Things have a funny way of happening. Over a year ago I was sent the script to Hide and Seek. I remember how the story started conjuring up musical imagery for me as early as the first few pages. The director, John Polson, was doing pre-production in New York. It's always great to find an excuse to go there, so I flew out to meet him. A blizzard attacked the city just after I arrived, but I was able to meet him for breakfast the next morning. John's friendliness is matched equally by his intensity - extremely focused. Well, we had a good meeting. Weeks went by and a couple months later I learned I didn't get the job. I'm not sure what I said wrong! You can't get them all, I remembered.
Cut to a year or so later, I was on a flight back from Seattle just after having recorded Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and my conductor happened to mention in passing Hide and Seek. I told him how I had met on the project a long time ago and wondered how it had gone. Who would have imagined that the very next morning I got a call from my agent that there was a scheduling conflict with its composer, and I should go meet on the project. It was a little daunting being that Chris Young had been on the project for awhile and had written a couple mock-ups to picture. UGH! Now I had to write a theme to make everyone forget what they had gotten used to. After I gave my take on the film, I got hired. I went home, had my usual anxiety attack, gathered myself and dove in to start writing. I'm sure John had trepidation about losing a good theme they had temped in for so long. So I had a lot to prove - and a lot to write in a relatively short amount of time.
After my first prototype of the theme, I was asked if I could I write a few more to chose from. Not exactly music to a composer's ears. But it's always very important that a theme be embraced - especially by a passionate director. So over one weekend I wrote three more main themes to the opening title sequence. I was using a little girl's voice as the driving force in all these versions, so I had my colleague, Debbie Lurie, sing la la's for my mock-ups of the cues after I feverishly wrote all the orchestral parts. (Debbie is my psycho/little girl voice when I'm in need of that.) The following Monday, John, Barry Josephson (producer), editor Jeff Ford, and the Fox music execs, Robert Kraft and Mike Knobloch squeezed into my little studio. I unveiled all four themes to picture. There was a little something I liked in all of them - and they too. But it seemed to be unanimous that theme number two was basically the winner. Whew.
My idea behind all the versions was to somehow suggest many conflicting feelings simultaneously -- There had to have a sense of sadness (Emily in the film has lost her mother to suicide), childlike innocence (she's a little girl!), hope (she's driving with her father to start a new life in another town), psychosis (is she becoming a bad seed from her trauma?), and foreboding (this is going to be a thriller and we should feel a little on edge) all in one. I'm usually one to take on these schizophrenic challenges in the music I write, but this one was particularly tough. Once we were all on the same page I was then able to sink my teeth into the theme and use it as my inspiration for the score. I then went back (as the opening titles come late in the film) and adapted a "happier" version of the theme for Emily when her life was normal.
In that meeting Robert Kraft started humming to theme #2 while his eyes were showing gears turning inside. He mentioned that it was very amenable to lyrics using the words, "Hide and Seek" to build upon a sort of nursery rhyme approach - perhaps to be used in the end titles in place of the la la's. Coming from him, this was very flattering, and Robert began working on writing a sort of poem to be sung with the theme. It gave the melody a real classic feel. To make another very long story short, only a portion of his lyrics were used in the end titles, but it's on the CD for its entirety. Another cohort of mine, Lior Rosner, produced a contemporary version adapting the lyrics to possibly be used in the end titles. But instead it was decided to keep the music more score-orientated for the end titles. This version too can be heard on the CD as the last cue, "Hide and Seek."
The other primary theme in the film was for the character of Charlie: Emily's imaginary friend - or is he? His theme too had to be an extension of her playful inner child. But as things begin to get a little strange, his theme also had to suggest that this playfulness may be in fact malevolent. I'd been fond of my third version of the opening titles, and was hoping I'd be able to salvage it in some way. That version always had Charlie in mind as a character the story was going to hone in on. So what better than to resurrect this as his theme? Charlie's music takes on many incarnations throughout the film. When Emily plays, (as in the cue, "Exploring") his theme is more lyrical as she discovers a special place in the woods. Later, when she discusses Charlie with her father (DeNiro), Charlie's theme is more fragmented, played in simple violin harmonics with unsettling bending celli and bass underneath. In the cue "Hide and Seek", Emily looks for Charlie in the house. By this time in the film, the audience is already expecting something bad to happen. So rather than play right into expectations with overly "creepy" music, I used Charlie's haunting, yet mischievous melody as she looks around. This made the scene even more unsettling than overtly sinister music could. The biggest challenge in Hide and Seek was to keep the story engaging, as much of it concerns a character who is only talked about and never seen. This provided a challenge for both the filmmakers and me to keep people watching and listening. I wanted the audience to feel Charlie was actually there by keeping him alive with the music - much in the way I had to make the audience feel that way about another unseen character seen - Keyser Soze.
The general concept for Hide and Seek was to build the score from a largely subliminal feel, to a score that blossomed sinisterly with the film itself. So the first half of the film (with a couple exceptions) the score is often an interplay with sound design elements and weird synth pads that I wrote to accompany the delicate cues. The fine line again was not being too subtle as to be too "drone-like" for the audience. A harp motif (the underpinning of Emily's theme) often breaks things up in the first half of the film, acting throughout the story as a tool for bringing out what may be a psychosis in Emily. But by being slightly melancholy, you're never supposed to be quite sure what side of Emily it's telling you about.
One of my favorite cues ("Can You See Now?") is a revelation moment in the film where I was able to let my hair down and write something that communicated to the audience that the pieces were coming together. After a couple versions, the final one became a great moment in the score - even more aggressive than I had originally planned. Hey, AND it was mixed well on the dub stage by amazing mixer Paul Massey. What more could I ask for?!


