The Hawai'i Interagency Council on Homelessness brought trainers in from New York to help with the state-wide implementation of Housing First. Hawaii Public Radio.
Moments before signing into law a bill making it illegal for people to sit or lie on Waikiki sidewalks, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said Tuesday he is leaning toward supporting a separate proposal that would apply the same ban in business districts of six other Oahu neighborhoods. Star-Advertiser.
Three bills aimed at combating a growing and complex homelessness issue on Oahu were signed into law Tuesday and will go into effect immediately. Hawaii News Now.
Three new bills were signed into law Tuesday, and some are expecting the new measures to make a big difference with Hawaii's homeless problems. KITV4.
Opinion: New houseless bills won't help. The city's "compassionate disruption" strategy does more to hide the houseless problem from tourists than it does actually solve the underlying problems that lead to houselessness. Hawaii Independent.
After struggling at multiple meetings over how to reduce the Department of Education's operating budget by $25 million, the state school board Tuesday approved wide-ranging spending restrictions that will touch everything from special-education positions and athletics programs to per-pupil spending and bus transportation. Star-Advertiser.
Former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann has raised thousands of dollars in his bid for governor, but he has more debt than any of his competitors. Civil Beat.
Should We Raise the Retirement Age for Judges and Justices? The question is one of five constitutional amendments before Hawaii voters Nov. 4. Others address disclosing the names of judicial nominees and qualifying for special purpose revenue bonds. Civil Beat.
A psychiatric technician told a state Senate investigative panel Tuesday that his supervisor threatened to fire him after he made public comments about unsafe working conditions at the Hawaii State Hospital, but the supervisor said the employee "got mixed up." Star-Advertiser.
As the state Department of Health works on the first update to its water quality plan since 1990, most people commenting during a public meeting Tuesday were concerned about a single aspect of the multifaceted plan — the impact of wastewater on water quality and what should be done about it. West Hawaii Today.
Cesspools will have to be converted to septic tanks - at a cost estimated at more than $10,000 - within 180 days of the sale of residential properties if proposed revisions to the state Department of Health administrative rules are accepted by the governor. Maui News.
Hawaii vets have experienced some of the longest waiting times in the nation before they can get in to see a primary care doctor — 145 days was the average although veterans officials have recently said that initial wait time has come down considerably. Civil Beat.
Alan Oshima, the incoming head of Hawaiian Electric Co., will be a community-focused leader, and plans to be pounding the pavement meeting and working with the stakeholders and community members, much like former HECO Executive Vice President Robbie Alm did, before he retired last year. Pacific Business News.
A former civilian defense contractor is being sentenced for divulging military secrets to his Chinese girlfriend and keeping classified documents at his suburban Honolulu home. Benjamin Bishop will be sentenced in federal court on Wednesday. Star-Advertiser.
September marks the fourth month in a row that Oahu residential customers will need to put a little extra toward their electricity bills. The bill this month for a typical household using 600 kilowatt-hours went up from August by 78 cents to $218.96, according to data released this week by Hawaiian Electric Cos., the state's largest utility provider with service to Oahu, Maui and Hawaii island. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii County and state election workers are preparing for the possibility that voting could again be disrupted in lower Puna as a lava flow continues to advance toward populated areas. Tribune-Herald.
While residents of the Kaohe Homesteads subdivision may be spared by the June 27 lava flow from Kilauea Volcano, a helicopter overflight makes one thing clear: If the lava doesn't stop now, it's headed directly toward Highway 130. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii Island coffee farmers offered split opinions Tuesday afternoon on a pair of resolutions that call on the state Legislature to enact "truth in labeling" laws regarding the labeling of coffee blends. West Hawaii Today.
Mayor Billy Kenoi has nominated former Hilo County Councilman Donald Ikeda to the Windward Planning Commission. Ikeda, 73, is unabashedly pro-growth, a stance he explained to the County Council Planning Committee during his confirmation hearing Tuesday. West Hawaii Today.
What would the completion of the new Hilo High School gymnasium be without another delay? On Saturday, Sept. 13, the school community was set to recognize the grand opening of the long-anticipated facility. But with five days to go, those plans were put on hold. Tribune-Herald.
A judge's ruling allows Maui County to print ballots that ask voters about a proposed moratorium on genetically engineered crops. Monday's decision dissolves a temporary restraining order after those who support genetically modified organisms sued to remove the measure. Associated Press.
With 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo dissolving a temporary restraining order Monday, an initiative proposing a genetically engineered organism farming moratorium can remain on the Nov. 4 election ballot. Maui News.
HGEA Chief Shares Views on Hospital Financial Crisis. Randy Perreira: "It's about the money. Maui Weekly.
Top County of Kauai officials say something must be done to correct current policies that allow some lower ranking employees, particularly those within the Kauai police and fire departments, to earn more than department heads. Garden Island.
Retired auto dealer James Pflueger was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Sept. 17 for recklessly causing the deaths of 7 people when his Ka Loko dam breached on March 14, 2006. However, the sentencing will be delayed and is now scheduled for Oct. 15 at 8:30 a.m. in Kauai's Fifth Circuit Court. Hawaii Reporter.
News that retired Oahu car dealer James Pflueger sold his Kilauea property has long time litigants cheering that a decade of fighting may be coming to an end. Garden Island.
A confrontation that turned ugly in waters off Molokai is now in the hands of the Maui Prosecutor. The incident happened in May and came to light in a story you only saw on KHON2 News. According to the State Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), the fight involved residents from Molokai and divers from Honolulu.


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Developed the brand identity for an up-and-coming furniture showroom in Cairo, Egypt. In addition to the logo and stationary, I also worked on the social media communication for the company. The goal was to communicate a sense of elegance without being too classical. The project can be found on its website at launchrock.maisono.com as well as at maisonoeg on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Developed the brand identity for an up-and-coming furniture showroom in Cairo, Egypt. In addition to the logo and stationary, I also worked on the social media communication for the company. The goal was to communicate a sense of elegance without being too classical.
The project can be found on: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and on its website.


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I was commissioned to write the essay for Mishka Henner's solo show, Black Diamond, at Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, London. The exhibition will run until 31st May, 2014.
If linear perspective centred the World on the Earthly beholder – rendering the artist, viewer or owner of a painting as master of all they purveyed – then its replacement, a tumbling or "dynamic viewing space" imposes a kind of vertigo on the subject, causing us to misjudge the social and political ground of our perceptions. Henner's 51 US Military Outposts places viewers in the position of Gods above a toy-like World, the fidelity of which is wholly reliant on the resolution of the sourced images. In line with his Feedlots and Oil Fields series, the resolution of the images – appropriated from Google Earth, and painstakingly stitched together – gives us a clue as to where their socio-political ground is located. Just as a pixel attains significance only within the context of the image grid, so the relatively plain surface of Earth is politically meaningless, is without form and void, until its geometries and textures, its biological traces and material densities, are caught and defined in the vast, inconceivable, territories of the database.


