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5 Things I Loved About Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
October 25, 2018 Dale Palisoc 2
The magic began when Netflix granted us access to the first half of the upcoming series, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. As much as this excited me, I was also a bit hesitant with the fact that it might share the same universe as Riverdale. My worry stems from me giving up on the series after its first season. It was based off of the Archie comics which I read growing up, the TV series, however, was an entirely different thing. Still, partly due to my curiosity about the new show which I first learned of during APCC, I accepted the offer and half-wittingly started watching Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. My hesitations faded away few minutes into the pilot. It is wicked! So with that, let me share with you the five things that I loved about Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
The Tone
Kiernan Shipka is a different Sabrina in CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA | Credit: Netflix
The new Netflix series is based on the comics of the same title written by showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. I grew up with the bubbly and fun Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) but this adaptation has a refreshing take. It was as if the Sabrina left the MCU realm and entered the DCEU. It was dark, grim, and yes, there is blood. In the first few episodes of the season, Sabrina is about to celebrate her 16th birthday but there is more to it. She has to succumb to the darkness. And yes, if you are a hardcore Christian, you might feel a little discomfort because the series does not hold back on referencing demons and Satan. It's that edgy!
Female Power!
Aunts Zelda and Hilda got an edgy makeover in CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA | Credit: Netflix
In the earlier reincarnations of the character, Sabrina was a high school student experiencing the things that a typical high school girl would. Sabrina lives with her aunts Zelda (Miranda Otto) and Hilda (Lucy Davis). These women are no longer the women that we knew in the sitcoms. In Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, they had some spunk. Hilda is still the motherly figure that she is while Zelda is the definition of a power woman. Not only that, Sabrina's friend at school are different now too. Which leads us to…
Woke!
Wokeness is a thing in CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA | Credit: Netflix
At this rate, I would be more surprised if a TV series or a movie will not have woke characters. It's a thing and it should have been a long time ago! This series is a perfect platform to bring the characters in a more contemporary setting and introduce some woke sensibility to its characters. Rosalind Walker (Jaz Sinclair), Sabrina's bestfriend, is more outspoken and a figure of feminism in the series. High school dramas are not complete without bullying and the series took progressiveness to another level by introducing WICCA- an all-female organization that aims to empower one another. Take that, feminism!
Chance Pedromo as Ambrose in CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA. | Credit: Netflix
Aside from wokeness, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina also throws its arms wide open to welcome LGBT. It might be a minor thing for some but to me, it is amazing seeing a teenage series being open to it. Without spoiling much, there are two characters that are proud about their sexuality. Without being preachy about it, they were presented normally without overarching arcs that highlights their sexuality. That is a plus points on my book!
Things got dark in CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA. | Credit: Netflix
This may have been what I love the most about Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, well based on what I saw so far. The dark coming-of-age story explores Sabrina's two lives as a witch and a mortal. Monsters, witchcraft, and all the dark entities make an appearance from time to time. Sacasa-Aguirre created the series to have its tone play along the lines of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina put an end to my fears of it becoming the next Riverdale. There is no exaggerated romance plot and no overdrawn arcs. Yes, it might be too early to say at this point but judging from what I witnessed so far, things are looking promising. It has found the right blend of humor and darkness (with a little more extra touch of darkness). If you loved Sabrina from the sitcoms and the comics, part of her is still here. Just think of her undergoing an edgy, rebellious phase.
The 10-episode Netflix original series premieres October 26, 2018.
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I have yet to see any Netflix series but I have heard many good things about the shows. I like how well put together your review is. However, I may not be able to watch any new series tackling witches and witchcraft after marathoning 2 seasons of Salem last July.
May Palacpac says:
Forgive me as I am not exactly a fan of Riverdale, so Sabrina doesn't appeal to me so much. That said, I have watched the whole first season of Riverdale so I think that I'll end up watching a whole season of Sabrina, too haha


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Alletiders Jul er en dansk julekalender fra 1994, som er skrevet og instrueret af Martin Miehe-Renard og produceret af Adaptor Frontier Media A/S for TV 2. Den blev sendt første gang på TV 2 i 1994, og er siden blevet genudsendt på samme kanal i 2004, 2016 og 2020. Serien består af 24 afsnit á 25 minutters varighed, og medvirkende i serien er Jan Linnebjerg, Paul Hüttel, Jesper Klein, Jeanne Boel og Karen Gardelli. Julekalenderen følger nisserne Pyrus og Guttenborg og pigen Freja, og rigsarkivaren Bertramsen og hans sekretær Josefine på deres rejse gennem Danmarkshistorien for at finde frem til den danske jul, som ved et uheld er blevet slettet fra historiebøgerne.

Julekalenderen blev modtaget med stor ros i 1994, og er den mest sete familiejulekalender med et gennemsnitligt seertal på 1.383.000 pr. afsnit, og ved genudsendelsen i 2004 havde hvert afsnit ca. 1 mio. i seertal i gennemsnit.

Grundet seriens succes blev der efterfølgende dannet en Pyrus-franchise med tre julekalender-efterfølgere; Alletiders Nisse (1995), Alletiders Julemand (1997) og Alletiders Eventyr (2000), en film, Pyrus på pletten (2000) og en teaterforestilling, Pyrus i Alletiders Show.

Handling
På Danmarks Rigsarkiv i København arbejder og bor rigsarkivaren Birger Bertramsen, der lever og ånder for Danmarkshistorien og bruger alle sine vågne timer på at læse og skrive om gamle konger, krige og lignende. Han har i mange år arbejdet alene i Rigsarkivet, men nu er han pludselig blevet tildelt en sekretær, den unge Josefine Brahe, der skal hjælpe ham, da Bertramsen også har modtaget en opgave fra Det Danske Kongehus, der ønsker at få udfærdiget en fyldestgørende rapport om, hvordan den danske jul er blevet til.

Bertramsen har dog aldrig arbejdet alene i Rigsarkivet, da nissen Guttenborg har boet og arbejdet i Rigsarkivet i al hemmelighed for menneskene i mange år, hvor han sørger for at nissernes rolle i historierne ikke bliver glemt. Guttenborg passer mest sig selv, men en dag dukker den unge og livlige Pyrus op, der skal være i nisselære ved Guttenborg og Rigsarkivet. Pyrus er en rigtig ungnisse, som ikke kan sidde stille og han vil meget gerne lære at beherske de trylleformularer, som Guttenborg har i sin lille bog. Under et øjebliks uopmærksomhed fra Guttenborg, får Pyrus fat i Guttenborgs trylleformularbog, og under hans forsøg med at fortrylle en bog, går noget galt. Pludselig falder alle bogstaverne ud af bogen, og snart opdager Bertramsen og Josefine at alt julepynt og julehygge udenfor Rigsarkivet er forsvundet, forvirret over, hvordan det er sket. Guttenborg og Pyrus indser nu at Pyrus ved et uheld har slettet julen fra Danmarkshistorien. Samtidig finder de to midt i al rodet i arkivet en omtumlet og forvirret ung pige, som ikke kan huske sit eget navn eller noget om hvem hun er.

Guttenborg og Pyrus tager sig af pigen, som de kalder Freja, og sammen med Bertramsen og Josefine (stadig uden at de ved noget om nisserne), starter de fra begyndelsen af Danmarkshistorien for at finde frem til, hvordan den danske jul blev til og hvor Freja hører til. Under deres rejse igennem Danmarkshistorien møder nisserne bl.a. Valdemar den Store, Erik Klipping, Svend Tveskæg, den nordiske gudinde Freja, Margrethe Sprænghest, Tycho Brahe, Ludvig Holberg, H.C. Andersen og Christian den 4.

I løbet af serien lykkedes det gruppen at finde frem til, hvordan den danske jul blev til med hjælp fra traditioner og skikke, og til sidst i serien finder Freja, Pyrus og Guttenborg ud af at Freja er Julens ånd, og hun kan nu vende tilbage til sin retmæssige plads i historiebøgerne. Omtrent samtidig opdager Bertramsen og Josefine at de er far og datter, da det kommer frem til at Bertramsen forlod sin lille familie for mange år siden, og at Josefine aldrig har kendt sin far. De har begge dele af et iturevet billede, som viser sig at passe sammen. De får derudover færdiggjort deres rapport og julen, og de kan aflevere den til Kongehuset.