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Karan Johar Opens Up About Directing Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani
Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani, directed by Karan Johar stars Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh.
By Vignesh K, December 10, 2022 08:45 IST
Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani, directed by Karan Johar stars Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh. The film will open in theatres next year.
One of the most well-known and respected directors in the Indian cinema business is Karan Johar. He has helmed hit movies including My Name Is Khan, Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, all of which had exceptional box office success. The talented director is currently anticipating the release of his upcoming film, 'Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani,' which will be in next year.
Several actors and directors came together on Friday for a round table conversation presented by Galatta Plus. The list included Varun Dhawan, Karan Johar, and Pooja Hegde. Anurag Kashyap, Karthik Sivakumar, Srinidhi Shetty and Dulquer Salmaan were also important.
Karan Johar asked about his thoughts on his career progression in 2022. Johar said, "I am very happy and very grateful for the success of Koffee With Karan. I feel that if everything fails (in my life), it will be a great backup plan. I was very nervous before it was released. I felt like this was my strong future and I am really happy with it. Anyway, jokes aside."
"It has been a turbulent ride this year for many filmmakers. But it has also been a wake-up call. I think as someone, say as a studio head, if I have not taken heed to that wake-up call, then I'll be stupid. Delusion is a disease without any vaccination in our industry. And I don't want to be deluded. Neither to the success nor the failure of films. I want to keep learning. Today has been learning. Every film that I have watched in the last couple of years has been a learning. The box office has been learning. The core conviction (in films) that is lacking has been something that I have learned," he said.
Speaking to the interviewer, Karan said, "Now that you have mentioned Rocky Aur Rani…I mean why not. It is time to plug ourselves. That is the film (Rocky Aur Rani) that I have made with only conviction. If I think of logic or like sensibility or if I am saying anything profound or if I am going to have fun with the leading actors whom I love….then I just make that film. So, I hope that conviction comes across. I want to continue telling stories. That's it."
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Embry-Riddle men's basketball alumnus Yon Price has been named to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame's 2021 Silver Anniversary Team.
Price, who led the Ben Davis Giants to back-to-back Indiana State Championships in 1995 and 1996 and then helped the Eagles to the 2000 NAIA II National Title, is one of 18 men honored on the 2021 Silver Anniversary Team.
"We are so proud of Yon and his many accolades he has accumulated over his career," Embry-Riddle Head Coach Steve Ridder said.
Price was a 1996 AP high honorable mention All-State selection, averaging 10 points and 5.3 rebounds for the eventual state champs. As a junior, Price and the Giants went 32-1 en route to the school's first boys basketball state championship.
After spending his freshman season at the University of Tampa where he earned All-SSC Freshman Team accolades, Price transferred to Embry-Riddle prior to the 1997-98 season. Price averaged 9.6 points for the Eagles as a sophomore.
The Eagles racked up 81 wins over Price's three seasons with three Florida Sun Conference Tournament titles and three trips to the NAIA National Tournament.
Price graduated from Embry-Riddle with a degree in Business Administration in 2000 and was inducted into the Embry-Riddle Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009 as part of the 2000 National Championship squad.
Price is a material services sales director for Boeing Global Services and lives in Dallas.
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#include <mpd/send.h>
#include <mpd/recv.h>
#include <mpd/pair.h>
#include <mpd/response.h>
#include "run.h"

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

bool
mpd_send_list_all(struct mpd_connection *connection, const char *dir)
{
	return mpd_send_command(connection, "listall", dir, NULL);
}

bool
mpd_send_list_all_meta(struct mpd_connection *connection, const char *dir)
{
	return mpd_send_command(connection, "listallinfo", dir, NULL);
}

bool
mpd_send_list_meta(struct mpd_connection *connection, const char *dir)
{
	return mpd_send_command(connection, "lsinfo", dir, NULL);
}

bool
mpd_send_update(struct mpd_connection *connection, const char *path)
{
	return mpd_send_command(connection, "update", path, NULL);
}

bool
mpd_send_rescan(struct mpd_connection *connection, const char *path)
{
	return mpd_send_command(connection, "rescan", path, NULL);
}

unsigned
mpd_recv_update_id(struct mpd_connection *connection)
{
	struct mpd_pair *pair;
	int ret = 0;

	pair = mpd_recv_pair_named(connection, "updating_db");
	if (pair != NULL) {
		ret = atoi(pair->value);
		mpd_return_pair(connection, pair);
	}

	return ret;
}

unsigned
mpd_run_update(struct mpd_connection *connection, const char *path)
{
	unsigned id;

	if (!mpd_run_check(connection) || !mpd_send_update(connection, path))
		return 0;

	id = mpd_recv_update_id(connection);
	return id != 0 && mpd_response_finish(connection)
		? id : 0;
}

unsigned
mpd_run_rescan(struct mpd_connection *connection, const char *path)
{
	unsigned id;

	if (!mpd_run_check(connection) || !mpd_send_rescan(connection, path))
		return 0;

	id = mpd_recv_update_id(connection);
	return id != 0 && mpd_response_finish(connection)
		? id : 0;
}

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Q: View diffs of 'binary' files on svn log --diff I have a number of XML files in SVN which I'd like to get the full log with diffs for. At some point they had an SVN mime-type of application/xml. This means that when I try to run svn log --diff on them, some older revisions will just say
Cannot display: file marked as a binary type.
svn:mime-type = application/xml

If using an individual diff, I can view it by using --force so it will show anyway, but this option doesn't have the same effect on svn log. I've also tried overriding --diff-cmd to use diff externally where I could pass the text option, but the override does not have any effect in svn log - or in svn diff when specifying a revision for that matter.
Any suggestions to view the diffs?