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What's the Amazing Remez in the Book of Numbers?
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Jan 13, 2018
Many think the book of Numbers is difficult to read. It has long lists of difficult-to-pronounce names that seem to mean very little in the story Bible. However, we know that every word God has written is important. So we should be asking ourselves, why did God have Moses provide such great detail about the people of each tribe? We can understand that a census was done to count the people for military service, but why was it necessary to record it for posterity?
What can we learn from God's meticulous record in the Book of Numbers?
A Remez in Numbers
There's a remez recorded in Numbers and, when you see it, you'll never why the list of names and the number of the people is so important.
What's a remez? In Jewish hermeneutics (interpretation of Scripture), a remez is a hidden message, or a deeper meaning. It's said to be a "treaure" found below the surface of, or behind, the words. (See below for other remezes in the Bible.)
The remez in the book of Numbers is found in the numbering of the people of Israel. God commanded this as they wandered in the wilderness. It's interesting to note that in Hebrew, the name of the book is BaMidbar, which means "in the wilderness." But, as the book was translated from Hebrew into Greek and Latin, the translators focused on the two censuses recorded in the book and chose a name to reflect that. In Greek, the book is known as Arithmoi, in Latin Numeri, and in English we title it Numbers.
Counting the People
The book begins with God ordering a census of the people. We are told they were to number all who would be able to fight:
Num 1:2-3 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above; all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
After God instructed Moses to number the men for military service, He told Moses that the people were to camp around the Tabernacle according to their tribe (Numbers 2).
God was very specific in His instructions. The 12 tribes were to be divided into four camps around they would pitch their tents around the Tabernacle.
Judah, along with Issachar and Zebulon, would camp to the east of the Tabernacle.
Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin, would be to the west.
Dan, Naphtali and Asher set up camp on the north side of the Tabernacle.
Reuben, Simeon and Gad on the south side.
The house of Levi, the priestly tribe, camped surrounding the Tabernacle.
Numbers, Chapter Two – The Camps of Israel
Further instructions from God, required that each of the "lead" tribes would be represented "by his own standard."
Numbers 2:2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
A "standard" is a flag or banner that represents a troop. It was meant to be a sign, and in English we commonly use the term "ensign." An ensign is defined as "a flag that is flown (as by a ship) as the symbol of nationality and may also be flown with a distinctive badge added to its design." [1] (Watch for our Got Questions? next week. We'll explain the significance of these ensigns.)
Following the instructions about the camps, Numbers chapter two lists each tribe, reveals the number of people in each tribe, and assigns the position they were to camp around the Tabernacle (North, South, East, West). Let's add the numbers that God has recorded:
EAST Side of the Tabernacle
On the east was the camp of Judah, which included the tribe of Judah, whose ensign was a Lion. Judah was the largest of all the tribes (74,600), the tribe of Issachar, the least in number (4,400), and Zebulon (57,400). Together this camp numbered 186,400. (Numbers 2:3-7)
SOUTH Side of the Tabernacle
On the south was the camp of Reuben, whose ensign was a man. Numbering 46,500, and including Simeon (59,300) and Gad (45,600) this camp totaled 151,400. (Numbers 2:10-16)
WEST Side of the Tabernacle
Directly opposite on the west side was the camp of Ephraim, whose ensign was an ox. Ephraim numbered 40,500 and along with Manasseh (32,200) and Benjamin (35,400) the camp totaled 108,100. (Numbers 2:18-24)
NORTH Side of the Tabernacle
To the north was the camp of Dan, whose ensign was an eagle. At 157,600 it was close in size to the camp of Reuben on the south by the count of Dan (62,700), Naphtali (53,400), and Asher (41,500). (Numbers 2:25-31)
The tribe of Levi was unnumbered by Moses at that time (Levites were exempt from military duty), and their position was different from that of the other tribes.
"In the Middle of the Camps"
Surrounding the Tabernacle, "in the middle of the camps," was the priestly tribe of Levi. Perhaps this was a position that represented the priestly tribe "standing" between the people and God. They were not numbered with the people, but were numbered "by their fathers' houses, by their families…every male from a month old and above" (Num 3:15), "according to the word of the LORD" (Num 3:16).
The Gershonites numbered 7,500 and camped to the west. The Merarites 6,200 (camped north), and the Kohathites 8,600 (camped south). The family of Moses and Aaron were not numbered, so the total surrounding the Tabernacle would have likely been in excess of 22,300.
An Amazing Revelation
Note that Moses was instructed that the camps were to be set on the cardinal directions, of north, south, east and west, around the Tabernacle. That means they were not to camp northeast, northwest, southeast, or southwest around the Tabernacle.
With the tribes camping according to God's specific instructions, an amazing revelation appears when the camp is viewed from God's perspective (from Heaven looking down):
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
In this prophetic pattern, we see God's grace revealed. Even in God's prescribed design of the manner in which Israel would camp around the Tabernacle, the House of Meeting (with God), pointed to a future meeting with their Messiah and His final sacrifice that would fulfill the levitical system of sacrificial atonement.
Wilderness Wanderings
The Israelites wandered in the wilderness, but found rest when they camped around the Tabernacle. We also wander in the wilderness, in a land that is not our home, and we must remember to rest, to "pitch our tents," and to meet with God.
What is the Prophetic Meaning of the Ensigns of the Camps of Israel?
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ensign
More Remezes
Why Did Satan Rebel Against God?
Did Pilate Proclaim Jesus to be God?
Is There a Remez (Hidden Message) in Revelation 7? Why is Dan missing?
What's the Amazing Remez (Hidden Message) in the Book of Numbers?
Is There a Remez in Psalm 23? Names of God?
How is Jesus Like a Worm? What's the Crimson Worm? A Remez In Psalm 22
How Can Preaching the Gospel be Easy?
What is the Age of Accountability?
Two Women—Two Stories—Two Songs: Hannah & Mary
Do we live by law or by grace?
What about the Verses that Say God Repented?
How Many Other People in the Bible Were Resurrected from Death?
What is Narcissism / Selfism?
Have YOU Heard About this Baby Boy? Christmas Version of Cohen's Hallelujah?
December 25th: The Christ Candle
Even If by Mercy Me
God Chose You To Be Their Mother
When is Jesus Coming Back?


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package com.oculusinfo.twitter.tilegen

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import java.util.Date
import java.util.{List => JavaList}

import scala.reflect.ClassTag

import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD

import com.oculusinfo.binning.TileData
import com.oculusinfo.binning.TileIndex
import com.oculusinfo.binning.impl.WebMercatorTilePyramid

import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.spark.MavenReference
import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.spark.SparkConnector
import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.tiling.AnalysisDescription
import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.tiling.CompositeAnalysisDescription
import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.tiling.CartesianIndexScheme
import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.tiling.RDDBinner
import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.tiling.TileIO
import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.util.ArgumentParser

import com.oculusinfo.twitter.binning.TwitterDemoTopicRecord

object TwitterTopicBinner {
	def main (args: Array[String]) {
		val argParser = new ArgumentParser(args)
		argParser.debug

		val versions = SparkConnector.getDefaultVersions
		val jars =
			Seq(new MavenReference("com.oculusinfo", "twitter-topics-utilities", versions("base"))
			) union SparkConnector.getDefaultLibrariesFromMaven
		val sc = argParser.getSparkConnector(jars).getSparkContext("Twitter demo data tiling")
		val source = argParser.getString("source", "The source location at which to find twitter data")
		val dateParser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd.HH:mm:ss.zzzz")
		// Note:  don't need a start time for this binning project.  Start time is assumed to be 31 days prior to end time.
		val endTime = dateParser.parse(argParser.getString("end", "The end time for binning.  Format is yyyy/MM/dd.HH:mm:ss.+zzzz"))

		val levelSets = argParser.getString("levels",
		                                    "The level sets (;-separated) of ,-separated levels to bin.")
			.split(";").map(_.split(",").map(_.toInt))
		val levelBounds = levelSets.map(_.map(a => (a, a))
			                                .reduce((a, b) => (a._1 min b._1, a._2 max b._2)))
			.reduce((a, b) => (a._1 min b._1, a._2 max b._2))

		val pyramidId = argParser.getString("id", "An ID by which to identify the finished pyramid.")
		val pyramidName = argParser.getString("name", "A name with which to label the finished pyramid").replace("_", " ")
		val pyramidDescription = argParser.getString("description", "A description with which to present the finished pyramid").replace("_", " ")
		val partitions = argParser.getInt("partitions", "The number of partitions into which to read the raw data", Some(0))
		val topicList = argParser.getString("topicList", "Path and filename of list of extracted topics and English translations")

		val tileIO = TileIO.fromArguments(argParser)

		val rawData = if (0 == partitions) {
			sc.textFile(source)
		} else {
			sc.textFile(source, partitions)
		}

		val minAnalysis:
				AnalysisDescription[TileData[JavaList[TwitterDemoTopicRecord]],
				                    List[TwitterDemoTopicRecord]] =
			new TwitterTopicListAnalysis(new TwitterMinRecordAnalytic)

		val maxAnalysis:
				AnalysisDescription[TileData[JavaList[TwitterDemoTopicRecord]],
				                    List[TwitterDemoTopicRecord]] =
			new TwitterTopicListAnalysis(new TwitterMaxRecordAnalytic)

		val tileAnalytics: Option[AnalysisDescription[TileData[JavaList[TwitterDemoTopicRecord]],
		                                              (List[TwitterDemoTopicRecord],
		                                               List[TwitterDemoTopicRecord])]] =
			Some(new CompositeAnalysisDescription(minAnalysis, maxAnalysis))
		val dataAnalytics: Option[AnalysisDescription[((Double, Double),
		                                               Map[String, TwitterDemoTopicRecord]),
		                                              Int]] =
			None

		genericProcessData(rawData, levelSets, tileIO, tileAnalytics, dataAnalytics,
		                   endTime, pyramidId, pyramidName, pyramidDescription, topicList)
	}

	private def genericProcessData[AT, DT]
		(rawData: RDD[String],
		 levelSets: Array[Array[Int]],
		 tileIO: TileIO,
		 tileAnalytics: Option[AnalysisDescription[TileData[JavaList[TwitterDemoTopicRecord]], AT]],
		 dataAnalytics: Option[AnalysisDescription[((Double, Double),
		                                            Map[String, TwitterDemoTopicRecord]), DT]],
		 endTime: Date,
		 pyramidId: String,
		 pyramidName: String,
		 pyramidDescription: String,
		 topicList: String) =
	{
		val tileAnalyticsTag: ClassTag[AT] = tileAnalytics.map(_.analysisTypeTag).getOrElse(ClassTag.apply(classOf[Int]))
		val dataAnalyticsTag: ClassTag[DT] = dataAnalytics.map(_.analysisTypeTag).getOrElse(ClassTag.apply(classOf[Int]))

		processData(rawData, levelSets, tileIO, tileAnalytics, dataAnalytics,
		            endTime, pyramidId, pyramidName, pyramidDescription, topicList)(tileAnalyticsTag, dataAnalyticsTag)
	}

	private def processData[AT: ClassTag, DT: ClassTag]
		(rawData: RDD[String],
		 levelSets: Array[Array[Int]],
		 tileIO: TileIO,
		 tileAnalytics: Option[AnalysisDescription[TileData[JavaList[TwitterDemoTopicRecord]], AT]],
		 dataAnalytics: Option[AnalysisDescription[((Double, Double),
		                                            Map[String, TwitterDemoTopicRecord]), DT]],
		 endTime: Date,
		 pyramidId: String,
		 pyramidName: String,
		 pyramidDescription: String,
		 topicList: String) =
	{
		val endTimeSecs = endTime.getTime()/1000;	// convert time from msec to sec
		val topicMatcher = new TopicMatcher
		val topicsMap = topicMatcher.getKeywordList(topicList)	// get pre-extracted topics

