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Networks Politics Sound Art Sound Public Sphere Carlos Suarez
Spaces for audio practices
Juan-Gil López: I think that since escoitar.org is a verb ['escoitar' means 'to listen to'], it's an intention; it's not a conclusion but an intention. It's listening. Nothing would describe better the origins and the meaning of escoitar.org than the act of listening.
Juan-Gil López: escoitar.org was born out of the question of whether there existed an aurality specific to Galicia. I mean, whether there was a series of sounds that people living in this territory feel identified with.
Chiu Longina: Sounds of belonging, native to the land and recognized as such by everyone living there.
Juan-Gil López: We didn't start from any assumption, we just opened a door. The idea of consensus was basically that anyone could come with sounds they considered sounds of belonging. In the end, the idea, by exclusion or by the sum of all, is that sound identity in Galicia is the sum of all individual identities, of everyone who has participated in the map. This is the vision that the map provides. The idea of introducing cartography and geo-referencing is because they're somewhat metaphoric. Cartography is in fact a narrative and not something objective. This has been widely discussed in post-colonialism. Cartography is a narrative, and this is our narrative about listening in Galicia. But, of course, there could be many other narratives. Many sounds are missing that perhaps are very important for some people. However, the sounds here registered are very important for the people who have collaborated in this map and who have participated in the consensual process.
Chiu Longina: And for the practical reason of locating the sound in the place where it was heard and recorded, without trying to go beyond the discourse of cartography as it is.
Carlos Suarez: It's very anthropologic, right? To register the heritage of a given place. But then again, it's a little tricky because it distracts you a bit from the purely sonic.
Juan-Gil López: It's much more important to us to encourage people to go there and listen to a sound live. I mean, the register is interesting in that it presents acoustics as a creative element, but this is not the nature of escoitar.org.
Chin Longina: That's where the problem we're always discussing came from, a problem that has to do with the philosophical nature of capturing time. Like Luis Cencillo, we believe that if we're capturing time, when we listen to it again we're just listening to a residue, to the fossil of a time that was, that is past.
There's another aspect in sound recordings that I think is highly important and valuable. I mean the objectivity afforded by listening to a recording, because texts interpret things and, therefore, there may be national interests that may want to instrumentalize them in some way and turn them into a historical text to take it to a specific place.
Sound in particular has a peculiarity, which is that it goes straight to the skin without the interference of reason. First it touches you and then you reason about it, just the opposite of what happens with images, for instance—first you reason about them and then you interpret them. So the sound of a historical recording, for example, it's an objective reality of what it once was, that's why we're always wondering why there aren't official recordings or officially filed recordings of acoustic spaces as rich as a market, for example, even when there were popular instruments like the tape recorders in the 1950s that allowed it.
Listening to that recording from the 1950s is quite evident. It would be a literal recording showing that what we hear happened just like that. And that pure objectivity of sound, its great magic quality, is what makes us have a predilection for that object as an historical object. This would be the other task of escoitar.org, to create a historical archive.
Horacio González: However, we always work with very subjective aspects such as identity, memory—which is a very important element—, and the perception of listening, that is, changing the way people listen. You refer to recorders as objective elements, but we're actually investigating about the subjectivity of listening and about how to transform that way of listening. In think geo-referencing has a lot to do with these four words: memory, identity, sound and place. In the end, cartography generates a space for representation and visualization and for the management of information in relation to those four elements.
Juan-Gil López: About what Chiu is saying, I think the idea of it actually providing us with information we don't really have and that we miss is very interesting. It would be interesting to have that sonic information of something that has not been kept. This was a trigger point for escoitar.org: let's start now that we can do it, now that we can afford to buy a recorder. Up to this day there wasn't people doing it, and people with access to that kind of technology didn't do it because they didn't see the value in those sounds they referred to as noise. But suddenly those sounds are interesting for us because they're telling us a story. That's when we decided to file them so that we could tell through sounds what Galicia sounded like when we began this project, either partially or completely. The very act of collecting is telling us something about the act of collecting those sounds. They're telling the story of the moment when escoitar.org was born and what that moment sounded like, that moment from which it perpetuates itself.
Chiu Longina: That's exactly the definition of landscape, that which the eye can encompass.
Juan-Gil López: In fact, if we apply this to the evolution of painting, the idea of the landscape was to provide a background for a portrait. A woman in the foreground and the landscape… It wasn't the background noise, but the backdrop. In the early 20th century, with Barbizon's landscape school, the landscape was brought to the forefront and people became smaller in size to be a part of that landscape. It's a bit what's happened with sound.
Chiu Longina: It hasn't happened yet.
Juan-Gil López: It has in phonography and in the idea of collecting sound, that John Cage idea of opening the windows and the doors of the auditorium. And now it's the other way around. Suddenly people who work on phonography are recording the sounds outside auditoriums. All the theories by Barber or Francisco López about [The world as an instrument]. We're changing the way we listen and paying attention to sounds that were usually kept on the fringes.
Chiu Longina: The way I see it, right now there's a need for redemption, for a kind of historical forgiveness for not having listened. Carmen Pardo expresses this very well when she talks about nomads and of the fact the fundamental sense, the fundamental organ, has been lost. John Cage usually said that sound should be let free because it is essentially free. We live in an allopathic western society where Thomas Aquinas is a reference and where that what's tangible and can be touched and measured is science and is truth. There's nothing we can do about it.
Horacio González: It's a very accessible tool to start off. When we began the project almost from scratch during one summer, the technology available allowed us to develop a project such as escoitar.org, with a sound file made with human capital, hours of work and without the need for a physical infrastructure.
Then we thought that it would be a very good way of generating participation, of talking about heritage without establishing a top-to-bottom structure, allowing people to talk about their heritage, about their acoustic heritage, and to define what they believed was and what wasn't part of their acoustic heritage.
Chiu Longina: I think that the relationship with technology, besides being totally natural because it's part of our generation, is a traumatic relationship. The relationship we have with technology is totally natural. There isn't a technocrat or technophobic discourse; it's just used… The case of Macrófono is a telling example because the common imagery has incorporated those objects, the sea, the building, the cars and an object that is called microphone that is related with sound.
We've discovered that there's a cultural element in the act of listening. Given that it's impossible to break the sound flow of information—ears have no eyelashes—the only way to cut the flow is by creating cultural filters. Then we get to have an incredible control over the ear, but in the process of controlling what is listened to many frequencies are lost. The microphone has no culture, and because it has no culture it listens to everything. And that is the other discourse that emerges when we come up with this procession ritual, worshiping that Virgin that is the microphone… What we're actually worshipping is the fact that we're able to listen to everything.
Horacio González: That idea we have at escoitar.org of going out to register sounds dressed in costumes, putting the microphone before us, the macrophone, and making it obvious that we're recording is precisely aimed at having passers-by questioning the same thing. Why are they recording? What sound here is so interesting to record? It has to do also with the idea of generating that moment of listening, and not so much of generating a recording of extraordinary quality. It's about having people wonder why it's necessary to come to that place and register that particular sound.
Juan-Gil López: One of phonography's greatest potentials—even though it incurs in the practice of capturing sound that, in the end, is just a dead residue— is its schizophrenic nature, which was considered problematic. Being able to listen to a de-contextualized sound generates a new perception of that sound; it amplifies the act of listening.
Chiu Longina: And the space around you.
Juan-Gil López: There's this text by Rainer María Rilke about the first time he listened to a recorded sound on a phonograph one of his teachers brought to class. He recorded students talking and then they all listened to it. For us, this is a given. Rilke said that, for someone back then, it felt like a splitting in time, like travelling in time, because they were listening to something that used to be trapped in time.
Chiu Longina: Well, that's actually it…
Juan-Gil López: But suddenly it stops being trapped in time. And that is possible thanks to technology and techno-culture. In a way, when sounds started being recorded, the act of listening was drastically changed, in the same way that the visual has been drastically changed by cinema, or by photography, or by mechanical printing when it was invented. There's a radical change in our perception and in our unification with culture. Somehow, technology is what leaves the mark, whether it's old or modern.
Chiu Longina: Well, it's been like this since the sword was invented.
Juan-Gil López: Yes, of course… We have that, the ability to register sound, but then there's also how sounds have changed the soundscape. Take the industrial soundscape, there're many examples since the early 20th century of how the sounds of cities have dramatically changed with the appearance of factories.
Horacio González: The little research we've done on endangered sound… Contrary to what evidence may show, those endangered sounds are relatively recent. The first to disappear are those sounds generated by the industrial revolutions: machinery, type writers, telephones, etc… Everything that comes after the digital revolution has provoked the almost disappearance of a good piece of soundscape, industrial or post-industrial.
Carlos Suarez: Things change very fast.
