It's good to see that this Benjamin selection traverses the gorge from light to dark. The first three works are in fact lighter fare but the Symphony is hewn from different rock altogether.
First though we meet the pre-War Overture to an Italian Comedy. A cocksure tarantella fizzing with flair and similarly orchestrated. Cotillon, A Suite of Dance Tunes comes from the following year and takes tunes used in the 1719 Dancing Master, furnishing them with great warmth and lithe embellishment. Noteworthy in this performance is the tremendous string warmth in Daphne's Delight and the natty percussion writing in Marlborough's Victory. So too is the beautiful string layering of Love's Triumph which is a ravishingly vital example of Benjamin's control of, and eloquence in, expressive romantic tunes. Jigg it a foot has sinuous charm and there's a classical refinement and chaste warmth in Nymph Divine. These are a cut above the run-of-the-mill visitations by some British composers to the world of the antiquaries. Perceptive and ear catching particularity is what does the trick.
The North American Square Dance Suite is a considerably later work, dating from 1951. These are not so successful because there's less Benjamin here than in Cotillon. One feels he's meeting the dances more than halfway over the "wrong side" and the result is often delightful but seldom if ever personal. That said the bluff-relaxed reel (Miller's Reel) has a lot going for it and he does unleash some Lat-Am percussion in The Old Punk and there's some rambunctious chasing going on in Pigeon on the Pier – though Zez Confrey fans needn't get too excited, this isn't a Kitten on the Keys salute.
The meat of the programme however is the 1945 Symphony, an imposing three quarters of an hour, four-movement work of very considerable stature. It was dedicated to Vaughan Williams, who was himself an influence on Benjamin every bit as much as Sibelius. One doesn't want to overdo these DNA traces in Benjamin's symphony, otherwise we can reduce it, not unlike Moeran's, in a reductive spirit. It has powerful strengths of its own, portentous, dark and glowering in the opening movement, with sardonic percussive tattoos as well. The VW string choir leavening serves as brief respite – back come powerful brass calls and martial percussion, increasingly brutal. There's no real let up in the Scherzo except for questions of density of sound. Fragmented military calls to arms follow the opening mists before things become enshrouded once again in shadows. Sustained with great concentration the slow movement's melancholy is indivisible from a more tensile urgency, dramatically, even convulsively expressed. And this spirit of red-hot engagement surges into the finale, initially gimlet-aggressive, but one that becomes increasingly engulfing, and that posits the imminence of celebration through a tumult of voicings and the return of material from the opening movement.


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Kahani 2: Drama, secrets and a story :
The trailer of Vidya Balans much-awaited Kahani 2 is out, and it doesn't disappoint.
The fast-paced trailer opens with a sequence of the actor being hit by a taxi, reminding us of the scene from the previous installation in which she is thrown in front of a train.
The story seems to revolve around Vidya Balans character "Durga Rani Singh" and her daughter "Mini", who goes missing and Durga is wanted for kidnapping and murder. The film also stars Arjun Rampal who plays a cop.
However, it wouldn't be unfair to say that some of the fans might miss the feisty Nawazuddin Siddiqui and oh-so lovable Parambrata Chatterjee this time.
Sujoy Ghosh's directorial would release in theatres on December 2nd this year.

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How to Enable Windows 10's New Light Theme
Chris Hoffman
Chris Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. He's written about technology for over a decade and was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Chris has written for The New York Times and Reader's Digest, been interviewed as a technology expert on TV stations like Miami's NBC 6, and had his work covered by news outlets like the BBC. Since 2011, Chris has written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times---and that's just here at How-To Geek. Read more...
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May 31, 2019, 9:00 am EST | 1 min read
Windows 10's May 2019 Update includes a new light theme and a brighter default desktop background to go with it. Here's how to enable the shiny new theme and get a lighter looking desktop.
To enable the light theme, head to Settings > Personalization > Colors. To quickly open the Personalization section, you can right-click your desktop and select "Personalize" or press Windows+I to open the Settings window and then click "Personalization."
Click the "Choose your color" box on the Colors pane and select "Light."
This feature requires your PC has the May 2019 Update, which is Windows 10 version 1903. You won't see this option if you're using an older release of Windows 10.
For the previous Windows 10 default with a dark taskbar and light apps, select "Custom," set your default Windows mode to "Dark," and set your default app mode to "Light." You can also select "Dark" in the color list for a dark desktop complete with dark File Explorer windows.
You can choose whether or not your windows have colored window title bars from this pane, too.
If you previously used Windows 10's default desktop background, it's been replaced with the shiny new one. But, if you've switched to a custom desktop wallpaper, the upgrade won't change your default background.
To use Windows 10's shiny new desktop background, head to Settings > Personalization > Background and select it under "Choose Your Picture."
If you don't see it here for some reason, click the "Browse" button and head to C:\Windows\Web\4K\Wallpaper\Windows. Double-click the img0 file that matches your desktop resolution.
The new light theme affects parts of Windows like the taskbar, Start menu, notification popups, and context menus. It won't affect third-party Windows applications.
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Chris Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. He's written about technology for over a decade and was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Chris has written for The New York Times and Reader's Digest, been interviewed as a technology expert on TV stations like Miami's NBC 6, and had his work covered by news outlets like the BBC. Since 2011, Chris has written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times---and that's just here at How-To Geek.


Descant to the hymn tune LLEDROD. Free score with harmonized descant. Additional texts and bulletin inserts upon request. (This tune is also known as LLANGOLLEN.) Free score.
Sounding rather like a fiddle tune you might hear (and dance to) at a country fair, the tune more commonly known today as LLEDROD initially appeared in Wales bearing the name LANGOLLEN. The setting incorporates a lilting, dance-like rhythm that conceals the metric nature of the text underlay, possessing a hauntingly beautiful melodic element. Little is known of its origins, and it seemingly arrived full-born as LLANGOLLEN in 1839 and then as LLEDROD in 1859, in different hymnals by different editors with the same name, John Roberts. The latter of these was also known as the bard Ieuan Gwyllt, who traveled throughout Wales promoting congregational singing and is credited with creating a revival of the form.
that reign of peace for which we pray, the righteous reign of Christ the King.
The text 'Kingly beyond all earthly kings' was written for Christ Church of Hamilton and Wenham, Mass., by Timothy Dudley-Smith, and was set to LLEDROD by Daniel Jay McKinley. The text is under copyright to Hope Publishing Company, and you will need to obtain a license from the publisher to reproduce all or part of this text. Used here by permission.
till glorious from thy heaven above, shall come the city of our God.
whom with the Father we adore, and Holy Ghost for evermore.