		// append topics to end of data entries
		val rawDataWithTopics = topicMatcher.appendTopicsToData(rawData.sparkContext, rawData, topicsMap, endTimeSecs)

		val data = rawDataWithTopics.mapPartitions(i =>
			{
				val recordParser = new TwitterTopicRecordParser(endTimeSecs)
				i.flatMap(line =>
					{
						try {
							recordParser.getRecordsByTopic(line)
						} catch {
							// Just ignore bad records, there aren't many
							case _: Throwable => Seq[((Double, Double), Map[String, TwitterDemoTopicRecord])]()
						}
					}
				)
			}
		).map(record => (record._1, record._2, dataAnalytics.map(_.convert(record))))
		data.cache

		val binner = new RDDBinner
		binner.debug = true
		val tilePyramid = new WebMercatorTilePyramid

		// Add global analytic accumulators
		val sc = rawData.context
		tileAnalytics.map(_.addGlobalAccumulator(sc))
		dataAnalytics.map(_.addGlobalAccumulator(sc))
		levelSets.foreach(levelSet =>
			{
				println()
				println()
				println()
				println("Starting binning levels "+levelSet.mkString("[", ",", "]")+" at "+new Date())

				// Add whole-level analytic accumulators for these levels
				tileAnalytics.map(analytic =>
					levelSet.map(level => analytic.addLevelAccumulator(sc, level))
				)
				dataAnalytics.map(analytic =>
					levelSet.map(level => analytic.addLevelAccumulator(sc, level))
				)

				// Do actual binning
				val taskStart = System.currentTimeMillis
				val tiles = binner.processDataByLevel(data,
				                                      new CartesianIndexScheme,
				                                      new TwitterTopicBinningAnalytic,
				                                      tileAnalytics,
				                                      dataAnalytics,
				                                      tilePyramid,
				                                      levelSet,
				                                      xBins=1,
				                                      yBins=1)
				tileIO.writeTileSet(tilePyramid,
				                    pyramidId,
				                    tiles,
				                    new TwitterTopicValueDescription,
				                    tileAnalytics,
				                    dataAnalytics,
				                    pyramidName,
				                    pyramidDescription)
				val taskEnd = System.currentTimeMillis()
				val elapsedMinutes = (taskEnd - taskStart)/60000.0
				println("Finished binning levels "+levelSet.mkString("[", ",", "]")+" at "+new Date())
				println("\telapsed time: "+elapsedMinutes+" minutes")
				println()
			}
		)
	}
}

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2016 House Bill 5387: Give force to illegal teacher strike sanctions
To include more rigorous sanctions and more certain procedures for Detroit school teachers who participate in an illegal strike. The bill is part of a House proposal to overhaul the Detroit school district (see House Bill 5384), and would also prohibit collective bargaining between unions and the district over school calendars and schedules; teacher work assignments, discipline and performance assessments; and school board privatization decisions. Official Text and Analysis.
Amendment offered by Rep. Pam Faris (D) on May 5, 2016
To require the Detroit school district to engage in collective bargaining with the teachers union over work schedules and school calendars. The bill would make this a prohibited subject of bargaining.
Amendment offered by Rep. Lana Theis (R) on May 5, 2016
To authorize a schoolchild's parent or the state Superintendent of Public Instruction to initiate sanction proceedings against teacher union members who are engaging in an illegal strike.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on May 5, 2016
See Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No". To include more rigorous sanctions and more certain procedures for Detroit school teachers who participate in an illegal strike. The bill is part of a House proposal to overhaul the Detroit school district and would essentially cancel the current collective bargaining between unions and the Detroit district as part of the governance changes in House Bill 5384.
Amendment offered by Rep. Aric Nesbitt (R) on June 2, 2016
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on June 2, 2016
To adopt a version of the bill that does not include the Detroit-specific provisions but just creates the more certain illegal strike sanctions statewide.
See Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No". To authorize more rigorous sanctions and more certain procedures for public school teachers who participate in an illegal strike.


Happy Friday the 13th! We've got a scary movie in the mix, as well as some slapstick comedy in this week's new release list!
A documentary featuring conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime. Examines why people kill.


Our publication Robotic Woodcraft: Towards the Craftsmanship of the Future showcasing the results of the Robotic Woodcraft research project can be downloaded below!
We've used our KUKA robot to fabricate a wooden sculpture designed by Prof. Josef Kaiser, investigating a combination of common CAM software and custom parametric fabrication strategies.
The research team of the Association for Robots in Architecture was part of the RWTH Aachen's team DIANA (Chair for Individualized Production and IMA/ZLW & IfU), competing for the KUKA Innovation Award. At the Hannover Messe 2016, the team presented a novel application that used a KUKA LBR iiwa's "sensitivity" to compensate for the inaccuracies of a natural material like wood.
Robotic Mass Customization from robotsinarchitecture on Vimeo.
As part of the Rob|Arch 2016 conference on robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design, the Robotic Woodcraft project presented the results of the Robotic Mass Customization Workshop. In this 2-day workshop, Robotic Woodcraft collaborated with the high-end manufacturer of moulded plywood, Becker KG. Using parametric definitions, we transformed standardized, "raw" wooden shells into highly customized products, using a heavy-payload KUKA Quantec robot and the robot-programming/simulation environment KUKA|prc.
Flexous Filaments by Philipp Hornung is a robotically fabricated, wooden, hybrid light-weight structure, which was developed as part of his Diploma thesis at Studio Zaha Hadid, Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, with the support of Robotic Woodcraft.
The project implements a multi-layered design process, taking material-, fabrication- and assembly properties as well as constructional and structural aspects into account and was applied in form of a pavillion. A network of dynamically shaped, co-acting beams consisting of several interlocking developable single curved panels are forming a double curved space. All parts are machined from thin, 4mm birch plywood, incorporating the formative and structural working finger-tenon-joints as well as all constructional details. When being assembled, the panels snap in place and interlock reciprocally when being bent to the predefined curvature and thus form the intended shape.
The entire process was designed on a parametric workflow including digital design, structural analysis, detailing, optimized nesting and generation of machine code. To verify the assigned research qualities, a full scale prototype was realized within three days, forming a tremendous arch, weighing just 25kg and spanning more than six meter. As part of the Creative Robotics exhibition, Flexuous Filaments was exhibited at the Ars Electronica Center alongside exhibits from the University for Arts and Design Linz as well as JKU Linz.
We're working with artist Roman Pfeffer on fabricating a series of small-scale wooden boat-shapes, based on a digitized version of a full-scale boat that he bought, cut up, and reassembled.
In collaboration with our industry partner Becker we are hosting a workshop on Robotic Mass Customization at the University for Applied Arts Vienna.
Industrial robots are best known for their applications in the automotive industry, where they fabricate a seemingly endless series of identical cars, performing the same action thousands of times per day. New, parametric workflows today allow us to program robots in a much more accessible fashion, enabling new processes that rely on mass customization, instead of mass customization.
In this workshop we will work on wooden shells that are mass-produced at our industry partner Becker. The fabrication of these shells is optimized to be as quick as possible, resulting in relatively coarse shapes that have to be cut to shape.
While Becker utilizes just a few cutting patterns to create identical chairs, we will use Grasshopper to parametrically define a custom fabrication process that cuts, drills, and engraves the industrial shell, creating a highly individual object out of a mass-produced workpiece.
The KUKA KR120-R2500 Quantec robotic arm, acquired through the FWF-funded PEEK project "Robotic Woodcraft" will be equipped with a milling spindle. To synchronize the physical object with the digital model, the University for Applied Arts' new Artec 3D-scanners, available at the Institute for Arts and Technology, Prof. Glaeser, will capture the base form and transfer the data into Grasshopper, where the robotic simulation and code generation is done via KUKA|prc, a software package developed at the Association for Robots in Architecture.
The workshop will be attended by students, researchers, and industry.
generated patterns and the associated process information orchestrate and actuate computer controlled woodworking tools; at the same time seamlessly creating and materializing three dimensional surfaces. In this sense, they stand for a new form of integrated product and process development and all-together for a new way of thinking design and future production sites.
For more details visit the project page.
As part of the international eCAADe 2015 conference, this year hosted by TU Vienna, the Robotic Woodcraft team is hosting a two-day robot workshop. We're expecting a highly interdisciplinary group containing architects, designers, wood experts, and engineers to attend the workshop and will provide a hands-on experience with the technologies and approaches that have been developed within the research project.