Medvirkende
 Jan Linnebjerg – Pyrus
 Paul Hüttel – Guttenborg
 Jesper Klein – Birger Bertramsen
 Jeanne Boel – Josefine Brahe
 Karen Gardelli – Freja
 Ghita Nørby – Margrete Sprænghest
 Susse Wold – Gudinden Freja
 Birthe Neumann – Emma Gad
 Ulla Jessen – Grevinde Danner
 Thorkil Lodahl – Heimdal
 Søren Spanning – Valdemar den Store
 Peder Holm Johansen – Stenaldermand
 Erik Keiling – Bronzealderpræst
 Hanne Jacobsen – Stuepigen
 Bodil Stenstrup – Mor
 Martin Miehe-Renard – Far
 Elin Jagd – Bedstemor
 Helle Cecilie Jørgensen – Margrete 1.
 Aage Haugland – Harald Hårfager
 John Hahn-Petersen – Svend Tveskæg
 Jens Okking – Christian 4.
 Max Hansen – Frederik 7.
 Henning Jensen – Ludvig Holberg
 Nis Bank-Mikkelsen – Tycho Brahe
 Niels Olsen – Frederik Bramming
 Steen Springborg – Christian 1.
 Ole Ernst – Christian 2.
 Thomas Mørk – Hofnar
 Peter Larsen – H.C. Andersen
 Erik Kjersgaard – Saxo
 Nijas Ørnbak-Fjeldmose – Erik Klipping
 André Vridstoft & Lukas Kristensen – Børn
 Dennis Knudsen – Punker

Sange
Musikken til Alletiders Jul blev komponeret af Jan Rørdam med sangtekster af Miehe-Renard. Titelsangen blev sunget af Karen Gardelli, der også indtog rollen som Freja. Sangene blev udgivet på CD og MC i 1994. I forbindelse med genudsendelsen af julekalenderen i 2004 blev sangene genudgivet på CD i nyt cover.

Produktion
Alletiders Jul blev optaget i TV1 Productions studier i Taastrup ved København, og for at undgå for store omkostninger med at lave kulisser til de mange scener, der skulle finde sted i fortiden, forsøgte skaberne sig med at lave computer-generede kulisser. Skuespillerne og scenerne blev indspillet foran en blue screen og med hjælp fra eksperter fløjet ind fra USA, blev der skabt computer-generede kulisser som blev indsat i post-produktion.

Julekalenderen var den tredje julekalender i træk, som Miehe-Renard skrev til TV2 - de to øvrige var Skibet i Skilteskoven (1992) og Jul i Juleland (1993) - men i modsætning til disse havde Miehe-Renard frie hænder til at lave sin egen fortælling. Inspirationen til historien kom fra hans søn, Oliver, som havde spurgt ind til de forskellige danske juletraditioner og deres oprindelse. Udover inspiration til historien havde sønnen også givet inspiration til Pyrus-karakteren; et barn, der hele tiden kommer til at lave ballade, selvom han i virkeligheden vil det godt.

VHS- og DVD-udgivelser
Alletiders Jul blev udgivet på VHS i en redigeret udgave i 1995. I 2001 blev denne redigerede udgave også udgivet på DVD (grønt cover).

I forbindelse med genudsendelsen af julekalenderen i 2004 blev den nye version af serien med ny intro og 16:9-beskæring udgivet på DVD. Her var alle afsnit i fuld længde (gult cover).

I 2017 blev 2004-versionen af julekalenderen genudgivet på DVD i nyt cover (lilla cover).

Øvrige udgivelser
I 1994 udgav instruktør og manuskriptforfatter Miehe-Renard historien fra Alletiders Jul som børnebog.

I forbindelse med genudsendelsen af julekalenderen i 2004 blev der lavet et PC-spil, som kunne købes med ugebladet Ude & Hjemme.

Alletiders Juleudstilling
På Bundsbæk Mølle ved Skjern blev der i 2017, 2018 og 2019 lavet en udstilling om Pyrus, som bestod af originale kostumer og genstande fra Alletiders Jul, Alletiders Nisse og Alletiders Julemand.

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

Børneserier fra Danmark
TV2 familie-julekalendere
Julekalendere
Pyrus
Danske tv-serier fra 1990'erne

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act as an alternative to "tubes put in your ears"
open the spiritual centers and cleanse the auric bodies.
Most instructions direct the person undergoing the procedure to lie on his or her side. A collecting plate is placed above the ear, and the candle is inserted through a hole in the plate and into the ear canal. The candle is lit, and as the wick burns down, it is often trimmed. Some advocate using a toothpick to maintain a hole in the top of the hollow candle throughout the procedure. After the candle is blown out and removed, a cotton swab is used to gently remove visible earwax from the ear, and "ear oil" is often applied. Some practitioners place the still-hot candle in a bowl of water, and claim that everything in it which is not obviously beeswax is earwax, toxins, dead skin, drug residues, or remnants of past yeast infections, none of which has been verified. Nearly all package directions indicate that the ear will feel warm but not hot, and that the experience will be relaxing or even spiritual in nature.
One exhibition was doing ear candling for $30. The people selling this said that the suction created by the candle "cleared your mind and sinuses." I questioned them enough to establish that they meant this literally and believed the ear was an opening from the brain and sinuses. The woman running the booth stated, "It cleans the whole head, brains and all - they're all connected you know." The candling was performed on a table at the front of the booth, so the curious sight of a person lying there with a burning candle sticking out of his ear drew many spectators. During the procedure, a gray mixture of soot and wax drippings collected on a pie plate under the candle. It did not look like melted candle wax, but was quite foul in appearance. Customers were told that these were the "impurities" of which they had been cleansed, and many went around proudly showing them off, comparing their debris to that of others, and making knowing comments. The vendor also peddled "psychic readings."
After the show, Long bought a package of ear candles at a local health-food store and, with help from a friend, carefully followed the package directions. She found that the candling produced a hissing sound similar to that of a conch shell held against the ear, but much louder. However, the air inside her ear became so hot that she had to stop the experiment.
More recently, two investigators tested candles to see whether the wax accumulated after burning came entirely from the candle or included wax that came from the ear. To do this they burned candles with the tip (a) inside the ear, (b) outside the ear, so the wax dripped into a bowl of water, and (b) inside the ear but with a tube in place that would permit ear wax to move into the tube but would block candle wax from moving downward. They demonstrated that all residue originated from the candle and that no ear wax was removed from the ear .
The notion that the ear canal is connected to structures beyond the eardrum is false. A review of a good anatomy book should dispel this notion. The external ear canal, with an intact eardrum, is not connected to the brain, the sinuses targeted by the procedure (those above your eyes), or the Eustachian tubes (the passageways between the internal ear and the back of the throat). While some claim that the eardrum is porous and quickly allows impurities to pass through, this is untrue. The "impurities" that appear in the collected wax (usually on a paper plate or other collecting device) are nothing more than the ashes from the burnt wick and wax of the cone itself.
Candling poses several dangers, the most serious of which involve burning caused by the hot wax. Candle manufacturers claim that their candles will drip only down the outside of the ear, but shamefully few direct the user to hold the candle horizontally to prevent this. A 1996 survey of 144 ear, nose, and throat physicians, found that 14 had seen patients who had been harmed by ear candling, including at least 13 cases of external burns, 7 cases of ear canal obstruction with candle wax, and 1 perforated eardrum .
Another case was reported by The London Free Press, a Canadian newspaper. A woman who experienced stuffiness in the nose and ear pains while scuba diving went to a local health-food store and was referred to a "qualified" candler. During the "treatment," she felt an intense burning in her ear. At the emergency room, attempts to remove wax that had dripped from the candle onto her eardrum failed. Surgery was required, and a hole in her eardrum was discovered, which presumably was caused by the procedure. She recovered fully, and luckily her hearing was not affected. The practitioner apologized, compensated the woman, and stopped performing ear coning.
Alaska Fire Marshall Gary L. Powell has reported two instances of significant fires associated with ear candling., one of which led to the user's death. On January 27, 2005 a 59-year-old woman ignited her bedding when she dropped an ear candle that she was attempting to use the ear without any assistance. The candle ignited the bedding and quickly spread to curtains and other combustibles in the room. The woman did escaped but suffered an asthma attack and died in a hospital emergency room .
Europe Cosmetiques, St. Lawrence, Quebec, which had claimed that its products were effective for treating ear wax build-up, hearing problems, sinus congestion, frequent migraines, and ear aches.
Kencayd Consulting (aka Candela Ear Candles), Victoria, British Columbia, which had claimed that its products promoted better hearing, better lymphatic circulation, and pressure regulation.
Superior Ear, a division of J&P Holdings, Parson, British Columbia, which had claimed that its products promoted better hearing, better lymphatic circulation, and pressure regulation .
Purity of Life, Action, Ontario.
Adulterated - The article is a class III medical device for which no approved premarket approval application is in effect; and, the methods used in, and the facilities and controls used for, its manufacture, packing, and storage are not in conformity with current good manufacturing practice. Misbranded—The article's labeling represents and suggests that it is adequate and effective for reducing ear wax, fever, and infections associated with a ruptured ear drum, and that it may be used as a replacement for surgical tubes inserted in the ear, which representations and suggestions are contrary to fact. The article's labeling fails to bear adequate directions for use for the purposes for which it is intended. The article is dangerous to health when used in the manner recommended and suggested in the labeling. The article was manufactured, prepared, propagated, compounded, or processed in an establishment not duly registered and was not included in a required list; a notice or other required information was not provided as required prior to its introduction into interstate commerce .
The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), has determined that "Ear Candles" are medical devices as defined by Section 201(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (The Act). An Ear Candle is a hollow wax cylinder (about ten inches long) intended to remove excess ear wax. This is accomplished by lighting the top of the candle-like product, and allowing it to create a vacuum to draw wax and other impurities from the ear.
The product labeling is false and misleading in that there is no validated scientific evidence to support the efficacy of the product for its intended use. Also, the label of the product contains inadequate directions for use since adequate directions cannot be written for the product's purported use. CDRH considers the product to be dangerous when used according to its labeling, since the use of a lit candle in the proximity of a person's face would carry a high risk of causing potentially severe skin/hair burns and middle ear damage.
Additionally, there has been no premarket notification filed (510(k)) for these products and the products appear to have been manufactured in establishments not duly registered or listed with the . . . FDA .
In November 1998, the FDA warned Nature's Way, of West Columbia, South Carolina, that it would be illegal to continue marketing ear candles because they are unapproved devices that would be dangerous to use as suggested in its catalog .
Ear candles cannot be legally sold in Canada. The Medical Devices Regulations of Canada's Food and Drug Act states that medical device of this type must be licensed by Therapeutic Products Programme of Health Canada before the product can be sold. No licenses have been granted for this product. Some promoters, in an attempt to avoid medical device regulations, advertise ear candles as being "for entertainment only". However, Health Canada considers that this product is sold for medical purposes, because there is no other reasonable use for ear candles. Canada has issued directives prohibiting the importation ear candles .
In 2010, the Minnesota Board of Nursing revoked the nursing license of Shirley J. St. Germain, R.N. Documents in the case state that (a) in 1997 she was placed on indefinite suspension because of mental health issues; (b) in 2006, the Minnesota Department of Health learned that she was advertising and practicing ear candling/coning under the name "Shirley Vedder (nurse)"; (c) In 2007, the Department ordered her to stop doing ear candling or coning and calling herself a nurse; and (d) in 2008, she violated the 2007 order [10,11].
In 2010, the FDA sent warning letters to 15 companies: King Cone International; Indian Mountain Center; Bobalee Originals Manufacturing; International Ear Candle, LLC; Home Remedies Solutions; Harmony Cone; A..J.'s Candles Inc; Wholistic Health Solutions; Wally's Natural Products Inc.; Body Tools; Health, Wealth, & Happiness; White Egret, Inc.; Brennan & McCoy; Amasha; Unisource; and Herbs, Heirlooms and Homebrew. Some had promoted the products for use in children as well as adults.
Despite these actions, ear candles are still widely available through the Internet and at health-food stores. From 1998 through 2005, the Awareness Institute of Lake Wales, Florida, not only sold products but even offered an inexpensive correspondence course leading to "certification as an earconolgist."
For most people, ear wax moves along the ear canal and eventually makes it to the outside, taking with it any accumulated dirt or other matter. Compacted ear wax should be removed by a physician or other health professional using legitimate instruments. Candling is both ineffective and dangerous.
Flyer mailed to health-food retailers in September 1998 by White Egret, Inc., of Dallas, Texas.
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Dr. Roazen practices emergency medicine in New York City.
After undergoing ear coning, I was amazed when the remains of the cone was cut open, and revealed what appeared to be cerumin from my ears. However, I later discovered that it was nothing more than melted wax from the burned-down cone itself.
To investigate, I used an old insulin bottle that had had the rubber on the top. Since the rubber was gone, I used furnace tape to complete my experiment. I placed an ear cone into the opening at the top of the bottle which was approximately two and a half inches long and about an inch in diameter. I then taped around the top of the bottle and around the smaller end of the ear cone to hold it in place at the top of the bottle. I made sure that no air could get in or out. The bottle was laid on its side and the ear cone was set at 30 to 40 degrees. I then lit the candle at its largest end and, snipping off burned remains, proceeded to watch it burn down to about 4 inches from the bottle, at which time I pulled it from the bottle and extinguished the flame. I then cut it open length-wise and observed the contents in the cone tube. It had the appearance, color and texture of ear wax, and looked like ear wax, and yet was not inserted into any ear whatsoever.
While the candle burned, no smoke went into the bottle or came out of the top of the candle. So my experiment showed that the smoke would not enter the ear at all, and the heat some people feel is actually the heat from the flame itself. Most of the ear cone packages state that they are for entertainment purposes only. People who claim they have healing properties are deceiving the public.
I wish I had found your website earlier! I too used an ear candle and had disastrous results! An hour after candling, I developed a terrible earache and experienced hearing loss. My eardrums and ear canals felt like they had horrible burns.
I waited a week, in hopes that the ear pain would stop and my hearing would return to normal. When this didn't happen, I went to a see an Ear Doctor. My eardrums and canals were extremely red, irritated and burned. Wax from the ear candle was found on one of my eardrums and had to be scrapped and suctioned off at the doctor's office. A very painful procedure on sensitive burnt ears! An ear infection had also set in, requiring prescriptions drugs of a decongestant, an antibiotic and a steroid.
I had temporary hearing loss for several weeks due to one use of ear candles. My normal hearing is excellent. After using the ear candles a hearing test showed that my hearing had dropped to below normal hearing levels! After a month of treatment and a lot of ear pain, my hearing finally returned to it's normal level.
I hope that this dangerous product is banned so that other people are not also harmed by them!
This page was revised on May 12, 2010.