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What Lies Ahead: Business trends shaping headlines in 2014
by Evan Marczynski • January 20, 2014 5:17 pm
Some major developments in Bellingham's retail industry, the continued rollout of a long-anticipated federal health care reform law and the future legal marijuana retail market are just a few of the trends expected to play significant roles in 2014's business news.
And while the following items do not represent a comprehensive account of all the things that could impact businesses in Bellingham and Whatcom County this year, these issues are ones that are likely to attract headlines in the coming months.
Local retail changes
Bellingham saw several new retail stores open in 2013, most centered around the growing commercial areas on Meridian Street and Bakerview Road.
With some large store spaces still vacant, and Costco's anticipated construction of a new store along Interstate 5 near Bakerview Road, the local retail industry could continue to see new developments this year.
WinCo Foods, the Boise, Idaho-based discount grocer that operates more than 80 stores in the western U.S., opened a new location in August at 300 E. Bellis Fair Parkway, in the former home of Joe's Sporting Goods. Across the parking lot, Carpet Liquidators opened a new store in a newly remodeled location that was once home to the electronics retailer Good Guys.
A new Sears Hometown Store opened at 3548 Meridian St., across the street from the Bellingham Golf and Country Club and next to Whatcom Farmers Co-Op's Bellingham Country Store. That opening marked the return of a Sears-brand store to Bellingham, after Bellingham's former full-line Sears department store at the Bellis Fair Mall closed in early 2013. That space is now home to a Sports Authority.
Bellis Fair Mall completed its first major remodel in nearly a decade, just in time for the start of the 2013 holiday shopping season. More changes are expected to come to the mall over the next year. General Growth Properties, which operates Bellis Fair, submitted tenant improvement applications with the city to demolish the mall's Regal Cinemas movie theater and convert the space into new retail stores.
Regal Cinemas has already closed several of its theaters around Bellingham, focusing instead on the new Barkley Village Stadium 16 theater, which opened in late 2012.
Local grocery stores saw significant changes last year, as well.
The Markets LLC announced the closure of The Market at Lakeway grocery store. That followed an earlier announcement of that the company was closing its two Cost Cutter stores in Bellingham, one located on Meridian Street and the other in the Sunset Square shopping center.
Fred Meyer completed a remodel of its location at 800 Lakeway Drive, which is across the street from The Market at Lakeway. A similar effort is underway at the Fred Meyer at 1225 W. Bakerview Road.
Haggen Inc. completed remodels on its five Whatcom County locations. The company redesigned those stores under a new brand identity, Haggen Northwest Fresh. Haggen is also phasing out its TOP Food and Drug discount brand, which has operated since the 1980s.
Eight TOP locations around the Puget Sound area have closed or are slated to close this year. Three TOP stores that remain open are expected to be remodeled in the future as Haggen stores.
Health reform rolls out
Between Oct. 1, 2013, and Jan. 14, 2014, 270,860 Washington residents enrolled in new private health insurance coverage or Medicaid coverage, according to officials from Washington Healthplanfinder, the state's new online marketplace that helps individuals, families and businesses shop for health coverage—now mandated under the Affordable Care Act.
The new law rolls out across the country amid continued debate and uncertainty. State exchanges face challenges in convincing enough younger, healthy people to sign up for coverage, which is considered a key element in making exchanges work. Questions also remain over the new law's employee mandate—which will require certain businesses to provide health coverage to their employees or face penalties—that the Obama Administration announced last July would be delayed until 2015.
Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced last December that the federal government now plans to allow certain qualifying businesses in the state to receive tax credits that can cover up to half of their employees' health insurance premiums in 2014.
Under the new federal law, certain small businesses that provided health insurance to their employees from 2010 to 2013 were eligible for tax credits of up to 35 percent. Those credits increase to 50 percent this year, but only if the employer purchases health plans through a state's small business health options program or a health exchange. Washington is one of only two states in the U.S. without such statewide programs.
Kreidler said he expected the federal extension of the tax credits to come as a relief for business owners in Washington state concerned about the costs of complying with the new law.
While the reform's implementation continues, health care providers are seeing other changes in their industry, including an increasing number of mergers and consolidations.
PeaceHealth, the Catholic health care provider that operates St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham (Whatcom County's sole hospital and largest employer), has announced several new partnerships over the past year, including ones with Skagit Regional Health and UW Medicine. A separate plan by PeaceHealth to enter a joint venture with CHI, a nationwide Catholic provider based in Colorado, was suspended last April.
PeaceHealth's recent expansion efforts have sparked controversy among health advocates who want to preserve patients' access to abortion, birth control and doctor-prescribed lethal medication under Washington's "Death with Dignity" law. Those advocates worry that increasing collaboration between public hospitals and health providers run by religious organizations, particularly ones that do not offer such services due to faith-based objections, could hurt patients' access to care.
Pot stores coming soon
Marijuana has now been legal in Washington state for more than a year. Yet as 2014 begins, businesses licensed to grow and sell pot are still months away from opening.
The Washington State Liquor Control Board has received thousands of applications from businesses seeking to enter the new market. The board continues to release lists of current applicants. Actual licenses are not expected to be issued until spring, as regulators work to vet each applicant and ensure all will be able to operate within the law.
As of Jan. 7, 2014, nearly 300 business entities seeking to grow, process or sell marijuana in Whatcom County have submitted applications to the liquor board. Washington regulators announced last September that they will allow six retail marijuana stores in Bellingham, and 15 total across all of Whatcom County.
They are also capping the statewide total of recreational pot farms and gardens at 2 million square feet, although there is no limit on the number of actual growers.
With more than 70 applicants seeking to open pot stores in Bellingham, the liquor board plans to use a lottery system to determine which stores will receive licenses.
Just how much authority local city and county governments will have to regulate where, or if, marijuana businesses can open remains under scrutiny after Bob Ferguson, Washington's attorney general, issued a formal opinion Jan. 16 saying that Initiative 502, the measure that legalized marijuana in the state, included no clear indication that preempts local authorities' ability to regulate such enterprises.
Several municipal governments in Washington have placed moratoriums or outright bans on marijuana business within their jurisdictions. Bellingham city officials say they are moving forward with plans to implement local regulations to allow pot growers and sellers, after the City Council lifted a short-lived moratorium last year.
Sharon Foster, the chair of the state liquor, said that Ferguson's opinion "will be a disappointment to the majority of Washington's voters who approved Initiative 502. We're not yet sure how this opinion will change the implementation of the initiative. If some local governments impose bans it will impact public safety by allowing the current illicit market to continue. It will also reduce the state's expectations for revenue generated from the legal system we are putting in place."
Travel on the rise
Hundreds of new hotel rooms are slated to enter the Bellingham market over the next couple of years. Likely a prime component of the increasing demand for hotels, the Bellingham International Airport is set to finish a multiyear expansion of its commercial terminal in 2014.
Most of the hotel development is occurring around the airport and close nearby around Bakerview Road and Northwest Avenue.
360 Hotel Group of Lynnwood, Wash., opened a 122-room Marriott SpringHill Suites on Northwest Avenue last November. The company has also started construction on an attached 83-room TownePlace Suites, also a Marriott brand.
Just about one block away, on Bakerview Road, a La Quinta Inn opened in January 2014.
Additional developments nearby include a four-story, 105-room Home2 Suites by Hilton at 805 Home Lane, and a five-story, 99-unit Oxford Suites hotel at 4051 Meridian St.
Across the street from the airport, the Port of Bellingham has approved plans by Hotel Services Group of Mount Vernon, Wash., to build a Holiday Inn Express on about 3.77 acres of port-owned property on Mitchell Way, just south of the Pacific Cataract Laser Institute.
The 156-room hotel will include a full restaurant with its own separate entrance, an indoor pool, underground and surface parking, as well as about 7,000 square feet of conference rooms and meeting space, which will range from smaller board rooms up to a full-scale ballroom capable of hosting larger events, according to Dan Mitzel, chairman and managing member of Hotel Services Group. Construction should start in May.
Outside of Bellingham, the Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine re-opened last August. The resort's hotel and two golf courses, the Semiahmoo Golf and Country Club and Loomis Trails, were bought for $19.5 million in June by Resort Semiahmoo LLC, a partnership whose managing member is Wright Hotels Inc. of Seattle. Coastal Hotel Group, also of Seattle, is Semiahmoo's new manager.
Waterfront approved
Local leaders approved guiding framework to redevelop 237 acres of shorefront property along Bellingham's city center last December.
The port and the city are working together to direct planning, cleanup and development of the property.
Development plans present a five-phase scheme with initial stages focusing on site cleanup and establishing a new commercial and residential area connected to the city's downtown. Later phases include building a new public park at Cornwall Beach to the south, rejuvenating a marine-trades area and building the new marina to the north, and relocating a BNSF Railway line that bisects a portion of the site.
The port is already seeking developers for about 11 acres of property that surrounds Bellingham's historic waterfront Granary Building. That process includes selection of a "master developer," who will guide the first commercial development on the site.
The first construction on the site is not expected to begin for several more years.
Evan Marczynski, associate editor of The Bellingham Business Journal, can be reached at 360-647-8805 or evan@bbjtoday.com.


