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Drought and Saving in West Africa: Are Livestock a Buffer Stock?
Marcel Fafchamps
Chris Udry
Katherine Czukas
Christopher R. Udry
Households in the west African semi-arid tropics face substantial risk -- an inevitable consequence of engaging in rainfed agriculture in a drought-prone environment. It has long been hypothesized that these households keep livestock as a buffer stock to insulate their consumption from income fluctuations income. This paper tests this hypothesis. Results indicate that livestock transactions play less of a consumption smoothing role than often assumed. Livestock sales compensate for at most thirty percent, and probably closer to twenty percent of income shortfalls due to village-level shocks alone. We discuss possible explanations for these results and suggest directions for future work.
Marcel Fafchamps & Chris Udry & Katherine Czukas, "undated". "Drought and Saving in West Africa: Are Livestock a Buffer Stock?," Working Papers 97013, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
Handle: RePEc:wop:stanec:97013
File URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~fafchamp/bfcows.pdf
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Over the last six or seven years we've had someone living with us. There's my family of four, and then this other guy, our tenant. We met him shortly after we got married and he needed a place to stay, and we had some extra space in our apartment, so we let him come live with us.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. We assumed that he would come live with us a just a few months, maybe a year, and then leave… but he never left. We also thought he could really help us out. He was supposed to help with rent, help us maintain the place, help us in our personal errands and stuff, help us make friends in the area, etc. But actually it seems like the opposite happened. He made our daily life more expensive, he made daily life more complicated, he made our house more disorganized, and he even stole things from us.
My wife and I have spent a lot of time talking about him, and our family, and just what we should do about all this. He's caused a lot of problems that have affected our family, our marriage, even our health and relationships with others. I mean, it's been several years and he's still taking up space in our house! And so we've finally decided that he can't live with us anymore.
By the way, did I tell you his name yet? Oh, sorry. His name is Cray, but he goes by his first and middle name: Cray Z. Some of you may recognize his last name: Busy. Cray Z. Busy. Anyway, he's been tagging along with me and my family for years now.
And it all started shortly after we were married. I was a pastor of a small church in Indiana, and leading the church only required 25 or 30 hours of work each week. We thought we could use some extra income – we didn't really need it, but the thought of having extra money sounded attractive – so I got a part time job. I later found out that Cray Z. had disguised himself as an extra income. Then that part time job became a full time job, and I pastored 20+ hours a week on the side. Anna also got a second job. Then I decided it would be cool to take some classes at a community college nearby, Ivy Tech in Indiana. And we had different ministry things and community things we became a part of… It just became a big mess of busyness.
When we left Indiana to move to Dallas we thought we were done with Cray Z. Busy. We told him we were done with his shenanigans and told him and his bundle of stress to stay behind. Unfortunately, he snuck into our Uhaul while weren't looking and we found him in Dallas. One thing led to another and busyness took over our lives again. Zero breathing room. We began to realize that not only had Cray Z. followed us here, but we were feeding him. And he was growing larger, taking up more space, and began to fill our calendar, checkbook, and life with things we didn't want, activities we didn't like, and people we didn't care for.
He's bought junk we don't need and left it all over the place.
He's marked on all the walls of our house.
He's ordered regular catalogs and mailings that we just don't need.
He's opened all these accounts with every organization imaginable that we need to close out.
He's filled our calendar with all these things that we don't even want on the calendar!
So we've decided that we are going to start the process of having him leave. And it isn't going to be easy. It will take a good month or two, probably even longer, to fully get him out of our lives.
Now I know that some of you also know Cray Z. Busy. In fact, I talk to people all the time who use his name. I say "How was your week?" and they respond with "Crazy Busy." I ask, "What do you have planned with weekend?" and they respond with "Oh, this weekend is going to be Crazy." You know this guy I'm talking about, don't you?!
Believe it or not, Cray Z. has been around since Bible times. In fact, when God wrote the 10 commandments for His people, He devoted one of the commandments to helping us get rid of Cray Z. and to help us stop feeding him so much (the Sabbath). It's time. Get rid of Cray Z.


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Q: Variable has been Initialized in Scala class, but what it print is null? object ObjectExample {
  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    val student = new Student("zhu", 18, "zz")
    println(student.gender)
  }
}

class People(val name: String, val age: Int) {
  println("constructor")
  println(name)
  val gender: String = "male"
  println(gender)
  def this(name1: String) = {  //it is useless in here
    this("ci", 18)
    println("subconstructor")
    println(name)
    println(gender)
  }
}

class Student(name: String, age: Int, val school: String) extends People(name, age){
  println("derived constructor")
  println(name)
  println(school)
  override val gender: String = "female"
  println(gender)
}

the first gender which I think I have already Initialized, But What it print is null. I try to overwrite it in Student class and it print "female".
here are results, the third line is what People's gender output
constructor
zhu
null
derived constructor
zhu
zz
female
female

A: I think section 5.1.4 Overriding of the language spec has the pertinent information.

...the binding of the overriding member ... must subsume the binding of the overridden member...

What's more, I believe the Early Definitions syntax was designed to address this issue.
class Student(name: String, age: Int, val school: String
             ) extends {override val gender = "female"} with People(name, age) {
  println("derived constructor")
  println(name)
  println(school)
  //override val gender: String = "female"
  println(gender)
}

Now the output has no null.
constructor
zhu
female
derived constructor
... (etc.)

A: This is explained in Scala FAQ - Why is my abstract or overriden val null?
Citation from page:

A 'strict' or 'eager' val is one which is not marked lazy.
In the absence of "early definitions" (see below), initialization of strict vals is done in the following order.
Superclasses are fully initialized before subclasses.
  Otherwise, in declaration order.
  Naturally when a val is overridden, it is not initialized more than once. So though x2 in the above example is seemingly defined at every point, this is not the case: an overridden val will appear to be null during the construction of superclasses, as will an abstract val.
There is a compiler flag which can be useful for identifying this situation:
-Xcheckinit: Add runtime check to field accessors.

Page also offers three solutions (see FAQ page for details):

*

*Use lazy vals

*Use early definitions (as @jwvh already suggested)

*Use constant value definitions

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Buckland Dinham firm wins family business award
BUCKLAND Dinham timber and furniture company AJ Charlton & Sons have been named as the Family Business of the Year at the Somerset Business Awards ceremony held at the Westlands Leisure Complex in Yeovil recently.
The event was organised by the Somerset Chamber of Commerce.
In order to win the award, AJ Charlton & Sons Limited had to demonstrate to the judges that the family had a significant influence on the business, such that one or more family members are involved in the management of the business. The winners also had to show that they 'were financially successful and showed a clear vision for the long term future of the business, including planned succession'.
The company's chairman and CEO Mr 'AJ' Charlton said, "We are delighted to have won this award. With three generations of the family currently working in the business, we certainly fulfilled the criteria of the family having an active involvement in the management of the company.
"We may well be a family business with roots going back over 100 years to the beginning of the last century, but to win the award we have also had to prove that we are very much a dynamic and successful national enterprise, with our sights set firmly in the future.
"I would also want to stress that on accepting the 'Family Business' award, I did so on behalf of everyone who works here and who are all very much part of the wider Charltons' family."
The Family Business Award was sponsored by Albert Goodman.

