so it can't be helped.
"The thing you want to talk to me about, what it is?" She was eased comfortably on the couch, covering her mouth with a fan. She didn't have the majestic bearing like the other consorts. Hesitating somewhere, the consort who was still young.
She only had the beauty expressing a beautiful maiden. She has yet to express a womanly charm.
Behind her were two of her personal maids, standing listlessly.
Consort Riishu had looked at the court lady with freckles she's never seen before with displeasure, but upon taking a closer look, she seemed to notice that Maomao was the maid she saw at the garden party. Her eyes widened, and she looked a little calmer.
"Do you hate honey?" Maomao asked.
It would have been fine to follow up with some small talk, but that was a pain, so she went straight to the point.
"How did you know?" Consort Riishu asked.
"It shows in your expression."
(You know with just a look.)
Her bewildered look gradually turned sulky. She was really easy to read.
"Was there ever a time you got stomach aches from honey in the past?" Maomao continued.
Moreover, Consort Rishuu puffed out her cheeks. Further affirming Maomao's guess.
"It isn't unusual to become unable to eat a food after food poisoning."
Consort Riishu, having been seen through, made a face that was a mix of bewilderment and irritation.
"Aren't you rude? Suddenly coming here and speaking so bluntly to Riishu-sama," a maid said.
(Like you're one to say.)
She was one of the maids who didn't stick up to her honey-hating master at the tea party the other day.
(By doing this, she's acting as an ally.)
Sometimes, they pretend to be allies of Consort Riishu to make outsiders into villains. The naïve young consort would be convinced that everyone was her enemy. They persuaded the consort into thinking that only they are the consort's ally and isolate her.
The consort then has no choice but to depend on her maids. It is a vicious circle.
If the person herself didn't noticed that she was being bullied, there was no means this will be known to the public. It seemed they overdid it at the garden party though.
"I am here under Jinshi-sama's orders. Do you have a problem with that?" Maomao asked. While she was at it, let's borrow the tiger's authority and make some trouble.
Doing this much should be fine.
The maids flushed furiously, for some reason they were looking forward to getting close to that perverted eunuch.
"And one more thing." Maomao, expressionlessly, returned Consort Riishu's gaze. "Were you ever acquainted with the Garnet Palace's head maid before?"
The consort's surprised expression was answer enough.
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"They have what she asked me to look for."
At Maomao's behest, Gaoshun was in the imperial court's archives.
Maomao, a palace lady, is fundamentally unable to leave the inner palace.
Let's see. What did she realise?
Her composure and her unexpected knowledge beyond her seventeen years was astonishing. He thought, with her rational way of thinking, and her ability to deal with things, it was regrettable that she was a girl. Of course, this talk excludes one part of her characteristic though.
She was a chess piece that was extremely easy to use.
It would have been fine to treat her like so.
The person herself had accepted it too, albeit reluctantly.
"I did something bad." He grumbled to himself.
Should he have really stopped his master's overboard prank?
What would have happened if he stopped it?
Recalling Maomao's resentful eyes, anxiety swept past him. She might serve him something after this.
(Sixteen years ago. He was born at the same time as the imperial brother huh)
In Maomao's hand was a single volume of a book bound in cord.
It was a compilation of every incident from the inner palace.
Gaoshun had brought it over to her at her request.
There was a single child born when the current emperor was the crown prince. The mother was the crown prince's milk sibling, the future Pure Consort.
The child had died in infancy, and afterwards, until the new inner palace was made at the previous emperor's death, there were no children born.
(The consort from the crown prince's time was always alone huh)
It was surprising. She thought that as he was lusty old man he would have many concubines from his crown prince days. To think that he was married to one consort for more than ten years.
Absolutely, it was also necessary to not rely on rumours and hearsay, but on accurately recorded information.
Sixteen years ago.
Infant deceased.
And then.
"Court Physician, Ruomen(羅門, Luo Men). Banished."
She found a name she recognised.
The emotion that surfaced wasn't surprise but understanding. Some way or other, she already had a feeling about it.
All the medicinal herbs that grew in large numbers in the inner palace were something that Maomao used often.
They don't grow in nature. She guessed that someone had planted them before.
"Dad, what did you do?" she said.
The man who shuffled along with a gait of an old woman.
Maomao's medicine teacher was a former eunuch who had a bone in one of his knees extracted.