It's my anniversary! I can't believe its been three whole years! I have shared my testimony on my blog before but here it goes again!
Three years ago on this very day I was on my knees crying out to God at a Sunday morning service at Greater Mount Calvary Church in Washington D.C. I stumbled in the sanctuary with tears welling up from my eyes totally broken, lost and hopeless.
June 19th 2011, I made a decision that would forever change my life. I was in college working as an entertainment journalist, hosting my nightly radio show, working two jobs, and going to school. Yet with all that going on, something was missing. Although I was doing really well in school, I was at a point in life where I felt so empty, so broken, and so far from God's love. By this time, I had lost my grandfather, my grandmother, my mother, and had recently found out who I thought was the "love of my life" had cheated on me with a girl whom he was dating for a whole year out of the two we were together.
Growing up in the church in Chicago meant absolutely nothing at this moment. I could no longer rely on my grandmothers prayers. I had to make a decision and ask myself, "Who and what do I really believe?" Although I was baptized when I was nine, it seemed like it meant nothing. Yet in time, I realized how it was connected to everything.
Nevertheless, over the course of three months, my life began to radically change from the inside out and God flipped my life upside down. I had an encounter with God like no other. I knew God had been calling me deeper and into a more intimate relationship with Him, but for so long I was confused on how to get there.
I opened it up and began to read it. Aside from reading it in church on Sundays, I never really read the Bible on my alone time. My mentality was, "Ain't nobody got time for that!" I never studied it for myself. Prior to this, all the Bibles I had would sit up on the shelf and collect dust! I was afraid of what it had to tell me about my life because I didn't want to change my life. However when I opened it this time, it was different. I felt a sense of peace, love and hope. In this moment, the Word of God became alive to me for the first time.
From that day on, I could not get my head out of the Bible. I realized I had been so dead on the inside for so long, my soul was thirsty for this LIFE I never experienced the fullness of. It was the first time in my life that it all made sense. There were no unanswered questions. There was no error in His Word. God showed out in mighty way using people, events, signs, miracles and wonders.
Now here I am, three years later, with an even more desire to know and share God, and carrying even greater joy. I have a ministry called Cookies, Cappuccino and Christ, do many speaking engagements and am dedicated to doing the work of the Lord. Now to be honest, there is much more to my testimony, however this is all the information the Lord has allowed me to release at this time. However, my book, whenever God releases me to publish it, will contain it all.
No sin remains to condemn me. I'm no longer guilty before You.
I pray the Lord heals, delivers and sets you free from every stronghold in your life so you can walk in the liberty Christ died for us to have. If you are saying this prayer for the first time, please write and tell me your experience. May the peace and joy of the Lord be with you!
Every other Sunday, I teach on a conference call. I would love for you to join me! The next one is Sunday, June 29th at 7/8pm EST. I will post the official flyer soon.
Want Cookies, Cappuccino & Christ to come to your city? Already have a venue in mind? Email me!
I would like to plan a winter ski resort trip. We will have speakers, seminars, worship, fellowship and a ton of other super fun things! If you are interested on being on the planning team, please email me.
I am now accepting speaking engagement request for the fall. You can fill out the booking form under the contact tab.
Lastly, I will be having a crazy sale on my online store this weekend. All funds go toward supporting Cookies, Cappuccino and Christ. Purchase something for yourself, a friend, or family member and please support!
Awesome article. June 28 is on a Saturday.


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    def min_rating; 0.0; end
    def max_rating; 10.0; end

    def min_weighting; 0.0; end
    def max_weighting; 1.0; end
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San Jose Fire Department crews are on the scene of a 1-alarm fire at a home on the 1800 block of Half Pence Way early this morning.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- No injuries have been reported but at least five people were displaced by a one-alarm fire early Wednesday morning in San Jose, according to fire officials.
Firefighters received their first call at 4:28 a.m. and the first crew reported to the home in the 1800 block of Half Pence Way at 4:35 a.m., according to Fire Capt. Mitch Matlow.
The fire, which started in a mattress, was knocked down by 5:19 a.m., Matlow said.
Fire officials do not yet know exactly what caused the mattress fire, but generally the most common causes are smoking in bed, nearby candles or hot electric blankets, according to Matlow.
The American Red Cross also responded to the fire.
No further details about the blaze were immediately available.


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Interview with Aanchal Munjal
Soumyajit Dutta
Aanchal Munjal is a talented actress in the Indian film and television industry. She has appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout her career. In this interview, she discusses her journey as an actress, her inspiration, and her approach to acting.
When asked about how she got started in acting, Aanchal explains that she has been acting since her childhood and that it has always been a dream of hers. She went on to say that destiny had brought her to Mumbai to pursue her dream, and she hasn't looked back since.
Aanchal then talks about what drew her to a particular role, stating that her inspiration is Sushmita Sen. She also explains her process for preparing for a role, saying that she works closely with the director to understand their vision for the script and how to bring the character to life.
When asked about her most challenging role to date, Aanchal states that she feels like she hasn't yet played a super challenging role, but that her character in "We Are Family" was deeply loved due to the emotional variations she had to show as a teenager. Munjal also mentions some of her acting idols, mentioning Priyanka Chopra for her confidence, Kareena Kapoor for her self-love, and the list goes on as she wants to learn from everyone.
Aanchal also talks about balancing her personal and professional life and how she spends her free time. She also shares that she stays motivated and focused on her career by being passionate about it. When asked about her future aspirations for her acting career, Munjal says that she wants the world to know and love her and to see her in all kinds of avatars.
In addition, Aanchal Munjal also talks about how she handles criticism, the pressure of being in the entertainment industry, and how she chooses the projects she works on. She also mentions that the industry has changed for the better since she first started acting and that she sets herself apart by not comparing herself to others.
Finally, Aanchal mentions her proudest acting moment so far: working with Amitabh Bachchan and receiving his compliments and blessings. She also mentions several upcoming projects in the pipeline that she will soon be sharing with everyone. She concludes by expressing her gratitude for all the love she has received and her love for her fans.
In this article:Aanchal Munjal, Interview with Aanchal Munjal
Written By Soumyajit Dutta
Soumyajit Dutta is a Cricket News Analyst and Author at Empire Weekly.


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Velký Osek je železniční stanice ve stejnojmenné obci v okrese Kolín ve Středočeském kraji. Leží na trati Praha – Lysá nad Labem – Kolín a je odbočnou stanicí pro trať Velký Osek – Hradec Králové – Choceň. Obě trati i stanice jsou elektrizované (3 kV ss).

Historie
Stanice byla vybudována jakožto součást Rakouské severozápadní dráhy (ÖNWB) spojující Vídeň a Berlín, autorem univerzalizované podoby stanic pro celou dráhu byl architekt Carl Schlimp. Samotnou stavbu prováděla v letech 1869–1870 firma bratří Teibachů z Kutné Hory za podnikatelství p. Grišla z Nové Vsi. 20. prosince 1870 byl zahájen pravidelný vlakový provoz v obou směrech budované dráhy: na Nymburk severním směrem a ze severního zhlaví do Ostroměře (obě trasy byly následně dobudovávány dál). Nákladní doprava se rozběhla 1. května 1871. Celá stanice sestávala z výpravní budovy, skladiště, výtopny s vlastním skladištěm, dílny pro opravu vozů, dále vodárny, točny a dvou strážních domků, jeden na severním, druhý na jižním konci stanice. Již roku 1873 vedla z nádraží první vlečka, do hospodářského dvora rytíře Františka Horského, o délce 3 km se 4 mosty.

Nádraží se v průběhu dalších desetiletí dále rozšiřovalo a modernizovalo, vznikaly další budovy a byly položeny další koleje. V roce 1909 byl zprovozněn dvoukolejný úsek mezi Velkým Osekem a Čáslaví, kompletní druhá kolej byla mezi Kolínem a Děčínem dokončena během první světové války, zejména s pracovním nasazením ruských a italských válečných zajatců. 10. července 1926 stanici navštívil své při cestě do Hořic za hojného zájmu místních prezident republiky Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk a o tři dny později se přes Velký Osek vracel zpět.

Po záboru pomnichovského Československa Třetí říší 15. března 1939 byla stanice po dobu půl roku pod dozorem vojenské stráže Wehrmachtu, po půl roce přebrali tuto úlohu protektorátní četníci.

V roce 1940 byla dokončena Kanínská spojka umožňující bezúvraťovou jízdu ve směru Praha – Hradec Králové přes jižní zhlaví stanice. Spojka je spolu s původní tratí ze severního zhlaví zaústěna do výhybny Velký Osek-Kanín, která je dálkově ovládána ze stanice.

V letech 1944 a 1945 bylo uskutečněno několik spojeneckých náletů na kolínský železniční uzel, v rámci kterých utrpělo škody i osecké nádraží, došlo i k přerušení dopravy.

Stanice byla elektrizována v roce 1958. Roku 1988 dostala stanice nové "majákové" osvětlení.

