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Floods – Changes Over Time
Australia has only just recently suffered the worst flooding in years, with large areas of the East Coast under water. Brisbane was hit very hard with high waterlevels over days.
ABC-News has put together a coverage story showing in detail the impact of the flooding before and after. It is a sort of time warp representation between two given dates. Click HERE for the slider version 01 and HERE for the slider version 02.
The visualisation is based on date from the nearmap service. They are providing detailed resolution time aerial maps, just like google maps does but with an integrated time slider. Google offers a similar tool in Google Earth to see older imagery, but nearmap offers more and much shorter timespans between the dates. So it happens they also have imagery ready from right during the flooding.
Rosalie Village [Click for original nearmap]
Cleverly the imagery is overlaid and allows to drag the before stage to reveil the after, showing water everywhere. Of course the images line up perfectly with the difference of what happend to the place in the mean time.
Milton (Lang Park) [Click for original nearmap]
Floating pallets in Rocklea industrial estate [Click for original nearmap]
In the original representation this obviously has the wow effect for discovering whats underneath and then covering it up again. This is great interactive visualisation. The fasciantion lies in the hidden part.
HMAS Diamantina in 'dry dock' at South Bank [Click for original nearmap]
Two men in a floating 'spa' in Chelmer [Click for original nearmap]
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Chromaroma – Public Transport Gaming
What could brighten up the daily gray commutes back and forth between nowhere and somewhere? Well I guess a game coud actually, but card games are not a big hit during rush hours and playing on the iphone or DS is about as lonely as it gets. Lets play the system.
Chromorama is a multiplayer platform that does exactly this. It animates your bleak journey as a move in the game. The whole tube network i the borad and any tap in, tap out recorded with the oyster card is a move in the game.
After a test phase last year they launched a public beta version that is now open for signing up. So far the network for players was focused on the tube network. However this has been extended to include the London Bike Scheme. When ever you check in and out your bike this now also counts as game moves.
Image taken from chromorama blog / The final view is an overall global view which give the player an overivew of all the team activity. I particularly like this one becuase it has a corporeal quality and the odd look of it. Like blood pumping around the heart of the city. The players powering a metropolis, a beast coming to life, like Frank emerging from the floorboards in "Hellraiser".
Just recently the whole visual have been reworked and it looks juicy now. ALso the mission and activities the players can participate on have been extended it looks like a lot of fun. There is for example the 'Ghost Hunter' mission. Currently set to "Visit Becontree between 11:00 PM and 01:00 AM within 5 days Becontree is rumoured to be haunted by a faceless woman with long blonde hair, spotted on numerous occasions by the staff there. Go there late at night, and hope you don't see her…"
Image by wearemudlark / Screen grab of October player view3.
In a sense the whole of the public transport network could become a playground and each yellow tap in point a gaming button. Commuting is about to become fun and tfl wil now make your day rather than ruin it. With this move to incorporate a fun aspect, the perception of routines is transformed and a different kind of motivation can swing the direction.
This is to some extend the vision of 'You Are the City' put into practice. The 'user' becomes a 'player' in the sense of an actor. This change of role definition probably makes the whole difference. Of course aspects of size and relationship help with this one.
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AR in Your Shoe
Walking the city in your shoe is one thing, but walking the internet in your shoe is quite another. So far a few key strokes and mainly the one finger to scroll and click the mouse were the tools you used to navigate the internet. This is so 2000 and has completely changed now. Adidas shows how you can navigate with your sneakers!
They have launched anew edition, the AR GAME PACK SNEAKERS and it is integrated with a new platform Adidas Neighbourhood.
The whole thing is based on AR augmented reality technology and the software will read the tag printed on the tongue of the shoe.
Image taken from Adidas / Print file to manufacture your own tag for a game teaser. Pint and fold to use as a mokup in case you havent bought the shoe yet.
So of you go running trough the Adidas Neighbourhood and chatting up the girls on the street cornet, playing the streets in the hood and hang out with the buddies. Down the steps out the door, the city is all yours!
Dream on and if you like this idea don't read any further. Well, actually it si not quite like this. You wil find yourself squat in ten centimeter of your screen in your half dark empty room trying to line up the tag with the webcam and SHOOT star ship troopers!
Oh my goodness how boring is that. Its just another one person shooter. Instead of the mouse, the joystick you wiggle your shoe – with your hands. I have to confess I never was a big fan of one person shooters. Played them occasionally, but haven't for a long time. And the combination of shooting and sneakers is no really not the first one I construct, but here we are.
So much exiting stuff coud be done, at least some GTA style of interaction?
Never mind, this is great and I love it anyway. Someone will come up with a better scenarion. The combination of commercial goods and virtual content has so much potential for exciting application that this is definitely a great first move. The internet of things comes to your feet. This is definitely what we are going to see a lot in the coming month.
There was already quite a some stuff last year, with BMW's augmented comercial for the new Z4 for example or the Tales of Things project, Lego Digital Box and Adidas.
Both LEGO and Adidas are actually based on the metaio platform: "As a pioneer in the area of augmented reality (AR) technology, metaio develops software products for visual interactive solutions seamlessly combining real and virtual elements. Based on the software platform Unifeye, 3D-animations can be integrated seamlessly into the real-user`s environment." They have also developed the junaio software an AR platform for mobile devices with a developer API, very similar to layar.
So it is a war out there and a lot of companies are battling for a few users in a emerging field. In this sense first person shooter is not so much out of place.
Image taken from hypebeat / the guys out in the hood, this is street life and this wold be what we want to see. The geolocation game Urban Defender in this sense was a lot more inspiring, but the two seem very much related and one almost want to merge them. It just needs a bit more action than just shooting.
Gaming at Large Scale
Real world gaming with the help of mobile gadgets with GPS are high up this week. This weekends Saturday Guardian Guide points to a gaming event that will take place over the next weekend simultaneously in three locations across the UK.
It is once more a sign of the upcoming section of location-interactive-real-world-games. Those are together with the availability of gadgets popular and also develop into more mass compatible storyboards and technologies. In an other post on real-world games HERE, looked at reinterpreted old classics.
The announced event 'greatstreetgames' will take place between 29 October and the 1 November simultaneously in Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. It is set up as a competition between the three places, but anyone can join any team, it is open to the public.
Basically it will consist of a large play field projected in each location where players collect points by collecting 'virtual' balls. It will be a best of five series each game lasting 90 seconds. The city with the most points wins. Surprisingly the official web pages do not make a very big deal out of it. THere is very little information to be found outside the world of techies and geeks.
Image by KMA via Pruned
It is designed by KMA, collaboration between Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler. They introduce their work as follow "KMA's work creates large, immersive, sometimes networked, 'digital playgrounds', in which distinctions between audiences and performers disappear. The resulting social engagements reaffirm the urban community through embodied, rather than verbal, discourse."
The project has already featured on Pruned and was embedded in a lovely story envisioning the encounter with the projected game field as something one might stumble across in the darkness of the vast city, something that might be a discovery.
However this game is locally very confined to a rather small space as the visualisations suggest. You wont need the GPS to play, maybe to find it, if you were texted the latest location for today's game. Nevertheless, it does connect over a large distance the three cities. From the available descriptions it is difficult to grasp how much interaction is possible between the locations, but this definitely would be the most interesting aspect. Maybe someone in Sunderland will snatch your virtual ball and drop it in their own box.
To some extend the game proposal reminds me of the 'Where is Wally' scene with the six team football.
As it looks, Hollywood also has realized that there is something changing in the world of gamers and games. They have implemented the aspect of real people in a virtual game for quite a while, probably because it makes of simple plots. The latest version is the 'Gamer' movie directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. What they haven't yet realised is the spatial aspect of the emergent street games and with it the importance of the location.
But probably this is the point, a game is not a movie, you are not entertained, you are entertaining as you play the game.
Interaction with the Urban Form – Plymouth City Centre
Plymouth city centre is a very specific area. It has a very distinct character arising from the strong postwar design by Patrick Abercrombie. It has a truly mono functional use, it is a shopping centre in the most literal sense of the word possible. There are no offices, no restaurants, no pubs or bars, no housing, just shops and on the first or second floors storage space for the shops.
The shops open at 10h00 am and close at 18h00. These hours then basically determine the "opening" of the city centre. Outside of those the centre is dead, again literally. There is a very special phenomenon attached to this. Although the opening hours are as described above, shoppers vanish around 17h00. So approximately one hour before closing the shops are already empty and so is the center. Being in HMV at half five is like a scene out of "I am Legend" – hello is there someone? (I have written a longer article about this topic on JLF urban research.)
To my surprise this pattern shows up dramatically in my records. Although I was aware of this pattern and could have behaved differently, but I didn't. There is no reason to walk through this area, as there is nothing happening and on top of this it becomes rather scary to be on your own in this vast outdoor shopping centre at night.
This short clip shows the activities within 24h. It is zoomed right into Plymouth center. The activities start around 10h00 and end exactly at 17h00. There is the odd crossing outside of these hours, but the characteristic shows clearly.
plymouth365_plyCentre from urbanTick on Vimeo.
To illustrate this in a bit more context, the following images include the city centre of Plymouth but cover also bits of outside area. What this shows is, that even after 17h00 the track record shows still a high number of activities, but they all exclude magically the centre.