SAW019771 SCOTLAND (1948). Selkirk, general view, showing High Street and Elm Park. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-east. This image has been produced from a print.
Title [SAW019771] Selkirk, general view, showing High Street and Elm Park. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-east. This image has been produced from a print.
Halliwell's House museum is here, which tells the story of Selkirk over the years. This narrow, shadowy, cobbled close is typical of how much of Selkirk would have looked during the eighteenth century. There would have been a variety of trades undertaken here. At one time a wig maker lived here, and in later years an ironmonger's shop was set up. going through the pend takes you to Market Place.
A cobbled oblong marks the site of the Mercat Cross.
The Pant Well was built in 1898, though there had been a well here since 1706. It is decorated with coats of arms and the head of Queen Victoria. The names of the local men who fought in the Boer war are marked on a plaque.
The Town Arms is a Victorian pub built in 1876. It is decorated with carvings and the head of Bacchus the god of wine.
A plaque here records the site of the house where the Marquis of Montrose spent the night before the battle of Philiphaugh in September 1645. The battle was fought not far from Selkirk, and there is an exhibition at the battlefield.
The library used to be Selkirk's prison. You can still see the bars on the windows.
Above the door at number 9 is a small plaque of a thistle, the logo of the Caledonian Insurance Company. Before there was a fire brigade people would pay different companies to rescue their houses in the event of a fire. They would only save the property if the owner had paid their insurance. The plaque was a sign to show that the building was insured.
In Market Place is the Scott Monument. It stands on the site of the Old Tolbooth, which was the town hall and prison. This would have been the market place for the medieval town. The Town Hall was built in 1803 to replace the Tolbooth. Sir Walter Scott was the Sheriff here for thirty years from 1799-1829.
The County Hotel used to be a coaching inn. Many famous people have stayed here including Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg and the Duke of Wellington. Above the door is a statue of a champion greyhound which belonged to an owner in the 19th century.
The famous Borders Artist Tom Scott RSA was born here in 1854. He is buried in the Auld Kirk graveyard. There is a bronze bust of his head on the wall.
The Victoria Halls were built in 1895 and is the town's community hall.
The Buttercup Dairy on the High Street has a beautiful tiled entrance. It used to be an inn called the Swan. There is a carving of a swan on the front of the building. French officers were kept here as prisoners during the Napoleonic war.
Outside the Victoria Halls is the Flodden Memorial. It shows A man called Fletcher who was the only survivor out of 80 Selkirk men to return from the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
Here is a statue to local explorer Mungo Park who explored West Africa and died in 1805 trying to find the source of the River Niger.
This cottage is probably the oldest building in the street. It is made from rough stones and would have had a thatched roof.
The Masonic Hall was built in 1887. It is built with different materials to most of the buildings in Selkirk. The materials were brought from elsewhere.
The Lady Well is a reminder of where the people in Selkirk would have got their water before plumbing was invented.
On Back Row there is a marriage stone from an old house that stood on this spot. It says F M T B 1700. It was made by an apprentice mason when he got married.
On a newer house at this crossroads you can see a statue of a souter - the Scots word for a shoemaker. Shoemaking was an important trade in Selkirk in the past. People from Selkirk are called Souters.
The bell chain on the gate to the Auld Kirk has this penny from 1914 attached to it.
There are many interesting gravestones in the kirkyard. The ancestors of the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt are buried here.
Auld Kirk. A church has stood at this spot since 1152AD. William Wallace is said to have been named Guardian of Scotland here in 1298. This is the ruin of a church which was built in 1747. It was the parish church until 1747.
Grieve's snack attack. Home of the Selkirk Bannock.
This image of Selkirk was enlarged and placed on the wall in Rowland's. The young people were asked to help identify places shown.
Click on "See image record" to see what the young people found out.