Počínaje rokem 2002 byla ve stanici zrušena funkce přednosty stanice a hlavní pokladní a Velký Osek byl správně a provozně přidělen pod železniční stanici Kolín.

Reference

Externí odkazy

 Článek o rekonstrukci traťového úseku Lysá nad Labem – Velký Osek (2017)
 Historie Rakouské severozápadní dráhy
 Profil stanice na stránkách Českých drah
 Podrobná historie železniční stanice na stránkách města Velký Osek

Železniční stanice v okrese Kolín
Železniční stanice otevřené v roce 1870
Železniční trať Praha – Lysá nad Labem – Kolín
Železniční trať Velký Osek – Choceň
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Q: How do I fix the tax rate operation? The goal is to provide the total sale, however, the tax rate is not calculating correctly since it keeps outputting 0.0.
import java.util.Scanner; //Required for axquiring user's input

public class salesTax {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int retailPrice; //Holds the retail price
        int taxRate; //Holds sales tax rate
        double salesTax; //Holds sales tax
        double totalSale; //Holds total sale

        //Scanner object to acquire user's input
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

        //Acquire user's retail price
        System.out.println("What is the retail price of the item being purchased? ");
        retailPrice = input.nextInt();

        //Acquire user's sales tax rate
        System.out.println("What is the sales tax rate? ");
        taxRate = input.nextInt() / 100;

        //Display the sales tax for the purchase
        salesTax = retailPrice * taxRate; //Calculates the sales tax
        System.out.println("The sales tax for the purchase is: " + salesTax);

        //Display the total of the sale
        totalSale = retailPrice + salesTax; //Calculate the total sale
        System.out.println("The total of the sale is: " + totalSale);
    }
}

Is there a way to fix the tax rate to produce accurate calculations, given that the tax rate is inputted by the user?

A: taxRate = input.nextInt() / 100;

This will give you 0 because you are dividing by an integer. You can take the number in as a float and divide by 100
float taxRate;
taxRate = input.nextFloat() / 100;

A: To calculate the tax rate you are reading an integer from System input and you are dividing it by 100 which gives an integer result, I think you are entering values less than 100. You need to read the values from the scanner as a float.
try this instead:
float taxRate;
taxRate = input.nextFloat() / 100;

EDIT:
As mentioned in the comments the taxRate value is between 0 and 1, so you should declare the taxRate as float or double.

A: Your tax rate needs to be a double since you're dividing it by 100 and then assigning it taxRate. Since tax rate is an int, it will truncate the value leaving only the integer value.
If taxRate = 7 and then you divide it by 100, you get 0.07. Since taxRate is an Integer value, when Java sees said 0.07 it will get rid of the decimal and only leave the whole number. Therefore, say taxRate = 3.9999, since taxRate is an int, it will truncate the value leaving 3. To fix this, change taxRate to a double.
Also, you need to read taxRate as a double value. To read a double value using Scanner, it will be taxRate = input.nextDouble() / 100;

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Rory Cooper is Driven to Solve Problems for Disabled People
by Delia O'Hara
Rory Cooper. Credit: Michael Lain
As a young man, facing life after suffering a spinal cord injury in a bicycling accident in 1980, AAAS Fellow and AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador Rory Cooper wanted three things — to become an engineer, to be able to support a family, and to make a difference in the world. But he didn't think he could obtain any of them in the type of wheelchair that was available at the time.
In pursuit of those goals, Cooper has played an outsized role in helping disabled people achieve autonomy.
At the time of his accident, Cooper was stationed in Germany with the United States Army. He came back home to San Luis Obispo, California, and was planning to enter California Polytechnic State University to study electrical engineering. However, he didn't think the typical wheelchair could meet the physical requirements of a student. "I was probably going to be pushing three to four miles a day. That wasn't feasible in an 80-pound behemoth," which was the standard at the time, Cooper said. So Cooper designed an ultralight wheelchair that could travel the distance he had to cover without destroying either the chair or himself.
That was the first of many wheelchairs he has designed and built since then. Cooper has been involved for nearly forty years in the transportation, logistics and trouble-shooting aspects of a revolution that has set disabled people all over the world on the road toward leading fuller lives. He is now the Founding Director and VA Senior Research Career Scientist of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, the rehabilitation engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, which is operated in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
"We're trying to get people increased mobility so they can participate in society, go to school, go to work, go to church and their kids' baseball games," he said.
The HERL team, which includes several staffers with disabilities, doesn't just build wheelchairs. They also develop robotics, cognitive aids, prosthetics, virtual reality tools and training protocols.
"We're problem-driven," Cooper said.
New technologies, repurposed old ones, medical innovations and space-age materials all have helped his team cross some fundamental problems off its list, but HERL still finds plenty to keep it busy.
Many disabled individuals spend much of their lives in their chairs. Pushing themselves can cause painful repetitive strain injuries like rotator cuff tears, carpal tunnel syndrome and elbow tendinitis. Back pain and pressure ulcers are two other serious, pervasive issues; falling or tipping over are the main reasons users of power wheelchairs visit emergency rooms. And the presence of steps and uneven terrain can keep wheelchair users from entering buildings or enjoying the outdoors.
Cooper's team has addressed all these challenges and more. They've developed hand chairs and motorized chairs; wheelchairs that can step up and down; chairs with sensors to detect pressure ulcers; and simple, inexpensive designs for disabled people in developing countries.
Their latest invention is the astonishing PneuChair, a waterproof wheelchair powered by compressed air. Because it has no batteries or electronics, owners can hose it down to clean it. For the PneuChair's debut, the team took it through its paces at Inspiration Island, a new inclusion waterpark in San Antonio, Texas. The chairs got drenched, and the kids in them had a blast.
With persistence, ingenuity and hard work, Cooper has achieved all three of his early goals. His determination to succeed has provided the overarching theme of his life and career. He married the physical therapist he'd been seeing in Germany before his accident, who he credits with helping him believe in himself.
Those early days were key. Cooper's parents had an auto machine shop in San Luis Obispo, and early on, he fell in with a number of other people with disabilities who were also frustrated with their wheelchairs. At the same time, an abundance of lightweight metal, including aluminum and chromoly, suddenly appeared for sale, as aviation enthusiasts began to build do-it-yourself, full-size aircraft.
In addition, "a lot of aircraft parts, particularly quick release pins and titanium bolts from Vietnam-era helicopters, started to go on sale at Army surplus stores," Cooper recalled. As time went on, "We were able to make a rigid frame, simplify the number of components and make the chair even lighter."
He eventually got his Ph.D. in both electrical and computer engineering, with a concentration in bioengineering, from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He realized there that "my hobby of making wheelchairs and other assisted devices — people actually did that for a living." He taught at California State University in Sacramento, and became director of the school's Human Engineering Laboratory and coordinator of its Rehabilitation Engineering Program before Pitt hired him away in 1994.
Cooper stays fit by working out, up to one and a half hours five times a week. He races handcycles, a type of hand-pedaled bicycle, and, among his many other accomplishments, he was a bronze medalist at the Paralympics in 1988.
He believes his greatest accomplishment from a policy perspective was getting Medicare to cover ultralight wheelchairs, which used to be considered sports chairs. Now they have their own reimbursement code, K0005. That access has saved countless disabled people's wrists and shoulders, Cooper said.
"The products won't become available unless insurance covers them," he said.