After the 2 week-long publicity on the One Voice Nigeria Protest against the Nigerian Government's harsh policies and economic hardship, the music legend Tuface Idibia who was the main ambassador have cancelled it. But read on to see how It cannot be cancelled.
The Police through its Lagos State Commissioner, had sworn to stop the protest last week due to what they called "a possible hijack of the protest by hoodlums". To this Tuface kept his resolve stating that Enough is Enough, thereby giving hope and vigour to Nigerian's resolve to voice out their grievances on the set date.
Some top notch Nigerians have prepared their white, green and other shirts to participate in the widely publicised protest slated for Monday, February 6, 2017 in Abuja and Lagos and then I woke up to a video by Tuface this Sunday morning on Instagram and Facebook cancelling it.
While, I respect this extraordinary man Tuface Idibia and celebrate him, I want to state a few things that we as young people who wanted this protest would have done with Tuface to prove every enemies of Nigeria wrong. I mean, we would have planned the protest better to hold without breaking much sweat especially without spilling the blood of any Nigerian.
1. Started 3 days ahead of the slated date, to start circulating rules and regulations as memo to all intending participants of the protest, security officials and even for Nigerians staying at home, to watch. This could have been done still via social media and other media.
2. The protest would have been made into an organised straight-line march that will take over the cities well coordinated by security and Road safety officials who would flank the queues.
3. Any intending protester would be briefed on the whole modality including start offs and end points of protest routes in the cities including car park arrangement.
5. The placards-carrying protesters would just have been a long stretch of humans marching (in 5 rows) in unison SILENTLY in what would have seemed, and rightly so, a national mourning day.
6. The protesters would have been briefed on how to behave if stopped or deterred at any point of the march by security, and that will be to stop and keep mute while the frontliners would communicate the essence at every point.
This kind of organisation would have made it easy to identify hoodlums, or hijackers and then the security officials would have done their jobs of whisking away defaulters and with the media coverage, it would have been obvious who the enemies of the protest were.
I agree that this organisation would have needed a lot of planning, coordination and human compliance but nothing beats the media mode of information ahead.
In all, as some Nigerians are hailing Tuface and organisers of the protest while some others think he chickened out at the last minute and disappointed them, I still think we can organise better protest s with some of these my idea of course and we would have a landslide success.
In the real sense, considering the possible mayhem that may have occurred if the protest had taken place tomorrow, it would have been best to postpone it, rather than cancel it.
Shortest live economic hardship and bad leadership!
Like Tuface said, I hope the government has indeed heard our voice!
Fellow Nigerians, this hardship we are facing we can collectively get out off as we keep on reinventing ourselves and finding solutions that can stand the test of time.


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Fixed earnings investments are these that can generate a daily movement of earnings for the investor. This is the most secure one round and that is often within the type of authorities bonds.
Equity has some dangers concerned as a result of nobody has management of the inventory market. There are varied elements that might make it go up or down such because the efficiency of the corporate and different world occasions. To forestall losses, consultants have to review the market, assess the ricks and volatility to choose which one will get the absolute best returns. Equity schemes will be executed no matter trade or nation so don't really feel unhealthy if the US inventory market will not be doing too effectively.
Then there may be additionally balanced the place the mutual fund firm will put money into a number of belongings corresponding to shares, bonds and shares. The dangers are greater right here however it might quickly repay in time particularly for many who resolve to attend it out for a number of years.
The cash market contains buying and selling treasury payments, industrial paper and different liquid securities. You get a certain quantity every month due to curiosity. Safer than fairness or balanced however the charge of return is way decrease.
There are additionally commodities. Examples of those embody gold and different treasured metals in addition to essentially the most talked about concern proper now, oil.
Before any choice is made, it's the job of the asset administration firm to do some analysis after which cross this on again to the shopper who will say sure or no.
If new tools is required, the asset administration firm will assist the shopper go searching for the absolute best one round earlier than shopping for it. This could be very helpful when the machines are both broken or already outdated.
These companies start the second they're employed by the shopper so they are going to be there from the strategy planning stage all the best way till the deal has been accomplished.
Asset administration corporations have been round for years and also you simply have to search out one that can have the ability to ship what you require of them. Before you choose one, do some analysis by yourself to see who're the shoppers and what have they executed prior to now since you absolutely don't need to entrust your belongings simply to anybody who offers you a name.
So what do asset administration corporations? They enable you to accumulate wealth by utilizing their experience. Do you want it? Yes as a result of they're the one ones who can do the job.


Life in the Village offers an array of cultural experiences. Churches, art galleries, theaters, and more dot the neighborhood. It's time to venture out and see some of the places Villagers adore. Start your day with a walk up 6th Avenue and pass by the gothic Jefferson Market Library. Then, stop by two Episcopal Churches with deep ties to the City's history. After a great walk filled with art and religion, end your day at the Public Theater with performances that are sure to please.
Originally a courthouse, the Jefferson Market Library has served the Greenwich Village community for over forty years. The building, a New York City landmark, was designed by architects Frederick Clark Withers and Calvert Vaux (who also assisted in the design of Central Park) in a Victorian Gothic style. It was erected (along with an adjacent prison and market) during the years 1875-1877 and cost the city almost $360,000. What the city got for its money, in addition to an architectural gem (it was voted one of the ten most beautiful buildings in America by a poll of architects in the 1880s) was a civil court (on the second floor, where the Adult Reading Room is now) and a police court (now the first-floor Children's Room). The beautiful brick-arched basement (now the Reference Room) was used as a holding area for prisoners on their way to jail or trial.
Founded in 1953 by Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino the Joffrey Ballet School is considered one of the premier ballet schools in the country. The school has produced graduates who have gone on to work for major classical ballet, modern, and contemporary dance companies. The Joffrey has also been groundbreaking; it was the first ballet school to sanction the use of rock music in its teaching. Today dance students flock to New York hoping to train at this renowned institute.
In 1843, a 24-year-old engineer fresh out of Columbia College was awarded the commission to design this Episcopal Church—which turned out to be a magnificent example of Gothic Revival architecture. His name was James Renwick, Jr., and his later accomplishments include the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
St.-Mark's-in-the-Bowery Episcopal Church is one of the oldest sites of continuous worship in the City, with original construction in 1799.
The Public Theater produces Shakespeare, the classics, musicals, contemporary and experimental pieces and acts as an advocate for the theater as an essential cultural force, and leading and framing dialogue on some of the most important issues of our day.


