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North Sea - Eutrophication and Acidity aggregated datasets 1921/2020 v2021
EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry data sets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, acidity and contaminants. The chemicals chosen reflect importance to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). ITS-90 water temperature and Water body salinity variables have been also included (as-is) to complete the Eutrophication and Acidity data. If you use these variables for calculations, please refer to SeaDataNet for having the quality flags: https://www.seadatanet.org/Products/Aggregated-datasets . This aggregated dataset contains all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on Eutrophication and Acidity (14 parameters with quality flag indicators), and covers the North Sea with 587584 CDI records. Data were aggregated and quality controlled by 'Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Ecology Roskilde' from Denmark. Regional datasets concerning eutrophication and acidity are automatically harvested and resulting collections are aggregated and quality controlled using ODV Software and following a common methodology for all Sea Regions ( https://doi.org/10.6092/9f75ad8a-ca32-4a72-bf69-167119b2cc12). When not present in original data, Water body nitrate plus nitrite was calculated by summing up the Nitrates and Nitrites. Same procedure was applied for Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) which was calculated by summing up the Nitrates, Nitrites and Ammonium. Quality flags for Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) should be disregarded since that currently they are not based on the original quality flags of nitrite, nitrate and ammonium. Parameter names are based on P35, EMODnet Chemistry aggregated parameter names vocabulary, which is available at: https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/vocabularies/vocabulary_search/P35/. Detailed documentation is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.6092/4e85717a-a2c9-454d-ba0d-30b89f742713 Explore and extract data at: https://emodnet-chemistry.webodv.awi.de/eutrophication>NorthSea The aggregated dataset can be downloaded as ODV collection and spreadsheet, which is composed of metadata header followed by tab separated values. This spreadsheet can be imported to ODV Software for visualisation (More information can be found at: http://www.seadatanet.org/Standards-Software/Software/ODV). The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Chemistry CDI Data and Discovery Access Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search
North East Atlantic Ocean - Eutrophication and Acidity aggregated datasets 1921/2020 v2021
EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry data sets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, acidity and contaminants. The chemicals chosen reflect importance to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). ITS-90 water temperature and Water body salinity variables have been also included (as-is) to complete the Eutrophication and Acidity data. If you use these variables for calculations, please refer to SeaDataNet for having the quality flags: https://www.seadatanet.org/Products/Aggregated-datasets. This aggregated dataset contains all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on Eutrophication and Acidity (18 parameters with quality flag indicators), and covers the Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W) with 381639 CDI records (381085 Vertical profiles and 554 Time series). Vertical profiles temporal range is from 1921-10-15 to 2020-10-16. Time series temporal range is from 1974-06-14 to 2019-04-24. Data were aggregated and quality controlled by 'IFREMER / IDM / SISMER - Scientific Information Systems for the SEA' from France. Regional datasets concerning eutrophication and acidity are automatically harvested and resulting collections are aggregated and quality controlled using ODV Software and following a common methodology for all Sea Regions ( https://doi.org/10.6092/9f75ad8a-ca32-4a72-bf69-167119b2cc12). When not present in original data, Water body nitrate plus nitrite was calculated by summing up the Nitrates and Nitrites. Same procedure was applied for Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) which was calculated by summing up the Nitrates, Nitrites and Ammonium. Parameter names are based on P35, EMODnet Chemistry aggregated parameter names vocabulary, which is available at: https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/vocabularies/vocabulary_search/P35/. Detailed documentation is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.6092/4e85717a-a2c9-454d-ba0d-30b89f742713 Explore and extract data at: https://emodnet-chemistry.webodv.awi.de/eutrophication%3EAtlantic The aggregated dataset can also be downloaded as ODV collection and spreadsheet, which is composed of metadata header followed by tab separated values. This spreadsheet can be imported to ODV Software for visualisation (More information can be found at: https://www.seadatanet.org/Software/ODV ). The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Chemistry CDI Data and Discovery Access Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search
Combined DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body chlorophyll-a 1983-2016 v2018
The analysis was performed per season using DIVA software tool (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis). The analyses products are stored as NetCDF CF files and made available as WMS layers for easy browsing and adding. Every step of the time dimension corresponds to a 6-year moving average from 1983 to 2016. The depth dimension spans from surface to 1000 m, with 21 vertical levels. The boundaries and overlapping zones between these regions were filtered to avoid any unrealistic spatial discontinuities. This combined water body dissolved oxygen concentration product is masked using the relative error threshold 0.5. Units: µmol/l Created by 'University of Liège, GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research (ULiège-GHER)'. The data used as input for DIVA have been extracted from the EMODnet Chemistry Download Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search Intermediate regional data products: Mediterranean Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body chlorophyll-a 1990/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/5346c32c-acd3-4534-800a-7947f5914315 Arctic Ocean - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body chlorophyll-a 1980/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/28a025c3-1f79-4f6d-b71a-86641e2b7346 Black Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body chlorophyll-a 1990/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/3da98812-0b51-40ca-a95b-3f43de243c74 North East Atlantic Ocean - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body chlorophyll-a 1960/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/ce474bda-7eba-11e8-84a3-40a8f051e8d0 North Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body chlorophyll-a 1980/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/d0e36bce-91d2-4baf-996d-2be3e16164f1 Baltic Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body chlorophyll-a 1980/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/66dcf80f-383c-4c70-842a-80eead8bd293
Combined DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) 1983-2016 v2018