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The moments before I fall asleep are when my list of things to do attacks my brain.
I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious.
We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.
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Office building planned for Virginia Tech campus could be powered by solar panels
Angela Woolsey November 29, 2022 at 3:00pm
A solar panel array has been proposed on the future HITT Contracting headquarters building at Virginia Tech's Idylwood campus (via Fairfax County)
A massive array of solar panels could provide cover for the office building that developer Rushmark Properties and the construction company HITT Contracting are planning to build at Virginia Tech's campus near the West Falls Church Metro station.
In a final development plan recently submitted to Fairfax County, the two companies — collectively known as Converge West Falls LLC — propose installing a photovoltaic array canopy on top of the building, which will house HITT's corporate headquarters and laboratory space for Virginia Tech's planned National Center for Smart Construction.
Standing approximately 117 feet tall, the canopy would encompass approximately 112,000 square feet, making it larger than the roof of the 270,000-square-foot building. It would have nine support columns ranging in height from 91 to 111 feet, per the application.
"The tree-like columns provide a structural solution while also creating the sense of lift and grandeur emulating a modern woodland canopy," Walsh Colucci land use lawyer Andrew Painter said in a Nov. 22 statement for the applicant. "The multifunctional solar array canopy also shades the building from the sun, as one of the proposed building's energy-reduction measures."
The array is expected to generate between 1,100 and 1,400 megawatts of electricity — enough to supply most of the building's energy, the application says.
The solar panels are one of several amenities detailed in a trio of plans filed last week to expand Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Center at 7054 Haycock Road.
Block A
Most of the office building — 230,000 square feet — would be devoted to HITT's headquarters, but Virginia Tech would have up to 40,000 square feet on the northern side for educational purposes. A maximum height of 97 feet and six stories has been proposed.
Under the submitted plan, the building would be served by a below-grade parking garage and a 23,500-square-foot entry plaza on the south side with built-in benches, movable tables and chairs, "playful" lighting, and garden areas with native tree, pollinator and flower plantings.
"A large depression pond that exists on the site will be repurposed into a bioretention garden to treat stormwater run-off and provide visual interest along Falls Church Drive," Painter wrote.
Further south on the 7.5-acre site between Mustang Alley and Falls Church Drive will be a 532,000-square-foot multifamily building with 440 residential units and 18,000 square feet of ground-floor retail.
A multifamily residential building proposed for the redevelopment of Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Center campus (via Fairfax County)
Converge is planning to offer a mix of one, two and three-bedroom units that "will be larger than the current industry trend to better accommodate families," according to the application. The building will be up to 139 feet tall, descending to 82 feet along Falls Church Drive.
Planned amenities include a residential and civic plazas with seating, landscaping, and areas for outdoor dining; a publicly accessible pickleball court and private dog park along Falls Church Drive; and a public walkway with art and garden terraces along Haycock Road.
The plan provides up to 701 parking spaces in a below-grade garage, including up to 86 spaces for the retail uses. The garage would be topped by "an occupiable vegetative roof deck and amenity space" for residents.
Block C
As part of the redevelopment, Converge has proposed extending West Falls Station Blvd — a new road included in Falls Church City's adjacent West Falls project on the former George Mason High School property — east to Falls Church Drive.
The West Falls Station Blvd extension through Virginia Tech's Idylwood campus redevelopment would center around a green median with an open lawn and pavilion (via Fairfax County)
Located between the office and residential buildings, the street median will feature a publicly accessible park with an open lawn, art installations and a 2,000-square-foot, one-story open-air pavilion, according to the submitted final development plan.
The plan also shows raised crosswalks that will provide pedestrian access to the median and on-street bicycle lanes for the boulevard, which has one travel lane in each direction.
The county hasn't formally accepted the latest applications for review, but a conceptual plan for the overall development is currently scheduled to go before the planning commission for a public hearing on June 7, 2023.
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Unemployed television writer Murray Burns (Jason Robards) lives in a cluttered New York City studio apartment with his 12-year-old nephew, Nick (Barry Gordon). Murray has been unemployed for five months after quitting his previous job writing jokes for a children's television show called Chuckles the Chipmunk. Nick, the son of Murray's unwed sister, was left with Murray seven years earlier.
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Hi, It would really be great if it was possible to copy paste between two open instances of the program. Wouldn't it be simple to implement - using the clipboard?.
And while were at it, why not include the constraints? Clearly those involving elements not in the copy have to be discarded but the internal and the simple ones like horiz,vert, radius, length etc. should be maintained in the copy-paste process (eventually controlled by an option).
Such a feature would be nice to have. If you're interested to implement this, note that the clipboard facility provided by the OS doesn't have a standard "entities and constraints for a CAD program" format; so you probably don't gain much by using that for your IPC vs. just some shared memory or whatever.
I think that selecting a part of a design - copying - pasting is fundamental during the conceptual phase of the design.
then in order to place it to the exact position you have to constraint the pasted copy manually).
Can you draw the 2d section for the hole in another file, and then import and extrude it where desired? That would avoid the need to cut and paste, and keep the model parametric.
In such a case it requires more work importing and placing and extruding than just copying the shaped hole and re-constraining. It would actually be very efficient if you could make a copy of a group directly. I know that the step translate-rotate is sort of that but its very restrictive. It would be nice to make multiple copies with some per-inserted constraints between them (some equal constrains of point-point distance, H,V,angle,radius constraints). The user could then delete what is not necessary.
A good copy paste function would be an implementation of this and would also solve my issue about "reordering groups" "shells" "import order" etc.
which explains a lot of things about the inner workings of the program.
Jonathan, I think it would be good if you could mention and link to this document under the sourcecode section on the page http://solvespace.com/download.pl.
P.S. I start getting nice results using the program. It really solves some problems in my research project.
I will try that, thanks for the hint.
result is way too much complicated.
(I have to switch between groups, etc, etc).
Hi Mihal, I have a similar problem. My current workaround is to have a 'component' file C that I include in the assembly A.
Both file C and A have included a 'Dimension' file D as the first thing. File D contains lines representing my dimensions, which I constrain against both in file A and C. This way I only have to modify dimensions in one file. Unfortunately has I have asked (http://solvespace.com/forum.pl?action=viewthread&parent=322) it seems like you have to open the included files and resave to let changes propagate.
For simple 2d geometries I make a copy, make a lot of equal constraints to the original until the copy can be dragged to its new place without deformations.
> to its new place without deformations.
Now I can see the clipboard logic.
the points that are included in clipboard are copied.
Now I can make my 20 holes :))).
Hi Mihal, exellent idea I was so excited to test it, but it does not seem to work. I unpacked your file but copy - paste of a simple rectangle does not seem to keep the H&V constraints.
BTW. Im not much of a programmer but Id like to have a go at it. Could you please share how you imported it in VS2013 IDE. (I've installed VS2010, but knows too little about the IDE to make the project).
Did you check the Copy Constraints menu item?
for free directly from MS.
Oh, I didnt see that . Brilliant, got it, works but not with angle, arc endpoint on line constraints.
Since you're a programmer, could you implement a swap of two groups in the group order?
except of copying of equal radius constraint.
like that can be done only by Jonathan.
Mihal - Thanks, and if you send a merge request on gitorious then I can take a look, and see what it would take to integrate that into master.
Reordering groups is indeed tricky. At the very least, you'd need to renumber the groups, and then rewrite the hGroup for all entities and constraints in those groups. That alone would work in some cases; but after deleting everything with a now-missing dependency, there may not be very much left in the sketch. So some heuristics to fix that up would be desirable too, and that gets complicated.
Here it goes with copy equal constraints bug fixed.
VC sources should be on github (or somewhere) soon.
Great work Mihal. Copy equal constaints does not seem to work.
> Copy equal constaints does not seem to work.
and for distance between two points.
It will not work for distance between point and line.
Mihal, my Version 2.1eMVe2 does not copy equal line segment constraints. See attached file.
height constraint is gone (along with horiz constraint).
Circles diameter equal constraint is working fine though.
in the pasteclipboard and copyselection functions.
Could you add that please, my naive attempt did not seem to work?
Mihal, if you select the first one you maintain the fixed length constraint. If you copy the second you loose the equal_length constraint which would be the interresting one to copy. It analogue to your copy of holes example. If you want to make n copies of a square and want to change all the sidelenghts at once you would prefer to have them constraint against one reference. If you make n copies of the first one you would have to go and change the value of each one manually.
Hope it clarifies the issue. So I believe its the EQUAL_LENGTH_LINES case that misses.And I believe it would be 'piece of cake' for you to insert.
Is it much different than EQUAL_RADIUS ?
Ps. what do you mean by your comment: "only one circle with this particular constraint can be copied!"?
Copying b) (see below) constraints is tricky as it can make solver very easily busy and thus solvespace unresponsive.
than equal length lines constraint.
are constrained to this reference "master" hole.
optimal, but solvespace doesn't care.
Hi Mihal, great work, it sort of works. As you say the solver gets very slow which I take as a sign that its not the way to go. It only copies one constaint not a hole figure, see attachment. If you copy the lower line its ok. If you copy the whole polygon it does not keep the constraint between the 10 and the 10 ref line.
It is a bit strange that even if I uncheck the 'copy constraints' it keeps becoming slower.
by copying the "inner" constraints.
the code creates inner constraints.
are of "same something" type.
of other object but the value itself.
but who would do it manually when it can be coded :)))?
eMVe8 is out, see solvespace-emve.txt.
This is probably the last one from me.
I want to join in on the thanks to Jonathan for the great work and also thanks to you Mihal for improving the copy paste capacities and for the comments and insights into the code. I hope this discussion may be useful for further improvements.
Among the programs that I have tried (Sketchup, Wings, Freecad, Design spark mechanical and Rinoceros) it definitely has been the fastest to learn and most useful for 3D printing and simulation of dynamics.
I hope Jonathan and others will continue the development especially on copy-paste, reordering of groups.
Hi everyone. Thanks to Mihal I started fiddeling with the source code. As my first attempt is to change the annoying delete only non selected group and a keyboard shortcut for changing active group.
As I'm not a C++ programmer its a dirty fix, but here it is, build on the last commitment from Mihal.
I made the patch simpler and more robust; now it copies any constraints that are associated with the entities in the clipboard. See commit https://github.com/whitequark/...2c451bb205b36e0a5474ae7e9f8288.


