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Tommaso Francini, en français Thomas Francine est un ingénieur hydraulicien florentin, né à Florence le /1572, mort à Saint-Germain-en-Laye le .

Les Francini, Tommaso et son frère Alessandro, maîtres d'œuvre dans la réalisation des fontaines dans les chantiers royaux et parisiens, ont exercé une influence capitale sur l'aménagement hydraulique des jardins en France au .

Il est seigneur de Grandmaisons, à Villepreux.

Biographie
Il est le fils de Pietro Francini, citoyen de Florence, et de Clemanza Pagni. Il fait son testament le  dans lequel il a donné des informations sur sa carrière auprès des rois Henri IV, Louis XIII et Louis XIV.

Tommaso Francini, ingénieur du grand-duc de Toscane, à la villa de Pratolino
Il était ingénieur auprès du grand-duc de Toscane Ferdinand  de Médicis quand il a été demandé par le roi de France Henri IV au grand-duc de Toscane de l'autoriser à venir en France, ainsi que ses frères Alessandro et Camillo et son cousin Orazio, en 1599. Le roi avait lancé les travaux des jardins du château Neuf de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

On ne connaît pas la formation de Tommaso Francini. En Toscane, Tommaso Francini avait travaillé sur la Villa de Pratolino aux côtés de Jehan de Boulogne où ils avaient réalisé plusieurs automates fonctionnant à l'énergie hydraulique comme l'indique Agostino del Riccio, dans le manuscrit Del giardino di un re. Le , il est désigné responsable des eaux de la villa de Pratolino pour deux années. Sa création de nouveaux théâtres d'automates à Pratolino lui a donné une certaine notoriété.

La villa de Pratolino a été visitée par Montaigne le . Il en fait une description dans le Journal de voyage en Italie : « Il y a de miraculeux une grotte à plusieurs demeures et pièces : cette partie surpasse tout ce que nous avons vu ailleurs.... Il y a non seulement de la musique et harmonie qui se fait par le mouvement de l'eau, mais encore le mouvement de plusieurs statues que l'eau ébranle et porte à divers actes, plusieurs animaux qui s'y plongent pour boire, et chose semblables. À un seul mouvement toute la grotte est pleine d'eau, tous les sièges vous rejaillissent l'eau aux fesses.... La beauté et la richesse de ce lieu ne se peut représenter par le menu ». Le 24, il est à Florence et visite l'après-midi la villa nommée Castello dans laquelle il admire les différents jeux d'eau. Le , il visite Tivoli et la villa d'Este. Il fait des comparaisons entre le jardin de la villa d'Este avec celui de la villa de Pratolino.

Thomas Francini au château neuf de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Le château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye est une maison de chasse construite par François . Elle a l'avantage d'être proche de Paris mais l'architecture paraît triste au roi. Henri II avait fait construire un casino, ou « maison du théâtre et baignerie », par Philibert de l'Orme, en 1557. En 1594, il décide de profiter du site pour aménager un château neuf autour du casino avec des jardins descendant vers la Seine. Henri IV n'ayant jamais visité l'Italie, il n'a pu s'inspirer des sites comme la villa d'Este ou les villas Médicis. C'est probablement par l'architecte et paysager Étienne Dupérac qui connaissait la villa d'Este qu'il va imaginer l'aménagement du site et créer la féerie du château neuf. Tommaso et Alessandro Francini vont amener en France leur connaissance de l'aménagement hydraulique des jardins italiens.

Avec la venue des Francini, l'art des aménagements hydrauliques, fontaines, grottes, jeux d'eau, a connu un développement extraordinaire en France sous les règnes d'Henri IV, de Louis XIII et Louis XIV.

En 1599 est créé la surintendance des fontaines des Bâtiments du roi. Les Francini vont créer des fontaines, des jeux d'eau, des cascades artificielles, des automates, hommes et animaux, qui se meuvent dans les grottes grâce à la circulation de l'eau sous pression, des jeux d'orgue, des musiques harmonieuses, des jeux d'eau fantaisistes arrosant par le dessous les visiteurs, donnant aux visiteurs les mêmes sentiments que décrivait Montaigne en visitant les villas italiennes.

Thomas Francine a agrémenté de fontaines les grandes terrasses du château  descendant vers la Seine dont les jeux d'eau d'automates installés dans les grottes du jardin faisaient le plaisir du jeune roi Louis XIII et des autres enfants d'Henri IV et Marie de Médicis. Sept grottes sont construites entre 1599 et 1608 : grotte du Dragon, celle de Neptune, celle de la Demoiselle qui jouait des orgues qui est décrite par André Du Chesne au début du  : « Près de là, il y a une nymphe eslevée à demy-bosse en face riante, belle et bonne grâce, qui, laissant emporter ses doigts au branle que donne l'eau, fait jouer des orgues... Il y a un Mercure près la fenestre qui a un pied en l'air et l'autre planté sur un appuy, sonnant et entonnant hautement une trompette. Le coucou s'y fait entendre et recognoistre à son chant... ».  À la quatrième terrasse, il y a la grotte d'Hercule, au centre, celle de Persée et d'Andromède, au nord, et d'Orphée, au sud. Puis la grotte des Flambeaux qui contenait plusieurs attractions grâce à des machineries qui permettaient des changements de décor. Ces aménagements utilisaient l'énergie hydraulique grâce à l'eau captée dans les sources de la colline et du plateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Un aqueduc amenait l'eau dans un réservoir de pression situé près de la fontaine de Mercure, d'où l'eau descendait dans les grottes, puis alimentait les jets d'eau et les fontaines des jardins inférieurs.

Jean Bologne a réalisé six grands bronzes pour les fontaines et les grottes de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Alessandro Francini a été chargé de la grotte d'Orphée en 1604, Tommaso de celle de Persée en 1606. Il est alors qualifié d'ingénieur ordinaire des fontaines et grottes des châteaux du roi. En 1607, ce même Tommaso passe un marché avec Didier Humbelot pour un Persée de cuivre, tous les personnages étant pourvus de mouvements, entourés de monstres dans un décor de coquilles et de congélations. Le sculpteur florentin Francesco Bordoni (Francisque Bourdon), élève de Pietro Francavilla (Pierre de Francqueville), a collaboré avec les Francini sur les chantiers royaux de Saint-Germain-en-Laye et Fontainebleau.

L'eau va devenir un élément obligé de l'aménagement des jardins pour leur beauté, l'art des fontaines un des intérêts de la noblesse française pour leurs châteaux.

Il est naturalisé français le  ainsi que ses frères. Camillo a aussi reçu le droit de devenir ecclésiastique en France.

Il a été nommé Intendant général des eaux et fontaines de France.

Il a acheté une maison avec jardin à Saint-Germain-en-Laye, en 1604. Il est probable qu'il avait alors décidé de rester en France contrairement à ce qu'il avait écrit dans une lettre à Emilio de' Cavalieri. Le , il avait écrit une lettre à B. Vinta, secrétaire du grand-duc de Toscane, pour lui annoncer qu'Henri IV s'est opposé à son voyage à Florence. Celui-ci lui avait répondu que le grand-duc considérait que son travail pour Henri IV était un service rendu à sa patrie.