The analysis was performed per season using DIVA software tool (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis). The analyses products are stored as NetCDF CF files and made available as WMS layers for easy browsing and adding. Every step of the time dimension corresponds to a 6-year moving average from 1983 to 2016. The depth dimension spans from surface to 1000 m, with 21 vertical levels. The boundaries and overlapping zones between these regions were filtered to avoid any unrealistic spatial discontinuities. This combined water body dissolved oxygen concentration product is masked using the relative error threshold 0.5. Units: µmol/l Created by 'University of Liège, GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research (ULiège-GHER)'. The data used as input for DIVA have been extracted from the EMODnet Chemistry Download Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search Intermediate regional data products: Mediterranean Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) 1990/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/0c9b94f4-bc1a-43d3-ab46-4768061fc785 North Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) 1980/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/3a546c9a-0b9f-4eaf-97eb-83e7dca30276 Black Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) 1990/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/b03fe5df-652f-4eac-8dff-cef2cadad6b8 North East Atlantic Ocean - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) 1984/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/3b5c6e8b-5b67-4b25-b9c5-766a400d8f4c Baltic Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved_inorganic_nitrogen_(DIN) 1980/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/62ba9d08-2ad6-4742-8fa6-fdbb25585e5c
Combined DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body phosphate 1983-2016 v2018
The analysis was performed per season using DIVA software tool (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis). The analyses products are stored as NetCDF CF files and made available as WMS layers for easy browsing and adding. Every step of the time dimension corresponds to a 6-year moving average from 1983 to 2016. The depth dimension spans from surface to 1000 m, with 21 vertical levels. The boundaries and overlapping zones between these regions were filtered to avoid any unrealistic spatial discontinuities. This combined water body dissolved oxygen concentration product is masked using the relative error threshold 0.5. Units: µmol/l Created by 'University of Liège, GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research (ULiège-GHER)'. The data used as input for DIVA have been extracted from the EMODnet Chemistry Download Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search Intermediate regional data products: Mediterranean Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body phosphate 1968/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/165371b0-d5d3-4188-bf20-74b139cf5e4b Arctic Ocean - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body phosphate 1980/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/d0618e05-bc9b-4212-9aa3-12eb2a6b8756 North Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body phosphate 1980/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/61170426-61e4-40c0-b45b-7e23fa1dbe84 Black Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body phosphate 1990/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/dfe8bcc1-4d97-4962-9857-d3f8e0ce1fc6 North East Atlantic Ocean - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body phosphate 1960/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/54a52f81-d8bf-457f-aee3-d48a25645727 Baltic Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body phosphate 1980/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/e5bfc6fd-f287-4e1d-81ae-6af0ea3f1eef
Combined DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved oxygen concentration 1983-2016 v2018
The analysis was performed per season using DIVA software tool (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis). The analyses products are stored as NetCDF CF files and made available as WMS layers for easy browsing and adding. Every step of the time dimension corresponds to a 6-year moving average from 1983 to 2016. The depth dimension spans from surface to 1000 m, with 21 vertical levels. The boundaries and overlapping zones between these regions were filtered to avoid any unrealistic spatial discontinuities. This combined water body dissolved oxygen concentration product is masked using the relative error threshold 0.5. Units: µmol/l Created by 'University of Liège, GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research (ULiège-GHER)'. The data used as input for DIVA have been extracted from the EMODnet Chemistry Download Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search Intermediate regional data products: Mediterranean Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved oxygen concentration 1971/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/e2a02e01-b1da-49cb-beb1-1654fa7d78e2 Arctic Ocean - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved oxygen concentration 1980/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/c887f9f2-d6aa-4e73-8254-6a0b5963c08d North Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved oxygen concentration 1980/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/fb06110c-91fb-4f33-ba7c-b9530090b9fe Black Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved oxygen concentration 1990/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/1c3ae65f-ab75-4ce0-9485-e9a4383581c1 North East Atlantic Ocean - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved oxygen concentration 1960/2017 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/9208573c-5a93-4e37-84db-62dfd6faa7b3 Baltic Sea - DIVA 4D 6-year analysis of Water body dissolved_oxygen_concentration 1980/2016 v2018 https://doi.org/10.6092/b5bb9ea1-4bda-48a1-92b6-03645ac12fae
EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry data sets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, acidity and contaminants. The chemicals chosen reflect importance to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). ITS-90 water temperature and Water body salinity variables have been also included (as-is) to complete the Eutrophication and Acidity data. If you use these variables for calculations, please refer to SeaDataNet for having the quality flags: https://www.seadatanet.org/Products/Aggregated-datasets . This aggregated dataset contains all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on Eutrophication and Acidity (15 parameters with quality flag indicators), and covers the North Sea with 4685228 CDI records. Data were aggregated and quality controlled by 'Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Marine Ecology Roskilde' from Denmark. Regional datasets concerning eutrophication and acidity are automatically harvested and resulting collections are aggregated and quality controlled using ODV Software and following a common methodology for all Sea Regions ( https://doi.org/10.6092/9f75ad8a-ca32-4a72-bf69-167119b2cc12). When not present in original data, Water body nitrate plus nitrite was calculated by summing up the Nitrates and Nitrites. Same procedure was applied for Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) which was calculated by summing up the Nitrates, Nitrites and Ammonium. Quality flags for Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) should be disregarded since that currently they are not based on the original quality flags of nitrite, nitrate and ammonium. Parameter names are based on P35, EMODnet Chemistry aggregated parameter names vocabulary, which is available at: https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/vocabularies/vocabulary_search/P35/. Detailed documentation is available at: https://doi.org/10.6092/ec8207ef-ed81-4ee5-bf48-e26ff16bf02e The aggregated dataset can be downloaded as ODV spreadsheet, which is composed of metadata header followed by tab separated values. This worksheet can be imported to ODV Software for visualisation (More information can be found at: http://www.seadatanet.org/Standards-Software/Software/ODV). The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Download Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search
EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry data sets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, acidity and contaminants. The chemicals chosen reflect importance to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). ITS-90 water temperature and Water body salinity variables have been also included (as-is) to complete the Eutrophication and Acidity data. If you use these variables for calculations, please refer to SeaDataNet for having the quality flags: https://www.seadatanet.org/Products/Aggregated-datasets . This aggregated dataset contains all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on Eutrophication and Acidity (16 parameters with quality flag indicators), and covers the Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W) with 106885 CDI records (106339 Vertical profiles and 546 Time series). Vertical profiles temporal range is from 1921-10-15 to 2017-09-30. Time series temporal range is from 1974-06-14 to 2017-08-01. Data were aggregated and quality controlled by 'IFREMER / IDM / SISMER - Scientific Information Systems for the SEA' from France. Regional datasets concerning eutrophication and acidity are automatically harvested and resulting collections are aggregated and quality controlled using ODV Software and following a common methodology for all Sea Regions ( https://doi.org/10.6092/9f75ad8a-ca32-4a72-bf69-167119b2cc12). When not present in original data, Water body nitrate plus nitrite was calculated by summing up the Nitrates and Nitrites. Same procedure was applied for Water body dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) which was calculated by summing up the Nitrates, Nitrites and Ammonium. Parameter names are based on P35, EMODnet Chemistry aggregated parameter names vocabulary, which is available at: https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/vocabularies/vocabulary_search/P35/. Detailed documentation is available at: https://doi.org/10.6092/ec8207ef-ed81-4ee5-bf48-e26ff16bf02e The aggregated dataset can be downloaded as ODV spreadsheet, which is composed of metadata header followed by tab separated values. This worksheet can be imported to ODV Software for visualisation (More information can be found at: https://www.seadatanet.org/Software/ODV ). The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Download Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search
Combined DIVA 4D 10-year analysis of Water body ammonium
Combined product of Water body ammonium based on DIVA 4D 10-year analysis on five regions : Northeast Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea. The boundaries and overlapping zones between these five regions were filtered to avoid any unrealistic spatial discontinuities. This combined Water body ammonium product is masked using the relative error threshold 0.5. Units: umol/l.
Combined DIVA 4D 10-year analysis of Water body phosphate
Combined product of Water body phosphate based on DIVA 4D 10-year analysis on five regions : Northeast Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea. The boundaries and overlapping zones between these five regions were filtered to avoid any unrealistic spatial discontinuities. This combined water body phosphate product is masked using the relative error threshold 0.5. Units: umol/l


An admitted member of the online hacking group Anonymous received the maximum sentence Friday from a judge in U.S. federal court in New York City.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska sentenced 28-year-old Jeremy Hammond of Chicago to 10 years in prison for his role in hacking the servers of the Texas-based intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, Inc., or Stratfor, in December 2011. Hammond pleaded guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in May of this year.
"I did this because I believe people have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind closed doors," Hammond said in a statement posted on his support website in May. "I did what I believe is right."
FBI documents state that Hammond and his co-conspirators stole credit card information from 60,000 people during the Stratfor attack. They then used the credit cards to make $700,000 worth of unauthorized charges. Wired reports these charges consisted of "fraudulent donations to non-profit groups" at Hammond's behest.
Hammond was also charged with stealing millions of internal emails from hundreds of thousands of Stratfor users. WikiLeaks has since published some of those emails in its "Global Intelligence Files" series.
The FBI tracked down Hammond with the help of hacker-turned-informant Hector Xavier Monsegur, also known as Sabu. Monsegur was the leader of the hacking group LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous. He was first arrested in secret in June 2011; his arrest wasn't announced so he could be used as an informant.
In addition to Hammond, Monsegur helped the FBI track down four members of LulzSec. Those four received a combined sentence of seven years in prison in a London court in May.
Hammond would have faced some 30 years in prison had he not accepted a plea agreement.


Bob Barrett serves as chief executive officer for Honours Golf Company. Barrett, with over 30 years of experience in the golf industry, is responsible for the overall direction, development and operations of Honours Golf. Before forming Honours Golf, he developed and managed two courses on his own - Kelly Plantation and Highland Park. Prior to forming his own company, Barrett served as director of golf operations for Drummond Company, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama. At Drummond, he was responsible for planning and managing the golf operations of Rancho La Quinta Country Club in La Quinta, California (home of the '96, '97, and '98 Skins games), Old Overton Club in Birmingham, Alabama (named "Best New Private Course in America" by Golf Digest in '94), and Grasslands Golf & Country Club in Lakeland, Florida. In 1993, he served as vice president of Sun Belt Golf Corporation, which built Alabama's renowned Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. From 1977 to 1991, he was manager and director of golf at Shoal Creek Golf Club in Birmingham, Alabama. He hosted the 1984 and 1990 PGA Championships, as well as the U.S. Amateur. He was honored by the National PGA of America as the 1986 Merchandiser of the Year. Barrett is a native of Augusta, Georgia where he began his career as an assistant golf professional at Augusta National Golf Club.


