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Bensonhurst Catholics furious after NYC's first lady snubs saintly winner of statue-building initiative
Posted on September 3, 2019 By Rose Adams
Raising hell: Ursula Agosta (left) and Rosalie Graziano (right) are furious that First Lady Chirlane McCray ignored the winner of the She Built NYC initiative, Mother Cabrini.
Photo by Marcus Stevens
She's no saint!
Bensonhurst Catholics slammed First Lady Chirlane McCray for snubbing the saintly winner of a supposedly democratic election to determine the subject of a statue-building campaign honoring the trailblazing women of New York City history
"It makes no sense," said Rosalie Grazaino, who has attended Saint Frances Cabrini Church in Bensonhurst for 50 years. "What happened to democracy?"
Congregates of the Bay 11th Street church near 86th street pooled their votes to nominate the house of worship's beatific patron — known for her work with New York's immigrants in the late 19th century — and the worshippers came to dominate the poorly attended polls with a whopping 219 votes.
But St. Cabrini's supporters claim Comrade McCray spit in the face of democracy and threw their votes in trash when she chose seven different women to commemorate with statues across the city.
"It feels like we're living in Communist China," said Ursula Agosta, 72, a Bensonhurst resident and a parishioner at the Bay 11th Street church near 86th street. "I voted for her like I vote for the mayor, like I vote for the president."
McCray launched the She Built NYC public initiative in June 2018 to address the city's lack of statues honoring great women, and asked the public to nominate their favorites. Some of the top votes went to Saint Frances Cabrini, activist Jane Jacobs, and humanitarian Lillian Wald — all of whom received more votes than most of McCray's picks.
Instead, Mayor de Blasio's wife and Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen chose to commemorate jazz singer Billie Holiday, civil rights advocate Elizabeth Jennings Graham, doctor Helen Rodriguez Trias, and LGBTQ activist, Sylvia Rivera — none of whom were among the top seventeen women nominated.
The other three picks — Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, lighthouse keeper Katherine Walker, and transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson — did make the top seven spots, although none took first or second place.
The winners announcement caused a ruckus at the Bensonhurst church, where parishioners had mobilized friends and neighbors to cast votes for their patron saint, known as Mother Cabrini, after their priest, Reverend Guy Sbordone, urged the congregation to vote for her.
And Councilman Justin Brannan (D–Bensonhurst) penned an letter politely bashing the city on Aug. 16 for ignoring the open call's results.
"I am delighted with the individuals who were selected… they are all personal heroes of mine," he wrote. "However, the seemingly undemocratic process for arriving at these choices leaves me quite dismayed, as I feel the will of my people was denied." The first lady has not yet responded to the letter, Brannan claimed on Aug. 29.
Even the panelists McCray chose to evaluate the public's picks expressed frustration at the first lady's dictatorial selection process, according to an art news website Hyperallergic.
"The whole thing was a charade," Harriet Senie, an art historian on the panel, told Hyperallergic.
A spokesman at She Built NYC clarified that the seven statues are the first of many that the organization hopes to build, and claimed that the nominations were strictly advisory. The committee prioritized selecting a racially diverse group: only one of the seven statues, Katherine Walker, was white.
However, while the spokesman claimed that the committee would continue considering Mother Cabrini, he implied that a statue may not be in the cards, saying the saint is wealthy with tributes.
"We appreciate the passion and enthusiasm for honoring Mother Cabrini's remarkable life and work, and we're proud that New York City is home to a shrine honoring her, along with a street and parkland named in her honor," he said.
Reach reporter Rose Adams at radams@schnepsmedia.com or by calling (718) 260–8306. Follow her on Twitter @rose_n_adams
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Brooklyn's own Rose Adams covers southern Brooklyn. Her writing has also appeared in the Villager and Chelsea Now.
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As the sun sets on 2017 -- and rises over 2018 -- we once again present the technologies and trends in data storage that we think will shine brightest and have the most sway over data centers in the coming year. It's time for Hot Techs 2018!
For the 15th year, our list shies away from anything too futuristic and impractical. Instead, we focus on newer storage tech that has demonstrated its usefulness and practicality. You'll only find technologies already available for purchase and deployment here.
So grab a front-row seat and get comfortable as we look at the data storage technology trends that will have the biggest impact on storage shops -- and the professionals that run them -- in the year ahead.
Predictive storage analytics has morphed from being a specialized feature to a red-hot storage technology. Fueling its rise is the prominence of all-flash arrays and growing demand for real-time intelligence about storage capacity and performance.
Predictive storage analytics transcends traditional hierarchical storage management or resource monitoring. The goal is to harness and parlay vast amounts of data into operational analytics to guide strategic decision-making.
"With increasing hybrid and hyper-converged infrastructures, storage is no longer a separate slice of the data center technology stack that you can intelligently manage or analyze in isolation. Looking at larger slices of the stack requires the use of more sophisticated analytical approaches over bigger data," said Mike Matchett, a senior analyst at Taneja Group.
Matchett noted how call-home support has evolved from its origins in batch-oriented processing to a tool for continuous remote analysis and measurement. "Call-home support is capable of dealing with hybrid complexity, including cloud and on-premises storage, and [is] tipping toward proactive automation by applying predictive intelligence algorithms," he said.
Predictive analytics lets storage and network-monitoring vendors continuously capture millions of data points in the cloud from customer arrays deployed in the field. They correlate the storage metrics to monitor the behavior of virtual storage running on physical targets.
Nimble Storage is widely regarded as the pioneer of predictive analytics, having launched its InfoSight cloud-based analytics as a native service on its all-flash arrays. The InfoSight software was a key driver behind Hewlett Packard Enterprise's decision to spend $1.2 billion to acquire Nimble Storage earlier this year.
Other storage vendors are getting into analytics, adding telemetry to track capacity, data protection, performance and system health, and helping make predictive analytics one of the trends in data storage to watch in 2018.
Typically, predictive analytics can pinpoint potential problems, such as defective cables, drives and network cards. If hardware issues are detected, the software sends alerts and recommends troubleshooting. An at-a-glance console provides an integrated view across the infrastructure stack, letting customers apply recommendations with a single click.
Aside from monitoring hardware, array-based analytics tools have matured to provide cache, CPU and storage-sizing recommendations based on preselected policies.
The importance of predictive storage analytics won't wane anytime soon. Big data deployments are no longer a curiosity, having matured to the point that companies in almost every industry could deploy a DevOps model. The ability to rapidly compute massive data sets at the network edge is credited with helping organizations wring more business value from flash storage infrastructure.
In addition, Matchett said, the ability to analyze vast sums of big data from their entire customer base lets a storage vendor apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to help individual enterprises predict their storage needs hour by hour.
Server-side flash, including nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) SSDs, and persistent storage-class memory will also have an impact on predictive analytics.
"Traditional all-flash storage arrays are probably a dying category," Matchett said. "The future will be rife with large pools of multiple classes of memory and storage spread across distributed, hybrid networks that need to be intelligently managed as programmable infrastructure [to deliver] elastic storage services." All of this storage, Matchett added, will require advanced analytics to help organize, provision, orchestrate and dynamically optimize performance; identify and rectify issues; and squeeze the most out of these more expensive resources.
Ransomware has made big news in the last couple of years. While global attacks -- such as WannaCry in May and Petya and NotPetya in June -- garner the most coverage, smaller-scale ransomware can be just as crippling for victims. While many organizations aren't paying the ransom, downtime can be even worse than making a payment. Fortunately, ransomware protection from backup and recovery vendors is now a hot technology and one of the trends in data storage 2018 to watch.
Ransomware is malware that encrypts data and demands payment for the decryption key, often getting into a system through an infected email attachment or website. Statistics vary dramatically, but payments are often hundreds of dollars. Attackers have targeted businesses of all sizes, from SMBs to the enterprise. As a result, every organization must be thinking about ransomware protection and how to recover from an attack.
Protection varies in strength and scope. Comprehensive backup is one way to fight ransomware. Companies should also be looking at data protection vendors that offer integration with a malware detector, said Jason Buffington, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Simply saying a product can help an organization recover from a ransomware attack "is no different from saying you can recover from a forest fire or a server failure," Buffington said.
Acronis software uses machine learning to prevent ransomware viruses from corrupting data. It attempts to detect suspicious application behavior before files are corrupted.
Druva built ransomware monitoring and detection tools into its InSync endpoint data protection software.
The Quorum OnQ Ransomware Edition, an appliance specifically designed to recover from an attack, takes snapshots of servers and provides server-level recovery.
Unitrends physical and virtual appliances use predictive analytics to determine the probability that ransomware is operating on a server, workstation or desktop. The vendor then alerts customers when it detects ransomware, so they can immediately restore from the last legitimate recovery point.
In addition, though it may not be a hot technology in and of itself, tape backup is a secure way to protect against ransomware because offline data cannot be infected.
Ransomware Watch, led by Arcserve, and Carbonite's Fight Ransomware are websites that gather news and advice content.
As part of its Ransomware Antidote Program, Infrascale features an online risk analysis quiz to help businesses understand their vulnerability.
Ransomware detection and protection is likely top of mind for many backup and recovery vendors that don't offer it yet. Expect to see more ransomware-specific capabilities added to products in the months ahead.
The expansion of hyper-convergence into secondary storage is a natural next step for the technology. Secondary storage's rise started gradually, with a handful of vendors taking notice. Now we expect to see converged secondary storage taking up more space and getting more buzz in the coming year.
Many organizations are putting greater emphasis on secondary storage to reclaim much-needed primary storage capacity. Secondary storage frees up primary storage, while leaving the data more accessible than archive storage. It also lets organizations continue to gain value from older data or data that isn't mission-critical.
The expansion of hyper-convergence into secondary storage is a natural next step for the technology.
Converged secondary storage consolidates all secondary storage backup data, objects and files onto one platform. The commonly cited benefits of hyper-converged storage -- efficiency, ease of use, scalability and productivity -- apply to converged secondary storage as well. In addition, in order to make secondary storage data more available, vendors have begun offering converged secondary storage platforms that are efficient, scalable and can be integrated with the public cloud.
Converged storage has enabled newcomers to crack the crowded data protection and data management markets. For instance, Cohesity launched its DataPlatform in 2015, focusing on secondary storage. Cohesity has expanded its offerings to keep up with the latest developments in secondary storage requirements.
In 2016, Cohesity released DataPlatform Cloud Edition, capitalizing on the move to establish the cloud as a secondary storage tier. Cohesity's Orion release of its DataProtect software, rolled out earlier this year, added features such as NAS, hypervisor support and global deduplication for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
Arun Taneja, Taneja Group founder, called Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual Edition "one platform for all secondary storage applications. That's what is unique about its solution. Cohesity has applied hyper-converged principles to the secondary storage side, across all types of secondary workloads."
Although most of Cohesity's competitors take a more traditional approach to data protection, other vendors are getting into the market. For instance, Rubrik takes a similar approach to Cohesity's with its Cloud Data Management Platform, a scale-out secondary storage cluster sold as a physical appliance with bundled software. Startup Igneous Systems consolidates backup and archive on a single secondary storage tier with the Igneous Hybrid Storage Cloud.
Commvault also began making secondary storage a priority in 2017, and in October, it released Commvault HyperScale. HyperScale is Commvault's first scale-out, integrated hardware appliance for data protection, a clear move to compete with the likes of Cohesity and Rubrik. Is a converged secondary storage product next?
With more vendors getting in on the action and more emphasis than ever on secondary storage, converged secondary storage should have a big year as one of the key trends in data storage for 2018.
Multi-cloud storage is one of the latest amorphous technology terms to capture the imaginations of industry experts. It's poised to become one of the hot technology trends in 2018 as more enterprises that have adopted the cloud -- whether in a hybrid or pure public configuration -- are demanding the cloud provide true IT services capabilities.
The benefits of multi-cloud storage are hard to ignore.
Jeff Kato, senior storage analyst at Taneja Group, said non-cloud spending is expected to be less than half the entire infrastructure market, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to grow at more than 40% year over year with annualized revenue of about $15 billion. Microsoft boasts similar revenue when its Office 365 software as a service is included.
The benefits of multi-cloud storage are hard to ignore. There's data portability among heterogeneous clouds, easier lifting and shifting of applications among multiple cloud environments, better data availability and disaster recovery, and the ability to bridge data services between private and public clouds. Also, you can set enterprise data services more consistently and colocate them with applications and compute resources.
"This area is fast moving," Kato said.
Taneja Group defines multi-cloud storage as providing primary data services that operate simultaneously across multiple, heterogeneous cloud environments and a location where compute and applications can be colocated with these data services. The primary data storage services must support at least one large public cloud vendor, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure, and any type of cloud offering built on vendor lock-in is going to be limited in its ability to provide true multi-cloud storage.
However, multi-cloud storage still has its share of challenges. Moving data in and out of clouds is more complicated than moving it across on-premises systems, and managing data stored in different clouds requires a new approach.
Several vendors already offer a genuine multi-cloud primary storage concept based on software-defined storage (SDS). These include Hedvig, Qumulo, Scality, SoftNAS and SwiftStack. Scality's multi-cloud software is built on object storage with Amazon S3 compatibility, while also offering some file capabilities. SDS offerings from SoftNAS and Qumulo are focused on cloud file, while Hedvig provides block, file and object storage. SwiftStack is object and file storage.
"A lot more companies are moving into this area," Kato said. "There's no reason other software-defined companies could not go to the cloud directly. Backup vendors are starting to put their technology directly into the cloud. I would also look at the hyper-converged [vendors]. They're next. Scale Computing announced a partnership with Google to put software in the public cloud."
Based on its own research, Taneja Group found that vendor lock-in is one of the main concerns storage customers have with the cloud, which is the same problem they faced during the days when hardware reigned. A true heterogeneous, multi-cloud offering means applications and data can run across different public cloud environments, such as AWS and Azure, or between a public and private cloud.
"So if data is created in Amazon, it can be made accessible in another public or private cloud," Kato said. "You have to be able to move data between heterogeneous clouds, whether they're public or private."
There are vendors that claim to offer multi-cloud, but they really aren't. They're tiering to the cloud or offering a cloud service from data centers built near each other, with the underlying technology coming from a single vendor. An example of this type of homogenous (aka not multi-cloud) cloud offering would be one where the cloud is AWS with VMware technology on both ends.
Performance-boosting, latency-lowering nonvolatile memory express is already one of the hot technology trends in SSDs that use a host computer's PCI Express bus. Moving into 2018, the revenue stream for NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) should start to grow, making it one of the significant trends in data storage. Significant deployments are expected follow in 2019 and beyond, according to industry analysts.
The NVMe-oF 1.0 specification that emerged in June 2016 is based largely on the NVMe protocol designed for use over a computer's PCI Express bus. NVMe-oF aims to extend the benefits of NVMe over a network to accelerate data transfer between host computers and target storage systems. Initial NVMe-oF transport options included remote direct memory access (RDMA) over converged Ethernet (RoCE) and Fibre Channel (NVMe-FC).
Mike Heumann, a managing partner at G2M Inc., a firm that researches the NVMe market, said NVMe-oF struggled to get a foothold in 2016, and the only area where it had much presence was with appliances based on Microsoft's Storage Spaces Direct using NVMe over RoCE. This year, all-flash array vendors such as Kaminario, Pure Storage and Western Digital's Tegile have moved to use NVMe-oF as a back-end fabric, he said.
Although NVMe-oF host-to-target connectivity remains a work in progress, Heumann expects adoption to improve as potential deployment hurdles ease and major vendors jump in. He noted, for instance, that array vendors are starting to pick up NVMe-oF "accelerated" adapters to offload CPU-intensive work. Another important development in the works through NVM Express Inc. is a new NVMe-TCP transport to enable the use of NVMe-oF over existing IP networks.
"There is a lot of expectation with a lot of people that, that will make it much easier to deploy NVMe over Fabrics in the Ethernet world," Heumann noted. He said the TCP option would open up another set of users that might have been reluctant to tackle the perceived deployment hurdles around NVMe over RoCE.
G2M predicted the NVMe market will hit $60 billion by 2021, with revenue from SSDs; adapters; enterprise storage arrays and appliances; and enterprise servers, including some loaded with SDS designed for use with NVMe. G2M's research projected most enterprise servers will be NVMe-enabled by 2019, and more than 70% of all-flash arrays will be NVMe-based by 2020. Shipments of NVMe-oF adapters will surpass 1.5 million units by 2021, with 10% of them "accelerated," according to G2M.
NVMe-oF drivers are still in the works for major operating systems. Given that, startups such as Apeiron Data Systems, E8 Storage and Pavilion Data Systems have often used their own adapters and drivers to provide NVMe-oF capabilities, said Eric Burgener, a research director at IDC.
The main use case for early NVMe-oF-based products has been real-time big data analytics applications, Burgener said. IDC predicted that 60% to 70% of Fortune 2000 organizations will have at least one real-time, big data analytics workload by 2020. Certain high-end databases requiring low latency could also generate interest in NVMe-oF, Burgener added, as could vendors pushing denser workload consolidation.
"NVMe over Fabrics will likely see initial growth over Fibre Channel, replicating the kinds of functionality we currently see in data centers," said J Michel Metz, a Cisco Systems research and development engineer who works with NVMe technology. "As people become more familiar with the technology, we will see more Ethernet-based options implemented."
What data storage technology trends will you follow in 2018?
Great to see that NVMe/TCP is striking waves. Lightbits Labs is seeing great feedback with early adopters in terms of performance, scalability and simplicity. It's definitely going to be interesting as it comes to market.