Images by urbanTick – Time sequence 07h00, 09h00, 11h00, 16h00, 17h00, 19h00 and 22h00 activity in the Plymouth city center. Click for larger view.
What is now possible is to compare three different cities. I have a track record from Plymouth, Basle and London.
The following three screenshots are taken from Google Earth at an altitude of 9km. So they are comparable in scale.
What they all have in common is the fix points. The main structural elements of how my days work in terms of space and time are the same. Leaving home going to the same workplace everyday and returning back home. Between those fix points there build up quite intense tracks lines. This base layer get extended by some secondary points, e.g. location for the weekly shopping, favorite spots, friends location, … The third element are the trips. Journeys that are usually going out of the daily routine to a further destination or just a stroll. They occur characteristically on days off or weekends. Depending on how familiar I am with the surrounding they are more focused or of more explorative nature.

Image by urbanTick – Plymouth
Image by urbanTick – Basel
Image by urbanTick – London
Interesting is to compare how I respond to the urban surrounding. The three cities have very distinct urban patterns from one another. Take Plymouth, a city completely planned almost from scratch after it was destroyed in the Second World War. The planner was Patrick Abercrombie who also presented ideas for the reconstruction or better new construction of London after the Blitz. Basel on the other hand is a similar size city in a very different setting with its growth patterns structuring very much its appearance. Or London as the third example, the world city with its single centre core.
To explore how those characteristics influence my interaction with the built environment in terms of routs I choose I overlay my tracks onto maps that capture the characteristics of the three cities.
Image by urbanTick – Plymouth Abercrombie Plan with Plymouth 365 track overlay
Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, the tracks redraw quite exactly the characteristics of the Abercrombie Plan.
Image by urbanTick – Basel city center with track overlay
Note area A (dark brown) is the old medieval town surrounded by walls dated ca 1860. Area B (beige) is the extension, ca 1875,but still surrounded by a wall. Area C is the extension of the city ca 1926, but is also mainly the present extend. It is important to know that after the walls have been demolished, the freed up space has been used for major infrastructure placements such as roads, but also as open spaces. This means that additionally to the link roads that from the centre outwards there is also a no of ring roads (on the ground of the former walls) that tie in very well with the rest of the network. Moving radial is quite simply in therefore and the use of it is represented in through the no of tracks. Compared to this in London it's quite tricky to travel radial as it has a strong centralized structure, roads mainly leading into or out of the city centre.
This then is represented in the London track log. It is strongly linear and this represents exactly this centrality as the line is pointing towards the centre.
So now guess which track log is which city.

Images by urbanTick – track record line drawings


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Philanthropy & Ethics
Sam Branson U.K.
Social entrepreneur, Adventurer and Filmmaker
Co-founder of 'Sundog Pictures'
Actor and Producer
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Sam Branson is an English actor and producer. He is the co-founder of a production company called 'Sundog Pictures' which aims to bring positive change to society. It has collaborated with some of the world's leading broadcasters like 'BBC,' 'National Geographic', and 'Netflix'. He is also a well-known philanthropist, providing supplies to those who were affected by the 2017 hurricane that left the British Virgin Islands devastated.
He has appeared in a couple of TV series and documentaries such as 'Famous and Fearless' (2011) and 'Bransons: Come Hell or High Water' in 2008. Sam made his acting debut in 2006 as the role of a shuttle specialist in the Bryan Singer-directed sci-film 'Superman Returns'. He was also seen in the Robert Meyer Brunett-directed documentary film 'Requiem for Krypton: Making 'Superman Returns'. In 2009, he started a production company called 'Current Sponge'. It was later rebranded as 'Sundog Pictures' and in the following year, he cast himself in one of the episodes of the talk-show 'GMTV'. He then competed in the reality TV game show 'Famous and Fearless' in 2011.
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Australia, 1990 (MIFF 1991, Documentary)
Director: Peter Lane
The suburb of St Kilda, in Melbourne, has bean described by Paul Taylor, Australian expat editor of Art and Text magazine, as the "cultural centre of Australia".
Director's Note: "Wild Things is a fast paced, colourful video shot during the 1990 St Kilda Festival. It attempts to capture the diversity and breadth of the festival which encompasses art, music, theatre, history and poetry. The emphasis is on local participation, underlining St Kilda's traditional creative environment.
SKA T.V. is a community access T.V. station established in 1989 to provide local community with access to film, video and T.V. It has produced over 60 hours of programming, staffed by volunteers and broadcasting periodically to the St Kilda area.
The mythical abode of bliss and pleasure, or the scene of massive destruction of the landscape for the purposes of the export woodchip industry? ... The film takes us into the primordial beauty of ... More »
The Last Newsreel
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...In Twenty Words or Less
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RIDING THE GALE
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Digital transformation drives change into both the architecture and the organization of the enterprise. The move toward domain-based development of micro-services in an enterprise environment has been seen by some as the death knell for data modeling. I argue that, in this brave new world, the need for data modeling is even greater. APIs are exposed to more people with less context to interpret the API. Use of micro-service architecture increases the number of transformation boundaries. Having a common understanding of the meaning of data increases speed to market, reduces the number of defects due to invalid transformation, and improves the percentage of API reuse within the enterprise.
Christina Burnett has over thirty years of experience in consulting, data modeling, software integration, analysis, and programming. She has worked on data modeling in the middle ware space at T-Mobile since 2010, riding the wave of change from SOAP services to RESTful APIs. Christina has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston, and will be completing her Master's in Software Engineering at the University of Washington Bothell in 2018.