Indianapolis residents can donate their unwanted vehicles to benefit a non-profit of their choice. The Vehicle Donation Processing Center handles the business of donating your vehicle in Indianapolis, the home of the famous Indianapolis Speedway, and processes your donation to benefit the nonprofit you choose. Let the Vehicle Donation Processing Center help you clear out your driveway and make a charitable contribution at the same time!
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Comprehensive accompaniments for all the services in Lutheran Service Book carefully designed in a spiral-bound, lay-flat, landscape edition to minimize page turns. The complete Psalter is included with psalm tone accompaniments on a convenient-to-use laminated card. Classic burgundy leather-like edition that can be imprinted. 12" x 9"


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Q: UISwitch customization Because the the UISwitch is not so easy to customize i decide i wanna build one alone.
that works pretty good except for one thing. i was subclassing UIView when i was building it
and now i dont have the "ValueChanged" control that i need for the Interface builder.
can some1 tell me how can i add ControlEvents to my custom control ??
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U CELEBRATES 2016 PRIDE WEEK
By Estela Hernandez, public relations and events specialist, University of Utah Office for Equity and Diversity
Pride Week 2016 at the University of Utah runs Sept. 28-Oct. 6, and will feature photographer Jeff Sheng and QueerCrip fashion designer Sky Cubacub. This year's theme, "Queering Safe Spaces" explores the meaning of safe spaces and how they affect those included or excluded within the LGBTQI community.
"The theme, Queering Safe Spaces, is important because it is an invitation to critically engage with our own assumptions about this campus, the safe spaces we think exist here, and the interventions made by students, staff, faculty and administration to create and maintain safe spaces," said Kim Hackford-Peer, associate director for Gender Studies and Pride Week committee co-chair. "We hope to expand our individual and collective thinking about what safe spaces exist. What do they promise to provide? What are their limits? And how can we do better?"
Pride Week activities at the U are listed below. All events are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.
Hinckley Forum: Pizza & Politics
Sanctuary Spaces: The Promise and Limits of Safe Spaces
Sep. 28, 12 p.m., Building 73, Room 110, 332 S. 1400 East
When it comes to sanctuary spaces for the LGBTQIA community, often times these spaces are found in realms of art, athletics or various social pockets in the community. Sanctuary spaces offer refuge and a sense of freedom for the LGBTQIA community. But what happens when these spaces end up excluding parts of the community or are no longer safe? What are the actual characteristics of a sanctuary space and how do people create their own safe space? The Hinckley Forum explores these topics. Panelists include Darrin Hathaway, high school theater arts educator; Romeo Jackson, graduate student at the U; Ana Maria Lopez, associate vice president for Equity and Inclusion in Health Sciences; C. Kai Medina-Martinez, director of the LGBT Resource Center at the U; Kira Kiko Lian, program coordinator at the School for Social and Cultural Transformation and a recent Gender Studies graduate.
Voices of Diversity Social Justice Series
B. Cole: Blurring the Lines of Gender
Oct. 3, 6-8 p.m. Social Work Goodwill Building, Okazaki Community Meeting Room (155 B), 395 S. 1500 East
B. Cole is the executive director of the Brown Boi Project, an organization that works across race and gender to eradicate sexism, homophobia and transphobia and to create frameworks for transformative masculinity. This session will explore the intersection of race and gender from first and second wave feminist approaches while integrating queer theory. The event is sponsored by Voices of Diversity, an organization in the U's College of Social Work, that works toward a greater understanding of and advocacy for social justice issues.
B. Cole: Life Hacking for Students of Color
Oct. 4, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Social Work Goodwill Building, Okazaki Community Meeting Room (155A), 395 S. 1500 East
B. Cole will discuss the power of collective work, specifically as it relates to navigating college as a first-generation student. Lunch will be provided, but registration is required. Email Irene.ota@socwk@utah.edu.
Jeff Sheng: Fearless
Oct. 5, 12 p.m.
Olpin Student Union Building, East Ballroom, 200 Central Campus Drive
Jeff Sheng is an American photographer whose work focuses on the 21st century LGBT rights movement and has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Time magazine, The Advocate and The New Yorker. The Fearless Project was born in 2003, when he began photographing LGBT high school and college athletes who were "out" to their teammates. Sheng calls this an artistic self-exploration of his own identity as a former closeted high school athlete. The Fearless Project has been exhibited and presented at several college campuses and at venues such as the headquarters for Nike, ESPN and NCAA.
Sheng will be available to photograph local "out" athletes. To schedule, contact estela.hernandez@utah.edu.
Photographs from The Fearless Project will be exhibited in the Union building's main lobby through Oct. 6.
Sky Cubacub: Rebirth Garments Fashion Performance and Talk-back
Oct. 6, 6 p.m. Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building, Child Family Community Hall, 1655 Campus Center Drive
Sky Cubacub is the founder and designer for Rebirth Garments, a line of gender nonconforming wearables for people on the full spectrum of gender, size and ability. Cubacub's designs are guided by the assertion that trans communities and people with disabilities have very particular clothing needs. Rather than opting for mainstream clothing, which often pathologize and erase these particular identities, Cubacub designs for radical visibility.
Cubacub will host a performance of her garments. To be a part of the show, contact rebirth.garments@gmail.com. No prior experience required.
The performances will be followed by a discussion of Cubacub's QueerCrip Dress Reform Movement Manifesto.
Queeroes: Reclaiming Hero
U celebrates Pride
A tradition of resilience
SOMEBODY HAS TO DUST!