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Key Takeaways Of The Notre Dame Offense From The Win Over Stanford
Key takeaways from the performance of the Notre Dame offense in the win over Stanford
Bryan Driskell
Notre Dame (11-1) ended the month of November the way it started the month, with a dominating victory over an inferior opponent. The Irish weren't tested by any good teams in November, but they did what the best teams are supposed to do against bad teams, they thoroughly whipped them.
It wasn't always pretty on offense against Stanford in the 45-14 victory, but at the end of the day the Notre Dame offense racked up 45 points and over 500 yards to play a role in the convincing victory.
Here are my five key takeaways from the victory.
1. Notre Dame has very, very good skill players - All season we've heard this mantra about what Notre Dame lost, but what was maddeningly ignored all season is that the talent at the skill positions in 2021 was better than it was in 2020. Yes, Notre Dame lost two starters at wide receiver, but those two players were the primary receivers because of preseason injuries to Kevin Austin and Braden Lenzy. Both took some time to get going, but combined with Lorenzo Styles this is a far more dangerous group of pass catchers than what Notre Dame had heading into the postseason a year ago.
Not to mention both Kyren Williams and Michael Mayer are better than they were a season ago, significantly.
We have seen this clearly throughout the month of November, but it was even more obvious last night. Stanford simply had no answers for all of Notre Dame's athletes on offense, and we saw running back Chris Tyree healthy for the first time in well over a month. Combine that with what Logan Diggs has done the last month and this Irish offense is peaking at just the right time.
Austin (6 catches, 125 yards) and Mayer (9 catches, 105 yards) were unguardable last night, and Tyree and freshman quarterback Tyler Buchner also had big plays. We also saw Lenzy making plays with the ball last night. This group of skill players has really taken off in November, and Stanford simply had no answers.
2. When Jack Coan is on this offense is dangerous - Jack Coan has had a bit of an up-and-down season, but his start and finish to the season were outstanding. What we learned this season, and it was evident last night against Stanford as well, is that when Coan is rolling this offense is really, really good.
Coan has had a passer rating over at least 150 in six games this season where he played start to finish (Virginia Tech is the other game he went over 150, but he played less than half the game). In those six games the Irish offense has averaged 38.8 points per game, 472.3 yards per game and 7.3 yards per play.
It's also not a coincidence that five of those six games came after the bye week, which saw Notre Dame alter its offense in a manner that better fit Coan's skillset. Once that change happened Coan took offense, the offense took off and the Irish won their final six games by an average margin of 28 points.
Coan's 170.24 rating against Stanford was his third best game of the season behind Georgia Tech (227.70) and Florida State (194.14). He was at 178.10 against Virginia Tech but again, that game isn't factored in because he played less than half the game.
3. Tommy Rees used his team's strength vs. Stanford's weaknesses - My biggest fear last night was that Rees would see how bad Stanford's run defense is and build a game plan around forcing the run. That's not at all what Rees did. He tried to establish the run early, but it was in the same manner he has for much of the November stretch.
It became very clear early in the game that the run game wasn't going to work, so Rees focused on the aspects of the offense that were rolling. Stanford had a slow defense and Rees knew it, and his game plan reflected that reality. He spent the entire first half getting his receivers moving and called a high number of crossers, drags, in cuts and posts that put the Stanford defenders in chase mode.
That was a savvy decision and continued his strong November performances as a game planner and play caller.
4. Run game was an issue, and remains a question mark - The run game has relied on its backs playing at an elite level, and the offensive line has done a good job the last month of getting a body on a body. What the line has not done is get movement, even against bad run defenses.
Stanford has an awful run defense. After the game Brian Kelly talked about how Stanford was showing a "double eagle" loo, which essentially is a five-man front where the Cardinal covered up the center and guards. It wasn't quite what we saw from Stanford in most instances, but we saw it. That isn't new though, and we saw Stanford use similar looks against Utah, but the Utes racked up 441 rushing yards against Stanford just three weeks ago.
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Notre Dame was unable to find answers for those looks, and the reason was relatively simple. The Irish line got very little movement at the point of attack, and the counter runs the Irish employed were especially ineffective because the line gave up too much ground. When the counters worked they were due to the Irish backs bouncing outside and simply out-running Stanford to the sideline.
Notre Dame was unable to find ways to set the edge to get outside or to stretch Stanford outside enough to open cutback lanes.
5. Third-down struggles - Notre Dame's third-down offense was as bad last night as it has been all season, with the Irish going just 2-11 on third-down, good for just an 18.2% conversion rate.
The Irish offense relied on big plays all game long, and it relied on a highly efficient first and second down pass attack that allowed the offense to avoid too many first half third-down opportunities.
Part of the issue in the first half was when Notre Dame got into a third-down situation it was a third-and-long. Notre Dame's first third-down was a 3rd-and-11. Its second was a 3rd-and-19, the same as its third third-down opportunity.
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This picture makes me sad. It makes me sad because it no longer looks like this. We had a brilliant plan to redo the garden. We pulled everything out to make room for new plants. And then we moved the chickens.
Dirt and birds. That's what I've got. And the trees are a bit bigger now. There are only a few token shrubs left, some of which look better than others. We don't even have any weeds. Have I mentioned how good chickens are at weeding? This is just a portion of our yard, our "entertaining" area where we can seat a lot of people. The patio is actually more square footage than our house to give you an idea. The trees moving from upper left, across and then down to lower right are: Arkansas Black apple, Manzanillo olive, Arbequina olive, random orange tree, pomegranate, Karp's Sweet quince, Johnny Appleseed Apple, Illinois Everbearing mulberry, Indian Free peach, Jubileum plum. The gate to the right of the chicken run has actually been removed so that the birds have access to the large orchard area near the garden. I'm not so concerned with that area right now as I just want to focus on this main part of the yard. The first area that people see when they enter our backyard.
A couple of months ago I was sent a book to review. I was so excited to get this book as it was EXACTLY what I needed to inspire me to get moving on the garden. Free Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard by fellow designer Jessi Bloom was going to be my garden savior.
This is definitely a book you can judge by it's cover. It's got beautiful photos – full page photos – throughout with tons of information including basic chicken care, how to build a coop using different materials (plus the pros, cons, availability and relative expense of those materials), and of course what plants you can and cannot use around chickens. It also features different chicken gardens throughout the book which is great. I like seeing what other people are doing with their gardens.
As designers we take a lot of inspiration from what other designers do. We don't copy but we are inspired by different ideas and then change them to make them our own. Our book shelves are lined with relevant topic books that we go through and tag the ideas that we like for each project. Then we work on bringing all the things we like together into a design that flows. This book is perfect to add to my shelf because it deals with a lot of plants I don't normally use – perennials. I work mostly on large projects where we need bulletproof plants that don't die back every year so my experience using perennials is a bit limited.
Next week I'll unveil the plan I have for the backyard along with a plant list that will use chicken-friendly plants. I'll also be incorporating bee-friendly, edible and medicinal plants as well. A following post after that will be the project of putting the plants in (though this might be over a few weeks because I'll need to source them through wholesale nurseries. I'm really looking forward to this project.
Just requested the book from my library. Eager to see the pictures and the plant lists! Good luck with your planning.