Juan-Gil López: What Chiu said about our relationship with technology being always natural… People incorporate technology to their lives because it's helpful, and those digital, analogic or mechanical sounds also mark a cultural soundscape.
It's not just the steel bell with its inscriptions what should have a heritage value. It's like today's theories on archeo-acoustics, a set of hypothesis that reconsider greatly the whole historiologic approach. Like petroglyphs in certain parks in the U.S. There's a hypothesis that considers that maybe the petroglyph as a visual element is not what's important, but the fact that it marks a place where echo is produced. This would reconsider things, in the sense that the petroglyph has been conserved and kept clean whereas the soundscape has been modified.
Chiu Longina: And airlines are allowed to fly over, neutralizing all that acoustic harmony.
Juan-Gil López: They've made a stupid mistake because they've protected the least important aspect. What was important about the bell is its sound, and the messages, and the ringing of the bell, and how an acoustic community was formed around that that bell. An example is Alain Corvain's theories about French towns in the 19th century.
Chiu Longina: It could also be explained in a simpler way. There's this village whose inhabitants haven't talked to each other in twenty seven years. They have two fields of potatoes separated by twelve metres. But when the bell tolls announcing a death, following a specific signage, those people working on their respective potato fields realize they belong to the same community. The bell works as a sound bond of community.
Juan-Gil López: And this is aurality, in fact. I'm actually going to explain it in a way that for us was a practical example. I don't remember whether it's Barry Truax or Murray Schafer… One of them says that the bell radiates sound in circular waves, generating community, whereas sirens radiate sound vertically, generating control in factories. We worked in Gijon and it was the other way around. Sirens had replaced bells. That's where you find the aural relation between culture and sound, in this example about bells generating community and sirens generating control, whereas in Gijón it wasn't like this. So there're cultural elements that modify how people integrate sounds into their daily lives, and that's aurality. How sounds have a value for certain people in relation with a memory. That value is in fact our heritage.
Chiu Longina: There's a chance to save ourselves from this extreme capitalism, this market society that is in a cul-de-sac. There's a chance to get out of it through the act of listening.
Carlos Suarez: Perception is subversive because it raises awareness.
Juan-Gil López: The idea that images express much more productivity whereas listening expresses much more reflexivity. The idea that one image is worth a thousand words is a productivity slogan: one image saves a lot of time. I'm going to tell you this with an image so you can go to the next image quickly, and then I'll tell you something else while you keep on producing.
Carlos Suarez: And so that you can make money.
Juan-Gil López: Sound demands time. It demands that you stop and listen. This generates a reflection, and this can be problematic and anti-productive. We're in a culture of images so that it's a fast, productive culture that enables us to go on to our next task quickly.
Under this subtitle, a series of four long capsules are proposed that focus on the production and on the uses and management of sound. The looseness of the title is due to a series of organizational practices that cannot be defined at once under a single term or territory. By avoiding centralization, this series proposes real centres and nodes for the building of discourses that don't fit in traditional academy as learning and diffusion are carried out through participation and the common construction of aurality or the idea of sound.
This third capsule features an interview with Galician collective escoitar.org, a benchmark, in many respects, of the construction of a consensual aurality, and of the awareness of sound as a means of knowledge that allows for understanding social, geographical, heritage and political matters. Escoitar.org is the collective that introduced in Spanish territory the terms 'aural' and 'aurality', which refer to a common culture based on listening.
The website Escoitar.org is also among the pioneers in promoting a web tool that enables users to upload and geo-reference recorded sounds. This space is reinforced with workshops, mobile phone apps, actions, texts, talks and mass media appearances that have raised awareness about the importance of soundscapes.
The voices of the collective's members, recorded during a meeting that took place in January 2012, are mixed with sounds registered by escoitar.org in Galicia, especially remixed for this capsule by Carlos Suarez, one of the collective's members. The interlocutors are not identified in the audio at their expressed wish, although their names are included in the attached PDF file.
Chiu Longina. Mosquito device, 2009
Chiu Longina. Proxecto-Edición CGAC. Chiu Longina, Julio Gomez y Horacio Gonzalez, 2007
El Correo Digital. Macrófono en el Fontana di Trevi, 2010
hiu Longina. NoTours Gijón. Juan-Gil López, José Ramón Rodríguez Rodríguez y Chiu Longina, 2007
Chiu Longina. Fonotopías de Galicia. Carlos Suarez, 2007
Código copiado al portapapeles.
Realization:
José Luis Espejo, Carlos Suarez
Voice-over:
Luis Mata
Each one of the people who made this interview between 12 and 14 January 2012
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Mr Alfred George Crawford
Home Titanic Survivors Mr Alfred George Crawford
Mr Alfred George Crawford (Bedroom Steward) was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England on 27 February 1869.
He was the son of Thomas Crawford (b. 1838) and Ann Parry (b. 1842). His mariner father was Scottish by birth whilst his mother was a native of Winchester. They were married in Southampton in 1862.
Alfred had five known siblings: William (b. 1864), Edward (b. 1866) Martha (b. 1870), Thomas (b. 1874) and Henry (b. 1877).
Crawford first appears on the 1871 census, then resident at 4 Blechynden Street, Southampton and would still be at this address by the time of the 1881 census. At that time he was listed as a 12-year-old schoolboy but he later testified that he went to sea that same year.
Alfred was married in New Forest in mid-1890 to Emily Pilgrim (b. 1872), a New Forest native, and the couple went on to have two children: Emily Gladys (b. 1897) and Alfred George (b. 1901).
The 1891 census shows Alfred and his wife living in Raven Terrace, St Mary, Southampton. Here Alfred is listed as a "sailor". The 1911 census shows the family living at 17 Frederick Street, Southampton. Also living there at the time was his sister-in-law Mabel Bennett, née Pilgrim and her daughter.
Having served with the White Star Line for six years, initially aboard Adriatic, Crawford joined Titanic in Belfast for her delivery trip where he reported there was a lifeboat drill. When he signed on in Southampton for the maiden voyage, on 4 April 1912 he gave his address as 22 Cranbury Avenue, Southampton. His previous ship was the Olympic and as a Bedroom Steward he received monthly wages of £3 ,15s. Also serving aboard were two relatives, his sister-in-law Mabel Bennett and his nephew Leonard Hoare.
Whilst aboard Crawford was stationed on forward B-deck and passengers that he was in charge of looking after were Mrs Elisabeth Robert, her daughter Georgette Madill and niece Elisabeth Allen; Albert Ankeny Stewart and newlyweds Mr and Mrs Dickinson Bishop.
At the time of the collision Crawford was on watch and due to step down at midnight. Positioned as usual on B-deck forward he heard the impact and went out to the open promenade deck where he was able to see the iceberg float past. By the time he returned to the cabin area many passengers had started to open their cabin doors to see if anything was the matter. Reassuring his charges that there was no immediate danger, after what Crawford estimated to be 30 minutes orders came for evacuation. He assisted several passengers on with their lifebelts and also helped the elderly Albert Stewart prepare by tying his shoelaces for him.
Heading up to the boat deck Crawford initially went to the forward starboard area; here he observed lifeboat 5 being loaded by First Officer Murdoch and Ismay. He reported that Ismay halted the lowering of the lifeboat when he noticed one of the after falls jam, reporting it to Murdoch who took action.
Crawford assisted in loading lifeboat 8 with Chief Officer Wilde and Captain Smith. He recalled being close by Mr and Mrs Straus, observing Mrs Straus attempt to enter the boat before rejoining her husband and sending her maid away instead. He recalled Captain Smith assisting in the lowering of the boat, working at the forward falls with an unidentified steward. The crew in boat 8 under the command of seaman Thomas Jones, according to Crawford, were given instructions by the Captain to pull towards two lights he could see in the distance, drop off the passengers and return to the ship. Despite the lights of the ship in the distance looking tantalisingly close, which Crawford estimated to be ten miles away and quite distinct, he reported that the lifeboat pulled in the direction but made no headway.
They maintained their stride in the same direction until daybreak when they spotted Carpathia and began rowing back in the opposite direction to reach her. Crawford's sister-in-law Mabel Bennett was also saved but his nephew Leonard Hoare was among the lost.
Crawford later testified before the United States Senate inquiry on two separate days, being recalled on the second day.
Alfred Crawford returned to Southampton and continued working at sea, serving for the duration of WWI in the merchant service. He later lived with his family at 16 Newcombe Road, Southampton.
Alfred died aged 68 on 9 February 1938, leaving an estate of £126, 17s, 1d to his wife. He was buried in Southampton Old Cemetery although his final resting place has since fallen into a state of disrepair.
His widow Emily continued to live at 16 Newcombe Road until her own death on 29 August 1954.
His daughter Emily was married in 1922 to Harold Rathbone (1892-1985) of Liverpool and they emigrated five years later, settling in Monroe County, New York where Emily worked as a sales assistant in a department store and her husband as a shipping clerk. They remained childless. Emily died in New York on 3 September 1995, just shy of her 98th birthday.
Crawford's son Alfred died in Southampton on 6 September 1986.
When he signed-on he gave his age as 36, he told the Senate Inquiry he was 41.
He gave his birthplace as London on crew agreements.
Evening Star (1912)
TITANIC STEWARDS ANXIOUS TO RETURN HOME
Name: Mr Alfred George Crawford
Born: Saturday 27th February 1869 in London, England
Age: 43 years 1 month and 16 days (Male)
Last Residence: at 22 Cranbury Avenue Southampton, Hampshire, England
Occupation: Bed Room Steward
First Embarked: Belfast on Monday 1st April 1912
Died: Wednesday 9th February 1938 aged 68 years
Linked Biography
Mrs Mabel Kate Bennett
British Census
General Register Office Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths
Crew Particulars of Engagement
United States Senate (62nd Congress), Subcommittee Hearings of the Committee on Commerce, Titanic Disaster, Washington 1912
Wreck Commissioners' Court, Proceedings before the Right Hon. Lord Mersey on a Formal Investigation Ordered by the Board of Trade into the Loss of the S.S. Titanic
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
(2020) Alfred George Crawford Encyclopedia Titanica (ref: #1820, updated 13th January 2020 13:22:38 PM)
URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/alfred-crawford.html