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The Floc de Gascogne is a regional apéritif from the Côtes de Gascogne and Armagnac regions of Sud-Ouest wine region of France. It is a vin de liqueur fortified with armagnac, the local brandy. It has had Appellation d'origine contrôlée status since 1990.
Elsewhere in France analogous drinks are made (Pineau des Charentes in the Cognac zone, Macvin in Jura; there is also Pommeau, similarly made by blending apple juice and apple brandy).

History
Floc de Gascogne is produced according to a recipe that has been in use in the French region of Gascony since the 16th century.  The name "Floc de Gascogne" was coined by Henri Lamor, a winemaker from Cravencères, in 1954.  The word "floc" comes from the Occitan language and means bouquet of flowers.

Characteristics
Floc de Gascogne is a mistelle, a vin de liqueur (a fortified sweet wine) made of 1/3 of armagnac and 2/3 of fresh grape juice both from the wine area Armagnac / Côtes de Gascogne. Both of these must be produced by the same vineyard.

Floc de Gascogne is produced in both white and rosé varieties.  The alcohol percentage is between 16 and 18% vol.
After blending, the Floc is kept for 10 months in the cellar of the producer and must be approved by a committee of experts before it can be sold under the appellation Floc de Gascogne.

It is used as an aperitif most often, but also as a dessert drink.  It should be consumed while cool, and is superb on ice.  Almond, jasmine, roses, honey, black fruit and condiments are characteristic notes.  Floc should be drunk within a year after the production.  Once a bottle is opened, it may be stored for up to three months in the refrigerator.

Armagnac/Côtes de Gascogne region
The region is divided in three distinct production areas:
Bas-Armagnac
Armagnac-Ténarèze
Haut-Armagnac

The production area is spread across three regions: Gers, Lot-et-Garonne and the Landes. Only grapes harvested in this region may be distilled to Armagnac. The Armagnac area and the Côtes de Gascogne have the same borders. The whole AOC covers vineyards totaling 15.000 hectares.

Grape varieties
Floc de Gascogne blanc: Colombard, Ugni blanc and Gros Manseng
Floc de Gascogne rosé: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot

References

Mistelle

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Krisselia
Games, Indie
REVIEW: Life Is Strange: Before the Storm (Episode 1)
Do I even bother with the jokes about how I've been away for a long period of time? I mean, at this point it's just expected. (You'll never make a career of this at this rate, Kirsten…) I know, me, but then it just wouldn't be a blog oozing with my personality if I did that, would it?
So anyway, hey. How's it going? How ya been? Good? Oh, that's great to hear. Let's talk abut a game that came out about a week ago…and that I played about a week ago and promised to write about a week ago… Okay, enough of the self-shaming.
I've never talked about the original Life is Strange on here because I played it before I made this thing. A quick review on that is: I liked it. Yeah, that's about it. It was cringey and made stupid jokes whilst tugging on your heart strings for a character who is actually kind of an asshole, what's not to love? So, how does a company make more money off such a seemingly well-accepted game? Make a sequel with more time powers or even…psychic time stuff? No, no. Just make a fan service prequel about said asshole character.
Title: Life is Strange: Before the Storm – Episode 1
Genre: Third-person, Graphic Adventure
Release Date: August 31st, 2017
Developer: Deck Nine
Before the Storm has you take control of Chloe Price, Max's best friend from the first game, but 3 years prior to the events of Life is Strange. The first episode of the prequel focuses mainly on Chloe's relationships with not only her parents and schoolmates but with the mysterious character of Rachel Amber that our protagonist would endlessly gush about in the original.
A world without Max Caufield..
The game is based on the player's choices. Depending on how you speak to people and react to situations will determine how characters respond to you and how far a conversation will branch. In the original Life is Strange these choices didn't completely matter as Max's time control abilities allowed the player to go back and make a new choice or open up a new conversational branch. Chloe's choices, on the other hand, have a much more definitive feel to them as she doesn't have the ability to control time.
What does Chloe have instead? The "Backtalk" feature. What is the "Backtalk" feature I hear all two of you ask? Exactly what it sounds like. Chloe's anti-authority (I'm sure there's a better way of saying that) attitude allows you in certain situations to backtalk and essentially put other character's in their place. A tutorial for this is demonstrated at the start of the game when she is attempting to get into a private concert by berating a bodyguard until he gives up and allows you entry.
Source: nerdreactor.com
One of the main things I will give Before the Storm credit for is its ability to make you feel almost sorry for Chloe's character. (Spoilers if you haven't played the original ahead…sort of…) We already knew her father's death and the introduction of a new father figure had had an incredibly negative impact on her from the first game but Before the Storm gives the player more of an understanding as to how she processed the loss. From her mother hiding photographs to Chloe's own journal entries, you begin to understand some of the reasoning behind her behaviour.
Similarly to Life is Strange, the graphics are reminiscent to that of the Sims yet somehow the scenery is beautiful. Arcadia Bay has gorgeous sunlit beaches and forestry and yet up close they are almost 2D. Character's eyes can at times seem lifeless and can cause for more emotional scenes to fall flat. I'm looking at you train scene with Rachel Amber. However, it is something I can look past as the characters are filled with personality, albeit some of their personalities suck but it's a personality. The soundtrack was one of my favourite things about the original game and Deck Nine have not disappointed with their selection of indie tunes. Though, I am partial to acoustic music so I'm bias.
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The "problem child" trope continues!
Although I believe criticising the voice acting in this particular game is unfair as they were affected by the SAG-AFTRA strike and would have had the original voice if they had been able to, I'm going to criticise it anyway. I don't believe Rhianna DeVries did a terrible job of Chloe in comparison to Ashley Burch and her voice style could have easily been seen as an attempt at making the character appear younger than her LiS counterpart. However, at times it honestly sounded too similar to Max's voice from the original and unfortunately, the way the character's speak and the cringey "look-I-speak-teen" script, it didn't help the case.
On a separate note, you might have noticed I didn't say much about the "Backtalk" feature. Well, it's because I barely used it until the game ultimately forced me to so that I could continue the story. This is just my version of Chloe and I get that she is supposed to be "badass" but I personally felt it was just the developers way of making her borderline rude for no reason other than to thrust the "problem child" trope in your face.
Source: kotaku.com
Other minor nuisances, in my opinion were:
The lack of exposition on Chloe's family life let alone school life. Yes, if you read the journal you get a bit more understanding of Chloe's personal thought but on its own, the conversation you have with her mother in the kitchen feels like a teen-movie scene; it comes out of nowhere and the player is supposed to assume these are regular talks for Chloe…but it isn't for the player. Why does Nathan Prescott hate Chloe so much too? In the original LiS you understand their interactions better but in BtS, as far as the player is concerned, he's just kind of a dick for no reason. Though, that may just be his character after all if you played the first game you know he's a creep… shudder.
The foreshadowing. Life is Strange was known for its foreshadowing in the first episode so of course this time around I knew what I was looking for. Nothing is random in this universe (as much as those pesky teenagers like to think they are). For a new player, they wouldn't have bat an eyelid at the wildfire petition at the front of the school but for players of the original, you knew something was up. It's both a good and bad thing; good because I love a mystery but bad because all I then was waiting for was the mystery. Though, that's probably an issue only I dealt with.
The final thing I'm going to say was a nuisance was: the stupid way these kids talk. The insults they use on each other, the way they describe things and just the way they speak is so cringey. Maybe it's because I'm British. Do American teenagers actually speak like this? It's hard not to laugh at the way these characters speak to each other because it constantly feels like a badly made '80s teen movie written by 40-year-olds who think they know the "lingo".
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Life is Strange was genuinely one of my favourite choice-based adventures and I really did connect to Max and was fully immersed in the story. So far, Before the Storm is working to be a faithful prequel and I like that they chose to show the world of Arcadia Bay without the supernatural powers and what led to the events of the original. Chloe's character has so many layers and the ending of this episode really worked on showing the player that. I'm excited to see how Episode 2 unfolds her story even further but it's not the top of my "gaming priority" list.
I give this game a: 3/5
September 8, 2017 December 11, 2018 krisselia
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Concrete Donkey says:
As someone who absolutely loves the original 'Life is Strange', this article pretty much confirms many of my fears about 'Before The Storm' (I've not played it yet). My hope is that a lot of things that you felt un explained will be clear by the end of the series! I think episodic games are awesome as they allow the developers to apply feedback straight into the next episodes. Or even just add self aware in jokes = P At the same time, I feel it means a lot of the smaller details can get pushed to the way side to focus on telling the over arching story correctly. Leaving the smaller character development moments left to just journal entries etc.
Either way, great article! Keep up the good work Kirsten ^__^
krisselia says:
I 100% agree with you. Ever since TellTale made them more popular I've fallen in love with episodic games and I hope that this story will unravel just as well as its previous title. Thank you!!
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What is "the dairy industry"?
September 8, 2017 By Merritt Clifton
(Beth Clifton photos)
by Meg Turville-Heitz
Editor's note: Even for abolitionist vegans, who believe the only "good" dairy industry involving real animals is a dead one, there is value in understanding that the dairy industry as it now exists is not a monolith, and that modes of activism that tend to strengthen the grip on the industry of the now dominant concentrated animal feeding operations can be counterproductive in reducing net harm to animals and the environment. Here, veteran Wisconsin environmental journalist, water quality planner, and teacher Meg Turville-Heitz offers a brief tour of the multi-tiered dairy industry as it exists in her corner of the "Dairyland" state.
(Beth Clifton photo)
The "dairy industry" isn't a monolithic beast
Every so often I hear "the dairy industry" thrown up as a target of activists in a multitude of causes, environmental, humane, economic, and involving social justice.
The grievances include manure polluting streams and concern about the location of giant concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) that house more than 1,000 cows; objections to the removal of calves from their lactating mothers; and annoyance at subsidies.
But the "dairy industry" isn't a monolithic beast made up of bad actors of evil intent. Grassroots boycotts and protests are unlikely to phase the big players, serving markets including millions of end customers, but there is an impact.
Three dairy industries
There are actually three dairy industries here in Wisconsin.
There are the organic folks who worry about the water they give their cows and what's on the grass they feed the cows, who are willing to do the paperwork and deal with the certification lag to be able to sell their milk at three times the going price.
There are also the old-time small-holders who are just struggling to hang on until they can collect Social Security. Their kids have no interest in working so hard or living so poor, and eventually convince them to sell their farms to developers. These may be people who pasture their cows in streams because they think they can't afford not to, and work off the farm to make ends meet. To be honest, many organic farmers do as well. These are the folks who can't afford to fix their barns because they spent their surplus on hay during the drought, and the next drop in milk prices will put them in debt even further.
Mega-dairies
Then there are the mega-dairies. Concentrated animal feeding operations, called CAFOs for short, house thousands of cows, and are often owned by absentee operators who pollute their neighbors' wells with E. coli and the air with aerosolized liquid waste, but complain that they have to get permits for processing more sh*t than a city of 5,000 people.
The mega-dairy CAFO folks are not pasturing their cattle. Their cows are not out in the field exposed to pollutants or sunshine, or crapping in streams, though their giant manure digesters and holding ponds might be leaking, or maybe the mess they spread on frozen fields right before a rain is running off. The CAFO operators, like other major agribusinesses, are the ones setting the tone through the ag lobby and that lobby doesn't like regulation. They're the ones in Wisconsin who fight the hardest against water quality monitoring and restrictions on manure handling.
Yes, I'm generalizing, and yes there is overlap. The idyllic red-barn, Holstein-dappled pasture, the home of fresh-faced 4-H kids pampering their calves that most think of when they think of Wisconsin dairies (and that the entire dairy industry would like them to think of) is struggling.
My neighbors have a help wanted sign out in front of their 300-cow dairy because they "lost" all their milking help and are getting too old to keep up, especially when one of them keeps fighting off rapid-growing brain tumors. They probably make as much money on agri-tourism as they do on their milk itself, with haunted barns and dairy tours. One of their neighbors basically "wastes" a corn field because the corn maze makes more money.
Another neighbor has only been able to afford to re-side and insulate one side of his 100-plus-year-old house. The rest of the house is stacked with hay bales against Wisconsin winters because he can't work off the farm anymore due to a back injury and his wife is a low-paid clerical worker. Her job provides the health insurance. He briefly benefited from an uptick in dairy prices and managed to fix his collapsing barn, but he also lost the help when his son graduated from high school and he's back to square one, which seems to happen with regularity whenever the shift in dairy pricing comes to rest on the people producing milk. He still owes me land rent from a decade ago, but I "forgave" it.
(Meg Turville-Heitz photo)
Another local farmer can't do anything after noon, when she takes all the painkillers she needs to manage her dairy ewes through lambing and move 120-pound-plus sheep from pasture to pasture. She can't drive or be counted on to remember anything after she's taken the drugs.
River of cats
Yet another neighbor has had heart attacks and is moving slower every day, followed by a river of cats in search of the milk slurry he gives them to keep them around. He pitches hay and feeds the calves still, but his grandsons come over every day to help handle the steers who are frisky and rude and push the old man around.