The Riverport Ambassadors wander up and down the streets of the Historic Riverfront District and introduce our visitors to what life was like back in 19th century Jefferson. You can see Civil War heroes, scalawags, railroad tycoons, clerks, church ladies, steam boat captains or other wonderful characters.
The Riverport Ambassador Program were created to enhance the "Riverport Experience" of Jefferson, Texas. They do so by having fun and dressing in period costume. All Riverport Ambassadors try to interact one-on-one with our guests and visitors. The mission of the Riverport Ambassadors is to promote tourism, support businesses and interpret the history of Jefferson.
The Riverport Ambassadors were so successful July 4th that they will be out every weekend starting the first weekend of September and continuing on until May. There is no better way for you or your children to learn about the wonderful riverport history of Jefferson then through the recreation of that history by the Riverport Ambassadors.
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NCAA podcast with Michelle Richardson: Abuse and disrespect by Hawaii's Graham gets him out of program; 7 Georgia players leaving for the NFL; plus much more
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors head coach Todd Graham resigns from the Hawaii program after complaints of abuse and disrespect from current and former players on Sat Jan 15, 2022 (file photo Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
On the NCAAF podcast with Michelle Richardson:
#1 Hawaii head coach Todd Graham had resigned from his post after it was reported that Graham had been accused of being disrespectful and abusive to past and current players on the team. It was also reported that several current players were leaving the program and that Hawaii had their bowl game canceled due to a Covid 19 outbreak.
#2 Safety Lewis Cine, LB Nakobe Dean, WR George Pickens, OL Jamaree Salyer and DL Travon Walker running backs Zamir White and James Cook are all leaving the Georgia Bulldogs program to join the 2022 NFL draft. The players were key in helping the Bulldogs beat the Alabama Crimson Tide in the National Title.
#3 The UCLA Bruins have extended the contract of head coach Chip Kelly, Kelly who was in the last year of his contract got a four year extension. Kelly and the Bruins went 8-4 in the 2021 season and they were set to meet NC State in the Holiday Bowl but the game was scratched due to Covid 19 outbreaks amongst the Bruins players.
Michelle's Final Thoughts
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Categories NCAA•Tags Georgia Bulldogs, Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, NCAA Football, NCAA podcast with Michelle Richardson, Sports Radio Service
NCAAF podcast with Michelle Richardson: Harbaugh named AP College Coach of the Year; Whittingham Pac 12 coach of the Year; plus more
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh who won the AP coach of the year award seen here coaching in the Big Ten championship against Iowa, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo)
On the NCAAF podcast with Michelle:
#1 There were no shortages of awards for NCAAF coaches this week. Michigan Wolverine's head coach Jim Harbaugh who led Michigan to a College Football Playoff birth and a Big Ten title for the first time in 17 years was awarded the Associated Press college football coach of the year.
#2 The Utah Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham was named the Pac 12 coach of the year. Whittingham led the Utes to the Rose Bowl and had no problems defeating the Oregon Ducks in the Pac 12 Championship in Las Vegas last week.
#3 Former Oakland Raiders head coach Hue Jackson was named head coach at Grambling, Jackson was head coach at Tennessee State and fills the job opening after Grambling fired Broderick Fobbs in November.
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Categories NCAA•Tags Grambling, Michigan Wolverines, NCAA podcast with Michelle Richardson, Sports Radio Service, Utah Utes
NCAAF podcast with Michelle Richardson: Michigan gets by Penn State; New Mexico St gets clobbered by Alabama; Cincinnati stays perfect
Michigan Wolverines quarterback Cade McNamara gets a pass away in front of Penn State defensive end Arnold Ebiketie (17) on Sat Nov 13, 2021 at Penn State (AP News photo)
#1 No.6 Michigan Wolverines (9-1) keep rolling this time they bested the Penn State (6-4) Nittany Lions 21-17.Michigan quarterback Cade McNamara was 19-29 for 217 yards, and three touchdowns. Good defense by the Wolverines held the Nittany Lions to two field goals in the first half while they scored a touchdown in each of the second, third, and fourth quarters.
#2 There was no mercy rule for the New Mexico State Aggies (1-9) who got crushed by the Alabama Crimson Tide (9-1) 59-3. The Aggies only bright spot in this one was they were able to shutout Alabama in the third quarter. The Crimson Tide used four passers in the game. Starter Bryce Young went 21-23 for 270 yards and five touchdowns.
#3 The No.5 Cincinnati Bearcats (10-0) maintained their perfect record taking to the South Florida Bulls (2-8) 45-28. The Bearcats kept pouring it on with 17 points in the second quarter and 14 points in the fourth quarter. Bearcats quarterback Desmond Ridder went 31-39 for 304 yards and two touchdowns.
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NCAA Football podcast with Michelle Richardson: Georgia crushes Arkansas 37-0 and Stanford shocks Oregon; plus more
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Georgia Bulldogs running back Zamir White (3) runs past the Arkansas Razorbacks Jalen Catalon (1) for one of his three touchdowns at Athens Georgia on Sat Oct 2, 2021 (AP News photo)
NCAA Football podcast with Michelle:
#1 Michelle, No.2 Georgia Bulldogs (5-0) continue to roll and got a crushing 37-0 victory over the No. 8 Arkansas Razorbacks (4-1) on Saturday. It was the Razorbacks first defeat of the season and Bulldogs quarterback Stetson Bennett relied mostly on his running backs to score throwing 7-11 for only 72 yards.
#2 Michelle, Stanford Cardinal (3-2) got the best of Oregon Ducks (4-1) on Saturday with a 31-24 overtime win at Stanford Stadium, Stanford quarterback Tanner McKee threw for 230 yards and three touchdowns.
#3 Michelle, talk about ABC Newsman, NFL Fox analyst, and former New York Giant Michael Strahan donating funds to pay for helmets for Texas Southern. Texas Southern broke in the new helmets vs. North American University in Saturday's game.
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NCAA Football podcast with Michelle Richardson: Crimson Tide remain perfect; Georgia gets huge win; Buckeyes keep rolling
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Alabama Crimson Tide running back Roydell Williams (23) and quarterback Bryce Young (9) celebrate a Young keeper in the first half agianst the Southern Miss Golden Eagles at Tuscaloosa Ala on Sat Sep 25, 2021 (AP News photo)
On the NCAA Football podcast with Michelle:
#1 The Alabama Crimson Tide No.1 (4-0) remain perfect with a landslide victory over the Southern Miss Golden Eagles (1-3) 63-14. The Tide used three quarterbacks and starting quarterback Bryce Young threw for five touchdowns and 313 yards for the Tide's fourth straight win.
#2 The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (2-2) blew out the North Carolina Tar Heels (2-2). The Jackets came right out in the second quarter with 14 points in the third quarter and 18 points. In the third quarter for a 45-22 win. Jackets quarterback Jeff Sims 10-13, 112 yards and one touchdown.
#3 The Ohio State Buckeyes (3-1) blew out the Akron Zips (1-3) at Ohio State Saturday 59-7. The Buckeyes led at the half and never looked back 38-7. The Zips only score was in the first quarter. Ohio State starting Kyle McCord quarterback threw for 319 yards and two touchdowns.
Join Michelle for the NCAA Football podcasts each Sunday night at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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NCAA Football podcast with Michelle Richardson: Oklahoma holds off Nebraska 23-16; Michigan State blows past Hurricanes; plus more
Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Spencer Rattler (17) lead the Sooners to a 23-16 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers 23-16 on Sat Sep 18, 2021 (AP News photo)
#1 Number 3 Oklahoma Sooners defeated the Nebraska Cornhuskers 23-16 on Saturday. The Sooners just got by the Cornhuskers in the first quarter the Sooners outscored the Cornhuskers 7-3 after that the Cornhuskers matched the Sooners in the second quarter a 0-0 shutout, in the third quarter the Sooners outscoring the Cornhuskers 9-6 and in the four quarter a 7-7 score.
#2 Michelle how shocked were you to see #1 Michigan State Spartans defeat #2 Miami Hurricanes 38-17. The Spartans quarterback Payton Thorne was 18-31 for 261 yards and threw a lot of touchdowns four of them in the win.
#3 No.1 Alabama Crimson Tide defeated No.11 the Florida Gators 31-29 in a close contest. The Gators scored six in the fourth quarter but came up short by two to tie it and the Crimson Tide remain perfect at 3-0. Alabama quarterback Bryce Young went 22 for 35 for 233 yards and three touchdowns.
Michelle does the NCAA Football podcasts each Sunday night at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
Categories NCAA•Tags Georgia Bulldogs, Miami Hurricanes, Michigan State Spartans, NCAA podcast with Michelle Richardson, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oklahoma Sooners, Sports Radio Service, UAB Blazers
NCAA Football podcast with Michelle Richardson: Don't call him Neon Deion call him coach; Buckeyes shocked by Ducks; Mich St blows out Youngstown
Oregon Ducks quarterback Anthony Brown (13) threw for 236 yards against the Ohio State Buckeyes in NCAA action on Sat Sep 11, 2021 in Columbus (photo from Yahoo Sports)
#1 Former NFL great and Hall of Famer and current head coach at Jackson State Deion Sanders insists that everyone call him coach that includes media, alumni, fans, and especially his players. Sanders said that doctors, nurses, and other have earned their title and so has he. Sanders even walked out on a media scrum when a reporter who refused to to address him as coach. Is Sanders correct on insisting that he be called coach?
#2 Michelle, how surprising is it that the Ohio State Buckeyes ranked #3 lost to #12 Oregon 35-28. The Ducks quarterback Anthony Brown threw 17 for 35 for 236 yards and two touchdowns. The Ducks scored for 14 points in each of the second and third quarters and the Buckeyes just couldn't get any offense going.
#3 For Michigan State Spartans (2-0) no contest on Saturday as they upended Youngstown State Penguins (1-1) 42-14. The Spartans quarterback Payton Thorne was throwing all day the only time he got any rest was when his back up Anthony Russo came in at the end of the game to give him a rest. Thorne was 15 for 21 for 280 yards and had four touchdowns.
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NCAA Football podcast with Michelle Richardson: Oklahoma and Penn State in close game wins; Kiffin test positive in breakthrough case
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Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Spencer Rattler (7) threw for 304 yards and a touchdown against the Tulane Green Wave on Sat Sep 4, 2021 at Norman Oklahoma for the opening day win (AP News photo)
#1 Close game on Saturday Michelle as the Oklahoma Sooners just got by the Tulane Green Wave 40-35. It was a contest both schools were tied after the first quarter 14-14 but the Sooners broke it wide open with 23 points in the second quarter for a 37-14 lead. The Green Wave defense held the Sooners just to a field goal in the second half but fell short for a win.
#2 The Penn State Nittany Lions defense held back the Wisconsin Badgers 16-10 it was all defense in the first half as the score was 0-0 at the half. Third quarter each team scored seven for a 7-7 tie. Fourth quarter the Nittany Lions would score 9 to the Badgers 3 for the win. Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford threw for 247 yards and one touchdown.
#3 University of Mississippi head coach Lane Kiffin test positive for Coronavirus and will not coach on Monday against Louisville in Atlanta. Kiffin who is vaccinated tested positive is experiencing mild symptoms and said he is thankful that he is vaccinated. Kiffin said no other players and coaches tested positive.
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NCAA basketball podcast with Jeremy Kahn for Michelle Richardson: Women's basketball– Maryland gets huge 20 pt win; Baylor takes an 11 pt win over Texas; West Virginia gets by OK State 59-50
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The Maryland Terrapins Mimi Collins (2) makes every effort to hold onto the ball against the Iowa's McKenna Warnock (14) and Monika Czinano (25) in the Big Ten Conference Tournament on Sat Mar 13, 2021 in Indianapolis (AP News photo)
On the NCAA basketball podcast with Jeremy Kahn for Michelle Richardson:
#1 The women's game between Iowa No.6 and Maryland No.1 was a cliffhanger. Iowa lost to Maryland 104-84. The Terrapins Chloe Bibby was top scorer with 21 points.
#2 The Baylor lady Bears No.1 got a big win over the Texas Longhorns No.5 66-55. The leading scorer for the Bears NaLyssa Smith led Baylor with 21 points.
#3 West Virginia women defeated Oklahoma State 59-50. West Virginia's Esmery Martinez led the way in scoring with 19 points followed up by Kysre Gondrezick with 17 points.
JJ's predicted selections for the NCAA Women's Final Four
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NCAA basketball podcast with Michelle Richardson: Indiana University says mascot, logo and name have to go; Ex-Rugters player arrested for murder; plus more
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Valparaiso Crusaders head coach Matt Lottich (right) with Sheldon Edwards (13) and Ben Krikke (23) come back to the bench during a time out in their game against Drake on Sun Feb 7, 2021. The team name Crusaders, logo, and mascot are being done away with. (AP News photo)
On the NCAA basketball podcast with Michelle:
#1 Michelle, Indiana University Valparaiso said it's changing the name from Crusaders to something else. The University is made up of Lutherans and the student president Kaitlyn Stienhiser said the Crusader name doesn't represent the core values of the university and that logos, the nickname, the mascot will all have to go.
#2 Former Rutgers Scarlet Knights basketball player Logan Kelly 26 was arrested for murder. Kelly is accused of slashing a Tijuana night club employee's throat. Kelly had walked up behind the employee and killed the woman. He was detained by club employees and arrested. The woman was 19 years old. Kelly played for Rutgers during the 2012-2013 season.
#3 NAIA school Bluefield College in Virginia had it's game forfeited by the university's president David Olive because the players were taking a knee during the national anthem. Olive who is white ordered the players to stop taking a knee before the anthem and suspended all players involved in the kneeling saying they were disrespecting the flag, the country and the military veterans. Olive said he supported their message but didn't want them taking a knee before games. There could be some political blow back for Olive here.
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N.J. high court limits homeowners association rules on political signs
New Jersey's Supreme Court has ruled that are limits to the restrictions homeowners associations can put on residents.
The justices found an association's ban on all political signs violates the free speech clause of the state Constitution.
The decision came in the case of Wasim Khan who was ordered by his homeowners association to remove signs in his own townhouse window when he was running for a Parsippany council seat in 2005.
Attorney Dana Wefer, who argued the case for Khan, says the court's decision is significant.
"With the presidential election coming up, this is really good news for anyone who lives in a community association in New Jersey — that they can put up signs supporting their political candidate of choice without fear of reprisal from the association," Wefer said.
Wefer says the ruling strikes a balance in maintaining the aesthetic uniformity of homeowner communities while allowing residents to express their free speech rights.
Frank Askin, director of the Constitutional Law Clinic at Rutgers/Newark, sees the ruling as a big victory for free speech in New Jersey.
"There are more than a million people who live in these common-interest communities, homeowners associations, property owners associations," said Askin. "This is an important step forward for a huge chunk of the population of New Jersey who want to express their views on elections or other political issues in the state."
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Collingswood residents can now utilize a fee-free shipping service to certain shops and restaurants.
A record year for N.J. sports betting; casinos, not so much
Over $6 billion worth of bets were placed last year in New Jersey, which won a Supreme Court case in 2018 that cleared the way for the expansion of legalized sports betting.