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Singing His Part
A guest post by Daphne Romanoff about what singing in a choir has meant for her autistic son Ben
Most parents think back on their kids' childhoods and it feels like a blur -- it goes by so quickly. It's like that with my daughters, but not so much with my 23 year old son Ben. Ben is autistic - not high functioning, rather somewhere in the middle of the autism spectrum. In his case, this means that he lacks some basic social and communication skills necessary for him to function independently. It's been a very slow, constant, incremental struggle to teach him how to live in our world, not his own.
Ben is at the tip of the large autistic population which has been more included in society than ever before, first in public education, now increasingly in the workplace. "Special" and "inclusion" have been pendulum points all of Ben's life. Although some autistic children can be successfully included in regular classes, Ben has needed intensive, specialized training in the nuts and bolts issues of eye contact, attention, behavior management, language, academics, vocational training, and more.
Ben has been trained and now works independently in regular, busy kitchens -- not segregated work enclaves. Working alongside his co-workers, he can fill containers with mayonnaise, chop carrots, follow a simple recipe, and take out the trash. Ben loves music and has always been very attuned to auditory sensations. In fact, music can be distracting to him in some of the food prep jobs he's worked at -- he'll start singing and forget to cut the croutons.
Now that he has become an adult and aged out of publically-funded education at age 22, I've felt like I can step back and reflect upon Ben's experience as a whole. Although he has accomplished a lot, poignant questions still loom: How will he progress as an adult? How will he find pleasure in life? Where will he fit in? Where will he find harmony?
He did not have to go far, as it turns out. Ben's ultimate inclusion activity is singing with our local community choir.
The Newton Family Singers is an intergenerational group of singers whose repertoire spans traditional American folk through more recent pop. The singers range from age 5 to more than 70. They are a neighborhood group, with no auditions to join, yet they took a gamble by admitting Ben into their choir. We had visited a number of choirs in search of a place where Ben was most likely to succeed and to push him to that next step beyond his comfort zone - and mine.
While the Newton Family Singers have made no special accommodations for Ben, he has been welcomed as a member of the choir. Having a deep voice, Ben sings in the bass section and his fellow bass singers help him when he needs it. They support him and he's learned to respond to their prompts to pay attention and to find his place in the sheet music. I don't think Ben can form friendships as such but I know he looks forward to seeing the other basses. Furthermore, they've come to accept Ben as one of their own.
Things aren't perfect. I hear Ben's voice when he comes in too early and I notice when he somewhat subtly flicks his fingers - an old autistic behavior of his. As part of his disability, Ben does not understand that different people have different perspectives. As a result, he used to sing along with soloists, or the sopranos -- whatever part had the melody. He didn't recognize that people with different vocal ranges sang different parts. Ben has been taught the fundamental skill of imitation, and he knows that applause is expected after performances. That's why, if you attend one of our concerts, you will see one young man in the choir clapping along with the audience at the end of every song. Maybe one day he won't clap with the audience, one day he will understand the different perspectives of being a performer versus an audience member.
This past season, however, Ben has learned that he is a bass and sings from that perspective. He listens to the other parts of the choir and understands the harmony that makes beautiful music. Maybe by singing in harmony, Ben is learning perspective taking through song.
I no longer come to rehearsals as Ben's aide; caught up in the music and friendly faces, I'm now a Soprano singing with the Newton Family Singers. I rehearse at the opposite side of the choir, with an eye on Ben from afar. We have two entirely different parts to sing and Ben learns his lyrics much faster than I do.
Time continues to speed on, and Ben's progress still moves in slow motion. But slow doesn't mean standing still.
He's on stage, and he's singing his part. In harmony. With his community. And with me.
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Hiring an Outsider CEO: Change is Not Always Good
More than one-third of Fortune 1000 companies are run by CEOs recruited from outside the firm. Outsider CEOs are often hired based on reasons such as "the firm needs a fresh start" or that the firm needs someone to "shake things up." Firms favour outside CEO candidates because "outside succession" is equated to "organisational change," which is further equated to ''better performance." Generally speaking, CEOs recruited from outside the firm are more likely to make bolder changes than CEOs promoted from within the firm because outside CEOs bring new perspectives and experiences, and they are not constrained by prior commitments, formal or informal, with the firm's internal stakeholders (especially, its employees). As a result, they are less likely to hesitate to make changes, especially painful changes such as cost-cutting, retrenchment and downsizing.
However, the dramatic, bold strategic changes initiated by outsider CEOs are not always beneficial from the viewpoint of firm performance. Too often, bolder changes are applauded because they are equated with adaptability and flexibility. Instead, empirical research shows that bolder changes can be detrimental to the firm's performance because they may deviate from the firm's core competences. The disruptive effect of bolder strategic changes can be further amplified if the firm's leadership lacks a good understanding of the firm's strengths and weaknesses, which may lead them to initiate large-scale but inappropriate strategic changes. Relative to CEOs promoted from within the firm, those recruited from outside the firm typically lack a good understanding of the firm's core competences as well as its resource constraints and vulnerabilities. While outside CEOs may indeed initiate bolder changes than inside CEOs, the relative performance consequence of strategic changes under their leadership are often unfavourable.
Recent, large-sample empirical studies have found that outside CEO successions often lead to inferior post-succession firm performance as compared with inside successions. For example, outside CEO successions are associated with lower post-succession financial performance than inside CEO successions. To make matters worse, because an outside CEO succession is a disruption to the firm, it is usually followed by turnover of other top management team members. The departure of experienced top management team members can deprive the outside CEO - and the firm - of crucial managerial talent, especially during the critical transition period when the new CEO is developing familiarity with the firm's resources and constraints, and this can further amplify the negative effect of outside CEO succession on firm performance.
The CEO Relay Race
Nandini Rajagopalan is Captain Henry Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management and Organisation, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and a visiting scholar at the Indian School of Business.
One of my earlier2 empirical examinations of the effects of new CEO origin compared the performance consequences of relay CEO succession - in which a newly-appointed CEO has been in the Chief Operating Officer and/or President position and worked with the predecessor CEO in advance of the actual succession event - with the performance effects of non-relay inside successions ("horse race") and outside successions. We found that relay CEO successions, on average, outperformed non-relay inside CEO succession and outside successions. This effect was particularly stronger when the firm had experienced poor performance in the time prior to succession. The beneficial effects of relay CEO successions may reflect the fact that a relay CEO succession process offers valuable learning benefits to both the firm and to the new CEO. On the one hand, the new CEO has the opportunity (prior to actually assuming the CEO position) to carry out some of the tasks of the CEO position, thereby acquiring and enhancing position-specific knowledge and developing broader leadership skills consistent with the position. On the other hand, the firm can conduct a focused and thorough assessment of the candidate's cognitive and interpersonal capabilities, and continuously update its evaluation of whether the candidate's capabilities match the needs of the firm. The firm can then use this evaluation to subsequently decide whether or not to promote the candidate. Thus, a relay CEO succession process can reduce the performance risks after succession, both for the candidate as well as the firm.
One could argue perhaps that the relative disadvantage of outside CEOs is temporary and may very well disappear over time. It may also be argued that outside CEOs' advantage lies in their ability to break from the firm's past strategies and thus make the firm more adaptive. So, what does our research into the long-term consequences of choosing insiders versus outsiders for the CEO position tell us? In more recent work3, we examined the entire tenure histories of nearly two hundred US manufacturing industry CEOs who left their positions (voluntarily or involuntarily) over a six-year time period. We found that in the first three years of tenure, strategic changes under the leadership of an inside CEO and strategic changes under the leadership of an outside CEO yielded essentially the same level of performance in terms of return on assets (ROA). However, after three years, bolder strategic changes initiated by outside CEOs were more disruptive and detrimental to firm performance than similar changes implemented under the leadership of an inside CEO.
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When it comes to strategic change, outsiders typically are good at rapid cost-cutting and divestment. Also, because an outside CEO is typically brought in when a firm is not performing well, he or she tends to have a walk-in mandate for change. As tenure increases, obvious opportunities for cost-cutting and divestment dry up. Inside CEOs, presumably due to their deeper knowledge and understanding of the firm's strengths and weaknesses, are more likely than outside CEOs to initiate and implement strategic changes that are consistent with the firm's resources and capabilities and are more likely to enhance the firm's long-term competitive advantage and growth. A troubling conclusion from our research is that the disadvantage of outside CEOs relative to inside CEOs is not temporary, and tends to persist, and even worsen, over time.
More Risk, Fewer Returns
Outside succession also poses greater career risk for the CEO than inside succession. In another large-sample, empirical study, my research collaborator4 examined why some newly-appointed CEOs are fired after a short tenure (i.e., less than three years) and found that under the same performance conditions, outside CEOs on average are nearly seven times more likely to be dismissed with a short tenure than inside CEOs. An important reason, she argued, is that outside CEO successions are associated with a greater level of information asymmetry between the board of directors of the hiring firm and the CEO candidate. In other words, the CEO candidate knows more about his or her true competency than the board of directors. As a result, in an outside succession, the board of directors is more likely to hire the wrong person, and attempts to rectify the situation by firing the CEO within a short time period following the succession.
The greater career risk of outside CEOs has two other related outcomes, with further adverse impact on the firm. First, the hiring firm is generally forced to pay greater compensation and severance packages to outside CEOs in order to compensate them for their greater career risk. Among large US companies, outside CEOs on average earn 30-40% more non-contingent compensation (i.e., salary plus bonus) than inside CEOs. The compensation premium is even greater for outside CEOs without industry experience than outside CEOs with industry experience, because outside CEOs without industry experience face even greater career risk than those with industry experience. To further reduce their career risk, hiring firms need to pay outside CEOs expensive severance packages in case they are dismissed. Indeed, the terms of these severance packages are typically negotiated at the time the CEO is hired! This phenomenon was particularly evident in the well-publicised exit of Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, who walked away with a severance package worth $42 million when she was ousted in 2005.
Second, outside CEOs are more likely to be dismissed, especially if they succeed a predecessor who was also dismissed. This may lead to a vicious cycle in the firm's CEO succession process. Research shows that if a predecessor CEO was dismissed, the successor CEO was two times more likely to be dismissed, as compared with a CEO whose predecessor voluntarily left the CEO position. This is because the dismissal of the predecessor CEO often leads to the bypassing of a normal succession process and forces the board to select another new CEO in an unplanned manner. In addition, dismissing a predecessor CEO usually occurs under pressure from shareholders. As a result, the subsequent succession process is driven by the desire to quickly restore investor confidence rather than by a careful consideration of the CEO competencies the firm really needs.
In conclusion, outside CEO successions, high CEO turnover rate, and short average CEO tenure appear to go hand-in-hand. The bias in favour of outside CEO successions may have directly contributed to the continuing instability in the corporate suite and detrimental effects on firm performance.
1. For a more detailed review of empirical evidence on the CEO succession planning process and its outcomes see the following publication. Zhang,Y., and Rajagopalan, N., "CEO succession planning: Finally at the centerstage of the boardroom," Business Horizons, 2010, 53, 455-462. This article contains (edited and summarised) excerpts from the original article.
2. Zhang, Y., & Rajagopalan, N. (2004). "When the known devil is better than an unknown god: An empirical study of the antecedents and consequences of relay CEO successions". Academy of Management Journal, 47(4), 483-500.
3. Zhang,Y., & Rajagopalan, N. (2010). "Once an outsider, always an outsider? CEO origin, strategic change, and firm performance". Strategic Management Journal, 31(3), 334-346.
4. Zhang, Y. (2008). "Information asymmetry and the dismissal of newly appointed CEOs: An empirical investigation". Strategic Management Journal, 29(8), 859-872.
2. Zhang, Y., & Rajagopalan, N. (2004). "When the known devil is better than an unknown god: An empirical study of the antecedents and consequences of relay CEO successions". Academy of
Management Journal, 47(4), 483-500.
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Analogue Sequences
By Matt	on December 19, 2016 May 6, 2019
Hi all, I've spent a bit of time this year working on a commercial Ableton Live pack, being released by Loopmasters, in conjunction with School of Synthesis.
The Analogue Sequences Live Pack utilises sequences created from some of School of Synthesis's vast collection of classic vintage and modern analogue synthesisers. This collection includes sequences expertly programmed for the Korg MS20, ARP 2600, Roland Jupiter 6, DSI/Sequential Prophet 6, Roland SH2, Moog Sub37 and Sid Station. All synths have been processed through Bettermaker EQ and Manley NuMu and recorded through Burl Mothership.
It's a pretty sweet sounding collection of loops, but is also way more than that, as they have all been re-imagined into Ableton Instrument racks, allowing for realtime manipulation, re-sequencing and performance via from Ableton Push, or any other MIDI Controller.
Check out Analogue Sequences – School of Synthesis pack at Loopmasters.
Broken D-20 Live Pack
By Matt	on August 15, 2016 November 25, 2018
I recently came across a Roland D-20 Synth that was in pretty bad shape. It worked for a few hours, but then was giving constant "Main Board Errors"
But this was the beautiful part! Every time the synth was turned off and on, it started to play the most amazing glitches out industrial type synth tones.
These instruments are made from half an hour of recordings of me turning the synth off and on again to get weird and wonderful tones.
Download 9 Instrument racks here. All will work with Live 9.5 standard and above.
If you use them, or find the racks inspiring to make your own instruments, consider donating a dollar.
MESS PPG Wave 2.3
By Matt	on June 25, 2016 November 25, 2018
I spent some time recently sampling the amazing PPG Wave 2.3 at the wonderful MESS Foundation. It is a fantastic organisation with an extensive Vintage Synth collection, and very reasonable subscription rates which allows you to access some amazing pieces of Electronic Music's history.
The PPG Wave 2.3, is a visually striking and aurally exciting early digital/wavetable synthesiser from the early 1980s. It's not a particularly intuitive instrument, but has a certain kind of beauty in its glitches and a very musical randomness in its timbre.
After 4 hours recording time, I felt that I only started to scratch the surface of it, but from some of these recordings I have created these 3 multi-sample sampler instruments for Ableton Live 9.2, available as a Live Pack that you can download for free.
If you like these Ableton racks, please consider donating a dollar!
Australian Game Developer's Awards 2015
By Matt	on October 30, 2015 October 30, 2015 1 Comment
In conjunction with the Game Connect Asia-Pacific 2015 conference (GCAP15) the Australian Game Developer Awards were held last Wednesday night.
Breath of Light was shortlisted for three awards, and ended up winning both the Excellence in Art and Excellence in Audio awards.
For someone who is fairly new to this composition for games industry, it was a pretty exciting night to be part of, and pretty amazing that my score and sound design won.
So, congratulations to all the crew at Many Monkeys for making such a great minimalistic, Zen-inspired game, and I feel honoured to be recognised by the Australian Game Developer's Industry for my part in this project.
I also did an interview about the process of creating the Soundtrack for Ableton.com, which you can read here.
Download Breath of Light via the iTunes store or Google play, and you can get the "award-winning" 😉 soundtrack for free via Bandcamp.
The Mouth & Razor FX Racks
By Matt	on July 6, 2015 April 17, 2017
If you've downloaded my "Vocoder for Push" racks, then you should understand the concept behind these racks… basically they're performance orientated racked instruments that hack the external instrument and external effect devices to be able to pre-map the audio routings. By default audio input 1 is used as the mic source, but you can change this if you want.
In this Live set there are two instrument racks, one for Errorsmith's "Razor", and the other for Tim Exile's "The Mouth". Both devices require a license and the Reaktor 5 Player available via nativeinstruments.com.
This is my (nearly) 3 year old daughter singing through The Mouth – "Autoharmonious" Rack.
Download the LivePack file that has these Instrument/FX racks HERE.
Tiny tidal waves – 5 free Ableton Live instrument racks
By Matt	on May 18, 2015 November 25, 2018
I'm giving away five instrument racks based on sounds off my new EP Tiny tidal waves.
Rather than providing instruments that would just play the sounds from the EP, I thought it'd be much more interesting to create a new instrument from each track.
What you get is a collection of instrument racks created from the key elements of each track, re-contextualised into new Ableton instruments. The intention is that they will be useful in a variety of contexts, whilst retaining the flavour of my immersive, shoe-gaze, soundscape vibe.
If you dig deep into the racks, hopefully you'll find some techniques that will inspire you in the creation of your own instrument racks.
DOWNLOAD THE ABLETON LIVE .ALP FILE HERE
If you like what you hear, consider downloading the EP for AU$3 via Bandcamp.
Tiny tidal waves EP Out Now
By Matt	on March 30, 2015 May 14, 2015
Hi everyone, you can now buy Tiny tidal waves for $3 via bandcamp. It's a 5 track EP, that I initially wrote a blog post about here. The photography for the album cover and press shots were done by the wonderful Penny Lane. And the cover shot was taken in front of the rather spectacular artwork of Ash Keating.
Composition & Sound design for Breath of Light
Over the last few months, I've been composing and creating sound for a really beautiful meditative puzzle game for iOS called Breath of Light.
Made by Melbourne game development company Many Monkeys, Breath of Light is the sort of puzzle game that takes time to master, there is no rushing the process, It's a slow paced game that required immersive, meditative music.
The interface is a bit like a Zen Garden, where the player must arrange and move objects within the space to allow the flow of energy from one lotus flower to another. The game is set over 4 seasons, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring, each progressively more challenging as the levels evolve.
Each season has it's own musical underscore created from a bank of loops that are designed to both work in any combination, but also evolve and develop over time with the gameplay.
It was decided very early on that User Interface (U.I.) sounds should add to the musical score. The way we made this work was to have a series of randomised tones associated with every object and movement within the game. All these sounds were composed in a way that to match the tonality of each season's underscore, which allows every gesture within the game-play to contribute to an interactive soundtrack.
During the development of the soundtrack, I used Ableton Live to create a performable set to play these sounds to both demo these musical ideas to the guys at Many Monkeys and to test how the U.I. sounds blended with each other. I did this by creating drum racks that housed the U.I sounds and used scenes to work out the different combinations of underscore loops for each level in the game.
Once the nuts and bolts of the game sound was finalised, I set about developing a performable live set to recorded each 'season' as a musical composition in it's own right. This was done with a little extra help from the wonderful Max for Live Dub Machines audio FX 'Magnetic' and 'Diffuse' which added extra flow and movement.
Below are the recorded seasons of the Breath of Light soundtrack, available for free download via Bandcamp.
Vocoder with Live 9 and Push
By Matt	on October 17, 2014 April 17, 2017 12 Comments
Setting up the Vocoder to work 'out of the box' with Ableton's Push controller was a challenge that I set myself.
For anyone who has used the Vocoder in Live 9 before, you should know that you by default, need two channels, one Midi and one Audio, and they need to have channel routings set up in a particular fashion to make them work.
This doesn't work so well when you want to load a ready to go Vocoder directly from Push. So, I worked out a way to use Live's External FX device within an Instrument rack to allow audio to be sent into a Midi channel.
You can download the live set for free here, and watch the youtube video below for more information on how to ensure it works correctly for your needs.
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QUADwrangle at Arts Centre Melbourne
By Matt	on August 29, 2014 May 14, 2015
The QUADwrangle interactive sound sculpture project at Arts Centre Melbourne is all done and dusted (for now!)
Arts Centre Melbourne's youth programmer Dan West arranged for this video to be made, which sum up the project's aims and intentions pretty well.
During the second weekend session we battled a bit to get our awesome sculptural object to wired up to the two MaKeyMaKey Arduino boards. But once it was finally working, and in the Fairfax Theatre foyer space , it sprung to life and happily interacted with the general public for five days straight!
There were four stations where people could play the sculpture, each with a sound set that corresponded to the object's design. The fence section played bass notes, the brick section played harmony, the tiles played melody, and the diamond wall section played rhythms.
Sound came out of four speakers than were set up in various places within the sculpture. Two up high, two down low. The bass sounds and big kick sounds all come out of the low positioned speakers, and more melodic and 'toppy' rhythmic sounds came out of the high positioned speakers.
Central to the sculpture making sound were two MaKeyMaKey boards that sent QWERTY key messages to Ableton Live 9. These MaKeyMaKey boards are triggered by making a connection between the boards earth, which were wired to copper plates on the sculpture, and to various other points that were wired up to black conductive paint.
Have a look at Flick, Ayten and Kelsey demoing it during the construction phase.
#quadwrangle starts to take shape! Opening Wednesday. @artscentremelbourne
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Each QWERTY key command was assigned to various 'gestures' within Ableton Live 9. I say gestures, because each key command triggered a number of different actions simultaneously such as triggering an audio or midi clip at the same time as triggering FX chains and movement between the four speakers.
One example of how this triggering of gestures worked is the letter "R" (see screen grab below). When the point on the sculpture triggered Capital R, this then triggered the key command gestures that were assigned in Live 9.
"R" was set up to trigger a simple melodic riff, but if held down for long enough also triggered a 'resonation FX chain' that would gradually fade in to make the whole object become awash with a harmonically rich reverb sound. This was accomplished by the triggering of "dummy clips" on the Output channels, which have no audio information, but instead hold automation data. These clips were set up Gate mode, so they would only play when held down.
These channels received audio from each of the four sound sources through their respective sends. In this way, at any time we could route any of the different sounds within the sculpture to any or all of the four speakers in any combination.
Below is the Fence Bass being routed to sends B & D, which in turn were being sent to outs 2 and 4, the speakers located near the ground.
We also had a series of field records that acted as an underscore for the sculpture, so that the object wasn't silently sitting there when people were not interacting with it.
This underscore slowly moved around each of the four speakers through send level automation, once again created within a dummy clip.
This project was really super fun, and great to work with the wonderful staff at Arts Centre Melbourne, and the talented and creative young people who recorded the sounds, designed the sculpture and wired it all up to work!
Check out their various soundcloud and web links:
https://soundcloud.com/felicity-yang
https://soundcloud.com/ayten
https://soundcloud.com/jordanoba
https://soundcloud.com/donald-uren
https://soundcloud.com/niconiquo
https://soundcloud.com/connor-black-harry
http://www.khendersondesign.com/