Autres travaux
Il a amené le goût du maniérisme florentin et va travailler pour le milieu italien présent à Paris. Le marquis Jérôme de Gondi fait aménager les jardins bas de sa maison de Saint-Cloud entre 1577 et 1604. Les travaux sont poursuivis par son cousin, Jean-François de Gondi, archevêque de Paris, propriétaire du lieu en 1625. Ce dernier a entrepris une vaste campagne de travaux dans les jardins bas, entre 1628 et 1636, avec la création d'un système d'adduction d'eau et la création de pièces d'eau. Thomas Francini réalise la cascade et la grotte du Parnasse, séjour d'Apollon et des Muses pour le parc de Saint-Cloud, qui émerveillait les visiteurs de Saint-Cloud au , et une fontaine dans le jardin de son hôtel parisien, à l'emplacement de l'ancien hôtel de Condé.

Il a peut-être participé à la réalisation d'une grotte dans les jardins du château de Noisy-le-Roi qu'Albert de Gondi avait fait aménager, entre 1582 et 1599, par des artistes italiens.

Il est aussi intervenu à Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Lésigny, Bagnolet, Wideville, peut-être à Rueil et Liancourt. Dans sa propriété de Villepreux, il a créé une scénographie aquatique autour d'une statue de Marie de Médicis

Thomas Francine et le château de Fontainebleau

Thomas Francine a réalisé le canal de  de long, entre 1606 et 1609, et l'aménagement hydraulique du parc du château. Alessandro Francini signe le  un marché pour faire quatre fontaines dans les quatre compartiments du Grand jardin et deux fontaines contre le fossé de la cour du Cheval blanc, sur les dessins de Tommaso Francini. Alessandro Francini est qualifié de sculpteur fontainier du roi, en 1609, d'ingénieur des fontaines de Fontainebleau dans un contrat de 1613. Il loge alors à Fontainebleau. En 1631, Alessandro Francini signe un contrat pour rétablir la fontaine du Tibre, au château de Fontainebleau.

À partir de l'aqueduc qu'il avait fait construire, Henri IV a demandé à Tommaso Francini de réaliser la grotte et la fontaine de la Volière et la fontaine de Diane qui existe toujours.

Thomas Francini, de l'aqueduc Médicis au palais du Luxembourg
Le , il dépose au Bureau de la Ville de Paris, avec Guillain, maître des Œuvres de la Ville de Paris, l'architecte Metezeau et l'ingénieur Alleaumes, le devis pour l'alimentation en eau de la rive gauche de Paris.

Le projet de Marie de Médicis pour un nouveau palais inspiré du palais Pitti de Florence n'apparaît qu'en . En septembre la reine avait acheté l'hôtel de François de Piney, duc de Luxembourg qui va être appelé le Petit Luxembourg. Elle poursuit dans les mois suivants les achats de propriétés pour agrandir le domaine. Le projet de Salomon de Brosse doit être dessiné entre  et , date des premières adjudications. En , Nicolas Descamps est nommé « jardinier ordinaire des jardins et parterres de [la] maison [de la reine] et hostel de Luxembourg ». Un premier dessin du jardin date de . Il montre les premières plantations d'arbres commandées par Marie de Médicis.

En 1613 il suit les travaux de l'aqueduc de Arcueil. La première pierre du grand regard de Rungis a été posée le  en présence du jeune Louis XIII. Les travaux ont été confiés au maître maçon Jean Coing, puis après sa mort à Jean Gobelin qui les a achevés avec la réalisation du réservoir dit de l'Observatoire. Cet aqueduc a été réalisé en souterrain, sauf la partie franchissant la vallée de la Bièvre. 60 % des eaux de l'aqueduc devaient alimenter le palais du Luxembourg. En 1628, Thomas Francini c'était fait octroyer la jouissance de la moitié des eaux sortant du réservoir servant à alimenter le palais du Luxembourg et la conciergerie du regard de Rungis.

Tommaso Francini présente le premier plan du jardin en 1625. Pour le jardin du palais du Luxembourg, il avait proposé à la reine de terminer l'horizon, vers le sud, par la fontaine de Démorgorgon.  Pour Marie de Médicis, cela lui rappelait celle de la villa médicéenne de Poggio a Caiano, près de Florence. Mais le projet n'a pas été achevé à la mort de la reine en 1642.

Thomas Francini a réalisé l'aqueduc qui permettait l'alimentation en eau de la fontaine Médicis, qui a été construite par le maître maçon Jean Thiriot à partir de 1625. Le marché passé le  indique la réalisation de la double terrasse entourant le parterre central et les conduits de distribution d'eau qui doivent se conformer au « desseing et profil dressé par sieur Francini, intendant des fontaynes du roy ». Il n'est pas sûr que cette disposition du jardin ait été inspirée par le jardin de Boboli. Un devis rédigé par Francini en 1635 pour l'achèvement du jardin montre que les ouvrages prévus en 1625 n'ont pas encore été exécutés.

Pendant la régence de Marie de Médicis, en 1617, il a été nommé « ingénieur du roi Louis XIII et contrôleur de la maison de la Reine ». Louis XIII a reconduit la charge en 1623 sous la forme d'un intendance générale des eaux et fontaines des châteaux et jardins royaux de Paris, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Fontainebleau et autres. Cette charge a été transformée en office royal en 1636.

En 1647 il a une charge de maître d'hôtel du roi.

Famille
D'une liaison avec Loyse Porcher, fille cadette d'un valet de chambre du roi, il avait eu un fils, mort en 1603, et un second, Pierre, naît avant son mariage. Il a signé un contrat de mariage le , mais la dot devant être payée avant le mariage, celui n'a été célébré que le .

De cette union sont nés huit enfants, dont trois fils, François, né à Paris le , Pierre, né à Paris le , et Paul, né le , qui est entré dans les Ordres.

Divers
Il a donné son nom à la rue Thomas-Francine dans le  de Paris.

Il y a une rue Francine à Villepreux et une place des Francine à Versailles.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Albert Mousset, Les Francine - créateurs des eaux de Versailles, intendants des eaux et fontaines de France, de 1623 à 1784, éditions Champion, 1930
 Emmanuel Lurin (éd.), Le Château-Neuf de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Les Presses Franciliennes, p. 104-135.
 Émile Coüard, Thomas Francini, intendant général des eaux et fontaines de France 1572-1651, , Réunion des sociétés savantes des départements à la Sorbonne. Section des beaux-arts, Ministère de l'instruction publique, 1894,  (lire en ligne)
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 Odette Dufourcq-Latron, Les Francine, , Larousse mensuel, ,  (lire en ligne)
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 Blanca Truyols, Les présents de Ferdinand  de Médicis à Henri IV pour ses jardins de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Documents inédits sur Tommaso Francini et Jean Bologne, dans Bulletin monumental, 2016, tome 174-3, ,
 Emmanuel Lurin, « Faire plaisir à l'ami » : réflexions sur les présents de Ferdinand  de Médicis et les premiers travaux de Tommaso Francini en France, dans Bulletin monumental, 2017, , ,
 Emmanuel Lurin, Tommaso Francini, ingénieur et fontainier du roi. Sa fortune à la cour de Louis XIII et ses principales réalisations en France, dans Bulletin monumental, 2017, tome 175-4, ,
 Karine Berthier, Tommaso Francini et le chantier de l'aqueduc Médicis. État de la question, dans Bulletin monumental, 2017, tome 175-4, ,
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 Aurélia Rostaing, Le théâtre d'eau de Tommaso Francini en son jardin de Grandmaisons, dans Bulletin monumental, 2017, tome 175-4, ,