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Model je bio nasljednik modela Ferrari F355, te prethodnik modela Ferrari F430.

Izgled automobil je dizajniran u studiju Pininfarina. Automobil s pogonom na stražnje kotače, pogonio je 3.6 L V8 motor, snage 395 KS (294 kW). Prvo je započeta proizvodnja inačica 360 Modena, a dvije godine kasnije krenula je u proizvodnju i kabriolet izvedba nazvana 360 Spider. Model 360 Challange Stradale bio je najsnažnija cestovna inačica; u osnovi 360 Modena smanjene težine, tvornički pojačanog motora, sa serijski ugrađenim dodacima koji su za model Modena bili opcija (npr. karbonaski dijelovi motora, sportski ispušni sustav).

U svijetu je proizvedeno oko 8800 Modena i 7565 Spidera.

Za potrebe sportskih natjecanja na bazi modela 360 razvijeni su 360 N-GT (snage oko 540 KS) koji se koristio za natjecanja u FIA GT prvenstvu (N-GT kategorija), te kasnije i modeli 360 GT i 360 GTC.

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Q: Set Ubuntu to display only in the half of the screen My firend has a PC which screen is broken. It is an old Notebook Sony VAIO (o not know the model). It is running Lubuntu 15.04.
The half of its screen is broken, but he hasn't got any money to fix it. So I want to set it display ONLY it the half screen. I have taken it to my house, with a Monitor, but he doesn't have a monitor, and he was to use it only by the half screen. To conclude:
i want to set the screen to display only in the half of it. Thank you!

A: First some useful keyboard shortcuts to get an application to apper on one half of the screen. If the left half of the screen is broken you could press the super (windows ) key and right to snap the window to the right half of the screen. Or if the right half of the screen is broken press windows and left to break it. If the bottom half was broken then press super + up or if top was broken super +down.  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Keyboard
Also if you have an old unused vga cable laying around you might want to check to see if there is a vga input on this persons tv as then you could use it as a monitor. This sounds too old but hdmi with an hdmi cable would work too.
Now with only half of the screen you may want to modify the panel settings so right click on the panel. Then hit panel settings. IF the bottom half was broken and you can't see the panel press control alt t to open a terminal and then supe plus up to get it entirely in the working half of the monitor. then you will need to run lxpanelctl config & to launch the configuration dialog and then press super plus up to make it in the visible top half of the screen. Since the bottom is broken you would likely want to move it to the top. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/en/man1/lxpanelctl.1.html is the same as on vivid just there aren't 15.04 manpages on manpages.ubuntu.com yet for more info see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manpage-repository/+bug/1448306.
If the right of left half of the monitor is broken you can right click on panel and panel settings and align to the working side of the monitor. as a panel on the broken part of the screen won't help you much. So right click panel settings and appernce under geometry select alignment on the left or right side of the screen that is working. and make it 50 percent. This may result in a rather crowded panel so
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You can set a huge margin in openbox configuration manager so that windows will not take up the broken part of the screen. Set the margin to half the resolution along the broken side of the monitor. So if the left half of the monitor is broken set the margin equal to left half of the monitor. You can use galculator as a calculator to do the math on lubuntu.


I finally was able to capture an unbroken sequence of images, one per minute from twilight to dawn. I made a simple heater to keep the lens from fogging and it worked right up to dawn when it was overwhelmed. I was using a couple of resistors under the lens that dissipated about 200 milliwatts from a 12 battery. If I jack that up to 400 it should be able to keep it clear.
It finally stayed completely clear all night with very low sky glow from the town. I also captured two very bright meteors which was something I didn't expect.
The shutter was open for 45 seconds of every minute taking one frame per minute. We have only about three hours of true darkness now and soon that will be less than 1 hour. Astronomical twilight lasts until the sun is 12 degrees below the horizon. Up until then there is still some "daylight" visible in the sky to the camera even though it appears to be completely dark to the eye.
Here are the two meteors I snagged.
Great stuff Evan, keep them coming!!
The meteor traces show the arc of the trajectory, and also the thickening and narrowing of the glowing trace. I assume the trace starts as the glow emanating from the stagnation point; the glow then grows to encompass the whole mass, finally fading to nothing as the mass ablates. Is that how you read this too?
Serious question Evan, What's the red dot at about 40deg inclinaton to the right on the last meteor trace?? Watched the video and thought it was my display showing a rogue cell, but it seems to be on the last still?? It's stationary on the vid and that's what threw me.