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CHIMAIRA Guitarist Says His Band Wasn't 'Appreciated' While Signed To ROADRUNNER
Andre Mihsin of ChartAttack.com reports: Following the success of 2003's "The Impossibility Of Reason", Cleveland, Ohio's CHIMAIRA released their much stronger and more mature self-titled record. But instead of establishing CHIMAIRA as a premier act in the American death metal scene, the immediate reaction to the album was lukewarm.
"The fans don't always agree that your next album is your best album," says guitarist Rob Arnold. "But every band, for the most part, tries to keep progressing, and we're fortunate the people kind of recognize that and see that.
"But it's taken some time. It's only recently that people are starting to recognize the greatness of the self-titled record, which I really appreciate and am happy for. And I don't want that to sound conceited in any way. It's just the blood, sweat and tears that went into that record and just what compositions the songs are in, and I'm just hearing more and more about people saying, 'That record rules.'
"I knew it was going to take people a long time to digest and it certainly took longer than I ever expected. But it's good to hear people noticing that progression. Now people are starting to realize that it was a band maturing and a band continuing to be hungry and realizing that you have to delve into every crevice of your creative mind to come together and try to be better than you were before and write something that's entertaining yet innovative."
Despite the album's eventual acclaim, the initial poor reception resulted in CHIMAIRA getting buried toward the bottom of the Roadrunner Records roster below such high-profile acts as SLIPKNOT, NICKELBACK and KILLSWITCH ENGAGE.
"The basic fundamentals of a record label, those things were given to us at Roadrunner and they certainly did give us a chance," explains Arnold. "They gave us enough to survive, but at the same time they weren't giving us exactly what we needed because it is so difficult to be successful in an extremely heavy metal band without a radio outlet.
"And that's what they wanted, they wanted us to create radio songs so that they can use that venue to create album sales, and that just wasn't the band we were. Therefore, they moved us into another category of the bottom of the totem pole bands that they weren't going to put any marketing into, and we weren't satisfied with that. We knew our potential could be realized somewhere where we could be a top of the totem pole band where metal would be more appreciated. It's kind of weird to say that we weren't appreciated as a metal band at Roadrunner Records, which is the most popular label. We needed to see if we could get out of there and try our craft somewhere else. And if it didn't work somewhere else, then so be it. Then we could blame ourselves."
Read the entire interview at ChartAttack.com.
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Genevieve Crick Collection
Letters from 1944 and 1945, some sent from Oregon and some from California, describe a few of Crick's day-to-day activities in the Women's Army Corps as well as many nonservice-related personal issues. Subjects include social activities; her engagement to Leonard Levy and their inability to get furloughs in order to get married; her new nephew and the rest of her family; descriptions of the scenery in Oregon and California; her work as a cashier at movie showings at the base; her night studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara; swimming in the Pacific Ocean for the first time; her work in the public relations office; and the difficulty of learning radio call signs.
Crick, Genevieve (Person)
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Genevieve Crick served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1944 and 1945 as a public relations officer. She was stationed at Camp White, Oregon, before transferring to Santa Barbara, California, to be trained in call signs for overseas radio operation. While in Santa Barbara, Crick took college courses at night and trained during the day. During her time in the service she became engaged to Leonard Levy, whom she met at Camp White.
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Genevieve Crick served in the Women's Army Corps in 1944 and 1945 as a public relations officer.
Letters, some sent from Oregon and some from California, describe a few of Crick's day-to-day activities in the Women's Army Corps as well as many nonservice-related personal issues.
Collection is arranged chronologically.
Hunter Family and Crick Family Papers, WV0268
Processed by Heath Gardner, September 2004.
California -- Description and travel
Crick, Genevieve
Oregon -- Description and travel
Heath Gardner
[Identification of item], Genevieve Crick Letters, Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.
[Identification of item], Genevieve Crick Letters, Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA. https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/600 Accessed January 15, 2021.


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Crystal Grid Secrets
Learn the ancient mysticism of sacred geometry
By: Nicola McIntosh
Published: Nov/19 (AU/NZ), Feb/20 (US), Dec/19 (UK)
Perfect for the novice to the highly experienced, plant medicine healer and crystal shaman, Nicola McIntosh, shares her blend of nature wisdom and the power of using sacred crystals to create a greater purpose for energy healing - connecting to the divine source of life. Featuring a systematic approach to crystal grids and sacred rituals to invoke real, powerful changes in your life for specific goals and purposes, Crystal Grid Secrets is an awakening for a new generation of crystal healers.
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Complete with an array of stunning photographs and illustrations, easy-to-use guidance and a unique vision, Crystal Grid Secrets takes a step beyond the norm and empowers a new direction towards the future of crystal healing medicine.
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Corona Borealis Supercluster
Observation data (Epoch )
Constellation(s)
0.07[1]
Binding mass
0.6-12 × 1016[2] M☉
See also: Galaxy group, Galaxy cluster, List of galaxy groups and clusters
The Corona Borealis Supercluster is a supercluster located in the constellation Corona Borealis and the most prominent example of its kind in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere.[3] Dense and compact compared with other superclusters, its mass has been calculated to lie somewhere between 0.6 and 12 × 1016 solar masses (M⊙). It contains the galaxy clusters Abell 2056, Abell 2061, Abell 2065 (the most massive galaxy cluster within the supercluster), Abell 2067, Abell 2079, Abell 2089, and Abell 2092. Of these, Abell 2056, 2061, 2065, 2067 and A2089 are gravitationally bound and in the process of collapsing to form a massive cluster.[2] This entity has an estimated mass of around 1 × 1016 M⊙. If there is inter-cluster mass present, then Abell 2092 may also be involved.[2] It has been estimated to be 100 megaparsecs (330 million light-years) wide and 40 megaparsecs (130 million light years) deep.[3] It has a redshift of 0.07,[1] which is equivalent to a distance of around 265.5 megaparsecs (964 million light-years).
Observational history[edit]
Astronomers C. Donald Shane and Carl A. Wirtanen were the first to note a concentration or "cloud" of "extragalactic nebulae" in the region during a large-scale survey of extragalactic structures in the sky.[4] George Abell was the first to note the presence of what he called "second-order clusters", namely clusters of clusters in the first publication of his Abell catalogue in 1958.[5]
Postman and colleagues were the first to study the supercluster in detail in 1988, calculating it to have a mass of 8.2 × 1015 solar masses, and contain the Abell clusters Abell 2061, Abell 2065, Abell 2067, Abell 2079, Abell 2089, and Abell 2092. Abell 2124 lies 33 megaparsecs (110 million light-years) from the centre of the supercluster and has been considered part of the group by some authors.[1]
Abell 2069 lies close by but is more distant, with a line-of-sight association only.[1]
Abell catalog
Large scale structure of the universe
List of Abell clusters
List of superclusters
^ a b c d Postman, M.; Geller, M. J.; Huchra, J. P. (1988). "The dynamics of the Corona Borealis supercluster". Astronomical Journal. 95: 267–83. Bibcode:1988AJ.....95..267P. doi:10.1086/114635.
^ a b c Pearson, David W.; Batiste, Merida; Batuski, David J. "The Largest Gravitationally Bound Structures: The Corona Borealis Supercluster - Mass and Bound Extent". Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 441 (2): 1601–1614. arXiv:1404.1308. Bibcode:2014MNRAS.441.1601P. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu693.
^ a b Marini, F.; Bardelli, S.; Zucca, E.; De Grandi, S.; Cappi, A.; Ettori, S.; Moscardini, L.; Tormen, G.; Diaferio, A. (2004). "BeppoSAX temperature maps of galaxy clusters in the Corona Borealis supercluster: A2061, A2067 and A2124". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 353 (4): 1219–30. arXiv:astro-ph/0406538. Bibcode:2004MNRAS.353.1219M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08148.x.
^ Shane, C. Donald; Wirtanen, Carl A. (1954). "The distribution of extragalactic nebulae". Astronomical Journal. 59: 285–303. Bibcode:1954AJ.....59..285S. doi:10.1086/107014.
^ Abell, George O. (1958). "The distribution of rich clusters of galaxies. A catalogue of 2712 rich clusters found on the National Geographic Society Palomar Observatory Sky Survey" (PDF). The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 3: 211–88. Bibcode:1958ApJS....3..211A. doi:10.1086/190036. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-21. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
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Ruff, ruff! Hot Spot is not only man's best friend – he's the Turtles' canine companion. This likeable, lickable lad won't roll over and play dead, cuz he's armed to the teeth! Yes, that bone can break bones, if used just right. But that's only a last resort. This piebald pal really likes to get the Foot Clan clean by dousin' 'em with his trusty, rusty, squirtin' fire hydrant. And if it's a four alarm Foot fight, Hot Spot's got his power-packed Foot-fightin' fire axe and anti-gaggin' gas mask – so he can go right into the thick of things. The Turtles know that if they ever need the help of this dalmation dude, all they gotta do is sound the alarm – and Hot Spot will be there, ready to roll.


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Street justice: brother of ex-official hospitalized in Tbilisi
Davit Kodua, brother of wanted ex-official Erekle Kodua, was brutally beaten in Tbilisi Saturday. (Interpressnews.)
TBILISI, DFWatch–The brother of a wanted former official in the Saakashvili regime was brutally beaten in Tbilisi on Saturday.
The victim of the attack was Davit Kodua, brother of Erekle Kodua, a former top police official who is currently outside the country and internationally wanted.
Davit Kodua was attacked and beaten by masked men Saturday. After the attack, he was taken to hospital with multiple injuries.
Later the same day, police detained a suspect in the case and published a video of his confession – a common practice in Georgia.
Kodua was attacked at about 15:00 on Abashidze Street in Tbilisi, while in the company of a four-year-old child and a nanny.
Nanuka Zhorzholiani, a well-known TV-show anchor and wife of Erekle Kodua, posted photos on Facebook of a severely beaten Davit Kodua. She said Kodua was first hit by electric shock and felt unconscious and then he was beaten, receiving injuries to his face and head. The nanny and child were not harmed.
Zhorzholiani wrote that three person attacked Kodua, only two of which had masks, so the nanny should be able to recognize this one person.
The wife of the suspect who was detained by police for beating Kodua told journalists that in 2008 on orders of Erekle Kodua certain people broke into their house and placed 15 grams of heroin there. She said her husband was a businessman.
She claims Kodua wanted to have her husband's shares in his own company, but he refused. That is why Kodua planned to detain him, and planted drugs at his house in order to have a reason to detain him.
"They made him pay 500,000 [lari] and forced him to give away 50 percent of shares registered on my name," Interpressnews quotes her saying, adding that after all his husband was released.
After the change of government in 2012, they sued, and an investigation was launched.
"He then met Davit Kodua in the street and beat him. Is there anything surprising?" she asks denying information that the attackers were wearing masks.
According to Sutidze, her husband surrendered to police and he wasn't wearing a mask during the incident.
Wife of Erekle Kodua, Nanuka Zhorzholiani, doubts that the suspect really beat Kodua, because he was a childhood friend of Davit Kodua and if he really was there, the nanny would have recognized him as he had been to their house many times.
In a confession published by the Interior Ministry, the suspect says he met Kodua in the street by chance. He said the events in 2008, his detention and deprivation of 50 percent of his shares, was the motive for him to beat Davit Kodua.
"My one year old child was witness to all of this, when they broke into my house and planted the drugs. I can never forgive either Erekle or Davit Kodua for this."
Davit Kodua's health condition is stable, according to doctors.
The suspect will most likely be presented in court on Monday or Tuesday.
By DFWatch staff| 2014-05-05T05:05:02+04:00 May 5th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Davit Kodua, Erekle Kodua|0 Comments