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Cathedral of San Francisco
Cathedral of the Virgin Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco, California. Cathedral of St. Mary of the Ascension Day You are welcome to St. Mary's Cathedral. At this holy place, old beliefs and contemporary technologies unite to a song of glory to Almighty God.
Just like the great catehedrals of the past, the Church of Our Lady has used the art and technical brilliance of its era to provide a meeting place for the Christians.
It' also a place sanctified by the prayers of innumerable people who find in the splendour of this beautiful sanctuary a sacred area. The Dome of Mary is moving us like the cross itself, both vertical and horizontal. While our gaze is pulled up in the gracious loop of the dome, our heart is raised to God.
St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral is an artwork and architecture reminiscent of the connection between heaven and the ground that was achieved for us in Jesus Christ. Equilibrium and simplification of technology reflect the unification of man and God in creating and living. Belief and the arts come together to make today's church a dignified legacy of the fine past.
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If available, the instructors are on call from Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 12:00, Saturday from 11:00 to 13:30 and Sunday after the fair. Plan a trip by phoning 415-567-2020 extension 207. Organize your marriage, meeting or other events in St. Mary's.
The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco, California)
St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of St. Mary, is the main cathedral of the Holy Archdiocese of San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This is the native city of the Catholics in the Californian provinces of Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo and is the metropolis of the ecclesiastical district of San Francisco.
To the clergy of the cathedral belong Reverend Arturo Albano, rector and pastor, Reverend Sebastine Bula, VC, parochial vicar. Situated in Cathedral Hill, San Francisco. Today's cathedral replaces the cathedral of the same name (1891-1962). Originally the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception was constructed in 1853-1854 and still is there.
Today it is known as the Old Church of Our Lady. The building was consecrated to St. Mary of the Assumption by Archbishop Riordan on 11 January 1891. A second cathedral was used by the Archdiocese of San Francisco for seventy-one years. Joseph T. McGucken was the fifth Archbishop of San Francisco to be set up in the Cathedral on Van Ness Avenue on April 3, 1962.
This cathedral was ordered when the Second Vatican met in Rome. The rules of the historical ecclesiastical assembly enabled the Archdiocese of San Francisco to courageously design the construction of its new cathedral. From 1962 to 1980, Monsignor Thomas J. Bowe was the first Dean of the new cathedral.
Its foundation stone was layed on December 13, 1967 and the cathedral was finished three years later. The cathedral was consecrated to the Virgin Mary under the name of the Assumption on 5 May 1971. Pope John Paul II held the first papal mass in the cathedral in 1987.
She ran the privately-owned, all-female Cathedral High School in a house adjacent to today's Cathedral. In 1987, CHS fused with the privately owned Sacred Heart High School near by. St. Mary's Cathedral is still closely connected to the resulting Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, which uses the cathedral as the main cathedral for mass and other occasions such as the closing ceremony.
Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo also uses the cathedral to graduate. This cathedral was built by John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney[1] in collaboration with the international renowned Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi, then Dean of the School of Architecture at MIT.
With a height of 77.7 meters (255 feet), the cathedral rises to a height of 57.9 meters (190 feet) and is topped by a gold X (16.7 meters). 2 ] Its gabled rooftop consists of eight sections of Hyperbolic paraboloid, so that the lower transverse cross-section of the rooftop is a quadratic area and the upper cross-section is a cross-section.
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Middle School Students Share Heartbreaking Struggles With Bullying
According to ABC News, 160,000 kids stay home from school because of bullying. Bullying victims are about five times more likely to consider suicide, as they feel it's the only way out.
Bullying takes place in schools across the country, and we've seen the ramifications many times before. Take South Allegheny Middle School outside Pittsburgh, for example, where bullies find opportunity to victimize every day. Listen as five young students bravely share their gut-wrenching experiences as bullying victims. "If you're different in any way from people that think they're cool, it's like blood in the water," one victim told WTAE. The principal has seen students unable to concentrate on their classes, put into intensive therapy, and even turn to self mutilation.
In this video, a news station spends a day at South Allegheny Middle School, distributing a bullying questionnaire to more than 200 students. Even the reporters were shocked by the findings.
Now, school administrators are searching for ways to combat bullying without putting victims at even more risk — and that's where an anonymous tool called Sprigeo comes in…
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Village rugs from the Fars region in southern Iran. The simplicity of its geometric design and minimalist colors have made these very coarse yet fine wool naturally dyed carpets a must have since they began making them in the 1930-50's with such vibrancy in colors it made these the favorite of the cold harsh winters with its plush thick piles. Even the women in this region were colorful in their attire to a point where you would think they were draping the carpet over their shoulders albeit heavy, but think bright pink, reds, greens, oranges natural black made from coal and indigo, a feast of colors so bold yet beautiful. Here you could put semblance to Navajo Indian rugs, zigzag designs, and multi colored checkers, a single tree, medallions and many a times a bird or two or three could be seen.
The Gabbeh carpets simplicity was naïve and that's what made them popular and as these were taken over to the western world especially the US since they resembled many a Navajo style it brought instant recognition and fame. The particular tribe that made these was the Luri Tribes, who today are still there and still weaving the Gabbeh carpets but more so than ever it's become a commercial business.
No longer do you see the innocence of the weaver as you did then, they would see a tree or a flower and weave it in the corner, even their own prized sheep's from whom they have got the most plush wool were part of the design I many pieces in the corners 3 or 4 would be seen woven, a few girls or boys dancing during harvest another naïve design is what was seen In those days.
Due to the natural environment, clean air, cold climate and spring water is what made the wool once mixed with its natural dyes their colors vibrant. A lot of them also had interesting borders, wide and open 2 or 3 layered and the rest was a centre field. Nomadic yet tasteful.


Why is the 6th amendment important?
The right to a speedy trial is important because we can not stay in jail it it not fair.
The sixth amendment defends us by giving the right to a speedy trial.The right to a speedy trial means to not to stay in jail for a long time. For example if you went to jail and then one year later you go to the judge but he sends you right back to jail, how would you feel? A trail needs to happen when the judge and the lawyer are ready. If the sixth amendment did not give you the right to a speedy trial it won't be fair to any American.
The sixth amendment also give us the right to be informed of criminal charges.
Informed means that they told you about why you're in trouble. If you weren't informed it wouldn't be fair to you or other people that go to jail for the same thing. For example, if someone went to court and you did not have a lawyer to inform you about what happened you might go to jail for no apparent reason. Imagine if you were in prison, don't you want to know why you are there.
The sixth amendment provides the lawyer.
A person accused of a crime must have a lawyer so they can defend the person who was accused of the crime if the person did not have a lawyer might not have a lot of evidence and could just be put in jail.
In conclusion, the sixth amendment is important because it defends the rights of the accused.