CEDAR GROVE, Wis. (AP) _ More than two dozen vehicles crashed on a foggy highway Friday morning, killing 10 people in a pile of charred and twisted metal in the deadliest auto accident in state history. Thirty-six others were injured, several critically.
There was so much burned, tangled wreckage from the 7:30 a.m. accident along Interstate 43 that it was dark by the time rescuers had finished searching through the four smoldering piles some 60 miles north of Milwaukee.
"I can't even describe how awful that scene is out there," Sheboygan County Sheriff Loni Koenig said.
Some victims were burned beyond recognition and authorities said it may take DNA analysis to identify them. All 10 were believed to be adults.
The blaze was fueled by gasoline, diesel fuel, oil and debris, as well as toilet paper and other paper products one of the trucks carried, State Patrol Sgt. John Jones said. One vehicle carried a portable propane fuel tank that exploded.
"This scene looked like a junkyard fire," Jones said, adding that the biggest pileup left a scene resembling a bomb crater.
Jones said seven people were in critical condition at area hospitals, one was in serious condition and 28 others had minor injuries.
Families anxiously awaited word about missing relatives.
"My brother didn't show up for work today," said Todd Behling of his brother, Eric. "He would have called. That's why I'm not too hopeful right now. The trouble is, no news is bad news right now."
The crashes happened about 7:30 a.m. on both sides of the interstate as heavy fog engulfed the road just west of Lake Michigan. One after another vehicles plowed into each other, and at least eight burst into flames.
Jones said visibility was "next to nothing" when the first officers arrived.
Jones said the crash may have started with a two-car accident whose drivers then slowed to pull over, causing cars behind to brake. That began a series of chain-reaction collisions.
"We have vehicles that have been double stacked _ vehicles on top of vehicles, vehicles underneath the tractor-trailer unit," Jones said.
A semitrailer cab burned down to its frame and wheels had a car underneath it. Two pickup trucks looked as though they were fused together.
Larry Demeny, 45, said he was driving to Milwaukee at 65 mph in his minivan when he slowed down in the fog. He said he saw the underside of a sports utility vehicle and veered into a ditch.
"Everybody behind just kept piling up," Demeny said. "It was kind of eerie. You couldn't see very far. You would just hear brakes squeal and then the sound of metal clashing."
Jim Schwiner told The Sheboygan Press that he and other uninjured motorists did their best to help people trapped in the wreckage.
"We tried to help as many as we could. You could hear people screaming," Schwiner said. "I heard someone _ in the wreckage _ yelling for help but I couldn't tell where it was coming from. It was so hot, it was almost unbearable and we couldn't get to the person."
At a victims' information center at the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department, volunteers from the Red Cross, Salvation Army and area churches took more than 500 calls and talked with people missing loved ones.
Sandy Janquart came to the center with her daughter-in-law, Ellen Janquart, looking for her son, Daniel. He usually travels the interstate from Sheboygan to Milwaukee, where he works at an advertising agency.
"It's a lot of chaos," Sandy Janquart said. "We just want everyone to pray."
The previous record for fatalities in a Wisconsin traffic accident was nine on May 30, 1937, Wisconsin State Patrol Lt. Nick Scorcio said.