Then there's the grain farmer who rents a lot of acreage in the area after he gave up raising hogs because he kept getting asthma attacks from the aerosolized pig crap. He wants to use more conservation practices, and has managed to add conservation tillage, but his dad, who can't do much but drive the sprayer any more, refuses and Dad still owns the land.
Feeling their pain
The "dairy industry" and larger "agriculture" isn't what it used to be. It can't be generalized. They're my neighbors and I'm feeling their pain. They are all struggling as the industry becomes more and more competitive, and the only people who can do it are doing it at an industrial scale: chickens, cows, goats, turkeys and square miles of mono-cropped fields; or are scaling back to small direct market farms, like the one I operated until I couldn't any more, or organic, where they are more and more at the mercy of industrial scale organics. I couldn't sell my vegetables at a Dole Organic price point. No one can
Driving through the central part of the state the other day I saw signs draped on semis in many vegetable fields begging for seasonal help as the Del Monte cannery gears up for the harvest, tipping semi loads of green stuff into processors faster than the diminished number of field hands can pick.
Veal calf.
(Humane Farming Association photo)
My neighbors know their dirt
With all the "dust over the road" signs warning of top soil that often turns the snowdrifts brownish red in the winter, it's a sign of a different kind of farming. My neighbors know their dirt too well and would never let it blow away like that. These are the people who are pumping water out of the ground faster than it is replenished, sucking up lakes, and in a rain storm as I passed, all the irrigation was still running at full bore, one sending a huge stream out toward the highway.
As in any other business, there are the operators doing their best and trying to apply a land ethic and humane treatment, and there are those who are looking to make the fastest buck, sometimes at the expense of the environment and the animals. These latter, unfortunately, are usually the ones most effectively insulated from market turns and boycotts.
Meg Turville-Heitz
Meg Turville-Heitz earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's joint program in Life Sciences Communication and Journalism & Mass Communication in 2015, with minors in folklore and anthropology, with an emphasis on environment, Native American issues, social movements, social media m and political communications. "My non-academic professional experience ranges from water quality planning to reporting and editing," she writes, with "extensive volunteer work in 4-H and other community and professional service."
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We subsidize this. The change in the way farms were subsidized to favor Big Ag has pushed out all but the die hard old-timers and the dreamer organic farmers. It has also drained rural and middle America of jobs, leaving wasted communities and angry voters. Big Ag doesn't care about long term environmental issues, their employees or their neighbors, so why the heck would they care about the health and comfort of their farm animals.
Down here in rural Western WA, small farms look much like the author described in WI. Tattered affairs owned by struggling seniors or idealistic urban escapees. I recently was up in rural BC and was stunned by the difference in farming there, where small to mid-sized farms appear to be doing well. Guessing there's a different kind of farming policy there.
Lynn Gallagher says
I understand the difference between a small dairy and industrial dairy. There are many. What they have in common is forcibly impregnating cows, separating newborn calves from their mothers and being the reason that there is a veal industry. And all of their animals end up being slaughtered. I am glad the industry is failing. It's about time. And I think it's helpful that many people are learning the truth about the industry instead of the myths they have been taught.
The sad thing is, the industry as a whole isn't failing. The small farmers are, but the big mega-dairies seem to be doing just fine. It's why dairy products are so cheap, cheese is piled onto absolutely everything and milk byproducts like whey end up in a mind-numbing array of packaged products.
We'll know the dairy industry is in real trouble when you can no longer buy a $5 pizza or a $1 quesadilla.
Mary Finelli says
Thanks in large part to government subsidies. We are all paying for the cruelty and environmental destruction caused by people consuming dairy products, plus the immense health care costs to which the consumption of it contributes.
Laura Slitt says
To me, the dairy industry is a variant of human arrogance and slavery caste system structure that began thousands of years ago when the human animal first took up the behaviors of domesticating non-humans. Into our servitude, subjugation and oppressive hands, did wild beings fall, when we took them hostage, into bondage, setting the stage for every variant of racism, sexism, dominant might makes right social DIS-order, plaguing and traumatizing humans ever since.
The dairy industry is a shocking reminder that human society made its empires off the suffering of animals and the industrial complexes that rose from the ugly seeds that took the deformed shape of animal agriculture, what is now the single most threatening source of environmental and public health threats, as well as causing unmitigated violence to non-human beings.
The sheer insanity of humans taking another mothers babies from her bellowing side, to then steal HER milk, THEIR nursing formula, a formula proven to cause a myriad of medical abnormalities in humans, confirms that our species is much dumber and cruel than we can fathom, considering we spend our lives patting ourselves on the back, lauding our intelligence as the top of the food chain.
When every single nutrient including protein, originates in plant foods, and NO OTHER species consumes ANY other beverage other than water, and is weaned after teeth appear, it is confounding that, given the diseases and suffering inherent in dairy production and consumption, it's still such an icon. But then we are a contrived, coerced, manufactured society that was made of commercials and a government that runs on who funds politicians, the powerful industry's that sell us absurdity, like needing bovine growth fluid for calcium, when the cows get theirs from greens!!!
Karen Davis says
All I ever had to see of the "dairy" industry to hate it were videos and photographs of the calves ripped away from their mothers to be isolated, tremblingly, in solitary crates and hutches. All I had to hear and read about were the mothers crying for their stolen newborns. This is not just the meg-operations; it is dairy farming. I still remember back in the late 1970s being taken by an old friend to a small dairy cow farm in Pennsylvania and seeing the cows and the mud and the cement milking "parlor" and the milking machinery to know that this is a bizarre and sickening business, a cruel business, a mean business, regardless of how "normal."
I have taken increasingly, when time permits, to posting comments to food section articles in The Washington Post and elsewhere pushing back against all suggestions that the mammary-gland milk stolen from mother cows and goats is "necessary" for calcium, as meanwhile interspecies mammary milk is not even digestible by the majority of the world's population. But even if it were, the ugliness of this business would be what it is. I remind readers that despite all the machinery and other things between themselves and the mother cow when they are drinking mammary milk and eating cheese and yogurt from cows and goats – what they are doing is sucking the nipples of a nursing mammal.
I'm one of those people to whom it never fully sunk in that in order to produce milk, a cow, like any other mammal, has to be pregnant. It was reading "The Cookbook for People Who Love Animals" in 1983 that turned on that light bulb in my brain. That cookbook also described how dairy cows (so-called) have been genetically manipulated to produce such an unnatural amount of milk for human consumption that their udders drag on the milking parlor floor and that workers tramp on these heavy, dragging udders without a thought. The cows, meanwhile, are being drained of the calcium and other minerals needed for their bones in order to produce all this milk, they develop osteoporosis and mastitis and painful lameness, their bodies are disproportioned by the weight and drag of the udders, and they are MISERABLE. And then, of course, there's the horrific treatment of the cows, to get rid of them when their bodies are no longer financially productive, the dragging of them with machinery, the hellish transport, the slaughter.
How many articles I have read in dairy and other agribusiness publications about cows, chickens, turkeys and other farmed animal victims being locked in a building in which a fire broke out and the farmer is quoted by the reporter: "At least no one got hurt." Articles about how the small dairy farmer's cows who did not die in the fire, but are suffering horribly from smoke inhalation, are held awaiting the slaughter truck to take them away.
Farmers are not sentimental about "their" animals, and this is a source of pride with them. Yet they have no problem creating smarmy, cloyingly sentimental and dishonest ads on TV and elsewhere about their "wholesome" enterprise and their "humane" animal care – anything to anesthetize the public. Every time I see one of these "dairy pure" types of ads with a farmer holding an inert newborn calf (just taken away from his or her mother), I want to puke and weep with sadness and disgust.
I want all forms of animal agribusiness to be extinguished so bad I can taste it. I will never stop working for an animal-free food supply and for animals themselves until I die.
Karen Davis, PhD, President, United Poultry Concerns http://www.upc-online.org
Jamaka Petzak says
Ms. Turville-Heitz points out something that many of us realize after our purism gives way to consideration of the complexities that make up any and all of our lives: that most of us are struggling in one way or another, that many of us are doing the best we can and would prefer to do better, but for whatever reasons, are not able to do so at this time; and that those who are looking for completely guilt-free ways of living might do well to cast their eyes upwards, because they're not going to find them here.
susan rudnicki says
Moral relativism is a difficult disease to get over—Homo sapiens is the only one practicing it, too. "Purism"? That's a term designed to let the nasty facts get slid over to the side.
Merritt Clifton says
Nasty facts usually turn up on both sides of moral and philosophical issues, as leading animal rights philosophers Peter Singer and our late friend Tom Regan always acknowledged and took into account in framing their arguments.
Robert Grillo says
I say vegans are right in their focus on the big picture and not on some rare, precious exception to the rule in which some oxymoronic "compassionate" exploitation is championed. The non vegan world doesn't need our enabling to find excuses and exceptions for consuming or supporting animal exploitation. They have become quite adept at it all on their own.
Robert Grillo
Free from Harm
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Hillary Rettig says
I'm a vegan activist who absolutely supports publication of this article. I think it is imperative that we know as much as possible about the industries we're trying to dismantle. It's also helpful to remember that some of those who oppose us are fighting for their economic, and perhaps actual, lives. Along with the stories poignantly told here by Ms. Turville-Heitz, the New York Times recently had an article about record high suicide rates among French farmers. The victims are mostly, "men ages 45 to 54, working in animal husbandry," and depressed dairy prices is listed as a contributing factor in at least one of the suicides. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/europe/france-farm-suicide.html
Of course we do vegan/AR activism, and commit to it wholeheartedly, to defeat a much worse and more systemic evil–one of the most profound evils on the planet. But let's not trivialize those who are collaterally harmed by our work simply because they happened to be ordinary people who found themselves in the wrong industry at the wrong period of time.
Beyond all of this, I want to commend Meg Turville-Heitz for a fantastic article that taught me a lot and also moved me. And thanks to Merritt and Beth for running it.
Monica Ball says
It's tragic that anyone is so speciesist and clueless that they truly believe that there are only some "operators" in the stolen animal milk industry who "sometimes" make their blood money "at the expense of…the animals." And it's unthinkable that anyone advocating for animal rights would feel compelled to give any credence to such speciesist drivel.
No one advocating for human rights would publish an article about how hard it is for small, local sex traffickers to turn a buck. Nor would they provide a platform for anyone who empathizes with the pain felt by those who enslave humans because it's the only way they're able to turn a meager profit on their small cacao farms.
This comment was cut by more than half. The essence of racism, sexism, speciesism, classism, etc. is the argument that "There is us, and there is them, and they are all alike and no good." The author of the above comment, having already expressed her position, went on at considerable length with further analogies which might variously have been considered to be racist, sexist, and classist in their failure to distinguish among shades of grey in human behavior toward animals, instead painting the whole of the animal-welfare-to-animal-rights spectrum in black-and-white terms.