Article connexe
 Famille Francine

Liens externes

 Exposition Abraham Bosse à la BnF : Fontaine à la jardinière d'après Tommaso Francini/Thomas Francine
 Centre André Chastel : conférence du centre André Chastel du 27 novembre 2014 : Autour de Tommaso et Alessandro Francini : Hydraulique et fontaines ornementales en France (vers 1590-1640)
 Archives nationales : Documents du minutier central des notaires de Paris : peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs au  siècle (1600-1650)
  Enciclopedia Treccani : Tommaso Francini

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Naissance à Florence
Naissance en mars 1571
Décès à Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Décès en avril 1651
Décès à 80 ans


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Star Wars Games Bootlegs and Hacks
January 30, 2017 July 17, 2021 Lisa Clark other starwars games
We've seen many Star Wars games: some good, some bad, some never released, but how about the hacks? YouTuber SpaceHamster gives us the rundown of some comically bad hacks bearing the Star Wars name.
Some of these hacks are low effort ventures: Escape from Hoth inserts a tiny, pixelated Millennium Falcon into the Atari game Asteroids, for instance. There's also a hack that inserts the name of iconic Star Wars characters into the NES game Baseball Stars but is otherwise identical to the original game. Other hacks are hilarious for the scenarios they generate. A fine example is a Battle City hack that puts Luke in the Death Star with an assault rifle. Another is the Yoda Bros., a minimalist, one-level hack of Super Mario Bros. Some hacks don't even pretend to make much sense. Star Wars: Jedy (yes, that's how it's actually spelled) hacks the Sega Genesis game Wolfchild and features an unnamed character (maybe Luke) with a fabulous mullet punching people on a flying battleship and occasionally shifting into a werewolf.
By far, the most bewildering of all is a Game Boy Color bootleg game that was only sold in China. It purports to tell the story of Episode II In the vein of a traditional hero-rescues-the-princess journey, similar to The Legend of Zelda. It even has Anakin using his lightsaber to battle enemies and collecting maps. He also collects objects that look like Chaos Emeralds, because this game might not be derivative enough. Worse still, Anakin's movement is erratic, hit detection is dreadful, and there are so many leaps of faith that you may as well be playing over a sarlacc pit. It's definitely worth a look, if only for a good laugh.
Watch the full video here, and see if you have the patience of a Jedi in playing some of these mind-bending games!
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Lisa has been an avid gamer since she was old enough to hold her first controller and a game writer for more than a decade. A child of the Nintendo generation, she believes they just don't make games like they used to but sometimes, they make them even better! While consoles will always be her first love, Lisa spends most of her gaming time on the PC these days- on MMOs and first-person shooters in particular.
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Taylor Swift tops Taylor Swift on the Hot 100 chart with 'Blank Space'
Dave Lewis 11.19.14 5 years ago
The only think that can stop Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift.
The singer conquered the Billboard Hot 100 again this week, with her new single "Blank Space" replacing her own "Shake It Off" as the No. 1 song.
Swift is the only female performer in Hot 100 history pull off the feat of replacing her own song in the top spot, which puts her in the company of such noted acts as The Beatles, Boyz II Men, Diddy, Ja Rule, Nelly, Outkast, Usher, T.I. and the Black Eyed Peas (who, to be fair, included Fergie).
"Shake It Off" was No. 1 for four straight weeks and is now at No. 3, while "Blind" makes the huge leap from No. 13 to No. 1 this week. Both tunes hail from her new album "1989."
Likewise, "1989" also pulled off the rare accomplishment of sending its first two singles to No. 1. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "The Heist" did it last year with "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
Meanwhile, this week's No. 2 spot belongs to Meghan Trainor's former No. 1 "All About That Bass," while Maroon 5's "Animals" takes the No. 4 spot, and Tove Lo's "Habits (Stay High)" slips from No. 4 to No. 5.
Hozier's "Take Me to Church" rises from No. 8 to No. 6, pushing Bobby Shmurda's "Hot Boy" to No. 7.
Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's collaborative "Bang Bang" is hanging on at No. 8, while Sam Smith cracks the top 10 for the third time, as "I'm Not the Only One" ascends to No. 9.
Comeback kid Nick Jonas closes rounds out the top 10 with "Jealous," which made another big leap from last week's No. 23.
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The current study used a controlled laboratory setting to examine how leadership style, gratitude (trait & state), and performance (high & low) affect how subordinates perceive Leader-Member-Exchange (LMX) quality, and additionally how these variables interact when predicting performance congruence. Participants were formed into groups led by a trained research assistant acting as the group leader. Following this, they were asked to work on a group task, complete a short writing assignment, and complete a sequence of surveys. Results found that both leadership style and trait gratitude were both significantly related to LMX ratings. However, state gratitude, performance, and all hypothesized interactions were found to be non-significant. Additional analyses suggest that LMX fully mediates the relationships between trait gratitude, leadership style, and performance congruence. Research conclusions and future directions are discussed.
Smith, Adam M., "An Examination of LMX: Accounting for Leadership Style, Performance, and Subordinate Gratitude" (2016). Culminating Projects in Psychology. 2.