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The Jazz Singer (1980) – Richard Fleischer (Friday's Finest)
Posted on June 3, 2022 by observationblogger — 2 Comments
I watched this movie a lot in my youth and played the soundtrack on cassette to death. I watched The Jazz Singer again a few years ago and thought it held up well. Neil Diamond holds his own in the acting department at least as far as this film is concerned. The film is not an auto-bio of Neil rather a fictional Yussel Rabinovitch; a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career outside the synagogue as a popular musical artist – Jess Robin.
I think it was my first encounter seeing the traditional Jewish faith portrayed on screen. At the time I most likely had no idea what the faith signified; culturally or religiously other than it was seemingly orthodox as presented in the movie. Many of my favourite music artists, comedians, actors and commentators are Jewish.
The movie The Jazz Singer was developed as a starring vehicle for Diamond. It was a critical and commercial disappointment, although it did make a substantial profit, doubling its $13 million budget by making $27.1 million. I don't know why it was disliked so much by the critics. Lucie Anaz who played Molly Bell in the movie spoke about the audience love for the movie in this interview.
I thought it was a solid feature. I can understand their dislike of Sir Laurence Olivier's meak performance, but Neil did a pretty good job. The soundtrack eventually reached multi-platinum status, becoming Diamond's most successful album to date and one of the more successful film soundtrack albums in history.
According to wikipedia: During a scene set in a recording booth, Diamond was having trouble conveying anger during an argument with Arnaz's character. Director Fleischer said that Diamond would go into the adjacent music recording stage where his band was gathered to await his cue and then enter in a supposed rage. During one of the lulls in filming to reset the shot, Fleischer saw him pacing nervously and then suddenly bursting into anger, throwing chairs and smashing equipment. Not wanting to miss an opportunity, the director called "Action" and Diamond stormed in and delivered his lines in a very convincing performance. After the scene ended, Fleischer asked the singer what had set him off. He replied that he was upset he couldn't give the desired performance and asked his band to play something to make him angry. "And what did they play?" Fleischer asked. "A Barry Manilow number," replied Diamond.
The score is superb in The Jazz Singer. It's what makes the movie what it is. The songs fit the mood in every scene, and are all well-placed. The acting, while not the best I've ever seen, isn't nearly as bad as made out to be by critics. Let's face it. Neil Diamond is not an actor. He is a singer, a performer. And yet, he manages to pull off his character, Yussel Rabinovich. Watching Neil perform in this movie would be like seeing one of his concerts. He's all-show, and not a bit shy. When he picks up a guitar, you know you're in for a treat, and he does music as only he can. It's a good story, well-told.
Below is the ending scene of his live performance which elevates him from modest success to stardom:
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2 comments on "The Jazz Singer (1980) – Richard Fleischer (Friday's Finest)"
EclecticMusicLover says:
Though I was a pretty big fan of Neil Diamond from the late 60s through the early 80s, and also liked Lucie Arnaz, I've never seen this film.
observationblogger says:
If you liked Neil even a little bit, you should see this film. I'm not sure how easy it is to procure the film now, but I sure hope you get to see it.
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Apparently one job left to them is posting 'cut-and-pastes' to the Debate Forum on RHP.
While generous welfare systems in Western countries do provide benefits to those most disadvantaged by the cognitive lottery, a much larger proportion do not qualify for any assistance at all.
If the Conservatives in America have their way, these people won't have anymore benefits here either. Though they happily provide tax cuts and corporate welfare handouts to the 1%, Trump and the GOP have been less than kind to those with special needs.
I don't have a lot of time on the forum today.
But... Sure, OK. I will make more amounts of posts that are my original, fully written thoughts. You might be aware that I did that quite recently, just last week, in the Spirituality forum.
I'll do it more, though, and I am sure that, then, you will be far more willing to come and discuss things deeply and meaningfully.


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According to Rugbycomau, Australia international Anthony Fainga'a has called an end to his rugby career due to concussions.
The extent of the concussions were so severe that Fainga'a had to be held up at the altar during his twin brother's (fellow Wallabies representative Saia) wedding.
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Today, November 1, 2022, Google Hangouts is scheduled for death. The phone app has been individually booting people off the service since July, but the last vestiges of Hangouts, the web app, will be shut down today. Hangouts was—for a brief period—Google's best, most ambitious, most popular messaging effort, but 5 billion downloads later, Google is moving on. Hangout's next of kin, Google Chat, should have all of your messages and contacts automatically imported by now, but the new service is a faint shadow of the original plan for Hangouts.
The closing of Hangouts is the latest chapter in the mess that is Google's messaging history. Google Talk launched 17 years ago, and Google still doesn't have a competitive message platform. Part of the reason we're on Google's 10 millionth messaging app is that there is a solid, stable home for messaging inside Google. The 2022 messaging lineup is a great example. You've got the Google Workspace team making Google Chat—that's Google's business team making a Slack competitor—and then there's Google Messages—a carrier-centric sort-of-competitor to Apple's iMessage—which seemingly grew out of the Android team. Is the team that makes Android more or less important than the team that makes Gmail and the rest of the Google apps? Both have their understandable reasons for chasing messaging, but splitting the Google user base across two incompatible products makes it tough for either project to gain any traction. Besides those two big projects, there's also still Google Voice, and a bunch of siloed messaging services in apps like Google Photos and Google Pay.
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So far, Colorado shootings fail to reignite debate over gun control
July 21, 2012 Updated: July 27, 2017 5:25 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- Gun control advocates sputter at their own impotence. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. And Barack Obama's White House pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 people in a mass shooting at a new Batman movie screening in suburban Denver.