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Mozart: The Magic Flute
Opera in two acts on a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, created in 1791 in Vienna.
Surtitles in French and English
Coproduction Royal Opera / Château de Versailles Spectacles, Opera of Avignon
Florie Valiquette: Pamina
Mathias Vidal: Tamino
Marc Scoffoni: Papageno
Chantal Santon-Jeffery: The Queen of the Night
Tomislav Lavoie: Sarastro
Pauline Feracci: Papagena
Olivier Trommenschlager: Monostatos
Suzanne Jérôme: First Lady
Marie Gautrot: Second Lady
Mélodie Ruvio: Third Lady
Matthieu Lecroart: The Speaker
François Pardailhé: First Priest, Man in armor
Jean-Christophe Lanièce: Second Priest, Man in armor
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet: Musical conductor
Cécile Roussat, Julien Lubek: Director, scenography, lights
Sylvie Skinazi: Costumes
Élodie Monet: Stage sets assistant
Marco Gingold: Lights assistant
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Royal Opera
The Royal Opera of Versailles, located in the grounds of the Castle, one of the major opera houses.
The opening of the opera house at Versailles brought to a close a process of planning, projects and designs that had lasted for nearly a century. While the Royal Opera was finally built towards the end of the reign of Louis XV, it had been envisaged since as early as 1682, the year when his predecessor Louis XIV took up residence at Versailles. The King had commissioned Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Vigarani to draw up plans for a ballet theatre. Mansart shrewdly decided on a position at the far end of the new wing that was to be built over the coming years: the nearby reservoirs for the gardens' fountains could be used to fight any fire that might break out, while the sloping ground on that part of the site would allow provision of the necessary technical spaces below the stage without major excavation work. So cleverly-chosen, indeed, was the planned location that none of Mansart's successors ever questioned it.
Major building work was already under way in 1685, but was soon interrupted because of the wars and financial difficulties which beset the later part of the king's reign. Louis XV in his turn was long put off by the huge expense involved in the project. As a result, for almost a century the French court was forced to put up with a makeshift theatre installed below the Passage des Princes. When a grand opera was required, with a large cast and complicated stage machinery, a temporary theatre would be built in the stables of the Grande Ecurie, with the entire structure being demolished once the performances were over. This temporary solution was adopted, for instance, during the celebrations of the Dauphin's wedding in February 1745, but its inconvenience was so starkly obvious that Louis XV finally resolved to build a permanent theatre, entrusting its design to his first architect, AngeJacques Gabriel.
The process of actually building the new theatre, however, was to take over twenty years. During this lengthy period of construction Gabriel, who had studied the leading theatres of Italy, in particular Vicenza, Bologna, Parma, Modena and Turin, presented a series of different designs to his royal patron, none of which was accepted. Only in 1768, faced with the forthcoming successive marriages of his grandchildren, did the king finally give the order for work to commence. Building progressed steadily and the new opera house was completed in twenty-three months, ready for its inauguration on the 16th of May 1770, the day of the Dauphin's marriage to the Archduchess Marie-Antoinette, with a performance of Persée by Quinault and Lully.
Royal Chapel
This extraordinary two-level palatine chapel was built by Jules Hardouin Mansart between 1699 and 1708 and completed by Robert de Cotte in 1710.
The paintings on the vaulted ceiling by Antoine Coypel, Charles de la Fosse and Jean Jouvenet, as well as the lavish decoration fashioned by a team of sculptors working for Louis XIV, depict a number of Old and New Testament scenes. Facing the royal gallery is the remarkable organ, created by Robert Clicquot, the King's organ builder, which was first played on Easter Sunday 1711 by François Couperin.
Even though Hardouin-Mansart did not witness the completion of the chapel, he was the one who had dictated the major aspects of the architecture and decor: a ground floor with a nave, aisles and ambulatory, and an upper floor with galleries, a harmonious combination of white and gold contrasting with the polychromatic marble floor and paintings on the vaulted ceiling, all combining to create an original space with references to both gothic architecture and baroque aesthetics.
Every day, generally at 10 a.m., the court would attend the King's mass. The King would sit in the royal gallery, surrounded by his family, while the ladies of the court would occupy the side galleries. The "officers" and the public would sit in the nave. The King would only descend to the ground floor for important religious festivals when he would take communion, for Order of the Holy Spirit ceremonies and for the baptisms and weddings of the Children of France, which were celebrated there between 1710 and 1789. Above the altar, around the Cliquot organ played by the greatest virtuosos of their age, including François Couperin, the Chapel Choir, renowned throughout Europe, would sing motets throughout the entire service, every day.
The Orangerie gardens
From May to October, orange trees and other shrubs are taken out of the Parterre Bas of the Orangerie gardens. At the center of this parterre, there is a large circular pool surrounded by six sections of lawn.
A great stone cathedral within a formal garden, The Orangerie is both a royal and magical place.
Built between 1684 and 1686 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart to house and protect precious trees and shrubs during the Winter, this extraordinarily large building is located beneath the parterre du Midi (South flowerbed), for which it acts as a support. Two monumental staircases, known as "les Cent Marches" (the hundred steps), frame the Orangerie's three galleries, which overlook the parterre where, during the Summer, more than 1,200 exotic trees are arranged.
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Amit Pandey
Full-time MBA student, Alumni
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Course: Full-time MBA
Year of graduation: 2008
Job title: Vice President
Company: Barclays
By his own admission, Amit had a challenging list of criteria for choosing an MBA course. The business school had to have a good reputation; alumni performance; links with industry; teaching methodology; and competitive fees. Amit says: "I was a bit demanding, expecting all this at a minimum cost, but I found that Leeds fitted the bill."
With a first degree in Mechanical Engineering, and with experience working in the engineering, construction and software development sectors, Amit decided that studying for an MBA would be ideal to pull together his strands of expertise and help him make the transition from technical specialist to manager. "I aspired to learn more about strategy making and functions like marketing and finance, which traditionally engineers don't see as essential," he says. "I wanted to change this mindset."
Now employed as a Senior Business Change Analyst for Lloyds Banking Group plc, Amit's role is to develop operational improvement strategies to help his company during the global slowdown by improving its business performance. "The MBA helped me take a 'bird's eye' perspective and a macro view of an issue and think strategically. This experience will go a long way to helping me work in any sector and industry," he says.
Coming from India, Amit's experience of working with a US-based firm stood him in good stead to appreciate the cultural differences he would come across when studying in the UK: "I already had a fair idea of the cultural changes I would be facing and during our induction week we had a good session on change management and how to handle it," he says. "The tutors and staff are well trained in dealing with overseas students and the multi-cultural atmosphere really adds to the enjoyment, whether during discussions and debates around case studies or when out and about enjoying our new environment."
A highlight of Amit's time at Leeds came when he represented the Business School at the Interstate Programme for MBA students in Brussels, where he had the opportunity to work closely with counterparts at international business schools: "I learnt a lot by exchanging viewpoints with my peers and listening to leading political and business figures at the event," he says. Summing up his experiences at Leeds, Amit can see the long-term benefits: "The network you build at Leeds stays with you for life. You study with future CEOs and business leaders representing various parts of the globe, which can only help in your future career."