I try not to curse. Really I do. But sewing is just not in my genetic makeup. I mean I can do a little button fix by hand and even stitch the last side of a pillow closed manually, but the other three sides that you're supposed to do with a sewing machine? Yeah, I'm I disaster. Growing up my aunt and mom sewed all the time (they made all my Halloween costumes and my aunt even sewed my mom's wedding dress) but whenever I tried to learn on my mom's machine I broke it. Not just jammed it or temporarily messed it up, I legitimately ruined it (at least six episodes ended with my mom carting it off to the shop and paying lots o' money to get it repaired). And then I wasn't encouraged to use it quite as much if you catch my drift. I don't blame my mom at all. I was clearly cursed.
So in an insane what-is-she-smoking turn of events, I recently purchased a nice affordable beginners sewing machine of my own with high hopes of DIYing a quilt and a fabric flag banner for Clara's first birthday (using all of the fabrics that we picked up for her weekly photo project to create them). I figured it would come in handy for things like pillow and curtain making as well.
And I specifically picked something with great ratings (4.5 stars and over 150 customer reviews) on amazon.com (a Brother XL2600I) because I wanted something good for a beginner devoid of any "natural ability" whatsoever. Of course it didn't hurt that it was around $100-200 cheaper than most fancy machines (on sale for just $89 – down from $149 – with free shipping). You know just in case I irreparably maimed it within a week of use. Which would not have surprised me. Hence the I'm-not-going-to-splurge-for-anything-great-just-yet approach.
So it arrived a few weeks ago. It has been testing me. Oh my goodness has it been testing me. Like, walk-calmly-into-the-bedroom-and-scream-into-a-pillow testing me.
The actual issue was that I was having all sorts of tension problems (broken needles, loopy tangled underside stitches, etc) and then after two nights of despair and at least five solid hours of sheer misery I realized that I was using an unsanctioned bobbin. Seriously. After five hundred attempts at rethreading the needle and rereading the manual and googling around for ideas and texting my poor friends (who all had better things to do than listen to me whine I'm sure) it was my stupid one tenth of an inch too tall bobbin that was sabotaging me. But at least I got the root of the issue, which ended up being hilariously easy to fix (hilarious in that you-laugh-but-kind-of-cry-at-the-same-time-because-it's-so-pathetic-and-embarrassing way).
But at least at that lowest ever point in my sewing career I figured it could only get better from there. So I kept on keeping on. Slowly but surely I'm getting to know "Oh Brother" (my sarcastically pessimistic nickname for the sewing machine slash bane of my existence) and I've actually made some decent progress in the world of novice sewing. For example, I made this little fabric flag banner for the bean's big one year birthday par-tay using small triangles that I cut out of various weekly fabrics.
It took me waaaaaay too long and I probably legitimately cried ten times (we're not talking whiny fake crying, we're talking actual frustrated hot tears that you swipe away before anyone looks at you like you're crazy for sew-crying). Give me a sledgehammer or a paint brush and I have no fear. But give me a robot with a motorized needle and I will show you the definition of misery. It's just not something I can even remotely pretend to be good at. Oh well, I'll learn. Or I won't and I'll get another hobby. Haha.
As for exactly how long it took, I'd guess that cutting each of the flags out took me about forty minutes in front of the TV (I used a cardstock template and placed it over the prewashed – so it was preshrunk – fabric). Then I hemmed each of the three sides of the triangle with Oh Brother, which took me well over five hours.
Yes, you read that right. Let's just say there were a lot of do-overs and seam ripping and more tension issues but in the end I was left with around a dozen perfect enough triangles that I wouldn't die from embarrassment if a teenage Clara looked closely at her beloved birthday banner (I hope the banner becomes a tradition for every b-day until the bean is too old to indulge me, so I don't just want it to look not-terrible I want it to last for a while and look halfway decent). So although you see about 27 flags on the table above, so many of them were just garbage when you got any closer, so I picked my favorite dozen and tossed the rest unceremoniously into my rag pile.
Then in a stroke of desperation (or genius, you decide) I actually broke out some iron on hem tape to complete the project in about another half hour (for a total of 5.5+ hours spent).
It helped to lay out the remaining not-terrible flags on the floor to play around with order until I liked what I saw. Then it was just about firing up the iron and using my trusty hem tape to attach them to the blue ribbon that I already had laying around.
I'm pretty sure it would have easily been 10+ hours if I sewed each flag to the blue ribbon that I used for the top. But heck, I'm starting slow. I'm just glad I was able to sew those flags and not chuck Oh Brother out the slider in the sunroom (the problem with ranches is that you don't get to dramatically drop things that you hate out of second story windows so you have to improvise). And iron-on hem tape is washable so it's all good. And look at my little helpers. How cute were they to hang out in the kitchen while I tested my not-cursing-or-throwing-anything limits? They were some much needed sweetness for a pretty darn annoying personal challenge.
The banner looks fun and festive and it'll be washable and hopefully will last for at least a decade or two, and best of all it was free except for the expense of Oh Brother (thanks to already having purchased each of the fabrics on clearance throughout the year for Clara's weekly pics and using iron-on hem tape and blue ribbon that I already had).
But I'm still hoping that the sewing machine purchase will end up being worth it as I attempt more projects like a very very very simplified quilt for the bean and other house-related things (a few throw pillows, maybe some curtains, etc). I'm definitely going to start slow.
It WAS the machine! Blame that bobbin entirely! Keep trucking, keep doing the simple stuff and it will come. :) (I had this experience with knitting; I'm left-handed which makes it harder and I taught myself a "wrong" way and then had to learn the "right" way…it was a lot of time and frustration [and swearing and crying], but I'm fully competent. I've determined that it's not for me, but at least I know how).
Oh my. I am in the same boat. And to make matters worse, I am surrounded by a family of Martha Stewarts (my mom, sister and mother-in-law are all excellent sewers). I am trying to keep up and had no idea what a bobbin was until a few weeks ago!
My mother has always been a seamstress (sew-er didn't sound right!) and my sister decided recently to learn. She has actually taken classes and really enjoyed them. I have considered it, but until I finish other things around the house I have no room to get into sewing!
I am SO with you. Project Runway tricked me into thinking that sewing was totally doable, and I can't tell you how many swear words that machine has gotten out of me. I tried to sew napkins recently… and understood completely why you would buy them instead.
I used to hate my sewing machine too. In fact, I replaced the plate that the needle goes into (whatever the heck it's called) three times before I realized that the dent is supposed to be there, and I wasn't breaking the machine over and over (and over).
But now I can sew things that involve straight lines. I made an Easter dress and bonnet for my five month old baby girl! Out of tea towels I got for our wedding!! (Marimekko tea towels.) I call it the Dobby Dress. Want me to send you a photo? Just lemme know how.
The banner turned out great!!! But I must say, this post makes me feel sooo much better. I've tried sewing a few times but it's always a disaster. I really want to learn, really I do…but I am scared, because it never turns out well. Glad to know I'm not the only one who has had sewing machine "issues".
i'm the same way. i bought really nice material to make cloth napkins…. i attempted one and got so fed up and annoyed and gave up. they are all still sitting in the basement. i bought cloth napkins at an estate sale that work just fine. i want to be able to use a sewing machine but it just always wants to fight with me.
Good luck Sherry! The own adage "practice makes perfect" is often said for a reason =) At least you haven't plenty of fabric to play around with!
I asked for a sewing machine for Christmas. No, not this past Christmas, we're talking Christmas 2009. I received it from Santa, but I have yet to use it basically because I haven't sewed since 7th grade.
P.S. I want you to know that I found a lot of absolutely fantastic DIY ideas from your wedding and used them for my own. One of the things I did was make my own table runners out of a modern fabric that brought together my teal, yellow and gray color scheme. Now I'm turning those DIY table runners into usable-for-every-day placemats!
Aw those sound amazing. And your casual "I'm turning those runners into placemats" has me green with envy. Someday I hope sewing is that easy for me too! Haha.
I feel your pain! I too have sent my mother's sewing machine to the repair shop more than once. I took a course when I was in elementary school using a 1920's machine (black and ancient Singer) but I love my White denim machine. It was $200 and it holds tension pretty well. I also watched the entire video under duress but it served me well. Jo-Ann's offers classes to teach you how to use machines for free when you buy one which can really help if you're having trouble!
Don't give up! Those fabric colors are adorable and they are so neat. You can definitely make a quilt!
Can I make a tiny recommendation? There's a book called Stitch by Stitch: Learning to Sew One Project at a Time that I've heard great things about. No connection to the book on my part, just one I've heard lots of happy things about. Might be worth a look at the library.
And I just got done making curtains for my living room, dining room, sunroom, and kitchen (www.violentlydomestic.com/2011/04/10/ironing-now-with-more-stabbing/) so I feel your pain!
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! I'm definitely taking notes!
I'm learning to sew right now using the book Stitch by Stitch and it's great! I would totally recommend it to anyone! It's so straight forward and you get to make fun things as you learn each skill. You could totally learn to sew with it Sherry!
I can second the Stitch by Stitch recommendation. Ck out the author's blog – Whipstitch.
Have you been to your local sewing machine store? (Not a section on Joanns, but the real, honest to goodness sewing machine store). They often offer beginning sewing classes (that are free if you buy one of their machines…) and are a perfect way to get to know your machine. When something happens, you have a trained professional to tell you whether it was something you did, or if the machine isn't set up right.
I LOVE sewing, and as a fellow DIY-er, I've made huge decorating projects happen very cheaply because I CAN sew (slipcovers! They've saved many an ugly hand me down chair/couch). I know that if you get that machine figured out, you'll love all the new things you can tackle…so stick with it! If I lived closer I'd come by and help you out!
I would love to take a class soon! It's definitely on my to-do list. It can't make me any worse. Haha.
haha oh, Sherry.. I'm sorry you had such a rough time. I DEFINITELY know the feeling of being in tears over a project.. it happens to me a lot actually- it feels like I can never do ANYTHING RIGHT, but especially hang curtain rods and frames– still, I keep trying, and my husband keeps finding me all red-faced and snotty gripping a hammer/drill. I bet sewing will get easier and easier for you..and hopefully leveling rods and frames and not putting huge holes in our plaster walls will get easier for me.
Aww, I feel your pain! I've had several of my own tear shedding moments fighting with my machine…my only advice is to keep trying, and reading online tutorials. I've learned SO much from the kind folks in blogland I am sewing a ton more, and way better! If you don't already have them, a rotary cutter and mat are a HUGE time saver when it comes to sewing projects. Good luck!
Ooooh, I feel your pain. Glad you got it all figured out! And don't feel bad about the bobbin trouble; I've been sewing nearly my whole life and just figured out my gnarly thread messes were due to a cheap WalMart bobbin instead of the "official" Singer bobbin. They really should make these things more obvious for those of us (speaking only for myself, of course) whose children have rendered us mentally incompetent to pay attention to details like that.
Wow! Sherry, I was just recently wondering why you didn't sew. I feel like it's so economical and easy! I recently tried it for the first time and I love it. Hope things get better for you!
Clara is sooo lovely((: Burger too!!
Nicely done! The garland/banner looks great, and I'm already giddy with anticipation over Clara's birthday party photos. Also fell in love with the fabric ABC magnets on the fridge. Have you already showcased those beauties?
Sherry, I promise it will get better. Someday you will look back on this and laugh.
Love the banner. These are really popular right now!
I love to sew – but I still get INCREDIBLY frustrated with the sewing machine and have known to yell out some kid-approved 'curse' words when the stinkin thing eats my thread.
Poor hon. I always wondered why you bothered with hem tape when you made curtains instead of just sewing them.
Great job and cute idea! I started sewing about a year and a half ago (at the young age of 39) and am addicted. Seriously. Have made clothes for the kids and pillows for the house and even some American Girl doll clothes (that right there saved me hundreds of dollars!!). Once you and "Oh Brother" become simpatico, you might actually enjoy it, too. Hang in there!
I too want to get in to sewing, but a little fearful! Good for you for jumping back into it! For my baby's b-day I made the same thing except I used zig-zag scissors instead of sewing. I like the effect.
Now you're speaking my language :) Home decorating and projects, I'm learning but sewing I know! The more you sew the better you will become! I love, love to sew, just last night I made a cute little tote bag for a friend from an online tutorial, finding tutorials online has made sewing less scary for me than actually buying a pattern and having to cut pieces. It's very relaxing.
I'm obsessed with fabric too, I see prints that call my name and have to stop myself because I have a stash that has no plan yet. I have more ideas than time! Good luck with your projects!
My mom is a quilter… so she was devastated when, after making my own quilt in 2nd grade, I decided I didn't like it. I'll still occaisonally do something, but usually I just call my mom and ask her for help.
Sewing machines are all evil. There is always a problem when using them. :o) However, as someone who can now manage basic sewing projects (and has even taught a couple sewing classes), I would highly recommend some professional help. Do any of your fabric stores offer basic sewing classes? Or maybe your community center? Or your local Girl Scout troops?
But, hey, the flag banner looks great! Kudos to you and your perseverance.
Yes, I plan to take some local classes to get my bearings. I definitely could use a little help! Haha. Hi to Kevin (and Boston)!
So would you say this sewing machine is a do not recommend purchase? If you had had the right bobbin all along how long do you think the project would have taken?
I am 100% convinced that the machine is great (the reviews are great and a friend of mine has it and loves it). It's user error. Haha.
I totally recognize that fear of sewing machines! I used to be good at it as a child, but some years ago I broke a sewing machine (and it destroyed a lot of my projects before I accepted that it was in fact broken) and have been reluctant to use the new one ever since.
Bless your heart! My mother is a seamstress who has whipped up curtains for the Queen of England when she visited Williamsburg, sewn yards of exquisite curtains for the Governor's house in Richmond and taught me how to sew as soon as I could reach the peddle! All throughout my childhood I sewed Sunday clothes and summer dresses. At age 23 I begged for my sewing machine back, a vintage Singer from the 70's, and thought my talent would automatically replenish itself, I was wrong. I just wanted to make a simple tote bag but the devil possessed me and I threw out so many obscenities it would make a sailor blush! I shouldn't even bring up the time I tried making a dress by following the ambiguous directions of a Simplicity pattern and then ended up cutting a big gash in the dress while cleaning up the hem! In the end, my tote bag will never fall apart and I've gotten multiple compliments on the handful of dresses I've made it. I look back on all those times and laugh, stick with it, it's worth it!
Don't worry too much – this is one of those dreaded moments in life where the investment is worth it. I have been sewing since I was 4 or 5 – not QUILTING, mind you, but I've made the odd sundress, as well as every curtain and nearly every pillowcase in our home.
I learned to sew on a grumpy Singer machine, I purchased (and immediately quit sewing) on a budget-friendly Brother bobbin-ingesting monster. I have since borrowed my darling MIL's 1970's model Bernina 930(which she received from HER MIL). It sews through dozens of layers of denim, through multiple different textures, and more times than I care to admit, the stuffing spilling out of the bottom of a pillow.
1) Great call on the iron-on hemming – seriously lifesaving stuff!
2) E-bay or craigslist a vintage Bernina. They are workhorses and well-worth the investment for a determined DIYer like yourselves!
I LOVE your banner! I can sew, but usually straight line things. (Nothing with a pattern or "fancy shmancy stuff". Ha! This link was featured on the TomKat Studio blog: It is how to make a banner with less sewing. I have made several since seeing this (I don't do the balled ribbon thing – just the plain ribbon) for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, etc. It is a fun, cheap and easy way to decorate, without screaming holiday. I made a bunch of pink and green ones for a bridal shower, and can now re-use them for my daughter's 3rd birthday party next month.
Good luck with the sewing – it gets easier! I promise!!
I've been there with a cheapo machine, and it's incredibly frustrating. If you have any ambitions of really sewing, you are going to have to upgrade. Sewing machines are one of those "you get what you pay for" kinds of things. A bad and/or cheap machine will make you really hate sewing. This project would have taken you two hours max with a good machine.
I have a bottom-of-the-line from one of the best brands (Bernina), which ran me probably $800 about 7 years ago. But I love it, and it makes me want to sew!
I have a hand-me-down OLD school machine in the machine table. I mean so old I think it's the next step up from the one w/the manual pedal. I have the excuse of having our flat screen on top of it in our bedroom now so I can't break it out and try it!
I think it's safe to say Sewing is NOT hereditary!!
Good job on the banner. It's adorable!
Oh My Goodness. The fabric banner looks amazing even with all of the frustration it caused. You really did do a good job, if you hadn't included the thread picture I would have thought you were being overly dramatic.
Here's hoping that each and every sewing project that you do is easier than the last.
you are not alone. that picture of the white thread all twisted and matted up? that's also me. sigh. it's been more than two years since i last tried. maybe i'll give it another go? we can suffer (and maybe, just maybe succeed??) together.
I feel your pain-me and sewing machines do not mesh!! On a happier note where did you get the adorable magnetic letters on the refrigerator??
i cannot sew, either. neither can my mom– all of my halloween costumes as a kid were made of felt, because it doesn't require hemming and you can glue it.
my mother in law, on the other hand, is just amazing. she quilts as a hobby– like, for fun. so does her daughter. and the grandmothers. i'm entering a family of seamstresses.
help me breathe into a bag, sherry. it's going to be hard.
Sorry, but I actually snickered when I saw the mess of thread. I feel your pain since I was once in your shoes and have slowly progressed over the years and I believe you will too. It just takes (lots) of practice with little projects here and there. Quick question, where did you get the alphabet magnets? They look homemade and it's something I would like to try to make for my little one.
I love that! I think I even have it pinned on Pinterest!