Once, every highly publicized outbreak of gun violence produced strong calls from Democrats and a few Republicans for tougher controls on firearms.
Now those pleas are muted, a political paradox that's grown more pronounced in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia Tech, the wounding of a congresswoman and now the shootings in a suburban movie theater where carnage is expected on-screen only.
"We don't want sympathy. We want action," Dan Gross, president of the Brady campaign said Friday as President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney mourned the dead.
Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, was more emphatic than many in the early hours after the shootings. "Everyone is scared of the NRA," he said on MSNBC. "Number one, there are some things worth losing for in politics and to be able to prevent carnage like this is worth losing for."
Yet it's been more than a decade since gun control advocates had a realistic hope of getting the type of legislation they seek, despite predictions that each shocking outburst of violence would lead to action.
In 1994, Congress approved a 10-year ban on 19 types of military-style assault weapons. Some Democrats quickly came to believe the legislation contributed to their loss of the House a few months later.
Five years later, Vice President Al Gore cast a tie-breaking Senate vote on legislation to restrict sales at gun shows.
The two events turned out to be the high-water mark of recent Democratic drives to enact federal legislation aimed at reducing gun violence, and some Republicans said they could see the shift coming.
"The news media in its lather to distort this whole issue may be wrong in their estimation that this will help Al Gore," then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said in an Associated Press interview a few weeks after the tie-breaking vote. "As a matter of fact, it may already have hurt him, and it may hurt him a lot more."
By 2004, when the assault weapon ban lapsed, congressional Democrats made no serious attempt to pass an extension. President George W. Bush was content to let it fade into history.
Public sentiment had swung.
According to a Gallup poll in 1990, 78 percent of those surveyed said laws covering the sale of firearms should be stricter, while 19 percent said they should remain the same or be loosened.
By the fall of 2004 support for tougher laws had dropped to 54 percent. In last year's sounding, 43 percent said they should be stricter, and 55 percent said they should stay the same or be made more lenient.
In terms of electoral politics, Harry Wilson, a Roanoke College professor and author of a book on gun politics, said violent crime has been declining in recent years and, "It becomes increasingly difficult to make the argument that we need stricter gun control laws."
Additionally, he said in some regions, gun control "can be a winning issue for Democrats. But nationally, it's a loser ... and they have figured that out." Attempts to emphasize the issue will "really motivate the opposition. And in a political campaign, nobody wants to do that," he said.
At its core, Wilson said, the issue divides rural voters from urban voters.
Often, that means Republicans on one side, Democrats on the other. But not always.
In the current election cycle, the NRA has made 88 percent of its political donations to Republicans, and 12 percent to Democrats, according to OpenSecrets.org. The disparity obscures that the organization consistently supports some Democrats, a strategy that allows it to retain influence in both parties.
Its clout was vividly on display in 2010 when majority Democrats in the House sidetracked legislation giving the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House of Representatives. Republicans had vowed to add an NRA-backed provision invalidating a city ban on handgun possession as the price for passage, and there was little doubt it had the votes to prevail.
Later in the year, the NRA objected to legislation to require groups airing political advertising to disclose donors. Fearing the fallout, enough rank and file Democrats demanded changes that the leadership had to revise the bill. A revised bill, granting the NRA and other large organizations an exemption, eventually passed.
Dan Gross, head of the Brady Campaign to End Handgun Violence, says Democrats have drawn the wrong lessons for years. "The cultural narrative exists because of the assessment of Al Gore's loss in 2000 and the mid-terms in 1994, and in both cases I think the gun issue was scapegoated," he said. "Those who didn't vote for Al Gore weren't going to vote for him anyway."
At the same time, Gross readily conceded the lingering hold of the issue.
"Look at Kerry when he felt he needed to dress up in hunting gear," he said, referring to the Democratic presidential candidate's well-photographed excursion into a duck blind in camouflage clothing in swing-state Ohio a few weeks before the 2004 election.
Four years later, Obama won the White House despite strong opposition from the NRA.
As a senator from Illinois and state lawmaker before that, he was a strong supporter of gun control.
Following last year's killing of six people and the wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz., Obama called for steps to "keep those irresponsible, law-breaking few from getting their hands on a gun in the first place."
He advanced no legislative proposals then, and on Friday, spokesman Jay Carney said, "The president believes that we need to take common-sense measures that protect Second Amendment rights of Americans, while ensuring that those who should not have guns under existing law do not get them."
Obama isn't the only 2012 White House candidate to adjust his views on gun control.
In a losing Senate campaign in Massachusetts in 1994, Mitt Romney said, "I don't line up with the NRA." A decade later, as governor, he signed legislation making a state assault weapons ban permanent.
This year, bidding for support at the NRA convention, he said: "We need a president who will enforce current laws, not create new ones that only serve to burden lawful gun owners."


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McKelvey to battle Marten for State House seat
By Staff | Nov 3, 2016
WEST MAUI – State Tenth House District Rep. Angus McKelvey (D) said he is seeking re-election "to continue to improve the lives of people in Lahaina and all of Maui when it comes to state issues and resources."
His opponent in the Nov. 8 General Election, Republican Chayne Marten, wrote in a recent e-mail to Lahaina News: "I wish to bring hope and fresh, new ideas into government with your support of my bid to serve as a member of our State House."
Marten was arrested on Oct. 11 on eight counts of sexual assault. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and is in custody at Maui Community Correctional Center on $650,000 bail. A family member asked the paper to run a recent letter by Marten, which is included in this article.