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Did Hasselhoff Make Phony Suicide Call?
David Hasselhoff lied to cops when he allegedly called 911 to report that his younger daughter attempted to commit suicide, according to his estranged wife, Pamela Bach. And Bach tells TMZ Hasselhoff made the call out of pure revenge.
TMZ first reported that police and paramedics responded to Hasselhoff''s 911 call Sunday night. Multiple police sources told TMZ the former "Baywatch" star reported that his younger daughter was "cut" and it was a suicide attempt. Now Pamela Bach tells TMZ that her daughter never attempted suicide and that David knew it. Bach claims David used his daughter as a pawn, telling Bach, "You're going down. I'm calling the police."
Bach says her daughter was scratched by the family cat Sunday night at around 6 p.m. She says her daughter was crying uncontrollably, so she called David and suggested that it might be appropriate for the girl to see a psychologist on Monday. At that point Bach claims David began ranting that he would call the police and bring her down.
Bach says at around 8 p.m. the police and paramedics arrived and said that David had called in a suicide attempt, so by law they had to take the girl to the hospital. She was released shortly after arriving there.
Hasselhoff's publicist Judy Katz tells TMZ that Hasselhoff became alarmed when his older daughter called to say her sister was bleeding. Hasselhoff denies telling 911 about a suicide attempt, but his publicist says the 911 operator may have interpreted it that way. Hasselhoff, who was getting ready to board a plane for a film festival, left town without visiting his daughter.
Bach says Hasselhoff deliberately concocted the story to make her look like a bad parent. Hasselhoff denies he even spoke with Bach Sunday night, and says the allegations are false.
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I am still laughing with tears rolling down my face at your hubby! Can I pin that photo?
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I feel so sorry for your neighbors if they were outside during Mikey's photo shoot! Leave it to Mikey…disturbing and comical all in one!
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for sharing this story with us. What a great way to start the day, with fun and laughter.
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All I can say is…. Goodeness Gracious!!!
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Love the post! Read that book so many times when I was teaching. Your version is great!
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That's more than I bargained for!
For creativity, I'm saying this was my favorite blog idea with the bucket.