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Before America Had Witch Trials, Europe Had Werewolf Trials
A few of the accused may have been actual pedophiles or serial killers, but many were beggars, hermits or recent émigrés who were tortured into confessions.
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Some 200 years before the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, courts in Europe were convicting men—and some women—of transforming into werewolves and mutilating and eating children.
The punishments were sometimes as gruesome as the alleged crimes. In Germany in 1589, executioners strapped accused werewolf Peter Stumpp to a cart wheel, removed his skin with hot pinchers and chopped off his head before burning his body at the stake. Stumpp's head, attached to a wooden pole carved into the likeness of a wolf, was later displayed as a warning to others tempted to consort with the Devil.
Werewolf trials took place in parts of Europe throughout the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, driven by superstition, religious and political clashes and the desire to find scapegoats for harsh conditions. Many of the accused were beggars, hermits or recent émigrés to the areas. Many confessed to being werewolves and committing heinous crimes, but only after being tortured. Historians suspect some suffered from delusions or weren't intelligent enough to know what they were admitting to. A few may have been actual pedophiles or serial killers, but the historical records are fragmented and exaggerated. Centuries later, it's difficult to untangle folklore from real evidence or what people believed to be real at the time.
"The idea of being consumed by animals, in this world or the next, remained a popular anxiety throughout the Middle Ages," writes Aleksander Pluskowski, a medieval zooarcheologist at the University of Reading in the 2015 book Werewolf Histories.
READ MORE: Werewolf Legends
Early Werewolf Lore
Lycaon transforms into a wolf. In Greek mythology, Lycaon (king of Arcadia) tested Zeus by serving him the roasted flesh of his son Nyctimus, in order to see whether Zeus was truly omniscient.
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The concept of humans transforming into wolves goes back millennia. In the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia in 2100 B.C., the hero abandons a love interest when he learns that she turned an ex-lover into a werewolf. In Greek mythology, King Lycaon of Arcadia tests Zeus's omnipotence by feeding him disguised human remains and is turned into a werewolf as punishment. (His name is the root of the term lycanthropy—used for both changing into a werewolf and the delusion of being one, a recognized psychiatric condition for several centuries.)
Werewolves also figured into the folklore of the Middle Ages, but they were usually benign characters who shape-shifted into beasts against their will and were desperate to return to human form.
Charges that real people could be menacing werewolves surfaced as part of the witch trials that swept through parts of Europe in the 1400s. Officials in the Valais region of Switzerland conducted large-scale prosecutions, blaming witches for crop failures, lameness, blindness, infertility and impotence—as well as adopting wolf forms and mutilating cattle. According to some accounts, several hundred men and women were convicted and burned at the stake in Valais starting in 1428, often with a sack of gunpowder around their necks. Any land they owned automatically transferred to the local vassal of the King, which may have spurred the accusations.
READ MORE: What Was the Beast of Gévaudan?
Werewolf Trials: From Papal Inquisitors to Secular Courts
Werewolf beheaded and two witches burned at the stake by the Inquisition.
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From the Alps, werewolf prosecutions spread to Franche-Comté, in Burgundy, a densely forested area where villagers and livestock were easy prey for actual wolves. There, as elsewhere in Europe, political and religious upheavals heightened tensions. And Christianity was struggling to overcome regional pagan traditions, making fertile ground for fanciful accusations, according to Rolf Schulte, a German expert on witch and werewolf hunts, in his 2009 book Man as Witch.
In 1521, inquisitors appointed by the Pope presided over several trials of alleged werewolfery. Two shepherds, Pierre Burgot and Michel Verdun, confessed to making a pact with the Devil in exchange for food: meeting with a man in black who gave them an ointment that turned them into werewolves, then attending midnight witch gatherings and hunting and eating children. Both were convicted and burned at the stake, along with a third who refused to confess.
Subsequent werewolf trials often featured similar details: men in black, a magic salve, belts or skins that turned the accused into wolves, attending witch ceremonies late at night and going on bloodthirsty rampages. Supposed eyewitnesses testified to seeing huge, glowing eyes and long, pointed teeth and beasts running with superhuman speed.
Contesting the Church's authority, the secular Parliament in Dole soon took charge of werewolf prosecutions, at one point encouraging citizens "to assemble armed with clubs, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and other cudgels...to hunt down the named werewolves where they might find, catch, shoot or kill them," according to an Edict of Parliament cited in Shulte's book.
READ MORE: Beyond Salem: 6 Lesser-Known Witch Trials
Doctors Credit Satan With Altering 'Body Humors'
A patrol in the eastern French town of St. Claude tracked down Gilles Garnier, an immigrant living in poverty in the forest, and accused him of mutilating children near Dole in 1573. After torture, Garnier confessed to killing four children and feeding their bodies to his family on a Friday—a double sacrilege given the Church's edict against eating meat on Fridays. Garnier was burned at the stake, despite some doubts that he could have physically traveled 60 kilometers away where some of the missing children lived.
St. Claude's Grand Judge, Henri Boguet, became convinced that a large group of witches and werewolves was terrorizing the community and ordered multiple arrests and prosecutions, with the charges often used interchangeably. He also authored treatises on various forms of demons, including werewolves, and in 1598 alone, pronounced 17 death sentences. But he had to reconcile his legal views with the Church's official position that God alone could transform humans and the Devil could only create illusions. Noting that he had seen confessed werewolves snarling and prancing around the courtroom on all fours, Boguet concluded they were clearly under the Devil's spell and thus equally deserving of execution, according to Shulte.
Courts sometimes called in physicians to testify. A common medical view was that confessed werewolves suffered from melancholia, a kind of depression that included mania and delusions. Some doctors gave the Devil his due, however, and opined that Satan could have caused such ailments by altering body humors—"a line of reasoning that was impossible to disprove and accepted by the majority of physicians," according to German medical historian Nadine Metzger.
Modern medical experts theorize that some accused werewolves could have suffered from porphyria, which causes sensitivity to light, reddish teeth and psychosis; or hypertrichosis, a hereditary condition that manifests in excessive hair growth. Lycanthropy—believing oneself to be a werewolf—might have been brought on by deliberately or unwittingly consuming hallucinogenic herbs, mushrooms or folk concoctions.
READ MORE: How the Salem Witch Trials Influenced the American Legal System
Werewolves Lose Their Bite
Werewolf trials continued sporadically in the 17th century in Germany, the Netherlands and eastern Europe, particularly in isolated rural areas. But gradually, the educated and elite stopped believing in the Devil or animal transformation. In 1692 in Livonia, Sweden, an 80-year old man named Thiess was laughed out of court when he professed to being a werewolf and entering Hell three times a year to battle witches and devils and insure a good harvest. He was later convicted of practicing folk magic, sentenced to flogging and banished for life.
As the threat posed by real wolves in Europe slowly vanished due to industrialization and population growth, Metzger writes, even the delusion of being a werewolf was gradually replaced by other forms of psychosis.
How many people were tried and convicted of being werewolves in all? Several scholarly papers report that 30,000 were executed as werewolves in France alone between 1520 and 1630. But Dutch historian Willem de Blécourt traced the origin of that figure to a 1611 book by Pierre de Lancre, another zealous werewolf prosecutor, noting that it referred to all the inhabitants of the Labourd region of France. That's because De Lancre believed that every family practiced witchcraft in some form.
De Blécourt concludes, "The total number of prosecuted werewolves in Europe probably did not exceed several hundred."
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Houghton Festival is the electronic music weekender the UK deserves: Review
Craig Richards' inaugural festival is a jaw-dropping visual masterpiece set to the perfect soundtrack…
Rob McCallum
Saturday, August 19, 2017 - 23:56
When news first broke of Houghton Festival last December, it looked a little too good to be true. Curated by Craig Richards, the long-serving resident and musical director at Fabric, and produced by the team behind Gottwood — itself widely revered as one of the UK's best electronic music festivals — it had a lot to deliver in order to live up to its billing.
Richards — winner of Best Resident at DJ Mag's last Best of British awards for his services to Fabric as a resident — was the man famously responsible for first bringing Ricardo Villalobos to spin on British soil, but has always been the anti-star, preferring to let his music do his talking. However the wide-ranging contacts he's built through his near 20-year legacy at the EC1 venue became even clearer when looking at Houghton's rich line-up.
Villalobos is (perhaps obviously) present, but not only in DJ form, also performing alongside Max Loderbauer and Claudio Puntin for the UK debut of their Vilod project. Elsewhere, live performances from Tony Allen with his tribute to Art Blakey, Henry Wu presents the Kamaal Williams Ensemble, Radioactive Man and Hercules & Love Affair show the strength of the bill before you've even looked at the selectors on offer.
But the brilliance of the music programme is clear even to those that didn't venture to the inaugural Houghton Festival. What wasn't is how the location would shape up. Running their other festival hidden away in the woods by the Welsh coastline on the private Carreglwyd Estate in Anglesey — an area that won the accolade of Lonely Planet's 'Greatest Region on Earth 2012' — it was clear Gottwood would never go by halves for Houghton. And taking place at a remote location on an estate in Norfolk that sits alongside one of the royal family's residencies around a large lake, the festival site is not overly dissimilar to their idyllic north-west Wales location.
But it's clear purely finding an idyllic location for a party isn't enough for the Gottwood team. During the day, the lush green backdrop sets a perfect ambience, but once the sun goes down it feels like the they must have been on site; tweaking, tuning and testing every minor detail for weeks before the event in order to deliver what is a visual masterpiece. Not only is the production of each stage impeccable, but the installations and work that's gone into the areas between the parties fuses music with art and sculpture at every turn — and sitting on the deck chairs by the lake watching three stages go off around the lake is almost as exhilarating as being at the front of the party.
Houghton also benefits from a rare UK 24-hour licence, which means when the music fires up at 9am on Friday, Richards delivers a programme of almost 70 hours of non-stop music through to the early hours of Monday. Because of that, DJs play extended sets, multiple times through the weekend — often delivering curated sets around separate themes — and b2bs all programmed through sunrise and sunset. Couple that with a series of bespoke soundsystems and the result is quite simply jaw-dropping.
Split into nine music stages, each area is built to encompass its own vibe. The Quarry is a huge natural amphitheatre complete with enough lasers to deliver a sensory overload, whilst the Warehouse is a semi-indoor space more suited to techier sounds. The Pavilion — probably now one of this writer's favourite places to party on the planet — is a wooden structure overlooking the lake, set into the wood with a front row seat for the stunning sunrise behind the booth.
And it's the attention to detail that adds to Houghton's undeniable charm. Terminus, lovingly known as the 'secret stage', isn't accessible by foot, and anyone wishing to see after-party sets from Craig Richards b2b Ricardo Villalobos or Margaret Dygas must wait at the bus stop in the heart of the site for the train that does return trips. Elsewhere, Brilliant Corners' travelling audiophile soundsystem offers selectors the chance to drop tracks on a more intimate dancefloor, whilst bars on site offer a delectable range of lagers and ales.
Despite only being in its first year, Houghton seemed to quickly develop a distinct sound too, with DJs willing to drop tracks that sound like they've been in their box for some time but with the need for the right setting to play them. Midland travels through tripped out new wave on the Pavilion, whilst the Romanian pairing of Raresh and Rhadoo play eight hours on the Warehouse to bring in Saturday — the former delivering an entrancing set of wonky pared-back house and minimal grooves. Ivan Smagghe b2b Vladimir Ivkovic drop a masterclass of kraut sounds and bent minimal electro as the party peaks on Saturday, whilst UK house mainstay Tristan da Cunha seems to do his best to play every stage, delivering each set with aplomb.
There are minor teething issues that could be addressed for next year, but still the kind you might expect a festival to face in its fifth year rather than its first. Queues to the main areas can occasionally kill the flow of shifting across such a packed programme of music, and, after precision sound for the first three days, it's clear Houghton exceeded their sound limit at some stage over the weekend. After Gerd Janson delivers a fittingly celebratory set as the sun goes down on the festival's final night, Sunday sees sound capped on some of the bigger stages come the early hours. This means the festival feels like it's slowly turned down to silence on areas like the Quarry, rather than reaching a fitting crescendo.
But despite these minor flaws, the result at Houghton is something that probably is too good to be true. It's an event that looks certain to affirm Richards' place as an icon of electronic music (were an affirmation at all necessary), with the Fabric resident seemingly doing his best to stop by every artist on every stage, as well as playing five extended sets across the weekend. And it's easy to see why he doesn't want to miss a beat — looking around at his inaugural festival, it genuinely feels like it was one of those 'I was there' moments. Adjectives are often over used in music journalism, but Houghton is genuinely nothing short of magical.
Want more? You can check out 29 photos that prove Houghton Festival was a jaw-dropping visual masterpiece and 43 top tracks that prove the inaugural Houghton Festival was a crate-diggers paradise.
(Photo: Giles Smith, Gobinder Jhitta & Caroline Faruolo)
Rob McCallum is DJ Mag's deputy digital editor. Follow him on Twitter here.
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Q: how dealing with some time series in LSTM model? I am a new keras user and I would like to easily understand how to build an lstm model.
In my data, I have lot of users, which have many sequences, as below :
user 1 :
         X            Labels
    sequence 1   [ 0, 1 , 0, 1]
    sequence 2   [ 0, 1 , 0, 1]
    sequence 3   [ 0, 1 , 0, 1
    sequence 4          ?

user 2 :
        X             labels
    sequence 1   [ 0, 1 , 0, 1]
    sequence 2   [ 0, 1 , 0, 1]
    sequence 3          ?

Each user has sequences series, but necessarily the same lenght series. And each series correspond to a multi label series.
My goal is to predict the label for the next sequence of each user, with considering the last sequences (as time series).
I succed that, when I use only one user. Indeed, I make an lstm input like
(Batch size, time step, Features) where batch size equal to one because I have one user, and time step is equal to the number of sequences and features is equal to the sequences lenght.
model_rnn = Sequential()
model_rnn.add(LSTM(20, return_sequences=True, input_shape=(None, 20)))
model_rnn.add(TimeDistributedDense(nb_classes))
model_rnn.add(Activation("sigmoid"))
optimizer = RMSprop(lr=0.01,decay=1e-6)
model_rnn.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy', optimizer=optimizer)
X_train = X_train.reshape((1,50,20))
y_train = y_train.reshape((1,50,109))
model_rnn.fit(X_train,y_train, batch_size=1, epochs=200)

I have two questions:
Is it important, when I fit the model, that the shuffle=False ?
and Should I put the stateful option equal to True when I define the LSTM?
Already, I got a good performance for one user. I would like to use the same approach on all the users. But I don't see how I can build the input for all the users.
For example, I want to learn the old user sequences and predict his next sequence,
Will I be forced to train an LSTM for each user? Or I can lean the time sequence serie of each user in ONE LSTM ?
Especially if I use one LSTM and I would like to predict the next sequence of one user, how the model could predict the good sentence like it doesn't know this own old sequence on the training data.
Note, it is important to consider that the sequences users are independent between them.
Thank you for your help

A: Is it important, when I fit the model, that the shuffle=False ?
No, it is not important unless you set the stateful to True. See your next question's answer below.

Should I put the stateful option equal to True when I define the LSTM?
A LSTM has cells and is therefore stateful by definition (not the same stateful meaning as used in Keras). Fabien Chollet gives this definition of statefulness:

stateful: Boolean (default False). If True, the last state for each
  sample at index i in a batch will be used as initial state for the
  sample of index i in the following batch.