Talking to residents of the Tenth District (West Maui, Maalaea, North Kihei), McKelvey, 48, said the need for true affordable housing for West Side residents, infrastructure – particularly the Lahaina Bypass and Honoapiilani Highway seawalls – and the management transition of Maui Memorial Medical Center are the top issues this election season.
An experienced lawmaker who has represented the district since 2006, McKelvey said he is currently fighting for funding to build the Lahaina Bypass in both directions with community input, working with the County of Maui and federal government on realigning Honoapiilani Highway and supporting beach renourishment efforts, and working to secure funding to ensure Honolua Bay remains an open, pristine resource for all of the community.
If re-elected, McKelvey has specific goals for the 2017 Legislative Session.
"In addition to the above, we need to pursue paid family leave, reorganize and invest in our small rural airports and create funding for access transportation issues, like emergency and regular ferry service from Maalaea to Lahaina and restoring funding for the Molokai ferry, too. Also looking to move legislation that would create funding for affordable housing projects aimed specifically at families who lived and still work in West Maui," he explained.
Rep. McKelvey, who chairs the Economic Revitalization, Business & Military Affairs Committee and serves as vice-chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce panel, cited strongly advocating to save Honolua Bay from development as one of his top accomplishments as a lawmaker. Another was authoring a bill to allow for electronic proof of insurance in Hawaii.
"While it seems like such a manini (small) thing, being the only state which accepted only paper proof of insurance created a hardship for Maui folks who often had to drive without legal proof of insurance, even though they had coverage, because they had not received a card. Now people can have proof of insurance immediately with their coverage – something which has not only benefited neighbor islanders tremendously, but has also helped law enforcement catch drivers without legitimate insurance as well," McKelvey said.
A lifelong Lahaina resident, McKelvey is a member of LahainaTown Action Committee, Lahaina Restoration Foundation and Lahaina Rotary Club, a former director with West Maui Taxpayers Association and a former member of the Lahaina Bypass Now Team.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Whittier College and a Juris Doctor from Concord School of Law.
Seeking his sixth straight two-year term, McKelvey is proud of his track record at the legislature.
"Over the past ten years, I have built upon my legal and legislative skills to become an effective lawmaker who secured funding for West Maui and have passed numerous pieces of legislation to help working families everywhere. I am adept at building alliances with other policy makers by connecting the challenges and issues we face in our community to tackle our issues as part of the broader issues facing others in Hawaii," he said.
"I have been a strong advocate for West Maui, and my track record speaks for itself. I would be honored to continue to serve the people of our district," he said, when asked why voters should choose him.
Green energy consultant Marten, 64, has served the community through the American Red Cross, American Heart Association and West Maui Taxpayers Association.
He attended Bethany Bible College and the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory.
Marten's political experience includes appointment to the Advisory Council of San Mateo County Board of Supervisors in California and running against McKelvey in 2012 and 2014.
He detailed some of his goals in a recent letter to the Lahaina News:
"Many give lip service to the concept of self-sufficiency for Hawaii. What if we in West Maui were to utilize a significant portion of our vacant agricultural land to help provide for our underprivileged? Owing to the departure of the pineapple industry, our fallow land should be repurposed to help support those in need through the establishment of a visionary proposal to set up a program to adopt a defined plot to be used for the growing of food. Such work has been determined to feed the soul as well as the stomach, and benefit the 'aina. Let's work to make this dream a reality, rather than having these lands acquired by commercial growers.
Vocational training can be offered to help strengthen our 'ohana by offering workers skills in many trades, such as auto mechanics, plumbing, electrical and carpentry, to name a few.
School bus transportation should be free, allowing keiki to arrive and depart safely from school. School time meals of breakfast and lunch should be given to those students in need. No keiki should struggle to learn on an empty stomach.
Real estate property taxes should be frozen for our kupuna at age 60 for those who meet financial criteria. Additionally, our senior citizens should be exempt from taxes on food and medicines.
I will help support mothers by working to increase early childhood education options.
I ardently support realignment of our one road access to West Maui.
I will work with labor unions to promote our resident workers and make wage increases a reality for our teachers.
I will also work to make affordable rentals a reality, supporting human dignity and independence rather than government dependence.
Together we can turn hope into reality."


Halloween is one of the best times of year to shake things up and have some fun. If you love this time of year as much as I do, then you've already decorated your house and office with cobwebs, candy bowls, and crazy-spooky characters. But who says spreading the Halloween spirit needs to stop there?
There are more than enough tools you can use to Halloween-ify your WordPress website this year. Mind you, a complete overhaul isn't necessary in order to pull this off. Sometimes it's the smallest touches that work the best!
Whether you prefer to trick your visitors or give them a treat this Halloween, any extra effort you put into Halloween-ifying your site is sure to get you noticed – and potentially earn you an extra look.
Here are just some of the ways you can add the perfect hint of Halloween to your WordPress website.
We all know what Google's logo looks like. It's simple, clean, and colorful. But every now and again—usually around a major holiday or event—Google will switch things up and throw up a temporary logo design for our viewing pleasure. Halloween is one of those special occasions.
Google updates its logo every year for Halloween.
Change the color scheme to include orange, black, or a blood red.
Swap out a letter for a Halloween icon that resembles the original letter ("o" and "i" are always good ones).
Use a font or new letter styling that looks like your favorite Halloween movie's title screen.