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Swift Usage Declines as Devs Go Multiplatform for Mobile, Says Report
By David Ramel
Programming with Swift is on the decline as mobile developers increasingly shift to multiplatform tools using C# (Xamarin) and JavaScript (Apache Cordova and Ionic), says the new report from the TIOBE Index, which measures language popularity.
TIOBE said traditional, cumbersome mobile app development using individual programming languages for each platform is on the way out. Cross-platform tools such as Xamarin and new JavaScript-based solutions are often used in enterprise development to save time, as developers can leverage one code base -- or most of one -- in projects for iOS and Android.
This month's programming language popularity index from TIOBE shows big drops in the rankings for Swift and Objective-C, the two languages used in iOS development.
Swift, just over three years old, was seen by many as the new darling of the iOS community after it was introduced and subsequently open sourced by Apple. It quickly gained momentum because of many perceived advantages over the staid Objective-C, but now the honeymoon is over, according to TIOBE.
"In the beginning of this year the programming language Swift peaked at a rating of 2.3 percent in the TIOBE index and even reached a top 10 position," the October report said. "But now it is back at position 16 and constantly declining month after month."
[Click on image for larger view.] A Swift Decline (source: TIOBE).
Swift fell four positions in the ranking (from 12th to 16th, a percentage difference of -0.34 percent) in the past year, while Objective-C fell from 10th to 17th with a -0.75 percent drop.
Meanwhile, maintaining their rankings were C# (4th), JavaScript (6th) and C++ (3rd) -- all used in Visual Studio tooling for cross-platform mobile development (JavaScript is used by the Apache Cordova project template in Visual Studio).
TIOBE attributes these developments to changing methodologies in the mobile development ecosystem.
"Until recently it was quite common to program Android apps in Java and iOS apps in Swift/Objective-C," TIOBE said in its October post. "This is quite cumbersome because you have to maintain two code bases that are doing almost the same. So frameworks for mobile hybrid apps were developed and now that they have grown mature these are becoming very popular.
"Market leaders in this area are Microsoft's Xamarin (C#), Apache's Cordova (JavaScript) and Ionic (JavaScript). The consequences of all of this are that languages such as C# and JavaScript are gaining popularity at the cost of languages such as Java and Swift."
This could be good news for Visual Studio developers (though TIOBE misclassified Xamarin in the hybrid category -- it actually produces native Android, iOS and Windows apps). The full-fledged Visual Studio IDE has the aforementioned Xamarin (C#), Apache Cordova (JavaScript) project types, while the cross-platform, open source Visual Studio Code editor is becoming a favorite tool for using React Native (JavaScript) to code fully native iOS and Android apps.
[Click on image for larger view.] October TIOBE Index (source: TIOBE).
In other TIOBE Index news this month, Java suffered a whopping -6.37 percent year-over-year change, but still managed to retain its No. 1 position, where it has practically lived permanently for some 15 years. The big movers on the plus side were Delphi/Object Pascal (jumping from 15th to 11th), and Scratch, moving up nine slots to No. 14.
Here's the standard boilerplate text TIOBE provides with every report to explain its methodology and purpose:
The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
David Ramel is an editor and writer for Converge360.
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The legend of Great Yu Taming the Floods is widely known in China and has a long history. Although there are still many mysteries about Great Yu, studies about him possessed a lofty place in archaeology, history, anthropology and mythology. Great Yu represents the spirits of arduous struggle, hard work and braveness. As a folktale, the story of Great Yu has been repeatedly told for thousands of years. And the story has been rearranged all the time. Through a dynamic study of the story of Great Yu, this article reveals the changing process of Great Yu culture and highlights the profound significance in studying Great Yu.
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Today is Catie's 10th birthday.
I don't know what to say about this amazing little girl. She surprises me on a regular basis with the things she knows. She comes home telling me about books she's read at school, and so many of them are books that I loved at her age – a lot of Roald Dahl, "The Chronicles of Narnia," etc. She recently discovered my old "Calvin & Hobbes" and "The Far Side" books. She laughs at all of them, and explains the jokes to me. It's so great.
We took the kids to the Women's March in Raleigh this past weekend, and we talked about why it was important. It's odd when your kids are old enough to understand politics. Catie was very worried about Donald Trump all during the campaign cycle – she came home upset one day because some kids on the bus told her that when Trump won, he was going to send her friend Mohammed away and she'd never see him again. (This was long before November 8th, and I foolishly assured her that she had nothing to worry about because OF COURSE Trump wasn't going to win. Haaaa, I'm an idiot.) She's also been worried about her friends at school who are Mexican. I keep assuring her they'll be ok because they're American citizens, but she still worries.
Her class saw a play about Harriet Tubman, and she understood the connection between that and what's happening now in the world. She asked me what we could do to help make an Underground Railroad for Muslims and undocumented immigrants. She has more empathy and compassion in her little finger than most adults I know, and sometimes it's hard for her to process all of it, but I absolutely love her sweet, compassionate heart.
Happy birthday, my sweet Catie-bug. I can't wait to see what you'll do next.


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Did Joe Biden Receive Millions More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters?
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A viral article from Gateway Pundit claims that "simple math" proves President-elect Joe Biden received 13 million more votes "Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election."
The article is based on a viral tweet, which stated: "With 212Million registered voters and 66.2% voting,140.344 M voted. Now if Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden."
Bill Binney, Constitutional Patriot @Bill_Binney
(39)With 212Million registered voters and 66.2% voting,140.344 M voted. Now if Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden. These numbers don't add up to what we are being told. Lies and more Lies! worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings… 2020 turnout is the highest in over a centuryTwo in three eligible Americans cast a ballot, the highest figure since 1900. We're tracking total votes as they continue to be counted.washingtonpost.com
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The tweet author's math is off slightly based on the information he provides: Adding up the number of registered voters per state as listed on the website cited results in a figure of 213,799,467 registered voters. But a bigger error is made in the tweet: The Washington Postarticle from which the 66.2 percent figure is pulled refers to the voter turnout among the eligible voting population, not registered voters, as stated in the tweet and the subsequent Gateway Pundit article. Not all eligible voters end up registering to vote, with an estimate from Pew Research based on census data in 2017 suggesting that 21.4 percent of eligible voters were not registered to vote in 2014.
According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data on the voting age population in the United States, there was an eligible voting population of 233,565,291 Americans in 2018, with a margin of error of 3,256,891, producing a number quite a bit higher than the Gateway Pundit article suggests. This data comes from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, for which a sample of the U.S. population is interviewed. The margin of error for the survey reflects a 90 percent confidence interval.
But this number is still not precise for the year 2020, for which experts have estimated an eligible voting population of 239,247,182. 66.2 percent of the 239,247,182 eligible voting population is 158,381,634 voters, which is, again, an estimate, but still significantly closer to the 158,394,605 votes cast in 2020 as reported by the Cook Political Report. According to Cook, Biden won 81,281,502 votes, while Trump won 74,222,593 votes. The remaining 2,890,510 votes went to third-party and write-in candidates.
There remains no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and "simple math" shows Biden did not win 13 million more votes than there are eligible voters in 2020.
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Thank you Alec. Sometimes you wonder how many intoxicants these people have consumed to come up with the wacky things they do. Then again, Gateway Pundit has always been off the scale wacky.
Brian Swope
Alec, thank you for debunking these conspiracies. My hope is that this all ends soon. Joe Biden won the election plain and simple.


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Vanguardism in the context of Leninist revolutionary struggle, relates to a  strategy whereby the most class-conscious and politically "advanced" sections of the proletariat or working class, described as the revolutionary vanguard, form organizations. They take actions to draw larger sections of the working class toward revolutionary politics and to serve as manifestations of proletarian political power opposed to the bourgeoisie.

Foundations

Vladimir Lenin popularised political vanguardism as conceptualised by Karl Kautsky, detailing his thoughts in one of his earlier works, What is to be done?. Lenin argued that Marxism's complexity and the hostility of the establishment (the autocratic, semi-feudal state of Imperial Russia) required that a close-knit group of individuals pulled from the working class vanguard to safeguard the revolutionary ideology within the particular circumstances presented by the Tsarist régime (Russian Empire) at the time. While Lenin wished for a revolutionary organisation akin to the contemporary Social Democratic Party of Germany, which was open to the public and more democratic in organisation, the Russian autocracy prevented this.

Leninists argue that Lenin's ideal vanguard party would have open membership: "The members of the Party are they who accept the principles of the Party program and render the Party all possible support." This party could, in theory, be completely transparent: the "entire political arena is as open to the public view as is a theatre stage to the audience". A party that supposedly implemented democracy to such an extent that "the general control (in the literal sense of the term) exercised over every act of a party man in the political field brings into existence an automatically operating mechanism which produces what in biology is called the "survival of the fittest"". This party would be completely open to the public eye while educating the proletariat to remove the false consciousness that had been instilled in them.

In its first phase, the vanguard party would exist for two reasons. Firstly, it would protect Marxism from outside corruption from other ideas, as well as advance its concepts. Secondly, it would educate the proletariat in Marxism in order to cleanse them of their "false individual consciousness" and instill the revolutionary "class consciousness" in them.

If the party is successful in this goal, on the eve of revolution, a critical mass of the working class population would be prepared to usher forth the transformation of society. Furthermore, a great number of them, namely their most dedicated members, would belong to the party cadres as professional revolutionaries, and would be elected to leadership positions by the mass party membership. Thus the organisation would quickly include the entire working class.

Political party

A vanguard party is a political party at the fore of a mass-action political movement and of a revolution. In the praxis of political science, the concept of the vanguard party, composed of professional revolutionaries, was first effected by the Bolshevik Party in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin, the first leader of the Bolsheviks, coined the term vanguard party, and argued that such a party was necessary in order to provide the practical and political leadership that would impel the proletariat to achieve a communist revolution. Hence, as a political-science concept and term, vanguard party most often is associated with Leninism; however, similar concepts (under different names) also are present in other revolutionary ideologies.