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Aspen Springs Dental Centre, your dentist in Oshawa area, is located in a bright, modern and brand new building. Our waiting area has all the comforts of home with a flat screen TV, comfortable chairs, and a fireplace. Your little ones will be happily occupied in our children's play area, featuring a brightly painted mural, a Playstation and two computers loaded with fun games. There's lots of free parking, and an elevator ensures that our office is fully accessible, even to those with mobility issues.
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Q: JavaFX Wrapping an editable TextFieldTableCell I'm trying to get a TableView TextFieldTableCell to be both wrapping the text and adjusting the cell height and also be editable at the same time.
So i'm able to make it wrapped or editable, but not at the same time.
I have been following this Thread and trying about a 100 different permutations and possibilities. I'm sure it is possible, but i'm reaching full fustration quickly. So any help would be highly appreciated!
I'm using SceneBuilder and importing the handles. MainFX.fxml: -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.TableView?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane?>

<StackPane maxHeight="-Infinity" maxWidth="-Infinity" minHeight="-Infinity" minWidth="-Infinity" prefHeight="400.0" prefWidth="600.0" xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/8.0.171" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1" fx:controller="wrappingEditableCellProject.Controller">
<children>
  <AnchorPane prefHeight="200.0" prefWidth="200.0">
     <children>
        <TableView fx:id="tableView" prefHeight="200.0" prefWidth="200.0" AnchorPane.bottomAnchor="0.0" AnchorPane.leftAnchor="0.0" AnchorPane.rightAnchor="0.0" AnchorPane.topAnchor="0.0">
          <columns>
            <TableColumn fx:id="id" prefWidth="75.0" text="id" />
            <TableColumn fx:id="name" prefWidth="75.0" text="name" />
          </columns>
        </TableView>
     </children>
  </AnchorPane>
</children>
</StackPane>

My Main class:
package wrappingEditableCellProject;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class Main extends Application {

public static void main (String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    launch(args);
}

@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
    Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("MainFX.fxml"));
    primaryStage.setTitle("mainFx");
    primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 900, 600));
    primaryStage.show();
}

}
My data entry class:
package wrappingEditableCellProject;

public class TableEntry {

    private int id;
    private String name;

    public TableEntry (int id, String name){
        this.id=id;
        this.name=name;
    }

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

}

My Controller class:
package wrappingEditableCellProject;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
import javafx.collections.transformation.FilteredList;
import javafx.collections.transformation.SortedList;
import javafx.fxml.FXML;
import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn;
import javafx.scene.control.TableView;
import javafx.scene.control.cell.PropertyValueFactory;
import javafx.scene.control.cell.TextFieldTableCell;
import javafx.util.converter.IntegerStringConverter;

public class Controller {

    @FXML TableView<TableEntry> tableView;
    @FXML TableColumn<TableEntry, Integer> id;
    @FXML TableColumn<TableEntry, String> name;

    private ObservableList<TableEntry> dataList = FXCollections.observableArrayList();

    @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
    public void initialize(){
        // Set editable
        tableView.setEditable(true);

        // Configure columns
        id.setCellValueFactory(new PropertyValueFactory<>("id"));
        id.setCellFactory(TextFieldTableCell.<TableEntry, Integer>forTableColumn(new IntegerStringConverter()));
        id.setStyle("-fx-alignment: CENTER-LEFT;");
        id.setEditable(false);
        id.setSortable(false);

        name.setCellValueFactory(new PropertyValueFactory<>("name"));
        name.setCellFactory(WrappingTextFieldTableCell.<TableEntry>forTableColumn());
        name.setStyle("-fx-alignment: CENTER-LEFT;");
        name.setSortable(false);
        name.setOnEditCommit(evt -> {
            System.out.println("Edit comitted");
            evt.getRowValue().setName(evt.getNewValue());
        });

        TableColumn[] tableColumns = {id,name};
        tableView.getColumns().clear();
        tableView.getColumns().addAll(tableColumns);

        // add data to the table
        dataList.clear();
        dataList.add(new TableEntry(1, "Steve Upperton Stevenson"));
        dataList.add(new TableEntry(2, "Peter May Parker"));
        dataList.add(new TableEntry(3, "Tony Stark the machinist"));
        dataList.add(new TableEntry(4, "Pepper Pots the CEO of Stark industies"));

        FilteredList<TableEntry> dataFiltered = new FilteredList<>(dataList, b -> true);
        SortedList<TableEntry> dataSorted = new SortedList<>(dataFiltered);
        dataSorted.comparatorProperty().bind(tableView.comparatorProperty());
        tableView.setItems(dataSorted);

    }

}

Here is my custom cell class WrappingTextFieldTableCell:
package wrappingEditableCellProject;
import javafx.scene.control.Control;
import javafx.scene.control.cell.TextFieldTableCell;
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
import javafx.util.converter.DefaultStringConverter;

public class WrappingTextFieldTableCell<S> extends TextFieldTableCell<S, String> {

    private final Text cellText;

    public WrappingTextFieldTableCell() {
        super(new DefaultStringConverter());
        setPrefHeight(Control.USE_COMPUTED_SIZE);
        this.cellText = createText();
    }

    @Override
    public void cancelEdit() {
        super.cancelEdit();
        setGraphic(cellText);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateItem(String item, boolean empty) {
        super.updateItem(item, empty);
        if (!isEmpty() && !isEditing()) {
            setGraphic(cellText);
        }
    }

    private Text createText() {
        Text text = new Text();
        text.wrappingWidthProperty().bind(widthProperty());
        text.textProperty().bind(itemProperty());
        return text;
    }
}

This solution allows me to edit the cell(I know there are easier ways for this), but the wrapping is not taking.
As mentioned i have tried 100 different ways to approach this challenge, but i think this would be the easiest to relate to for any assistance.
Thanks for any support!