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Beneath the Sugar Sky, Seanan McGuire; Michelle Dockrey, narrator (Macmillan Audio 978-1427293794, $28.99, CD, 4.25 hr., unabridged [also available as a digital download]) January 2018.
One day, a young woman tumbles out of the sky, falling into the lake near Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children, a refuge for children who found portals to other worlds where they had fantastic adventures and then eventually (and usually unhappily) returned home. Rini is looking for her mother Sumi, the hero who defeated the Queen of Cakes and brought peace and freedom to a nonsense world crafted of sweets. Unfortunately, Sumi was murdered as a teenager in the first book in the series, Every Heart a Doorway, and didn't survive long enough to have children. Fortunately, in a nonsense world, the impossible is never entirely out of reach, and with the help of other students at the school, Rini may yet be able to ensure her own existence.
Michelle Dockrey particularly shone when voicing Rini, whose need is crucial and whose culture shock is great, but who expresses both those issues as extreme petulance. I also really enjoyed the character of Cora, mocked for years for being overweight, but who discovered her bulk was an asset as a mermaid. As a larger person who adores swimming and the water, I found her instantly sympathetic.
McGuire keeps this series fresh by changing subgenre for every installment: The first novel was a murder mystery; the second gothic, and this one, obviously, is a quest fantasy. I'm not sure how much longer that will be sufficient, but I'll likely be in for the next one as well.
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Police sources in Nalgonda have claimed that the seven men, including the killer of the 23-year-old engineer, from Telangana's Nalgonda, have been arrested in Bihar. Bihar Police said Telangana caste killing(Honour Killing) case has been cracked. Police sources said that a group in Nalgonda has hired contract gang from Bihar who has allegedly with ISI links. On the other hand, Amrutha, the wife of diseased Pranay wanted her father Maruthi Rao to be hanged ahead of the birth of her baby. Watch the video for more information.