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx presented the concept of the vanguard party as solely qualified to politically lead the proletariat in revolution; in Chapter II: "Proletarians and Communists" of The Communist Manifesto (1848), they said:

 The Communists, therefore, are, on the one hand, practically the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the lines of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement. The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: Formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.

According to Lenin, the purpose of the vanguard party is to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; a rule of the working class. The change of ruling class, from the bourgeoisie to the proletariat, makes possible the full development of socialism. In early 20th-century Russia, Lenin argued that the vanguard party would lead the revolution to depose the incumbent Tsarist government, and transfer government power to the working class. In the pamphlet What is to be Done? (1902), Lenin said that a revolutionary vanguard party, mostly recruited from the working class, should lead the political campaign, because it was the only way that the proletariat could successfully achieve a revolution; unlike the economist campaign of trade union struggle advocated by other socialist political parties and later by the anarcho-syndicalists. Like Karl Marx, Lenin distinguished between the two aspects of a revolution, the economic campaign (labour strikes for increased wages and work concessions), which featured diffused plural leadership; and the political campaign (socialist changes to society), which featured the decisive revolutionary leadership of the Bolshevik vanguard party.

Marxism–Leninism

As he surveyed the European milieu in the late 1890s, Lenin found several theoretic problems with the Marxism of the late 19th century. Contrary to what Karl Marx had predicted, capitalism had become stronger in the last third of the 19th century. In Western Europe, the working class had become poorer, rather than becoming politically progressive, thinking people; hence, the workers and their trade unions, although they had continued to militate for better wages and working conditions, had failed to develop a revolutionary class consciousness, as predicted by Marx. To explain that undeveloped political awareness, Lenin said that the division of labour in a bourgeois capitalist society prevented the emergence of a proletarian class consciousness, because of the ten-to-twelve-hour workdays that the workers laboured in factories, and so had no time to learn and apply the philosophic complexities of Marxist theory. Finally, in trying to effect a revolution in Tsarist Imperial Russia (1721–1917), Lenin faced the problem of an autocratic régime that had outlawed almost all political activity. Although the Tsarist autocracy could not enforce a ban on political ideas, until 1905—when Tsar Nicholas II (ruled 1894–1917) agreed to the formation of a national duma—the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, suppressed every political group seeking social and political changes, including those with a democratic program. To counter such political conditions, Lenin said that a professional revolutionary organisation was necessary to organise and lead the most class-conscious workers into a politically coherent movement. Concerning the Russian class struggle, in the book What Is to Be Done? (1902), against the "economist" trend of the socialist parties (who proposed that the working class would develop a revolutionary consciousness from demanding solely economic improvements), Lenin said that the "history of all countries bears out the fact that, through their own powers alone, the working class can develop only a trade-union consciousness"; and that under reformist, trade-union leadership, the working class could only engage spontaneous local rebellions to improve their political position within the capitalist system, and that revolutionary consciousness developed unevenly. Nonetheless, optimistic about the working class's ability to develop a revolutionary class consciousness, Lenin said that the missing element for escalating the class struggle to revolution was a political organisation that could relate to the radicalism of political vanguard of the working class, who then would attract many workers from the middling policies of the reformist leaders of the trade unions.

It is often believed that Lenin thought the bearers of class consciousness were the common intellectuals who made it their vocation to conspire against the capitalist system, educate the public in revolutionary theory, and prepare the workers for the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat that would follow. Yet, unlike his Menshevik rivals, Lenin distinguished himself by his hostility towards the bourgeois intelligentsia, and was routinely criticised for placing too much trust in the intellectual ability of the working class to transform society through its own political struggles.

Like other political organisations that sought to change Imperial Russian society, Lenin's Bolshevik Party resorted to conspiracy, and operated in the political underground. Against Tsarist repression, Lenin argued for the necessity of confining membership to people who were professionally trained to combat the Okhrana; however, at its core, the Bolshevik Party was an exceptionally flexible organisation who pragmatically adapted policy to changing political situations. After the Revolution of 1905, Lenin proposed that the Bolshevik Party "open its gates" to the militant working class, who were rapidly becoming political radicals, in order for the Party to become a mass-action political party with genuine roots in the working class movement.

The notion of a 'vanguard', as used by Lenin before 1917, did not necessarily imply single-party rule. Lenin considered the Social-Democrats (Bolsheviks) the leading elements of a multi-class (and multi-party) democratic struggle against Tsarism. Even after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks (now renamed the Communist Party) operated in the Soviets, trade unions, and other working-class mass organisations in a milieu with other revolutionary parties, such as Mensheviks, Social-Revolutionaries and anarcho-communists, and local soviets often elected non-Bolshevik majorities. In this context, Lenin considered the Bolsheviks the vanguard insofar as they were the most consistent defenders of Soviet power (which he considered the dictatorship of the proletariat or 'Commune-state'). However, this situation changed drastically during the Russian Civil War and economic collapse, which decimated the working class and its independent institutions, and saw the development of irreconcilable conflicts between the Bolsheviks and their rivals. At the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1921, the Party made the de facto reality de jure by outlawing opposition parties and formalising single-Party rule.

Thus, the concept of a vanguard party was used by the Bolsheviks to justify their suppression of other parties. They took the line that since they were the vanguard of the proletariat, their right to rule could not be legitimately questioned. Hence, opposition parties could not be permitted to exist. From 1936 onward, Communist-inspired state constitutions enshrined this concept by giving the Communist parties a "leading role" in society—a provision that was interpreted to either ban other parties altogether or force them to accept the Communists' guaranteed right to rule as a condition of being allowed to exist.

In the 20th century, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) continued regarding itself as the institutionalisation of Marxist–Leninist political consciousness in the Soviet Union; therein lay the justification for its political control of Soviet society. Article 6 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution refers to the CPSU as the "leading and guiding force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of its political system, of all state organizations and public organizations". The CPSU, precisely because it was the bearer of Marxist–Leninist ideology, determined the general development of society, directed domestic and foreign policy, and "imparts a planned, systematic, and theoretically substantiated character" to the struggle of the Soviet people for the victory of communism.

Nonetheless, the political role of the vanguard party, as outlined by Lenin, is disputed among  the contemporary communist movement. Lenin's contemporary in the Bolshevik Party, Leon Trotsky, further developed and established the vanguard party with the creation of the Fourth International. Trotsky, who believed in permanent revolution, proposed that a vanguard party must be an international political party who organised the most militant activists of the working classes of the countries of the world.

Other uses
Although Lenin honed the idea in terms of a class leadership forged out of a proletarian vanguard specifically to describe Marxist–Leninist parties, the term is also used for many kinds of movement conceiving themselves as initially guided by a small elite. Theodor Herzl, the theorist of Zionism, thought legitimation from the majority would only hinder from the outset his movement, and therefore advised that "we cannot all be of one mind; the gestor will therefore simply take the leadership into his hands and march in the van."