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Houston's Sermon Subpoenas Represent A Legal Opportunity For Religious Liberty Advocates
Houston's subpoenas of sermons are an opportunity to restrain the IRS's decades of political persecution.
By Leslie Loftis
Author's note: I submitted this article about 24 hours before Houston Mayor Annise Parker instructed the city attorney to withdraw the subpoena discussed below. The general threat remains. The Left will attempt to control or break churches through taxes. My gaming of the Houston situation is now more theoretical than when I originally wrote this piece and I now see they are more afraid of testing the current regulatory scheme than I thought. The IRS gets their most effective silencing of speech out of the lack of clarity surrounding their regulations, and somebody on the other side knows it.
Last week I wrote an article discussing the possible long-term strategies underlying the subpoena for speeches from various church leaders in Houston. I think it is part of a larger strategy to control religious institutions though taxes. In response, I fielded questions in the comments, my inbox, and inquiries to my publisher that posed two main objections: the City of Houston has no authority to enforce the federal tax code, and the connection between the subpoenas and tax exemptions is too tenuous.
The first objection is rather easy to answer. I did not claim the City of Houston would enforce federal tax regulations. My worry was that once Mayor Parker had gathered the speeches and communications for the underlying suit about a petition against a Houston ordinance, then either the Internal Revenue Service would seek to use the documents for a tax-exemption inquiry or Parker might play the dutiful citizen and turn the information over to the IRS hoping to spurn a tax-exemption investigation. The IRS is under pressure to enforce its Johnson Amendment regulations against religious entities, including facing lawsuits from atheist organizations who view the tax exception for religion as governmental favoritism and, therefore, an unacceptable governmental establishment of religion. If Houston pastors comply with or are forced to comply with the subpoena, their lawyers would be prudent to prepare for a 501(c)(3) investigation.
The second objection was more common from lawyers, and illustrated the main reason I wrote the article. The objectors maintained that the connection between the subpoenas and a revocation of IRS tax-exemption status was too tenuous and had too many defensive blocks. I do not contend that the City of Houston et al. have a great argument. They don't. But that doesn't mean they won't run it. While watching the Houston events, I've also been following a North Dakota story in which lawyers are using mandatory bar dues to lobby against a ballot measure. This is in direct conflict with Supreme Court rulings and possibly state law. Their main argument to date is to claim the measure is a social issue, not a political one. The point is that lawyers make weak arguments every day. And sometimes weak arguments win. See Commerce Clause jurisprudence since Wickard v. Filburn.
I worry that we are relying on "obviously they can't do that" and not preparing for the arguments the opposition could make, specifically that religions are not entitled to tax exemptions. Progressives want to destroy, or at least control, religious influence. Right now, tax pressure is their only viable option for doing so. That it is hardly viable won't stop them. They think they have strong arguments. They think that public opinion on religion is swinging to their favor. The tax man cometh. The weakness of their arguments does not absolve us of the need to prepare a defense.
Let's Try Some War Games
So let us game the Houston situation. Option one: The City of Houston withdraws the subpoena. Option two: the court refuses to enforce the subpoena. Option three: the churches comply with subpoena and then the court combs the documents for instructions on petition signatures. Option four: the pastors refuse to comply with the subpoena.
I think most people expect option two, but I think that is wishful thinking. The City of Houston is alleging improper signatures on the petition against a city ordinance. That is, they allege violation of laws neutral toward religion. Courts make such exceptions on freedom of speech and religion all the time. See generally Eugene Volokh's background posts on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. One example:
RFRA begins with the findings that, "the framers of the Constitution, recognizing free exercise of religion as an unalienable right, secured its protection in the First Amendment to the Constitution," and "laws 'neutral' toward religion may burden religious exercise as surely as laws intended to interfere with religious exercise." To this point, this might sound like a justification for massive protection. Does your religion require you not to pay any taxes to what you see as a corrupt, un-Godly government? Well, tax laws may burden this religious exercise as surely as laws intended to discriminate against your religion, and, hey, your free exercise of religion is an "unalienable right."
But of course our legal system has never accepted any such view of free exercise. Likewise if your religion requires you to make pilgrimages to a visitation of the Virgin Mary on my property, or to take my property and give it to the poor, or to kill me for blaspheming, or to do many other things that the legal system forbids with no regard for religious objections….
Indeed, the very next provision in the RFRA findings section, coupled with the body of the statute, confirms that religious exemption claims are always subject to override by "compelling government interest[s]."
It's perfectly plausible that the court could decide that the City of Houston and the Mayor are seeking information relevant to laws of neutral applicability and allow the subpoenas to go forward. Think fraud. Did the pastors tell parishioners to sign for their underage children? Did they ask them to sign for the dead, just not alphabetically? (Lyndon Johnson's legacy, again.) This is also why I think option one, withdrawal of the subpoena, is unlikely. With the narrowed subpoena, the contention that it is a basic discovery instrument is, frankly, their most solid argument. Plus, after the publicity from earlier this month, backing down would essentially admit that the opposition is too afraid to challenge religious speech. Given everything else going on in the culture wars, the opposition is feeling bold. Backing down strikes me as unlikely.
After the publicity from earlier this month, backing down would essentially admit that the opposition is too afraid to challenge religious speech.
Options three and four are more likely and both can quickly get to the question of taxes. Option three, the churches comply, puts the speeches and communications of pastors in play. I think the IRS will face extreme pressure to look at them. Furthermore, what are the chances that the pastors did tell their parishioners, for instance, to sign for the dead? Reiterating that I agree that this is a weak argument, once Parker's team has studied the documents, Parker may have nothing better against the petition signatures than that they were obtained by speech which violated the churches' exempt status under the federal tax code. I think they have considered this argument anyway. Note Mayor Parker's recent comment: "It is not about what someone may have preached. It is about whether in any forum they gave specific instructions how to fill out the petition because that is the crux of the legal case."
She sees the crux of the case not as fraudulent instructions, but specific instructions. Under what law are specific instructions possibly prohibited? Tax exemption laws. Recall too, the original over-broad subpoena. Why did it ask for all communications? Perhaps because they needed all the communications to make a "substantial activities" argument. Why did they ask for communications about the mayor herself? Because the IRS's political speech restrictions about political candidates are absolute. The IRS can revoke tax-exempt status for one minor violation. And what are the chances that in any speech or communication about the ordinance at issue the pastors may have expressed their opposition to the mayor or members of the City Council?
The foundations for a tax exemption attack are there. Weak or not, we need to prepare a defense—or go on offense.
If the pastors refuse to comply with the subpoena, option four, they will need to state why. That the government has no business subpoenaing religious speech likely won't suffice. (See above about option two.) They will have to explain why the subpoena is improper and part of that argument should be that the pastors worry the City of Houston doesn't really seek knowledge of fraudulently obtained signatures but of political speech in general, political speech which is only prohibited by regulations promulgated pursuant to an unconstitutional law, the 1954 Johnson Amendment.
How Religious Liberty Lovers Should Respond to the Subpoenas
For decades, religious freedom advocacy groups have been trying to mount a challenge to the Johnson Amendment, but the IRS keeps backing down, wisely as the institution probably knows the law is weak and that they get the maximum possible silencing of political speech from the lack of clarity and uneven enforcement of the current 501(c)(3) exemption scheme. Clarity will not come without a test case.
When would we ever get a better shot at a clear statement that religion is beyond the taxing power of government?
Mayor Parker's overreach here is a strategic gift. Take it. When would we ever get a better shot at a clear statement that religion is beyond the taxing power of government? This question about governmental power over political speech by religious institutions has arisen after decades of non- to selective and even contradictory enforcement of IRS regulations and on the heels of a Congressional investigation into extreme malfeasance by the IRS, during which time the IRS made a closed-door settlement with an advocacy group hostile to religion about how to revoke tax-exempt status for religious entities.
The pastors' fear is justified. The public's fear is well-founded. The IRS has been using its power to persecute.
The pastors could comply with the subpoena and then wait to find out what accusations of wrongdoing the City of Houston and Mayor Parker choose to adjudicate. Or the pastors could pursue the question before the court. They could name their fear: religious persecution. The could go back to the confidence argument Justice Marshall set forth in McCullough and overlay our contemporary facts on that argument and maybe, finally, remove the threat to religion posed by the federal tax-exemption schemes which are hostile to the First Amendment.
Leslie Loftis is a lawyer turned writer via motherhood. In addition to writing for The Federalist, Leslie edits Iron Ladies, a collection of conservative women's voices, and is a contributing editor of Liberator, a print quarterly on family law. She is also president of Leading Women For Shared Parenting. She and her husband, James, currently live in Houston with their four children (and three dogs).
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When it comes to outfitting the office, business leaders who demand the highest levels of form and function will have three initials in mind: not ICI or IBM as one might anticipate, but JMM.
José Martínez-Medina's family has been manufacturing fine furniture since the 19th century, a tradition that has surely reached its apotheosis in the extraordinary designs that José Martínez-Medina has created for such illustrious clients as Telefónica, Parliament House, Intertronic – and Rimontgó.
His splendidly versatile office furniture adds a touch of sleek sophistication to even the most demanding/challenging work environments. Chairs are both stylish and comfortable, while office and conference room desks contain practical touches like built-in monitors, microphones and slide machines.
The fantastically multi-functional 'kbinet' is a freestanding, easily movable storage unit that can easily fit under a desk but has the illusionary property of containing much more space than even the most optimistic observer might imagine.
JMM's latest book, The Ultimate Collection is a fascinating record of the furniture that this family company has provided for iconic buildings in Valencia, Spain and beyond. The book includes a section dedicated to Rimontgó's Valencia headquarters, including José Ribes Bas' personal office and the boardroom, with its large, hi-tech table.
As José Martínez-Medina repeatedly says, it's more than furniture – and looking at some of the images in this fascinating book one can see exactly what he means.
Furniture that carries the JMM initials certainly serves a practical function but is at all times more than the sum of its parts; each lovingly crafted piece revealing a dedication to the importance of shape, texture and form.