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Is nurture or nature the cause of under-representation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)?
by mrtijssen on February 21, 2014
A view from academia…
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published their report on 'Women in scientific careers' on Thursday the 6th of February after consulting 90 written submissions, including one from Cambridge AWiSE, and 13 witnesses including academic researchers, diversity and equality groups, universities, research and funding councils and the Government. Reading this report as an early career biomedical scientist, was oddly shocking and encouraging at the same time. The Committee points out problems many young scientists will recognise, but adds that these problems have long been identified and despite serious efforts have not ceased to exist.
The Committee explains that the UK economy needs more skilled scientists and engineers. To meet this need more women will need to be retained in STEM careers. The Government currently focuses on inspiring young girls to choose a STEM career.
The Government aims to increase the number of women in STEM by inspiring young girls to choose a STEM career, like Penny does here at the Cambridge AWiSE stand at the 2013 Cambridge Science Festival.
However, although this may increase the input, this does not stop women from gradually disappearing higher up the career ladder, the so-called 'leaky pipeline'. Thus, nurturing girls into actively pursuing a career in STEM for some reason does not lead to a larger representation of women at the top. Can this have something to do with the female nature? To my pleasant surprise the Committee actually touches upon this in their report.
The harsh academic environment, recently described to me as the 'Darwinian process that selects the best scientists', may simply be more suited to testosterone-driven alpha males than to women. And therefore, no matter how much you nurture girls and women into pursuing a career in STEM their nature will steer them away from the academic environment later on in life. The Committee for example quotes Oxford Research and Policy and Katalytik who state that "many institutions have found that implementing good working practices benefits all staff […] whereas bad working practices tend to adversely affect women more than men". Dr Bryn Jones, Visiting Fellow at the School of Physics, University of Bristol, adds that "it is dangerous to generalise about personality types and gender", but "an aggressive pushiness may be more common among men than women, which may help some types of men to get essential career support from established academics". And finally, the University of Oxford summarizes it as follows: "within many science disciplines, work is organised into large research groups, which are often described as having a 'sink or swim' culture, with few formal reporting or support mechanisms". It is added that "the evidence is that the absence of such mechanisms is largely neutral for men, but has a significant negative effect for women, who place a higher value on structured support".
Many additional reasons why women may leave the academic career path are mentioned, including short-term contracts and the requirement to move institution at a time that many are trying to settle down with a family. Also, a lack of (knowledge about) maternity provisions and the difficulty of working flexibly or part-time in the extremely competitive academic environment are mentioned.
The notion that funding should be awarded based on scientific excellence is supported by the Committee. However, the report mentions that there is the view that the definition of excellence used may be too narrow. The measures used to put a number on a person's scientific output are not always appropriate. For example, women are more likely to contribute to non-research activities which are often not taken into account. Although addressed in the newly devised Reference of Excellence Framework, measures for publication output and citation like the h-index, do not take into account time away from research and part-time work. Perhaps the emphasis should be more on quality than on quantity. In this respect, the quote from The Royal Society of Chemistry that "generally, women write more comprehensive and concise journal papers than men, resulting in fewer publications but ones that are more widely cited" is interesting.
Although the shared parental leave system proposed by the Children and Families Bill and supported by the Committee may create the flexibility welcomed by some, I am afraid it may not help women in general. Even a healthy pregnancy may affect productivity, if not because of the hormones, then simply because of the fact that you are carrying a bag of potatoes around. Also, what about breastfeeding? The NHS Choices website states "Breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed your baby. Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for around the first six months of your baby's life". Unless childcare is (made) available on site, a woman cannot return to work and stick to exclusive breastfeeding as recommended by the NHS. Of course there is the option of expressing milk, but the available facilities are too often far from ideal and it takes far more time than simply feeding your baby. Finally, the BBC reported on a study showing that female graduates earn thousands of pounds less than their male counterparts last March. The gap is even called the 'motherhood penalty'. Add the cost of childcare to the equation and the sum shows you that on a basic post-doctoral salary it barely pays to work when you have two or more young children. Also, as the Committee states, women tend to be the primary carers, which means they are more likely than men to end their STEM career at this stage. A general conclusion could be that in the current system the female nature steers women away from a career in STEM. Perhaps the situation can be improved by practically supporting women in their family planning, providing technical support during pregnancy and after, creating more affordable on-site childcare and making it more attractive for partners to truly share the care.
Initiatives, like the Athena SWAN Charter and the Daphne Jackson Trust are steps in the right direction. I myself have benefited from the University of Cambridge Returning Carers Scheme and it does help. It will be interesting to see whether these schemes ultimately help women in obtaining permanent senior positions. Do Daphne Jackson Trust fellows with the ambition of becoming a principal investigator have the same opportunities when it comes to climbing the academic ladder as people that have not had a career break?
It cannot be ignored that the current view of many women leaving a STEM career may be slightly biased. It was problematic for the Committee to find data on the destinations of women who leave STEM careers. Since there were only records of how many women were still working in academia and not of where the others have gone, it cannot be excluded that many have changed career and are not genuinely lost to STEM. Also it is likely that many women are not 'wasting their knowledge', but actually applying it in a different role and are therefore still making a useful contribution to the economy even if it is outside STEM.
At the age of 33, and as a mother of two girls, I find myself at a crucial stage of my career. I have a good publication record and have attracted several grants. My current research is funded through personal awards and I have the support from my department to try and secure a 4- to 5-year intermediate/career development fellowship in the next 2 years. If successful, I would be allowed to start my own independent research group. I love research and am keen to make this work, however, I have found myself lying awake at night worrying about the fact that I work part time and the pressure to publish. In the end it will be up to the mercy of the reviewers and the committee that judge my application whether they feel I have done enough. Finally, if successful in obtaining one of these fellowships, I would still not have any job security. Even though I would become a principal investigator, this position will not come with a long-term or permanent contract, which means that after these 4 to 5 years I would still be without a job unless I secure a senior fellowship. In other words, although I am clinging on, there are quite a few big holes in the pipeline for me to leak through.
As well as the nurturing approach taken by the Government, perhaps an initiative aimed at making the STEM career path more versatile and the work environment more conducive for the female nature will help in retaining more women in STEM careers.
Marloes Tijssen
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It's Thursday, it's 7.30pm, it's Top of the Pops Pictonaut Challenge!
This month, The Rogue Verbumancer (or Glempy, if you prefer) challenges the internet to write a thousand words on the topic of going for a walk over a bridge. Or y'know, anything else that springs to mind on seeing this picture… But as you will discover, my brain opted for a fairly literal interpretation.
On this day last year, I was coming towards the end of book ten – a book of short horror stories in honour of Halloween – and I was gearing up to attempt a piece of literary fiction (fnar) for NaNoWriMo. Where has the time gone?
Time visual for you, there.
And lo, it is the end of September, and time for another Pictonaut Challenge. This is a very early draft (as in I started it at 18:54 and finished it about 10 minutes ago) and lacks my usual levels of whimsy. And that is all I can think to say about that.
The Registrar blinked owlishly over the rims of unnaturally vivid fuschia glasses.
"A great lusty oak," his wife added enthusiastically.
The registrar coughed in an embarrassed sort of way.
The new parents rolled their eyes at one another.
Many thoughts went through the registrar's head.
But couldn't you choose a unisex name, like Madison or Jo?
But don't you realise that poor little girl is going to be bullied within an inch of her life?
But it's 5.05pm and I am off the clock.
And that, dear reader, is the tale of how Horace McBevis got her name.