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Q: Javascript export excel fill top column I created a code that can export a file via excel the code is working fine without error but my problem is the excel file has a lot of spaces can.

as you can see in the image row 123 data is put in column 7 not in column
heres my code for exporting  the data
export  function download() {
var header = [];
var finalData = []
var group = [
    { "group_name": "123" },
    { "group_name": "123b" },
    { "group_name": "123ef" },
    { "group_name": "Accounts Payable" },
    { "group_name": "ADG JET TEAM" },
    { "group_name": "001 Approval" }
]
var member = [
    {"001 Approval": "083817 - Ranjeet Kumar (ranjeet.kumar3@concentrix.com)" },
    { "001 Approval": "C01747 - Abid Shaikh (abid.shaikh1@concentrix.com)"},
    { "001 Approval": "C01747 - Abid Shaikh (abid.shaikh1@concentrix.com)"},
    { "123b": "C01747 - Abid Shaikh (abid.shaikh1@concentrix.com)"},
    {
        "123ef": "C01747 - Abid Shaikh (abid.shaikh1@concentrix.com)"
    }
]

group.forEach(data=>{
    header.push(data.group_name)
})
finalData.push(header)
header.forEach(headerData=>{
    var temp = []
    member.forEach(memberData=>{
        if (headerData === Object.keys(memberData)[0]){
            temp.push(memberData[Object.keys(memberData)[0]])
        }else{
            temp.push("")
        }
    })
    finalData.push(temp)
})
exportToCsv('export.csv', finalData)}

the exportToexcel code is from here https://jsfiddle.net/jossef/m3rrLzk0/

A: Open your CSV in a text editor and and check the output, what are you using as separator and delimiter. This can be a CSV bad format (fields not surrounded by quotes, for ex), or a problem with excel configuration (csv delimiters and separators).
If you have data like that
field1, field2, field 3 supercool, this is a phrase, ops

It can be a problem, it should be something similar to
"field1", "field2", "field 3 supercool", "this is a phrase, ops"

In addition, try to open your csv with Google Sheets (docs), which will try to recognize the delimiters and separators automatically. See if it works.
A common problem for that is that your CSV is saparated by spaces or commas, but phrase can have a space and a comma which will be interpreted as a separator, and the whole document will break.
It can be useful to take a look at that link: Write a string containing commas and double quotes to CSV

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Q: basic question on definition of function on wikipedia it says that a function is a relation or process that associates each x of X an element y of Y. I can understand how a function is a relation defined by some equation but can't really understand the interpretation as a process.
Is it necessary to understand this and if so could someone make this clearer for me, thanks

A: More precisely by definition given $2$ sets $X$ and $Y$ a function $f:X\to Y$ is a "law" which associates to any value $x\in X$ one and only one value $y\in Y$.
Note that we don't need that $f$ is defined by an explicit formula or expression the definiton indeed works in a more general context.
For example we can consider the function $f$ which associates to any person the mother.
Or in a more mathematical context, we can consider the function $f:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ which associates to any natural number $n$ the corresponding $n^{th}$ prime number.
Refer also to the related

*

*What exactly is a function?