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Q: Cannot convert EditText text to int I'm trying to make a simple golf scoring app and I have encountered a problem when I'm trying to convert the number thats in the EditText where the user enters the par for the hole. The user can only enter numbers into the EditText. It doesn't show any errors and doesn't crash when I run it but it is obviously not getting a value from this code below no matter what is in the EditText. If I set the par to a number other than 0 it will effect the total score when the user goes to the next hole so that part of the code is working. Also when I move this code to another method other than onClick(View v) the app crashes. All help is appreciated.
 public void onClick(View v){
    if (parNum.getText().toString().equals("")){
        AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        alert.setTitle("Please enter the par");
        alert.show();
    }
    else {
        //editvalue is a string that I declared but gave no value.
        editvalue = parNum.getText().toString();
        par = Integer.parseInt(editvalue);
    }
}

A: You are checking not equals "". So please Remove ! Symbol from your if condition.
if (parNum.getText().toString().equals("")){
    AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
    alert.setTitle("Please enter the par");
    alert.show();
}
else {
    //editvalue is a string that I declared but gave no value.
    editvalue = parNum.getText().toString();
    par = Integer.parseInt(editvalue);
}

I hope this will help you.

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Home » News » Microsoft Documentary Reveals True Cause Of The Xbox 360's Dreaded Red Ring Of Death
Microsoft Documentary Reveals True Cause Of The Xbox 360's Dreaded Red Ring Of Death
Microsoft has followed through on its promise to release a docu-series celebrating its 20th anniversary. The six-part series has been posted to Xbox's YouTube channel and goes over everything from the birth of the brand to the recent purchase of Bethesda.
And while most episodes span years of Xbox's history, there's one chapter that's entirely devoted to a single crisis: the dreaded Red Ring of Death.
For those who weren't around for the Xbox 360 days, the Red Ring of Death was what every Xbox 360 owner feared. A series of three red lights and a blinking green light meant that there was an internal hardware problem with the console, and that problem most often meant it had gone to the big Xbox farm in the sky.
For years, Xbox fans thought the cause of the Red ring of Death was a problem with the Xbox 360's cooling system, and they were at least partially right. As revealed in "Power On: The Story of Xbox – Chapter 5: The Red Ring of Death," it wasn't that Xbox 360s were overheating but actually an issue called thermal expansion.
Todd Holmdahl, head of Xbox hardware until 2014, said in the documentary that most of his time at Xbox from 2006 to 2007 was spent trying to figure out the root cause of the Red Ring of Death. For months, the best of the best at Xbox scoured every component, resistor, wire in the 360 to see what was causing the issue.
"The breakthrough came when we understood that the connections that were being broken were not located on the motherboard, but they were actually located inside the components," said hardware engineer Leo Del Castillo. "The reason it was breaking was thermal, but it wasn't because of peak temperature. It was because when the unit would get hot and then cold, hot and then cold, every time it did that it would stress the connection [between GPU and motherboard]."
Specifically, the soldering balls used to adhere the GPU to the motherboard were flexing ever so slightly every time the Xbox 360 was turned on. Over time, this flexing led to cracks that eventually prevented the console from working at all. This meant each and every Xbox 360 sold was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.
Microsoft knew that this issue could kill Xbox as a brand. They had to do something big, and that big move was to fix and/or replace literally every Xbox 360 sold with no questions asked. The move cost Microsoft over $1 billion dollars in honored warranties, but it worked. The Xbox 360 nearly out-sold the PS3 and paved the way to the more technically successful Xbox One.
The issue with thermal expansion was eventually solved on the Xbox 360 "slim" model, but by sticking by the 360 through thick and thin, Microsoft cemented its stake in the home console market.
The Red Ring of Death isn't just a major turning point in Xbox history worthy of an entire documentary. It's also been honored in an official poster that you can buy for $25. Although, if you're one of the unlucky ones who endured one or more 360 deaths, maybe save yourself the PTSD and skip this one.
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CPSC Issues Ban On Vinyl Chloride In Aerosols
Release number: 74-059
The ban, issued under the authority of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act will take effect 45 days after publication in the Federal Register unless legally sufficient arguments are submitted to the Commission, necessitating a public hearing.
Vinyl chloride has been linked by scientific studies and clinical reports to a rare form of liver cancer. Although there is no evidence directly linking cancer to the use of aerosols containing vinyl chloride, consumers are always subject to inhalation of the substance whenever they use aerosols that contain it. And there is no known safe exposure level.
The Commission has determined that the degree and nature of the hazard presented by aerosol products containing vinyl chloride is such that the public health and safety can be adequately served only by keeping these products out of the marketplace. Therefore, all such products would be banned.
The agency stated that, to its best knowledge, vinyl chloride is not now being used in newly-manufactured aerosols, but the substance may be contained in aerosols which were manufactured several months ago. Only a small fraction of aerosols in homes can be expected to contain vinyl chloride. At the time of the ban, all manufacturers, distributors, and retailers will be required to post lists of specific products which are covered by the ban, and consumers will be able to return those products for refunds.
The ban covers most aerosol products except food, drugs, and cosmetics, which are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration; and insecticides and pesticides, which are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Aerosol products believed to have contained vinyl chloride include:
-Paints and Finishes
-Protective and Decorative Coatings
-Paint Removers
-Adhesives and
-Solvents