Here is a close up from the original image that has been slightly adjusted to reveal more of the meteor track.
The amount of glow in part represents the density of the atmosphere the meteor is passing through. This meteor was captured by Earth in the morning at 02:51 local time. Because the back track points away from the direction of the rising sun it was intercepted on the leading side of the planet in it's orbit. This means the orbital velocity of Earth is added to the orbital velocity of the meteor resulting in a very high velocity as it encounters the atmosphere.
The Earth's orbital velocity is about 29 Kilometres Per Second. Add this to the Earth's escape velocity which is 11.2 KPS and the velocity is at least 40 KPS. The escape velocity of Sol at the orbit of Earth is another 42 KPS so the velocity of an object originating in our solar system can be as high as 80 KPS when it enters our atmosphere.
In this instance the meteor abruptly stops glowing shortly after reaching maximum brightness. This is typical of a carbonaceous chondrite which represents 80 to 90 percent of all small debris that we capture. The remaining percentage of meteors are mostly stony iron objects which show a much more extended trace after maximum brightness as they withstand the ablation and aerodynamic forces better. A small percentage are solid nickle-iron-chromium masses and even very small meteors of this material will make it to the surface.
When a meteor large enough to reach the surface enters it actually come to a nearly complete stop at about 30 to 100 km altitude. At that point the meteor goes dark and then begins to accelerate to terminal velocity. Terminal velocity for a small, dense object from that altitude exceeds the speed of sound. This results in a sonic boom as the object falls into the lower atmosphere. Terminal velocity near the surface for an object of less than a kilo or so is subsonic which is why small meteorites don't blast craters in the surface.
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Question, recieved a telescope from Horse Lake for my son. We can't see any stars out of it. Its a Safari 9324 D=60mm F=700mm. has a 2x barlow, 90 degree mirror eyepeice thing and a HI2.5mm eye piece.
We know nothing about this yet, if I point it at a light in the house, well, I can see light but thats it. Just can't seem to figure out how to focus on stars.
Well, that sounds like your average department store not good for much type of telescope ( I am being kind...). At the best you should be able to see craters on the moon and maybe pick out a few features on a nearby planet when one presents itself. It has a small objective and a long focal length which means it has a very narrow field of view and is very difficult to aim. Stars are singularly uninteresting since they pretty much look the same no matter what scope you have. A good scope will still show just a fuzzy blob although that fuzzy blob will be a properly coloured and round fuzzy blob with well defined diffraction zones.
[added] That 2.5mm eyepiece is impossible to focus well even on a high quality scope and on that one is far too much magnification to see anything.
Your telescope is exactly the wrong sort of first telescope. If you really want to get off to a good start in astronomy I would suggest something from Meade such as one of their smaller Dobsonian scopes.
Something like this one in the 8" size will knock your socks off the first time you point it at the Orion Nebula or Andromeda. It comes with everything you need and is very portable for a relatively large telescope. The eyepiece that is included has a huge 70 degree apparent field of view. If you can justify the expenditure I can promise you won't be disappointed.
A couple of things to try before spending loot.
Use an eyepiece with a "higher number" on it.
If you are watching your pennies, you might check out the used market first for a small dob as Evan mentioned.
www.astromart.com (http://www.astromart.com) is a start.
Another good place is www.telescope.com (http://www.telescope.com) There is a small table top dob on there for under $200.00.
Was starting to think I was completely inept instead of just some.
Think the next step for us would be a home made job.
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Jenny responds to the new Liberal minority government's Throne Speech
On December 9, 2019, I gave my reply to the Speech from the Throne. Vancouver East is one of Canada's most diverse and progressive communities in the country. I am so very proud of our record here in Van East. We fight hard for what we believe in, and we have so much to celebrate. Yet, unfortunately, like me, the people of Vancouver East were left wanting after this throne speech. From affordable housing, to lasting justice for Indigenous people; from pharmacare and dental care to the urgent need for safe supply; from electoral reform to averting climate crisis - there is so much more that needs to be done and done now for the people of Vancouver East and indeed the entire country. I put forward these suggestions in the spirit of co-operation and saying to the government it is a minority government and New Democrats are here to work with it. Let us work for the people and act now make the changes.
Federal General Election - October 21, 2019
As of September 11, 2019, Canada Elections act, Parliament was dissolved and a Writ of Election was issued for a general federal election.