So, if you set the LSTM as stateless in Keras, the cell states are reset at each sequence. With the stateful mode set, all the states are propagated to the next batch. It means that the state of the sample located at index i, X_{i} will be used in the computation of the sample X_{i+bs} in the next batch, where bs is the batch size (no shuffling).
Please note, by default, Keras shuffles (permutes) the samples X and the dependencies between X_{i} and X_{i+1} are lost. So, if you set the stateful option to True, make sure you set the shuffle=False.

I want to learn the old user sequences and predict his next sequence, Will I be forced to train an LSTM for each user? Or I can lean the time sequence serie of each user in ONE LSTM?
I believe, you need one LSTM since it worked well for one user. You can consider all the sequences for all users as your training data as you are doing for one user.

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Giving Tuesday is celebrated on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving and the day following "Cyber Monday." It was established as a day of philanthropy in the midst of holiday buying. Everyone is encourage to remember those who are less fortunate during the time when we our counting our blessings and purchasing gifts. Once again, we are celebrating Give Mercy Day as a way for our supporters to share their blessings with Clay County neighbors in need. On our website and on Facebook, you can #GiveMercy and share your reasons for giving. Just add #MyGivingStory or send an Email with your thoughts to info@MercySupportServices.org.


Scrappy Therapy: Studio J gone Wild!
One of the newer features of Studio J is the ability to add photos, change the photo sizes, and moving the photos around!
I covered the circles with olive paper and then used the Stickease to create a border of sorts with the ornaments.
I enlarged the photo on the far left and moved the two smaller photos and added a photo of the same size on the left page.
On the right page I added a photo well in the journaling block.
The date was also added using a journaling box.
I am planning on adding a string of some sort through the line of ornaments when I get the layout in the mail.
The used retired Jingle papers and the Stickease available with the Jingle papers! It is so neat to use the retired paper and more stickers than the Stickease would have had.
This post has a lot more of this particular layout to see more variations.
Love this ... it makes me want to get on Studio J and copy your idea! Studio J rocks and you're proving it right here!!


Continuing the approximately monthly release cycle for new builds, DIgSILENT GmbH released PowerFactory b514. As usual with new builds there are several enhancements over previous versions. The new build can be downloaded from the support website at www.digsilent.de/_support/.


Pavia is a university town and it offers a unique welcome to students. The University of Pavia, UNIPV, on the other hand is renown for the high quality of its teaching and for its international atmosphere.
The UNIPV college system offers more than 2000 places to students every year. Living in a college means having access not only to a place to sleep and study but also to an amazing experience which is fondly remembered by all who experienced.
Many activities enrich the students' life such as theatre, music and sport (most important are athletics and rowing but it is possible to practice many sports from beginners level to professional).
The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pavia is one of the best Italian Engineering school.


A hot cup of organic coffee prepared from organic coffee beans is a scrumptious way to start your day. Organic coffee beans offer a healthy alternative to the conventional low cost coffee and this is why it has become a most sought after choice among coffee lovers all over the world.
Pesticides used in the production of coffee beans are known to cause cancer and many other harmful diseases. With a regular coffee intake the pesticides enter into the human body and can cause significant damage to the nervous and reproductive systems. When you begin drinking natural coffee you may be able to counter all these health risks. The stimulating agent in organic coffee beans helps in improving metabolism, thus resulting in fast weight loss. Also, it is high in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. The risks of certain types of cancer and diabetes are also considerably lowered when you consume natural coffee daily. As it is a natural pain reliever, it provides relief in various pains.
Conventional coffee planters in an effort to raise production of cheap coffee clear large forest areas thereby causing deforestation. As a result, the nutrients from the soil disappear and the ground water supply dries up. Organic coffee is grown with the help of shade tree farming and this ensures that the delicate ecosystem is not affected. As it is manufactured without pesticides, no harmful chemicals are present in the coffee seeds and it is considered completely safe for consumption.
Farmers who grow organic coffee beans receive support from cooperatives in order to afford the high cost of production. This helps organic coffee growers to maintain their livelihood. The farms are certified so that all farming principles are followed to ensure chemical free coffee beans.
There are many coffee companies out there who offer popular organic variety for sale so that you can make the choice depending on the specific taste preference. The organic coffee is available both in pre-grounded and whole bean form and you can make your own personal choice. The dark roasted beans offer a higher level of antioxidants and are the preferred choice because of their ample health benefits.
If you want to avoid the downfalls of drinking conventional coffee it is best to switch to organic coffee. Find the labels of coffee beans available to determine that they are organic. Drinking two to three cups of this coffee regularly can help you stay active and healthy.


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Inspections Quotes
Quotations list about inspections, appraisal and appraisals captions citing Tacitus, Henry David Thoreau and Ambrose Bierce sayings.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
— Henry David Thoreau inspections quote
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
— Edward Young
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
— Arthur Bloch
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.
If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
— William Golding
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time;
and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!
— Sophia Bush
Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.
— Martin Sheen
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
— Cecil Beaton
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
— Nancy Pelosi
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
— Edward Livingston
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
— Douglas Feith
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
— Mike Rogers
We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.
— Mark Kelly
In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
— Jim Gerlach
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I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders.
I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.
— Henry Rollins
On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
— P. J. O'Rourke
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
— Kenneth Grahame


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Liu Hongcao (, , died 938) was an imperial prince of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Southern Han.

He was the ninth son of emperor Liu Yan and received the title of Prince of Wan (萬王) in 932.

In 937, Dương Đình Nghệ, the ruler of Tĩnh Hải quân, was killed by his general Kiều Công Tiễn. Ngô Quyền, who was Nghệ's son-in-law, mobilized his army against Tiễn. Tiễn requested help from Southern Han. Liu Yan decided to annex Tĩnh Hải quân, so he granted Liu Hongcao the title Prince of Jiao (交王, Giao vương, "Prince of Giao Chỉ"), and dispatched him to Vietnam. Liu Yan himself commanded a follow-up army. In the next year, the army of Southern Han was defeated by Ngô Quyền in Bạch Đằng River, and Hongcao was killed in the battlefield. Hearing the news, Liu Yan cried bitterly and withdrew his own fleet.