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Q: Macbook pro boots to a black screen after a few seconds of use A clip of what exactly is happening: https://drive.google.com/open?id=19FSU3wFnCi9QjXQRO4UrTT-KxuooOYLu
I've tried all the tips here: https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-fix-mac-booting-to-black-screen-error/
including SMC reset, PRAM reset, etc.
An important note is that the computer itself is on - i.e. I can type the password and go on terminal, play music successfully, etc. but the display stays off (not completely off, it's slightly lighter than when the computer is completely off).
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Huh. After a few days, the problem completely disappeared randomly. I ran the Apple Hardware Test and no problems showed now. Very weird, but at least I'm glad the problem is resolved. Thank you for your help.

A: The video is not very clear to understanding the issue. It seemed like you clicked on the "Ansel Admin" username and it blanked out. Then you clicked the power button and it came back to login screen. Also, it will help if you describe what you are doing and the problem (in the video as a voiceover :).
Here's what you can try.

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*If you have a monitor available, check if you can see the display after logging in.

There are two ways I found to increase screen brightness (as you mentioned that it was not fully blacked out). (Links to original articles below).
Method 1: Using osascript, key code 144 (brighter), 145 (dimmer)
$ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'key code 144' -e ' end tell'

$ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'key code 145' -e ' end tell'

Method 2: Using Homebrew - https://brew.sh
If you have homebrew installed, you can install brightness to control.
$ brew install brightness

$ brightness 1

$ brightness 0.5

I have tested the osascript commands on Catalina 10.15.4. You will need to give the terminal accessibility permissions.
If these don't work, try booting in Safe Mode.
If it resolves the issue, it may be some startup item that could be causing this.
Hold down the Shift key when powering up and you hear the startup chime to enter Safe Mode.
Links:
How can I dim the screen from Terminal?
How to Adjust Screen Brightness from Terminal in macOS
https://www.maketecheasier.com/adjust-screen-brightness-from-terminal-macos/


The Town of Lincoln seeks qualified applicants for a 16-hour/week position of Community Services Associate from early July, 2019 to mid-November, 2019. This position will, under the direction of the Council on Aging Director, be responsible for providing social services to residents 60 and older and assisting with the day-to-day functions of the Council on Aging operations. Candidate must provide case management, call reassurance and follow-up, problem resolution services to seniors and their families, including home visits and office hours in an offsite location. A Master's degree in social work, gerontology, or an equivalent mental health field required with a minimum of three years of progressive experience working with the elderly or in a related human service field. Pay is $30/hour. Please submit a cover letter and resume to Mary Day, Town Offices, 16 Lincoln Road, Lincoln MA 01773 or jobs@lincolntown.org by April 19, 2019.


Like any successful business, we continue to evolve, progress, and achieve new goals. We would like to share these changes with you, so that you are always informed about the latest news.
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progressive organ failure and death.
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Hepa Wash has established the ADVOS system, the first method in the world for extended and individualized support of the human body's main detoxification organs: the liver, the lungs and the kidneys. The company was founded in Garching near Munich in mid-2005 by renowned nephrology and multi-organ support expert Dr. Bernhard Kreymann who had been instrumental in establishing the pervious gold standard of organ support using single-pass albumin dialysis. Building on this expertise, Hepa Wash is developing reliable treatment methods to close the therapeutic gap in multi-organ failure.
The German Accelerator Life Sciences (GALS) is an initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) with the goal of helping German startups and young companies succeed in the global marketplace. GALS, centrally located and highly connected in the world's leading life sciences innovation hub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, offers support in multiple areas: from operational assistance to high-end strategic guidance by experienced industry experts and key opinion leaders. GALS opened its doors in October 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


"Because of the problems with supplementing directly with DHEA, transdermal magnesium chloride mineral therapy holds great promise for DHEA hormonal supplementation because taking magnesium could counteract the heart attack and stroke hazards of synthetic DHEA hormone replacement therapy. The DHEA Adverse Effects (Via Synthetic Supplementation) ?In women, excess DHEA can produce unwanted side effects like flare-ups of acne. ?" S. Seelig, MD, MPH, author of "The Magnesium Factor"


This week, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a major website overhaul. It's a substantial departure from their old site, and features a responsive, immersive design. By responsive, we're talking about sites that dynamically rearrange themselves to be readable on a variety of screen sizes, from phones to desktop computers. And by immersive, we mean the design is minimalistic and features big, bold multimedia elements that direct the viewer's focus solely on the content—in this case, "some of the coolest videos, images and news stories in the Universe," says a narrator in the site's introductory video.
JPL's new website is big, bold and beautiful—and a fitting home for pretty pictures of the Cosmos.
Overall, I'm a fan. I appreciate that a major NASA center took a step outside the status quo to embrace modern web design. I also like that an effort was made to make the site accessible to both casual browsers and regular visitors. For instance, someone drawn to the site through a social media link might soon find themselves exploring full-screen image galleries, gawking at the core of a dead star or the tracks of a one-ton Martian rover. At the same time, it's pretty easy to find media resources like press kits and links to mission-specific websites.
The page opens with full-screen images linking to news stories, images and other content. Well, not quite full-screen—you'll notice the designers included a "scroll for more" break at the bottom of the page. That's likely because some users find full-screen web images disorienting to the point of not realizing that the page is scrollable. We received similar feedback during previews of The Planetary Society's soon-to-be-released LightSail website, so we added an animated arrow to guide viewers down the page.
Immersive websites work best when you feature compelling multimedia to accompany well-written stories. It won't be hard for JPL to find pretty pictures—a giant image of Saturn's mesmorizing polar vortex, for instance, works very well here. But there's a pitfall: The cover images have to be centered so that their focus doesn't stray off the page on devices using portrait orientation. Take, for instance, a recent headline about the NuSTAR spacecraft's discovery of the brightest-ever pulsar. The featured image uses a zoomed circle pullout. But—oh no! On my Nexus 7 tablet, the pullout wanders off the screen. It's not a huge deal, and in fact, it might draw some users to click on the image to learn more. But it's a consideration nonetheless.
What did you discover, NuSTAR?
The left screenshot was captured on a Windows 7 PC at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, while the right screenshot was taken on a Nexus 7 tablet in portrait orientation.
As you scroll down the page, you'll notice a lot of the content is presented in block format. This is a staple of responsive design—blocks are easy to dynamically arrange so that they fit snugly on multiple screen sizes. To see what I mean, check out the "What's Happening Now" section. On my Windows PC, I see three items each under the Featured, News, Videos and Images headers, and I can click an arrow to load three new items. On my Nexus 7, I only see two items. And on my phone? Just one. The advantage of using this format is that the content remains snappy and readable, no matter the device.
JPL's new large mission buttons (right) bring order to an otherwise unruly list of past and present space missions.
Since JPL has less missions to feature than NASA, it makes sense to categorize them by Current, Past, Future and Proposed. In all fairness, NASA proper has a lot more missions to contend with. They allow you to sort by mission topic, which helps, but there's something dismaying about seeing "Apollo-Soyuz" listed as the fourth mission. I'm pretty sure that whenever I land on this page, my impatient brain decides I'm in the wrong place and commands my finger to click the back arrow.
Most NASA missions have their own websites. Therefore, the new JPL mission pages mostly provide a brief overview, things like press kits and fact sheets, and a link to each mission website. This brings up a complex web design question that is common for any large organization with semi-autonomous subgroups (such as other government agencies, or universities): To unify, or not to unify? Trying to squeeze all of NASA.gov and its dizzying array of subsites into a single, common design would be expensive and time-consuming. And that's just from a technical perspective—I can only imagine the role intra-agency politics would play.
Plus, who among us hasn't enjoyed stumbling upon an ancient, abandoned NASA web page? This deeply buried portion of NASA's history website was invaluable for research I did on the Ranger program for my journalism master's project. And what about treasure troves like this space shuttle mission archive? I hope that if NASA ever begins shutting down old servers like this, they migrate the data for historical purposes.
The website has just one small bug that's prominent on smaller devices: You can't start your scrolling motion on certain images, meaning if you make your screen look like this, you're stuck.
There's another neat part of the website redesign that's worth mentioning: The innovative use of the menu "hamburger" in the top-right. Clicking it brings up a full-screen menu rather than standard flyouts and dropdowns. I think this part of the site is well-executed, and it puts most sections just a couple clicks away. Personally, I would move the News and Missions sections closer to the top, but this may have been a design choice—notice how the menu is visually organized into an hourglass shape.
I did notice one bug that I hope the web team will address. It's most apparent on mobile devices—in particular, phones. When scrolling through the main page, if my finger starts its scroll motion on certain images (and areas surrounding those images), the page won't scroll. You can't really scroll past the "Explore" section on a phone unless you get a running (flicking?) start.
All in all, JPL's new website is a fitting home for news and multimedia coming from some of the world's flagship space missions. At first glance, you might think immersive web design is jarring or gimmicky. But as the trend continues to gain momentum, the organization of these sites is becoming a priority, rather than an afterthought. JPL's site seems like an effective way to get information-soaked visitors to slow down and focus on content—in this case, content that showcases the beauty of space.
We are glad to read this news just because this news relates with our field. It is pretty difficult task to move NASA's website into new look without loosing data and especially heavy images captured by telescopes. Now it is done and we can proudly say that we are in space now. Great work. Your Well Wisher, ESP Interactive Solutions, Inc.
Now that is a beautiful website and it is truly easy to navigate for what you want to see! Before it was really hard to find what you needed. Thanks to all who created this design! Thanks Jason for doing a nice explanation blog on it.