Tools to Use: If you used a design program like Photoshop or Illustrator to create your logo, you can use it now to get really funky with this. If you don't have one, Canva is a free and easy-to-use design tool.
Earlier this year, I wrote about the psychology of color in website design. Color consideration is something you carefully plot out and define when first developing your brand's color palette. But when it comes to holidays like Halloween, it's okay to throw some of those rules out the window.
Luckily for us, WordPress themes make it easy to update color settings. So if you want to change your font colors, your theme's background, or even the colors of your calls-to-action, go for it. Just make sure they don't clash too much against the surrounding color palette and imagery. You want to give your visitors a startle–not a total fright.
Tools to Use: Most WordPress themes allow you to make updates to your color palette—that you can see reflected on your site in real time—within the Appearance > Customize panel.
Again, when it comes to something so ingrained in your brand's identity like a font, it can be tough to break away from your pre-defined styles. However, with plenty of free fonts available online, this is a fun (and temporary) way to give your site a subtle hint of Halloween.
When it comes to changing up your fonts for Halloween, remember that less is more. Many of the fonts that look cool for Halloween are a tad dramatic, so try to relegate these to header text on your website—or in specific locations, like pop-ups, calls-to-action, and hero images.
Add a spooky font to your site for a bit of fun!
The devil is in the details, right? For those of you with a heavy social media presence, it would make sense to give your site's social icons some extra character. Think about it: if you know your site's visitors will head over to your social links to share content or follow your page, this is the perfect place to add a touch of Halloween.
Using Halloween inspired designs for your social media icons are another way to Halloween-ify your website.
Tools to Use: Use free Halloween icons from the web (see more on that below) to custom-design your own social icons or you could use pre-made ones like these pumpkin vectors.
The Easy Social Icons plugin will enable you to upload those icons into WordPress and swap them out for the standard ones on your site.
Obviously, you don't ever want someone to encounter a broken link on your site. But, if it should ever happen, why not give them an entertaining 404 page to land on?
Why not change up your 404 page to feature a spooky design?
Tools to Use: I'm a big fan of this animated 404 page available on ThemeForest. It'll cost you a couple bucks, but I think it's worth it if you want to give your lost visitors a random spook.
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, a visitor was thinking about leaving your website without taking any action (gasp!). You'd want one more opportunity to grab their attention and at least get an email address before they jump ship, right?
Why not take this opportunity to add an exit-intent, newsletter opt-in message to your site? With most plugins these days, you can change the colors, fonts, animation, and other settings to whatever you want, so this would be easy to update as a new holiday approaches.
Tools to Use: When you want to make that last-ditch effort count, use the WPMU DEV Hustle plugin.
If you're already in the habit of writing content for your website and social media regularly, throw in some Halloween-inspired or seasonal topics, too.
An example of this would be… well, I guess, this post. But your Halloween-related content doesn't have to be an educational roundup. If you want to go for pure entertainment, do it! Perhaps you run a website that sells children's shoes. If that were the case, you could write a blog post about the scariest kids to ever hit the silver screen (and then recommend the shoes they should wear if they want to catch the adults they're chasing more quickly).
Tools to Use: Your imagination. And IMDB is a big help if you want to write about movies.
Contests: Invite your site's visitors and social media followers to share their Halloween photos. The photos should be related to your business, demonstrate their Halloween spirit, and include your handle and promotional hashtag.
Surveys: Create a new survey or poll on your website. The question/subject doesn't need to be related to your business, so long as it gets your visitors interested and willing to take time out to interact with you on this holiday.
Special Deals: Use strategic pop-ups on your website to advertise secret promotional offers for Halloween-related products or services. This would be similar to the exit-intent newsletter pop-up, but would be more focused on Halloween deals.
How will you deliver the message on your site?
What service or product will this support?
What is the actual deal/discount?
How will you monitor for the participants or winners?
When will the deal or offer take place?
Once you've sorted the details out, use the following tools to launch your promotion.
Tools to Use: Try the WPMU DEV Popup Pro or Slide-In plugins to produce well-timed, strategically placed, and fun-looking announcements around your website.
Want to have a little fun with your visitors? Consider hiding Halloween-related imagery around your website. If someone happens to stumble upon the random, spooky icons, they can click them open and receive a special "treat" of your choosing.
Smashing Magazine has some fantastic hand drawn spooky icons.
Even if you don't have a brick-and-mortar shop, you can still offer customers and other passers-by the opportunity to trick-or-treat on your website on Halloween.
Young or old, everyone loves the thrill of going from porch to porch to gather up their treats. You can recreate that feeling of "Is this going to be another toothbrush-and-toothpaste kind of stop?" or "Jackpot! I got a super-sized Milky Way!" by advertising your trick-or-treat event ahead of time. Then watch as the visitors pass through on Halloween to discover the "treat" you're offering.
Tools to Use: Social media is a good place to start promoting this special on-site event. And for the people who already come to your website, you'll want to have promotional messages in place either directly on the site or in pop-up messages.
Once you've got the messaging established, figure out what sort of treat you're going to offer (a site-wide discount or free giveaway would be neat). Then find the right tool to make it easy to process the treat. The WooCommerce Bulk Discount plugin is a good one to use if you're offering a Halloween-only discount.
So there you have it. Ten ways you can keep visitors on their toes and have them pay more attention to your brand—simply by adding a little Halloween flavor to your website.
Now over to you: Who is your favorite scary movie villain and why? Have you decked out your site for Halloween yet? Tell us in the comments below.
I could see using scary animations for the custom 404 page. That would be a riot!