*Why is $\sin : \mathbb{R} \to [-5,5] $ different from $\sin : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$?


The versioning is causing problems; missing glyphs etc. I would fix if I was not intimidated. In the meantime, I suggest using one of the single font packages that are updated to 2.0, and use them as fallback font for the glyphs.
First, I don't think this package is out of date just yet. On github v2.0.0 is marked as pre-release not latest stable.
I also agree 2GB download is kinda big, even if I have good download. Looking at the source code, it has everything. The other approach (much more manual) would be to download only relevant files (we probably don't need Windows versions).
Hacking into install script https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/install.sh might be a good idea.
I had a problem with the new version 2.0.0 source code because of its size. The size is 2GB. With my slow Internet connection, it cost me more than 20 mins to download the source code. I think my current method to install this package is not appropriate anymore. Right now, I am a little bit busy with my work and study, so I don't have time to think and change to a new installing method. Therefore, I decided to not upgrade this package to the latest version 2.0.0. If you guys have any idea or suggest, please let me know.
@raith yep sorry my bad, then it would be suitable to have it in /usr/share/fonts/NerdFonts then.
Please do not put files into /home in a package . It is a no-go zone for a package manager.
@Superbo @glider could you please make use of https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/10-nerd-font-symbols.conf (put it in /etc/fonts/conf.avail) and put the content of https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/bin/scripts/lib/ to ~/.local/share/fonts ?
@tyilo I tried your package but the nerd-fonts didn't appeared in my text editors, while this package works perfectly. I can't tell you what the differences are but they definitely don't work the same.
Is there a reason for installing this instead of ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols/) that I just created.
It uses almost no disk space and should work the same.
This uses 257.01 MiB disk space.


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Buddhism Essay
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Q: Pass data through view controller, tab bar controller, navigation controller and to view controller This is probably something really simple to achieve, but I am new to programming for iOS and I seem to be stuck.
So, basically, I have a tabbed application. I decided that I wanted a navigation bar, in addition to the tab bar. To do this, I put the tab bar controller and then I added my view controllers and embedded in a navigation controller for each view controller, which is then connected to the tab bar.
My hierarchy in the storyboard looks somewhat like this:

*

*View Controller

*Tab Bar Controller

*Navigation Controller

*View Controller

*Navigation Controller

*View Controller

The part where I am stuck here, is when attempting to pass data from the first View Controller and to any of the other View Controllers. Before adding in the navigation controllers, I was using the prepareForSegue method to pass the data, like so:
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"logged"])
    {
        UITabBarController *tabar=segue.destinationViewController;
        SecondViewController *svc=[tabar.viewControllers objectAtIndex:1];
        svc.groupArray = [(NSArray*)sender objectAtIndex:0];
        svc.userArray = [(NSArray*)sender objectAtIndex:1];
        svc.taskArray = [(NSMutableArray*)sender objectAtIndex:2];
        svc.selfArray = [(NSMutableArray*)sender objectAtIndex:3];
        [tabar setSelectedIndex:1];
    }
}

As you can see, I was passing the data to my second view controller  and set the tab bar index to 1 using the performSegueWithIdentifier method, since I wanted the second page to open. All of this was working just fine, until I introduced the Navigation Controllers to my code, since I want navigation bars. That's when everything pretty much broke. If I try to run the code as is, the application crashes with the following output in the console:

[UINavigationController setGroupArray:]: unrecognized selector sent to
  instance 0x7ffa6acec620
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[UINavigationController setGroupArray:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7ffa6acec620'

I've tried messing around with the code a bit, but nothing seems to work really. I am just very confused, and maybe a hint in the right direction would help me out a bit.

A: Since you embedded your view controllers inside navigation controllers they are no longer direct children of the tabbar; however, you are casting the children of the tabbar controller as something other than Navigation controllers. You want to first get the navigation controller, which is a child of the tabbar controller, and then get the child of that navigation controller. This will be your view controller. Then you can set the data for that.
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"logged"])
   {
       UITabBarController *tabar=segue.destinationViewController;
       UINavigationController *navController = [tabbar.viewControllers objectAtIndex:1];
       SecondViewController *svc=[navController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:0];
       svc.groupArray = [(NSArray*)sender objectAtIndex:0];
       svc.userArray = [(NSArray*)sender objectAtIndex:1];
       svc.taskArray = [(NSMutableArray*)sender objectAtIndex:2];
       svc.selfArray = [(NSMutableArray*)sender objectAtIndex:3];
       [tabar setSelectedIndex:1];
   }
}

A: - (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"logged"])
    {
        UITabBarController *tabar=segue.destinationViewController;
        UINavigationController *navc =[tabar.viewControllers objectAtIndex:1];
        SecondViewController *svc=[nvc.viewControllers objectAtIndex:0];
        svc.groupArray = [(NSArray*)sender objectAtIndex:0];
        svc.userArray = [(NSArray*)sender objectAtIndex:1];
        svc.taskArray = [(NSMutableArray*)sender objectAtIndex:2];
        svc.selfArray = [(NSMutableArray*)sender objectAtIndex:3];
        [tabar setSelectedIndex:1];
    }
}

As you have changed UITabbarController root with UINavigationController, hence while fetching viewcontrollers from UITabbarController it will be of navigation controller type.
Then you have to fetch SecondViewController from navigation controller.