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More Americans moving longer distances
More Americans appear to be moving given a stronger economy and housing market. In January and February, 5.4% more household moves took place this year than last.
More Americans moving longer distances More Americans appear to be moving given a stronger economy and housing market. In January and February, 5.4% more household moves took place this year than last. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/12eVb5D
Stronger economy has Americans on the move
A recovering economy and rising home prices are key factors driving people to relocate in another county or state. Here are some of the reasons a survey cited for moving or delaying a move.
Moving is up
Putting the move off
Why put it off?
Stressful move
Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY
Julie Schmit, USA TODAY Published 1:15 a.m. ET April 3, 2013 | Updated 11:00 a.m. ET April 3, 2013
A mover walks into a truck in Medford, Ore.(Photo: By Drew E. Fleming, USA TODAY)
Stronger economy means movers are busier
Many put off moves during housing downturn, recession
Data show Americans are moving longer distances than before
More Americans appear to be moving as a better economy and a stronger housing market take hold.
In January and February, 5.4% more households moved this year than last, based on data from the nine largest moving companies, says the American Moving & Storage Association.
For the same period a year ago, household moves were up 2.9% from 2011, it says.
The industry data underscore broader government data.
An estimated 36.5 million people 1 year and older moved in 2012, up from 35.1 million in 2011, the Census Bureau says. It put the mover rate last year at 12%, up from a record low of 11.6% in 2011.
Economic instability and weak home values have delayed moves.
Survey data from Mayflower, a large moving company, show that the average American moves six times in their adult life, but 49% of those recently surveyed said they put off moving since the housing bubble burst.
Of those who had delayed a move, 37% cited economic instability as the main reason, while 31% blamed the declining real estate market.
Millennials — those between the ages of 18 and 34 — are most likely to consider moving, the Mayflower survey says. About half of them say they'll consider it in the next year. Nearly a third of the 1,020 respondents said they'd consider moving in the next year.
Of the Millennial respondents, 34% said they'd be more likely to rent today, down from 55% five years ago.
For those planning a move in the next year, the most common reasons were to get to a new or better home or neighborhood.
Rising home values make it easier for some people to move. Home prices were up 8.1% in January from a year prior, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index. Existing home sales were also up 10% in February from a year ago, the National Association of Realtors says.
As the economy recovers, people are moving longer distances, says Jed Kolko, economist of real estate website Trulia.
All of last year's increase in household moves involved re-settlements in another county or state, he says. Meanwhile, there was little change in the number of moves to another house within the same county.
New jobs often require longer-distance moves, so the increase in cross-county and cross-state moves is a sign that more people are moving for jobs, Kolko says.
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Q: Typescript enum parameter with multiple options and chaining I'm new to typescript, but understand javascript. I'm building a simple utility class that will change the ASCII color of the terminal output. I want the function to be callable like this:
Colorize(ColorizeColors.Red).and(ColorizeBackgrounds.BrightBlue).on('hello world');