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School VI
Profile of the university
Administration and Organisation
I. School of Educational and Social Sciences
II. School of Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Law
III. School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies
IV. School of Humanities and Social Sciences
V. School of Mathematics and Science
VI. School of Medicine and Health Sciences
– Overview: Schools / Departments / Working Groups
Profile and Structure
Study progammes
Cochlea and auditory brainstem physiology
Visual Neuroscience
Animal Physiology and Behaviour
former divisions
Compneuro
Student project topics
Prof. Dr. Jutta Kretzberg
Tel.: +49-(0)441-798-3314
Office: W4-0-078
Welcome to the Computational Neuroscience division!
Our group is interested in the question of sensory coding:
How are sensory stimuli represented and processed in nervous systems?
Currently, we mainly work on this questions in two systems:
The tactile system of the leech
Even though the leech seems scary to many people because of it's food preference for warm blood, it is much more sensitive than one would expect for an organism with such a tiny nervous system. When touched, the leech is able to behaviorally discriminate the position of the tactile stimulus as precisely as the human finger tip - even though only 10 sensory cells of three types are located in each segment. Since the leech tactile system shows surprising similarities to the primate perception of touch, this simple invertebrate system can help to analyze fundamental principles of sensory coding and the processing of tactile stimuli.
In our research, we study with a combination of intracellular electrophysiology, voltage-sensitive dyes, data analysis and computational modeling how a minimalistic nervous system can produce precise behavioral reactions to sensory stimulation.
Scherer, J.S., Riedesel, O.E., Arkhypchuk, I., Meisner, S., Kretzber, J. (2022) Initial Variability and Time-Dependent Changes of Neuronal Response Features Are Cell-Type-Specific. Front. Cell. Neurosci. 16:858221. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2022.858221
Meiser, S., Ashida, G., & Kretzberg, J. (2019). Non-synaptic Plasticity in Leech Touch Cells. Frontiers in Physiology, 10, article 1444, pp. 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.01444
Pirschel, F., Hilgen, G., & Kretzberg, J. (2018). Effects of touch location and intensity on interneurons of the leech local bend network. Scientific reports, 8(1), 3046
Fathiazar, E., Hilgen, G., & Kretzberg, J. (2018). Higher Network Activity Induced by Tactile Compared to Electrical Stimulation of Leech Mechanoreceptors. Frontiers in physiology, 9, 173.
F. Pirschel, J. Kretzberg (2016) "Multiplexed Population Coding of Stimulus Properties by Leech Mechanosensory Cells" The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(13): 3636-3647
Kretzberg, J, et al. (2016), "Encoding of Tactile Stimuli by Mechanoreceptors and Interneurons of the Medicinal Leech", Frontiers in physiology 7 (2016)
The vertebrate auditory system
Humans and many non-human animals have two ears. Having two ears is highly beneficial for our perception of sounds. When a sound is coming from your left side, the sound wave arriving at your left ear is slightly stronger and slightly earlier than at your right ear. Our brain has special circuits for detecting these subtle differences to find out the location of the sound source. Relevant neurons in these neuronal circuits sense, for example, sound timing differences of far less than one millisecond, which constitutes one of the fastest neural computations happening in the nervous system.
In our research, we analyze, model, and simulate the physiological characteristics of auditory neurons in various vertebrate species, including cats, gerbils, and chickens and owls. Such computational approaches enable us to investigate the cellular mechanisms that underlie the precise auditory information processing and perception of sounds under idealized conditions.
Kessler D, Carr CE, Kretzberg J, Ashida G (2021) Theoretical relationship between two measures of spike synchrony: Correlation index and vector strength. Front Neurosci Neurosci 15:761826. doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.761826
Ashida G, Tollin DJ, Kretzberg J (2021) Robustness of neuronal tuning to binaural sound localization cues against age-related loss of inhibitory synaptic inputs. PLoS Comput Biol 17: e1009130. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009130
Dietz M, Ashida G (2021) Computational Models of binaural processing. In: R. Litvsky, M Gouppell, R.R.Fay, A.N. Popper (eds), Binaural Hearing, Springer Handbook of Auditory Research Vol 73, Chapter 10, pp 281-315. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57100-9_10
Klug, J., Schmors, L., Ashida, G., & Dietz, M. (2020). Neural Rate Difference Model Can Account for Lateralization of High-frequency Stimuli. The journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(2), pp. 678-691
Heeringa, A., Zhang, L., Ashida, G., Beutelmann, R., Steenken, F., & Köppl, C. (2020). Temporal Coding of Single Auditory Nerve Fibers Is Not Degraded in Aging Gerbils. The Journal of Neuroscience, 40(2), pp. 343-354. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2784-18.2019
Aralla, R., Ashida, G., Koppl, C. (2020). Binaural responses in the auditory midbrain of chicken (Gallus gallus). European Journal of Neuroscience, 51(5), pp. 1290-1304. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13891
Ashida, G., Heinermann, H., & Kretzberg, J. (2019). Neuronal Population Model of Globular Bushy Cells Covering Unit-to-unit Variability. Public Library of Science, PLoS Computational Biology, 15 (12) article e1007563, pp. 1-38. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007563
Köpcke, Hildebrandt, Kretzberg, Hildebrandt, K. Jannis, & Kretzberg, Jutta. (2019). Online Detection of Multiple Stimulus Changes Based on Single Neuron Interspike Intervals. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 13, article 69, pp. 1-19. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2019.00069
Ashida, G., & Nogueira, W. (2018). Spike-Conducting Integrate-and-Fire Model. eNeuro, 5(4), ENEURO.0112-18.2018.
Nogueira W, Ashida G (2018) Development of a model of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve. In: Biomedical Technology, Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics P. Wriggers and T. Lenartz (eds.). pp 349-362. Springer International
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Tabernero A, Granda B, Medina A, Sanchez-Abarca LI, Lavado E, Medina JM.
Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Facultad de Farmacia and Unidad de Investigacion, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
It is well known that the presence of albumin within the brain and the CSF is developmentally regulated. However, the physiological relevance of this phenomenon is not well established. We have previously shown that albumin specifically increases the flux of glucose and lactate through the pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction in astrocytes. Here we show that, in neurones, albumin also increases the oxidation of glucose and lactate through the pyruvate dehydrogenase-catalysed reaction, the final purpose of this being the synthesis of glutamate. Thus, in neurones, the presence of albumin strongly increased the synthesis and release of glutamate to the extracellular medium. Our results also suggest that glutamate release caused by albumin is designed to promote neuronal survival. Thus, under culture conditions in which neurones die by apoptosis, the presence of albumin promoted neuronal survival and maintained the differentiation programme of these cells, as judged by the expression of the axonal protein, GAP-43. The effect of albumin on neuronal survival was counteracted by the presence of DNQX, an antagonist of non-NMDA-glutamate receptors, suggesting that the glutamate synthesized and released due to the presence of albumin is responsible for neuronal survival. In addition, the effect of albumin seemed to depend on the activity of the NGF receptor, TrkA, suggesting that the glutamate synthesized and released due to the presence of albumin promotes neuronal survival through the activity of TrkA.