This principle antedated by some years the Leninist idea of Bolshevism as the vanguard of the revolution by characterizing the 'Zionist movement as a vanguard of the Jewish people.' The Youth Guard at the forefront of Zionist mobilization in the Yishuv likewise conceived of itself as a revolutionary vanguard, and the kibbutz movement itself is said to have thought of itself as a 'selfless vanguard'. It is occasionally used with of certain Islamist parties. Writers Abul Ala Maududi and Sayyid Qutb both urged the formation of an Islamic vanguard to restore Islamic society. Qutb talked of an Islamist vanguard in his book Ma'alim fi al-Tariq (Milestones) and Maududi formed the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan whose goal was to establish a pan-Ummah worldwide Islamist ideological state starting from Pakistan, administered for God (Allah) solely by Muslims "whose whole life is devoted to the observance and enforcement" of Islamic law (Shari'ah), leading to the world becoming the House of Islam. The party members formed an elite group (called arkan) with "affiliates" (mutaffiq) and then "sympathizers" (hamdard) beneath them. Today, the Jamaat-e-Islami has spread wings to other South Asian countries with large Muslim populations, such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India. The literature of the Bahá'í Faith also frequently refers to those serving to raise the capacities of communities around the world as the "vanguard" of the Cause of Baha'u'llah

According to Roger Eatwell, some fascist parties have also operated in ways similar to the concept of a vanguard party.

See also
 Maoism
 Foco
 Avant-garde
 Blanquism
 Democratic centralism
 Jacobinism

References

Further reading
Arts
 Burger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Theory & History of Literature Series. 135 pages. University of Minnesota Press, February 1, 1984. .
 Forster, Merlin H. and K. David Jackson, compilers. Vanguardism in Latin American Literature : An Annotated Bibliographic Guide. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature Series. 232 pages. Greenwood Press, May 23, 1990. .
 Maerhofer, John.  2009.  Rethinking the Vanguard: Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Modernist Debate, 1917-1962.  New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Politics
 Vladimir Lenin  What is to be done?
 Yevgeny Bugaev. What Is the Party? Moscow: Progress Publishers. 1986.
 Bakunin, Mikhail. "Letter to Albert Richard". August 1870. Reprinted in Bakunin on Anarchy, translated and edited by Sam Dolgoff. A. A. Knopf, 1st edition, 1972. . Retrieved May 17, 2005.
 Gray, Phillip W.  2020.  Vanguardism: Ideology and Organization in Totalitarian Politics.  London: Routledge.
 Mandel, Ernest. "Trotsky's conception of self-organisation and the vanguard party".  Originally published in French in Quatrième Internationale, No.36, pp. 35–49. November 1989. Translated by Mike Murray, marked up by Einde O'Callaghan for the Marxists' Internet Archive. Retrieved May 24, 2005.
 Mitchell, Roxanne and Frank Weiss. Two, Three, Many Parties of a New Type? Against the Ultra-Left Line. Publisher: United Labor Press. 1977. Retrieved May 25, 2005.
 Slaughter, Cliff. "What is Revolutionary Leadership?". Labour Review.  Socialist Labor League.  1964?. Retrieved May 17, 2005.

Polemics
 Mythology of the White-Led "Vanguard": A Critical Look at the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.  Anarchist People of Color website. Retrieved May 17, 2005.
 Cooper, Nick. Critique of Revolutionary Communism . Belgium Indymedia. Sep. 23, 2004.  Retrieved June 3, 2005.

Communist terminology
Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Leninism
Political theories
Political parties
Revolution terminology
Stalinism

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Just days after Trump signed an executive order banning international NGOs from providing abortion services or offering information about abortions if they receive US funding, U.S. states are taking preemptive action to protect the reproductive rights of U.S. citizen.
On Wednesday, state lawmakers in 18 different states across the U.S. have started to introduce their own pro-choice legislation in their states. The states include Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The bills vary according to each state in what they provide to protect women's access to reproductive healthcare. Some of measures include requiring crisis pregnancy centers to identify themselves as non-medically licensed facilities, increasing emergency contraception access for survivors of sexual assault, recognising abortion as healthcare in need of both public and private insurance coverage, and keeping employers from discriminating against employees who have made reproductive health decisions to which they are personally opposed.
All states have cause for concern. VP Mike Pence has been an outspoken opponent of abortion and his views border on the extreme. During a town hall visit during the presidential campaign, Pence said: "I'm pro-life and I don't apologise for it. We'll see Roe v. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs." Roe V. Wade was the landmark court case in 1973 that recognised a woman's right to have an abortion.
Last year Pence also signed a controversial anti-abortion law that would have banned abortions of fetuses sought over gender, race, ancestry, or diagnosis of a genetic disorder and required women to view the fetal ultrasound hours before receiving an abortion.
This is why the action taken by state legislators now is so important. It shows that people are willing to fight to protect reproductive rights for women at every turn.
Gloria Totten, founder and president of Public Leadship Institue, which helped legislators draft the bills, told Teen Vogue that the election of Trump/Pence has undoubtedly motivated people to take action. "Since the election, no one is sitting down. Many, many more people are approaching us and saying, 'We didn't think we were ready before because we live in a red state and don't have the votes.' But now we're hearing, 'We've had it — it's enough.' Trump has really inspired a lot of advocates and policymakers to stand up and say, 'I'm going to be bold now."
During this increasingly difficult and, quite frankly, depressing time, it's super inspiring to hear stories of people fighting back and protecting the rights of women.


will have lowrider bikes and model cars also.
Attached you will find directions to Beef 'O' Brady's of Melbourne in Florida (Babcock). One hundred percent of your registration fee is tax deductible, as you are receiving no goods or services paid for by Beef 'O' Brady's of Melbourne. This will be one of the biggest shows of the summer.
While most registrants have paid their $30.00 registrations on line, you may also send a money order for registration made out to Beef 'O' Brady's Midtown Melbourne, Fl. 32904. You can also register in store @ Beef' O' Brady's Midtown between 8:00 am and 10pm Monday through Friday.
Check-in and setup begins at 8:00 am and will run no later then 11:00 am, unless otherwise instructed, with the show officially beginning at 1:00 pm. However, this is an open event, free to the public, where fans can see your vehicles as soon as they are set. Please follow our time line and directions for your arrival, as we must place vehicles in some order. Please pay special attention to how and where you will be directed to drive. As with all shows, there are unforeseen occurrences that require us to be flexible, so please remember that our show stewards will have you place your vehicle once you arrive. If you arrive to a point, other than where you are directed, our stewards will redirect you to the proper entry point.
Should you arrive before your schedule time, you will be asked to park in a holding area nearest your entrance until be are prepared to place you.
Please contact us if you should have any special placement needs for trailers.
Sections will be broken down to allow for certain makes of vehicles to be grouped together. We are dealing with defined parking spaces and there must be some flexibility here as well. Some have asked to be positioned at certain points of venue. As the demand for the show has increased, our ability to appeal to these requests will decrease and we hope you will understand. This year's field is utterly fantastic and we think you will be pleased with your neighbors.
Your window decal for the show will be given to you once you have placed your car and checked in at the main registration tent. If you have not yet made your registration you can also do so at the registration tent before 10:00 am.
Stewards will be stationed in all areas so feel free to leave your car unattended at points during the show. You will be able to order food during this event through Beef 'O' Brady's of Melbourne. This show will also feature custom low rider bikes, custom ATVs and custom model cars. There will be a $20 entry for Custom ATVs $15 custom low rider bikes, and 10$ to enter 10 model cars and $1 per car there after. There will also be a low rider hop contest. And a grand prize for the highest High Rider.
Awards will be given for Best Custom Paint, Best Body, Best Modifications, and Best Interior. Judging will begin at 10:00 am and before the close of the show at 3:30 pm. The Awards show will take place inside Beef O Brady's so please stay and continue to enjoy your self's.
This show will be held in rain or shine and will only be canceled due to severe weather warnings. If we experience poor weather, we encourage our guests to dress in layers and bring rain gear in addition to drying cloths for your vehicles.