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Sanford and son truck wikipedia
June Learn how and when to remove this template message. Fred's in love and engaged to be married, but not if Lamont can help it. The Sanfords haven't been paying their bills and now find themselves trapped in their home in a standoff with a process server and a collection agency ready to repossess their unpaid furniture. LLC on December 1, Wilson lived in Conroe, Texas for many years untilwhen he became an ordained ministerfulfilling his childhood vow. While Fred and Lamont are digging a garden, oil is discovered underground at the junk yard. Lamont musters the courage to pop the question to Janet.
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Fred G. Sanford is a fictional character portrayed by actor/comedian Redd Foxx on the – NBC sitcom Sanford and Son When Lamont asks him what he does all day while he's out on the truck, Fred often says, "Coordinate.".
Fred spends much of his free time watching television having an affinity for daikaiju films such as the Godzilla series and drinking a favorite cheap wine called Ripple.
As an astrologer tells Lamont that as a Libra he must avoid strife and arguing, hypochondriac Fred is home suffering from gas after eating eight-day-old collard greens.
Fred and Esther dislike each other intensely.
Fred and Esther called a temporary truce, of sorts, in the episode "My Fair Esther. He utters this when something good happens or he is in a pleasant mood.
Fred and Lamont are applying for a loan to finance their purchase of Julio's former property when a pair of robbers burst into the bank.
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Janet also has a young son, Roger Edward Crawford.
Often, Hoppy incorrectly uses ' jive ' slang, which Smitty corrects — e. Lamont sometimes receives his comeuppance for being disdainful of his father's habits and ways.
Fred is wounded while witnessing a mob hit and is hospitalized under police protection until he can identify Mr. Jealous of Lamont's friendship with Julio, Fred tries to be a buddy to his son.
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Lamont still tries to leave, but when the truck won't start, decides to stay with Sanford and Son after realizing he has no money and nowhere to live.
But will Fred be left holding the dead man's hand?
In the last episode of the series, Fred earns his high school diploma, and is the valedictorian of his graduating class. A couple of con men sucker Fred into running a rigged lucky number contest for which the crooks secretly hold the winning ticket. Christian Film Database.
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For a month Fred and Bubba have been sneaking out at night, concerning family and friends and leading Donna to fear that Fred has fallen for another woman. LLC on December 1,
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Aunt Esther and her family had opposed Fred's marrying Elizabeth from the very beginning, and Fred and Esther continue their mutual animosity unabated, despite the best efforts of Lamont. One constant with Lamont particularly in the second season is that he is always trying to find new ways to move up in the world and away from the junk business, like his British counterpart Harold Steptoe played by Harry H.
Lamont suffers buyer's remorse after the pool table he gave Fred for his birthday brings the boys over for billiards every day while Fred's work and girlfriend Donna go neglected.
After the series was canceled ina short-lived continuation featuring the supporting characters titled Sanford Arms aired.
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Although Foxx was still absent for production of the first three shows of Season 4, NBC aired his return as the season premiere and delayed showing the previously taped episodes. Another recurring joke is his poor vision; whenever he gets ready to make a phone call, he opens a drawer under the phone and pulls out several pairs of glasses to help him see the phone dial and tries each one on. Categories : Fictional characters introduced in Fictional junk dealers Sanford and Son characters Fictional African-American people Fictional characters from Missouri.
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Fred invites B. Misunderstandings abound and compound when Fred's friends try to honor his fortieth year in business with a secret surprise. When leaving the Sanford home, she often exclaims "oh glory! Esther Winfield Andersonknown and feared as Aunt Estheris a fictional character from the television series, Sanford and Son. Fred is determined to break Choo-Choo Rabinowitz's official world record for the longest amount of time staying awake.
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Judoka Legend Anton Geesink's "My Championship Judo" Part 3: Sasae-Tsuri-Komi-Ashi
Sasae Tsuri Komi Ashi 1, from the book "My Championship Judo"
In the second half of the 1950s, Anton Geesink made a commitment to improving his judo technique by training in Japan for 3-month periods. One of the techniques he learned in Japan was Sasae-Tsuri-Komi-Ashi, which literally means blocking, propping, lifting and pulling. Geesink called it the Lifting Leg Block, and it became yet another weapon in the Dutchman's arsenal.
In the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, that is the technique Geesink used to handily defeat Ted Boronovskis of Australia in the semi-finals of the open weight competition.
Here is how Geesink explained this technique in his 1966 judo manual, My Championship Judo.
From Shizen-Tai I firmly advance my right foot to my opponent's left leg and place this foot against the inside of his left foot almost as if I am trying to lift his leg. My opponent's natural reflex will then be to raise that leg. My first aim has been attained: he has shifted his full weight on to one leg (his right) and on that leg I am now going to concentrate my attack. (in the picture) you can see how I have moved in; my body strongly inclined to the right, my right foot on the inside of his left foot; he has instinctively lifted his left foot (Picture 1).
Pressing my body tightly against his, I now raise my left arm towards me, thus pulling him forward, and – as with any other throw – place the elbow of my right arm against his left side. At the same time I put my left sole against the outside of his right ankle, my leg being practically straight. Thus his full weight is shifted towards his toes and he is, therefore completely off balance. By pulling my body still a little further to the left and by continuing to prop his right foot with my stretched left leg, I can easily bring him to the ground (Picture 2).
By developing the techniques of Okuri-Ashi-Harai, Uchi Mata, and Sasae-Tsuri-Komi-Ashi, Geesink became a well-rounded judoka. This development in technique, combined with his strength, led to a thunderclap heard throughout the judo world in 1961. Geesink became the first non-Japanese in any weight class to win the world championships. He did so in the open weight class by defeating some of the strongest Japanese judoka: Akio Kaminaga, Hitoshi Koga, and Koji Sone. And yet Geesink felt he still needed to evolve. See part 4 for why and how he developed his Ne-Waza capability.
August 18, 2017 Japan, Judo, Olympics, Tokyo 1964
Judoka Legend Anton Geesink's "My Championship Judo" Part 2: Uchi-Mata
Uchi Mata 1, from the book, "My Championship Judo"
In part one, we learned that Anton Geesink started his journey as a championship judoka by mastering leg work that resulted in swift victories. But in 1952, he realized that his opponents were preparing for Okuri-Ashi-Harai or De-Ashi-Harai legwork techniques. Opponents learned to keep their legs spread further apart so that Geesink would have greater difficulty planting his left foot over their right foot to start the process.
But when the legs are spread apart, the judoka is, according to Geesink, more vulnerable to a quick over-the-thigh throw, or the Uchi-Mata technique. In his 1966 book, My Championship Judo, Geesink explains the footwork required to throw his opponent, "wind-mill" like, to the mat.
From Shizen-Tai I again more in obliquely with my right foot, my right hand high on my opponent's left lapel, my left hand on his right sleeve at elbow level. Turning backwards to the left I next draw my left foot to the right, in such a manner that the back of my body is against the front of my opponent. Meanwhile, I have with my left hand pulled him well towards me and against me, and slipped my right arm under his left arm-pit, as with Tsuri-Komi-Goshi (picture 1).
With a slight give in my knees, I now – from a supple, strong position – perform my Uchi-Mata. No sooner have I adjusted my left leg, than I swing my right leg forward and upward in order to make again – by speed and impetus – a sweeping "wind-mill" of it. In doing so, I stand somewhat springily on my left forefoot, my knee slightly bent. My opponent has now completely lost his balance because I have pulled him with me as I bend obliquely forward. My sweeping "wind-mill" straight back between his legs, and the movement of my trunk, which simultaneously bends forward – nose pointing to the ground – bring my opponent to the ground with an enormous sweep (picture 2).
Uchi Mata 2
Dreaming of Tokyo 2020 and a Japanese Judo Revival
Olympian Paul Maruyama with me!
Paul Maruyama has three wishes for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics:
For the USA to do the best overall at the 2020 Games
For Japan to dominate in judo in Tokyo in 2020
For the 1964 US judo team to reunite and visit Tokyo during the 2020 Olympics
I had the great pleasure of seeing Maruyama, member of the US Judo squad in 1964, in his visit to Tokyo recently. A second-generation Japanese-American, he is introducing his family from America to Japan. He is also catching up with people who helped him research his book about his father, his father's friends, and their part in one of the greatest humanitarian acts in Asia – the repatriation of over a million Japanese abandoned in China after the end of the Pacific War. See my post about his book, Escape from Manchuria.
Maruyama is a retired Air Force officer in the American military. Even though he was born in Japan in 1941, Paul had American citizenship due to the nationality of his Japanese-American mother. As an American, and a member of the 1964 US Olympic team, he naturally wants America to do well in the Olympic competition. But judo is a Japanese sport, and he believes the 2020 Games will be an opportunity for Japanese judo to shine again.
"Japan is not as dominant as they used to be," Maruyama told me. "If they are dominant again, I think judo can become technique-oriented again, not wrestling-oriented. When I watch judo today, it's hard for me to figure out what is superior technique and what isn't."
"Many try to win by wrestling the guy down. But the throw is the main thing. You want the guy to stand up straight, to commit, and to pick his opponent up and slam him down on his back. But it's difficult to do that. You have to commit. If you don't commit and follow through effectively, you expose your back to the opponent and open yourself up to attack. My dream would be that Japan shows the world again what judo really is, throwing for ip-pon – tai-otoshi, uchi-mata, seoi-nage."
But finally, Maruyama wants to bring the band back together again, those Americans who came to the Tokyo Olympics to compete in the Games inaugural judo competition. While judoka, George Harris (heavyweight), has passed away, Maruyama (lightweight), bronze-medalist Jim Bregman (middleweight), and former 2-term US Senator from Colorado, Ben Nighthorse Campbell (open) intend to be in Tokyo for the 2020 Games. And their hope is to bring over their coach, Yosh Uchida, who recently turned 96.
Celebrating the 100th birthday of America's most celebrated judo coach in the land of judo during the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo – Maruyama thinks about that and smiles.
Left to right, George Harris (heavyweight), Jim Bregman (middleweight), Yosh Uchida (coach), Paul Maruyama (lightweight), and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (open weight division). Bregman won bronze in his division. Campbell was a member of the US House of Representative and the US Senate. Uchida, Maruyama and Campbell have also been conferred the Imperial Decoration (kunsho) in Japan for their separate contributions in the promoting US-Japan relationship.
May 26, 2016 Judo, Tokyo 1964, Tokyo 2020


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Graduate Joins Unique Interprofessional Program in Pediatric Palliative Care
Eleanor Frechette (MSW'20) has started a fellowship at Boston's Children Hospital dedicated to caring for children with advanced illnesses.
In the midst of the pandemic, Eleanor Frechette, a student in our Advanced Standing program, received some good news from the pediatric palliative care service at Boston Children's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She had been awarded a Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship and, upon graduation in May, could look forward to joining their Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT). Through a family-centered approach, PACT supports the treatment of children with serious medical conditions, helping to improve symptoms and quality of life. It includes physicians, nurse practitioners and social workers and works closely with chaplains, communication specialists, psychologists, child life specialists, and other healthcare professionals.
Since moving to Boston, Frechette has been training alongside three other fellows—two physicians and one nurse practitioner. Although initial training took place online due to COVID-19, the team is now working in person at the hospital, with morning rounds and didactic lessons taking place via Zoom.
Asked about what it has been like to move to a new city and begin a new job during these challenging times, she said, "I've been doing my best to explore the outdoor areas of the city and have enjoyed spending time on the Charles River and attending socially distanced picnics. For self-care, it's been important that I establish a routine early on and be gentle with myself during this adjustment period. The first month of this fellowship has already been life-changing, and I can only be excited looking towards the rest of the year."
Frechette credits both the School and her field placement for helping her decide to pursue a profession working with terminally ill children and their families.
"My time at CSSW solidified my passion for this population, particularly through my field placement at Metropolitan Jewish Health Services, which is a hospice and palliative care organization," she said. "I am also incredibly grateful to my professors, who have challenged me on what it means to be an effective, empathic, and dedicated social worker."
Boston Children's Hospital, considered by some to be the top pediatric hospital in the United States, is the leading recipient of NIH pediatric research funding and the primary pediatric teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School.
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Brand new production company Mandalay Vision has made its first big exec hire, kickstarting the company's New York office.
Hardy Justice, formerly of Scott Rudin Prods., will serve as senior VP of development and production and be headquartered in Gotham. Mandalay Vision, an independent company staked by Mandalay Entertainment group, launched early this year.
Prior to Rudin, Justice worked for Robert De Niro's Tribeca Prods.
Mandalay's slate includes Annette Bening/Julianne Moore starrer "The Kids Are All Right"; "Salvation Boulevard" with Greg Kinnear and Pierce Brosnan; and "Soul Surfer," which stars Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt and will be released through Sony's Affirm Film division.