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Oceanic long-distance navigation : do experienced migrants use the earth's magnetic field?
Akesson, S., Luschi, P., Papi, F., Broderick, A.C., Glen, F., Godley, B.J. and Hays, G.C. 2001, Oceanic long-distance navigation : do experienced migrants use the earth's magnetic field?, Journal of navigation, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 419-427, doi: 10.1017/S0373463301001473.
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Akesson, S.
Luschi, P.
Papi, F.
Broderick, A.C.
Glen, F.
Godley, B.J.
Hays, G.C. orcid.org/0000-0002-3314-8189
Journal of navigation
animal navigation
Albatrosses and sea turtles are known to perform extremely long-distance journeys between disparate feeding areas and breeding sites located on small, isolated, oceanic islands or at specific coastal sites. These oceanic journeys, performed mainly over or through apparently featureless mediums, indicate impressive navigational abilities, and the sensory mechanisms used are still largely unknown. This research used three different approaches to investigate whether bi-coordinate navigation based on magnetic field gradients is likely to explain the navigational performance of wandering albatrosses in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans and of green turtles breeding on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The possibility that magnetic field parameters can potentially be used in a bi-coordinate magnetic map by wandering albatrosses in their foraging area was investigated by analysing satellite telemetry data published in the literature. The possibilities for using bi-coordinate magnetic navigation varied widely between different areas of the Southern Oceans, indicating that a common mechanism, based on a bi-coordinate geomagnetic map alone, was unlikely for navigation in these areas. In the second approach, satellite telemetry was used to investigate whether Ascension Island green turtles use magnetic information for navigation during migration from their breeding island to foraging areas in Brazilian coastal waters. Disturbing magnets were applied to the heads and carapaces of the turtles, but these appeared to have little effect on their ability to navigate. The only possible effect observed was that some of the turtles with magnets attached were heading for foraging areas slightly south of the control turtles along the Brazilian coast. In the third approach, breeding female green turtles were deliberately displaced in the waters around Ascension Island to investigate which cues these turtles might use to locate and return to the island; the results suggested that cues transported by wind might be involved in the final stages of navigation.
10.1017/S0373463301001473
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On Sunday, July 13, 2014, at 2:30 A.M. members of the Spalding County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant at Mama's Country Showcase, located at 2700 North Expressway, Griffin, Georgia. The search warrant was a result of a four month investigation. Gambling machines were seized during the search. The investigation revealed that employees of the establishment were paying cash to patrons who won on the gaming machines which is a Violation of Georgia's Gambling Laws. The following employees were arrested.


I love this and I am totally pinning it. I live in Bend, OR so this is not really that far for us to travel to enjoy, what sounds like, an amazing experience.
I was just in Bend a few weeks ago. (Mr B is a big fan of Wubba's) I think you will love the Applegate Valley, too. There is so much to do and see there.
What an awesome location with so many great gems! I love a good winery!
Oregon is on my bucket list! It looks so beautiful, will have to bookmark this in case we ever get to go!
They all look so beautiful! Can you believe I've never been to a winery? I need to visit one this summer!
Definitely going to take a little road trip with my husband over the summer and visiting some of these wineries! Your pictures are beautiful – thanks for sharing!
So many wonderful wineries! Love Wooldridge Creek. I'll have to check out Red Lily Vineyards on my next trip down there!
Oregon wines are getting attention world-wide these days!


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Q: How to create a custom symbol list item in Textmate? I am looking to create a custom "Symbol" for the "Symbol List" in Textmate so that I can have named bookmarks and jump to sections more easily.
Specifically I am trying to duplicate (from the CSS bundle)
/** something **/

That basically adds to Symbol List  * something *
I would like this in HTML and JavaScript as well. But can't figure out how to make it work.

Hope someone out there can help...

A: You need to define the /** … **/ syntax in the language grammar first, and then use a Symbol List to add it to the menu. If you look at the CSS bundle, the "Symbol List: Group" preference looks for source.css comment.block.css -source.css.embedded scopes (i.e. comment blocks in CSS source, but not embedded comment blocks). The "comment.block.css" scope is defined in the CSS grammar.
To make your own for js or html, you'll need to edit the language grammar to look for the kinds of markers/comments you'd like to use, and then add a symbol list preference similar to the one in the CSS bundle (the one in the CSS bundle is basically doing a lot of substitution to make the name in the symbol list dropdown look pretty)
If you've never done anything like this before, it's rather complicated to explain. At least, to complicated to put in an answer here. But go to the ##textmate channel on Freenode and ask there, if you have further questions. Nice people, and a great resource for learning more about TextMate's innards: irc://irc.freenode.net/#%23textmate


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require 'spec_helper'

include RR

describe "PostgreSQL support" do
  before(:each) do
    Initializer.configuration = standard_config
  end

  after(:each) do
  end

  if standard_config.left[:adapter] == 'postgresql'

    it "should read & write microsecond times" do
      session = nil
      begin
        session = Session.new
        session.left.begin_db_transaction
        session.left.insert_record('extender_type_check',
          {'id' => 2, 'timestamp' => Time.local(2009, "feb", 16, 20, 48, 1, 543)}
        )

        cursor = session.left.select_cursor(
          :query => "select id, timestamp from extender_type_check where id = 2",
          :table => :extender_type_check
        )

        row = cursor.next_row
        row['timestamp'].usec.should == 543
        cursor.clear
      ensure
        session.left.rollback_db_transaction if session
      end
    end

    it "should not round microsecond times to incorrect value" do
      session = nil
      begin
        session = Session.new
        session.left.begin_db_transaction
        session.left.insert_record('extender_type_check',
          {'id' => 2, 'timestamp' => Time.local(2009, "feb", 16, 13, 37, 11, 126291)}
        )

        cursor = session.left.select_cursor(
          :query => "select id, timestamp from extender_type_check where id = 2",
          :table => :extender_type_check
        )

        row = cursor.next_row
        row['timestamp'].usec.should == 126291
        cursor.clear
      ensure
        session.left.rollback_db_transaction if session
      end
    end

    it "should read & write postgres specific types" do
      session = nil
      begin
        session = Session.new
        session.left.begin_db_transaction

        # first: read test (by writing the data via literal constants)
        session.left.insert_record('postgres_types',
          {
            'id' => 1,
            'text_array' => '{a, b}',
            'float_array' => '{1.23, 4.56}',
            'json' => '{"a": 1, "b": 2}',
            'jsonb' => '{"a": 5, "b": 6}'
          }
        )

        cursor = session.left.select_cursor(
          :query => "select id, text_array, float_array, json, jsonb from postgres_types where id = 1",
          :table => :postgres_types
        )

        row = cursor.next_row
        row['text_array'].should == ['a', 'b']
        row['float_array'].should == [1.23, 4.56]
        row['json'].should == {'a' => 1, 'b' => 2}
        row['jsonb'].should == {'a' => 5, 'b' => 6}
        cursor.clear

        # second: write test
        session.left.insert_record('postgres_types',
          {
            'id' => 2,
            'text_array' => ['c', 'd'],
            'float_array' => [0.0000000000000000001, -1000000000000000000.1],
            'json' => {'c' => 10, 'd' => 20},
            'jsonb' => {'c' => 50, 'd' => 60, 'e' => [{'f' => 'ff'}, 5.7]}
          }
        )

        cursor = session.left.select_cursor(
          :query => "select id, text_array, float_array, json, jsonb from postgres_types where id = 2",
          :table => :postgres_types
        )

        row = cursor.next_row
        row['text_array'].should == ['c', 'd']
        row['float_array'].should == [0.0000000000000000001, -1000000000000000000.1]
        row['json'].should == {'c' => 10, 'd' => 20}
        row['jsonb'].should == {'c' => 50, 'd' => 60, 'e' => [{'f' => 'ff'}, 5.7]}
        cursor.clear
      ensure
        session.left.rollback_db_transaction if session
      end
    end
  end
end