Ideally, I would like to be able to pass either a ColorizeColors or ColorizeBackground object to both the initial function call and the .and function and have it work either way. The .on function gets the string text and returns the colorized string. I have created this enums with the correct codes:
export enum ColorizeColors {
  Black = "\u001b[30m",
  Red = "\u001b[31m",
  Green = "\u001b[32m",
  Yellow = "\u001b[33m",
  Blue = "\u001b[34m",
  Magenta = "\u001b[35m",
  Cyan = "\u001b[36m",
  White = "\u001b[37m",
  BrightBlack = "\u001b[30;1m",
  BrightRed = "\u001b[31;1m",
  BrightGreen = "\u001b[32;1m",
  BrightYellow = "\u001b[33;1m",
  BrightBlue = "\u001b[34;1m",
  BrightMagenta = "\u001b[35;1m",
  BrightCyan = "\u001b[36;1m",
  BrightWhite = "\u001b[37;1m",
  Reset = "\u001b[0m",
}

export enum ColorizeBackgrounds {
  Black = "\u001b[40m",
  Red = "\u001b[41m",
  Green = "\u001b[42m",
  Yellow = "\u001b[43m",
  Blue = "\u001b[44m",
  Magenta = "\u001b[45m",
  Cyan = "\u001b[46m",
  White = "\u001b[47m",
  BrightBlack = "\u001b[40;1m",
  BrightRed = "\u001b[41;1m",
  BrightGreen = "\u001b[42;1m",
  BrightYellow = "\u001b[43;1m",
  BrightBlue = "\u001b[44;1m",
  BrightMagenta = "\u001b[45;1m",
  BrightCyan = "\u001b[46;1m",
  BrightWhite = "\u001b[47;1m",
  Reset = "\u001b[0m",
}

This is a quick try of some pseudo-Javascript code of the way that I would think it would be implemented, but I can't get it to work in real Typescript.
function Colorize (color: ColorizeColors | ColorizeBackgrounds) {
  if (typeof color === ColorizeColors) {
    this.fg = color;
  } else if (typeof color === ColorizeBackgrounds) {
    this.bg = color;
  }
  return this;
}

Colorize.and = function (color: ColorizeColors | ColorizeBackgrounds) {
  if (typeof color === ColorizeColors) {
    this.fg = color;
  } else if (typeof color === ColorizeBackgrounds) {
    this.bg = color;
  }
  return this;
}

Colorize.on = function (text: string) {
  return `${this.bg}${this.fg}${text}${ColorizeColors.Reset}`;
}

I have gotten the function to work correctly with other styles of calling it, such as
Colorize.text(ColorizeColors.Red).bg(ColorizeBackgrounds.BrightBlue).on('hello world')
but I like the first style better and am trying to understand how to produce it as an exercise.

A: In order for your plan to work you need to make sure that all the foreground and background color values are distinct strings at runtime.  That looks to be the case for your normal colors, but Reset is the same for both.  I'm going to move Reset out of the enums.  For simplicity, here's the data I'm using:
enum FgColors {
    Red = "[fgRed]",
    Green = "[fgGrn]",
    Blue = "[fgBlu]"
}
enum BgColors {
    Red = "[bgRed]",
    Green = "[bgGrn]",
    Blue = "[bgBlu]"
}
const Reset = "[reset]";

You can't use typeof at runtime to determine if a color is FgColors or BgColors because they will just be strings, and typeof color will be "string".  Instead you will have to look for the particular string inside the values of the FgColors enum object, like this:
function isFgColor(val: FgColors | BgColors): val is FgColors {
    return (Object.values(FgColors) as ReadonlyArray<typeof val>).includes(val);
}

Then your Colorize() function could possibly be implemented like this:
function Colorize<T extends FgColors | BgColors>(color1: T) {
    return {
        and(color2: T extends FgColors ? BgColors : FgColors) {
            return {
                on(text: string) {
                    const [fg, bg] = isFgColor(color1) ? [color1, color2] : [color2, color1];
                    return `${bg}${fg}${text}${Reset}`;
                }
            }
        }
    }
};

By having the function be generic, we can make the compiler try to enforce that the call to and() should pick a color from the other enum.  The generic type T corresponds to the first color, and  T extends FgColors ? BgColors : FgColors is a conditional type that says "if T is a FgColors, then we want a BgColors; otherwise we want a FgColors.  This isn't strictly what you asked for, but without it, you run the risk of allowing two foregrounds or two backgrounds.
Notice how the Colorize() function is not making a class or using this; instead, it  returns an object whose single and property is a function that returns an object whose single on property is a function that returns a string.
Let's test it:
const test = Colorize(BgColors.Green).and(FgColors.Blue).on("hey");
console.log(test); // [bgGrn][fgBlu]hey[reset]
const test2 = Colorize(FgColors.Blue).and(BgColors.Green).on("you");
console.log(test2); // [bgGrn][fgBlu]you[reset]

That looks right, I think.  And let's make sure you can't do it wrong:
const bad = Colorize(FgColors.Red).and(FgColors.Red); // error!
// ----------------------------------> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
// Argument of type 'FgColors.Red' is not assignable to parameter of type 'BgColors'