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Article October 1, 2010 California Cities Helen Putnam Award for Excellence
Stockton's Operation Peacekeeper Focuses on Reducing Gang Violence
The City of Stockton won the Award for Excellence for this project in the Public Safety category of the 2010 Helen Putnam Award for Excellence program. For more about the program, visit www.cacities.org/helenputnam.
Located 45 miles south of Sacramento, the City of Stockton is home to approximately 290,000 people.
Coping with youth gang violence has been an issue for Stockton, as it has for many cities. To stem the tide of youth joining gangs and committing violent crimes, the city developed and implemented Operation Peacekeeper, an innovative prevention and intervention program.
Created in 1997, Operation Peacekeeper originally focused on reducing youth gang homicides in Stockton. As a result, gang-related homicide numbers dropped from a high of 22 in 1997 to an all-time low of two in 1998. However, budget cuts and expiring grants reduced the program's resources, and by 2004 only one outreach worker remained.
Reinvigorating the Program
Youth gang violence in Stockton resurged during 2005 and 2006. In response, the city reinvigorated Operation Peacekeeper in 2007. To spotlight its high level of support and distance it from perceptions that it was somehow an arm of law enforcement, the city reorganized the program and delegated oversight of it to the city manager's office. The program hired five more youth outreach workers, some of whom were former gang members. The youth outreach workers contacted more than 10,000 youths during 2008 and another 12,000 during 2009.
Operation Peacekeeper's revised strategies combine gang-specific youth forums, individual evaluations, long-term mentoring and involvement of each youth's entire family. The program also expanded its focus from ages 13–18 to include participants ages 10–18. Working with a younger age group better prepares them to resist gang recruitment. The program also aims to help lower the city's high drop-out rates.
Young people enter the program through three separate yet connected levels of prevention and intervention activities. As each youth moves through the levels, his or her progress is recognized and rewarded with access to additional resources, such as classes, stipends and field trips. Evaluation criteria include willingness to participate, the youth's home situation, school grades and attendance records. The program's nonprofit community partners provide training in anger management, substance abuse awareness and more.
New partners in Operation Peacekeeper include San Joaquin County Mental Health Services and the county Office of Education. A re-entry component was launched in partnership with the San Joaquin County Probation Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to help prevent youth from reoffending. According to feedback from the Probation Department and Juvenile Hall staff, these interventions have proven effective.
Mentoring and Community Involvement Play Central Roles
The long-term mentoring provided to youth by the team of outreach workers is Operation Peacekeeper's greatest strength. Young participants in the program, parents, teachers and community members report positive changes in attitude and effort as a result of this mentoring. Specific outcomes also reflect its success — by January 2010, 17 young gang members had fully left their gang and were making strides toward completing school or learning job skills. Furthermore, youth gang violence dropped 17 percent between March 2007 and January 2010. "Helping save a life is my most important intervention," says Youth Outreach Worker Stanley Thomas.
Addressing the causes of gang violence requires the entire community's involvement. An Operation Peacekeeper advisory group comprising public agencies, nonprofit and faith-based organizations meets monthly to review trends, capabilities and needs as part of the effort to jointly prevent high-risk youth from entering the criminal justice system. Mayor Ann Johnston says, "Operation Peacekeeper, in collaboration with our community partners, has saved many of our youth from gang affiliation and violence in the City of Stockton."
"It takes a commitment from every segment of the community to impact at-risk youth," says Ralph Womack, program manager for Operation Peacekeeper. "Citizens can no longer believe that the issue of youth joining gangs is someone else's problem. Every young person counts, and all young people need at least one responsible adult in their life."
Operation Peacekeeper has been recognized as a best practice model for youth gang street outreach by many jurisdictions seeking to establish similar programs. For every youth diverted from involvement in gang violence, the rewards include reduced crime, fewer victims, less heartache for families and a safer community.
Contact: Ralph M. Womack, manager, Operation Peacekeeper, City of Stockton; phone: (209) 937-8880; e-mail: ralph.womack@ci.stockton.ca.us.
This article appears in the October 2010 issue of Western City
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Judge Sends American-US Airways Merger Plan to Creditors For Vote, AA Passenger Traffic Up in May
By Paul Riegler on 7 June 2013
American Airlines' new and old livery
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Sean H. Lane entered the order approving American Airlines' parent AMR Corp.'s "disclosure statement," essentially the airline's reorganization plan, and authorized AMR stockholders and creditors to vote on the plan. In addition, American reported that its passenger traffic for May rose slightly, up 8% as capacity remained the same. The airline said its consolidated record load factor was at 84%, a record for the month.
Voting will begin on June 20 and is slated to be completed by July 29. Assuming that the plan is ratified, Judge Lane will hold a hearing on August 15 where he will be asked to sign off on it. This phase is one of the last steps as American moves towards final court approval of its reorganization and merger with US Airways.
In addition to provisionally approving a $20 million severance package for AMR CEO Tom Horton, Judge Lane also approved a deal between the airline and Citigroup that will allow the two parties to continue to market the Citi AAdvantage card, a joint program aimed towards members of the airline's frequent flyer program.
American filed for bankruptcy court protection in November 2011 with an eye of cutting operational costs. A merger with US Airways was announced in February and would create an airline with a market value of approximately $11 billion. American's restructuring is considered unique in that it is not only paying back AMR's bondholders in full but giving current shareholder's 3.5% of the combined company, which will be called American Airlines Group. Regulatory approval is required before the deal can close and the companies have expressed plans for this to happen in the third quarter of 2013. US Airways CEO Doug Parker will assume that position after the merger and Mr. Horton will serve as non-executive chairman until next spring.
Judge Approves American Airlines Reorganization Plan With Caveat
AA Creditors, Shareholders Vote in Favor of Reorg Plan; Bondholders, Airports, Pilots Object
American Airlines Bankruptcy Plan Approved
Judge Gives Green Light for American Air Exit from Bankruptcy and Merger with US Airways
American Airlines Files Reorganization Plan, Merger with US First Mentioned in Fall 2011
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FMCG companies await 2016 to regain lost ground
Firms note lessons from Maggi fiasco