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Q: Tomcat home page is not opening in Chrome I have configured tomcat 7.0.47 in my mac and started it (bin/startup.sh). When I tried to open the URL: http://localhost:8080 in Chrome, it threw an error: The requested URL could not be retrieved. Same case with Firefox.
However when I opened this in Safari it worked without any issues. What is happening here? This is a very strange. Any help would be mightily appreciated.

A: In my case, the solution was to add localhost and 127.0.0.1 to the proxy's exception list (bypass). After doing that, Chrome finally showed the little stylish Tom - the cat.

A: Try giving the IP of your machine if any or 127.0.0.1:8080
Open /etc/hosts file  and check if you see an entry like
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If the above entry is not there in the hosts file add it to map localhost to 127.0.0.1
where ever localhost comes other than 127.0.0.1 line like
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rename it to ip-6-localhost, those are IP6 settings/address format.


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Common Sense Is Missing
This seems a little bit tacky, particularly in a prepared statement:
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, a Republican who represented southeastern Virginia for seven years, died Saturday morning after a two-year battle with breast cancer, her office said.
Davis, 57, died at her home in Gloucester.
Davis was found to have breast cancer in 2005 and had a recurrence this year. Her health took a turn for the worse during the past week, her office said.
She became Virginia's first Republican woman elected to Congress in 2000, and she was a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee.
"Her determination to fight the disease is an inspiration to all of us," President Bush said in a statement.
"She was a fine example of a public servant who worked hard to cut government waste to ensure the people's money was used wisely," Bush said. "Her common-sense values will be missed on Capitol Hill."
Condolences to Representative Davis's family.