Looks good.
Okay, hope that helps; good luck!
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G20 commit to addressing global economic challenges
G20 leaders have committed to make united efforts to address major global economic challenges.
The leaders made the commitment as they concluded the two-day summit in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday.
In a statement, the leaders said they would work together to foster global economic growth, while harnessing the power of technological innovation, in particular digitalization, and its application for the benefit of all.
They also vowed to continue building on work done by previous presidencies.
"We will strive to create a virtuous cycle of growth by addressing inequalities and realize a society where all individuals can make use of their full potential," they said.
They added that they are resolved to build a society capable of seizing opportunities, and tackling economic, social and environmental challenges, presented today and in the future, including those of demographic change.
"We will further lead efforts to foster development and address other global challenges to pave the way toward an inclusive and sustainable world, as envisioned in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development," they said.
In the statement, the leaders acknowledged that global growth appears to be stabilising, and is generally projected to pick up moderately later this year and into 2020.
"This recovery is supported by the continuation of accommodative financial conditions and stimulus measures taking effect in some countries. However, growth remains low and risks remain tilted to the downside. Most importantly, trade and geopolitical tensions have intensified. We will continue to address these risks, and stand ready to take further action," they said.
The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthening the global financial safety net with a strong, quota-based, and adequately resourced International Monetary Fund (IMF) at its centre.
"We support the progress made on work to follow up the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) proposals, including on country platforms, and efforts by the World Bank Group (WBG) to enhance risk insurance in development finance. We welcome the work undertaken by the international organizations on capital flows. The OECD has completed its Code of Liberalization of Capital Movements. We will continue our work on the EPG's proposals, recognizing their multi-year nature," they said in the statement
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Kobi Ruzicka had a wine bar concept in the mental planning stage for quite some years, but it was the opportunity to lease the site adjoining his acclaimed Hobart restaurant, Dier Makr, that finally saw it realised. The exit of the café was well timed, as Ruzicka's restaurant was soaking up a good bit of the potential wine bar trade, with few nearby late-night options for serious wine drinkers. The menu was already catering for drinkers with wine-friendly snacks, but the dual concepts needed their own breathing space.
Housed on the Collins Street frontage of the building, Lucinda has similar heritage bones to Dier Makr, with the pressed tin ceilings and hardwood floors now complemented by a long timber bar. There's no low-lying seating here, with stools providing perches along the bar and at a room-encircling shelf that will take a glass of wine and small plate of food, which is exactly what Lucinda is all about.
While Dier Makr is a degustation only dining experience, and one of the most celebrated in Tasmania, Lucinda offers an ever-changing list of small and larger share plates. Aside from the less prescriptive, linear way of eating, the ethos of the menu is a mirror of its elder sibling, with an unwavering focus on ethical, organic and local produce.
"Our plates do tend to lean towards a French caves à manger vibe," says Ruzicka, "including terrine de campagne, chou farci, quenelles with crab sauce and truffle crème caramel … and gougères are a new staple. We bake off several batches throughout the evening, and they're definitely here to stay."
The wine offer heads very much down a 'natural' line, with a heavy representation of coveted international lo-fi bottlings. Ruzicka writes up about 35 wines for a working list, but he has a growing collection of bottles in the cellar, with over 300 extra bins. On any given day, he'll pop open about 10 wines to pour by the glass, sometimes more, sometimes less. But there's no structure here, with the direction of the offer determined as the day progresses deep into the night. Lucinda emerged out of Ruzicka's frustration that there was nowhere for him to go after work, now at least everyone else has somewhere to go.
COVID-19 conditions: Lucinda's pivot during the lockdown, listing their substantial collection of sought-after lo-fi wine on a new website (they've even added their own website for the bar, but still no phone) is there for good. A cellar full of supplies for Dark Mofo necessitated that, with the result a win for all. There's also another exciting reason to visit Lucinda right now. "Our friend Analiese Gregory has been taking over the Lucinda kitchen every Friday lunch," says Ruzicka. "Friday lunches are a highlight," says Ruzicka, "with Analiese Gregory taking over the kitchen each week to create anything from katsu sandwiches to mapo tofu and some fun wine and cocktail matches that have proved popular with locals looking for a fun lunch option."


My family and I were at the dinner table one evening a few weeks ago and, as we were eating, we were trying to debate whether or not Sikhi is currently going extinct or is going through a period of strong revival, and what the driving force is that keeps our Panth flourishing during all of the challenges and successes the Guru blesses us with. I have decided to share the question we debated that evening, my response to the prompt, and would appreciate it if members of the Sangat could leave their thoughts in the comments section so we can all facilitate a dialogue in a space where we can respectfully express our views.
So, what is this driving force that has kept Sikhi from going extinct on multiple occasions and has allowed it to revive when Sikhi has gotten close to the line of extinction?
The concept of Chardi Kala is to adopt a mindset of incredibly high optimism and positivity regardless of what challenges lie ahead and that as Sikhs, we can overcome anything that comes our way. This is the driving force that has kept Sikhi alive and thriving despite the countless adversities we have faced in our history.
Chardi Kala is not false optimism or burying one's head in the sand. It is the spark keeping us going as a Panth. Chardi Kala is the spark keeping us going as a Panth.
It propelled Kaurs to fight against injustice and countless of these Kaurs sacrificed themselves in order to keep our Panth alive. The spirit of Chardi Kala continues to fuel the Kaurs who make a difference in our global community today from Naureen Kaur Singh speaking at the UN Human Rights Convention last year to Rupi Kaur reading her eloquent poetry to audiences around the globe.
It propelled the countless Singhs who fearlessly sacrificed their lives to the Guru in order to keep the Panth alive. The spirit of Chardi Kala continues to fuel Singhs globally such as JJ Singh Kapur who placed 1st at the National Speech & Debate Tournament last summer to Dilpreet Jammu (President of Colorado Sikhs) who alongside many Sikhs and Mile Hi Church Members, organized a large scale Sikh Outreach Event that took place in September 2016.
Chardi Kala fuels our many Sikh organizations that strive to educate our global community about Sikhi and perform Seva to people in the most need. Chardi Kala is what keeps our Panth going in the turbulent times we face as humanity on Earth in the 21st century. Chardi Kala comes from a deep and complete trust in Guru Ji. It is a state of being that is unaffected by the drama all around us and is rooted in Naam..
By approaching life with the relentless optimism that Chardi Kala embodies, we are healing from a troubled past and changing this world for the better. This mindset has carried our Panth through the worst of times and the best of times. During the dark times we face as a global community, I call on all Sikhs of the Guru to put aside our many differences and focus on what unites us as a wider Panth, Chardi Kala. It is this mindset that will keep us thriving in the face of all of the peaks and troughs that will be coming our way.


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Q: Almost adjointness propertie for distributions Suppose $h\in S(\mathbb{R}^d)$ (Schwartz space) and a family $\mathcal{F}=\{f(\,\cdot\,;s)\}_{s\in\mathbb{R}^d}\subseteq S^\prime(\mathbb{R}^d)$ of tempered distributions. Then, for each fixed $s$ we have $f(h;s)\in\mathbb{R}$.
Now, assume that the map $s\mapsto f(h;s)$ is again in $S(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and take $g\in S^\prime(\mathbb{R}^d)$. Denote the action of $g$ over $s\mapsto f(h;s)$ by $\langle g_\cdot,f(h;\,\cdot\,)\rangle$.
Is there some theorem/propertie that guarantees that there is a continuous function $M\{g,\mathcal{F}\}:\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}$ such that for all $h\in S(\mathbb{R}^d)$ we have $$\langle g_\cdot,f(h;\,\cdot\,)\rangle=\int_{\mathbb{R}^d}h(s)M\{g,\mathcal{F}\}(s)\,\mathrm{d}s\,?$$
EDIT Boris'answer is correct. I'll change the question:
Is there some tempered distribution $M\{g,\mathcal{F}\}$ such that $\langle g_\cdot,f(h;\,\cdot\,)\rangle=M\{g,\mathbb{F}\}(h)$?
In Boris answer, the tempered distribution $M\{g,\mathbb{F}\}$ is $g$.