Having learnt their Maggi lessons hard way in 2015, the FMCG sector is desperately looking for a brighter new year with hopes pinned on revival in rural demand and push from e-commerce even as an enhanced regulatory glare would keep them on toes with regard to safety of products.
While poor rainfall impacted rural consumption of FMCG products during 2015, heavy rains in Chennai and some other parts towards the year-end also hit the companies hard including in terms of impact on their production facilities.
But the biggest hit came from ban on the popular Maggi noodles, which was subsequently lifted on court orders but led to greater scrutiny on all instant food products.
While Nestle India has relaunched the instant noodles brand, the issue brought to the fore the food safety issues as although questions also emerged about the testing standards of various government laboratories.
Nestle is estimated to have taken a hit of Rs 450 crore and had to destroy over 30,000 tonnes of the instant noodles.
"The MAGGI issue disrupted business during the year and the shock is much larger than what the company alone has faced or what our results have indicated. It impacted thousands of workers, suppliers, partners, farmers, distributors, truckers, retailers and other stakeholders who constitute the Maggi brand," a spokesperson for Nestle India said.
Impacted by the ban, Nestle India reported a standalone loss of Rs 64.40 crore in the April-June quarter for the first time in 15 years. In the subsequent quarter, its standalone net profit dipped by over 60 per cent.
The Maggi ban impacted instant noodles business of other companies as well including the conglomerate ITC.
"The instant noodles category was impacted and witnessed a significant decline in sales volume when the controversy broke out," an ITC spokesperson said.
At the same time, the FMCG companies including HUL, ITC, Marico and Dabur were facing challenges of low demand on account of dip in the rural income due to scattered rains bundled with deflation of commodity prices in 2015, which forced them to slash the price of soaps and detergents and increase spending on advertising and promotions.
Although, there was general optimism about the overall economy, this was not seen getting translated into higher consumer spending. Many FMCG firms also faced liquidity issues due to an overall increase in cost of funds.
The only silver lining was seen in the urban markets where modern retail chains and e-commerce boom emerged as new lucrative sales channels for them. The companies are now betting on these channels to expand to rural markets as well.
According to the latest government data, the consumer non-durables sector saw a growth of only 0.1 per cent during the six months period of April to October, as against 1.1 per cent growth in the same period of last year.
Dabur India's CFO Lalit Malik said the year 2015 has been a mixed bag for all FMCG companies, including Dabur.
"It has had its positives by way of lower input costs and a reduction in fuel prices that helped improve margins. There have been strong pockets of growth too with the urban markets, particularly the Modern Trade, reporting strong growth. Also, e-commerce is fast emerging as a new lucrative channel and is showing immense potential," he said.
FMCG major HUL also reported a 2.62 per cent drop in standalone net profit for the quarter ended September 2015, its first quarterly decline in over two years, primarily on account of price decline and deflationary commodity cost.
"The unseasonal rains in the first part of the year had an adverse impact on the agricultural incomes which in turn impacted rural consumption for most of the Consumer Packaged Goods companies," KPMG India Partner and Head of Consumer Markets Rajat Wahi said.
Marico's MD and CEO Saugata Gupta also said that July-September quarter put a brake on the company's growth.
"Historically, rural sales have been growing much faster than urban. However, our research has pointed out that the slowdown in rural India in recent times is driven by sentiments of poor monsoon and liquidity crunch. We are monitoring the situation closely for the quarters to come," Gupta added.
ITC also saw growing pressures on its cigarette business.
"The company's performance during the year remained subdued reflecting the unprecedented pressure on legal cigarette industry volumes, lack of trading opportunities in agri-commodities and sluggish demand environment prevailing in the FMCG industry coupled with prolonged disruption in the Instant Noodles category due to regulatory challenges," the company spokesperson said.
ITC's earnings were considerably impacted by 115 per cent duty increase on cigarettes.
"The performance of the cigarettes business remained muted due to taxation and regulatory headwinds facing the legal cigarette industry in India. The operating environment for the legal cigarette industry in India was rendered even more challenging with two rounds of sharp increase in Excise Duty - in July 2014 and February 2015," the spokesperson said.
In the noodles market, meanwhile, Maggi has got a new competitor with Haridwar-based Patanjali Ayruved jumping into the market to fill the void created by five-month Maggi ban.
"They (Maggi) have re-launched and I do not see any reasons for not coming back to their original situation. What time they would take to reach that level, I do not know but I am sure they can." EY India Partner and National Leader, Retail and Consumer Products, Pinakiranjan Mishra said.
On Patanjali's entry, Mishra said: "I do not think that Patanjali is the replacement for the Maggi consumers. They would take some share but the original would be there. They would create a space but bulk would be with them".
Patently, which has seen a phenomenal growth in the past one year, has also announced plans to foray in many other FMCG segments including cosmetics, baby care, chocolates and cheese. It has managed to place its range of FMCG products in the modern retail chains of Big Bazaar, Reliance Fresh and D-Mart.
In 2015, a host of FMCG firms made investments for capacity expansion and launched new products and they expect the returns to start flowing in from 2016.
"There is an investment potential of around Rs 25,000 crore in the next 5-7 years, given the availability of land and speedy clearances in various states where projects are planned. ITC had made a capital expenditure of Rs 3,000 crore in 2014-15," the ITC spokesperson said.
Dabur and Marico have also announced capital investments.
On a positive note, companies like Dabur have already begun seeing good uptick in their urban sales.
"The year 2015 saw Dabur achieve several new landmarks. The year saw three Dabur brands - Real, Vatika and Amla - report individual sales of Rs 1,000 crore each. In addition, Dabur India Ltd's consolidated net profits also crossed the Rs 1,000-crore mark during the year," Malik said.
FMCG firms are expecting a better start in 2016, beginning with January-March quarter.
Marico's Gupta said the company aspires to grow at about 8-10 per cent in terms of volume and about 15 per cent in terms of value in the medium run, with a threshold operating margin of 16 - 17 per cent.
"Our focus will continue to be on fewer but larger innovations to create future engines of growth hovers in the range of about Rs 100 crore to Rs 125 crore," he added.
The experts are also hopeful that the sector will see better results in the new year.
"Things would be better next year for them. There are some contractions some times and couple of quarters you don't have orders. I think, next year things would turnaround. and the consumer companies will create space by increasing their penetration," EY India's Mishra said.