If you're not a Trekker, then you might have missed Discovery, Netflix's latest addition to the Star Trek canon. The first series deals with the beginnings of the interstellar beef between the Federation and the Klingons, long before Captain Kirk first faced a bat'leth-wielding crinkle-head.
SPOILER ALERT: the major plot twist in the first season is that Lieutenant Ash Tyler, played by British actor Shahzad Latif (him-off-of-Spooks), turns out not to be human at all, but rather a Klingon character, Voq, who had been the subject of a species reassignment experiment. This involved some pretty gruesome surgical procedures, including organ rearrangement, splitting of bones for marrow replacement, and having another man's psyche melded onto his own. Much like facing an over from Dale Steyn.
Well before The Big Reveal happened, most viewers had already cottoned on thanks to online fan theories and some not-so-subtle foreshadowing techniques employed by the producers during the early episodes. The most obvious of these was in a flashback when Voq's love interest L'Rell told her death-faking alien boyfriend that he had to "sacrifice everything" in order to fulfil his destiny.
That's quite a list. Not bad going for 68 days. But these are just the problems at the top of the game. The issues at the base of the pyramid still fester. Common to the whole cricketing diaspora, from top-ranked India, via Vanuatu (37th) to Estonia (75th), are the perennial issues of participation, facilities, diversity and all the other usual thematic suspects.
Cricket's script hasn't been written yet, but should we see these as the giveaways that show how cricket's storyline is going to pan out?
The problem is not that no-one is addressing these issues. The ICC is finally looking at a six-month international window, the ECB continues to grapple manfully with participation through All Stars and staff recruitment, and the nascent Cricket Supporters' Association is trying to make the fans' voice heard.
Back to Star Trek. In Discovery, the Klingons never mount a concerted campaign because they are composed of disparate bickering factions, the 24 Great Houses, who lack a joined-up plan.
The ECB has had #GoBoldly as a recent marketing device, and cricket probably sees itself as the Federation, spreading the good word about the gentleman's game across the globe. But what if cricket is actually the Klingon race?
The issues are weighty and, despite the best efforts of the above, no-one is going to solve them overnight. Affirmative action is occurring at separate levels of the game and, like Ian Chappell, we all know that cricket is crying out for leadership on so many levels and requires a strategy. But it also needs an infrastructure that binds the pyramid together.
With the ICC in its ivory tower in Sports City Dubai, there is no forum for all parties – centralised governance, national boards, grassroots clubs, fans – to discuss the issues openly and pull in a single direction and give our challenger sport the impetus is seeks.
Like Voq / Tyler, cricket is currently an amalgam of competing personalities. Tests, ODIs, T20Is; we are tempted to think that three into two will not go, with the 50-over format looking most vulnerable. But every now and then a stone-cold classic like the 4th NZ-Eng match the other day pops up and we pause for a minute. This shows that some unpopular decisions must be made, but everyone needs to be involved in a logical process worthy of Mr Spock himself, not just the Starfleet admirals giving their orders.
Whatever the future holds, we must continue to cast a critical eye over the developments in the game and decide what we really want for, and from, the game we love. If we are careless in our approach, we may just find ourselves in a sporting version of the Kobayashi-Maru scenario, Star Trek's unwinnable training exercise.
What is certain is that, like James T. Kirk, we are heading directly towards the undiscovered country but, in fulfilling our cricketing destiny, we may run the risk of doing as Voq did by sacrificing everything the game stands for.


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We create and invest in programs that make local pet ownership more affordable and pet adoption more of a reality. We think critically about why animals in our community end up at LHS, what we can do to prevent them from becoming homeless. We work tirelessly to provide them with loving homes, and make information accessible to ensure they and their families have the resources needed for long and happy lives together.
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By Christa Lawler on Apr 13, 2019 at 6:43 p.m.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Spotted about a few blocks away from the KeyBank Center on Saturday afternoon: Two men in Minnesota Gophers-wear coexisting peacefully with another in a St. Cloud State jersey.
Mike and Jeff Ammann and their father Jerry Ammann — all based in the Twin Cities area — were en route to the NCAA Frozen Four college men's hockey tournament, where the University of Minnesota Duluth would face the University of Massachusetts for the national title Saturday night. Still, they opted for Gopher maroon and Husky red for the occasion.
"We come to watch hockey," said Jerry Ammann, who said they've been traveling to the tourney for at least 22 years. "We're just college hockey fans."
There are 60 Division I hockey teams in the country, and more than half of those teams' jerseys were seen in and around the arena during the two-day tournament. Notre Dame jerseys brunched with Badger jerseys. North Dakota jerseys lingered on the fringe of packs of Bulldog jerseys. One sports reporter counted 30 different jerseys at a nearby restaurant-bar on Thursday night before the semifinal round.
Todd Kummer keeps track of all the jersey he sees. He's a spreadsheet guy, his friends said, as he pulled out the list: Providence, Boston College, Omaha, Clarkson, Harvard. Kummer had collected 41 sightings, and was hoping to still find Arizona State.
Kummer was wearing a blue Snoopy jersey — over a North Dakota T-shirt. His wife, Jodi Kummer, was also in green. But his table also included a friend in a United States Marine Corps football jersey and another wearing UMD. The latter was a fluke.
This crew is in the early stages of a Frozen Four tradition that started three years ago in Chicago — where they all live. Andy Wyse decided that weekend to be a Bulldog fan and adopted the wardrobe.
"I didn't have a dog in the race," he said.
This spontaneous pick has worked for him for three years.
Also part of the group: Dennis Blowers, wearing a St. Lawrence jacket. His was a tribute to the river, not the team.
"2010 Frozen Four," Rothberg replied.
They've been coming to the Frozen Four for years and this year was especially easy. They estimated 30 other RIT fans in the stands.
"It's like a big family reunion," Rothberg said. "Half of the fun is seeing how many teams you can get checked off. Some years, it's 40."
Darrin Opsal of Eau Claire, Wis., bravely joined the Bulldogs' pregame party at nearby Pearl Street Grill & Brewery — while in Badger gear. He's a hockey fan, he said, and as his children have gotten older he's begun making his way to more games.
"I'm supporting UMD," he said, as he has for the past three NCAA tournaments.
Opsal said he didn't own any Bulldog shirts, though.
"I can't go out and buy one," he said. "Next year it will be Wisconsin and I'll have this maroon thing."


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package org.jboss.hal.client.bootstrap.tasks;

import java.util.Set;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import org.jboss.hal.config.AccessControlProvider;
import org.jboss.hal.config.Environment;
import org.jboss.hal.config.Role;
import org.jboss.hal.dmr.Composite;
import org.jboss.hal.dmr.CompositeResult;
import org.jboss.hal.dmr.ModelNode;
import org.jboss.hal.dmr.Operation;
import org.jboss.hal.dmr.Property;
import org.jboss.hal.dmr.ResourceAddress;
import org.jboss.hal.dmr.dispatch.DispatchFailure;
import org.jboss.hal.dmr.dispatch.Dispatcher;
import org.jboss.hal.flow.FlowContext;
import org.jboss.hal.meta.AddressTemplate;
import org.jboss.hal.meta.StatementContext;
import org.jboss.hal.resources.Ids;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import rx.Completable;
import rx.Single;

import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toSet;
import static org.jboss.hal.config.AccessControlProvider.RBAC;
import static org.jboss.hal.config.AccessControlProvider.SIMPLE;
import static org.jboss.hal.dmr.ModelDescriptionConstants.*;
import static org.jboss.hal.dmr.ModelNodeHelper.asEnumValue;

/**
 * Reads attributes from {@code /core-service=management/access=authorization}. This is implemented in an extra
 * bootstrap function, because the operation might fail in some corner cases (e.g. when the current user is a host
 * scoped role scoped to a slave host).
 */
public class ReadAuthentication implements BootstrapTask {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ReadAuthentication.class);
    private static final AddressTemplate CORE_SERVICE_TEMPLATE = AddressTemplate.of("/core-service=management");

    private final Dispatcher dispatcher;
    private final Environment environment;
    private final StatementContext statementContext;

    @Inject
    public ReadAuthentication(Dispatcher dispatcher, Environment environment, StatementContext statementContext) {
        this.dispatcher = dispatcher;
        this.environment = environment;
        this.statementContext = statementContext;
    }

    @Override
    public Completable call(FlowContext context) {
        logger.debug("Read authentication");
        ResourceAddress address = CORE_SERVICE_TEMPLATE.resolve(statementContext);
        Operation opAuthorization = new Operation.Builder(address, READ_CHILDREN_RESOURCES_OPERATION)
                .param(CHILD_TYPE, ACCESS)
                .param(INCLUDE_RUNTIME, true)
                .param(RECURSIVE_DEPTH, 1)
                .build();
        Operation opWhoami = new Operation.Builder(ResourceAddress.root(), WHOAMI)
                .param(VERBOSE, true)
                .build();
        return dispatcher.execute(new Composite(opAuthorization, opWhoami))
                .doOnSuccess((CompositeResult compositeResult) -> {

                    ModelNode result = compositeResult.step(0).get(RESULT);
                    if (result.isDefined() && !result.asString().equals("{}")) {
                        result = result.get(AUTHORIZATION);
                        // provider
                        AccessControlProvider accessControlProvider = asEnumValue(result, PROVIDER,
                                AccessControlProvider::valueOf, SIMPLE);
                        environment.setAccessControlProvider(accessControlProvider);