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Smith Sisters Murdered Anonymously
The Smith Sisters is a scary urban legend about two young girls who were murdered amonymously while they slept in their bedroom.
There was a boy named John Smith who lived in Plainfield, Wisconsin. He was very fond of scary e-mails and popups. Every day, he would find new ones and send them to everyone he knew. He even started making some himself and sending them to strangers. He loved to scare people on the Internet.
One day in November 2007, he opened up his Inbox and found a message that appeared to be from two young girls. They called themselves "The Smith Sisters" and told him they were his older sisters, which confused him because he was an only child. They also said that, years ago, they had lived in his house.
He replied, saying he didn't have any sisters and told them to get lost and leave him alone. The next day, he received a chilling message with some photo attachments. The first photo was of two young girls.
The caption on it said Smith Sisters Murdered Anonymously
In the e-mail, the girls said that they were indeed his older sisters. They told him that in 1993 they had lived in his house. His bedroom had once been their bedroom. They told him all about growing up and about their lives and how happy they had been until one horrible night.
He opened up the other attachment. It was a scan of an old newspaper article.
"In 1993, two sisters were brutally murdered in the small-town community of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Lisa Smith, 19 and her sister, Sarah Smith, 15 were attacked in their parent's home on the night of November 17th, around 1:30AM. The Smith Sisters were lying in bed when a crazed killer broke into the house. No-one heard them scream. In the morning, their parents found the dead bodies of the Smith Sisters hidden in the bedroom closet. They had been skinned alive. The killer was long gone and no trace of him could be found. They had been murdered anonymously. Police conducted an extensive investigation, but to no avail. The motives for the attack were never discovered, nor was the attacker ever found. The only lead athorities had was a series of strange emails found in Lisa's computer. The case was closed in October of 2000."
In the rest of the email, the sisters said that they were angry that the case was closed and people forgot about them.
They were angry that their parents wanted to forget about them too.
They were angry that their parents decided to start over and had a new baby. A little boy named John.
They were angry that their parents had never mentioned their daughters or their tragic murder to their new son John.
John Smith, sent an angry reply saying he didn't believe what they were saying. He didn't believe the Smith Sisters were really related to him and he didn't believe the newspaper article was real. He told them to go to hell.
Five minutes later, he got another email from them. It said "If you don't believe us, look in the bedroom closet."
That was the last email that was found on John's computer. Police were unable to trace who had sent the messages to him.
On the floor of the closet, the police found a faint message, carved in the wood. It simply read "Lisa and Sarah – 1993". Underneath that, was another carving that read "John 2007".
No-one knows what John did next, but in the morning, John's parents woke up to find their son missing. Then they checked his bedroom closet and got the shock of their lives. There they found the dead body of their son. He had been skinned alive.
No-one knows what really happened that night. Police were only able to piece together parts of the story based on what they found on John's computer.
The parents were devastated. How could this happen to a family. First their daughters were murdered. And now years later their son is murdered.
It seemed too weird to be just a coincidence. Two sisters are murdered and then years later, their brother is murdered in exactly the same way, in exactly the same place. And the only evidence left behind is a few scary emails… Makes you wonder.
professormustache21 says:
The twins in the photo look like me and my twin except we have darker hair
Princess Of The Dead says:
A couple people said that the parents were stupid to keep the daughters' closet BUT WHAT IF IT WAS AN ACTUAL ROOM ACCESSIBLE FROM THE BEDROOM THINK B4U SPEAK OMGG
ICanDoBadAllByMyselfie says:
FIRST AFTER LAST
There once had been two sisters who didn't have a clue who there mother was she had died when the girls were born .
Sarah had been born first Pezia had been born last. They have had a foster family for years. They are now Ten years old next month they will be 11. One day they were in the car with their foster mom and dad when suddenly the car was flipped upside down glass shattered and blood splattered everywhere.The two girls died instantly. As for the foster parents they escaped with very few scratches the mom suffered a broken arm and a cut on her chest from the seatbelt ,but she was okay.The father would not wake up he was in the hospital and he was in a coma for 3 days he eventually woke up.
One day a mother gave birth to two very beautiful baby girls. They were named Sarah and Pezia. Pezia was born First and Sarah was born last. The mother was in distress but she was alive When the girls were three they got in a car wreck a drunk man had not been paying attention to the road. The two girls died instantly and the mother and father survived . Well one day a baby girl was born this time Sarah was not born at all Pezia was born ………TO BE CONTINUED
SFK I know this story is not very good but plz publish it
the twins in the photo kinda of look like me or my mom when she was younger
ScaryRachel446 says:
This is why I have no email account.
Beaver Cupcakes says:
OMG, that is actually SO sad.
MaximumRide says:
Great story!!!!!!!!
DemonicQueenzilla says:
Omg it's 5:00, and I'm here in bed, in the dark, reading this story, and I'm not sure whether or not I should be scared. SFK, got anything better?
misscreepellacrackelfur says:
Nice story… I Like It
candyheart15712 says:
i JUST checked my email . THANK GOD I HAVE NO NEW MESSAGES!!!!!!
Ponylover888 says:
I cant he wha… am soooo mad
LOLAPALOZA says:
Yeesh.
XxPshcoxDreamerxX says:
This really creeped me out because I have a sister, our lasts names are Smith, we share a room and she is 19 and I will be 15 in 14 days…
No lie! Help! O.0
FAN OF SCARY FOR KIDS says:
OH MY GOD! I DON'T BELIEVE THIS.. The parents still have the closet of their daughters? I mean why should they keep that as an souvinier?? That is why they lost their third child. Silly parents.
XxScaryGirlxX says:
Super creepy
Angel Of Death says:
This wasn't as scary as I thought it would be.
Blooderella says:
I totally believe it!!!!
So creepy!