A: Let $f(\cdot;s)=\delta(x-s)$ and $g=\delta(x)$, then $f(h;\cdot)=h(\cdot)$ and $\langle g_\cdot,f(h;\cdot)\rangle=h(0)$, so there is no such function, that
$$
h(0)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^d}h(s)M\{g,\mathcal{F}\}(s)\mathrm{d}s
$$


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25 Words Or Less coming to BUZZR 1/18
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BrandonFG
Re: 25 Words Or Less coming to BUZZR 1/18
It airs in the mornings here, so I'm usually never home*. The few times I've watched, I really enjoyed it, so I look forward to the evening airings.
*I know, I know. DVR.
"Hey, I'm TV's Wayne Brady. I use Bald As Hell!"
Now celebrating his 18th season on GSF!
Chelsea Thrasher
PSA that the entire series is also available on the FOX-owned streaming platform Tubi. It's free although ad-supported. It's kept in sync with the current run of the show.
https://tubitv.com/series/300005479/25-words-or-less
PPatters
Quote from: Chelsea Thrasher on January 06, 2021, 05:19:42 PM
I do believe all episodes are also on YouTube.
chad1m
Well, that was sudden:
#BUZZR fans, an update on our schedule this month. We were excited to bring 25 Words Or Less to our network starting Jan. 18th. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will no longer be adding it to our lineup. Thank you!
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Quote from: chad1m on January 12, 2021, 12:03:03 PM
Oh wow...
Bryce L.
Great, it's Wordplay all over again.
Blanquepage
Uff, 800 tapes to digitize.
BUZZR seems to be striking out on non-Fremantle products. WordPlay, Strike it Rich on Prime, Bzzz...hmm.
Well, at least 25 Words was pulled before it aired at all. Can't say I'm disappointed, either.
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Quote from: Blanquepage on January 12, 2021, 01:07:38 PM
But I was going to make my Buzzr debut! Lol
JMFabiano
Would you count Supermarket Sweep? Probably not, as Fremantle did out and out obtain the rights.
Well Fremantle had a stake on I think the first two at least, just not a 100% stake. Which is also why we have to wait (indefinitely?) for Scrabble.
Bzzz! was a total new acquisition attempt on their behalf, no? (unless somehow Tribune ties into Fremantle)
I'm almost tempted to think that the "unforseen" circumstances is their way to acknowledge the online complaints, and that Buzzr isn't going to just go out and say "we're not airing it cause viewers said the idea sucked". Naaaaaaah....
(There is a precedent, kinda, though. As Buzzr flirted with credit crunching, or asked about it. Viewers said no, so no crunching)
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chargeradiocom
Quote from: Bryce L. on January 12, 2021, 12:39:55 PM
At least they figured out there was an issue beforehand this time.
Quote from: JMFabiano on January 12, 2021, 02:29:04 PM
Also, Concentration (it is still owned by NBC, isn't it?) is doing quite well. Of course the Goodson tie probably helps.
And the half-owned Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour still has a strong presence, though I can't tell whether it's an honest hit, or is being dragged kicking & screaming across the schedule. (Their social media fans would have us believe it's the latter.)
Allstar87
I dunno, they stuck with Temptation long enough to show almost half the run, and that one got pretty heavy complaints throughout.
Let's say you're handling the programming and scheduling for Affiliate in Town, State. You're clearing 25 Words on your station in a decent enough time slot. The numbers are probably ok but not spectacular, but that's the dumpster fire that is syndication in 2021.
All of a sudden, you find out that the station across town is going to be handed practically new episodes of the same show on one of their subchannels. One of those kids down in digital mentioned something about the show being available on some streaming thing called "two bee" (tubi) but you don't quite know what that is. What you do know is that suddenly the show you're clearing is going to be airing in prime slots on another station. Maybe you've got a contract to air the show at 12:35am ET (many contracts have a general time window specified). Buzzr's running the show at 12:30a. Yeah, I'd probably be a little chuffed about that at the station level.
Could have been that; could have been the *fear* of that unpleasant conversation causing FOX to back out.
It's a known thing that the syndication contracts for first run shows make airing older episodes occasionally complicated. It's one of the reasons why J! and Wheel tend to come and go and more often are gone, why when they DO rerun the shows are a minimum 3 years dated, why Wheel has never streamed, and why even when J! streams it's only ever a small window of 40-60 shows and again always at least 3 years old.
TimK2003
That's what I'm leaning towards. If Buzzr is getting 25WOL Season 1 Episodes with full in-studio interaction, while local terrestrial stations are stuck with airing (due to the COVID restrictions) inferior no-touch "Skype" episodes, the latter stations would be getting cheated to a point ‐‐ especially if WXXX aired their season 2 episodes at the same time Buzzr scheduled their S1 reruns.
aaron sica
Yeah. The mentality of "Buzzr listened to its viewers to not run this show because it's too new, blah blah blah" is completely asinine.
Quote from: chargeradiocom on January 12, 2021, 03:16:12 PM
I see what you did there.
And yes, take a drink every time a SMF says "Dear Buzzr, please finally take the MG/HS Hour off the schedule and replace it with [X]"
Two drinks if they ask for the "legit" HS versions. Three if they ask for Joker, Wheel, Jeopardy, etc. etc.
And said SMF were even less reasonable than anyone here ever was about the initial 25W announcement.
I guess they are doing something right, as MG/HS is still in the prime time block and in several other spots. (and as I've said all along, it wasn't a BAD show, warts and all. But that's another story for another day)
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Any business needs to have a good management system in place since its inception.
And no matter how small is the operations, a management system enables the owner to feel the pulse and the health of the business.
A management system is not just a computing software.
It includes a framework of procedures and policies for your business operations.
Procedures keep the flow of the operations in order.
Policies keep the execution of the operations in check.
The accounting system is designed in conjunction with the standard operating procedures and policies; it generates those reports to analyze your company's financial well-being, and continuously keeping them in order.
But management is MORE THAN A SYSTEM!


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Q: Recommended way to build ruby c-extension for testing I was building a rubygem by using
gem build $gemname.gemspec && gem install $gemname-0.0.1.gem

However, this doesn't seem to be the best way to test the gem, since it moves it out of the local environment and into the rubygems paths.
Is the recommendation to build the gem using
cd ext/$gemname && ruby extconf.rb && make

? Or is there a better practice?

A: I'm guessing a Rakefile like the below will also work (and is easier than the commands above). However, it's not obvious that this is necessary for testing.
require 'rake/testtask'
require 'rake/clean'

NAME = 'hola'

# rule to build the extension: this says
# that the extension should be rebuilt
# after any change to the files in ext
file "lib/#{NAME}/#{NAME}.so" =>
    Dir.glob("ext/#{NAME}/*{.rb,.c}") do
  Dir.chdir("ext/#{NAME}") do
    # this does essentially the same thing
    # as what RubyGems does
    ruby "extconf.rb"
    sh "make"
  end
  cp "ext/#{NAME}/#{NAME}.so", "lib/#{NAME}"
end

# make the :test task depend on the shared
# object, so it will be built automatically
# before running the tests
task :test => "lib/#{NAME}/#{NAME}.so"

# use 'rake clean' and 'rake clobber' to
# easily delete generated files
CLEAN.include('ext/**/*{.o,.log,.so}')
CLEAN.include('ext/**/Makefile')
CLOBBER.include('lib/**/*.so')

# the same as before
Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
  t.libs << 'test'
end

desc "Run tests"
task :default => :test


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namespace totomiam
{

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                                StepperMotorController::StepperMotorController ( const  StepperMotor::Mode&         aMode,
                                                                                const   StepperMotor::Pinout&       aPinout                                     )
                                :   inputRadius_(1.5), // TBM param
                                    outputRadius_(4.0), // TBM param
                                    stepsPerRotation_(4096), // TBM param
                                    mode_(aMode),
                                    pinout_(aPinout)
{
    // stepperMotorCore.addChannel(*this) ;
}

                                StepperMotorController::~StepperMotorController ( )
{
    // stepperMotorCore.removeChannel(*this) ;
}

bool                            StepperMotorController::isDefined           ( ) const
{
    return mode_ != StepperMotor::Mode::Undefined ;
}

bool                            StepperMotorController::isBusy              ( ) const
{
    return stepperMotorCore.isChannelBusy(*this) ;
}

double                          StepperMotorController::getInputRadius      ( ) const
{
    return inputRadius_ ;
}

double                          StepperMotorController::getOutputRadius     ( ) const
{
    return outputRadius_ ;
}

uint                            StepperMotorController::getStepsPerRotation ( ) const
{
    return stepsPerRotation_ ;
}

StepperMotor::Mode              StepperMotorController::getMode             ( ) const
{
    return mode_ ;
}

StepperMotor::Pinout            StepperMotorController::getPinout           ( ) const
{
    return pinout_ ;
}

void                            StepperMotorController::rotate              (   const   Angle&                      anAngle                                     )
{

    if (!this->isDefined())
    {
        return ;
    }

    if (this->isBusy())
    {
        return ;
    }

    Serial.println("Stepper Motor Controller is rotating [" + anAngle.toString() + "]...") ;

    stepperMotorCore.rotate(anAngle, *this) ;

}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

}

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