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Johnny Reb—Norfolk, VA, USA
A statue of a Confederate soldier nicknamed "Johnny Reb" was removed in Norfolk, Virginia based on city action.
After Unite the Right in Charlottesville in 2017, Norfolk City Council decided to remove the Confederate statues still remaining in the city. However, Virginia law had prohibited their removal until the law was changed in early 2020. Despite the changes in law not taking effect until July 1, 2020, Norfolk decided to remove the statue during the Uprising of 2020 based on public safety concerns.1
The statue was originally constructed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, starting in 1898. In 1965 it was removed for construction, and in 1971 was installed in a new location, where it stood until its removal in 2020.2 A descendant of the sculptor had previously indicated that the statue should be removed to a museum.3
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Wikipedia: Norfolk Confederate Monument ↩
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Q: Encoding categorical variable from multiple pandas columns In a ~1 million row dataset with mostly boolean features, I have 15 columns of string data that I want to encode in a manner that recognizes the interaction between them. So the data is something like this:
Name1 Name2 Name3 ...
Jane  John  Julie ...
John  Julie Peter ...

The same name can appear in any of the columns, but the names are always within alphabetical order across the columns.
Right now, I reshape the data to "long" format. That allows the machine learning algorithms to recognize that, for example, James is always James regardless of the column he started in, but loses the interaction effects.
df = (pd.wide_to_long(df,
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                      i = i,
                      j = j)
        .reset_index())

Dummy encoding has a similar problem (and is a bit unwieldy because I have thousands of names).
Leaving it in wide format and encoding each column individually misses that the same person is in different columns (as it is stored in separate categorical variables). So the interaction effects are muted/distorted in that scenario (since James interacting with Julie is different if Anna or Zachary is also with them). What I really want to do is encode the various combinations of names across those columns as a single categorical feature.
For what it's worth, I am also using category_encoders package in the pipeline for other variables and preparing the data primarily for tree (Random Forest) and ensemble (xgboost) methods.


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