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Hong Kong, China shares hit by profit taking in insurers
PHOTO: Hong Kong, China shares hit by profit taking in insurers
HONG KONG - Hong Kong and China shares retreated on Tuesday, as investors took profit on mainland property and insurance counters, whose outperformance in recent weeks have helped benchmark indexes on both markets swell to multi-month highs.
Chinese property stocks sank after the official China Securities Journal said in a front page editorial that stricter implementation of curbs on the property sector is necessary to control home prices.
Weakness in the sector came after a strong rally as several smaller Chinese developers had successfully tapped the credit market in Hong Kong since the start of the year, improving their balance sheets without diluting equity stakes.
The Hang Seng Index fell 0.9 per cent to 23,111.2, its lowest this year after a strong start to 2013. The China Enterprises Index of the top Chinese listings in Hong Kong slumped 2.2 per cent.
In the mainland, the Shanghai Composite Index and the CSI300 of top Shanghai and Shenzhen listings each slipped 0.4 per cent from near seven-month closing highs. Both had closed at their highest since mid-June on Monday.
Losses in both markets came in relatively robust bourse volumes, but their relative strength index (RSI) values suggest mainland markets still remained in technically overbought territory.
"There's a lot of liquidity floating around in Hong Kong, so investors have to park their money somewhere in this risk-on environment," said Lee Wee Liat, BNP Paribas' head of Asia property research, referring to the rally in Chinese property shares.
"There won't be anything too draconian from Beijing, but if prices rise any more from here, I'd expect them to pre-emptively intervene by threatening to take away pre-sales rights and other measures that will hurt developers," Lee added.
On Tuesday, Longfor Properties and Evergrande fell 2.3 per cent and 1.5 per cent, respectively, in Hong Kong despite posting December sales that helped both companies exceed their stated 2012 targets.
Agile Property, whose Hong Kong shares surged 56 per cent in 2012, slumped 6.5 per cent in its worst day in 11 months after the company said that Hong Kong police has formally charged its chairman for indecent assault.
In the mainland, Poly Real Estate fell 1.2 per cent in Shanghai. A sub-index of property listings in Shanghai was an underperformer among sectors, down 1.2 per cent.
TRIPLE WHAMMY FOR CHINA INSURERS
Ping An Insurance suffered its worst daily loss in about 5-1/2 months in Hong Kong on Monday after sources told Reuters that state-run China Development Bank (CDB) has expressed concern over the funding behind Thailand's CP Group's attempt to buy HSBC's stake in China's second-largest insurer.
Ping An shares dived 4 per cent in Hong Kong in its worst loss since a 4.4 per cent tumble on July 23. Its Shanghai listing sank 3.7 per cent in its worst loss since Oct. 29. Ping An was among the biggest drags on benchmark indexes in China and Hong Kong.
Carlyle Group's unloading of its remaining stake in China Pacific Insurance (CPIC) sent shares of the mainland's third-largest insurer down 2.6 per cent in Hong Kong and 2.9 per cent in Shanghai.
Compounding a miserable day for Chinese insurers, shares of the sector's largest player China Life Insurance was hit by a CICC downgrade after its Hong Kong listing closed at its highest since May 2011.
China Life shed 3.3 per cent in Hong Kong and 3.2 per cent in Shanghai. A rebounding A-share market has helped the sector outperform in recent weeks. The sector was also helped by mainland regulators' move to allow eligible insurers to offer mutual fund products through their asset management arms.


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Louisiana Opens Spillway as Mississippi River Gushes Through Cajun Countryside
May 14: Water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La. A steel, 10-ton floodgate was slowly raised Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the Mississippi River, away from heavily populated areas downstream. (AP) (AP2011)
MORGANZA, La. – Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in Louisiana's French-speaking countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land under water up to 25 feet deep.
As the gate was raised, the river poured out like a waterfall, at times spraying 6 feet into the air. Fish jumped or were hurled through the white froth and within 30 minutes, 100 acres of what was dry land was under about one foot of water.
The opening of the Morganza spillway diverted water from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and the numerous oil refineries and chemical plants along the lower reaches of the Mississippi. Shifting the water away from the cities eased the strain on levees and thwarted flooding in New Orleans that could have been much worse than Hurricane Katrina.
"We're using every flood control tool we have in the system," Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh said during a news conference on the dry side of the spillway, before the bay was opened.
The Morganza spillway is part of a system of locks and levees built following the great flood of 1927, which killed hundreds and left many more without homes. When the Morganza opened Saturday, it was the first time three flood-control systems have been unlocked at the same time along the Mississippi River, a sign of just how historic the current flooding has been.
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Swelling Mississippi River Devastates Homes, Farmland
Earlier this month, the corps intentionally blew holes into a levee in Missouri to employ a similar cities-first strategy, and it also opened a spillway northwest of New Orleans.
Snowmelt and heavy rain swelled the Mississippi, and the river has peaked at levels not seen in 70 years.
In Krotz Springs, Louisiana, one of the towns in the Atchafalaya River basin bracing for floodwaters, phones at the local police department rang nonstop as residents sought information on road closings and evacuation routes.
Like so many other residents downstream of the Morganza, Monita Reed, 56, recalled the last time it was opened in 1973.
"We could sit in our yard and hear the water," she said as workers constructed a makeshift levee of sandbags and soil-filled mesh boxes in hopes of protecting the 240 homes in her subdivision.
About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be affected by the oncoming water, and some people living in the threatened stretch of Cajun countryside -- an area colonized by French speakers that is known for fish camps -- have already fled.
It took about 15 minutes for the one 28-foot gate to be raised in the middle of the spillway. Several hours will pass before any of the water hits sparsely populated communities, but residents nearby have been told to go.
The corps planned to open one or two more gates Sunday in a painstaking process that gives residents and animals a chance to stay dry.
The water will flow 20 miles south into the Atchafalaya Basin. From there it will roll on to Morgan City, an oil-and-seafood hub and a community of 12,000, and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico.
The water came perilously close to overtopping Morgan City's floodwalls in 1973. Since then, they have been raised to 24 feet and aren't expected to be overtopped, but officials have filled sandbags to shore up the levees. The water was expected to reach Morgan City around Tuesday.
"These levees will be under a lot of pressure for a long period of time," said Corps Col. Ed Fleming.
The crest of the Mississippi was still more than a week away from the Morganza spillway, and when it arrives, officials expect it to linger. The bulge has broken river-level records held since the 1920s in some places as it rolled down the river, and prompted the corps to take drastic steps to protect lives.
The corps blew up a levee in Missouri -- inundating an estimated 200 square miles of farmland and damaging or destroying about 100 homes -- to take the pressure off floodwalls protecting the town of Cairo, Illinois, population 2,800.
The Morganza flooding is more controlled, however, and residents are warned by the corps each year in written letters, reminding them of the possibility of opening the spillway, which is 4,000 feet long and has 125 bays.
At the site of the spillway, water splashed over the gates on one side before a vertical crane hoisted the 10-ton, steel panel to the let water out. Typically, the spillway, built in 1954, is dry on both sides.
This is the second spillway to be opened in Louisiana. About a week ago, the corps used cranes to remove some of the Bonnet Carre's wooden barriers, sending water into the massive Lake Ponchatrain and eventually the Gulf of Mexico.
By Sunday, all 350 bays at the 7,000-foot Bonnet Carre structure were to be open. The Morganza was expecting to only open up about a quarter of its gates.
The spillways could be opened for weeks, or perhaps less time, if the river flow starts to subside.
In Vicksburg, Mississippi, where five neighborhoods were underwater, a steady stream of onlookers posed for pictures on a river bluff overlooking a bridge that connects Louisiana and Mississippi. Some people posed for pictures next to a Civil War cannon while others carried Confederate battle flags being given away by a war re-enactor.
Vicksburg was the site of a pivotal Civil War battle and is home to thousands of soldier graves.