Ginno Russo follows up summery sizzler She Is On Fire with his full debut vinyl 12" for MOM. The Valencia based DJ and producer presents a stylish four track EP. It is entitled Travelling Around Zambia and features rhythms and beats inspired by Africa. Russo has been an active DJ since he was 17, with DJ residencies in Valencia and the surrounding region, as well as frequent trips to the Balearic Islands. Due to this experience, Russo knows what works on the dancefloor. Therefore it is no surprise that all four tracks on this EP are built for club play. However, the fun rhythms and ear catching grooves also make them suited to other occasions.
Lio is a powerful and uplifting opener. It features steady textured beats, a stylish keyed groove and rising strings. Rosas is a funky number for the dancefloor. Textured percussion and powerful synths work the groove here alongside looped vocal fragments. Poble comes with a vocal winner. Call and response sung vocals are laid over a powerful bassline and strong beats. Dubby is a relentless follow-up. Exploding chords and a live bass take centre stage over not stopping beats. This is a fine debut EP from Russo.


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After Rio Olympics next summer, who takes over at Team USA coach?
By Kurt HelinAug 27, 2015, 1:12 PM EDT
This is the last go around. He means it this time. After the 2016 Olympics in Rio next August, Mike Krzyzewski is stepping down as the head coach of USA Basketball. He'll ride off into the sunset at Duke for a while longer, write a book, do some gardening, spend time with his grandkids. Coach K will be just fine.
But who is next in the big chair for Team USA?
Jerry Colangelo, the president of USA Basketball and the guy who will get the final say on that question, has no idea. Or, phrased correctly, he's not about to discuss it right now. Vincent Goodwill of CSNChicago.com asked him and he danced around the question artfully.
"I plan to, right after hopefully winning another gold medal in Rio in '16, go to sleep and dream about who that next person might be and what he looks like," Colangelo told CSNChicago.com. "Until then I have so many things going on in my small brain, I can't even focus on it."
Colangelo, in his previous moments of candor with CSNChicago.com at Summer League, also stated he had a coach in mind to replace Kryzyzewski but he didn't want to reveal who it was.
"That is true and I'm the only one who knows it," Colangelo said laughing. "It's a big world and there's a great coaches. And I don't want to give any indication who it might be. Heck, you might wake up and find out I called you to ask if you were interested!"
There are three things needed in the next Team USA coach:
1) Players have to want to play for him. The USA has better and deeper talent than any country on earth, and it's not close — but that only matters if guys show up. Pick someone they don't respect, try to go too far outside the box, and you could end up with a USA "B" team (which may still win the gold, but is more vulnerable).
2) They have to be good at Xs and Os, and not wed to one system. Coach K has laid a foundation of a system that works for Team USA — pressure defense leading to up-tempo offense — because it exploits that athletic advantage we have in the USA. However, as the players putting on the jersey change, as the game evolves, this coach needs to be adaptable and not just change with it but be a step ahead of it.
3) He has to be above the petty politics of agents and shoe companies. There are a lot of people trying to influence the selection of players for Team USA, all for their own financial gain. (And to suggest Nike has not and does not have influence would be naive.) This coach needs to be able to stand up to and rise above those interests if it is best for the team.
There are two names regularly mentioned in NBA circles:
Gregg Popovich and Doc Rivers. With Popovich the frontrunner.
Other names get speculated about — Brad Stevens, Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan, Doug Collins — and they could work out, but Popovich and Rivers meet the three criteria the best right now.
Popovich was the other coach strongly considered when Krzyzewski was hired back in 2004, and part of the reason Colangelo is rumored to have chosen who he did was he didn't feel Popovich was as enthusiastic about the job. First, that would be a poor reading of Popovich, who is not a classic "rah-rah" coach but who is undoubtedly passionate. Second, that revelation led to some tension between Colangelo and Popovich that needs to be cleared up — to suggest former Air Force man Popovich was not enthusiastic about representing his country was going to cause a wound.
The rumors that Popovich has been ruled out because of that rift or age are false, according to Goodwill's sources.
To me, Popovich makes the most sense (and he could keep this job even in a few years when he becomes a "consultant" for the Spurs).
Players love Rivers and is a better tactician than he often gets credit for. He is a damn good fallback position.
But it depends on who Colangelo has in mind. And how everybody feels a year from now, which can be an eternity in basketball circles.


This past Friday was Debbie Race's final day with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Debbie was a key figure on the department's staff for nine years, serving as the Academic Program Administrator for graduate students. A good time was had by all in the student lounge, as a plethora of faculty and students got together to celebrate Debbie.
Good luck in your next adventure, Debbie!


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Q: Change the Increment Value of HTML Number Input - Decimals Is there any way to change how much a number is incremented when using the up/down arrows on a HTML number input form?
<input type="number" step="any" value="0.00000000"></input>

I'm working with tiny numbers, it would be nice if the up/down arrows incremented just 0.00000001 at a time, instead of a whole number.

*

*0.00000000

*0.00000001

*0.00000002

*0.00000003

Instead of

*

*0.00000000

*1

*2

*3

I doubt very much if there is an easy way to do this, just though I'd ask and see if anyone else has a workaround or method as I'm sure many people experience a similar issue.
Thanks,

A: The step attribute is for this. Your code now has the value any, which means that any values are accepted and the step size is the default, 1. Replace it by a specific number to set the granularity and the step size. Example:

<input type="number" step="0.00000001" value="0.00000000">

Note: The end tag </input> is invalid in HTML syntax for HTML5. In XHTML syntax it is allowed, but "self-closing tags" are recommended instead of it, e.g. <input type="number" step="0.00000001" value="0.00000000" />.

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4 must-see electronic music bands
4 great soundtracks by Ryuichi Sakamoto
…And now, an improvisation: 5 unmissable women in jazz
What was your favorite Bowie? A review of all his alter-ego, 6 years after his departure
Farewell to Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the king of rock and roll
Guitarist Jeff Beck has died at the age of 78
3 Fundamental Alternative Rock Bands
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The great legacy of Roedelius in electronic music
Viola Smith, the great legend of the battery
Irene Cara, interpreter of "Flashdance" and "Fame" died
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George Harrison, the spiritual man
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using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

using BizHawk.Emulation.Common;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Nintendo.Gameboy
{
	public partial class Gameboy : IEmulator, IBoardInfo
	{
		public IEmulatorServiceProvider ServiceProvider { get; }

		public ControllerDefinition ControllerDefinition => GbController;

		public bool FrameAdvance(IController controller, bool render, bool rendersound)
		{
			FrameAdvancePrep(controller);
			if (_syncSettings.EqualLengthFrames)
			{
				while (true)
				{
					// target number of samples to emit: length of 1 frame minus whatever overflow
					uint samplesEmitted = TICKSINFRAME - frameOverflow;
					Debug.Assert(samplesEmitted * 2 <= _soundbuff.Length);
					if (LibGambatte.gambatte_runfor(GambatteState, _soundbuff, ref samplesEmitted) > 0)
					{
						LibGambatte.gambatte_blitto(GambatteState, VideoBuffer, 160);
					}