                        // standard roles
                        if (result.hasDefined(STANDARD_ROLE_NAMES)) {
                            result.get(STANDARD_ROLE_NAMES).asList().stream()
                                    .map(node -> new Role(node.asString()))
                                    .forEach(role -> environment.getRoles().add(role));
                        }

                        // scoped roles
                        if (!environment.isStandalone()) {
                            if (result.hasDefined(HOST_SCOPED_ROLE)) {
                                result.get(HOST_SCOPED_ROLE).asPropertyList().stream()
                                        .map(property -> scopedRole(property, Role.Type.HOST, HOSTS))
                                        .forEach(role -> environment.getRoles().add(role));
                            }
                            if (result.hasDefined(SERVER_GROUP_SCOPED_ROLE)) {
                                result.get(SERVER_GROUP_SCOPED_ROLE).asPropertyList().stream()
                                        .map(property -> scopedRole(property, Role.Type.SERVER_GROUP, SERVER_GROUPS))
                                        .forEach(role -> environment.getRoles().add(role));
                            }
                        }
                    } else {
                        logger.warn("Unable to read {} (insufficient rights?). Use :whoami values as fallback.",
                                CORE_SERVICE_TEMPLATE.append("access=authorization"));
                        ModelNode resultWhoami = compositeResult.step(1).get(RESULT);
                        environment.setAccessControlProvider(RBAC);
                        environment.getRoles().clear();
                        if (resultWhoami.hasDefined(ROLES)) {
                            resultWhoami.get(ROLES).asList().stream()
                                    .map(node -> new Role(node.asString()))
                                    .forEach(role -> environment.getRoles().add(role));
                        }
                    }
                })
                .onErrorResumeNext(throwable -> {
                    if (throwable instanceof DispatchFailure) {
                        logger.error("Unable to read {}. Use :whoami values as fallback.", CORE_SERVICE_TEMPLATE);
                        return Single.just(new CompositeResult(new ModelNode()));
                    } else {
                        return Single.error(throwable);
                    }
                })
                .toCompletable();
    }

    private Role scopedRole(Property property, Role.Type type, String scopeAttribute) {
        Role baseRole = environment.getRoles().get(Ids.role(property.getValue().get(BASE_ROLE).asString()));
        Set<String> scope = property.getValue().get(scopeAttribute).asList().stream()
                .map(ModelNode::asString).collect(toSet());
        return new Role(property.getName(), baseRole, type, scope);
    }
}


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Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, the Archbishop of Bangui, is currently traveling through all the dioceses of the Central African Republic. His tour began in the diocese of Bouar in the north-west of the country. While there, from 22 to 24 February, he visited the parish of Bozoum and the town of Bocaranga, where only recently, in early February, there was serious violence. His programme also included talks with the rebels. Father Aurelio Gazzera, the parish priest of Bozoum, accompanied the Cardinal. Later, on 26 February, he spoke to ACN about this visit.
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I know the title of this recipe is an "opinion," but it really is a reliable one! I had quite a few people asking for this recipe, so I definitely want to share the wealth.
These rolls are slightly sweet, slightly yeasty, and fluffy. They're not like "cafeteria" rolls (which I am NOT against by the way… and I DO love by the way); I just wanted to give you an idea of what they're like. They could almost melt in your mouth, and they have a soft outer crusting as it is not crusty crust. You can make them as airy and as dense as you'd like – rise them longer for more airy, and rise them less for more dense.
Making bread is actually very simple, and you probably already have most of the ingredients. Mixing up the dough ingredients only takes about 10-15 minutes once you get the hang of it, but they do need time to rise, which could take anywhere from 1 to 2 hours.
This recipe was sent to me by my uncle who calls his bread rolls "Little Puffs of Heaven," and he said that it was a similar recipe. So, I don't think it's the exact one, but I've changed up a few things, substituting healthier ingredients, and making the instructions more simple with less steps.
I made a mistake baking them the other day, so I will tell all about that here, what to do, and what to avoid as well!
Recently, I learned how to make them rise faster: Turn my oven on warm for just a minute, and then turn it off, keeping the oven light on. I also ONLY use stoneware to bake my rolls, which will give the best results (in my opinion).
Let this mixture sit there while mixing together the other ingredients.
Now, melt the butter (or coconut oil) on the stove (about 5 minutes), turn off heat, and mix 1 cup of room temp water into the butter.
In the mixer with the paddle attachment, mix together the eggs, 1/2 cup of sugar (or honey), and salt.
Add to the mixer – the butter and water mixture, and the yeast mixture (that should be bubbly and rising).
Once blended together, add the flour, one cup at a time. Scrape the sides of the bowl once all flour is added and then blend on high for a few seconds one last time. The dough will be fluffy and soft. If it is very sticky, add a little flour and mix with hands. I like to just add bits of flour as I make the dough balls.
Turn out onto a flour surface. Roll pieces into 2″ balls as shown below, just as you would with meatballs, and lightly coat with flour. No need to knead!!
Place onto lightly greased stone, leaving generous space between rolls. I press them down a little when I put them on the pan. You can put them close together if you'd like. This is totally optional.
Cover with kitchen towel and place into the oven with the light on. Let rise until they are about doubled in size. If you warm up your oven first as mentioned earlier, they will rise faster (about an hour).
This is the mistake I made the other day: I let them rise longer than normal. The longer they rise, the less dense they will be (and the more airy they will be). But if you let them rise longer, I figured out that they do not need to bake as long! I baked them the normal time, and they were DELICIOUS once they were done, BUT I find that they were a little dry once we brought them to the party (6 hours later). The husband still approved, but I'm a little bit of a perfectionist [sigh].
Bake in a 400°F oven for about 8-10 minutes. Take them out before they get brown! Right when they begin to darken, they will most likely be done. I always cut one open and sample! Brush with butter once done!
I let them rest on the pan for a few minutes before I slide them off with a spatula. They are BEST served warm (as is any bread!).
And they were still super soft and moist after they were cooled. They actually kind of reminded me of really soft and moist sandwich bread. They were borderline under-cooked, and I wasn't sure if they were still raw. But, when I ripped a few open and had the family sample, they were fine! Perfect!
TIPS: I have a friend who has made these, and after rolling the dough into rolls, she froze them on a pan, then transferred to a freezer bag once frozen. When she is ready to let them rise, she simply takes out how many she needs and puts the frozen rolls out on the baking dish just like if they were freshly made. Bake them once they have risen.
If you decide to make your dough a day or so before you rise them and bake them, wrap loosely in plastic wrap to give room for rising in the refrigerator! One time, I wrapped them like you would wrap anything in plastic wrap (tightly), and they busted RIGHT through that wrap! Oops! Make sure to leave room for that rise, because it will bust right through anything.
If you have any trouble at all, or any questions or comments, comment below!
In a glass bowl, blend together the yeast and 1 tsp organic sugar (or honey), and add 1/2 cup warm water with a little stir to mix. Let this mixture sit while mixing together the other ingredients (about 10 minutes).
Melt the butter (or coconut oil) on the stove (about 5 minutes), turn off heat, and mix 1 cup of room temp water into the melted butter.
In the mixer with the paddle attachment, mix together the eggs, 1/2 cup of sugar (or honey), and 1 tsp salt.
Once blended together, add the flour, one cup at a time. Scrape the sides of the bowl once all flour is added and then blend on high for a few seconds one last time. The dough will be fluffy and soft. If it is very sticky, add a little flour and mix with hands.
Turn out onto a floured surface. Roll pieces into 2″ balls just like you would do with meatballs, and lightly coat with flour. No need to knead!!
Place onto lightly greased stone, leaving generous space between rolls. I press them down a little when I put them on the pan.
Cover with kitchen towel and place into the oven with the light on. Let rise until they are about doubled in size. If you warm up your oven first on low for a minute before placing into the oven to rise, they will rise faster (about an hour). Make sure the oven is not hot, just slightly warm (about 100°F).
Bake in a 400°F oven for about 8-10 minutes. Take them out before they get too brown! Right when they begin to darken, they will most likely be done. I always cut one open and sample! Brush with butter once done!
The dough will keep up to 5 days in the refrigerator.


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Broken leg could sideline Nate Burleson as long as 8 months
Pressure has been on Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson as he has only one touchdown reception through the first six games.
Now, there is more pressure. That is because Nate Burleson, the starter opposite him, will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a broken right leg during the third quarter of Monday's 13-7 loss to the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field.
Burleson, 31, landed in an awkward position following his only catch of the game and was done. According to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, Burleson will require surgery and the timetable for a return could be as long as eight months. That could put the future of Burleson with the Lions in question as he has only one year remaining on his contract.
The Lions will now have to lean on Ryan Broyles, a second-round pick this year, and Titus Young, a second-round pick in 2011, to pick up the slack opposite Johnson. It could mean expanded roles for tight ends Brandon Pettigrew and Tony Scheffler as well.


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