"THE man who's "preventing for his rights" is working within the incorrect means. The one solution to ensure that we get our "rights" in life is, to "plug in" and let the divine exercise of sunshine and love categorical by way of us to do issues in the suitable and excellent means on the proper an good time. The artist, the composer, the scientist, the researcher – all reveal this angle of meekness towards the regulation, towards the internal supply of concepts. Einstein stated that nice concepts got here to him after he had relaxed and ceased from the strenuous stretch for his goal. The meek or receptive thoughts invitations God-ideas. The meek consciousness isn't self-centered. It's God-centered. It's humble within the recognition of human limitations however assured within the conviction of divine assets. And it isn't afraid of public opinion nor of resistance – not even of failure. As a result of success to this individual just isn't a matter of public-acceptance however of God-acceptance." – Eric Butterworth, "The Superb 'Be' Attitudes" in "Uncover the Energy Inside You," 1989.
There's a sure confidence displayed by the all Filipino-American forged of "America Adjoining" on the Skylight Theater in Los Feliz, in addition to by the play's director and playwright. It's as if they're sure by an invisible religious linkage that "all are sufficient," and a excessive degree of respect and a heat welcome are the codes of conduct.
It's maybe why I'm fairly relaxed in watching a play directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera and written by playwright Boni B. Alvarez. I anticipate excellence and I often get that from their performs.
There isn't a pretension in staging, there isn't a nervousness within the pacing of the play, there's merely a stage made fertile by the numerous hours of preparation and theatre experiences that when and if conflicts ensue as a part of the scenes, the exchanges and tones evolve naturally and with out screaming from nowhere.
On preview night time as one other night that I went, scene modifications progressed organically from one to the opposite, by this well-prepared forged. There was a pure rhythm to their stage actions. You don't get irritated from a disconnect of characters or from ill-timed props removing, simply when an viewers is simply getting engaged within the characters.
Actually, one night, a blackout occurred in the midst of the play and stated energy failure would take hours for DWP to restore, that the administration provided a refund for an additional present. Surprisingly, the viewers, looking forward to the ending, provided to mild up the stage with their cellphones. How about that for a real dramatic collaboration? Would you not give it your all underneath these circumstances?
Might it's additionally from Rivera's skillful path, as a lot because the dialogue credibly developed by Alvarez, the playwright, who stays true to discovering his Filipino group's sensibilities in addition to his personal craft of writing?
There's a sweetness and allure to their personalities that regardless that accolades are given, they settle for them with smiles and a demurrer from Boni at occasions who confides that he "doesn't really feel" that success. Whilst we have been taking photographs on the finish of the play, we needed to coax Boni who was hiding within the again to hitch us.
Perhaps it's that fixed self-critique that retains this duo shifting ahead such which will their final play be the measure of excellence and the subsequent one to echo that degree of high quality and even exceed it.
In "America Adjoining," the ladies are usually not poor, they paid hundreds of dollars to return to the U.S. to remain in a cramped house, whose front room was transformed to have 4 lazy-boy recliners as sleeping areas till these ladies give delivery to their infants.
"I needed to know who these ladies are who made this journey and what they danger to delivery American infants," Alvarez wrote.
At the very least the stage presents a little bit of consolation, although it nonetheless feels just like the pregnant moms are on home arrest, prevented by the administrator from discovering the neighborhood, as she confiscated their passports and cellphones.
What a lovely line within the dialogue which captures the essence of what it's to be an American vs. what it was of their homeland – acquainted, snug, however confined to at least one's financial class standing.
"America Adjoining" includes a forged of actresses honed in theater: Evie Abat as Janelle Might Cabusao, Toni Katano as Paz Locsin, Hazel Lozano as Administrator, Samantha Valdellon – forged as Sampaguita Bautista, Sandy Velasco – forged as Aimee Reyes, although one is sort of new to LA Theatre debut, Arianne Villareal- forged as Divina Ayala.
Angela Baesa is forged as Roshelyn Sandoval and she or he has additionally been pursuing movie and tv. She has completed a function, "eight days Carlo," filmed in Mexico and a number of other brief movies, "Anito and Bicultural." So versatile can also be Toni Katano, enjoying Paz Locsin, whose upcoming movies embrace "The Florist" and "Nanay Ko" alongside Paolo Montalban. Samantha is a well-known face having appeared as Lee Lee within the premiere of "Bloodletting," one other play written by Alvarez and directed by Jon Rivera in Atwater Village.
The play's richness is within the simplicity of its credible, straightforward to know, fast-moving dialogue that belies the a number of social points it tackles. At occasions, the viewers is laughing, amused by the ladies's adept reminiscences of residence, however can also be moved by the sacrifices they went by way of.
One reminiscence recall stood out for me that was nicely acted by Sandy Velasco who performed Aimee Reyes – it was the love-making expertise together with her associate. She made it fairly hilarious and the viewers laughed together with her. That is value seeing for each its comedic and appearing values and the way she demonstrates it additional. It's each humorous and endearing as Filipinas in sisterhood do once they hang around with each other – no holds bar conversations.
One other is the Administrator's tenderness change on and off, performed properly by Hazel Lozano. She vacillates from being the strict, in your face administrator, who has to extract compliance from these pregnant ladies, after which turns into tender and delicate when she persuades these ladies as she was about to take the toddler of Janelle Might Cabusao (performed adeptly by Evie Abat) right into a relative's house, after Janelle Might abandons her child. Her actions confirmed how privileged she was, fairly egocentric and self-centered as her roommates would say, but additionally caring in how she treats a few of her roommates. Discover out why she hugs her excessive heels to sleep in a Lazy-Boy recliner.
There have been many memorable scenes that have been giveaways and presents to those that are a part of the Filipino-American group as they're common conversations in lots of immigrants' houses.
As first era immigrants, we're daunted by the reminiscences we recall, the tenderness of our childhood experiences in distinction with the harshness and the shock of an inhospitable tradition layered with worry of enforcement authorities and the uncertainty of what the longer term presents.
It isn't within the birthing of their infants that the struggling is detected, however it's within the displacement from being surrounded by what's acquainted: language, group, going to mass in the identical church, even watching Tagalog films. The play depicts these acquainted reminiscences with humor, together with the simulated celebration of the Eucharist on Easter Sunday.
Past our residence provinces and birthplace cities' church buildings within the Philippines, the sweetness and power of our homegrown Filipino-American communities come from being loyal followers of our church buildings right here within the U.S., but in addition that we're connoisseurs of excellent Filipino eating places and in the previous few years, giving delivery to a vibrant Filipino Meals Motion. In Los Angeles alone, there are 18 eating places to select from.
With cultured sensibilities of our palates and caring for our souls by prayers and religion rituals, can we maybe present comparable loyalty as nicely to our stay theatres? In any case, in case you verify the itemizing of 102 stay theatre venues in Los Angeles, we've got a type of to be pleased with: "America Adjoining" on the Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz. Can we present some love for this play as will probably be ending Sunday, March 24?
With "America Adjoining," a particular bonus awaits the viewers – on particular days, you get to listen to from Giselle Tongi, affiliate producer, moderating a panel of girls talking about their experiences right here in America, with American youngsters born right here within the U.S. and the gaps in language, terminology, accent, cultural norms and even totally different expectations. This panel is sort of informative as our day by day grind schedules gloss over these gaps and conflicts often come up.
If just for a couple of hours, we get to look at and mirror on how far we've grown and even evolve as a Filipino-American group right here within the U.S., discovering our security internet right here by partaking our artistic spirits, and in help of each other, to nurture these artistic sparks of sunshine.
Can we make this play one other resounding success with our lively presence and help? I thanks prematurely.
Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz, J.D. writes a weekly column for Asian Journal, referred to as "Rhizomes." She has been writing for AJ Press for 10 years. She additionally contributes to Balikbayan Journal. Her coaching and experiences are in science, meals know-how, regulation and group volunteerism for four many years. She holds a B.S. diploma from the College of the Philippines, a regulation diploma from Whittier School Faculty of Regulation in California and a certificates on 21st Century Management from Harvard's Kennedy Faculty of Authorities. She has been a participant in NVM Writing Workshops taught by Prof. Peter Bacho for four years and Prof. Russell Leong. She has travelled to France, Holland, Belgium, Japan, Costa Rica, Mexico and over 22 nationwide parks within the US, in her pursuit of affection for nature and the humanities.