Tiny Love keeps impressing me over and over again! They have such a great variety of products including activity gyms, baby gear, on the go toys, baby toys, mobiles, and soothers. And it is blatantly obvious that every single item is designed with love and care. Plus I absolutely love that this huge selection of products addresses the entire spectrum of baby's developmental milestones, including: sensory stimulation, enhancing cognitive and motor skills, encouraging the growth of emotional intelligence, and much more. One of those products in particular is the My Nature Pals Mobile that Willow has been testing out. The … …..
I absolutely adore Tiny Love products and it's not hard to see why. Tiny Love is a multiple award-winning global toy and baby product company that's focus is to create toys and accessories that promote and maximize baby's development. And just from browsing around their selection of products it is quite obvious they have succeeded. Willow is just starting to have longer awake alert periods and is beginning to notice things that are close to her – perfect timing to introduce a mobile. But there was a slight problem… Willow loves hanging out in her Rock n Play Sleeper and … …..


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Kattis gives you your input just like a user would, and checks for the answer in your program's output, which means you can use the regular input() and print() functions to handle this.
Often problems on Kattis require you to input multiple integers per line. There's a few ways to handle this, but in all cases you will have to read the whole line then use str.split() to separate the line into individual pieces.


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With Tropical Depression 9 On Its Way, PETA Offers Lee County Residents Urgent Preparedness Tips For Safeguarding Companion Animals During Storm
Group Warns Against Leaving Animals Behind to Fend for Themselves
Lauren Rutkowski 202-483-7382
Lee County, Fla. – With Tropical Depression 9 on its way to Florida and expected to bring up to 10 inches of rain, PETA is offering important advice to help ensure the safety of companion animals for now and the rest of the hurricane season. The following information could help save the lives of cats, dogs, rabbits, and other companion animals who need to be included in hurricane and other disaster-preparedness plans:
Take animals indoors. Never leave them chained or penned up outside. If you seek safety within your residence, include any rabbits, dogs, cats, or other animals who can be taken indoors.
If you need to move to a stronger structure, know your destination ahead of time. Do not plan to leave animals unsupervised in a car—they can suffer from heatstroke once the ambient temperature rises above 70 degrees, even if water is available and the windows are slightly open, or the car may be overturned or crushed during a significant storm.
Although emergency shelters sometimes turn away animals, motels in the area are likely to accept dogs, cats, and other small animals in an emergency. Move small animals in secure carriers, and keep dogs leashed. Frightening sounds and unfamiliar surroundings may make them bolt. Take water and food bowls, a favorite toy, a blanket, a towel, and enough food for at least a week.
Have your animals microchipped, and put secure, legible ID tags on them.
Watch for other animals in need, including strays and animals who may have been left behind by neighbors. If you see an animal in distress and are unable to help, note the animal's location and call authorities for help immediately.
In advance of the coming storm and the rest of the hurricane season, PETA asks that you consider sharing our hurricane-preparedness public service announcement (PSA) on your website. The PSA reminds families to plan for their companion animals long before evacuating. For more information, please visit PETA.org.


Canadian electronic music producer and mau5trap label head deadmau5 is one of the most prominent fixtures in the international dance scene of the last decade, instantly recognizable with his signature oversized mau5 head. Known for his live sets and highly produced stage set-ups, he is also an avid video gamer – contributing to soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, and more.
The big challenge was the paint job. Peter, the "Graphics Guy", went all-out on the design and render of the case, which deadmau5 really liked. The hard part was getting three different colors on the case and still make it look amazing. EVGA reached out to different powder coating and automotive painters, but some were not able to work with the complex design and others would take too long. By happenstance, the project team came across OC Custom Coatings purely by luck, who said it was no problem! OC Custom coatings uses a unique ceramic coating process, which is durable and looks amazing – plus their team had no issues with the custom stencils and layers of the case! This was the main focal point and they did an amazing job!


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Don't miss a live rock music performance by the international group Munro The Band at Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood. All ages welcome. No cover charge.
Intocable, the popular Tejano conjunto music group from Zapata, Texas, will perform live in concert at the Dolby Theatre on November 10, 2018 at 8pm. Along with Tejano music, the group is also known for Norteno folk, pop ballads and rock. Intocable will perform many of their big hits throughout their almost 30-years career.


Double-issue | Both German travel / lifestyle magazines published this collaborative and otherwise identical issue with individual covers. This 'Reisen mit Kindern' (Travel with Kids) special features 'kra-kra – Ich bin ein Italo-Frosch' – a website tip recommending FL@33's popular online sound collection bzzzpeek.com.
KRA-KRA – ICH BIN EIN ITALO-FROSCH!


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 Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson (1801–1863), a British author and editor, specialising in children's scientific literature.

 Lucy Langdon Wilson (1864–1937), an American educator and ethnographer.

 Lucy Wilson (suffragist) (1834-1891), a Yorkshire born suffragist, educationalist and campaigner for the rights of women.

Lucy Wilson (1888–1980), an American physicist.

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Q: Connection to remote mysql using c# I'm trying to connect to MySQL database but I keep getting this error
 Authentication to host 'hostname' for user 'database' using method 'mysql_native_password' failed with message: Access denied for user 'user'@'5.41.159.197' (using password: YES)

I'm very positive that my username and password are correct and also I granted all privileges to my user, what can be causing this? I uploaded my database to hostgator
This is my connection string:
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Am I missing something?
I was able to access the databases without any issues through php code for my other projects but now with the c# project I can't ! So, there must be something wrong with the connection string or with my code!


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Your kids will already know how to play this one, but instead of numbers, they have to listen to some navigation commands and recognize the shape the commands describe. The game cards are attached if you would like to try this yourself.
Other games require a lot of expensive equipment or a low student to mentor ratio that makes it hard to scale. This game is great for any number of kids, especially if you have a large team or have a workshop where you want to keep kids in a holding pattern while they wait for a more exciting activity. You can use it to modulate the release of kids into smaller activities that require limited equipment or mentors.
This game is great to give to a non-technical volunteer to proctor. It is not as intimidating as asking them to mentor a kid on robotics, and they will appreciate having a productive way to contribute to the meeting or workshop.
The same game cards can be used with actual EV3 programming blocks. Your students can advance from Basic, to Advanced to EV3 programming instructions as they learn more about the programming vocabulary and EV3 language. They only need to know the basics of navigation below and you can use the 3-way instructions.
Qualifiers are a great time to connect with other FLL teams. We met the Immortals at the Anderson qualifier, I almost felt guilty making them learn when they had a long day of competition.