					// account for actual number of samples emitted
					_cycleCount += samplesEmitted;
					frameOverflow += samplesEmitted;

					if (rendersound && !Muted)
					{
						ProcessSound((int)samplesEmitted);
					}

					if (frameOverflow >= TICKSINFRAME)
					{
						frameOverflow -= TICKSINFRAME;
						break;
					}
				}
			}
			else
			{
				// target number of samples to emit: always 59.7fps
				// runfor() always ends after creating a video frame, so sync-up is guaranteed
				// when the display has been off, some frames can be markedly shorter than expected
				uint samplesEmitted = TICKSINFRAME;
				if (LibGambatte.gambatte_runfor(GambatteState, _soundbuff, ref samplesEmitted) > 0)
				{
					LibGambatte.gambatte_blitto(GambatteState, VideoBuffer, 160);
				}

				_cycleCount += samplesEmitted;
				frameOverflow = 0;
				if (rendersound && !Muted)
				{
					ProcessSound((int)samplesEmitted);
				}
			}

			if (rendersound && !Muted)
			{
				ProcessSoundEnd();
			}

			FrameAdvancePost();

			return true;
		}

		public int Frame { get; private set; }

		public string SystemId => "GB";

		public string BoardName { get; }

		public bool DeterministicEmulation { get; }

		public void ResetCounters()
		{
			Frame = 0;
			LagCount = 0;
			IsLagFrame = false;

			// reset frame counters is meant to "re-zero" emulation time wherever it was
			// so these should be reset as well
			_cycleCount = 0;
			frameOverflow = 0;
		}

		public CoreComm CoreComm { get; }

		public void Dispose()
		{
			if (GambatteState != IntPtr.Zero)
			{
				LibGambatte.gambatte_destroy(GambatteState);
				GambatteState = IntPtr.Zero;
			}

			_vram = IntPtr.Zero;
			_oam = IntPtr.Zero;
			_sppal = IntPtr.Zero;
			_bgpal = IntPtr.Zero;

			DisposeSound();
		}
	}
}

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Georgia Lawmakers Punish Delta Air Lines Over NRA Feud : The Two-Way After the Atlanta-based carrier said it was ending an NRA discount, the state's GOP lawmakers made good on a threat to eliminate a proposed tax exemption on jet fuel worth millions to the airline.
A Delta Air Lines flight takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta in January of last year.
Earlier this week, Delta — the state's largest private employer, with 33,000 workers statewide — was among numerous companies to announce that it would end discounts for NRA members in the wake of the mass shooting that killed 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school.
Immediately afterward, Georgia's Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, a Republican and staunch NRA ally, said he would "kill" legislation to give the airline a sales tax exemption on jet fuel. The proposal, estimated to be worth at least $38 million to Delta and other airlines, had until then been largely uncontroversial.
Ignoring warnings that taking on Delta could harm the state's pro-business image, the GOP-controlled House, which had earlier approved a larger tax bill containing the exemption, voted 135-24 on Thursday for a new version stripped of the provision. Meanwhile, some experts have raised First Amendment concerns over the legislature's punitive move.
House Speaker David Ralston, a Republican, made it clear that there was a direct link between the vote and the NRA controversy: "I hope they are better at flying airplanes than timing PR announcements," he said.
The Senate passed the tax cut bill 44-10.
Republican Gov. Nathan Deal, who called the Delta controversy an "unbecoming squabble," said he would sign the broader tax measure.
Lt. Gov. Cagle is widely seen as Deal's successor. In a statement, he said: "Businesses have every legal right to make their own decisions, but the Republican majority in our state legislature also has every right to govern guided by our principles."
Delta did not immediately comment on the votes, but the controversy has prompted several states in recent days to lobby the airline to relocate its headquarters.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, tweeted Tuesday: "Hey [Delta] —Virginia is for lovers and airline hubs. You're welcome here any time."
The governors of Connecticut and New York, also Democrats, have also pitched their states to the airline, according to The Associated Press, which says the mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and a congressional representative from Ohio "also have reached out to Delta in recent days."


The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will not be permitted to argue in an upcoming antitrust trial that the provision of financial support to women's sports and less prominent men's sports justified the NCAA's restrictions on compensation for student-athletes on Division I men's football or basketball teams. The federal district court in Oakland, California, will not reconsider a recently-issued summary judgment order to the extent the decision held that the support for these sports was "not a legitimate procompetitive justification" for the challenged restraints on complaining current and former college athletes. The NCAA's request for leave to file a motion for reconsideration was denied (In re NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litigation, May 12, 2014, Wilken, C.).
On April 11, 2014, the court issued an order, granting in part and denying in part the complaining student-athletes' motion for summary judgment and denying the NCAA's motion for summary judgment. Specifically, the court found that fact issues precluded summary judgment to either party with respect to four of the NCAA's five asserted procompetitive justifications for its rules prohibiting student-athletes from receiving compensation for the use of their names, images, and likenesses. However, the court granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs with respect to the NCAA's fourth justification—that the alleged restraint increased NCAA member schools' athletic budgets and, therefore, enabled them to provide greater financial support to women's sports and less prominent men's sports. The court refused to validate a practice that restrained trade even if it had unrelated benefits to competition in another market. It went on to explain that the NCAA could support women's sports and less prominent men's sports through less restrictive means, and it offered a few suggestions.
In seeking leave to move for reconsideration, the NCAA argued that the court failed to consider controlling legal authority and material facts concerning (1) the scope of the "college education" market and (2) the nonexistence of less restrictive alternatives.
The court rejected the NCAA's argument that it erred in treating Division I men's football and basketball recruits as the only consumers in the alleged college education market. The plaintiffs maintained that the NCAA "restrains competition in the [college education] market by preventing Division I schools from offering their recruits a portion of the revenue they receive from football-and basketball-related broadcasting and videogame licenses." The rule allegedly deprived Division I schools "of a tool that they could otherwise use to recruit the top student-athletes," and deprives student-athletes of compensation that they would otherwise receive in an unrestrained market.
Thus, the court did not fail to consider other consumers in the market, including "other Division I [student-athletes] and other college-bound students," as the NCAA argued. The NCAA had not presented sufficient evidence to support an inference that the relevant market included consumers other than Division I men's football and basketball recruits. Nothing in the report of the defendant's expert economist or in the declarations submitted by university administrators, athletic directors, or conference executives justified the NCAA's request for leave to seek reconsideration, it was noted.
Less restrictive alternatives. Moreover, the court was not swayed by declarations from university administrators and athletic directors that were intended to support an inference that the NCAA lacks less restrictive alternatives for promoting women's sports or less prominent men's sports. The court had pointed out that, rather than limiting student-athlete compensation, the NCAA could simply require its member conferences to redistribute revenue generated by Division I men's football and basketball to women's sports and less prominent men's sports.
Although the school officials asserted that Title IX made it difficult for universities and conferences to redistribute revenue from men's sports to women's sports, the NCAA could still require its member conferences to redistribute their Division I football and basketball revenue to less prominent men's sports. Further, suggestions that Title IX prevented Division I schools and conferences from redistributing revenue from men's football and basketball to women's sports undermined the NCAA's own argument that restrictions on student-athlete compensation made it easier for schools to redistribute funding to women's sports and less prominent men's sports, according to the court.
Trial in the case is set to begin next month.
Attorneys: Shana E. Scarlett (Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP) for Samuel Michael Keller. Glenn Douglas Pomerantz (Munger Tolles & Olson) and Juan Carlos Araneda (Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP) for National Collegiate Athletic Assn.
Companies: National Collegiate Athletic Assn.