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Clayton resigns from Environmental Recycling Technologies' board
Clayton was initially appointed as a non-executive director of ERT in January 2012
Environmental Recycling Technologies (ERT) has announced that managing director Lee Clayton has resigned as a director of the company due to a potential conflict of interest.
The Oxfordshire-based firm had begun the process of negotiating a significant new licence on behalf of a potential US licencee, and as this was expected to require the establishment of a new company involving Clayton, the board of ENRT agreed that Clayton was conflicted and accepted his resignation.
Clayton was initially appointed as a non-executive director of ERT in January 2012, subsequently becoming chief operating officer with effect from 28 August 2012 and had been managing director from 31 July the following year.
The company also said it was in discussions which, if completed successfully, would result in the acquisition of an unnamed business operating in a complementary sector.


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Thundercats picture quality and mastering for DVD
Discussion in 'ThunderCats (1985)' started by Booshman, Sep 20, 2015.
Booshman Thunderian Legend
I have been thinking about the quality of the DVD's and how unlikely it it well ever see this show on bluray, mastered from it's original elements.
It got me wondering about the order the mastering was done in for the initial release, and I have a few questions that people here might be able to chime in on.
As far as I know the first release was in France under the Cosmocats name. I don't think these DVD's had an English audio option. Were these episodes transferred from French broadcast tapes? Does anyone have these and can let me know how they compare to other releases?
The US DVD's came out before the ones in the UK. Which tapes were these mastered from? All of season 2 has to have come from NTSC tapes since those episodes never aired in the UK, but what about the first season? Is there much of a difference between the PAL and NTSC release for those early episodes? The PAL discs have higher resolution, but if they were created from NTSC sources they won't look any better for it. I have the US NTSC discs. If anyone has the PAL discs to do a direct comparison I'd be very grateful to have a look.
I would like to try and take what we have available right now and spruce up the quality as much as I can. So far the results I'm having with the NTSC discs look promising, but given the extra resolution of PAL I'm considering using that as the source. I want to be sure I have the best quality assets before devoting too much effort to it.
Here's a few shots of of the DVD compared to my filtered version. I've run some deblocking and noise reducing plugins, and added a grain plate. The original is on the left, untouched other than I de-interlaced it.
You can see the filteres version loses some of the sharpness of the original, and some of the small details are lost (check the rock beneth Cheetara's feet). I can tweek the settings a bit to try and find a better balance, but for now what do people think.
These were all taken from the Trial of Mind Power episode. If anyone has the PAL discs and can grab the same frames form the same episodes it would really help a lot. Same goes for the Cosmocats DVD's.
Booshman, Sep 20, 2015
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Most classics such as ThunderCats don't get a remaster when they're released on DVD, and that's a real shame, too.
Daremonger, Sep 20, 2015
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First and foremost, I applaud what you are doing. Despite not being an expert in this field, I know that something like this requires a great deal of time and effort. And since this is a labor of love that you have undertaken mainly for the fans of the show, I say a big thank you to you!
Yes, you are right, the filtered version does lose its sharpness quite a bit. As you said, perhaps you could play around with the filters to make sure that the crispiness is not lost. Personally, I would not mind a few "grains" and "spots" as long as the image is very sharp. I would rather sacrifice cleanliness for sharpness, but that's just me.
As I said, I am no expert in this matter but I'm guessing that the people who do the official remastering, clean up the cartoon, frame by frame, thus ensuring that the sharpness is not lost. Most of the softwares can do a pretty good job of imitating this effect but often result in some loss of resolution. It's the same with Adobe Photoshop and pictures. Whenever one tries to remove the "jagged edges" on some cropped photos, the resulting image will always be a bit less sharp.
Wilycub, Sep 21, 2015
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Wilycub said: ↑
Cheers Wilycub. I've added a sharpening filter to the video and I think it's a marked improvement.
Here's a couple of shots to compare. The first is the regular DVD on the left/ cleaned up on the right.
Second is regular DVD on the left/ cleaned up and sharpened on the right.
Here's a couple of shots from Excalibur. Regular on the left/ filtered and recoloured on the right.
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Gerrit Berserker
Wow! Nice Work !!
I saw a guy on he-man.org recreated the He-man opening scene in HD ... anyone know how he did it ?
http://www.he-man.org/news_article.php?id=4827
Gerrit, Sep 21, 2015
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The description at Youtube says it was redrawn.
"Specific interventions: Compensating the missing parts from 4: 3 to 16: 9, Frames completely redesigned (by hand), Recoloring (hand), Effects recreated in AE, Sync audio original soundtrack, Vectorization of logos"
I like your remastering of ThunderCats very much, Booshman. The sepia color for "Excalibur" episode's screenshots looks toned down considerably. Maybe WB could've hired you to clean up the show for its 2005-06 DVD releases.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence Daremonger! I wouldn't have known what i was doing back in 2005, but it would be ice if they had at least had someone go over it. By the looks of some of the episodes I doubt anyone took too much time on it.
The colour of "Excalibur" is affected mostly by a load of red in the midtones and highlights, so not really sepia. It's worth noting that the beginning credits, title card and end credits arent affected by this blanket of red, so they must have been added on after whatever point that red was in place.
I'm still interested to here from anyone who has DVD's other than the NTSC version.
Booshman said: ↑
Oh yeah!!! The sharpening filter really has done wonders to the image. It looks even crispier than the original! I also like how you reduced the "reddish" tone from the original "Excalibur" video. Kudos on both counts!
Wow! The guy sure must have put a lot of man hours into redrawing every single frame by hand. Great dedication. But doing something similar to the ThunderCats Intro would probably take three times as much time as it is a lot more complicated with moving backgrounds, multiple characters and is longer in length. I still feel that the ThunderCats intro remains the best animated intro ever as far as animation quality is concerned. Nothing has come even close to it till date.
It remains as iconic as the show itself.
Yeah, the opening to Thundercats is phenomenal. I've had a crack at upscaling it to 720p, it's not perfect, which is all down to the source, but I think it looks pretty good.
I've uploaded it for anyone who fancies a look, it's not a small file, but if I compressed it more then all of the improvement would be compressed again and come out looking terrible.
https://mega.nz/#!Ndc3lb5B!9oyEm5HDvT_GX0tdxQDx7TIIBzod2pGoShqs63kQ0cU
Well done, bro.
Well done Booshman ... it looks very nice!
What I did see is that the same guy that did the He-man intro is now also doing a He-man episode ...do you guys really think he is redrawing the whole thing ?
The He-Man clip you posted is all redrawn apart from some of the backdrops and the particle effects. The guy has posted another video of just the line drawings so you can see the work he put into it. He's gone frame by frame and traced the outlines, adding to the side of the image on 2 occasions to extend past the 4:3 border. The first is when He-Man shouts "I have the power", some of his hand and sword have been added where they would be usually cropped off. The second is when He-Man punches the screen and his shoulders and fist have been extended. If you count, there are a total of 4 painted backdrops that have been repained and extended to the 16x9 frame. The rest of of the backgrounds are made in After Effects. I think the particle effects are a good effort but don't match the quality of the hand drawn stuff in the original.
To do this sort of thing with Thundecats would be much more of an undertaking. The animation is so much more complex. I also wouldn't be keen to extend the image to a wider frame, as it would take to many artistic liberties on the original version.
4:3 is definitely the way to go for the ThunderCats intro.
OK, this is about as good as I can get it based on the source. I've added some anti aliasing and gotten rid of the grain plate.
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I dig your kind of remastering, dude.
LiamABC Thunderian Legend
Looks like a very worthy cause. I don't have enough understanding of the remastering process to get what's actually going on, but of course I understand the desire for better picture quality.
It's a bit like when I'm making custom CDs of my favourite singer-songwriters. I am limited by the 80min capacity of an audio CD (yes, I know, behind the times), and sometimes it forces me to make painful choices, sacrificing classics in favour of songs that aren't quite as good but flow better at that point on the compilation (or equivalent if the tracklisting overruns and if I can't trim out pauses, or make an acceptable edit of a song, I have to replace one song with a shorter one). It's a rare thing indeed where I can look at a final tracklisting and be completely happy with all the songs I have chosen, as opposed to the infinitely more frequent thought of "I wish I could have had this song here . . . but unfortunately it didn't fit".
I have two rules for these compilations:
1. Every song must be written and sung by the artist in question.
(Meaning that when I split The Beatles down the middle, I couldn't put "Day Tripper" on either the Lennon or the McCartney compilation as it's written by John but sung by Paul! I know the writing credit lists both of them, but when it comes to The Beatles, we all know that the dual credits were more a formality after the first album or two, and not technically accurate.)
2. The songs must go in chronological order by album.
(There are ways that this rule can be bent - re-recordings and live versions can be a godsend here, especially when these later versions trump the originals, as with Styx's 1995 re-recording of "Lady", and the orchestral version of "The Grand Illusion" that Dennis DeYoung did after he split from the band in 1999 - not to mention the 1981 live version of Billy Joel's "Miami 2017", originally recorded in 1976. Also non-album singles from the same vintage can be placed before or after the songs from that actual album. Again with my Beatles compilations, Strawberry Fields Forever came before the Sgt Pepper material on my Lennon disc, but on the McCartney one Penny Lane came after the same!)
But I get there in the end. I've noticed over the years, the compilations I'm least pleased with tend to be from bands with one singer but multiple songwriters (my Freddie Mercury compilation suffers at the forced omission of many Queen classics written by other members of the band), or similarly where the singer isn't the main writer (I had to omit so many classics from my Lou Gramm compilation because virtually every great Foreigner song was written or co-written by Mick Jones, and while the co-written ones were eligible for inclusion, anything that was written by Jones alone wasn't, so I couldn't use "Urgent" or "I Want To Know What Love Is" for instance).
LiamABC, Nov 25, 2015
After a long while away from this project, I've managed to redo the scripts I was using before I lost everything in a hard drive crash. Luckily the after effects project was on another drive so I had all of the recolouring settings saved in that. I've got a pretty decent sytem for upscaling to 720P now, I think. I've finished Excalibur, if anyone wants to take a look to give feedback I'd appreciate it. The file is around 3gb. PM me for the link.
Booshman, Jan 12, 2017
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The 720p quality looks really good!
Daremonger, Jan 12, 2017
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