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Save the US Republic Now!
by Johan Galtung February 28, 2011 September 23, 2020
That the US Empire is falling with the structure so laboriously built in the Middle East crumbling is clear even if there will be fall-back positions. But the US Republic is also in bad shape, with the threat of government shutdown March 5, like in 1995. Why? Because the US polity is inadequate to the challenge.
And the challenge is formidable, with a US 14.1 trillion debt, 94 percent of US GDP and 7percent of a world GGP of about US$200 trillion. Small comfort that it was 122 percent after WWII: as Kenneth Rogoff points out (Washington Post, 23-02-11) the labor force was young, the USA was the world's leading manufacturer, personal savings were high, demand after depression-war was high. Result: 57 percent economic growth in six years. And there were sharp defense cuts, having won WWII.
Today's profile is the opposite: the labor force is aging, Asia and Europe pass the USA in manufacturing except arms, households are in deep debt, consumer appetites are modest, inflation is low. And no war has been won, to the contrary, the USA is losing everywhere. With Dow Jones in the 12,000s and growth sluggish a little incident can burst the finance and the dollar bubbles. Shortselling US bonds?
With a military budget above half of the federal budget the Ron Paul warfare or welfare might muster 100 in congress for a cut of a third, a half. But the military-industrial complex, MIC, has become a military-industrial-congress complex, MICC, through lobbying (and psy-ops?) For Republicans no military cuts, force=power=respect; for the Democrats the strong link to Israel adds to that. Neither is up to the challenge of solving US conflicts nonviolently. Victory is still No. 1 on the agenda; and increasingly elusive.
The Paul solution is near, but unattainable. What then? Of the two approaches, decrease spending and increase income, the former, the Republican, is near and attainable, but not a solution.
Cutting federal-state-local public budgets means cutting jobs when jobs are what is most needed. Yet the Republican House majority due to Obama's incompetence in handling his political capital, has only their old responses: less government, lower taxes, the military sacrosanct; Bush junior's privatization, tax cuts and ruinous wars that brought USA close to bankruptcy notwithstanding. Add to this blocking health insurance from covering abortion when they should focus on making the US$2.5 trillion-1/6 of the GNP-health care more efficient. They even cut the US Institute for Peace, a soft arm of US foreign policy, saving $42 million, or three hours of the Afghan war.
Had the USA been on a multi-party track, with social democrat and green parties and not two survivalist 19th century parties, the idea of stimulus to those most in need would come easy. Lifting them up from misery into generating some income-which multiplied by their millions would mean general growth-would help growth. But this option is lost in the entitlement debate, a US term for social democrat solidarity, and has few spokespersons anyhow. Like the green manufacturing of green technology, for the USA and for export. China does both; a one party system based on intellectuals more up-to-date than a two party system not living in the 21st century.
The system, catering to the rich, not the poor, is inadequate to the challenge, and local US democracy for self-reliance has not taken off the ground. From the Democrats there has been one sign of life: the Midwest revolt-predicted in this column two weeks ago-hit the USA in the form of denying state legislatures a quorum by being in a non-disclosed refuge. Hardly a sustainable strategy, but the right of collective bargaining and 12,000 public servant jobs are at stake. They may have benefitted disproportionately from that right, but that is an argument for reopening negotiations, appealing to the joint interest in keeping the US Republic afloat.
In the meantime the Empire is sinking, adding to the problems.
An empire props up local elites to deliver cheap resources and facilitate investment, like Mubarak's son Gamal working for Bank of America, like Arab autarchies supplying cheap gasoline pre-73, later below $100/barrel. No longer so. With gas prices up, and no public transport, spending for real growth goes down. A new war for oil?
An empire props up local elites to control by repression and killing. No longer so. Nobody in Somalia and Yemen will do that job for the USA, nor in Tunisia, nor in Egypt. Nazi-Germany relied on Mussolini for that job in Italy; he was deposed by an alienated military, leaving fighting to the Germans. Can the USA afford that?
An empire props up local elites to spread their world views on business-economics, on who is friend or foe; like when CIA used a Tunisian ambassador to Poland-Ben Ali-as go-between with Walesa-Solidarnosc. No longer so. A new deal of new cards is coming.
Propping up?-by doing nothing when these elites rob and torture their own people. The USA did not protest when the post-shah Khomeini regime killed their common enemy, the communists, nor when, say, PLO autocrats get at "fundamentalists". New regimes will get at their exploiters, repressors, alienators. Islam will be in; but not so dramatic as after the Shah westernization-zoroasterism.
There is Islam and Islam. Maybe in Iran correct faith matters; in Saudi Arabia, stability-the USA is obligated to defend the Royal House against its people-in Egypt, more morally correct behavior; in Turkey, Islam compatibility with democracy-parliamentarism is basic.
Can the USA handle this variety? There is no way back to the past. Successors may up the ante, Khomeinis are not for sale. Some new Irans will emerge, but also some Turkeys, and USA-Israel would be wise not to reject the latter. And to have MexUSCan Mexico-US-Canada as a fall-back US position, lifting the social bottom up.
Prof. Johan Galtung is acting rector of the TRANSCEND PEACE UNIVERSITY: An All-Online educational facility for academic Peace Studies. Born in 1930 in Oslo Norway, Prof. Johan Galtung holds a PhD in mathematics from 1956 and a PhD in sociology from 1957. He is widely known as the pioneering founder of the academic discipline of peace studies. He has served as a professor for peace studies and peace research at the universities of Olso, Berlin, Cairo, Belgrad, Paris and Hawaii, just to name a few, and has mediated in about 50 conflicts between states and nations since 1957.
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Professor Johan Galtung is the founder and director of TRANSCEND-International. A non-profit network for Mediation and Conflict Resolution by non violent means. The network was founded in 1993. He has mediated in about 50 conflicts between and within states in conflict for over 50 years. Transcend connects over 400 experts in peace and reconciliation work. He currently teaches at the World Peace Academy at the University of Basel. http://www.transcend.org/
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Q: What would you see if left-right images of a 3d view are inverted? Sorry for the maybe-trivial post, but I really cannot figure it out...
Let's suppose you have some 3d glasses or something that allows you a 3d stereo vision.
What happens if you invert left and right image??? Thinking at it I cannot really figure out it. Should you see the reverse of the image? Or just some axis-shift?
Unfortunately I cannot try it out in any way, but even if possible, I'd love to try to figure out and understand the thing with my mind before trying it.
So, please, any help, any idea, any hit that can help me to understand or to deeply discuss are welcome.

A: For the human brain it's next to impossible to give a formal answer, because frankly, neurologists still don't fully understand how it works in detail. But so much we know:
Our brain does no absolute "measurement" on the parallax in stereo images. The whole depth perception works on parallax differences. You could say, the brain takes the derivative of the parallax to build it's mental representation of depth. Derivative of Parallax and depth are taken to be (nearly) proportional. By swapping the pictures the derivative gets negative, so at every point the brain sums up depth in the wrong direction.
However parallax is not the only source for depth perception. Of similar importance is experienced knowledge about typical object in the world. For example faces are "known" to be never inside out, so even with negative parallax the knowledge will overrule and the face being percept in the right form (however it'll clash hilariously with the surroundings).

A: You would see it as "inside-out" (it's a little more complex than that, but that's the basic truth).

A: You can experience 3D without any special hardware, thanks to stereoscopic images (side-by-side, then crossing your eyes to see the images as one unique image).
You can then switch right to left, left to right by editing the image.
Here is an example with an image I've found on the web: https://imgur.com/a/ov7U7N5
Do you feel any difference in the depth? Do you see things inside out?
I believe the sense of depth in this case is preserved. But maybe it's just me.