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Q: Detect single key press in JavaFX I have a problem of detecting a single key press in JavaFX. I have to detect arrow keys but each time I press any of those keys part of my code is being called multiple times. I realize that it is because AnimationTimer() is a loop thus this is the reason but I have no idea how to detect single key tap. Anyways, here is the code:
import javafx.animation.AnimationTimer;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.canvas.Canvas;
import javafx.scene.canvas.GraphicsContext;
import javafx.scene.input.KeyEvent;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

import java.util.HashSet;

public class Main extends Application {

    Stage window;
    static Scene scene;

    private static char[][] mapa = {
            {'X','X','X','X','X'},
            {'X','.','.','.','X'},
            {'X','.','M','.','X'},
            {'X','.','.','.','X'},
            {'X','X','X','X','X'}
    };

    private final int sizeX = 16;
    private final int sizeY = 16;

    static HashSet<String> currentlyActiveKeys;

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {

        window = primaryStage;
        window.setTitle("Hello World");

        Group root = new Group();
        scene = new Scene(root);

        window.setScene(scene);

        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(512 - 64, 256);
        root.getChildren().add(canvas);

        prepareActionHandlers();

        GraphicsContext gc = canvas.getGraphicsContext2D();

        new AnimationTimer() {
            @Override
            public void handle(long now) {
                gc.clearRect(0,0,512,512);

                for(int i = 0; i < mapa.length; i++) {
                    for(int j = 0; j < mapa[i].length; j++) {
                        if(mapa[i][j] == 'X') {
                            gc.setLineWidth(5);
                            gc.setFill(Color.RED);
                            gc.fillRect(sizeX + i*sizeX, sizeY + j*sizeY, sizeX, sizeY);
                        } else if(mapa[i][j] == '.') {
                            gc.setLineWidth(5);
                            gc.setFill(Color.GREEN);
                            gc.fillRect(sizeX + i*sizeX, sizeY + j*sizeY, sizeX, sizeY);
                        } else if(mapa[i][j] == 'M') {
                            gc.setLineWidth(5);
                            gc.setFill(Color.BLACK);
                            gc.fillRect(sizeX + i*sizeX, sizeY + j*sizeY, sizeX, sizeY);
                        }
                    }
                }

                if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("LEFT")) {
                    System.out.println("left");
                }

                if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("RIGHT")) {
                    System.out.println("right");
                }

                if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("UP")) {
                    System.out.println("up");
                }

                if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("DOWN")) {
                    System.out.println("down");
                }
            }
        }.start();

        window.show();
    }

    private static void prepareActionHandlers()
    {
        currentlyActiveKeys = new HashSet<String>();
        scene.setOnKeyPressed(new EventHandler<KeyEvent>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(KeyEvent event)
            {
                currentlyActiveKeys.add(event.getCode().toString());

            }
        });
        scene.setOnKeyReleased(new EventHandler<KeyEvent>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(KeyEvent event)
            {
                currentlyActiveKeys.remove(event.getCode().toString());

            }
        });
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
}

When I press down arrow button (same goes with other keys of course), in the scope I am getting results like:
down
down
down
down
down
down

Obviously this happens as long as I press the button. Once I stop pressing it, printing ends. What I would love to achieve is that once I press a button (no matter how long I hold it) I will get down just once. I need this because I would like to update the color of my rectangles in the canvas.

A: What is happening is that the OS has a kind of automatic typing function, such that when you hold a key down, it keeps generating key press events, even though you aren't really pressing the key more than once.
By adding both key press and key release handlers and a boolean state for each key, you can keep track of whether you have processed the key since it was pressed.  You can then reset that processed state whenever the key is released so that the next time it is really pressed you can handle it.
Sample Application
import javafx.animation.AnimationTimer;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

import java.util.HashMap;

public class Main extends Application {
    private HashMap<String, Boolean> currentlyActiveKeys = new HashMap<>();

    @Override
    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
        final Scene scene = new Scene(new Group(), 100, 100);
        stage.setScene(scene);

        scene.setOnKeyPressed(event -> {
            String codeString = event.getCode().toString();
            if (!currentlyActiveKeys.containsKey(codeString)) {
                currentlyActiveKeys.put(codeString, true);
            }
        });
        scene.setOnKeyReleased(event ->
            currentlyActiveKeys.remove(event.getCode().toString())
        );

        new AnimationTimer() {
            @Override
            public void handle(long now) {
                if (removeActiveKey("LEFT")) {
                    System.out.println("left");
                }

                if (removeActiveKey("RIGHT")) {
                    System.out.println("right");
                }

                if (removeActiveKey("UP")) {
                    System.out.println("up");
                }

                if (removeActiveKey("DOWN")) {
                    System.out.println("down");
                }
            }
        }.start();

        stage.show();
    }

    private boolean removeActiveKey(String codeString) {
        Boolean isActive = currentlyActiveKeys.get(codeString);

        if (isActive != null && isActive) {
            currentlyActiveKeys.put(codeString, false);
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
}

A: You could declare a global boolean and toogle it like press = !press. Then every 2 seconds reset it back to true or something to that effect.
if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("DOWN") && press) {
       press = !press;//sets it false
       System.out.println("down");
 }

A: I know this is already a long age question. I just wanna share my finding after hours of struggling. I finally found one simple solution i.e. by adding clear function. Here's what I meant
if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("LEFT")) {
    System.out.println("left");
}

if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("RIGHT")) {
    System.out.println("right");
}

if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("UP")) {
    System.out.println("up");
}

if(currentlyActiveKeys.contains("DOWN")) {
    System.out.println("down");
}

currentlyActiveKeys.clear();

This last line will clear the currently active key, thus it will prevent duplicate as mentioned in the original post


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JOHN Sheridan is confident that young defender Aaron Bentley will learn from his sending off in Argyle's 2-1 defeat to Oxford United.
Bentley started his third consecutive game for the Greens as part of a central defensive trio alongside Carl McHugh and Anthony O'Connor. Filling in for the injured Peter Hartley and Curtis Nelson, the 19-year-old won plenty of headers and looked accomplished on the ball, before his 33rd minute dismissal.
With Argyle a goal up after Lewis Alessandra had put the Pilgrims ahead, Bentley advanced up the field to make a challenge in a sideline scramble with a number of players, but was sent off for his forceful lunge on Sam Long. Oxford went on to take advantage of their advantage in numbers with second half goals from John Campbell and James Roberts helping them to record a 2-1 victory that looked extremely unlikely when 22 players were on the field.
Whilst his manager is disappointed with the challenge, Sheridan is sure that his player will bounce back from the incident and learn from his error.
"He is young kid. It is very naïve, and I could just see it coming," said John.
"Listen: he is a young kid and he will learn, and there is no blame whatsoever. Obviously it does help the opposition, because they get a bit of belief and a bit more of the ball and possession.
"Obviously it disrupts us, but afterward we adjusted and performed really well.
"He has come from twenty yards away. It is just a bit of naivety from him, but he will learn from it."


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YouTube released YouTube Music for everyone
YouTube is going to release YouTube Music worldwide very soon. The new service is in directly competition with Deezer, Spotify & SoundCloud. The YouTube Music apps are rolling out within the next days on Android and iOS on every official App Store.
YouTube Music announced back in 2015
The first announcement was from 2015, to that time the service was limited and had no app, this changed over the past years and now it's hitting the mass very soon. It's unclear right now how YouTube solved the copyright issue.
Since the entire Music program relays in ads you might want to checkout YouTube Red in order to listen to ads-free music.
Apps including Ads
YouTube Music is basically a music streaming website and app available for iOS and Android it's YouTube's app and website for music and music videos only. The official app is free but contains ads, but there is an advertisement-free version with more features through YouTube Red for a monthly fee right now.
Right now, the apps are only available in United States, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea. But you can eg. on Android download it via APKMirror.com or on iOS simply use a proxy/vpn and choose the mentioned regions in order to receive the app.
Download programs and apps are expected
I think it's a matter of time until someone codes a program to download the songs directly to your device, as for now there is no such app available.
I think YouTube Music, once it's launched for the mass could be a thing, lot's of people anyway spending their free time already on YouTube and if you affine to Music you might give the 'new' platform a try. I'm not sure if I'm going to switch from Spotify anytime soon since their database is really big and I like what they have to offer. From what I can see the YouTube Music platform however, is a real alternative since it will definitely grow over the next years but on the other hand people are still uploading the Music clips directly on YouTube. Time will tell us if people are going to accept the platform or not.
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Bold move. I hope spotify holds it's ground. Google is a behemoth and I'd never like to give them more data about myself. But when they move into a sector they usually become the most dominant there. I'm hoping they won't succeed in music.
Can't a company just stay where they are and be happy with their current situation?
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