Election Day has been set as Monday, October 21, 2019.
If you have questions about the general election, or if you need to register to vote, please visit the Elections Canada website at: https://www.elections.ca/ or telephone Elections Canada at 1-800-463-6868.
During the election period, the riding office will remain staffed, on reduced hours:
Monday 11 am – 3 pm
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Friday 11 am – 3 pm
Constituents of Vancouver East who face very urgent cases or requests for emergency assistance with a federal service or program will still receive priority reply by staff. Please ensure your email message includes your full name, phone number, street address, and postal code.
You may also call the Vancouver East riding office at 604-775-5800 with urgent inquiries, or email to jenny.kwan@parl.gc.ca as this email account will be monitored throughout the election writ period.
An Urgent Response to Housing and Homelessness Crisis and Overdose Crisis Is Needed
The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos
Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
Open Letter: An Urgent Response to Housing and Homelessness Crisis and Overdose Crisis Is Needed
Minister Duclos:
The situation for the over 2200 people who do not have a home in Vancouver is severe. Many people have no access to daytime shelter, and hundreds of people have no overnight shelter option and are forced to sleep on the street. The situation becomes even more alarming when you consider that many of these individuals face serious health conditions, a mental illness or must manage a chronic disease; and are trying to survive with no income, or on a fixed income that does not meet basic daily needs like food and medicine. Some people who are trying to maintain family unity find that as a couple it can be even more difficult to access shelter that does not force them to separate. Those with children are not exempted from the impact of homelessness. I have met with people whose children are in the care because they are cannot secure safe, secure affordable housing. Even seniors can find themselves without a home. This is the kind of reality that hundreds of people in Vancouver East face every single day.
For some of the people, the dire situations of homelessness and insecure housing have led them to seek relative safety by residing in an encampment in Oppenheimer Park. For months, community members and volunteers have worked hard to provide some level of support to those at the encampment. With their best effort, people residing in the Park can access basic sanitation services, some food security, peer support, and a VCH-sanctioned, peer-run Overdose Prevention Site.
The people at the encampment now face an order of eviction from Oppenheimer Park. At the time of the Order, encampment residents and spokespeople estimated that there were approximately 300 people residing in the encampment.
With respect to the situation in Oppenheimer Park, it is so severe that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, Leilani Farha, has taken notice, and is concerned that governments are not meeting their obligations under international human rights law in violating the right to housing.
While BC Housing has attempted to set aside units through a "unit freeze" on other buildings in order to house the people at Oppenheimer Park, what that means is that other people who are homeless and in need of housing are displaced. The community feels very strongly that making people in dire need feel that they are being pitted against each other is no solution.
There is an urgent, urgent need for additional affordable housing units. In 1993, the federal government's cancellation of the National Affordable Housing Program resulted in the loss of more than 500,000 units of affordable housing that would have otherwise been built by the non-profit and co-operative sectors. Having those units at that time, and building from that point moving forward would have put Canada in a dramatically different position today than we currently are. Equally important is the fact that there is a desperate need for government subsidies to ensure individuals and families are not paying over 30% of their total income for rent. In order to ensure that people are successful in their housing, support also needs to be made available to those individuals. Until all these are in place, further displacing people living on the streets from where they have found relative safety and support only increases their vulnerability and does nothing to address the homelessness problem in Vancouver.
Minister, I hope you will agree that each and every one of these individuals requires a safe place to call home. Yet, as I have raised with you and with those in your Cabinet, time and time again, much of the monies that are supposed to aid those without a home will not flow immediately. In fact, over 90% of the money first promised in 2017 for housing will not begin to flow until after this next federal election, and much of that not until after 2024. That is too long to wait. And worse, as noted by the Parliamentary Budget Officer, targeted assistance for those in the deep core of need and spending on Indigenous housing is actually reduced from that of the Harper Conservative years. I find this incredible and incompatible with the evidence of clear need in communities across the country, and mostly certainly in Vancouver East.
Open Letter: People Deserve Urgent Action On The Affordable Housing Crisis in Vancouver
Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos
Minister Duclos,
I wish to draw your attention most urgently to the effects of the lack of affordable housing in Vancouver East, which most recently has brought a number of people together to seek shelter and relative safety residing in an encampment in Oppenheimer Park.