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Gareth Evans was Australia's Foreign Minister from 1988-96, President of the International Crisis Group from 2000-09, and Chancellor of Australian National University from 2010-19. He is the author of The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All (Brookings Institution Press, 2009).
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Dec 9, 2022 Gareth Evans offers eight principles to guide advocates as they try to put progress back on track.
Australia's Minister of Everything
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The Real Risks of Australia's Submarine Deal
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Sep 22, 2021 Gareth Evans explains why most of the dangers implied by the new AUKUS agreement with the US and the UK can be minimized.
Australia's China Problem
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Dec 3, 2020 Gareth Evans outlines a five-point strategy aimed at restoring stability to the two countries' bilateral relations.
An End to Australia's Democratic Pantomime?
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Aug 27, 2018 Gareth Evans sees grounds for hope that, despite yet another prime minister, years of leadership churn may soon end.
Libya's Double Tragedy
In his otherwise compelling piece on Libya, Amin Saikal repeats without qualification the proposition that Gaddafi's fall was the result of the military intervention authorised by the UN Security Council "on the basis of the 'responsibility to protect' the Libyan people". In so doing he, no doubt unintentionally but very effectively, reinforces the still unhappily widespread perception that the responsibility to protect ('R2P') principle which was unanimously embraced by the General Assembly in 2005 is liable, at least in its extreme-case military applications, to do more harm than good.
What went wrong in Libya in 2011 was not the granting or exercise of the original mandate, invoking R2P, given by the Security Council to "take all necessary measures…to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack". There were at the time almost universally held fears of an imminent massacre by Gaddafi forces marching on Benghazi; the resolution was not opposed; and it was immediately successfully implemented. And the operation was widely hailed at the time as the coming of age of R2P, demonstrating that with quick and robust collective action, the horrors of Rwanda and Srebrenica could indeed be made a thing of the past. It is impossible to know how many thousands of lives were saved in Benghazi by that initial intervention in Libya, but certainly credible to say that had the UN Security Council acted anything like as swiftly and robustly in the 1990s, 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica, and close to 800,000 men, women and children in Rwanda, would still be alive today.
Rather, what really went wrong – apart from all the other missteps after Gaddafi's eventual overthrow to which Professor Saikal properly refers – was the determination of the United States, UK and France to transform the limited civilian protection mandate conferred by Resolution 1973 into an open-ended regime-change one, without being willing to explore alternative approaches, and without allowing any serious further debate. This was deeply resented by the 'BRICS' states in particular (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), all of whom happened to be on the Council at the time. Not least did it upset South Africa, which wanted to explore with Gaddafi the possibility of a ceasefire and peaceful political transition. Whatever one may have thought then, or may think now, about its likely prospects of success, It should have been given the opportunity to do so before further full-scale war=fighting action was taken.
Having talked at the time to nearly all the participants in this debate, my own strong belief is that the breakdown of Security Council consensus over the Libyan mandate was, unquestionably, the major factor in the failure of the Council to agree on any response at all – even just a condemnatory resolution – when the Syrian situation started to explode in mid-2011. The BRICS took the view, whether one regards this as too obdurate or not, that they were not going to concede an inch if there was any chance that the P3 would take that inch to run a mile. It was around this time that I heard France, the United Kingdom and United States being widely referred to around UN corridors by a new acronym: not as the 'P3', but as the 'FUKUS' group. Such were, and unhappily remain to this day, the passions on this subject.
In the fifteen years since its initial embrace at the 2005 World Summit, R2P remains work in progress. As a normative principle – that mass atrocity crimes perpetrated behind sovereign state borders are not just that state's but the world's business – its acceptance, as evidenced by annual General Assembly debates and scores of Security Council resolutions, is almost complete. As an effective preventive force, and as a catalyst for institutional change, it has had many identifiable successes. But as an effective reactive mechanism, when prevention has failed, the record - since the Libyan case ran off the rails in mid=2011 – has been manifestly poor, above all in Syria. In the present international environment – with China and Russia now behaving as they are – it will be a long and difficult process to recreate any kind of Security Council consensus as to how to react to the hardest of cases, when external military intervention may be required to stop a genocidal catastrophe. But the beginning of wisdom will be for the P3 to own up to all its own past misjudgments in Libya in 2011, and for the history of those watershed events to be, once and for all, fully understood.
Chair, International Advisory Board, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect; former Australian Foreign Minister; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group
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This post is going to be a bit complicated. But note that you can think of ignorance in two ways. One is just not knowing. The other is a state of ignoring. So here is what the powers-that-be at UC, systemwide and campus level, should know, and what they may be ignoring. First, by now, everyone knows UC has an unfunded pension liability. It grows over time unless adequate contributions are put into the pension fund. Second, UC maintains a liquid cash reserve on hand to deal with ongoing needs for payments. It maintains the reserve both for systemwide needs and for campus level needs.
The financial experts at UC think that there may be an excess of such liquid funds on hand which at current very low interest rates earnings very little. So one idea is to put the assumed excess into a somewhat longer-term riskier fund. Of course, risk comes as a price. Those whose funds are held in these reserves would ostensibly get a higher return. But the assets could vary in value. The greater the risk, the less you can treat the reserves as a demand deposit with the principal returnable to the owner on demand guaranteed. There would have to be some limit on access to prevent a run on the bank if there were a decline in asset value. In other words, if you want the return that comes with risk, you get less of a guarantee. Nonetheless, there seem to be some who think, or maybe are being told, that the extra return comes with no loss of liquidity.
There is a subcommittee of the systemwide Faculty Welfare committee known as TFIR (Task Force on Investment and Retirement). (Full disclosure: Yours truly is a member although he was not involved in the particular report to which a link will be provided below.) TFIR thinks a) the risk-liquidity matter is not being well presented to those who will make a decision, and – in any case – b) a better use of "excess" funds is to put them into the pension fund to offset the unfunded liability. Shortchanging the pension fund means that eventually there will have to be higher contributions than would otherwise occur. And the percent of payroll expected to be going to the pension fund under current circumstances is already quite high.
As this blog has pointed out umpteen times, the pension issue is not an old folks issue. The old folks will be paid. It is a young folks issue because the need to fund the pension will squeeze university budgets. Neglecting contributions now will make the future – when today's young folks are in mid-career – painful. Meanwhile, older administrators will have passed the problem on to their successors. Maybe this issue is not so complicated after all. Let's just avoid ignoring the facts that a risky return has costs – no free lunch – and that not contributing to the pension now will cause difficulty for the university in the future.
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2 weeks ago, we had a little summer event on Friday night. It was good fun, we had drinks, snacks, music, and quite a few SGI teachers to entertain us! Pub quizzes are very popular in England, and the students got quite competitive! Here are a few pictures of the night! If you were here and would like me to send you some of them, do let me know!
Here were the winners! The runners up! And the Third Prizers... There was a consolation prize fr the last team: And here's the event! It was a fun night, and we'll be having another event very soon, this one, with a view... Look out for announcements!


Temperatures in the D.C. area are expected to top 90 degrees this week.
For ways to beat the heat in Washington, check out the city's 2011 heat emergency plan.
Prince George's County, Md., has opened six cooling centers so residents who don't have air conditioning can get some relief.
There are two centers open exclusively for seniors and four for the general public. They're expected to be open through the end of the week.
New Carrollton Nutrition Center, 6016 Princess Garden Parkway, Lanham from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Camp Springs Senior Activity Center, 6420 Allentown Road, Camp Springs from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Elderly, infants and those with chronic illnesses can dehydrate more easily and are more susceptible to heat-related illnesses. Please check on relatives, friends, and neighbors.
Your best protection is to stay well hydrated. Sweat, or water, allows heat to evaporate from your skin's surface. If you become dehydrated, it is more difficult for your body to maintain an acceptable temperature. The best thing to drink is water. Gatorade or other sports drinks are also good. Avoid drinks containing alcohol or caffeine.
Limit heavy exertion when high levels of heat and humidity are present. High humidity levels make it more difficult for your body to dissipate heat.
Increase time spent in an air-conditioned environment.
Wear loose fitting, light-colored clothing.
Take frequent rest breaks in the air conditioning or shade.
Spend time at local pools or take cool baths.
Make sure pets have access to water and shade.
Continue to monitor weather reports for updates and tips.