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F-14 Tomcat 1987 Williams 4 Players
F-14 Tomcat was one of Williams' most successful pinballs of the late 1980's, and another classic from game designer Steve Ritchie, who produced many other blockbuster hits such as Black Knight, Black Knight 2000, Firepower, Flash, High Speed, The Getaway, Superman, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, just to name a few. With fast-paced exciting pinball action, F-14 Tomcat combines FOUR flippers, multiple ramps, great music, sounds, and speech, and an adrenalin-pumping FOUR-BALL Multiball mode complete with flashing, rotating red, white, and blue beacons on top of the backbox!
Shoot the playfield targets to spell T-O-M C-A-T and then shoot the upper right lane to launch balls into the ramps and lock them away for Multiball! Get three balls locked, then launch the fourth ball to release ALL FOUR BALLS and play a wild round of Multiball, enhanced by exciting background music and sound effects, and great lighting effects from the playfield flashers and rotating red, white, and blue beacons on top of the backbox. (Play this game in a room with the lights turned off for some really stunning effects!)
Shoot the ball lock again during Multiball to collect JACKPOT and score BIG POINTS!
Two flippers are found in the usual location in lower center of playfield. Two more flippers adorn the openings of the loop at the top of the playfield- see if you can keep the ball looping around the top of the playfield with the upper flippers, and also use them to hit TOM-CAT targets to advance towards Multiball!
Shoot the kickback lane under the main ramp to advance jet "kills" towards Extra Ball!
This is a great game that can be enjoyed by all, regardless of experience or pinball skills. Even though the multitude of rules and modes on this game will be more than enough to keep you busy, the game play is fun and straightforward enough to be entertaining and fun for any players, regardless of skill and age. These are the true signs of a well-designed pinball, and we're sure after a game or two, you'll agree!
Overall, it's no wonder why this game is such a classic. With so many fun things to do on the game, it will surely keep you entertained and always coming back for more!
Star Trek TNG 1993
Williams 4 Players
Star Trek: The Next Generation (a widebody machine) is a complex game that presents seven different 'missions with plenty of lights, targets & bumpers in a web of tubes, ramps and alleys, and studded with miniature models of various spaceships used in the show.
Star Trek TNG features plenty of outer-space sound effects & lots of quotes from eight of the show's cast including Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard) and Levar Burton (Geordi La Forge).
It is the only pinball machine that features three separate highscore-lists. Apart from the regular highscore-list and the buy-in-list, it also features a reminiscence to The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot billionaires club.
It is also the third pinball game overall based on the Star Trek franchise, following the 1979 pinball game by Bally, and the 1991 game by Data East (both based on the original series).
Star Race 1980
Gottlieb 4 players
An extended wide-body machine and Gottlieb's first of only two extra wide-body games in their System 80 lineup (the other being Gottlieb's 1980 'Circus'). Circus and Star Race are the second widest pinball machines ever made, the widest being Hercules. Circus' playfield is an extra three inches wider than the rest of the Gottlieb System 80 wide-body series, and the machine also shipped with longer legs; the lockdown bar stands 42.5 inches off the floor. This has Gottlieb's early sound board in it with lots of futuristic space sounding digital stuff going on. It plays pretty fast for a widebody of this age.
Strange Science 1986
Bally Midway 4 Players
For a game from the mid 1980's, Strange Science really packs a lot of fun gadgets and features in on the playfield. It's really more reminiscent of a game from the 1990's with all the wild action going on. Several ramps adorn the playfield and one allows you to lock up to 5 balls in order to play a wild 5-ball multiball (a rare feature for a game from the 1980's). Double-level rollover lanes with lane change are accessed from the Particle Separator ramp at the top of the playfield- if you're fast with your fingers on that lane-change button, you can get TWO awards for one drop of the ball!Three pop bumpers create some more frantic action just below the rollover lanes, and a reverse-flowing loopback ramp (the "Anti-Gravity" ramp) in the center of the playfield sends balls up through the Volt Meter loop lane to a third "upper" flipper on the playfield, where a well-timed shot will send the ball into the Atom Smasher to be locked for 5-ball multiball play!5-ball play advances the playfield value multiplier to 3X, 6X, 9X, and even a wild 12X value multiplier! If you want to beat your friends and embed your high score on the table, here's where the big points are!Shoot right at the locked balls in the Atom Smasher to send one back out of the lock and over the cross-ramp playfield to the right kick-out saucer, and light a timed Extra Ball shot!The left outlane on this game houses a unique feature- a player-controlled bumper post that if activated by the button at just the right time, can send the ball back through a one-way gate and into play again! Do you have the touch?This game features great colors, artwork, theme, and humour- all combined with great action- to really make for a fantastic pinball experience. This game is sure to entertain all ages and types of players- from novices to experts alike. There's something for everyone in the Strange Science!
Wild Card 1977
Williams E.M. 1 Player
This was the last electro-mechanical single player pinball machine made by Williams and can be played in replay, add-a-ball, or novelty scoring mode.
This particular game has been set for add-a-ball play. The main objective is to light all 4 aces and 4 deuces by hitting the targets and landing in the lower left and right kickout holes. First complete set of aces and deuces hit lights the upper right trap lane for an extra ball. Hitting a second complete set lights the outlanes alternately for an extra ball. This game is also set to reward an extra ball when the score reaches 540,000, 740,000, and 890,000 points. Shooting the left lane the first time on each ball lights the spinner for 1,000 points per spin. Shooting the left lane a second time during the same ball lights the double bonus lamp. The trap lane (when not lit for extra ball) and the kickout holes add to the bonus score rewarded after each ball.
Evil Knievel 1977
Bally 4 Player
Bally Evil Knievel is an early Bally solid state game with chimes, and is a nice original example.
Cabinet is in very good solid condition, with usual scrapes, with vibrant original colors. Backglass is fabulous, near perfect. Playfield has virtually no wear at all. Game was recently stripped down, waxed, rerubbered, with flippers and pop bumpers rebuilt, new posts, post caps, etc.
This game plays *extremely* fast and strong.
Bally E.M. 4 Player
1976 Bally's "Freedom" Great 4 player with drop targets 2 spinners 2 kickout holes and 3 red white and blue pop bumpers.
Extra Balls, Specials and a over the top buzzer for 100,000 scoring. You will love "Freedom's" all American theme with George Washington and Uncle Sam on the playfield and the great cabinet artwork.
All the major pinball manufactures did a patriotic themed pinball machine around 1976, Gottlieb did a great one "Spirit of 76"; and William's "Liberty Bell" Bally's answer was "Freedom".
Freedom is in well above average condition for a 38 year old pinball machine back glass playfield and cabinet have minor issues and all look very good.
Game play is fast and strong. Freedom is super clean. This is one of the last real pinball machines from Bally before they went digital in1977. We like the games layout even better then the super popular "Capt Fantastic" that we can't seem to keep in stock.


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