Affordable, quality housing is one of the most important issues facing Canadians from coast to coast to coast, and the issue is even more acute in Vancouver East. An average one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver rents for $2,100 a month. Vacancy rates are under 1%. Home ownership is but a dream, with the average detached home in greater Vancouver over $1.5 million.
Time and time and time again, I have spoken in the House in an attempt to bring the voices and utmost concerns of my constituents to the attention of the government, in hopes of spurring action on the lack of affordable housing. I raised attention to how the affordable crisis has consequences for people's lives. It affects people's health. It has impacts on the opioid crisis. Lack of affordable housing affects family stability. It forces people to make impossible choices between life necessities, like food and rent. It affects settlement and community integration for newcomers. And the lack of affordable housing has left thousands of people with no home at all. In desperation, but also in a search for mutual support and community, that has led people to join the encampment in Oppenheimer Park.
Jenny Kwan Statement: World Refugee Day 2019
MP Jenny Kwan Statement on World Refugee Day 2019
Canadians will remember the image of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea during the Syrian refugee crisis. That initiated a call from Canadians to show compassion in the midst of a global forced displacement crisis. But since 2015, the Liberals have gone from #WelcomeToCanada to ramming through significant changes hidden in an omnibus budget bill to try and stop refugees from making a claim in Canada.
On this, World Refugee Day, we learn that the US has now detained thousands of children in concentration camps. Children are now being denied access to even so much as a toothbrush while in these facilities. At least 7 children have died. There have been reports of sexual violence. LGBTQ2+ asylum claimants are being held indefinitely in solitary confinement. Canada, and the international community, recognize that as an act of torture. The US is now re-opening the very sites that the US once used to detain Japanese-Americans during WWII on the basis of racist assumptions. Yet the Liberals and Conservatives continue to pretend that the US is somehow still a safe country for asylum seekers.
Jenny in QP: Justice for Golden Eagle Farms migrant workers!
On June 6, 2019, I stood to ask the following in Question Period:
2019 Budget Speech
Mr. Speaker, people in Vancouver East expect their government to make life affordable, sustainable and fair for all Canadians. They expect their government to be on their side.
In Vancouver East, I have heard from my constituents time and time again that we need real measures to make life affordable for Canadians, that we need immediate and urgent action to protect our climate and environment.
On behalf of the constituents of Vancouver East, I have been strongly advocating for measures such as affordable housing, public universal pharmacare, environmental protections, climate action and tax fairness. Instead, we now have a country faced with many crises.
"This is Canada's shame": we must acknowledge deliberate genocide against Indigenous peoples.
On June 5, 2019, I delivered a Members' Statement on the concluding report and Calls For Justice of the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls:
MP Jenny Kwan Statement on the Federal Government Quietly Offering Settlement to Halt Lawsuits Over Parent Immigration Program
On January 28, the IRCC website opened to accept Interest to Sponsor applications from family members wishing to apply for family reunification under the Parents/Grandparents Program. Within 7 minutes, the application process was shut down. 11 minutes after the application opened, IRCC announced via Twitter that the annual limit had been reached and the application was closed.
The media revealed that a number of individuals who were not able to submit an application to reunite with their loved ones under the parents/grandparents reunification process filled a lawsuit against the government. The Federal Liberal government then quietly settled with the litigants by offering them 70 coveted spots in the parents/grandparents sponsorship program.
The fact that the government quietly offered a side deal to 70 families who threatened to sue the Liberal government is indicative that the process is inherently flawed and unfair. With this side deal, the Minister is effectively telling Canadians that you have to take the government to court to be treated fairly. It should not have come to this. All families want to do is be reunited with their loved ones. They should not have to go through such pain and anguish to be with their parents or grandparents. They certainly should not have to threaten to sue the government. Our process should be one that is open, accountable and fair.
Sadly the Liberal government's handling of this file has been deplorable from the beginning – whether it's following the Conservative's process that allowed people with resources to get in front of the line, or the Liberal's process based on the luck of the draw lottery system, or this flawed and unfair online system, all have been a miserable failure.
It is time for the Liberals to do what is right: allow families to make their applications in a fair and orderly fashion by lifting the arbitrary cap on family reunification.
Member Statement: Hastings Elementary students show real climate leadership
On May 13, 2019 I give a Member Statement in honour of the real climate leaders of our time: young people, like the Grade 6&7 students of Hastings Elementary, and everyone who took part in the May 3 climate strike.